The Western Pacific
Subtitle: Challenge of Sustainable Growth
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub; Elgar
Published: September 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781852783679
Subjects: Human geography; Macroeconomics; Political economy; ASIA; Australasia; Environmental Economics; Economic conditions; Economic development; Economic policy; Environmental aspects; Environmental policy; Pacific Area; Sustainable development; Business/Economics
Description: The 'economic miracle' of the Western Pacific is under threat from recent increases in population growth, energy demand and environmental degradation. In this wide ranging book, Alan Burnett assesses the economic and political prospects of the four groups of Western Pacific countries experiencing major environmental changes: Australasia, South Asia, Indo-China and North East Asia including China. The Western Pacific discusses the challenges facing the government as a consequence of population pressures and the degradation of forest, rural, industrial and urban environments. Alan Burnett concludes that recent literature on sustainable growth, including the Brundtland Report of 1987, appears little better than utopian as world population steadily rises towards eight billion. This instructive and illuminating book successfully bridges the areas of economic development, environmental studies and international relations in a powerful statement that will be essential reading for economists, political scientists and policy makers throughout the world.