Asia's Clean Revolution
Subtitle: Industry, Growth and the Environment
By: David Angel
Contributors: Rock, Michal
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781351282567
Subjects: Industries; Economic development; Environmental protection; Environmental policy; Développement économique; Aspect de l'environnement; Environnement; Protection; Politique gouvernementale; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Business Ethics; Environmental Economics; Environmental aspects
Description: "The world's environmental future will be determined in significant part by what happens in the rapidly industrialising and urban economies of Asia. The sheer scale of urban population and industrial growth in Asia - from Indonesia to China - and the energy and materials intensive character of the development process constitutes a dark shadow over the region's, and indeed the world's, environment. And yet this challenge is also an opportunity. Precisely because so much of the urban-industrial investment within developing Asia has yet to take place, the opportunity exists to shape a different development future - one that is far less energy, materials and waste intensive. Asia's Clean Revolution examines the prospects for and pathways to such a new trajectory. The book lays out a path-breaking vision of how developing economies might go beyond environmental regulation and put in place an array of policies and institutions that could integrate environmental, industrial and technological goals. These findings provide important input for negotiators considering climate change on a global scale. The book approaches the challenge of growth and environment in Asia in a novel way, by identifying six major transformational dynamics under way in the world today, and assessing whether these can be harnessed to the goal of improved environmental performance of industry. With a set of specially commissioned chapters from the leading authorities in North America and Asia, this ground-breaking book is the first to present concrete policy solutions to the looming crisis driven by large-scale urban-industrial growth in developing Asia."--Provided by publisher
Table of contents: title: Part, 1 Framing the Issues  -- David P. Angel Michael T. Rock; title: chapter 1 Toward Clean Shared Growth in Asia  -- David P. Angel Michael T. Rock Tubagus Feridhanusetyawan; title: chapter 2 Technology and Environmental Performance --; title: Leveraging growth and sustainability  -- George R. Heaton Budy Resosudarmo; title: chapter 3 Globalisation and the Environment in Asia --; title: Linkages, impacts and policy implications  -- Daniel Esty Mari Pangestu Hadi Soesastro; title: chapter 4 Public Policies to Promote Cleaner Shared Industrial Growth in East Asia  -- Michael T. Rock Ooi Giok Ling Victor Kimm; title: chapter 5 Industrialising Cities and the Environment in Pacific Asia --; title: Toward a policy framework and agenda for action  -- Michael Douglass Ooi Giok Ling; title: chapter 6 Civil Society and the Future of Environmental Governance in Asia  -- Lyuba Zarsky Simon S.C. Tay; title: part, 2 Case Studies in Innovation  -- David P. Angel Michael T. Rock; title: chapter 7 Putting Pressure on Polluters --; title: Indonesia's Proper programme  -- Shakeb Afsah Jeffrey R. Vincent; title: chapter 8 Water Pollution Abatement in Malaysia*  -- jeffrey R. Vincent Rozali Mohamed Ali Khalid Abdul Rahim; title: chapter 9 Toward More Sustainable Development --; title: The environment and industrial policy in Taiwan  -- Michael T. Rock; title: chapter 10 Measuring Up --; title: Toward a common framework for tracking corporate environmental performance -- Daryl Dilz Janet Rangatlathan.