Sustainable Development: Asia-Pacific Perspectives

512 Pages·2021·101.507 MB·English

by  Pak Sum Low (editor)

Sustainable
Development
Asia-Pacific Perspectives
EDITED BY
Pak Sum Low

Sustainable Development: Asia-Pacific
Perspectives
The Asia-Pacific region has been experiencing rapid
development in the past 30 years, and issues relating to sus-
tainable development will become increasingly important
in the coming decades. This comprehensive overview pre-
sents sustainable development from the perspectives of
Asia and the Pacific, with contributions from more than 70
leading international experts. The first part focuses on the
theories and practices of sustainable development, includ-
ing national and regional perspectives, as well as interna-
tional policies and law concerning climate change. The
second part highlights the challenges and opportunities of
sustainable development and poverty reduction amid the
changing ecological, social, cultural, economic, and politi-
cal environment in this region. These include issues such as
the importance of science for sustainable development and
related areas, including sustainable energy, stratospheric
ozone depletion, climate change, land-use change, biodi-
versity, and disaster risk reduction. The volume is an inval-
uable reference for all researchers and policy makers with
an interest in sustainable development.

SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT: ASIA-
PACIFIC PERSPECTIVES
Edited by
PAK SUM LOW
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Title: Sustainable development : Asia-Pacific perspectives / edited by Pak Sum Low,
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ISBN 9780521897174 (hardback) | ISBN 9780511977961 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Sustainable development – Southeast Asia. | Climatic changes –
Southeast Asia. | Land use – Southeast Asia. | Biodiversity – Southeast Asia.
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Dedicated to Dr Mostafa Kamal Tolba

Contents
Notes on contributors ix 6 Sustainable urbanism: Measuring long-term
Peer reviewers xxiv architectural merit 42
Editor’s note Craig Langston
Pak Sum Low xxix
7 Sustaining wooden architectural heritage 52
Forewords
Peter Brimblecombe and Mikiko Hayashi
Mostafa Kamal Tolba xxxiv
Toke Tufukia Talagi xxxv
NATIONAL AND REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES
Qin Dahe xxxvi
8 Green development in China 68
Sálvano Briceño xxxvii
KE Shuifa, FENG Qiya, WANG Baojin,
Mick Kelly xxxix
and QIAO Dan
Remembering Dr Mostafa Kamal Tolba
Mikko Pyhälä xl 9 Bhutan’s sustainable development initiatives
Sálvano Briceño xliii and Gross National Happiness 85
Naigzy Gebremedhin xliv Jamba Gyeltshen
Acronyms and abbreviations xlvi
SI prefixes lv 10 A different form of sustainable development in
Unit abbreviations lvi Thailand and Bhutan: Implementation of a
Chemical formulae lvii sufficiency approach 95
Ros Taplin, Sk Noim Uddin, Kanokwan
Part I Sustainable Development: Pibalsook, Karma Tshering, and
Theories and Practices Natarika Wayuparb Nitiphons
11 The sustainability of food production in
1 Asian identities 3
Papua New Guinea 108
Amartya Sen
Bryant J. Allen and R. Michael Bourke
2 On sustainable development 8
12 Education for sustainable development:
Mostafa Kamal Tolba
An overview of Asia-Pacific perspectives 125
Dzulkifli Abdul Razak
SUSTAINABILITY AND TRENDS
3 Sustainability: A scientific dilemma 13 13 A Placemaking framework for the social sustainability
John Peet of master-planned communities: A case study
from Australia 139
4 Respect and reward: Ecology from the Analects
Bhishna Bajracharya and Isara Khanjanasthiti
of Confucius 25
Yi Chen and Boris Steipe 14 Poverty, inequity, and environmental degradation:
The key issues confronting the environment and
5 Sustainable development from an East-West
sustainable development in Asia 155
integrative perspective: Eastern culture meets
Anoja Wickramasinghe
Western complexity theory 36
Rosita Dellios
vii
viii CONTENTS
INTERNATIONAL POLICY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW 24 Social vulnerability to climate change in
Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam 315
15 The challenge of global climate change for
Nguyen Huu Ninh, Luong Quang Huy, Philip
international law: An overview 175
Michael Kelly, and Phan Toan
Karen Hulme and David M. Ong
25 Sustainable development in Bangladesh:
16 Sustainable development and climate change
Bridging the SDGs and climate action 327
negotiations: Perspectives of developing
Shababa Haque, Naznin Nasir, M. Feisal Rahman,
countries 199
and Saleemul Huq
Bernarditas de Castro-Muller
26 Sustainable development in Pakistan:
Part II Sustainable Development:
Vulnerabilities and opportunities 339
Challenges and Opportunities
Safdar Ullah Khan, Zafar Manzoor, Gulasekaran
SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Rajaguru, and Shabib Haider Syed
17 Scientific responses in an era of global change 217
LAND-USE CHANGE AND BIODIVERSITY
Mostafa Kamal Tolba
27 Beyond protected areas: Biodiversity conservation
TRANSBOUNDARY HAZE and global change in Asia and the Pacific 359
Gernot Brodnig
18 Government communication on transboundary
haze: The nexus between public health and 28 Causes of land-use change and biodiversity loss in
tourism 220 Monsoon Asia 367
Helena Varkkey Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt
ENERGY 29 Assessing linkages between land use and
biodiversity: A case study from the Eastern
19 Biomass energy prospects: A promising fuel for
Himalayas using low-cost, high-return survey
sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific 231
technology 377
Keith Openshaw
Andrew N. Gillison, Amirtharaj C. Williams,
20 Pathways to a more sustainable electricity Gopala Areendran, and Rajeev L. Semwal
sector in India 257
30 Where to invade next: Inaction on biological
Shoibal Chakravarty, T. S. Gopi Rethinaraj,
invasions threatens sustainability in a small island
and Dilip R. Ahuja
developing state of the tropical South Pacific 393
21 Gender equality and energy access: Barriers Marie-Isabell Lenz, Stephen Galvin, Gunnar Keppel,
to maximizing development effectiveness in Sunil Gopaul, Matthias Kowasch, Michael J. Dyer,
the SAARC region 271 Dick Watling, Sherri Y. F. Lodhar, Geon C. Hanson,
Anoja Wickramasinghe Stefan Erasmi, and Hans Juergen Boehmer
OZONE DEPLETION, CLIMATE CHANGE, VULNERABILITY, DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
31 Did the Indian Ocean tsunami trigger a shift
22 The biosphere and the interactions between towards disaster risk reduction? 407
stratospheric ozone depletion and climate Sálvano Briceño
change 291
32 Cyclone Nargis and disaster risk management
Jan C. van der Leun and Janet F. Bornman
in Myanmar 414
23 The political challenge of linking climate change Tun Lwin and Swan Yee Tun Lwin
and sustainable development policies: Risks
and prospects 298
Index 431
R. James Ferguson