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Asia's Clean Revolution : Industry, Growth and the Environment.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (278 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781909493131
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Asia's Clean RevolutionDDC classification:
  • 363.731095
LOC classification:
  • HC412 -- .A85 2000eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Toward clean shared growth in Asia -- PART 1: Framing the lssues -- 2. Technology and environmental performance: leveraging growth and sustainability -- 3. Globalisation and the environment in Asia: linkages, impacts and policy implications -- 4. Public policies to promote cleaner shared industrial growth in East Asia -- 5. Industrialising cities and the environment in Pacific Asia: toward a policy framework and agenda for action -- 6. Civil society and the future of environmental governance in Asia -- PART 2: Case Studies in Innovation -- 7. Putting pressure on polluters: Indonesia's PROPER programme -- 8. Water pollution abatement in Malaysia -- 9. Toward more sustainable development: the environment and industrial policy in Taiwan -- 10. Measuring up: toward a common framework for tracking corporate environmental performance -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- List of Abbreviations -- Authors' Biographies -- Index.
Summary: The world's environmental future will be determined in significant part by what happens in the rapidly industrializing and urban economies of Asia. This work examines the prospects for and pathways to the shaping of a development future that is far less energy, materials and waste intensive.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Toward clean shared growth in Asia -- PART 1: Framing the lssues -- 2. Technology and environmental performance: leveraging growth and sustainability -- 3. Globalisation and the environment in Asia: linkages, impacts and policy implications -- 4. Public policies to promote cleaner shared industrial growth in East Asia -- 5. Industrialising cities and the environment in Pacific Asia: toward a policy framework and agenda for action -- 6. Civil society and the future of environmental governance in Asia -- PART 2: Case Studies in Innovation -- 7. Putting pressure on polluters: Indonesia's PROPER programme -- 8. Water pollution abatement in Malaysia -- 9. Toward more sustainable development: the environment and industrial policy in Taiwan -- 10. Measuring up: toward a common framework for tracking corporate environmental performance -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- List of Abbreviations -- Authors' Biographies -- Index.

The world's environmental future will be determined in significant part by what happens in the rapidly industrializing and urban economies of Asia. This work examines the prospects for and pathways to the shaping of a development future that is far less energy, materials and waste intensive.

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