Philip Hirsch - The Politics of the Environment in Southeast Asia: Resources and Resistance

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The Politics of Environment in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia has undergone extremely rapid industrialisation and economic growth. This in turn has placed great pressure on the local environment through the increased use of natural resources and higher levels of pollution and urban expansion.

This book is concerned with the growing importance of environmental issues and their relationship to broader processes of social, political and economic change in Southeast Asia. The case studies included document environmental struggles over large dams, forestry, mining, pollution and tourism. The authors draw on new approaches in social and political ecology and relate macro-theoretical frameworks to the case studies.

The growing intensity of the conflict between economic growth, social security and environmental protection in the region make Southeast Asia an especially fertile area for study. The outcome will be of lasting importance to the region. The Politics of Environment in Southeast Asia is an original and detailed contribution to this growing debate.

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Philip Hirsch is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Geography, University of Sydney. Carol Warren lectures in the Asian Studies and Development Studies Programmes at Murdoch University.

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Resources and Resistance

Edited by

Philip Hirsch and Carol Warren

This book is a project of the Asia Research Centre on Social, Political and Economic Change, Murdoch University, Western Australia

London and New York

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First published 1998 by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

1998 Selection and editorial matter Philip Hirsch and Carol Warren; individual chapters the contributors

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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ISBN 0-203-03017-6 Master e-book ISBN

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To those in Southeast Asia who have devoted their lives to the struggle for social and environmental justice.

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