Routledge Handbook of the Environment in Southeast Asia

540 Pages·2016·5.198 MB·English

by  Philip Hirsch (editor)

ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK
OF THE ENVIRONMENT
IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
The environment is one of the defining issues of our times, and it is closely linked to questions
and dilemmas surrounding economic development. Southeast Asia is one of the world’s most
economically and demographically dynamic regions, and it is also one in which a host of envi-
ronmental issues raise themselves.
The Routledge Handbook of the Environment in Southeast Asia is a collection of 30 chapters
dealing with the most significant scholarly debates in this rapidly growing field of study. Struc-
tured in four main parts, it gives a comprehensive regional overview of, and insight into, the
environment in Southeast Asia.
Wide-ranging and balanced, this Handbook promotes scholarly understanding of how envi-
ronmental issues are dealt with from diverse theoretical perspectives. It offers a detailed empir-
ical understanding of the myriad environmental problems and challenges faced in Southeast
Asia. This is the first publication of its kind in this field; a helpful companion for a global audi-
ence and for scholars of Southeast Asian studies from a variety of disciplines.
Philip Hirsch is Professor of Human Geography in the School of Geosciences at the University
of Sydney, Australia. His research interests are in agrarian change, natural resource management
and the politics of environment in Thailand and the wider Mekong region.
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ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK
OF THE ENVIRONMENT
IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
Edited by Philip Hirsch
First published 2017
by Routledge
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© 2017 Philip Hirsch
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Names: Hirsch, Philip, 1957- editor.
Title: Routledge handbook of the environment in Southeast Asia/
edited by Philip Hirsch.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2016. |
“2016 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016012536 | ISBN 9780415625210 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781315474892 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Southeast Asia–Environmental conditions. | Economic
development–Environmental aspects–Southeast Asia.
Classification: LCC GE160.S64 R68 2016 | DDC 333.70959–dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016012536
ISBN: 978-0-415-62521-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-47489-2 (ebk)
Typeset in Bembo
by Sunrise Setting Ltd, Brixham, UK
In memory of Khamla Phanvilay, environmental champion
and educator
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CONTENTS
List of figures x
List of tables xii
List of contributors xiv
Acknowledgements xviii
PART 1
Introduction 1
1 Introduction: the environment in Southeast Asia’s past, present and future 3
Philip Hirsch
PART 2
Thematic approaches to environment 15
2 Understanding the physical environment of Southeast Asia:
a prerequisite for better environmental management 17
Avijit Gupta
3 Environmental histories of Southeast Asia 31
Peter Boomgaard
4 Population growth and environmental degradation in Southeast Asia 46
Rodolphe De Koninck and Pham Thanh Hai
5 Environmentalism 69
Tim Forsyth
6 A Southeast Asian political ecology 82
Peter Vandergeest and Robin Roth
vii
Contents
7 Environmental neoliberalism in Southeast Asia 99
Keith Barney
8 Environmental law in Southeast Asia 115
Ben Boer
9 Environmental governance and decentralization 133
Robert Fisher
10 Transboundary environmental politics in Southeast Asia: issues,
responses and challenges 147
Antonio P. Contreras
PART 3
Sectoral issues in natural resources and environment 157
11 Forests and biodiversity 159
Frances Seymour and Peter Kanowski
12 Shifting cultivation and human interaction with forests 180
Rob Cramb
13 Water, rivers and dams 204
Carl Middleton
14 Social and political ecology of fisheries and aquaculture in Southeast Asia 224
Simon R. Bush and Melissa Marschke
15 Urban environmental transitions in Southeast Asia 239
Peter J. Marcotullio
16 Peri-urbanization and environmental issues in mega-urban regions 264
Edsel E. Sajor
17 Adaptation to climate change in Southeast Asia: developing
a relational approach 280
Albert Salamanca and Jonathan Rigg
18 Migration and the environment 298
Rebecca Elmhirst
PART 4
Regional and country studies in environment 313
19 The role of ASEAN in shaping regional environmental protection 315
Koh Kheng-Lian and Md. Saiful Karim
viii
Contents
20 The Mekong: strategic environmental assessment of mainstream
hydropower development in an international river basin 334
Jeremy Carew-Reid
21 Cambodia: territorialisation of natural resources and environmental
management 356
Mak Sithirith
22 Indonesia: a political–economic history of environment and resources 374
Jeff Neilson
23 Laos: abundance, scarcity and the shifting role of natural resources 390
Yayoi Fujita Lagerqvist
24 Malaysia: structure and agency of the environmental movement 400
Fadzilah Majid Cooke and Adnan A. Hezri
25 Myanmar: evolving environmental governance under a regime in transition 418
Adam Simpson
26 The Philippines: historical and geographical framing of ecological
degradation and environmental governance 430
Doracie Zoleta-Nantes
27 Singapore: sustaining a global city-state and the challenges of
environmental governance in the twenty-first century 448
Carl Grundy-Warr and Victor R. Savage
28 Thailand: whither gender in the environmental movement? 470
Pinkaew Laungaramsri
29 Timor Leste: embracing resource governance through ritual in
a post-conflict society 483
Lisa Palmer
30 Vietnam: governmental and societal response to emergent environmental
issues in the Mekong Delta 496
Le Anh Tuan
Index 509
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