The Asia-Pacific region has been experiencing rapid development in the past 30 years, and issues relating to sustainable development will become increasingly important in the coming decades. This comprehensive overview presents 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, including national and regional perspectives, as well as international 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 political 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, biodiversity, and disaster risk reduction. The volume is an invaluable reference for all researchers and policy makers with an interest in sustainable development.
Edited by:
Pak Sum Low
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 283mm,
Width: 224mm,
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 1.600kg
ISBN: 9780521897174
ISBN 10: 0521897173
Pages: 500
Publication Date: 13 January 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Notes on Contributors; Peer Reviewers; Editor's Note; Forewords; Remembering Dr Mostafa Kamal Tolba; Acronyms and Abbreviations; SI Prefixes; Units Abbreviations; Chemical Formulae; Part I. Sustainable Development: Theories and Practices: 1. Asian Identities; 2. On Sustainable Development; 3. Sustainability – A Scientific Dilemma; 4. Respect and Reward: Ecology from the Analects of Confucius; 5. Sustainable Development from an East-West Integrative Perspective: Eastern Culture Meets Western Complexity Theory; 6. Sustainable Urbanism: Measuring Long-term Architectural Merit; 7. Sustaining Wooden Architectural Heritage; 8. Green Development in China; 9. Bhutan's Sustainable Development Initiatives in Pursuit of Gross National Happiness; 10. A Different Form of Sustainable Development in Thailand and Bhutan: Implementation of a Sufficiency Approach; 11. The Sustainability of Food Production in Papua New Guinea; 12. Education for Sustainable Development: An overview of Asia-Pacific Perspectives; 13. Placemaking Framework for Social Sustainability of Master-planned Communities: A Case Study from Australia; 14. Poverty, Inequity and Environmental Degradation: The Key Issues Confronting the Environment and Development in Asia; 15. The Challenge of Global Climate Change for International Law: An Overview; 16. Sustainable Development and Climate Change Negotiations: Perspectives of Developing Countries'; Part II. Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities: 17. Scientific Responses in an Era of Global Change; 18. Government Communication on Transboundary Haze: The Nexus between Public Health and Tourism; 19. Biomass Energy Prospects: A Promising Fuel for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific; 20. Pathways to a More Sustainable Electricity Sector in India; 21. Gender Equality and Energy Access: Barriers to Maximizing Development Effectiveness in the SAARC Region; 22. The Biosphere and the Interactions between Stratospheric Ozone Depletion and Climate Change; 23. The Political Challenge of Linking Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies: Risks and Prospects; 24. Social Vulnerability to Climate Change in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam; 25. Sustainable Development in Bangladesh: Bridging the SDGs and Climate Action; 26. Sustainable Development in Pakistan: Vulnerabilities and Opportunities; 27. Beyond Protected Areas: Biodiversity Conservation and Global Change in Asia and the Pacific; 28. Causes of Land Use Change and Biodiversity Loss in Monsoon Asia; 29. Assessing Linkages between Land Use and Biodiversity: A Case Study from the Eastern Himalayas Using Low-cost, High-return Survey Technology; 30. Where to Invade Next: Inaction on Biological Invasions Threatens Sustainability in a Small Island Developing State of the Tropical South Pacific; 31. Did the Indian Ocean Tsunami Trigger a Shift Towards Disaster Risk Reduction?; 32. Cyclone Nargis and Disaster Risk Management in Myanmar; Index.
Dr Pak Sum Low joined China–ASEAN College of Marine Sciences of Xiamen University Malaysia in September 2020 as an adjunct professor. He is a fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia; a member of the International Advisory Panel of the International Programme on Climate Change and Variability Risk Reduction initiated by the Pacific Disaster Centre, Hawaii, in 2009; and a member of the editorial board of World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, and International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development. He is the editor of Climate Change and Africa (Cambridge 2005). Dr Low has previously worked as the Regional Adviser on Environment and Sustainable Development (2001–2007) at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP); Programme Officer/Senior Programme Officer (1991–1999) at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); and Senior Research Associate (1988–1991), Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, UK. He was visiting professor/adjunct professor at Bond University, Australia (2009–2018), the inaugural Yayasan Sime Darby Chair in Climate Change at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (2011–2013); a senior visiting professor at the UNEP International Ecosystems Management Partnership (IEMP), hosted by the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (2011–2012); and a visiting professor at the Institute of Desertification Studies, Beijing (2013, 2015).
