Environmental Movements in Asia

by Arne Kalland and Gerard Persoon

This volume paints a general picture of the environmental situation in Asia, backing it up with several case studies.
Two major points are made in this general picture. The first is that environmental campaigns in Asia tend to have a local focus; they react to very concrete problems in the immediate neighbourhood and as such usually people are engaged in a cause for practical rather than idealistic reasons. Such can be seen in case studies from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 070070616X
• ISBN13: 9780700706167
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.7"