Asia's Environmental Crisis

Introduction -- Colonization of Tribal Lands in Bangladesh and Indonesia: State Rationales, Rights to Land, and Environmental Justice1 -- Territory, Forests, and Historical Continuity: Indigenous Rights and Natural Resources -- Small-Scale Mining and the Environment in Southeast Asia -- Mining and the Environment in New Caledonia: The Case of Thio -- Smallholder Commercial Cultivation and the Environment: Rubber in Southeast Asia -- The Political Economy of Eucalyptus: Business, Bureaucracy, and the Thai Government -- Biotechnologies and Sustainable Development: Potential and Constraints -- Energy Strategies and Environmental Constraints in China's Modernization -- Japan and the Environmental Degradation of the Philippines -- Debt and Environment: The Philippine Experience -- Economic Growth and Environmental Problems in South Korea: The Role of the Government1 -- A Social Analysis of the Environmental Problems in Thailand