Asia's Environmental Crisis

1. Introduction 2. Colonization of Tribal Lands in Bangladesh and Indonesia: State Rationales, Rights to Land, and Environmental Justice 3. Territory, Forests, and Historical Continuity: Indigenous Rights and Natural Resources 4. Small-Scale Mining and the Environment in Southeast Asia 5. Mining and the Environment in New Caledonia: The Case of Thio 6. Smallholder Commercial Cultivation and the Environment: Rubber in Southeast Asia 7. The Political Economy of Eucalyptus: Business, Bureaucracy, and the Thai Government 8. Biotechnologies and Sustainable Development: Potential and Constraints 9. Energy Strategies and Environmental Constraints in China's Modernization 10. Japan and the Environmental Degradation of the Philippines 11. Debt and Environment: The Philippine Experience 12. Economic Growth and Environmental Problems in South Korea: The Role of the Government 13. A Social Analysis of the Environmental Problems in Thailand