Environment in the 21st Century and New Development Patterns

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-8

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2. Asian Environment and New Development Patterns

   1. Asian Environment and New Development Patterns

      • Kazuo Matsushita

      Pages 9-24

3. New Development Patterns in the 21st Century Society

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Material Cycles and the Formation of an Environmentally Sound Market Economy

      • Tadahiro Mitsuhashi

      Pages 27-46

   3. Energy and New Development Patterns

      • Haruki Tsuchiya

      Pages 47-67

   4. Energy and the New Economy

      • Haruki Tsuchiya

      Pages 69-85

   5. Impacts of the Information Technology Revolution: Economic Challenges of New Development Patterns

      • Yasuhiro Murota

      Pages 87-113

   6. The Role of Information Disclosure in Corporate Governance: The Case of the Chemical Industry

      • Cindy Termorshuizen

      Pages 115-145

   7. Sustainable Water Strategies for New Development Patterns

      • Makoto Murase

      Pages 147-162

   8. Toward Sustainable Agriculture and Development

      • Takeshi Hara

      Pages 163-197

4. New Development Patterns and Regionality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199

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   2. New Development Patterns in Asia

      • Shinji Fukukawa

      Pages 201-213

   3. New Development Patterns in India

      • Hari Srinivas

      Pages 215-237

   4. New Development Patterns and Innovation in China’s Environmental Policy

      • Zhang Kun, Xia Guang

      Pages 239-253

5. New Development Patterns and International Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255

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   2. International Development at the Dawn of the 21st Century

      • Keith Bezanson

      Pages 257-270

   3. Enjoy it by Giving it up — Toward Sustainable Development Patterns

      • Kirit S. Parikh

      Pages 271-290

   4. New Development Patterns in Asia — Securing Economic Growth, Social Justice, Healthy Environment, Sustainable Human Development and Good Governance in the 21st Century

      • Ryokichi Hirono

      Pages 291-300

   5. Afterword

      • Kazuo Matsushita

      Pages 301-303

Economic growth after World War II was made possible through dramatic increases in the use of material resources and energy. It is apparent that current development patterns followed by industrialized countries are causing serious environmental problems and that they are neither ecologically nor socially sustainable.
In recent years, many Asian developing countries, which have suffered from poverty for decades, are experiencing high rates of economic growth by introducing material-intensive production and consumption patterns. The globalization trends magnify on a global scale the problems associated with current development patterns.
How can we transform existing economic and social systems into more environmentally benign and sustainable ones? This book presents a number of issues that must be considered whn discussing new development patterns, which are environmentally friendly and socially fair. It covers concepts of new development patterns, new energy and water supply, sustainable agriculture, information technology and environment, information disclosure and poverty alleviation.
Audience: This volume will be of interest to those who are involved in innovative interdisciplinary policy studies on environment and development, particularly in Asia and the Pacific region. Also those who are interested in realizing sustainable development through agriculture, water supply, information technology, chemical industry and sustainability issues in China and India.

• Developing Countries
• Governance
• Nation
• development
• environment
• production
• sustainability
• sustainable development

• Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan

  K. Matsushita

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