Overview
- Investigates the current environmental conditions in Southeast Asia
- Offers insights into Southeast Asia’s rapidly transforming environment and resources management
- Promotes trans-disciplinary research that assesses human impact on Southeast Asia’s ecosystems
Part of the book series: Asia in Transition (AT, volume 7)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Eco-resources and Their Economic Significance
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The Politics of Energy and Resources-use
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Tropical ecosystems in transition
- Southeast Asia’s environmental changes and resource management
- Southeast Asia's ecosystems
- Development mechanisms of tropical agriculture
- Trade in agro-energy
- Geospheric circulations
- Eco-resources and their economic significance
- Peatland restoration
- Sustainable peatland management
- The politics of energy and resources-use
- Organic agriculture
- Agribusiness
- Palm oil industrial restructuring
- Rain-fed paddy cultivation
- Input-intensive agriculture
- Soil microorganisms
- Tropical agriculture
- Sustainable forest management
- natural resources and energy economics
- climate change impacts
About this book
This edited volume introduces dynamic approaches to the study of Southeast Asia’s environmental diversity from different disciplinary perspectives at the interface between the natural and social sciences. It brings together research on the region’s environmental resource use and shared ecological challenges in the context of present day globalization to offer insights for possible future directions. The book introduces unique approaches to the study of Southeast Asia’s environmental changes and resource management under the influence of intensifying economic change in the region. It also examines the slow erosion of Southeast Asia’s rich environment and addresses serious issues such as the decrease in biodiversity and tropical forests, and the degradation of peat lands. At the same time, it discusses the social issues that are tied to energy-dependent growth and have intensified over the last two decades. It also analyzes the new roadmaps being created to protect, conserve, andmanage the environment. By investigating the many ecological issues surrounding us, the volume brings to light the constant struggles we face while trying to develop a more inclusive and equitable approach to natural resources governance. This volume is relevant for students, academics and researchers who have an interest in the Southeast Asian environment and the way in which we use and interact with it.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mario Lopez is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Southeast Asia Studies, Kyoto University. He received his PhD from the Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies at Kyushu University in 2012. His research interests are on humans, mobility, ageing and sustainability in Southeast Asia. He has published widely on these areas and is also a co-developer of the Humanosphere Potentiality Index, a database developed to address current global potentiality with a focus on tropical countries. In addition, Mario is involved in a Visual Documentary Project in collaboration with the Japan Foundation Asian Centre to stimulate discussion and develop dialogues for new research on Southeast Asian communities.
Jafar Suryomenggolo is an Assistant Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan. He graduated from the University of Indonesia with a degree in Law in 2000 and earned his PhD in Southeast Asian Studies in 2010 fromKyoto University. Jafar's research interests are on working class politics and political changes in contemporary Southeast Asia. He is an author and editor of several articles, book reviews, book chapters and books in these areas.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental Resources Use and Challenges in Contemporary Southeast Asia
Book Subtitle: Tropical Ecosystems in Transition
Editors: Mario Ivan Lopez, Jafar Suryomenggolo
Series Title: Asia in Transition
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8881-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-8880-3Published: 28 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4265-3Published: 19 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-8881-0Published: 17 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2364-8252
Series E-ISSN: 2364-8260
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 255
Number of Illustrations: 51 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environment Studies, Natural Resources, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts