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Population, Development, and the Environment

Challenges to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in the Asia Pacific

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Editors:
  1. Helen James

    1. Department of Anthropology School of Culture, History and Language College of Asia Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

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  • Details some of the most intransigent social, economic and political issues impacting on achieving sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific

  • Provides regional perspectives that enable practitioners and policy experts to explore living models of socio-economic and political problems

  • Presents a set of integrated perspectives on the nexus between population, development and the environment in Asia and the Pacific

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxvi
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  2. Introduction: The Dynamics of Sustainability and Environmental Governance in the Asia Pacific

    • Helen James
    Pages 1-9

  3. The Nexus Between Population, Development and the Environment: Critical to Determining Quality of Life on Earth

    • Maung Maung Aye
    Pages 11-20

  4. Nature Conservation and Its Bedfellows: The Politics of Preserving Nature

    • Robert Cribb
    Pages 21-33

  5. Food, Agriculture and Small Farmers in Asia

    • Lindsay Falvey
    Pages 35-51

  6. Trade-Offs Between Hydropower Development and Food Security in River Management

    • Jamie Pittock
    Pages 53-68

  7. Impacts of Flood and Riverbank Erosion on Human Livelihoods: A Case Study of Some Riverside Villages in the Lower Ayeyarwady

    • Khin Mar Wai, Wint Wint Htun
    Pages 69-85

  8. Social Capital, Adaptation and Resilience: Case Studies of Rural Communities in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and Myanmar

    • Julian Prior, Thaw Ni Ni Zaw, Jemal Yousuf Hassen, Estella Toperesi
    Pages 87-112

  9. Rural-Urban Interaction in Rural Development of Peri-Urban Areas in Yangon Region, Myanmar: A Case Study of Hlegu Township

    • Nilar Aung, Tin Tin Mar
    Pages 113-136

  10. Changing Livelihood Options as Adaptation: A Comparative Analysis of Three Flood Control Schemes in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

    • Thong Tran, Helen James
    Pages 137-154

  11. Environmental and Social Impacts of Mining in the Mogok Area, Pyin Oo Lwin District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar

    • Ohn Thwin, Wint Wint Htun, Khin Mar Wai
    Pages 155-169

  12. Negotiating Livelihoods Access to Coastal Resources: Environmental Citizenship by NGOs in Indonesia

    • Henri Sitorus
    Pages 171-193

  13. Landslide Hazard in Chin State: A Case Study in Hakka and Its Environs

    • Kyaw Htun, Cho Thae Oo, Tun Naing Zaw, Day Wa Aung
    Pages 195-213

  14. Women, Water and ‘Wicked Problems’: Community Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Change in Northern Pakkoku, Myanmar

    • Helen James
    Pages 215-225

  15. Socio-Political Transformation After the 2011 Floods in Thailand

    • Ladawan Khaikham, Helen James
    Pages 227-253

  16. The Impact of Floods on the Socio-Economic Activities of Yangon

    • Nwe Nwe Aung, San San Htwe, Kyi Kyi Sein, Lei Lei Aung
    Pages 255-271

  17. State of Forest Governance in Vietnam: Where Are the Local Communities?

    • Mucahid Mustafa Bayrak
    Pages 273-295

  18. Laws Relating to Environmental Conservation in Myanmar

    • Myint Thu Myaing
    Pages 297-315

  19. Effects of Rural-Urban Migration on Agricultural Production in Taungdwingyi Township, Magway Region, Myanmar

    • Khine Myint Cho, Kyaw Kyaw, Phyu Phyu Khaing
    Pages 317-330

  20. Effects of Migration on Two Small Villages Between Pyalin and Gonmin Chaungs, Pantanaw Township, Ayeyarwady Region

    • Kyaw Kyaw
    Pages 331-347
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About this book

This book takes the reader into some of the most intransigent social, economic, and political issues that impact achieving sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific. Through meticulous analysis of the integrated relationships between population, development, and the environment, the chapters in this volume investigate the impacts of hydropower development on fragile ecosystems; mining, landslides and environmental degradation; deforestation; water and food security; rural-urban migration, poverty alleviation, civil society and community empowerment; and how disaster recovery requires multi-scalar and multi-disciplinary approaches that take into account governance, culture, and leadership. Legal frameworks may be legislated, but are often rarely implemented.

The book will be valuable to students of sustainability, population and development, and governmental policy advising sectors as well as the NGO and humanitarian sectors. The distinctive characteristic of this book is that it encapsulates an integrated, multi-disciplinary focus which brings to the discussion both robust empirical research and challenging policy applications in the investigation of how the sustainable development goals may be achieved in Asia and the Pacific.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Anthropology School of Culture, History and Language College of Asia Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

    Helen James

About the editor

Helen James researches Asian disasters, Risk, Resilience and Reconstruction, civil society, governance, health, education, poverty alleviation and sustainable development in Southeast Asia with special attention to the political anthropology of religion, non-violence and state/civil society relations; health and social inclusion/exclusion, international development, gender and health, citizenship, human rights and human security, interfaith dialogue and transnational history.

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