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Author : Herb Thompson
Publisher : Murdoch University
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015041292585
Author : Michael L. Ross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139432117
Scholars have long studied how institutions emerge and become stable. But why do institutions sometimes break down? In this book, Michael L. Ross explores the breakdown of the institutions that govern natural resource exports in developing states. He shows that these institutions often break down when states receive positive trade shocks - unanticipated windfalls. Drawing on the theory of rent-seeking, he suggests that these institutions succumb to a problem he calls 'rent-seizing' - the predatory behavior of politicians who seek to supply rent to others, and who purposefully dismantle institutions that restrain them. Using case studies of timber booms in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, he shows how windfalls tend to trigger rent-seizing activities that may have disastrous consequences for state institutions, and for the government of natural resources. More generally, he shows how institutions can collapse when they have become endogenous to any rent-seeking process.
Author : Peter Dauvergne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052100134X
Corporate loggers have damaged much of the tropical forest throughout the Asia-Pacific over the last four decades. Despite a steady rise in global and local concern, few firms have changed their practices. Loggers and Degradation in the Asia-Pacific examines why and how loggers have resisted and ignored calls for environmental reforms. Concentrating on the period after 1990, the book explains what is happening on the ground and highlights the structures within which firms and governments operate. Within this broader context the author considers a range of factors including: the science of tropical forest management, the capacity of states to regulate and enforce rules, the relative power of environmental reformers, and the 1997-9 Asian financial crisis. This is a constructive, insightful approach to a depressing, yet urgent, problem. It will be accessible to academic and student readers as well as those in corporations, government and NGOs.
Author : Philip Hirsch,Carol Warren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134690442
The Politics of Environment in Southeast Asia charts the emergence of the environment as an issue of public debate in the region. Through a series of case studies the authors explore the coalescence of social forces around environmental issues, the process of alliance formation, and the role of state institutions, media and NGOs in the complex political battles over resource allocation. The volatile tensions between the winners and losers in this struggle for the environment will make Southeast Asia a focus of increased attention.
Author : Raymond Bryant,Michael Parnwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134794119
Environmental Change in South-East Asia brings together scholars, journalists, consultants and NGO activists to explore the interaction of people, politics and ecology. Ostensibly "green" activities - plantation forestry, eco-tourism, hydro-electricity - are revealed as guises used by elites to promote their own political and economic interests. Highlighting fatal flaws in presently exclusive economic and ecological approaches, the authors stress that neither the quest for sustainable development nor the process of environmental change itself can be understood without reference to political processes.
Author : Ken-ichi Abe,Tuck-Po Lye,Wil de Jong
Publisher : Trans Pacific Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1876843543
Following an interdisciplinary approach to debates about the future of tropical forests in Southeast Asia, the authors - experts in their field - unravel the extent to which the interests of local inhabitants, nation-states and international environmental movements are intertwined. This volume, a joint publication with Kyoto University Press, examines the highly politicized context in which local forestry problems intersect with global market forces, focusing on the social and economic diversity of different tropical forests and their specific historical background. It emphasizes the importance of examining local issues in their own right.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Economic policy
ISBN : MSU:31293022134708
Author : Dennis O. Flynn,A.J.H. Latham,Sally M. Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134753451
Trade across the Pacific will be one of the dominant forces in the economy of the next century. This collection reflects the birth of Pacific Rim history, until recently largely neglected. It addresses the development of the Pacific Rim over four centuries, combining broad historical syntheses with a range of essays on specific topics, from trade with Hong Kong to British overseas banking. It will form a major contribution to this rapidly expanding new field.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996-05
Category : Australia
ISBN : UCBK:C081538273
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Southeast Asia
ISBN : UCSD:31822024969040
Author : Peter Dauvergne
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262540878
This book is the first to analyze the environmental impact of Japanese trade, corporations, and aid on timber management in the context of Southeast Asian political economies. It is also one of the first comprehensive studies of why Southeast Asian states are unable to enforce forest policies and regulations.
Author : Moshe Rapaport
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824865849
The Pacific is the last major world region to be discovered by humans. Although small in total land area, its numerous islands and archipelagoes with their startlingly diverse habitats and biotas, extend across a third of the globe. This revised edition of a popular text explores the diverse landforms, climates, and ecosystems of the Pacific island region. Multiple chapters, written by leading specialists, cover the environment, history, culture, population, and economy. The work includes new or completely revised chapters on gender, music, logging, development, education, urbanization, health, ocean resources, and tourism. Throughout two key issues are addressed: the exceptional environmental challenges and the demographic/economic/political challenges facing the region. Although modern technology and media and waves of continental tourists are fast eroding island cultures, the continuing resilience of Pacific island populations is apparent. This is the only contemporary text on the Pacific Islands that covers both environment and sociocultural issues and will thus be indispensable for any serious student of the region. Unlike other reviews, it treats the entirety of Oceania (with the exception of Australia) and is well illustrated with numerous photos and maps, including a regional atlas. Contributors: David Abbott, Dennis A. Ahlburg, Glenn Banks, John Barker, Geoffrey Bertram, David A. Chappell, William C. Clarke, John Connell, Ron Crocombe, Julie Cupples, Derrick Depledge, Colin Filer, Gerard J. Fryer, Patricia Fryer, Brenden S. Holland, E. Alison Kay, David M. Kennedy, Lamont Lindstrom, Rick Lumpkin, Harley I. Manner, Selina Tusitala Marsh, Nancy McDowell, Hamish A. McGowan, Frank McShane, Simon Milne, R. John Morrison, Dieter Mueller-Dombois, Stephen G. Nelson, Patrick D. Nunn, Michael R. Ogden, Andrew Pawley, Jean-Louis Rallu, Vina Ram-Bidesi, Moshe Rapaport, Annette Sachs Robertson, Richard Scaglion, Donovan Storey, Andrew P. Sturman, Lynne D. Talley, James P. Terry, Randolph R. Thaman, Frank R. Thomas, Caroline Vercoe, Terence Wesley-Smith, Paul Wolffram.
Author : Chia Lin Sien
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789812301178
Southeast Asia, with a total population of 520 million, remains a region characterized by fragmentation, diversity, and considerable internal conflict despite the unifying influence of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), formed some thirty-five years ago. In the new millennium, it has lost the distinction of being one of the worlds faster growing group of economies since the 1997 financial crisis. While it has benefited from the winds of globalization, it has now to cope with the painful adjustments to problems that stem from the inadequacies of good governance and structural changes.
Author : Eveline Ferretti
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781501719134
An annotated bibliography focused on Borneo and the Southern Philippines. With over 1,000 citations, this reference work identifies patterns of forestland transformation common to the areas under consideration. A subject index is included.
Author : Hazel J. Lang
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501719363
An examination of the plight of the refugees of Burma's protracted civil war, many of whom have fled across the border into Thailand. This study looks at the changing nature of the refugee situation and the responses of the parties involved, including the United Nations, the refugees themselves, and governments in both Bangkok and Rangoon. In the process, Fear and Sanctuary addresses pertinent international questions regarding civil war, ethnic resistance against an oppressive state, displacement, and refugee protection.
