South-East Asia's Environmental Future The Search for Sustainability

• Other Authors: Brookfield, H.C, Byron, Yvonne l950-
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Kuala Lumpur Oxford University Press 1993
• Subjects: Conservation of natural resources > Asia, Southeastern; Environmental protection > Asia, Southeastern; Asia, Southeastern > Environmental conditions
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• Item Description: Based on a conference held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia in May, 1991
• Physical Description: xxxi, 422 pages illustrations, maps 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9676530255

IN May 1991, a conference was held at Gadjah Mada University. Yogyakarta. Indonesia, on "Toward a Sustainable Environmental Future for the Southeast Asian Region. The conference was organized by the United Nations University (UNU), with the participation of Gadjah Mada University, the Research School of Pacific Studies in the Australian National University, and the East-West Center Environment and Policy Institute. As described in the Foreword, this conference was the first in a series held by the UNU on environmentally sustainable development in the major regions of the tropical developing world. Brookfield was charged with organizing the conference, and then with editing this book, which is its product. The task of assembling a team of speakers and discussants occupied several months during which, together with Dr Juha Uitto, the UNU Academic Officer responsible for the conference, he tried to gather experts who would be both competent and well-informed, and who would also represent most parts of the region. Most, but not all those invited, were both willing and able to attend, and they proved to be a very good team indeed. Those assembled in Yogyakarta included strong representation from Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, rather fewer from Thailand, one from Brunei, but no one from Singapore. Unfortunately, it was not possible to attract any speakers from the socialist countries, though we tried; this is an unfortunate gap carried forward into the book. There was good representation from Australia, where academic interest in the region is strong, and also from the East-West Center in Honolulu. One speaker came from Japan, one from Taiwan and other parti cipants were drawn from Germany and Ireland.