Publication

2020 - University of Washington Press, Seattle

Language

English

Word Count

74,000 words, Guess

Page Count

296 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780295747903
  • ISBN-100295747900
  • OCLC Control Number1255807385
  • Better World Books9780295747903
  • Open LibraryOL29512277M

Classifications

  • LCCDRE

Description

East Asia hosts a fifth of the world’s population and consumes over half the world’s coal, a quarter of its petroleum products, and a tenth of its natural gas. It also produces a third of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, making it a major contributor to climate change. The region—whose countries share ecological, sociocultural, and political characteristics while varying in size, resource wealth, history, and political systems—offers excellent insights into the complex dynamics influencing environmental politics, advocacy, and policy. With essays addressing Japan after Fukushima, coal plants and wind turbines in China, environmental activism in Taiwan, and sustainable rural development in South Korea, Greening East Asia explores a region’s shift from development to “eco-development” in acknowledgment that environmental sustainability is a critical component of economic growth.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Greening East AsiaHardcoverUniversity of Washington Press2020

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