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Asia's Environmental Movements: Comparative Perspectives
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Description: Adopting a comparative perspective, the contributors to this book (1) trace the social, political, economic, and cultural conditions under which environmental movements have emerged and which then sustain and permit them to develop, and (2) assess the transformative capacities of these movements by analyzing their structural ties, cultural values, and political strategies. Two sets of countries have been selected to illustrate the diversity of the experiences of the development of environmental organizations in the region. The first set of research sites includes Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea, all of which are "newly industrializing economies" (NIEs) that have just gone through democratic breakthroughs and are heavily influenced by Confucian cultural values. The second set of research sites includes Thailand and the Philipines which, when compared to the NIEs, are less advanced economically and are dominated by Buddhist and Christian cultural values. Given their diverse economic, political, and cultural configurations, these five countries are fertile ground for this comparative study of how structural contexts have shaped the origins and transformation of environmental movements in Asia.
Selected Contents:
1. Introduction, Yok-shiu F. Lee and Alvin Y. So
Country Case Studies
2. Environmental Movements in Taiwan, Hsiao-Huang Michael Hsiao
3. Environmental Movements in Hong Kong, Stephen Wing-Kai Chiu, Ho-Fung Hung, and On-Kwok Lai
4. Environmental Movements in South Korea, Su-Hoon Lee
5. Environmental Movements in Thailand, Alvin Y. So and Yok-shiu F. Lee
6. Environmental Movements in the Philippines, Francisco Magno
Comparative Analyses
7. Grassroots Environmentalism in the United States: Implications for Asia's Environmental Movements Andrew Szasz
8. Culture and Asian Styles of Environmental Movements, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, On-Kwok Lai, Hwa-Jen Liu, Francisco Magno, Laura Edles, and Alvin Y. So
9. The Impact of Democratization on Environmental Movements, Su-Hoon Lee, Michael Hsin-Huang Hsiao, Hwa-Jen Liu, On-Kwok Lai, Francisco Magno, and Alvin Y. So
10. The Making of Anti-Nuclear Movements in East Asia: State-Movements Relationships and Policy Outcomes, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, Hwa-jen Liu, Su-hoon Lee, On-Kwok Lai, and Yok-shiu F. Lee
11. The Contradictions and Synergy of Environmental Movements and Business Interests, On-Kwok Lai, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, Hwa-jen Liu, Somrudee Nicro, and Yok-shiu F. Lee
Conclusion, Yok-shiu F. Lee and Alvin Y. So
Review(s): "The first work to address environmental movements in the nations known as Asia's tigers: Hong Kong, South Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, and Taiwan. ... A well-integrated presentation. ... The case studies are well done, the comparative essays are even stronger, and the final result is a competent analysis of environmental movements in these developing economies. Recommended." -- Choice
"This collection is organized into two parts:part one includes five country case study chapters, and part two contains five comparative analysis chapters. The first part covers South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, and the Philippines, and attempts to examine the origins, transformation, and the effects of environmental movements in these countries." -- Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment
"The volume provides an immensely informative resource for scholars, students, and practitioners who may be interested not only in the environmental movements themselves, but in the social and particularly the political context within which they have evolved and expanded...A very useful contribution to a rapidly expanding literature on environmental problems in the dynamic economies of East and Southeast Asia." -- The Journal of Asian Studies
"In their thought-provoking book, Lee and So discuss issues such as the impact of culture and, in particular, religion on envireonmental protection and degradation." -- Critical Asian Studies 35:2
    
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