Southeast Asia and Environmental Sustainability in Context

Edited by Sunil Kukreja - Contributions by Ulil Amri; Nick Kontogeorgopoulos; Patrick O'Reilly; Khanh Pham; Serina Rahman; Victor Savage and Helena Varkkey

This volume features a set of distinct, compelling, and intentionally disparate case studies that shed much needed attention on the varied ways in which local cultural, social, and political dynamics inform and mitigate the veritable roadmap toward palpable and meaningful progress with respect to enabling the goals of environmental sustainability. The volume includes contributions from notable academics – including some based in Southeast Asia - with ‘on the ground experience,’ and thus they bring a much more nuanced and locally informed orientation to their respective contributions.

Lexington Books

Pages: 140 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼

978-1-4985-9681-7 • Hardback • November 2019 • $104.00 • (£80.00)

978-1-4985-9682-4 • eBook • November 2019 • $98.50 • (£76.00)

Series: Modern Southeast Asia

Subjects: Political Science / World / Asian, Social Science / Environment

Southeast Asia and Environmental Sustainability in Context

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Summary

This volume features a set of distinct, compelling, and intentionally disparate case studies that shed much needed attention on the varied ways in which local cultural, social, and political dynamics inform and mitigate the veritable roadmap toward palpable and meaningful progress with respect to enabling the goals of environmental sustainability. The volume includes contributions from notable academics – including some based in Southeast Asia - with ‘on the ground experience,’ and thus they bring a much more nuanced and locally informed orientation to their respective contributions.

Details

Lexington Books

Pages: 140 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼

978-1-4985-9681-7 • Hardback • November 2019 • $104.00 • (£80.00)

978-1-4985-9682-4 • eBook • November 2019 • $98.50 • (£76.00)

Series: Modern Southeast Asia

Subjects: Political Science / World / Asian, Social Science / Environment

Author

Sunil Kukreja is professor of Sociology at the University of Puget Sound.

Table of Contents

1.Between a Rock and a Hot Place: Navigating the Contradictions Between Economic Growth and Climate Change Adaptation in Vietnam

Khanh Pham

2.Sustainable Singapore: Managing Domestic Green Adversities and Adapting to Environmental Externalities

Victor Savage

3.Making the Best of a Bad Situation: Elephant Tourism in Northern Thailand

Nick Kontogeorgopoulos

4.Socio-Political Responses Towards Transboundary Haze: The Oil Palm in Malaysia’s Development Discourse

Helena Varkkey & Patrick O’Reilly

5.Challenging Change: Artisanal Fishermen’s Attitudes Towards Environmental Conservation— Reflections from Mukim Tanjung Kupang, Malaysia

Serina Rahman

6.Islamic Faith Based Organizations and Eco-Spiritual Governmentality in Indonesia

Ulil Amri

Reviews

This volume, edited by Sunil Kukreja, covers an astonishing range of environmental issues in Southeast Asia. Beginning by demonstrating how Vietnam’s environmental efforts are smashed between the hammer of foreign investment and the ambit of local development aspirations, the collection proceeds to the fate of working elephants in Thailand. It goes on to show the ambiguity of Singapore's environmental efforts and the varied reactions to the haze in Singapore and Malaysia, where the latter seems to be in denial due to the influence of the ideologized palm oil industry. It finishes with a portrayal of the different ways fishing and religious communities in Malaysia and Indonesia approach environmental destruction. This collection provides fresh, unusual, and original views of the environmental problems facing Southeast Asia and possible solutions.
— Dagmar Hellman-Rajanayagam, University of Passau