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Article: Environmental Movements in Asia.(Review)
- Article from:
- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
- Article date:
- March 1, 2000
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Environmental Movements in Asia. Edited by ARNE KALLAND and GERARD PERSOON. Richmond: Curzon, 1998. Pp. xiii, 296. Index.
As concern over the nature and extent of Asia's environmental problems has grown, the struggle for more sustainable modes of human-environmental interaction has increasingly taken the form of organized action in this part of the "Third World". Yet, this process has occurred unevenly across the region, and has been mediated by differing location-specific political, economic and cultural forces. As such, organized environmental struggles or movements in Asia have not only differed from those occurring in the "First World", but have also revealed ...