Intro -- Contents -- Foreword, by K. Sivaramakrishnan -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Environmental Crisis and the Crisis of Knowledge -- 2. Mountains, Rivers, and Regulated Forests -- 3. Upland People -- 4. Forests and Water -- 5 Water Demand -- 6. Erosion -- 7. Agrochemicals -- 8. Biodiversi -- 9....

Technology transfer for climate change mitigation needs to focus on the diffusion of existing technologies as well as the innovation of technologies. • Diffusion requires full involvement of non-state actors, particularly business investors in new and renewable energy technologies and the...

The concept of autonomous adaptation is widely used to describe spontaneous acts of reducing risks posed by resource scarcity and, increasingly, climate change. Critics, however, have claimed it is unproven, or simplifies the agency by which smallholders respond to risk. This paper presents...

Public concerns about environmental problems create narrative structures that influence policy by allocating roles of blame, responsibility, and appropriate behavior. This paper presents an analysis of public concerns about transboundary haze resulting from forest fires in Indonesia, Singapore,...

Book review of: Oliver Pye and Jayati Bhattacharya (eds), "The Palm Oil Controversy in Southeast Asia: A Transnational Perspective." (Singapore: ISEAS, 2013) ISBN 9789814311441.

The concept of cooperative environmental governance has been proposed as a means of increasing citizens' participation in environmental policy and technological choice in order to make policy processes more deliberative and socially inclusive. This paper critically analyzes the concept in...

Technology transfer for climate change mitigation needs to focus on the diffusion of existing technologies as well as the innovation of technologies. • Diffusion requires full involvement of non-state actors, particularly business investors in new and renewable energy technologies and the...