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Title Environmental movements in Asia / edited by Arne Kalland and Gerard Persoon
Published Richmond, Surrey : Curzon, 1998

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Description xiii, 296 pages ; 23 cm
Series Man & nature in Asia ; no.4
Man and nature in Asia ; no.4
Contents An anthropological perspective on environmental movements / Arne Kalland and Gerard Persoon -- Local dimensions of 'global' environmental debates / Michael R. Dove -- Mahatma Gandhi and the environmental movement in India / Ramachandra Guha -- Culture, gender and community in Taiwan's environmental movement / Robert P. Weller and Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao -- The forest grant movement in Japan / John Knight -- The anti-tropical timber campaign in Japan / Anny Wong -- Local environmentalism in northeast Thailand / Amare Tegbaru -- Symbols and displacement / Carol Warren -- Local resource dependency and utilization on Timpaus / Harald Beyer Broch -- Asna women: empowered or merely enlisted? / Nandini Sundar -- Divergent approaches to the environment in Kerala / Peter van der Werff -- Perspectives on waste in urban India / Hans Schenk, Isa Baud and Bhuvanna Ramaneshwari
Notes Based on papers for an international workshop, Leiden October 1994 organised by Nordic Institute of Asian Studies and the International Institute of Asian Studies - preface
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Environmental policy -- Asia.
Environmental protection -- Asia.
Environmentalism -- Asia -- Congresses.
Environmentalism -- Asia.
Green movement -- Asia.
Nature conservation -- Asia.
Sustainable development -- Asia.
SUBJECT Asia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008606 -- Environmental conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005384
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Kalland, Arne.
Persoon, Gerard.
International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden, Netherlands)
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.
LC no. 98133713
ISBN 070070616X (paperback)
0700706178 (hbk)