Sustainable Development: Asia-Pacific Perspectives

Notes on Contributors; Peer Reviewers; Editor's Note; Forewords; Remembering Dr Mostafa Kamal Tolba; Acronyms and Abbreviations; SI Prefixes; Units Abbreviations; Chemical Formulae; Part I. Sustainable Development: Theories and Practices: 1. Asian Identities; 2. On Sustainable Development; 3. Sustainability - A Scientific Dilemma; 4. Respect and Reward: Ecology from the Analects of Confucius; 5. Sustainable Development from an East-West Integrative Perspective: Eastern Culture Meets Western Complexity Theory; 6. Sustainable Urbanism: Measuring Long-term Architectural Merit; 7. Sustaining Wooden Architectural Heritage; 8. Green Development in China; 9. Bhutan's Sustainable Development Initiatives in Pursuit of Gross National Happiness; 10. A Different Form of Sustainable Development in Thailand and Bhutan: Implementation of a Sufficiency Approach; 11. The Sustainability of Food Production in Papua New Guinea; 12. Education for Sustainable Development: An overview of Asia-Pacific Perspectives; 13. Placemaking Framework for Social Sustainability of Master-planned Communities: A Case Study from Australia; 14. Poverty, Inequity and Environmental Degradation: The Key Issues Confronting the Environment and Development in Asia; 15. The Challenge of Global Climate Change for International Law: An Overview; 16. Sustainable Development and Climate Change Negotiations: Perspectives of Developing Countries'; Part II. Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities: 17. Scientific Responses in an Era of Global Change; 18. Government Communication on Transboundary Haze: The Nexus between Public Health and Tourism; 19. Biomass Energy Prospects: A Promising Fuel for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific; 20. Pathways to a More Sustainable Electricity Sector in India; 21. Gender Equality and Energy Access: Barriers to Maximizing Development Effectiveness in the SAARC Region; 22. The Biosphere and the Interactions between Stratospheric Ozone Depletion and Climate Change; 23. The Political Challenge of Linking Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies: Risks and Prospects; 24. Social Vulnerability to Climate Change in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam; 25. Sustainable Development in Bangladesh: Bridging the SDGs and Climate Action; 26. Sustainable Development in Pakistan: Vulnerabilities and Opportunities; 27. Beyond Protected Areas: Biodiversity Conservation and Global Change in Asia and the Pacific; 28. Causes of Land Use Change and Biodiversity Loss in Monsoon Asia; 29. Assessing Linkages between Land Use and Biodiversity: A Case Study from the Eastern Himalayas Using Low-cost, High-return Survey Technology; 30. Where to Invade Next: Inaction on Biological Invasions Threatens Sustainability in a Small Island Developing State of the Tropical South Pacific; 31. Did the Indian Ocean Tsunami Trigger a Shift Towards Disaster Risk Reduction?; 32. Cyclone Nargis and Disaster Risk Management in Myanmar; Index.