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Sustainable Development in Asia

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Sustainable development is an act of balancing economic, social, and environmental benefits through implementation of development policies, programs, and projects that will not enhance one type of benefit at the cost of others.

It requires a major overhaul in the mindset, attitude, and behavior of the local people as well as of the international community.

This book is a visionary document on regional sustainable development based on development activities carried out by

• governments and their people
• multilateral or bilateral agencies
• private sector
• non-government organizations
• civil society

It highlights three determinants of sustainable development:

• consumption
• production
• distribution

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Contents

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Preface, Acknowledgments, Abbreviations [ PDF: 33kb | 4 pages ]

Chapter 1: MOBILIZATION AND GLOBALIZATION [ PDF: 310kb | 15 pages]

• Eight Years after Rio
• Asia and the Pacific
• Economies and Ideas in Ferment
• Sustainable Development: A Process and A Goal
• A Renewed Social Contract: From Rhetoric to Action

Chapter 2: CONSUMPTION, PRODUCTION, AND DISTRIBUTION [ PDF: 1,766kb | 51 pages ]

• Consumption
  Quality of Life
  Population and Consumption

  Production

  Markets, the Environment, and the Poor

  A New Production Revolution

  The Next Industrial Revolution

  The Green Green (Green2) Revolution

  Distribution

  Poverty and Environment

  Poverty and the Urban Environment

  Distribution and Poverty

  Ecnomic Growth and Poverty

  Poverty

Chapter 3: TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE: EQUITY AND ENVIRONMENT [ PDF: 1,309kb | 41 pages ]

• Rural Regeneration
• Holistic Approach to Sustainable Agriculture
• Land Reform
• Rural Financial Services
• Common Property Resource
• Irrigation
• Coastal Zone Management

Chapter 4: THE CHALLENGES OF ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND AND PRO-POOR INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS [ PDF: 878kb | 39 pages ]

• Can Best Practices Accomodate Sustainable Development
• Water Supply: Some Neglected Options
• Urban Sanitation
• Transport and Telecommunications
• Energy
• Bias Toward Centralized Solutions
• Women, Children, and Energy Infrastructure
• Energy Efficiency

Chapter 5: MARKET, STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY [ PDF: 231kb | 15 pages ]

• Getting the Prices Right
• Regulation and Enforcement: A Look at Industrial Pollution
• Politics and Culture

Chapter 6: TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE PATH [ PDF: 203kb | 7 pages ]

• Consumption, Production, and Distribution
• Actors and Supporting

References [ PDF: 122kb | 23 pages ]