Asia and the Environment Roundtable
Staff: Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies
December 1, 1996 - February 1, 1998
Through an ongoing series of roundtable discussions, this project explored the scope of regional and global environmental threats emerging from industrializing Asia. Participants discussed issues such as the preservation of biodiversity in the tropical forests of Southeast Asia; compliance with international environmental treaties in India, China, and Japan; the environmental impact of the Three Gorges Dam project; and the environmental records of China and Japan.
Publications
Meetings
Roundtable Meeting
The Battle for Biodiversity Conservation: Preventing Forest Plunder in Southeast Asia
February 11, 1998
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Roundtable Meeting
International Environmental Treaties: Do They Work? With a Special Focus on China, India and Japan
Presider:
Elizabeth C. EconomySpeakers:
Harold K. Jacobson, University of Michigan, Edith Brown Weiss, Georgetown University Law CenterThis meeting is not for attribution.
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Current Political Trends in China and Recent Developments in the Three Gorges Dam
November 11, 1997
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Japan: Global Polluter or Environmental Leader?
October 29, 1997
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Protecting the Planet: How Green Is China?
October 23, 1997
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Resource Scarcity and Civil Violence in India, Indonesia, and China
May 1, 1997
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Reviving the Rainforest in Southeast Asia
Presider:
Elizabeth C. EconomySpeakers:
Daniel Roger Katz, Rainforest Alliance, Frances J. Seymour, World Wildlife FundThis meeting is not for attribution.
