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

Presider: Elizabeth C. Economy
Speaker: Kirk Talbott, Conservation International
February 11, 1998
Roundtable Meeting

International Environmental Treaties: Do They Work? With a Special Focus on China, India and Japan

Presider: Elizabeth C. Economy
Speakers: Harold K. Jacobson, University of Michigan
Edith Brown Weiss, Georgetown University Law Center
January 29, 1998
Roundtable Meeting

Current Political Trends in China and Recent Developments in the Three Gorges Dam

Presider: Elizabeth C. Economy
Speaker: Dai Qing, journalist and activist
November 11, 1997

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