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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Roundtable Meeting
Japan: Global Polluter or Environmental Leader?
Presider: Elizabeth C. Economy
Speakers: Peter Evans, University of Maryland
Miranda Schreurs
October 29, 1997
Roundtable Meeting
Protecting the Planet: How Green Is China?
Presider: Elizabeth C. Economy
Speaker: Daniel A. Viederman, World Wildlife Fund, Beijing
October 23, 1997
Roundtable Meeting
Resource Scarcity and Civil Violence in India, Indonesia, and China
Presider: Elizabeth C. Economy
Speaker: J. Stanley Sanders, University of Toronto
May 1, 1997
Roundtable Meeting
Reviving the Rainforest in Southeast Asia
Presider: Elizabeth C. Economy
Speakers: Daniel Roger Katz, Rainforest Alliance
Frances J. Seymour, World Wildlife Fund
December 13, 1996