About the product
South-East Asia's economic success since the 1950s has placed heavy demands on its natural resources and on the capacity of its environment to sustain continued development. By the end of the 1980s, there was growing concern that present forms of development are unsustainable. This publication analyses the driving forces of change, climatic uncertainties and a number of major issues such as deforestation, sustainability of food production, the deteriorating urban and marine environments, and the institutional problems lying in the way of better environmental management. In its conclusion, it argues for basic change in the approach to development, if current growth is not to rob the next generation of many of the resources which they will require.
