1st Edition
Taiwan's Environmental Struggle Toward a Green Silicon Island
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Taiwan experienced a highly successful economic transformation in the last 50 years that produced one of Asia’s genuine ‘miracles’ of modern development, in terms of improvement in per capita income and overall quality of material well being for its citizens. The process, though, involved rapid industrialization and urbanization, and breakneck mass consumption, that inevitably resulted in rapid... Read more
1. A Crowded Island: Taiwan’s Environmental Setting 2. The Perils of Development: Taiwan’s Environmental Problems and Their Causes 3. Back From the Brink: Resolving Taiwan’s Environmental Problems 4. Whose Land Is It? Land Use Issues 5.Reflections: Toward A Green Silicon Island Bibliography Index
Biography
Jack F. Williams is Professor Emweritus of Geography at Michigan State University, USA.
Ch'ang-yi David Chang is Professor of Geography at National Taiwan University.
