1st Edition

Environmental Cooperation in Southeast Asia ASEAN's Regime for Trans-boundary Haze Pollution

By Paruedee Nguitragool Copyright 2011
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

One of the most challenging environmental threats to the ten countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been the haze, the sickening and deadly cloud of smoky pollution caused by widespread burning of land and forests in Indonesia. This book examines both the threat and response to it by analysing environmental cooperation in Southeast Asia from an international regime... Read more
1. Introduction  2. ASEAN Regionalism and the Politics of the Environment  3. Rise of a Regime  4. Region on Fire  5. ASEAN's Regime in Local and International Context  6. Effects of Regime  7. Conclusions

Biography

Paruedee Nguitragool is a Research Associate in the Political Science Department at Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany.