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Industrial Transformation in the Developing World
Michael T. Rock
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'Grow first, clean up later' environmental strategies in the developing economies of East Asia - China, Korea, and Taiwan in Northeast Asia and Indonesia, Malaysia, the Phillippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia - pose a critical regional and global sustainability challenge in this area of continuing rapid urban-based industrial growth. It is the most polluted region in the world. Whilst being at the leading edge of the processes of urbanization, industrialization, and globalization these economies are in the midst, not at the end, of their urban-industrial transformations. During the next 25 years urban populations ... Read more
'Grow first, clean up later' environmental strategies in the developing economies of East Asia - China, Korea, and Taiwan in Northeast Asia and Indonesia, Malaysia, the Phillippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia - pose a critical regional and global sustainability challenge in this area of continuing rapid urban-based industrial growth. It is the most polluted region in the world. Whilst being at the leading edge of the processes of urbanization, industrialization, and globalization these economies are in the midst, not at the end, of their urban-industrial transformations. During the next 25 years urban populations ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Series
Oxford Geographical & Environmental Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199270040
SKU
V9780199270040
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Ref
99-1
About Michael T. Rock
Michael T. Rock has lived and taught in Thailand and Vietnam; has served as senior economist of the Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development, a development NGO established by the Rockefeller family. Received PhD in economics from the University of Pittsburgh. Recently awarded a grant from the Ministry of the Economy, Trade and Industry in Japan to study energy ... Read more
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