Environmental Policies in Asia (ePub)

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Nguyen Huu Ninh is Chairman of the Centre for Environment Research, Education and Development and Lecturer of the Vietnam National University. He is also a Co-Founder of the International Programme on Climate Change and Variability Risk Reduction based in the Pacific Disaster Centre, and Adjunct Faculty of the San Diego State University. He has conducted a series of projects and programmes on environment and climate change in Vietnam and a wider Southeast Asia region and contributed to various international programmes. He is a contributor in the UNDP Human Development Report 2007/2008 as author of Occasional Paper on Flooding in Mekong River Delta, Vietnam, and co-author of Living with Environmental Change: Social vulnerability, adaptation and resilience in Vietnam, Routledge, London, 2001. He is also a Lead Author Member of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He is Professor, Doctor (Hon.) of the University of Pécs (Hungary), Doctor of Science (Hon.) of the University of East Anglia (UK)

Zhu Shou-xian is Associate professor in the Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies & Research Centre for Sustainable Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His research interests lie in resources exploitation and regional development. He has been an Associate professor ay Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences since 2010 and was Post-Doctoral Fellow from 2008–2010 in the same Institute. He received his PhD from the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008.

Wu Fuzuo is a Research Fellow (Assistant Professor) at the Centre for Chinese Foreign Policy Studies at the Institute of International...



About the Editors

Jing Huang is a Professor and Director of the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. He is an internationally recognised expert on Chinese politics, China's foreign relations and security issues in Asia-Pacific. He has written two books and numerous journal articles, book chapters, policy papers, and op-eds on Chinese politics, China's foreign policy, the military, US-China relations, and security issues in Asia-Pacific. His book, Factionalism in Chinese Communist Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2000), won the prestigious Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize in 2002. Huang received his PhD in Political Science from Harvard University.

Shreekant Gupta is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Delhi School of Economics and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. He has worked as a researcher, policymaker and consultant on environment, natural resources, energy and urban issues. His teaching and research interests are in applied microeconomics and econometrics in these contexts. He has been a Fulbright Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Shastri Fellow at Queens University, Canada. He has served on several national and international committees on environmental and urban issues including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. He received his PhD from the University of Maryland in 1993.

About the Contributors

Ryuzo Yamamoto is a Professor in the Faculty of Business Management, Tokoha University. His current research interests include the economics of global warming, projects for reducing GHG, policy for energy and electricity supply and decision making for overseas projects. He has been involved in several environmental projects, both in Japan and overseas, including Indonesia, India, China, Ukraine and Russia.

Nguyen Huu Ninh is Chairman of the Centre for Environment Research, Education and Development and Lecturer of the Vietnam National University. He is also a Co-Founder of the International Programme on Climate Change and Variability Risk Reduction based in the Pacific Disaster Centre, and Adjunct Faculty of the San Diego State University. He has conducted a series of projects and programmes on environment and climate change in Vietnam and a wider Southeast Asia region and contributed to various international programmes. He is a contributor in the UNDP Human Development Report 2007/2008 as author of Occasional Paper on Flooding in Mekong River Delta, Vietnam, and co-author of Living with Environmental Change: Social vulnerability, adaptation and resilience in Vietnam, Routledge, London, 2001. He is also a Lead Author Member of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He is Professor, Doctor (Hon.) of the University of Pécs (Hungary), Doctor of Science (Hon.) of the University of East Anglia (UK)

Zhu Shou-xian is Associate professor in the Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies & Research Centre for Sustainable Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His research interests lie in resources exploitation and regional development. He has been an Associate professor ay Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences since 2010 and was Post-Doctoral Fellow from 2008–2010 in the same Institute. He received his PhD from the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008.

Wu Fuzuo is a Research Fellow (Assistant Professor) at the Centre for Chinese Foreign Policy Studies at the Institute of International...