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Environmental Cooperation in Southeast Asia
ASEAN's Regime for Trans-boundary Haze Pollution
Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
Language: EnglishKeywords
Transboundary Haze Pollution; transboundary; Haze Agreement; haze; ASEAN Haze; pollution; ASEAN Haze Agreement; agreement; ASEAN Member; forest; Forest Fires; fires; ASEAN Leader; illegal; ASEAN Secretariat; logging; RHAP; regional; ASEAN Member Country; indonesian; ASEAN Coordinate Centre; Raja Garuda Mas; Transnational Environmental Crimes; ASEAN Cooperation; ASEAN Norm; ASEAN Environment Minister; ASEAN State; ASEAN Cooperation Plan; ASEAN Environment; Environmental Issues; Illegal Logging; ASEAN Senior Official; Mae Hongson; Regional Haze; HTTF
Publication date: 03-2014
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 09-2010
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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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 perspective.
Tracing the development of regional cooperation on the haze and evaluating the effectiveness of the cooperation, the author argues that the haze crisis, combined with the economic crisis of 1997, has profoundly challenged the ASEAN modus operandi, and resulted in ASEAN?s efforts to establish an environmental regime to cope with environmental challenges. The emerging ASEAN haze regime is a unique case study of a regional environmental institution in multi-levelled global environmental governance.
Based on in-depth original research, this case study is integrated into international relations, political science, and comparative political analysis literatures and contributes to a better understanding of processes within the regional organisation.
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
Paruedee Nguitragool is a Research Associate in the Political Science Department at Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany.