In this paper, land use change patterns over 35 years were analysed to show the impacts of urbanization with respect to continued growth and to examine the capabilities of integrating remote sensing and GIS in studying the spatial coastal land use changes.
Article highlights population-environmental problems in three geographic sites in the Bay of Bengal Subregion and proposes policy options.
The Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia was established in May 1993 to support training and research in environmental and resource economics. Its goal is to strengthen local capacity for the economic analysis of environmental problems so that researchers can provide sound advice to policymakers. The program uses a networking approach to provide not only financial support but meetings, resource persons, access to literature, publication outlets, and opportunities for comparative research across its ten member countries.
Hansen documents three decades of land use change by integrating data from satellite, questionnaires, and in-depth interviews.
The results of this study show that females have higher green purchase behaviour compared to males, while those with degree and above qualification have higher green purchase behaviour as compared to those with diploma and lower education level and in terms of income, as income level increases the green purchase behaviour of green volunteers is higher.
In this paper, the author looks into the links between farming practices, farm family functioning and land management.
Article analyzes and projects the environmental and socioeconomic impacts and causes in the Sulu-Sulawesi Sea, and offers policy options through sustainable management and development.
The Bakun Hydroelectric Project (HEP) has been dogged by controversy ever since it was first proposed in the early 1980s. Apart from the question of its necessity, its financial viability and its environmental costs, questions were raised from the beginning about its potentially disastrous social impact. This especially derived from the fact that the project would flood an area the size of Singapore and some fifteen indigenous communities, which by 1997 involved some 1,640 families and nearly 10,000 people, would have to be resettled. (from introduction)
To investigate the respiratory health effects of the 1997 Malaysian haze episode, admissions to hospitals in Kuching, Malaysia, were selected from a database of all hospital admissions that occurred in the state of Sarawak from 1/1/1995-12/31/1998. We compared the survival curve of time to first readmission for the 1997 cohort (exposed to the haze) to the survival curves for the 1995 and 1996 cohorts (.pre-haze. cohorts).
Abstract: In this paper, the author assesses the population health effects in Malaysia of air pollution generated by a widespread series of fires that occurred mainly in Indonesia between April and November of 1997. The author describes how the forest fires occurred and why the associated air pollution was so widespread and long lasting. The main objective is to determine whether there were mortality effects and to assess how large and important these were.
