I Asia by Theme.- 1 Energy Policies and Choices Put to the Test.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Energy Consumption Trends.- 3. Coal-Fired Thermal Development and the Environment.- 4. Nuclear Power Development and Increased Risk.- 5. Asia's Environmental and Energy Policy Outlook.- Essay 1 Japan's Global Warming Mitigation Measures and the Campaign to Promote Nuclear Power.- Essay 2 The Kyoto Protocol and North-South Equity.- 2 Mining and Its Environmental Damage.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Nonferrous Metal Mine and Smelter Development in East Asia.- 3. Japanese Involvement Throughout East Asia.- 4. Environmental Impacts of Mining and Smelting.- 5. Conclusion.- Essay 1 Asian Mining Pollution and the Japanese Experience.- Essay 2 Mercury Pollution on Mindanao, the Philippines.- 3 Wandering Wastes.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Municipal Solid Wastes.- 3. Industrial Wastes.- 4. Hazardous Wastes on the Move.- 5. Achieving a Cyclical Society.- Essay 1 South Korea's Action on Dioxins.- Essay 2 Decommissioned Vessels Set Sail for the Developing World.- Essay 3 Toxic Wastes Dumped in Cambodia.- 4 Asia's Marine Environment Hangs in the Balance.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Marine Pollution.- 3. Damage to Natural Resources.- 4. Marine Conservation Initiatives.- Essay 1 Little Progress on Fisheries Resource Management in Northeast Asian Waters.- Essay 2 Shrimp and Mangroves.- 5 Conservation and Local Self-Government.- 1. Introduction: Why the Focus on Local Self-Government?.- 2. Republic of Korea.- 3. Thailand.- 4. The Philippines.- II Asia by Country and Region.- 1 Republic of the Philippines.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Severe Deforestation.- 3. Environmental Consequences of Economic Growth.- 4. Development and Environment in the Cebu-Bohol Region.- 5. Legal System for Natural Resource Use and Environmental Protection.- 6. Conclusion: Getting the People Involved.- 2 Socialist Republic of Vietnam.- 1. Introduction: Doi Moi and the Environment.- 2. Background.- 3. Environmental Damage.- 4. Factors that Impede Solutions.- 5. Environmental Protection.- 6. Summation: Vietnam's Challenge.- Essay 1 Impacts of Dioxins on Human Health in Vietnam.- Essay 2 Recycling in Hanoi.- 3 India.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Current Environmental Problems.- 3. Environmental Legislation, Administration, and Litigation.- 4. The Environmental Movement Tradition.- 5. Conclusion: Future Prospects.- Essay 1 Bhopal Revisited.- Essay 2 India's Air Pollution.- 4 Country/Region Updates.- Japan.- 1. Environment Agency Becomes a Ministry.- 2. New Environmental Legislation and Policy.- 3. Pollution Litigation.- Essay 1 Metropolitan Tokyo's Road Pricing Policy.- Republic of Korea.- 1. Environmental Policy since the Mid-1990s.- 2. Bigger Roles and Responsibilities for Local Governments.- 3. Development or Environment: Three Examples.- Kingdom of Thailand.- 1. Continuing Clash over Power Plant Projects.- 2. Inland Prawn Farming.- 3. Efforts to Amend the Enhancement and Conservation of National Environmental Quality Act of 1992.- Essay 2 Renewed Criticism of Multilateral Financing.- Malaysia.- 1. Trends on Peninsular Malaysia.- 2. Sabah and Sarawak States.- Indonesia.- 1. Forest Fires.- 2. Impacts of Forest Fires.- 3. Involving Local People.- People's Republic of China.- 1. Enforcement Actions and the Need for Social Cooperation.- 2. Citizen Initiatives for the Environment.- 3. New Developments in Japan-China Environmental Cooperation.- Essay 3 China's Environmental Problems as Seen from the Republic of Korea.- Essay 4 China's Environmental Business and Diplomacy.- Taiwan.- 1. Hazardous Waste Management.- 2. Dam Construction and Opposition.- 3. Kaohsiung's "Green Revolution".- Essay 5 Black-Faced Spoonbill Faces Extinction.- Essay 6 Transportation and Air Pollution in Katmandu.- III Indicators.- 1. Income Differentials and Growing Consumption.- 2. Industrial Safety and Health.- 3. Health and Education.- 4. Reproductive Health/Rights and Population.- 5. The Late Starter's Advantage and Detrimental Legacies.- 6. Biodiversity and Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.- 7. Wood Production and Trade.- 8. The State of Forest Resources.- 9. Fishing Effort Increase and Marine Fisheries Resources.- 10. Protected Areas.- 11. The Asian Wildlife Trade as Revealed by Japan's Imports.- 12. Biodiversity.- 13. Rapid Urbanization.- 14. Motorization Rolls On.- 15. Expanding Mining Production and Damage.- 16. Municipal and Hazardous Wastes.- 17. Paper Recycling: The North-South Connection.- 18. Water Environment in Crisis.- 19. Nuclear Power Proliferation and Nuclear Weapons.- 20. Global Warming Policies and Joint Implementation in East Asia.- 21. Progress in Environmental Legislation.- 22. Environmental NGOs.- 23. Environmental Conventions and Agreements in Asia.- Notes.- References.- Translator's Afterword.