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2011 | Buch

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Towards a Sustainable Asia: Natural Resources

verfasst von: The Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia (AASA)

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Enthalten in: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

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This series of books are the output of the research project called "Sustainable Development in Asia (SDA)", which was initiated by the Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia (AASA). They are comprised of one synthesis report, which entitled "Towards a Sustainable Asia: Green Transition and Innovation", and four thematic reports on natural resources, energy, the environment and climate change, and culture from particular perspectives of agriculture.

They aim to: 1) investigate common sustainability issues faced by all Asian countries, including population increase, poverty alleviation, pollution control, ecological restoration, as well as regional problems, such as water shortage in West and Central Asia, energy security in Northeast Asia, development model & transformation in East Asia; 2) analyze and summarize of best practices towards sustainable development in Asia; 3) bring forward suggestions and policy options for promoting green transition, system innovation and sustainable development of Asia.

With best practice guidelines for a sustainable Asia, this series of reports, for the first time systematically address the common challenges and regional problems in regard to Asia’s natural resources use, pollution reduction and climate protection, sustainable energy development, and innovations for environment-friendly and culture-compatible agriculture. They will provide handy and useful information to researchers, government policy makers and the general public who have concerns about Asia’s sustainable development.

AASA is a scientific and technological organization in Asia, established in 2000, comprising of 26 member academies all over Asia. Its vision is to provide a forum for the discussion of all issues relevant to science and technology development and its application on national level within Asia.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter
1. Introduction
Abstract
This book is completed based on the major research report of “Addressing Challenges of Natural Resources Use in Asia”, the subproject of “Sustainable Development in Asia”, which is a consultancy project initiated by the Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia (AASA). The book attempts to systematically analyze the situation of natural resources use in major countries in Asia, noting that they are facing common problems and challenges in terms of resources development and use, while summarizing some successful experiences of the typical countries towards sustainable natural resources use, and coming up with some pilot projects and policy recommendations for sustainable use of natural resources in Asia, on the basis of reviewing, summarizing, analyzing and referring loads of literature with statistical analysis of data and other forms of expert interviews, and workshops.
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2. Current Status and Trends
Abstract
In theory, the world’s natural resources can produce sufficient food, medical, housing and other conditions of life supporting for more people. However, due to uneven distribution of some important resources such as fertilizers, water-rich land, forests, wetlands and genetic resources, the reality is not the case (UNEP, 2007a). For the reasons of land degradation, water pollution, climate changes, desertification, loss of biodiversity and others, the ability to support earth’s life system continues to weaken. As a result, differences in natural resources and production level in countries of Asia bring in great varieties in resource supply and demand, with surplus in some areas and acute shortage in the others.
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3. Challenges
Abstract
Global climate change has a great influence on rain and heat distribution in Asia, causing more severe droughts and floods, soil degradation as well as salt water intrusion and other marine disasters caused by sea-level rising(IPCC, 2007). Because most countries of the Asia distribution of precipitation changed and temperature rose, a substantial decline would occur in agricultural productivity.
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4. Successful Case Studies
Abstract
In recent years, demand side management of water resource is a kind of international advanced management concepts and models of water resource gradually emerging. This management of water resource aimed at curbing water conflicts, ecosystem destruction and attenuation capacity of the water environment caused by the growth of demand for water resource, promoting fair and reasonable allocation and efficient sustainable utilization of water resource, the integrated systematical acting on comprehensive utilization of legal, administrative, economic, science and technology, publicity which carried out a series of measures related to the three major groups of water administrators, water consumers and water operators. The first country requesting for analysis of water demand, strengthening management is the State of Israel in the Middle East (Tao and Fang, 2006). Now we take Israel and China as the cases of demand side management of water resource.
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5. Policy Recommendations
Abstract
There are economic systems at different levels, of different types, and in different stages of development of countries and regions in Asia, with the characteristic of internal vertical and horizontal in mutual interaction and penetration. Therefore, there are associated interaction, complement and gradient development relationships between resources utilization and economic development in Asian countries, which is intrinsic motivation to promote sustainable development in Asia. To this end, Asian countries can make utilization of the complementary strengths in geographic, market, financial area for the establishment of mutually beneficial cooperation in regional resources development and security system.
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6. Project Proposals
Abstract
Land degradation and desertification are important environmental problems in Asian countries and regions. Over the past 45 years, due to rapid urbanization and industrialization, large-scale deforestation and overgrazing, close to 20% of grassland and forest land in the Asia-Pacific region was affected by land degradation and desertification, which was more significant in Northeast Asia, especially Mongolia and China. In recent years, influence of frequent dust storms has spread to the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese Archipelago. A growing number of Asian countries have recognized the urgency and importance of combating desertification, actively accepted the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. In addition, some countries have begun to develop domestic action programs, such as China, Mongolia and so on. Therefore, accelerating technology development of monitoring and assessment of land degradation and desertification is both the premise and basis of scientific response to land degradation and desertification, and the inevitable choice of effective controlling land degradation and desertification.
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Backmatter
Metadaten
Titel
Towards a Sustainable Asia: Natural Resources
verfasst von
The Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia (AASA)
Copyright-Jahr
2011
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Electronic ISBN
978-3-642-16678-5
Print ISBN
978-3-642-16677-8
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16678-5