Environmental Cooperation In Southeast Asia: Asean's Regime For Trans-boundary Haze Pollution (routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series)

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.;Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and table; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 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; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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.

Environmental Studies & Management Book Cover 1 Title 6 Copyright 7 Contents 10 List of figures and table 11 Acknowledgements 12 List of abbreviations 13 1 Introduction 18 2 ASEAN regionalism and the politics of the environment 37 3 Rise of a regime 74 4 Region on fire 94 5 ASEAN’s regime in local and international context 116 6 Effects of regime 140 7 Conclusions 162 Notes 171 Bibliography 178 Index 201