The Ecological Deficit of the Asia-Pacific Region: A Research Note

Jan-Erik Lane and Reinert Maeland

Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, 2008, vol. 30, issue 2, 217-226

Abstract: Beneath the economic advances in the Asia-Pacific region there is an environmental problematic. Using comparative data on pollution and the capacity to sustain pollution, we observe that the Asia-Pacific region has by far the most negative ecological footprint on the globe. This reflects rapid industrialisation, in combination with heavy population pressures and weak biocapacity in general. Governments in the Asia-Pacific region must pay much more attention to ecology when making public policies.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2008.10779351

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