New book: Governing Climate Change in Southeast Asia

[Smits, Mattijs]

Dear colleagues,

 

Jens Marquardt, Laurence Delina, and I are more than happy to announce a recently published edited volume on governing climate change in Southeast Asia. The book covers state of the art research on climate change politics in all Southeast Asian countries, which the authors unpack as a highly contested field. We believe this to be valuable to scholars and students interested in climate governance in this fascinating world region.

 

As the book is – unfortunately – not open access, feel free to contact us if you are interested in any specific content. To spread the word, we would, of course, be delighted if you could suggest this book to your institution's library.

 

All the best,

Jens

 

Governing Climate Change in Southeast Asia: Critical Perspectives

Edited By Jens Marquardt, Laurence L. Delina, Mattijs Smits

https://www.routledge.com/Governing-Climate-Change-in-Southeast-Asia-Critical-Perspectives/Marquardt-Delina-Smits/p/book/9780367342555

 

This volume showcases the diversity of the politics and practices of climate change governance across Southeast Asia. Through a series of country-level case studies and regional perspectives, the authors in this volume explore the complexities and contested nature of climate governance in what can be considered as one of the most dynamic and multi-faceted regions of the world. They reflect upon the tensions between authoritarian and democratic climate change governance, the multiple roles of civil society and non-state interventions, and the conflicts between state planning and market-driven climate change governance. Shedding light on climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts in Southeast Asia, this book presents the various formal and informal institutions of climate change governance, their relevant actors, procedures, and policies. Empirical findings from a diverse set of environments are merged into a cross-country comparison that allows for elaborating on similar patterns whilst at the same time highlighting the distinct features of climate change governance in Southeast Asia. Drawing on case studies from all Southeast Asian countries, namely Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Viet Nam, this book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners dealing with climate change and environmental governance.

 

Table of Contents

1. Governing climate change in Southeast Asia: an introduction (Jens Marquardt, Laurence L. Delina and Mattijs Smits)
2. Whole-of-nation approach to climate change governance in Brunei Darussalam (Romeo Pacudan)
3. The rise and fall of a climate change assemblage in Cambodia (Tim Frewer)
4. The politics of climate policy integration and land use in Indonesia (Monica Di Gregorio)
5. Everyday climate politics in Laos (Miles Kenney-Lazar)
6. Malaysia's complex multi-level climate governance between institutionalization and non-state actor interventions (Irina Safitri Zen and Zeeda Fatimah Mohamad)
7. Evolving climate change governance in Myanmar: limitations and opportunities in a political crisis (Adam Simpson and Ashley South)
8. Innovation and dysfunction: Three decades of climate change governance in the Philippines (Antonio G. M. La Viña and Jameela Joy M. Reyes)
9. Climate change governance in Singapore: cautious mitigation in a developmental state (Natasha Hamilton-Hart)
10. Climate change governance and (il)liberalism in Thailand: activism, justice, and the state (Adam Simpson and Mattijs Smits)
11. Governing climate across ontological frictions in Timor-Leste (Alexander Cullen)
12. Climate change governance in Viet Nam: Party leadership, decentralization, and transitions (Koos Neefjes)
13. Fossil capitalism the ASEAN way (Oliver Pye)
14. Climate change governance in Southeast Asia: commonalities, complexities and contestations (Jens Marquardt, Laurence L. Delina, and Mattijs Smits)

 

 

MATTIJS SMITS, PhD  |  Assistant Professor (Energy and Climate)
Environmental Policy Group  |  Social Science Department

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