Adaptation to Climate Change : ASEAN and Comparative Experiences

Adaptation to Climate Change: ASEAN and Comparative Experiences presents a dynamic and comprehensive collection of works from legal scholars around the world that delves into a relatively new frontier on legal aspects of climate change adaptation with focus on the ASEAN region, both at the regional level as well as at the national level in some ASEAN countries -- such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand. Other countries not within ASEAN are also represented, such as Bangladesh, People's Republic of China, India, Sri Lanka, and the Republic of Taiwan. In doing so, it surveys one of the most important issues confronting developing countries today, and the challenges to building resilient societies. It is an essential source of reference for policy-makers, administrators, the private sector officials, scientists, academic scholars, climatologists, NGOs, and CSOs in ASEAN and the world--

Author: Kheng Lian Koh, Ilan Kelman, Robert Kibugi, Rose-Liza Eisma-Osorio

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company

Publication Date: Sep 03, 2015

Number of Pages: 505 pages

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover

ISBN-10: 9814689734

ISBN-13: 9789814689731