Short description:

Environmental sustainability in the developing world is the focus of this book.  Our purpose will not, however, be to produce an endless list of huge numbers of facts about the many developing countries. Indonesia could be considered a proto-typical example of a developing world country. As an archipelago situated along the equator in Southeast Asia, its location is ideal for a prototype?almost all developing countries are tropical. Kalimantan, Sumatra, and Papua in particular, contain a substantial portion of the world?s remaining equatorial rainforests; rainforest management is among the most pressing global sustainability problems.

However, Indonesia?s forests are far from monolithic; they include a large set of different biome types. Indonesia?s population is multi-ethnic, a characteristic not only of other very large developing countries like India and Nigeria, but of nearly every African country and of many other formerly colonized regions.  Another factor favoring a prototype designation is a relatively recent escape from the category of severe under-development. Indonesia ranked eighth in the world in real per capita GDP growth rate between 1960 and 2018, not an atypical outcome for Southeast Asian market economies?Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Myanmar ranked even higher (EarthTrends of World Resources Institute). Like most developing countries, economic growth has mainly been sparked by exports of energy and mineral extraction products and plantation crops. There is also manufacturing growth; Indonesia has seven ?million? cities and the world?s sixth-largest metro area by population. At the same time, many of the population remain engaged in agriculture; many are extremely impoverished. Environmental problems Indonesia encounters in its path to economic development are typical of those in other developing countries, and solutions it may find can serve as guidelines for other developing countries anticipating a similar economic take-off. This book consists of 21 chapters on sustainability efforts in Indonesia by many stakeholders, government, local government, private sectors, NGOs and communities.

Long description:

Environmental sustainability in the developing world is the focus of this book.  Our purpose will not, however, be to produce an endless list of huge numbers of facts about the many developing countries. Indonesia could be considered a proto-typical example of a developing world country. As an archipelago situated along the equator in Southeast Asia, its location is ideal for a prototype?almost all developing countries are tropical. Kalimantan, Sumatra, and Papua in particular, contain a substantial portion of the world?s remaining equatorial rainforests; rainforest management is among the most pressing global sustainability problems.

However, Indonesia?s forests are far from monolithic; they include a large set of different biome types. Indonesia?s population is multi-ethnic, a characteristic not only of other very large developing countries like India and Nigeria, but of nearly every African country and of many other formerly colonized regions.  Another factor favoring a prototype designation is a relatively recent escape from the category of severe under-development. Indonesia ranked eighth in the world in real per capita GDP growth rate between 1960 and 2018, not an atypical outcome for Southeast Asian market economies?Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Myanmar ranked even higher (EarthTrends of World Resources Institute). Like most developing countries, economic growth has mainly been sparked by exports of energy and mineral extraction products and plantation crops. There is also manufacturing growth; Indonesia has seven ?million? cities and the world?s sixth-largest metro area by population. At the same time, many of the population remain engaged in agriculture; many are extremely impoverished. Environmental problems Indonesia encounters in its path to economic development are typical of those in other developing countries, and solutions it may find can serve as guidelines for other developing countries anticipating a similar economic take-off. This book consists of 21 chapters on sustainability efforts in Indonesia by many stakeholders, government, local government, private sectors, NGOs and communities.

Table of Contents:

Environment and Sustainability Science.- Sustainable Development.- Global-Local Environment Implementation Innovations.- Business Sustainability and Green Innovation in the SDGs Era.- Forest Landscape Sustainability.- Coastal and Marine Sustainability.- Sustainability of Raw Water, Rivers, Swamps, and Lakes.- The Indigenous and Village Peoples? Lives Sustainability.- City and Urban Life Sustainability.- Sustainable Waste Management.- Energy Sustainability and Renewable Energy.- Tourism Sustainability.- Agriculture Development Sustainability.- Industrial Plants and Industrial Plantation Forests.- Infrastructure and Transportation Development Sustainability.- Climate Change Impacts on Environmental and Development.- Sustainable Environmental Health.- Sustainable Mining: Lightening the Load.- Environmental Program Funding.- Legislation and Environmental Law Enforcement.- Sustainable Environmental Management Monitoring and Research.