Ways to achieve green Asia/ edited by Bihong Huang and Eden Yu

Includes bibliography

Introduction -- Environmental Challenges in Asia: Overview, Drivers, and Policy Implications -- The Economic Impacts of Climate Change: Implications for Asian Economies -- Environmental Regulation: Lessons for Developing Economies in Asia -- Environmental Governance and Environmental Performance -- The Growth of Carbon Markets in Asia: The Potential Challenges for Future Development -- Valuing the Environment -- Trade and the Environment: Recent Evidence and Policy Implications -- International Outsourcing, Environmental Costs, and Welfare -- Does Trade Openness Change the Environmental Kuznets Curve? Evidence from the People’s Republic of China -- Globalization and the Environment in India -- Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Pollution Abatement

For Asian countries, decades of remarkable economic growth have had mixed results in terms of environmental implications. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the environment and climate change in Asia. It first gives an overview of the environmental challenges facing the region and summarizes the economic impacts of climate change. It also offers in-depth discussions of environmental regulations, environmental governance, environmental evaluation, and the growth of carbon markets in Asia. The volume finally explores the relationship between globalization and the environment, particularly through informative case studies on the People’s Republic of China and India. In this vein, this book advances policy recommendations for more effective environmental and climate change governance in the region.