Industrial Transformation in the Developing World

by David Angel, Michael Rock, Michael T. Rock, et al.

'Grow first, clean up later' environmental strategies in the developing economies of East Asia pose a critical regional and global sustainability challenge in this area of continuing rapid urban-based industrial growth which is the most polluted region in the world. Using detailed case studies and rigorous empirical analyses Rock and Angel show that East Asian governments have found institutionally unique ways to overcome the sustainability challenge,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019927004X
• ISBN13: 9780199270040
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"