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A Land On Fire: The Environmental Consequences of the Southeast Asian Boom
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Product Description: The future of Earth's environment will be decided in Asia, home to 60 percent of the world's population and some of the world's fastest-growing economies. As an award-winning investigative journalist based in Bankok, James Fahn spent a decade grappling with the challenges facing the region's mega-cities, tropical forests, coastlines, and societies dashing toward modernity...read more
By James David Fahn
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Hardcover:

9780813340531 | Perseus Books Group, March 1, 2003, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: The conflict between modernization and environmentalism is illuminated in this insightful exposT by a former environmental editor of the Nation, who describes the dumping of toxic mercury into the Gulf of Thailand, the devastation caused by log smugglers, the loss of biodiversity and habitats, and their consequences.

Paperback:

9780813342672 | Basic Books, November 9, 2004, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The future of Earth's environment will be decided in Asia, home to 60 percent of the world's population and some of the world's fastest-growing economies.

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