Victor R Savage
Biographic Data
| ID | 743559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor R Savage |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor R |
| FAMILY NAME | Savage |
| SIGNATURE | SAVAGE V R |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The geopolitical ramifications of Covid-19: The Taiwanese exception
This commentary positions the Taiwanese response to COVID-19 in the larger geopolitical arena. It explores the politicized nature of the global pandemic through Taiwan's relations with the US, China, the World Health Organization, and Southeast Asia, and reflects on the politico-economic environment Taiwan has to navigate post COVID-19. Discussion shows that the emergence of Taiwan as an exceptional entity in the containment of the virus is very …
S ingapore
As a small city‐state in a complex and rapidly changing globalizing world, Singapore has to contend with staying politically relevant, economically reliable, and environmentally sustainable. It has been a remarkable development from Third to First World in 50 years (1965–2015) which has become a benchmark for other developing countries to emulate its success. This entry outlines some salient features of Singapore's remarkable journey of developme…
Climate change adaptation: The need for an Indian Ocean regional metamorphosis
The Indian Ocean contains one of the busiest trade routes in history, connecting East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa, as well as giving passage to Europe. Given its historical and economic connections and diffusion of ideas, religions, and cultural traditions, the Indian Ocean region's (IOR) fertile cultural complex can serve as an important platform for addressing climate change. In order to survive and thrive…
Southeast Asia's transboundary haze pollution: Unravelling the inconvenient truth
This paper examines the political intricacies inherent in the management of Southeast Asia's transboundary haze pollution. It argues for a scalar perspective in understanding the complexities of the haze problem. The so‐called ‘inconvenient truth’ is unravelled by teasing out some issues in the national and regional political ecologies, and the challenges of synchronising co‐operation at the national, regional and global scales. Discussion shows …
Social Science Infrastructure: Asia
Southeast Asia’s Indigenous Knowledge: The Conquest of the Mental Terra Incognitae
Fred Dallmayr's quotation captures the long dialogue between global communities that were either consciously or unconsciously creating a growing repository of human knowledge not only about the world around them, but also human-nature relationships—in short, "science" in its various incarnations. The forms of dialogue, Dallmayr suggests, involve not only exchanging knowledge through writing, scientific symbols, and figures, but also include a who…
The SJTG vision and the tropical mission
10.1111/j.1467-9493.2011.00413.x
Problems of tertiary education and regional academic journals: A view from Southeast Asia
While this article accepts the idea of regional Journal cooperation within the context of establishing an ASEAN Integrated Journal Publishing Network as a positive and pertinent step, it explores three major hurdles that regional universities need to contend with. These include firstly, the dominance of English as the major academic language which puts vernacular languages and communication at a distinct disadvantage and resurrects a neo-colonial…
Continuously tropical: Former editors and future tropical geographies
The article presents a detailed description of the periodical "Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography," including its editorship and history. Its reputation of publishing quality research papers in the geography is described. It discusses the contribution by the past editor Paul Wheatley and Ooi Jin Bee in the field of physical and human geography
Andrew McGregor, Southeast Asian Development
A new cover design for the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
10.1111/j.1467-9493.2008.00361.x
Tropical shifts? Note from the editors
10.1111/j.1467-9493.2009.00380.x
Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia ‐ by Marc Oxenham & Nancy Tayles
Ecology matters: Sustainable development in Southeast Asia
Tropicality Imagined and Experienced
10.1111/j.0129-7619.2004.00170.x
On The Waterfront: Globalization and Urbanization in Singapore
Although many cities aspire to "global-city status," few have been as explicit as Singapore in its quest to create urban landscapes to project its global aspirations. This paper presents the case of the Singapore River development zone as a "hyper-symbol" of Singapore's global urbanism. By creating a world-class riverfront not unlike the acclaimed waterfronts of London, Sydney, or San Francisco, Singapore's urban planners hope to project the city…
The Singapore River thematic zone: Sustainable Tourism in an Urban Context
This paper explores the concept of sustainable tourism and how it applies to urban destinations such as Singapore. As tourism is an important industry in Singapore, in terms of employment, business activity and an income generator, the Singapore Tourism Board is continuously looking at potential avenues to make Singapore a competitive destination. We examine the use of thematic zones in Singapore as a strategy to achieve its ambition of becoming …
Changing Geographies and the Geography of Change: Some Reflections
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography and the 75th anniversary of the teaching of geography in the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, the home of the Journal, this article, based on personal reflections and “objective” academic materials, provides an overview of developments in geography in the Department and Journal. The paper argues that the department's and Journal's“identities…
Shades of Green, Fields of Gold: Representations, discourse and the politics of golf in Singapore
10.1080/0142639022000023952
Landscapes and Communities on the Pacific Rim: Cultural Perspectives from Asia to the Pacific Northwest
The Naga Awakens: Growth and Change in Southeast Asia
This book addresses the political and social issues that countries in the Southeast Asian region must face as they move into the 21st century
Urban Imagery and the Main Street of the Nation: The Legibility of Orchard Road in the Eyes of Singaporeans
This paper applies Kevin Lynch's famous thesis of legibility to the main street of Singapore—Orchard Road. It is primarily concerned with three issues. How legible is Orchard Road in the eyes of Singaporeans? Who find Orchard Road legible? If Orchard Road is legible to Singaporeans, why is it so? Based upon a combination of comprehensive questionnaire survey of Singaporeans and personal interviews with residents and businessmen operating in Orcha…
The Human Geography of Southeast Asia: An Analysis of Post‐war Developments
This paper reviews the directional shifts in human geographical research on Southeast Asia from 1945 to the present. It first begins with an overview of the identity of the region as conceived in various cultural traditions, such as the Greek, Arabic and Indian traditions. This is followed by an evaluation of regional geographies of Southeast Asia in the post‐war period, highlighting the pre‐eminence of the geostrategic definition of the region a…
Ooi Jin Bee Retires
Western Impressions of Nature and Landscape in Southeast Asia
Western Impressions of Nature and Landscape in South-East Asia
On The Waterfront: Globalization and Urbanization in Singapore
Although many cities aspire to "global-city status," few have been as explicit as Singapore in its quest to create urban landscapes to project its global aspirations. This paper presents the case of the Singapore River development zone as a "hyper-symbol" of Singapore's global urbanism. By creating a world-class riverfront not unlike the acclaimed waterfronts of London, Sydney, or San Francisco, Singapore's urban planners hope to project the city…
The geopolitical ramifications of Covid-19: The Taiwanese exception
This commentary positions the Taiwanese response to COVID-19 in the larger geopolitical arena. It explores the politicized nature of the global pandemic through Taiwan's relations with the US, China, the World Health Organization, and Southeast Asia, and reflects on the politico-economic environment Taiwan has to navigate post COVID-19. Discussion shows that the emergence of Taiwan as an exceptional entity in the containment of the virus is very …
The Singapore River thematic zone: Sustainable Tourism in an Urban Context
This paper explores the concept of sustainable tourism and how it applies to urban destinations such as Singapore. As tourism is an important industry in Singapore, in terms of employment, business activity and an income generator, the Singapore Tourism Board is continuously looking at potential avenues to make Singapore a competitive destination. We examine the use of thematic zones in Singapore as a strategy to achieve its ambition of becoming …
Shades of Green, Fields of Gold: Representations, discourse and the politics of golf in Singapore
10.1080/0142639022000023952
Ecology matters: Sustainable development in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia's transboundary haze pollution: Unravelling the inconvenient truth
This paper examines the political intricacies inherent in the management of Southeast Asia's transboundary haze pollution. It argues for a scalar perspective in understanding the complexities of the haze problem. The so‐called ‘inconvenient truth’ is unravelled by teasing out some issues in the national and regional political ecologies, and the challenges of synchronising co‐operation at the national, regional and global scales. Discussion shows …
Problems of tertiary education and regional academic journals: A view from Southeast Asia
While this article accepts the idea of regional Journal cooperation within the context of establishing an ASEAN Integrated Journal Publishing Network as a positive and pertinent step, it explores three major hurdles that regional universities need to contend with. These include firstly, the dominance of English as the major academic language which puts vernacular languages and communication at a distinct disadvantage and resurrects a neo-colonial…
Singapore Landscape: A Historical Overview of Housing Change
Western Impressions of Nature and Landscape in South-East Asia
The Malay World in Colonial Fiction
Examines the mental images Westerners formed of their subjective perceptions of a unique section of the earth's surface - the Malay world - and in a particular time-frame - the high colonial period (circa 1870 to 1940). Illustrates how the perceptions give rise to a definition of the region as an entity with an identity, spirit and personality internal to itself
Western Impressions of Nature and Landscape in Southeast Asia
Ooi Jin Bee Retires
The Human Geography of Southeast Asia: An Analysis of Post‐war Developments
This paper reviews the directional shifts in human geographical research on Southeast Asia from 1945 to the present. It first begins with an overview of the identity of the region as conceived in various cultural traditions, such as the Greek, Arabic and Indian traditions. This is followed by an evaluation of regional geographies of Southeast Asia in the post‐war period, highlighting the pre‐eminence of the geostrategic definition of the region a…
Urban Imagery and the Main Street of the Nation: The Legibility of Orchard Road in the Eyes of Singaporeans
This paper applies Kevin Lynch's famous thesis of legibility to the main street of Singapore—Orchard Road. It is primarily concerned with three issues. How legible is Orchard Road in the eyes of Singaporeans? Who find Orchard Road legible? If Orchard Road is legible to Singaporeans, why is it so? Based upon a combination of comprehensive questionnaire survey of Singaporeans and personal interviews with residents and businessmen operating in Orcha…
The Naga Awakens: Growth and Change in Southeast Asia
This book addresses the political and social issues that countries in the Southeast Asian region must face as they move into the 21st century
Shades of Green, Fields of Gold: Representations, discourse and the politics of golf in Singapore
10.1080/0142639022000023952
Landscapes and Communities on the Pacific Rim: Cultural Perspectives from Asia to the Pacific Northwest
Changing Geographies and the Geography of Change: Some Reflections
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography and the 75th anniversary of the teaching of geography in the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, the home of the Journal, this article, based on personal reflections and “objective” academic materials, provides an overview of developments in geography in the Department and Journal. The paper argues that the department's and Journal's“identities…
Tropicality Imagined and Experienced
10.1111/j.0129-7619.2004.00170.x
On The Waterfront: Globalization and Urbanization in Singapore
Although many cities aspire to "global-city status," few have been as explicit as Singapore in its quest to create urban landscapes to project its global aspirations. This paper presents the case of the Singapore River development zone as a "hyper-symbol" of Singapore's global urbanism. By creating a world-class riverfront not unlike the acclaimed waterfronts of London, Sydney, or San Francisco, Singapore's urban planners hope to project the city…
The Singapore River thematic zone: Sustainable Tourism in an Urban Context
This paper explores the concept of sustainable tourism and how it applies to urban destinations such as Singapore. As tourism is an important industry in Singapore, in terms of employment, business activity and an income generator, the Singapore Tourism Board is continuously looking at potential avenues to make Singapore a competitive destination. We examine the use of thematic zones in Singapore as a strategy to achieve its ambition of becoming …
Ecology matters: Sustainable development in Southeast Asia
Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia ‐ by Marc Oxenham & Nancy Tayles
Andrew McGregor, Southeast Asian Development
A new cover design for the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
10.1111/j.1467-9493.2008.00361.x
Tropical shifts? Note from the editors
10.1111/j.1467-9493.2009.00380.x
Continuously tropical: Former editors and future tropical geographies
The article presents a detailed description of the periodical "Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography," including its editorship and history. Its reputation of publishing quality research papers in the geography is described. It discusses the contribution by the past editor Paul Wheatley and Ooi Jin Bee in the field of physical and human geography
The SJTG vision and the tropical mission
10.1111/j.1467-9493.2011.00413.x
Problems of tertiary education and regional academic journals: A view from Southeast Asia
While this article accepts the idea of regional Journal cooperation within the context of establishing an ASEAN Integrated Journal Publishing Network as a positive and pertinent step, it explores three major hurdles that regional universities need to contend with. These include firstly, the dominance of English as the major academic language which puts vernacular languages and communication at a distinct disadvantage and resurrects a neo-colonial…
Southeast Asia’s Indigenous Knowledge: The Conquest of the Mental Terra Incognitae
Fred Dallmayr's quotation captures the long dialogue between global communities that were either consciously or unconsciously creating a growing repository of human knowledge not only about the world around them, but also human-nature relationships—in short, "science" in its various incarnations. The forms of dialogue, Dallmayr suggests, involve not only exchanging knowledge through writing, scientific symbols, and figures, but also include a who…
Social Science Infrastructure: Asia
S ingapore
As a small city‐state in a complex and rapidly changing globalizing world, Singapore has to contend with staying politically relevant, economically reliable, and environmentally sustainable. It has been a remarkable development from Third to First World in 50 years (1965–2015) which has become a benchmark for other developing countries to emulate its success. This entry outlines some salient features of Singapore's remarkable journey of developme…
Sociology (19 works) · Geography (17 works) · History (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Asian Studies and History (11 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Citation (10 works) · Library science (10 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (8 works) · Law (6 works)