Global and local perspectives on Indonesia's environmental problems and the role of NGO's

Bibliographic Data

ID2853547
AuthorsF Colombijn (0000-0002-4815-8590, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume154
Issue2
Pages305-334
Publication date1998-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0006-2294 • E-ISSN: 2213-4379
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/22134379-90003900
OpenAlexW1999924998
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited12

Globalization of societal processes is most easily observed in the relation between people and their environment.1 Damage to the ozone layer, mostly caused by emissions in the North, has local consequences in Indonesia. Global warming may result in the flooding of Indonesian coastal cities and the rice-producing regions of northern Java. Supertankers transporting oil from the Gulf to Japan are a potential threat for Indonesia's marine and coastal ecosystems. On the other hand, local events have repercussions for other countries. Smoke from the 1991 and 1994 forest fires in Sumatra and

Climate change · Ecosystem · Environmental protection · Flooding (psychology · Geography · Global warming · Globalization · Indonesian · Political science · Asian Studies and History · Ecology · Geology · Oceanography

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