The Routledge Handbook of the Environment in Southeast Asia is a collection of 30 chapters dealing with the most significant scholarly debates in this rapidly growing field of study. Structured in four main parts, it gives a comprehensive regional overview of, and insight into, the environment in Southeast Asia.

Philip Hirsch is Professor of Human Geography in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research interests are in agrarian change, natural resource management and the politics of environment in Thailand and the wider Mekong region.

Part 1: Introduction

1. Introduction: The environment in Southeast Asia's past, present and future

Part 2: Thematic approaches to environment

2. Understanding the physical environment of Southeast Asia: A prerequisite for better environmental management

3. Environmental histories of Southeast Asia

4. Population growth and environmental degradation in Southeast Asia

5. Environmentalism

6. A Southeast Asian political ecology

7. Environmental neoliberalism in Southeast Asia

8. Environmental law in Southeast Asia

9. Environmental governance and decentralization

10. Transboundary environmental politics in Southeast Asia: Issues, responses and challenges

Part 3: Sectoral issues in natural resources and environment

11. Forests and biodiversity

12. Shifting cultivation and human interaction with forests

13. Water, rivers and dams

14. Social and political ecology of fisheries and aquaculture in Southeast Asia

15. Urban environmental transitions in Southeast Asia

16. Peri-urbanization and environmental issues in mega-urban regions

17. Adaptation to climate change in Southeast Asia: Developing a relational approach

18. Migration and the environment

Part 4: Regional and country studies in environment

19. The role of ASEAN in shaping regional environmental protection

20. The Mekong: Strategic environmental assessment of mainstream hydropower development in an international river basin

21. Cambodia: Territorialisation of natural resources and environmental management

22. Indonesia: A political-economic history of environment and resources

23. Laos: Abundance, scarcity and the shifting role of natural resources

24. Malaysia: Structure and agency of the environmental movement

25. Myanmar: Evolving environmental governance under a regime in transition

26. The Philippines: Historical and geographical framing of ecological degradation and environmental governance

27. Singapore: Sustaining a global city-state and the challenges of environmental governance in the twenty-first century

28. Thailand: Whither gender in the environmental movement?

29. Timor Leste: Embracing resource governance through ritual in a post-conflict society

30. Vietnam: Governmental and societal response to emergent environmental issues in the Mekong Delta