This volume provides an overview of the environmental situation in Asia. Incorporating several case studies the book makes two major points: environmental campaigns in Asia tend to have a local focus and they cannot be understood in terms of environmental issues alone

1: An Anthropological Perspective on Environmental Movements; 2: Local Dimensions of 'Global' Environmental Debates; 3: Mahatma Gandhi and the Environmental Movement in India; 4: Culture, Gender and Community in Taiwan's Environmental Movement; 5: The Forest Grant Movement in Japan; 6: The Anti-Tropical Timber Campaign in Japan; 7: Local Environmentalism in Northeast Thailand; 8: Symbols and Displacement; 9: Local Resource Dependency and Utilization on Timpaus; 10: Asna Women: Empowered or Merely Enlisted?; 11: Divergent Approaches to the Environment in Kerala; 12: Perspectives on Waste in Urban India