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Managing Asia's environmental crisis: EQM opportunities for remediation and technology transfer
Author(s) -
Pringle Joseph L.,
Rondinelli Dennis A.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
environmental quality management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.249
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1520-6483
pISSN - 1088-1913
DOI - 10.1002/tqem.3310070306
Subject(s) - environmental degradation , environmental remediation , natural resource economics , business , industrialisation , environmental pollution , environmental quality , environmental crisis , environmental planning , natural resource , environmental protection , economic growth , development economics , environmental science , economics , political science , contamination , ecology , philosophy , environmental ethics , law , market economy , biology
Conditions of environmental pollution and degradation in Asia are among the worst in the world. Rapid economic growth and industrialization over the past half century have accelerated the pollution of air, water, and land resources in a region with the world's largest concentration of population. As the economics of Asia recover from financial crisis in the late 1990s, they will face a more serious environmental crisis in the early years of the 21st century. Remediation of soil and water contamination will become a stronger concern in the region, as the human health impacts become more visible and widespread. Although environmental remediation is only beginning to emerge in Asia as a solution to problems of natural resource degradation, the authors show how U.S. firms with experience in quality environmental management and biological remediation technologies will find new opportunities for exports and technology transfer. Environmental technology and services firms interested in Asia must understand both the opportunities for and barriers to operating in Asia.