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Takes a comprehensive look at environmental management experience in five Asian high economic performers: Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Indonesia. While rapid economic growth has placed heavy strains on their environments, governments in these countries have made some progress towards limiting environmental damage through a combination of public investment, regulations, and administrative sanctions. Automobile pollution and hazardous waste, however, continue to pose major challenges. Unconventional approaches to pollution reduction, like voluntary agreements, have yielded some results, and economic instruments are attracting greater attention. The high environmental clean-up costs in these countries point to the need to place greater emphasis on prevention, to devise innovative financing schemes, and to take advantage of new, lower-cost abatement options.
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