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    Reconciling Economic and Environmental Imperatives in Batam

    Lee Poh Onn | March 2018
    Abstract
    Batam’s economic growth has been nothing short of spectacular. In the 1990s, it experienced an investment boom fuelled by investments from Singapore. This lasted for two decades and transformed the economy and landscape of what was an outpost into a place with a major industrial city of over 1 million inhabitants. This impressive pace of development has often been accompanied by a marked degradation of the natural environment. Mangrove areas have rapidly disappeared, floods have occurred around the city because of erosion caused by land clearing; illegal squatter settlements have intruded into protected forests, and toxic substances from the offshore cleaning of ships have affected the quality of Batam’s coastal waters. But all is not lost. Economic and environmental imperatives can be reconciled if Batam’s development trajectory takes into account the impact of economic growth on the environment. Sustainable development is not impossible.
    Citation
    Lee Poh Onn. 2018. Reconciling Economic and Environmental Imperatives in Batam. © ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/8050.
    PDF ISBN
    978-981-4818-34-6
    Print ISBN
    978-981-4818-33-9
    ISSN
    0219-3213
    Keywords
    Environmental Resources
    Policy Environment
    Regulatory Environments
    Sustainable Development
    Environmentally Sustainable Development
    Ecodevelopment
    Development Challenges
    Development Issues
    Capital Market
    Development
    Development projects
    Environment
    Capital Market
    Natural resources policy
    Development policy
    Resources development
    Forest site mapping
    Environmental Management
    Nature Protection
    Environmental Conservation
    Landscape Protection
    Environment impact assessment
    Environmental impact statements
    Agricultural landscape management
    Sustainable forestry
    Sustainable horticulture
    Environmental indexes
    Protection of environment
    Environmental geotechnology
    Natural areas
    Natural beauty conservation
    Urban impact analysis
    Developing countries
    Industrial priorities
    Partnership
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11540/8050
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    Author
    Lee Poh Onn
    Theme
    Development
    Environment
    Labor Migration
     
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