Communication, Culture and Ecology: Rethinking Sustainable Development in Asia

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This book offers comprehensive insights into the cultural and ecological values that influence sustainable development across Asia, addressing the cultural, religious and philosophical moorings of development through participatory and grassroots communication approaches. It presents a range of contributions and case studies from leading experts in Asia to highlight the debates on environmental communication and sustainable development that are relevant today, and to provide an overview of the positive traditions of ecological sensitivity and cultural communication that may find common ground between communities. This well-researched guide to the dynamic and complex terrain of communication for sustainable development offers uniquely practical perspectives on communication, environment and sustainable development that are of immense value for policy makers, media scholars, development practitioners, researchers and students of communication and media studies. Front Matter ....Pages i-ix Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Culture, Communication and Capacity for Sustainable Development (Kiran Prasad)....Pages 3-22 Front Matter ....Pages 23-23 Ecology and Sufficiency for Sustainable Development: Perspectives from Thailand (Patchanee Malikhao)....Pages 25-35 Right Effort for Right Livelihood: Historical Model of Sustainable Development from Sri Lanka (Chandrika De Alwis)....Pages 37-50 Traditional Knowledge Systems, Culture and Environmental Sustainability: Concepts from Odisha, India (Maitreyee Mishra)....Pages 51-66 Front Matter ....Pages 67-67 Toward the Sufficiency Economy Perspective: The Mass Media and Cultivation of Social Capital Among the Rural Youth in Thailand (Boonlert Supadhiloke)....Pages 69-83 Making the Difference: Communicating Campaigns for Sustainable Development in the Opposition State of Penang, Malaysia (Mustafa K. Anuar, Shakila Abdul Manan)....Pages 85-99 Communication for Development of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve (I. Arul Aram, Carolin Arul)....Pages 101-112 Indigenous Communities of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh: Coping with Environmental Perils and Scoping Adaptive Capacities (Remeen Firoz, Jonas Dahlström)....Pages 113-127 Front Matter ....Pages 129-129 Rethinking Crisis Communication at a Time of Climate Change: Lessons from the Philippines (Jude William Genilo)....Pages 131-141 Media Perspectives on the Particulate Matter (PM 2.5) Crisis in China (Yifan Zhang)....Pages 143-154 Shifts and Challenges of Communication for Sustainable Development in Indonesia (Gilang Desti Parahita)....Pages 155-171 Communication of Inclusive Innovation for Sustainable Development in India (Kiran Prasad)....Pages 173-186 Front Matter ....Pages 187-187 Future Directions in Communication and Culture for Sustainable Development (Kiran Prasad)....Pages 189-196 Back Matter ....Pages 197-199