IIAS/NIAS International Workshop
ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS IN ASIA
27-29 October 1994

The Nordic Institute for Asian Studies (NIAS) and the International Institute
for Asian Studies (IIAS) are organizing an international workshop on
Environmental Movements in Asia. 
This workshop will tackle questions relating to the origin, diversity,
performance, and success of Environmental Movements in Asia. The main avenues
to be addressed are: 
1) generation, organizational structure, and the scope of activities of the
environmental movements, as well as governmental responses to them;
2)contexts and conflicts related to environmental movements e.g. between
centre and periphery, majority versus minority populations, urban versus rural
or upland people;
3)a comparative perspective on environmental movements in various Asian
countries. 
Invited keynote speakers will present their views on these questions. In
addition to these keynote speakers, 15 pre-circulated papers will be presented
by the authors from Asian and European countries. These papers will cover
case-studies from various Asian countries as well as more theoretical issues.
Discussants will comment upon these papers. There will be ample room for
discussion during this workshop. 

PROGRAMME

Opening address: Drs. J. Pronk (invited); (Dutch Minister of Development
Co-operation)
Invited Speakers:
1) Dr B. Malayang III (Under Secretary Department of Environment and Natural
Resources, Manila, Philippines) 
2)Dr M. Dove (East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii)
3)Dr Chatrapati Singh (WWF, India)
4)Dr Stephen Edwards (IUCN, Gland)
5)Dr D. Ganapin (Foundation for the Philippine Environment, Manila)
6)Prof. Guha (New Dehli, India)

LIST OF PAPERS: 
1) H.B. Broch (Oslo) - Local Resource Dependence and Utilization:
environmental issues seen from Timpaus, Indonesia.
2) K. Evers Andersen (Copenhagen) - Environmental Protection, Local People and
the Thai Government: the case of the Pwo Karen. 
3) U. Geiser (Zrich) - Coping for Whose Needs: people's movements between
local needs, national politics and international aid. 
4) J. Knight (Oxford) - Saving the Japanese Forest? Environmentalism and the
Japanese village revival movement.
5) J. Overweel (Amsterdam) - An NGO in an Issue Web: local environmental
policies in Irian Jaya, Indonesia.
6) F. Mahwood (The Hague) - Management at the Community Level: the missing
link. An illustrative case study of forest management in Chalt Chaprote in the
Northern Areas of Pakistan.
7) O. Nieuwenhuys (Amsterdam) - The Gender-basis of Mobilization in Kerala's
Fisheries.
8) H. Schenk & I. Baud (Amsterdam) - Perspectives on Solid Waste in Urban
India: green and red voluntary organizations.
9) A. Tagbaru (Stockholm) - Local Environmentalism as Resistance Ideology.
10) V. Ratna Reddy (Jaipur) - Environmental Movements in India: some
reflections.
11) R.P. Weller (Brookline) - Culture, Gender and Community in Taiwan's
Environmental Movement.
12) N. Sundar (Edinburgh) - The Asna Women's Collective: the interplay of
gender: caste and state in a village ecological initiative.
13) Le Sy Giao (Hanoi) - Milpa Cultivation and the Change of Environment in
the Mountain Regions of Vietnam. 
14) P. van der Werff (Amsterdam) - Emitting or Closing Down in Kerala
Environmentalist-Industry Interactions. 
15) C. Warren (Perth)- Tourism, Culture and Environmental Politics in Bali.

Those who are interested in attending this workshop are requested to register
before October 1 at the address mentioned below. The programme and further
details of the workshop will be sent to people who have registered in the
first week of October. 

IIAS
P.O. Box 9515
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 71 272227
Fax: +31 71 272632
E-mail: IIAS@let.leidenuniv.nl