Part I. Asia by theme : Accelerated industrialization and explosive urbanization -- Expanding use of nuclear power and increasing risks in Asia -- The accelerating car culture -- The Hazards of Airborne Particulates -- Pollution and health damage -- The original pollution disease: Lessons of minamata disease -- Conservation and use of biodiversity -- Per capita natural resources in China -- Asia's Wetlands and rice paddies -- Part II. Asia by country and region : Japan : Perspective on international comparative analyses of environmental problems -- Pollution-related health damage compensation law: How the system works -- Republic of Korea : South Korea's fee-based trash collection policy -- "Late-starter advantage" in environmental problems and policy -- Kingdom of Thailand : Thai system for environmental protection and pollution abatement -- Industrial parks and worker health damage -- Malaysia -- Republic of Indonesia -- Change in the swidden system -- The process of deforestation -- People's republic of China -- Environmental studies flourish while the environment languishes -- Cutting waste and pollution -- Another look at the food crisis controversy -- Taiwan -- Part III. Indicators : Basic economic indicators: External debt and international trade -- Basic economic indicators: Official development assistance -- Worker accidents and occupational illnesses -- Health and education -- Trends in agriculture and food production -- Pesticides, chemical fertilizers, and eco-agriculture -- Deforestation and forest conservation -- Regionally disproportionate wood production and consumption -- Rapidly increasing marine catches -- Trends in Marine product consumption and trade -- The wildlife trade in Asia -- Biodiversity in Asia -- Advancing urbanization -- Asia's growing energy use -- Air quality in Major Asian cities -- Tightening water supplies -- Water pollution crisis -- Wastes and their disposal -- Transfrontier movements of hazardous wastes -- Greenhouse gas emissions -- Global warming impacts and the international response -- Environmental laws and legislation -- Membership in environmental conventions

1. Asia -- Environmental conditions