Environment and Society in Asia
About the Book Series
The AUP series in Environment and Society in Asia welcomes humanities and social sciences manuscripts that both are academically rigorous and can contribute to the general public understanding of the pertinent issues related to broadly defined environmental degradation and socio-political challenges in Asian countries and regions. We also invite studies focussing on institutional and/or grassroots initiatives to tackle these issues. We define Asia in the broad geo-political sense, including East Asia (Northeast and Southeast), South Asian sub-continent, Central Asia and Western Asia (non-African Mid-East). We are particularly interested in well-structured comparative works (within country comparison, critical cluster comparison or cross-national comparison) and scholarship that theoretically addresses the daunting triple challenges most developing countries in Asia face today: socio-political (in)stability, economic (under)development and environmental (un)sustainability.
Green Eating and Ecological Risk in China: How the Authoritarian State Shapes Consumer Responsibility
1st Edition
By Franziska M. Fröhlich
September 18, 2026
The book critically examines consumer advice urging Chinese citizens to change their food consumption habits and explores what it means to eat green in a country facing ecological risks, food safety concerns, and an authoritarian government aiming to create an eco-civilization. Uncovering the ...
Disaster Recovery through Women’s Eyes: Reimagining Resilience
1st Edition
By Kaira Zoe Alburo-Cañete
September 03, 2026
This book (re)centres women’s situated knowledges as a powerful starting point for analyzing disaster recovery and rethinking the contested concept of resilience. Through an ethnographic account of reconstruction following Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, it demonstrates how women’s everyday ...
Chinese Environmental Contention: Linking Up against Waste Incineration
1st Edition
By Maria Bondes
January 10, 2026
A plethora of new actors has in recent years entered China’s environmental arena. In Western countries, the linkages and diffusion processes between such actors often drive environmental movements. Through a study of Chinese anti-incineration contention, Chinese Environmental Contention: Linking Up...
Environmental Movements of India: Chipko, Narmada Bachao Andolan, Navdanya
1st Edition
By Krishna Mallick
December 01, 2025
In her detailed retelling of three iconic movements in India, Professor Emerita Krishna Mallick, PhD, gives hope to grassroots activists working toward environmental justice. Each movement deals with a different crisis and affected population: Chipko, famed for tree-hugging women in the Himalayan ...
Hygiene, Sociality, and Culture in Contemporary Rural China: The Uncanny New Village
1st Edition
By Lili Lai
December 01, 2025
This book presents a new perspective on attempts by the contemporary Chinese government to transform the diverse conditions found in countless rural villages into what the state's social welfare program deems 'socialist new villages'. Lili Lai argues that an ethnographic focus on the specifics of ...