"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." (Publisher description)
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1 Culture, Communication and Capacity for Sustainable Development / Kiran Prasad, 1
PART II: CULTURAL AND ECOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
2 Ecology and Sufficiency for Sustainable Development: Perspectives from Thailand / Patchanee Malikhao, 25
3 Right Effort for Right Livelihood: Historical Model of Sustainable Development from Sri Lanka / Chandrika De Alwis, 37
4 Traditional Knowledge Systems, Culture and Environmental Sustainability: Concepts from Odisha, India / Maitreyee Mishra, 51
PART III: COMMUNICATION; COMMUNITIES AND CAPACITY
5 Toward the Sufficiency Economy Perspective: The Mass Media and Cultivation of Social Capital Among the Rural Youth in Thailand / Boonlert Supadhiloke, 69
6 Making the Difference: Communicating Campaigns for Sustainable Development in the Opposition State of Penang, Malaysia / Mustafa K. Anuar, Shakila Abdul Manan, 85
7 Communication for Development of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve / I. Arul Aram, Carolin Arul, 101
8 Indigenous Communities of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh: Coping with Environmental Perils and Scoping Adaptive Capacities / Remeen Firoz, Jonas Dahlström, 113
PART IV: CHALLENGES FOR COMMUNICATION IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
9 Rethinking Crisis Communication at a Time of Climate Change: Lessons from the Philippines / Jude William Genilo, 131
10 Media Perspectives on the Particulate Matter (PM 2.5) Crisis in China / Yifan Zhang, 143
11 Shifts and Challenges of Communication for Sustainable Development in Indonesia / Gilang Desti Parahita, 155
12 Communication of Inclusive Innovation for Sustainable Development in India / Kiran Prasad, 173
PART V: CONCLUSION
13 Future Directions in Communication and Culture for Sustainable Development / Kiran Prasad, 189