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The Challenges Ahead
Academic journal article from Southeast Asian Affairs
Beginning of article
The situation appears bleak, but it does not have to be. Governments have acknowledged that the problem is approaching a critical level. Statements from ASEAN attest to a regional awareness of the ecological, economic, and social costs of resource depletion, pollution, and loss of species, habitat, and environmental services, and the barriers to overcoming these problems. In the introduction to ASEAN's First State of the Environment Report in 1997, then Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dato' Ajit Singh, called for an intensification of efforts under the ASEAN Strategic Plan on the Environment (now superceded by the Strategic Plan of Action on the Environment). Cambodian Minister for the …
