Product Description
by Huong Ha (Author)
This book focuses on special issues of climate change management in Asia. It discusses the challenges of climate change governance, and examines the impact of climate change on agriculture and food security. The author includes a rare work relating to a new dimension of climate change managementÂ-environmental knowledge management. The book also touches another special topic relating to climate change, legal issues in the maritime sector. Is the current maritime legal framework effective in preventing harms to the environment still a big question? How the legal industry in Malaysia responds to climate change is also examined in this volume. Finally, the agriculture sector in Japan investigates whether the adaptive method of introducing high-temperature tolerant varieties and the mitigation strategy affect the product price of rice. Overall, robust strategies, plans, and policies are required to provide directions to stakeholders so that they can effectively and efficiently respond to climate change challenges.
Author Biography
Associate Professor Huong Ha is Head, Business Programmes, at School of Business, Singapore University of Social Sciences. She has been affiliated with University of Newcastle, Australia. Her previous positions include dean, director of R&D, deputy course director, chief editor, executive director, business development manager, and so on. She holds a PhD from Monash University (Australia) and a master's degree from NUS (Singapore). She was a recipient of many teaching excellence awards, scholarships, and research-related grants. She has published more than 80 journal articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, etc. She is an invited member of the scientific and/or technical committees of international conferences, and a reviewer of high-ranking international journals.
