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This volume focuses on environmental governance as a key issue of analysis, to provide an important new conceptualisation of 'region' and regional power.

For the inhabitants of many of the world's major towns & cities estuaries provide their first & nearest glimpse of a natural habitat. This text will be of use to advanced undergraduate & graduate students on a general ecology course, & to professional researchers in aquatic/marine ecology & environmental science.

1. Human security, climate security and social resilience / Lorraine Elliott -- 2. The economics of climate change in Southeast Asia / Juzhong Zhuang, Suphachol Suphachalasai and Jindra Nuella Samson -- 3. Risk, vulnerability and resilience : climate change and the urban poor in Asia / Devanathan Parthasarathy -- 4. Water regime resilience and community rights to resource access in the face of climate change / Keokam Kraisoraphong -- 5. Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) : mitigation, adaptation and the resilience of local livelihoods / Enrique Ibarra Gene and Arif Aliadi -- 6. The gender and climate debate : more of the same or new pathways of thinking and doing? / Bernadette P. Resurreccion -- 7. Climate security and development in Southeast Asia : the limits of UNESCAP's green growth approach / Irene A. Kuntjoro -- 8. Risk, resilience and human security in cross-border areas : the Greater Mekong Subregion, the heart of Borneo and the Coral Triangle / Fitrian Ardiansyah and Desak Putu Adhityani Putri -- 9. ASEAN and climate change : building resilience through regional initiatives / Mely Caballero-Anthony -- 10. Conclusion : conditions for enhancing human security / Lorraine Elliott.

In 2019, the Indonesian government released its post-Paris Agreement report Low Carbon Development: a paradigm shift towards a green economy in Indonesia, in which it set out an economic rationale for a move to low carbon growth. The core of the paradigm shift referenced in the report's title was that growth not only had to be decoupled from high carbon inputs but that in both practice and outcomes it had to be sustainable and inclusive. Yet the report does little to define social justice, equity practices, or inclusive outcomes in a green economy context. In this article, we foreground distributive, procedural and recognition aspects of social justice that are central to Indonesia's climate mitigation efforts and transition to a green, low carbon economy. We focus on two sectors that are key to this transition – forest and land-use, and energy. Our analysis shows that existing forms of injustice can exacerbate challenges for decarbonisation action and that low carbon transitions initiatives have been unable to overcome various forms of injustice and have, in some cases, created new injustices. (Asian Aff/GIGA)

Governments across much of the developed world are concerned to increase activity rates and employment among older workers and more generally to improve their position in the labour market. The use of education and training provision is prominent among the various policies that have been advocated for this purpose, and this paper evaluates the role that such provision might play. Training is intended to increase the human capital of its recipients by enhancing their knowledge and skills. However, if this training is to improve the labour market position of individuals, the extra human capital must be economically productive and, as with any government intervention, the benefits of the policy must be evaluated against the costs and with alternative policy options in mind.

AbstractThe Mediation Inventory for Cognitive Roles Assessment (MICRA) was developed to examine the cognitive roles assumed by mediators and disputants during the mediation process after an analysis of mediation case records revealed several significant patterns in communication positioning. MICRA's cognitive roles were adapted from research on collegiate leadership teams in which similar communication positioning patterns were noted. Additional research is needed to establish MICRA's psychometric properties; however, preliminary findings of the study reported here suggest that the role of mediator is much more complex and involved than the commonly defined neutral facilitator role.