ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a policy framework for addressing Pacific Asia's; urban-industrial environmental crisis. It addresses the issues of environmental management under accelerated urbanisation and industrialisation, that is, the rapid growth of burgeoning cities as well as the growth of industry and manufacturing. The chapter provides an overview of the Pacific Asia urban transition and a summary of the ways in which both industrial and urban growth jointly creates impacts on a wide variety of environmental issues. It focuses on the policy arena by focusing on raising institutional capacities around new forms of urban governance that include local government, private-sector and civic organisations in collaborative initiatives for environmental management. Advancement toward more inclusive public decision-making also carries the potential to incorporate questions of environmental justice associated with urban poverty more directly onto policy agenda. Capacities to move intentions to action in government and in society at large are equally diverse.
