Managing Natural Wealth: Environment and Development in Malaysia

The remarkably rich natural environment of Malaysia attracts the interest of bothdevelopers and environmentalists. Managing Natural Wealth analyzes major natural resource and environmental policy issues in the country during the 1970s and 1980s a period of profound socioeconomic change, rapid depletion of natural resources, and the emergence of serious problems with pollution. Managing Natural Wealth builds on Environment and Development in a Resource-Rich Economy: Malaysia under the New Economic Policy. First published in hardcover in 1997, this path-breaking book emphasized economics as a source for analyzing the issues involved in environmental and natural resource management in Malaysia. The access of the lead and contributing authors to unpublished data and key decisionmakers made their account an essential reference for policymakers and researchers in Malaysia and throughout the globe. Managing Natural Wealth includes a review of key developments since the 1990s by S. Robert Aiken and Colin H. Leigh, two geographers with a long-standing interest in environmental change in Malaysia and an understanding of the institutional context of its environmental policy that is unmatched in the scholarly community. Author Bio: Jeffrey R. Vincent is a professor of natural resource and environmental economics and research director at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at the University of California, San Diego. Rozali Mohamed Ali is managing director and chief executive officer of Bank Bumiputera-Commerce in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Rozali Mohamed Ali is the chief executive officer of Bank Bumiputera-Commerce in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Jeffrey R. Vincent is a professor of natural resource and environmental economics at the University of California, San Diego.