Asia-Pacific Transitions

Modern focus on the Asia Pacific has centred on its rapid transformation in the span of a mere two decades. Since the 1997 economic crisis however, attention has now turned to transition issues as the region faces the challenge of global structural transformation that has and will affect the direction of the region's long-term development. Drawing from a range of contributors from several disciplines, this book seeks to capture some of the multifaceted dimensions of these transitions as the region adjusts to new global realities.

AKE E. ANDERSSON Professor, Department of Infrastructure and Planning, Royal Institute of Technology, StockholmMUKUL ASHER Associate Professor, Department of Economics, National University of SingaporePONTUS ABERG Consultant, Temaplan SwedenDAVID F. BATTEN Professor, Temalan AustraliaMARTIN BECKMANN Professor, Department of Economics, Brown University and Department of Economics, University of MunichHUA CHANG-I Professor, Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan UniversityJAN ENGBERG Associate Professor, Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, Umeå UniversityNIKLAS EKLUND Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Umeå UniversityFINN FORSUND Professor, Department of Economics, University of OsloJANERIK GIDLUND Professor, Department of Political Science, Umeå UniversityKIYOSHI KOBAYASHI Professor, Graduate School of Civil Engineering, Kyoto UniversityLAWRENCE R. KLEIN Benjamin Franklin Professor of Economics, University of PennsylvaniaKURT LUNDGREN Professor, National Institute for Working Life, SwedenEDMUND R. THOMPSON Assistant Professor, School of Business, University of Hong KongZHANG WEIBIN Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore