1. Introduction: Searching for Development Alternatives: Class, Gender and Environment in Asia Economic Growth / Jayant Lele -- 2. ASEAN NGOs in the Post-Cold War World / Francis Loh Kok Wah -- 3. The Rise of NGOs as Critical Social Movements in Thailand / Suthy Prasartset -- 4. Making a New World: Ecology Strategies in Asia: Revisiting Chico, Nam Chaon and Silent Valley Movements / Lawrence Surendra -- 5. Ethnic Insurgencies in Northeast India and Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh: A Look at Tribal Social Movements / Kalam Shahed -- 6. Filipina Domestic Workers in Hong Kong and the New International Division of Labour / Ludmilla Kwitko -- 7. Emerging Gender Inequalities within Asia / Krishna Ahooja-Patel -- 8. The Impact of Reforms on Women in China / Wu Qing -- 9. Filipino Women in the Japanese Entertainment Industry / Naomi Hosoda -- 10. Himalaya - From Disaster to Survival / Sunderlal Bahuguna
11. Development, Geopolitics, and the Environmental Alteration of the Mekong / Peter Stoett -- 12. Wood, Environmental Imperatives and Developmental Strategies: Challenges for Southeast Asia / Sing Chew -- 13. Development, Natural Resources Management and Sustainability: Lessons from the Indian Forestry Experience / Richard Haeuber -- 14. Energy Supply and Use in India and China: Whose Priorities for Whose Benefit? / Dorothy Lele
