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Policy Design for Sustainability at Multiple Scales: The Case of Transboundary Haze Pollution in Southeast Asia

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What the case of haze pollution in Southeast Asia reveals is an opportunity to coordinate policy efforts for addressing a complex, multi-layered environmental sustainability conundrum. It is one that illustrates how policies to foster low-carbon development and policies to mitigate against the ill effects of fire-led or slash and burn deforestation are inextricably linked and warrant regional cooperation enabling local agreements that complement global climate policy ambitions.

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    http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/record-power-consumption-hot-hazy-june

    http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/daily-water-usage-exceeds-level-during-haze-last-year

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    http://www.wri.org/topic/indonesia-forest-fires

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    https://www.wri.org/sites/default/files/indonesia-forest-moratorium-next-steps.pdf

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    “Haze episode cost Singapore S$700m last year: Masagos”, Channel News Asia, March 15, 2016. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/haze-episode-cost/2605406.html

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    World Resources Institute (WRI) Climate Data Explorer. http://cait.wri.org

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    http://newsroom.unfccc.int/unfccc-newsroom/finale-cop21/

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Mukherjee, I. (2018). Policy Design for Sustainability at Multiple Scales: The Case of Transboundary Haze Pollution in Southeast Asia. In: Brinkmann, R., Garren, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71389-2_3

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