Contents

• Introduction and overview / Jerry Velasquez, Makiko Yashiro, Susan Yoshimura and Izumi Ono
• Community innovation for sustainable development : concepts and approaches
• Local to global connections : community involvement and sustainability / Diane Warburton and Susan Yoshimura
• Being innovative, against the odds / Charles Landry
• Mainstreaming innovative approaches to sustainable urban environmental management in Asia
• Nathaniel von Einsiedel
• Case studies from the Asia- Pacific region
• Natural resource management
• From hunting to sustainable use : a pashtun tribal group’s innovations, Northern Balochistan, Pakistan / Luc Bellon - - Highland encounters: building new partnerships for conservation and sustainable development in the Yangtze River headwaters, the heart of the Tibetan plateau, China / J. Marc Foggin
• Tourism
• Sustainable tourism planning and management in Klong Khwang, Thailand / Walter Jamieson and Pawinee Sunalai
• Mangrove conservation through ecotourism development by the Bobongko people in the Togean Islands, Indonesia / Sundjaya
• Forest management
• Innovative community-led sustainable forest resource conservation and management in Baybay, Leyte, the Philippines / Victor B. Asio and Marlito Jose M. Bande
• Waste management
• Waste management activities in Nagoya City, Japan : local government and community partnerships / Teruhiko Yoshimura and Rika Kato
• People, partnership and profits in managing solid waste in Guimaras, the Philippines / Andrew C. Farncombe, Francis E. Gentoral and Evan Anthony Arias
• Water management
• Integrated catchment management in the Hawkesbury-Nepean Basin, Australia / Amit Chanan
• Water management in Rajasthan, India : making a difference / Darryl Romesh D’Monte
• Conclusion : critical elements for achieving community innovation / Makiko Yashiro
• Index