• Date: October 25th, Wednesday, 2023, 15:00 – 16:30
• Location: Room 604, Bldg. 83 / Online via Zoom

Speaker: Eunhui Eom (Director, Center of Foreign Studies at Medici Media Press)

As Southeast Asia is characteristic of hybridity and diversity, its environmental issues are diverse depending on country, region, or city. There is Singapore, a garden city state and sustainable smart city, while old development vs. nature conflicts over dam construction or urban air pollution and poaching of wild animals still exist as issues. Since Southeast Asian countries belong in the tropical and subtropical regions, they approach the current climate crisis of global boiling not as a traditional environmental issue but as one of security.

This lecture aims to offer a comprehensive understanding of currnent environmental issues in Southeast Asia focusing on the transboundary issues that go beyond individual regions or countries. The issues dealt with are the Mekong development in the continent, the haze conflict in the oceans, and the climate crisis. As the causes, multilayered interested parties, and the intensities and ranges of influence in environmental issues are all complex, the approach must be multilayered and comprehensive. By examining the structure of the international society’s environmental and crisis policy for Southeast Asia, we will derive implications to Korean policy.

Zoom URL: https://snu-ac-kr.zoom.us/j/98426681907