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Southeast Asia (SEA) is home to 600 million (Brown, Southeast Asia: region on the rise, Inbound logistics, January. www.inboundlogistics.com, 2013) living in about 20 % of its 4.5 million km2 land area (ESCAP, Review of the state of the environment in Asia and the Pacific. Report to the 5th ministerial conference on environment and development, Bangkok, 2005). The region comprises mainland SEA (Cambodia , Lao PDR , Myanmar , Thailand , and Vietnam ) and maritime SEA (Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia , Malaysia , the Philippines , and Singapore ). The population growth rate declined from 2.26 % per annum (1980–1985) to only 1.33 % per annum (2000–2005), but it is still more than 2 % for the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, and East Timor (Jones, The population of Southeast Asia, ARI working paper #196, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. www.nus.ari.edu.sg/pub/wps.htm, 2013). With a large population base, the region’s growing population will place continuing pressure on its natural and environmental resources .
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Francisco, H.A., James, D. (2015). Introduction. In: James, D., Francisco, H. (eds) Cost-Benefit Studies of Natural Resource Management in Southeast Asia. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-393-4_1
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