Balancing the Yin and the Yang: In search of the art of not making trade-offs
Publication Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
8-2015
Abstract
I recall how awestruck I was by the stunning offerings of nature when I camped in Kandersteg in the Swiss Alps in 1992 with scouts from around the world. It left a very strong impression on me of how human beings are emotionally connected with nature. While we have fairly significant biodiversity on our small, urbanised island, we are not privileged to have a vast natural landscape in our backyard. Hence, our conception of the environment is very much influenced and limited by the clean and green definition and the instrumental trade-offs that we are familiar with in this “city in a garden” of Singapore.
Discipline
Asian Studies | Environmental Law | Law and Society
Publication
Singapore 2065: Leading insights from 50 Singapore icons and beyond on the economy and the environment
Editor
Euston Quah
First Page
219
Last Page
223
ISBN
9789814663366
Identifier
10.1142/9789814663380_0041
Publisher
World Scientific
City or Country
Singapore
Citation
TAN, Eugene K. B..
Balancing the Yin and the Yang: In search of the art of not making trade-offs. (2015). Singapore 2065: Leading insights from 50 Singapore icons and beyond on the economy and the environment. 219-223.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2409
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814663380_0041