Indonesia has recently achieved a key milestone: the percentage of population living in urban areas has now passed 50 per cent. As this percentage is expected to keep increasing, we can safely conclude that never again will the majority of Indonesia’s population live in rural areas. Instead, the majority will be living in a range of urban settlements, such as small towns, larger towns, cities…
Ecology has become a means through which to express and constitute state power in China. In 2012, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wrote “ecological civilization building” into the party constitution. In 2018, it was written into the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China with amendments that emphasized conservation and a “scien…