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22 Asia Pac. J. Envtl. L. 1 (2019)

handle is hein.journals/apjel22 and id is 1 raw text is: Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 22 No. 1, 2019, pp. 1-6 Editorial Forests, corruption, environmental degradation, protection of species and cooperation in the Asia Pacific region 1 APJEL IN THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION This is the first issue of APJEL for 2019, and it features articles covering issues of development and environmental law and governance in Australia, Australia and China, Bangladesh and China, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and the South China Sea region, as well as a 'jurisprudential' article relevant to the region. The number and breadth of Asian Pacific jurisdictions that have attracted the atten- tion of articles in APJEL over the past several years is good evidence that there is increasing scholarly interest in understanding, learning from and improving environ- mental law and policy in the region. This growing focus is vital, given the evident risks confronting the region, including human-made environmental catastrophes, water and energy crisis and weaknesses in national, regional and global governance. Our 2017 issue included articles on aspects of environmental law in Australia, China, India, Japan and South Korea as well as on general issues affecting environmental governance in the Asia Pacific region. Our two 2018 issues included articles on Aus- tralia, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, Solomon Islands and Thailand. Recent issues of APJEL continue the journal's endeavour to publish high quality research on a broad range of environmental law issues across the Asia Pacific, draw- ing lessons from comparisons and contrasts with and between countries facing simi- lar realities, constraints and opportunities. At the same time, it is through in-depth analysis of specific environmental law developments in specific jurisdictions that true comparative understanding can be developed and enriched, and the articles in the present issue illustrate ways in which environmental protection can be enhanced by considering quite particular problems. 2 THE ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE 2.1 Articles While this issue of APJEL does not have a dedicated 'theme', half of the articles focus, at least in part, on forest- and forestry-related issues. Researchers interested in further research on these and related issues might be interested in the 2017 edited volume Protecting Forest and Marine Biodiversity: The Role of Law, published by Edward Elgar.2 As noted in many of the chapters in that work, although forests are 1. World Economic Forum, Regional Risks for Doing Business (World Economic Forum, 2018) 20, 22. 2. Ed Couzens, Alexander Paterson, Sophie Riley and Yanti Fristikawati (eds), Protecting Forest and Marine Biodiversity: The Role of Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017). 0 2019 The Author Journal compilation 0 2019 Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Lypiatts, 15 Lansdown Road, Cheltenham, Glos GL50 2JA, UK and The William Pratt House, 9 Dewey Court, Northampton MA 01060-3815, USA

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