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The future of Earth's environment will
be decided in Asia, home to 60 percent of the world's population
and some of the world's fastest-growing economies. As an
award-winning investigative journalist based in Bangkok,
James David Fahn spent a decade grappling with the challenges
facing the region's mega-cities, tropical forests, coastlines,
and societies dashing toward modernity. In A Land on
Fire, he shares his findings -- the profound implications
for global issues such as climate change, the loss of biodiversity,
and the greening of world trade. He explores Southeast Asia's
environmental battles through the eyes of the people fighting
them, and recounts his many adventures while covering them.
Whether chasing down log smugglers along the Thai-Burmese
border, exposing the dumping of toxic mercury into the Gulf
of Thailand by multinational oil corporations, or covering
the controversy surrounding the filming of the movie The
Beach, Fahn provides unique insight into the relationship
between sustainable development and democracy, the crippling
impact of corruption, and the environmental challenges facing
us all.
James David Fahn spent nearly a decade
working at The Nation, an English-language daily
newspaper based in Bangkok, where he served as environment
editor. A former Watson Fellow, he accepted the UN Environment
Program's Global 500 award for The Nation's environmental
coverage in 1997 and received an award from HRH Princess
Maha Chakri Sirindhorn in recognition of his work in service
to Thailand. He currently works at The Ford Foundation and
lives in New York City.
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