Nature & Environment

Description About the Author Sample Chapter(s)Foreword (81 KB)Lecture 1: Politics and Governance (261 KB) The IPS-Nathan Lectures series was la...

Description About the Author How has Singapore's environment and location in a zone of extraordinary biodiversity influenced the economic, poli...

Description About the Author With more than 150 years of history, the 74-hectare Singapore Botanic Gardens holds a unique and significant place...

Description Praise About the Editor In this era of the climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global imper...

Description Praise About the Author The most important of Tommy Koh's writings on the Law of the Sea are brought together in Building a New Leg...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Foreword Dr Cheong Koon Hean, CEO of the Housing and Development Board (2010–Present) was the Institute of Policy ...

Description Native orchids have grown freely on roadside trees in Singapore for centuries and the Singapore Botanic Gardens has cultivated many...

Description Praise About the Author The environmental turn in the humanities and social sciences has meant a new focus on the history of animal...

Description About the Author This tiny, humid island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula was once a forest-covered Garden of Eden. The majority o...

Description About the Editor As Singapore enters its 50th year of independence, it is a time for introspection to look back at the successes an...

Description Singapore’s resident bird population, together with the many migratory species that visit seasonally, are one of the most picturesq...

Description About the Editors In short, following Marshall McLuhan's famous provocation, the editors focus less on the message and more on the ...

Description About the Editors This book, the first in a planned series, reports on Singapore's Future Cities Laboratory and its ambitious missi...

Description About the Author Everything you might want to know about Kent Ridge in one book. This book helps you look beneath the shiny exterio...

Description About the Editor 50 Years of Urban Planning in Singapore is an accessible and comprehensive volume on Singapore's planning approach...

Description About the Authors & Illustrator A comprehensive field guide to the 829 bird species of Malaysia (including Sabah and Sarawak) a...

Description The continued aridity trend occurring in many regions worldwide is a manifestation of the response of the earth system to global ch...

Description The potential for energy transformation from geothermal heat is limitless. For millennia natural sources of this energy, in the for...

Description Sustainability Matters is a compilation of some of the best research papers submitted by students from the National University of S...

Description About the Editors Environmental Policies in Asia highlights the environmental challenges Asian planners and policymakers face as th...

Description Praise About the Author Established in 1859, Singapore’s Botanic Gardens has been important as a park for Singaporeans and visitors...

Description About the Authors Until the mid-1950s nearly all the waters lying between the far-flung islands of the Indonesian archipelago were ...

Description Praise About the Author Forty years after the Bangkok Declaration, which established the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (AS...

Description Praise About the Authors The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is one of the most successful agreements to g...

Description About the Author Explore the Cloud Forest, Flower Dome, SuperTrees and more! The World in a Garden is the follow-up book to Perpetu...

Description About the Author This easy-to-use identification guide to the 280 butterfly species most commonly seen in Peninsular Malaysia, Sing...

Description About the Editors An invitation to explore, test and refine sustainable urban development in your own city This third and final vol...

Description About the Series Singapore Chronicles: Environment documents Singapore’s journey towards greater environmental sustainability, biod...

Description About the Series The term “flora and fauna” refers to the plants and animals found in a particular region. Singapore’s primeval veg...

Description Praise About the Author & Illustrator We know that dogs bark, cats meow, and cows moo. But do you know dholes whistle “whee-whe...

Description About the Author & Illustrator Madam Jar is a hot-tempered chilli sauce container. She enjoys ordering around the playful baby ...

Description About the Author This article draws from a database of asset-level emissions to identify key methane-emitting coal, oil and gas fac...

Description Praise About the Writers Earth. Water. Air. Word has it that there was once a man who controlled the three elements in Singapore. I...

Description About the Author Dugong. Coffin Ray. Convict Blenny. Vampire Squid. Whale Shark. Do these animals sound dangerous or endangered to ...

Description About the Authors & Illustrator When indoors-bound Ernest Lee is paired up with his nature-loving classmate Coral Ling for a sc...

Description Praise About the Author This book tells the inside story of how Singapore defied considerable odds to develop a dynamic economy and...

Description About the Author The Birds in the Park is written as a sequel to The Birds in the Balcony where siblings Ann and Tim witnessed a co...

Description About the Author & Illustrator My Grandpas, My Birding Kakis tells the tale of a young protagonist’s heartfelt journey contrast...