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--> The UN Sustainable Development Goals provide a common global agenda for development. However, the emerging policy issues vary greatly across the world. With 32 contributors, this volume provides a timely, research-based overview for the need for policy interventions to improve the sustainability and development models of the ten selected countries in Asia and the Pacific. The volume is firmly positioned at the cusp between research, policy and practice. --> Sample Chapter(s) Introduction: Sustainability and Development in Asia and the Pacific: A Kaleidoscope of Issues --> Contents: Sustainability and Development in Asia and the Pacific: A Kaleidoscope of Issues (Dora Marinova and Xiumei Guo) China: Development of Resource-Based and Non-Resource-Based Cities in China (Zhidong Li, Dora Marinova, Xiumei Guo and Xia Wu) Trends and Challenges in China's Photovoltaic Industry (Li Zha, Xiumei Guo and Wei Qi) Knowledge-Intensive Business Services, R&D Diffusion and Sustainable Innovation in China (Huiping Dong, Xiumei Guo and Xing Shi) Productivity and Sustainable Development in China and Indonesia (Wayan Widya Arsana and Yanrui Wu) Urban Agriculture — A Case Study of Ningbo Eastern New Town of China (Liang Wen, Xiumei Guo, Jeff Kenworthy and Dora Marinova) Social Networks, Community Resilience, and Bonding Relationships (Li Xu, Xiumei Guo, Margaret Gollagher and Dora Marinova) Indian Subcontinent: Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation, and Resilience: The Slums of Mumbai (Jerome Zayas) Earthquake Disaster and Sustainable Tourism (Claire Vanderplank) Climate Change and Sustainability in Sri Lanka Coastal Community (Buddika M B Bulathsinhalage, Dora Marinova and Laura Stocker) Covering a Dying Delta: Challenges for Pakistani Journalists (Ali