Index 189
Princesa Subterranean River National
Park (PPSRNP) 84–6; Puerto Princ-
esa Underground River (PPUR) 84;
transformation of spaces 93–4; travel
84; voting campaign for PPUR-N7WN
86, 87, 88
Pink, S. 130
play-work 158–9
podcasts 147–8
pollution. See air quality monitoring in
China
Polonsky, M. 39
Postrel, V. 70
Potter, E. 117
privatization of nature 92–3, 94
Puerto Princesa Subterranean River
National Park (PPSRNP) 84–6, 88–90,
93–4
Puerto Princesa Underground River
(PPUR) 84, 90–3, 93–4
punkah fans 30–1
real estate development in Hong Kong
170–1, 176
‘relying on heaven’ notion 52, 55–6
rental garden program 163
Roaf, R. 32
Schatzki, T.R. 29
science of indoor comfort 23–4
Seksan, N. 28
senses, exploitation of 69–73, 71, 72, 73,
77–8
Seongmisan ma-eul 148
Shah, P. 39
Shibuya: Underground Streams project
129, 136, 136, 137, 138, 138–9
Shove, E. 6–7, 24, 29, 33
Singapore: air-conditioning usage 21, 22 ;
Changi Airport 71, 71–3, 72, 73 ; as
City in a Garden 68–9; culture as capi-
talist strategy 66; culture/nature/affect
combination 68–9; as eco-culture 68–9;
experience economy 70–3, 71, 72, 73 ;
food and eating 74–7, 77–8; Gardens
by the Bay project 69; as Global City
of Buzz 67; greening of 67–8; hybrid
consumption 77, 78; memory and food
77–8; senses, exploitation of 69–73,
71, 72, 73, 77–8; societal trends and
thermal comfort 26–7; synaesthesia
77; themed environments 73, 77; urban
wilds 68–9; wildlife encounters 75–6,
78; zoos and bird sanctuaries 75–6, 78
Skillington, T. 11
Slater, D.H. 133–4
small green leaf hoppers 53–4
social activism in South East Asia 4, 5
social enterprise in Korea 144–5
social media: 3/11 Earthquake 132–3; air
quality monitoring in China 118, 121–3,
125; cooperative living associations in
Korea 146–8; food production communi-
ties 149; intimate-public blurring 131–2;
sense of place 130–3. See also mobile
media
social practice theory 6–7; and thermal
comfort 29–33
socio-technical regimes 9
South East Asia: environmental movement
4–6; focus on, need for 2–3; governance,
environmental: 4-6
state media: air quality monitoring in China
125; China 101–7, 108–9
Strengers, Y. 26, 29
sustainability: and economic development
143; and human equality 144, 151; mar-
ket impact 38
Sutton, D. 77–8
synaesthesia 77Taiwan: governance, environmental 4. See
also tea farming in Taiwan
Taylor, J. 133
tea farming in Taiwan: agency of non-
humans 52–3; constraints on natural
farming practitioners 54; ecosystem, tea
fields as 53–6; experience of tea makers
59–60; insect-damaged tea leaves 53–4;
local environment and tea processing
58–9; materiality of tea 53, 60; plants and
animals surrounding 51; processing of tea
56–60; producer/non-human world rela-
tionship 54–6; quality of tea 57; ‘relying
on heaven’ notion 52, 55–6; small green
leaf hoppers 53–4; style of tea making
and the market 61–2; tea produced 52
technology, thermal comfort as domain of
24–6, 25
television programmes in China 104–7,
108–10
textiles and clothing practices 30
themed environments 73, 77
thermal comfort: as accomplishment 30;
architecture based approaches 27–8;
colonial practices 32–3; as engineering/
technology/architecture domain 24–6, 25 ;
fans 30–1, 31 ; furniture design 31, 31–2;