Indonesia's Fires and Haze: The Cost of Catastrophe

Conservatively estimated at $4.5 billion dollars, the damage from the fires and haze in Indonesia was more than the combined damages assessed for the Exxon Valdez oil spill and India’s Bhopal chemical disaster. This book looks at the causes of the fires, the physical damages that resulted, and their effects on health, industrial production, tourism, etc.It explains the methods used to assign a monetary value to the damages and recommends measures that must be taken to prevent a recurrence of such an epic environmental disaster.