While global environmental issues frequently demand regional and global responses, global natural resource management challenges many countries’ desires to work together as they all draw on finite, shared resources critical for each country’s natural development. As economics need and military power threaten to tip the scales, particularly in areas like the South China Sea, the next generation of leaders discuss the situation in their home countries and the future they hope to achieve.

Speakers: Fellows in the U.S. Department of State's Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative on Global Environmental Issues and Natural Resource Management. This is a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs.