Year: 2026
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: In certain countries, the seeds of inversion may have been sown much earlier, during the process that transformed the country into a modern nation and formed the relationships between nature and society.Intense interventions to nature can act as catalysts, prompting a developmental state to adopt the key characteristics of an environmental state.This chapter analyses the historical evolution of government intervention in Japan and Thailand, the only two countries in Asia that escaped colonization.We explore how the integration of peripheral natu ral resources into a centralized economy shaped and solidified the state-society relations in Japan and in Thailand. The Dawn of the Environmental StateWhen forests are depleted, it is the people who bear the brunt of the consequences.Nowhere is this clearer than in Japan, where a constant stream of news about disastrous events-frequent landslides, wildlife control prob lems, and pollen allergies-can be traced back to mismanagement of the nation's forests.Once such prob lems
Source: The MIT Press eBooks
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7221804815