Environment & climate10 min
Japan's 200-Year Plan to Save Its Forests
Faced with total ecological collapse in the 1600s, the Tokugawa Shogunate implemented a radical system of wood rationing and silviculture. This top-down environmentalism transformed Japan from a barren landscape into one of the world's most forested nations.
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In this episode
- 01Intro1 min
- 02The Great Timber Crisis of the 1600s2 min
- 03The Shogunate’s Iron Fist: Rationing and Regulation2 min
- 04The Birth of Scientific Silviculture3 min
- 05The Green Archipelago: A Two-Hundred-Year Success2 min
- 06Outro1 min
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