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Japan's 200-Year Plan to Save Its Forests

Environment & climate

Japan's 200-Year Plan to Save Its Forests

10 min

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

  1. 1Intro1 min
  2. 2The Great Timber Crisis of the 1600s2 min
  3. 3The Shogunate’s Iron Fist: Rationing and Regulation2 min
  4. 4The Birth of Scientific Silviculture3 min
  5. 5The Green Archipelago: A Two-Hundred-Year Success2 min
  6. 6Outro1 min

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