Before the Green Miracle (《조선의 숲은 왜 사라졌는가》 영문판 | Joseon’s Vanished Forests - The History of Forest D
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Before the Green Miracle: Joseon’s Vanished Forests
Korea’s postwar reforestation is celebrated as one of the great environmental recoveries of the twentieth century. But before that green miracle, the forests of the peninsula had been pushed to the edge of collapse.
In Before the Green Miracle, Young Woo Chun traces how pine-centered state policies, deeply rooted cultural values, and technological constraints combined to deplete Korea’s woodlands throughout the late Joseon period. Grounded in meticulous historical records and attentive to the everyday lives of those who depended on the land, this book offers the first systematic English-language account of forest degradation in premodern Korea. It serves as a sobering reminder of how fragile the balance between human societies and their natural environments can truly be.
In Before the Green Miracle, Young Woo Chun traces how pine-centered state policies, deeply rooted cultural values, and technological constraints combined to deplete Korea’s woodlands throughout the late Joseon period. Grounded in meticulous historical records and attentive to the everyday lives of those who depended on the land, this book offers the first systematic English-language account of forest degradation in premodern Korea. It serves as a sobering reminder of how fragile the balance between human societies and their natural environments can truly be.
Before the Green Miracle (《조선의 숲은 왜 사라졌는가》 영문판 | Joseon’s Vanished Forests - The History of Forest D
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