Environment, Politics, and Ideology in North Korea

This book provides a unique summary of North Korean environmental and developmental policies. Coupling ideological and political developments with a review of practical projects within specific sectors, it provides the North Korean or East Asian analyst a new lens with which to understand one of the most diffuse and difficult nations on earth.

Robert Winstanley-Chesters is research fellow at Australian National University.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Nature as Heroic Participant in North Korea Chapter 2: Juché and the Theorization of a Place of "Lived" Utopian Fulfillment Chapter 3: Building a Landscape of "Lived" Utopia: Deforestation and Afforestation Chapter 4: Building a Landscape of "Lived" Utopia: Tideland Reclamation Chapter 5: Conclusion