Developmental Environmentalism:

State Ambition and Creative Destruction in East Asia’s Green Energy Shift

  • Provides a new way of thinking about the strategic role of the state in the clean energy shift

  • Significantly extends cutting-edge developmental state theorising to illuminate the strategic role of the state in East Asian development and change

  • Explains the drivers and dynamics of the clean energy shift and to predict its most likely future trajectory

  • Includes detailed longitudinal case studies of clean energy industry creation and fossil fuel industry destruction in China and Korea

  • Enhances comparative understanding of new industry development and government-business collaboration in East Asia

  • Publication date 23 March 2023

  • Open Access License: CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0

By Elizabeth Thurbon, Sung-Young Kim, Hao Tan, John Mathews (Oxford University Press, in press)

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