The article develops environmental offshoring as a way to understand how environmental risks and burdens can be organized across borders through production networks, Thailand–Japan relations and post-2011-flood governance.
Key findings
- The paper argues that nature is constituted as both resource and hazard in transnational production. Factory protection, risk relocation and post-disaster policy are therefore not merely technical choices but expressions of power over who is protected and who carries costs.
Why this matters globally
The concept connects supply-chain studies, disaster adaptation and environmental justice in a world where production and risk cross national borders.
Thai researcher contribution
Researchers from Chulalongkorn and Thammasat universities bring the Thai case into global debates on capital, nature and disaster governance.
Limitations to consider
The public abstract does not detail fieldwork sample size or analytic procedures. Its conclusions are interpretive and concept-building, not general quantitative or causal estimates.