Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam

Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam
ISBN-10
029580646X
ISBN-13
9780295806464
Category
History
Pages
312
Language
English
Published
2016-04-05
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Author
Pamela D. McElwee

Description

Forests Are Gold examines the management of Vietnam's forests in the tumultuous twentieth century�from French colonialism to the recent transition to market-oriented economics�as the country united, prospered, and transformed people and landscapes. Forest policy has rarely been about ecology or conservation for nature�s sake, but about managing citizens and society, a process Pamela McElwee terms �environmental rule.� Untangling and understanding these practices and networks of rule illuminates not just thorny issues of environmental change, but also the birth of Vietnam itself.

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