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

By Pamela D McElwee

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295995483
• ISBN13: 9780295995489
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher