Pamela D. McElwee, "Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam "
English | ISBN: 0295995475 | 2016 | 312 pages | PDF | 8 MB
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.