Culture Place and Nature Forests Are Gold: Trees People and Environmental Rule in Vietnam (Paperback)

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.