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Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam (Culture, Place, and Nature)
Pamela D. Mcelwee
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Description for Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam (Culture, Place, and Nature)
Paperback. Series Editor(s): Sivaramakrishnan, K. Series: Culture, Place, and Nature. Num Pages: 312 pages, 15 maps, 1 recorded music items, 12 black & white illustrations, 15 black & white tables,. BIC Classification: HBJF; JHMC; TVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 434.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Culture, Place, and Nature
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295995489
SKU
V9780295995489
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About Pamela D. Mcelwee
Pamela D. McElwee is associate professor of human ecology at Rutgers University. She is the coeditor of Gender and Sustainability: Lessons from Asia and Latin America.
Reviews for Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam (Culture, Place, and Nature)
A wonderful and timely addition to the literature on political ecology. . . . In presenting the dilemmas and projects of forest conservation over the last century, she convincingly demonstrates that if forests can and do act beyond humans, the generativity of these activities is lost on those who seek to more efficiently administer them.
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