Forests are gold : trees, people, and environmental rule in Vietnam

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    • McElwee, Pamela D.

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Forests are gold : trees, people, and environmental rule in Vietnam

Pamela D. McElwee

(Culture, place, and nature)

University of Washington Press, 2016

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  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

Table of Contents

Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan Preface Acknowledgments Vietnamese Terminology Abbreviations Introduction | Seeing the Trees and People for the Forests 1. Forests for Profit or Posterity? The Emergence of Environmental Rule under French Colonialism 2. Planting New People: Socialism, Settlement, and Subjectivity in the Postcolonial Forest 3. Illegal Loggers and Heroic Rangers: The Discovery of Deforestation in Doi Moi (Renovation) Vietnam 4. Rule by Reforestation: Classifying Bare Hills and Claiming Forest Transitions 5. Calculating Carbon and Ecosystem Services: New Regimes of Environmental Rule for Forests Conclusion | Environmental Rule in the Twenty-First Century Notes References Index

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