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

"Ho Chi Minh, the founder of modern Vietnam, once famously remarked that "forests are gold--if we know to protect and develop them well, they will be very precious." Ho's statement conveys important ideas about nature, the state, and society that are relevant in understanding con...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McElwee, Pamela D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016]
Colección:Culture, place, and nature.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : seeing the trees and people for the forests
  • Forests for profit or posterity? : the emergence of environmental rule under French colonialism
  • Planting new people : socialism, settlement, and subjectivity in the postcolonial forest
  • Illegal loggers and heroic rangers : the discovery of deforestation in đổi mới (renovation) Vietnam
  • Rule by reforestation : classifying bare hills and claiming forest transitions
  • Calculating carbon and ecosystem services : new regimes of environmental rule for forests
  • Conclusion : environmental rule in the twenty-first century.