Forests Are Gold : Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McElwee, Pamela D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Écologie humaine > Vietnam > Histoire.
Forêts > Gestion > Vietnam > Histoire.
Politique forestiere > Vietnam > Histoire.
Forestry and community.
Forest policy.
Forest management.
Villes forestieres > Viêt-nam > Histoire.
Forêts > Gestion > Viêt-nam > Histoire.
Politique forestiere > Viêt-nam > Histoire.
Forestry and community > Vietnam > History.
Forest management > Vietnam > History.
Forest policy > Vietnam > History.
Vietnam.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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