Forests Are Gold

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.

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 Đổi Mới (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