Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in VietnamForests 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