Nicholas K. Menzies is assistant director of the Asia Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is the author of Forest and Land Management in Imperial China and author of the forestry section of Science and Civilisation in China. Menzies has a degree in Chinese Studies from Cambridge University (UK) and a Ph.D. in Wildland Resource Science from the University of California at Berkeley. He has worked on issues concerning communities and forest resources management with the Mountain Institute in Tibet and with the Ford Foundation in China and East Africa.
This book makes for compelling reading and will be useful to ecologists and other scientists through to anthropologists and political scientists. -- Peter Thomas, British Ecological Society Bulletin This excellent volume should be required reading for everyone working in forest conservation or resource management. -- Alaka Wali, The Quarterly Review of Biology Well-written, thoughtful... [An] authoritative volume. -- Marianne Schmink, Human Ecology