Johannes Stahl works on natural resource governance and institutions in agriculture and forestry. He was a Ciriacy-Wantrup Post-Doctoral Fellow in Natural Resource Economics and Political Economy at the University of California at Berkeley and holds PhD and MA degrees in Agriculture and Social Anthropology.

‘What is most impressive about Stahl’s approach […] is the depth of his attention to ‘doing’ political ecology. There are many reasons to appreciate this book, not least of which is its clear prose and organization, which make it accessible to anyone unfamiliar with its theoretical or empirical context.’ —Brian Grabbatin, ‘Environment and Planning’

• List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Albanian Socialism; Chapter 3: Patterns of Land Use Change; Chapter 4: Unmaking Socialist Agriculture: The Dissolution of Collective Structures; Chapter 5: Unraveling the Socialist Countryside: Differentiation among Villages and Its Effects on Land Use; Chapter 6: The Crisis of Capital and Labor: Effects on Land Use within Villages; Chapter 7: The Fate of the Postsocialist Forest; Chapter 8: Rent from the Land; Glossary