The wealth of forests : markets, regulation, and sustainable forestry
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The wealth of forests : markets, regulation, and sustainable forestry
UBC Press, c1998
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Industrial forestry in North America is at a crossroads. A broadconsensus has emerged that both the practice and theory of forestrymust change in order to achieve sustainability. This book is apioneering attempt to consider the concrete policy implications of themuch discussed transition to sustainable forestry. It integrates twodistinct academic literatures: one that seeks to define and identifyways to implement sustainable forestry, and another that focuses on therelative merits of regulatory and market instruments for promotingenvironmental values.
Table of Contents
Introduction / Chris Tollefson
1. Economic Instruments for Promoting Sustainable Forestry:Opportunities and Constraints / Peter H. Pearse
2. Governing Instruments for Forest Policy in British Columbia: APositive and Normative Analysis / W.T. Stanbury and Ilan B.Vertinsky
3. Compliance and Constraint: Economic Instruments for AchievingObjectives of Public Forest Policy in British Columbia / DavidHaley and Martin K. Luckert
4. Living Communities in a Living Forest: Towards an Ecosystem-BasedStructure of Local Tenure and Management / Michael M'Gonigleand Brian L. Scarfe
5. Sustainable Practices? An Analysis of BC's Forest PracticesCode / Tracey L. Cook
6. Priority-Use Zoning: Sustainable Solution or Symbolic Politics? /Jeremy Rayner
7. Sustained Yield: Why has it Failed to Achieve Sustainability? /Lois Dellert
8. The Pitfalls and Potential of Eco-Certification as a MarketIncentive for Sustainable Forest Management / Fred Gale and CheriBurda
9. Regulation, Takings, Compensation, and the Environment: AnEconomic Perspective / David Cohen and Brian Radnoff
10. Ecoforestry Bound: How International Trade Agreements Constrainthe Adoption of An Ecosystem-Based Approach to Forest Management /Fred Gale
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