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 a pioneering attempt to consider the concrete policyimplications of the much discussed transition to sustainable forestry.It integrates two distinct academic literatures: one that seeks todefine and identify ways to implement sustainable forestry, and anotherthat focuses on the relative merits of regulatory and marketinstruments for promoting environmental 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
About the Author :
Christopher Tollefson is an associate professor in thefaculty of law at the University of Victoria.
Review :
The ideas are dazzling, imaginative, and innovative. The authors don't pretend to have all the answers to the dilemma of how to restructure BC's most important industry. They do make a major contribution to the discussion. - Stephen Hume (The Vancouver Sun) The book contains 15 thoughtful essays on a wide range of forest policy topics, all taken from the viewpoint of foresters in British Columbia. A large part of each essay, however, has broad applicability. People more current with British Columbia than this reviewer may find the book somewhat outdated, but it remains a sophisticated and well-constructed overview for the rest of us. - John C. Gordon, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University (Journal of Industrial Ecology, Volume 5, Number 1, 2001) Recommended. - B.D. Orr (Choice May 1999)
