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In recent decades, new scientific information has transformed our understanding of forest ecosystems, driving forest policy changes in both Canada and the United States. The extraction-oriented policies that dominated forest management for more than a century have given way to new approaches, leading often to acrimonious public debate, controversy over the interpretation of science, and frequent litigation by groups who support conflicting points of view. Today, the U.S. and Canada face a common challenge: to achieve a sustainable form of forest management that has wide public support. Many books discuss the scientific changes underlying forest policy, but this is the first to examine the social and economic aspects of sustainable forestry and the resulting impacts on resource policy in the two countries. The authors attempt to make sense of citizens' expectations for forests, and the responses by public-land managers and policymakers. Contributors include sociologists, research foresters, economists, political scientists, and geographers, as well as scholars in recreation and tourism. Together, their writings provide an in-depth interdisciplinary perspective on Canadian and U.S. efforts to manage public forests on a sustainable basis. The premise of "Two Paths toward Sustainable Forests is that academics and students, resource professionals, policymakers, and members of industry, environmental, and forest community groups can benefit from a comparison of the situations on either side of the border. By comparing the challenges of sustainable forestry and the different approaches adopted in Canada and the U.S., this book points the way towards potential solutions to common problems.

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Book category Books in English Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning The environment Environmental management

• Full title: Two Paths Toward Sustainable Forests
• Subtitle: Public Values in Canada and the United States
• Author: Bruce Shindler, Thomas M. Beckley, Mary Carmel Finley
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277
• EAN: 9780870715617
• ISBN: 0870715615
• ID: 11560120
• Publisher: Oregon State University
• Weight: 494 g
• Dimensions: 226 × 150 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. December 2003

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