Two Paths Toward Sustainable Forests
Public Values in Canada and the United States
Bruce Shindler, Thomas M. Beckley and Mary Carmel Finley
6 × 9 inches. Illustrations. Index. 368 pages.
2003. ISBN 978-0-87071-561-7. Paperback, $34.95.
Two Paths toward Sustainable Forests is the first book to
examine the social and economic aspects of sustainable forestry and the
resulting impacts on resource policy in Canada and the United States.
The extraction-oriented policies that dominated forest
management in the two countries for more than a century have in recent
decades given way to new approaches. Today, the U.S. and Canada face a
common challenge: to achieve a sustainable form of forest management
that has wide public support. 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 toward potential solutions to common problems.
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.