"The Wealth of Forests is a pioneering attempt to grapple with the policy implications of the transition to sustainable forestry. While much has been written on the theory and practice of sustainable forestry and on the relative merits of regulatory versus market approaches to environmental protection, these literatures have not as yet been bridged. Using illustrations based on recent developments in British Columbia forest policy, this collection provides that bridge by analyzing the potential and limits of market, regulatory, and other policy instruments as means of achieving sustainability." "Featuring new work by many of Canada's leading forest policy scholars, this interdisciplinary collection is devoted to translating the concept of sustainability into practice in key areas of forest policy, including tenure, timber pricing, forest practices, land-use zoning, and eco-certification."--BOOK JACKET.
Pt. 1. Introduction -- 1. Introduction / Chris Tollefson -- Pt. 2. Perspectives on Sustainable Forestry -- 2. Economic Instruments for Promoting Sustainable Forestry: Opportunities and Constraints / Peter H. Pearse -- 3. Governing Instruments for Forest Policy in British Columbia: A Positive and Normative Analysis / W. T. Stanbury and Ilan B. Vertinsky -- 4. Compliance and Constraint: Economic Instruments in Context / Rod Dobell -- 5. Structural Instruments and Sustainable Forests: A Political Ecology Approach / Michael M'Gonigle -- Pt. 3. Sustainable Forestry Policy: Lessons from British Columbia -- 6. Tenures as Economic Instruments for Achieving Objectives of Public Forest Policy in British Columbia / David Haley and Martin K. Luckert -- 7. Living Communities in a Living Forest: Towards an Ecosystem-Based Structure of Local Tenure and Management / Michael M'Gonigle -- 8. Timber Pricing Policies and Sustainable Forestry / Brian L. Scarfe -- 9. Sustainable Practices? An Analysis of BC's Forest Practices Code / Tracey Cook -- 10. Priority-Use Zoning: Sustainable Solution or Symbolic Politics? / Jererny Rayner -- 11. Sustained Yield: Why Has It Failed to Achieve Sustainability? / Lois H. Dellert -- 12. The Pitfalls and Potential of Eco-Certification as a Market Incentive for Sustainable Forest Management / Fred Gale and Cheri Burda -- Pt. 4. Legal Barriers to Sustainable Forestry -- 13. Regulation, Takings, Compensation, and the Environment: An Economic Perspective / David Cohen and Brian Radnoff -- 14. Ecoforestry Bound: How International Trade Agreements Constrain the Adoption of an Ecosystem-Based Approach to Forest Management / Fred Gale -- Pt. 5. Conclusion -- 15. Conclusion / Chris Tollefson.
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