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Institutions, Sustainability, and Natural Resources

Institutions for Sustainable Forest Management

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  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. Shashi Kant

    1. Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, Canada

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  2. R. Albert Berry

    1. Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, Canada

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Part of the book series: Sustainability, Economics, and Natural Resources (SENR, volume 2)

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A new economic theory, rather than a new public policy based on old theory, is needed to guide humanity toward sustainability. Institutions are a critical dimension of sustainability and sustainable forest management, and economic analysis of institutional dimension requires an inclusionist rather than an exclusionist approach. This book provides a systematic critique of neoclassical economic approaches and their limitations with respect to sustainability. Leading institutional economists discuss theoretical perspectives about appropriate institutions for sustainable forest management, markets for environmental services, deforestation and specialization, and some country experiences about Kyoto Protocol, international trade, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable forest management in general. The book includes the ideas from old as well as new institutional economics and discusses the main features of Post-Newtonian economics.

This book follows a companion book, Economics, Sustainability, and Natural Resources: Economics of Sustainable Forest Management, volume 1 of the series.

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Sustainability, Institutions, and Forest Management

    • Shashi Kant, R. Albert Berry
    Pages 1-20

  3. In Search of Optimal Institutions for Sustainable Forest Management: Lessons from Developed and Developing Countries

    • M.K. Marty Luckert
    Pages 21-42

  4. Modern Economic Theory and the Challenge of Embedded Tenure Institutions: African Attempts to Reform Local Forest Policies

    • Mariteuw Chimère Diaw
    Pages 43-81

  5. Organizations, Institutions, External Setting and Institutional Dynamics

    • Shashi Kant, R. Albert Berry
    Pages 83-113

  6. Valuing Forest Ecosystems — An Institutional Perspective

    • Arild Vatn
    Pages 115-134

  7. The Great Tragedy of Science: Sustainable Forest Management and Markets for Environmental Services

    • Clark S. Binkley
    Pages 135-139

  8. The Kyoto Protocol: Property Rights and Efficiency of Markets

    • Graciela Chichilnisky
    Pages 141-154

  9. Deforestation and Population Increase

    • John M. Hartwick
    Pages 155-191

  10. Limitations of Sustainable Forest Management: An Economics Perspective

    • William F. Hyde
    Pages 193-210

  11. Sustainable Forestry in a World of Specialization and Trade

    • Roger A. Sedjo
    Pages 211-231

  12. Forest Carbon Sinks: A Temporary and Costly Alternative to Reducing Emissions for Climate Change Mitigation

    • G. Van Cornelis Kooten, Alison J. Eagle
    Pages 233-255

  13. The International Trade and Environmental Regime and the Sustainable Management of Canadian Forests

    • Harry Nelson, Ilan Vertinsky
    Pages 257-295

  14. Sustainable Forest Management: Ciriacywantrup’s Definition of Conservation in Today’s Forest Resource Context

    • William R. Bentley, Richard W. Guldin
    Pages 297-309

  15. Stakes, Suspicions and Synergies in Sustainable Forest Management—the Asian Experience

    • Cherukat Chandrasekharan
    Pages 311-339

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 357-361
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, Canada

    Shashi Kant

  • Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, Canada

    R. Albert Berry

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