FOREC 473
Forest Policy
Fall 2026
Topics
- Understand and describe important historical developments, contemporary trends, and major
Readings
- Luckert, M.K., D. Haley, and G. Hoberg. 2011. Policies for the Sustainably Managing Canada’s Forests: Tenure, Stumpage Fees and Forest Practices. UBC Press
- Franklin, J. F., Johnson, K. N., and Johnson, D. L. (2018). Ecological Forest Management. Waveland Press
- Zhang, D. and Pearse, P. H. 2026. Forest Economics. Revised and expanded edition. Van- couver: UBC Press
Fall 2021
Topics
- Deforestation
- Forest carbon sequestration
- Forest certification
- Subsistence and forest livelihoods
- Sustained yield and sustainable forest management
- Public conflicts over forest management
Readings
- Alberta Environment. 2011a. Draft Version 2.0: Quantification protocol for afforestation projects. Alberta Environment, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Alberta Environment. 2011b. Technical guidance for offset protocol developers. Version 1.0. Alberta Environment, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Apsey M., Laishley, D., Nordin, V., and G. Paillé. 2000. The Perpetual Forest: Using Lessons from the Past to Sustain Canada’s Forests in the Future. Private publisher. (English and French)
- Boyd, R.G. and W.F. Hyde. 1989. Forest Sector Intervention: The Impacts of Regulation on Social Welfare. Ames: Iowa State University Press
- Clawson, M. 1975. Forests For Whom and For What. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
- Duerr, W.A., Teeguarden, D.E., Christiansen, N.B., and S. Guttenburg. 1979. Forest Resource Management: Decision Making Principles and Cases. Philadelphia: Saunders
- Haener, M. K. and M. K. Luckert. 1998. “Forest Certification: economic issues and welfare implications”. Canadian Public Policy. Vol XXIV, supplement 2, pp. S83-S94
- Howlett, M. and J Rayner. 1995. “Do ideas matter? Policy network configurations and resistance to policy change in the Canadian forest Sector”. Canadian Public Administration. 38(3): 382-410
- Lindquist E. and A. Wellstead. 2001. Making sense of complexity: Advances and Gaps in Comprehending the Canadian Forest Policy Process. pp. 419-446. In Canadian Forest Policy: Adapting To Change. M. Howlett, Editor. University of Toronto: Toronto
- Luckert, M. K. 2014. “Economic Implications of Forest Tenures” Chapter 25, pp. 389-402 In Handbook of Forest Resource Economics, J. Alavalapati and S. Kant, editors. Earthscan from Routledge: London and New York
- Luckert, M.K., D. Haley, and G. Hoberg. 2011. Policies for the Sustainably Managing Canada’s Forests: Tenure, Stumpage Fees and Forest Practices. UBC Press: Vancouver. 228p.3
- Mayers, J. and S. Bass. 1999. Policy that Works for Forests and People. International Institute for Environment and Development. United Kingdom
- Pearce, D. and K. Brown (eds.) 1994. The Causes of Tropical Deforestation. UCL press, London
- Peters-Stanley, M., G. Gonzalez, and D. Yin. 2013. Covering New Ground: State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2013. A Report by Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace
- Schlager, E. and W. Blomquist. 1996. “A Comparison of three Emerging Theories of the Policy Process”. Political Research Quarterly. 49(3): 651-672
- Sen, A. 1995. “Rationality and Social Choice”. American Economic Review, 85(1): 1-24
- van Kooten, G. Cornelis and Grant Hauer. 2001. Global Climate Change: Canadian Policy and the Role of Terrestrial Ecosystems. Canadian Public Policy. 27(3): 267-278
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- FOREC 473 FOREST POLICY / FOREC 673 FOREST POLICY · Reading-list link; contents not retrieved ↗
- 2014-Fall-FOREC-473-LECTURE-A1 ↗2014
- 2018-Fall-FOREC-473-LECTURE-A1 ↗2018
- 2021-Fall-FOREC-473-LECTURE-A1 ↗2021
- 2026-Fall-FOREC-673-LECTURE-A1 ↗2026
- 2026-Fall-FOREC-473-LECTURE-A1 ↗2026
- Additional readings are supplied through the course LMS. Partial automated extraction.
- Targeted source-text review: Removed an uninformative Introduction download-link fragment; the full Luckert/Haley/Hoberg book citation remains elsewhere in this list. Added explicit forest-policy outline topics. No textbook required according to this source.