Publications
Infinite Nature
This work by R. Bruce Hull (Chicago 2006), critiques environmental
fundamentalism and helps us find pragmatic solutions to
environmental problems.
In this impassioned and judicious work, R. Bruce Hull argues that
environmentalism will never achieve its goals unless it sheds its
fundamentalist logic. The movement is too bound up in polarizing
ideologies that pit humans against nature, conservation against
development, and government regulation against economic growth. Only
when we acknowledge the infinite perspectives on how people should
relate to nature will we forge solutions that are respectful to both
humanity and the environment. For further information:
http://publicecology.org/infinitenature/index.html
An assessment of forest change on the
Cumberland Plateau in Southern Tennessee
This study was completed
in 3/2002. PDF copy of full report, executive summary and maps
can be downloaded.
Principle researcher Jonathan
Evans, with Neil Pelkey and David Haskell.
Native forests of the
Southern U.S. are currently undergoing dramatic changes due to
shifting patterns in land use. Urban sprawl and
the conversion of native hardwood forests to pine plantations
have emerged as dominant forces and predicted to be major causes
of
native forest loss into the future (US Forest Service).
Click here to link to publication The Southern Forest Resource Assessment
this study
was initiated in 1999
by the US Forest Service in response
to growing concerns raised by the public, natural resource managers,
and the science community concern regarding the status and likely
future of forests in the South. The two-year study, released
on November 26, 2001, contains useful information on the likely
future
of Southern forests if current trends within the wood products
industry continue.
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Western Forestry Law Study:
Interviews with Western Forestry Experts
By: Dr. Nancy Gilliam
Executive Director
Model Forest Policy Program
In the summer of 2000, concerned about increased logging in the
Eastern United States coupled with minimal state forestry regulations,
the author interviewed activists and foresters in the Pacific
Northwest primarily involved with state forestry practice laws.
The initial
goal of such interviews was to craft an ideal forestry practices
act based on the experience of activists in other states. A secondary
goal that evolved out of the interviews was a need for more communication,
from state to state, about this issue.
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publication
Addressing Economic Issues in Forest Practices Legislative Campaigns
By Spencer Phillips, Ph.D.
Senior Resource Economist
The Wilderness Society
The author presented this at the 2004 annual Forest Summit by
Model Forest Policy Program. Dr. Phillips does not intend this
to be
an encyclopedic set of facts that can address every economic
argument regarding forest practices regulation. Instead, the
intent is to
provide awareness, or a filter, by which one can consider and
respond to those arguments.
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Summary of Costs of Forest Practice
Regulation
In Five Representative States in 1991
(Source: Ellefson, et al. 1995)
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Running Pure - Protecting Forests Can Provide Cities with
Cleaner, Cheaper Water
By World Bank/World Wildlife Fund Alliance
An Alliance study shows that protecting forest areas can provide
a cost-effective means of supplying many of the world's biggest
cities with high quality drinking water, providing significant
health and economic benefits to urban populations.
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