1 Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction
6. Introduction 3
7. Perspectives on Sustainable Forestry
8. Economic Instruments for Promoting Sustainable Forestry: Opportunities and Constraints 19
9. Governing Instruments for Forest Policy in British Columbia: A Positive and Normative Analysis 42
10. Compliance and Constraint: Economic Instruments in Context 78
11. Structural Instruments and Sustainable Forests: A Political Ecology Approach 102
12. Sustainable Forestry Policy: Lessons from British Columbia
13. Tenures as Economic Instruments for Achieving Objectives of Public Forest Policy in British Columbia 123
14. Living Communities in a Living Forest: Towards an Ecosystem-Based Structure of Local Tenure and Management 152
15. Timber Pricing Policies and Sustainable Forestry 186
16. Sustainable Practices? An Analysis of BC’s Forest Practices Code 204
17. Priority-Use Zoning: Sustainable Solution or Symbolic Politics? 232
18. Sustained Yield: Why Has It Failed to Achieve Sustainability? 255
19. The Pitfalls and Potential of Eco-Certification as a Market Incentive for Sustainable Forest Management 278
20. Legal Barriers to Sustainable Forestry
21. Regulation, Takings, Compensation, and the Environment: An Economic Perspective 299
22. Ecoforestry Bound: How International Trade Agreements Constrain the Adoption of an Ecosystem-Based Approach to Forest Management 342
23. Conclusion
24. Conclusion 373
25. Contributors 384
26. Index 387