Fred Cubbage
Professor
Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources
Jordan Hall 3118B
Area(s) of Expertise
Forest Policy, Economics, and Certification
Education
B.S. Iowa State University (1974)
M.S. University of Minnesota (1978)
Ph.D. University of Minnesota (1981)
Research Interests
Forest resource policy, timber production and harvesting economics, forest certification, and sustainable forest management.
Dr. Cubbage is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Forests and Forestry in the Americas, an ongoing, web-based encyclopedia that will have approximately 300 separate entries, contributed by forest and natural resource scholars and experts.
Courses
FOR 319/FOR 595 – Forest Economics (syllabus)
FOR 509 – Forest Resource Policy (syllabus and readings)
NR 460/NR 595 – Renewable Resource Management and Policy (syllabus)
Additional Links of Interest
Chronology of US Natural Resource and Environmental History, Laws, and Agencies, 2015
Natural Resource Policy – Chapter Outline (2 Dec, 2014;V10)
Publications
- Assessing market power in the US pulp and paper industry (2019)
- Competitiveness, certification, and support of timber harvest by community forest enterprises in Mexico (2019)
- Diverse strategies for integration of forestry and livestock production (2019)
- Evaluating natural resource planning for longleaf pine ecosystems in the Southeast United States (2019)
- Logging Contractors' Growth in the Southern Cone: An Analysis of Contractor Business Strategies, Innovation, and Mechanization (2019)
- Modeling the Financial Potential of Silvopasture Agroforestry in Eastern North Carolina and Northeastern Oregon (2019)
- Projecting Global and Regional Forest Area under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways Using an Updated Environmental Kuznets Curve Model (2019)
- Projecting global planted forest area developments and the associated impacts on global forest product markets (2019)
- Financial analysis and comparison of smallholder forest and state forest enterprise plantations in Central Vietnam (2018)
- Hunting in Afghanistan: variation in motivations across species (2018)