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)
• 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 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)
• What is private land stewardship? Lessons from agricultural opinion leaders in North Carolina (2018)
• Does forest certification in developing countries have environmental benefits? Insights from Mexican corrective action requests (2017)

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