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
- Financial analysis and comparison of smallholder forest and state forest enterprise plantations in Central Vietnam (2018)
- What is private land stewardship? Lessons from agricultural opinion leaders in North Carolina (2018)
- Soil carbon fractions from an alluvial soil texture gradient in North Carolina (2017)
- Recycling, certification, and international trade of paper and paperboard: Demand in Germany and the United States (2017)
- Does forest certification in developing countries have environmental benefits? Insights from Mexican corrective action requests (2017)
- An analysis of non-state and state approaches for forest certification in Mexico (2017)
- Examining forest governance in the United States through the Montreal Process Criteria and Indicators Framework (2017)
- Greenhouse gas emissions in an agroforestry system of the southeastern USA (2017)
- Timberland investment management organizations: Business strategies in forest plantations in Brazil (2017)
- Locational determinants for wood pellet plants: A review and case study of North and South America (2016)