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
- 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)
- Community forestry enterprises in Mexico: Sustainability and competitiveness (2015)
- Application of choice experiments to determine stakeholder preferences for woody biomass harvesting guidelines (2015)
- Integrated beef and wood production in Uruguay: potential and limitations (2015)
- Military perspectives on public relations related to environmental issues (2015)
- Global timber investments and trends, 2005-2011 (2014)
- Assessing independent variables used in econometric modeling forest land use or land cover change: A meta-analysis (2014)