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

• 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)
• Assessing independent variables used in econometric modeling forest land use or land cover change: A meta-analysis (2014)
• Factors driving investment in planted forests: a comparison between OECD and non-OECD countries (2014)
• A real options model to assess the role of flexibility in forestry and agroforestry adoption and disadoption in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley (2013)
• Regulating the sustainability of forest management in the Americas: Cross-country comparisons of forest legislation (2012)

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