"Sustainable management is a problem for countries that depend on natural resources. Forests contain most of the world's biodiversity and offer significant renewable resources with a potentially small ecological and carbon footprint. Yet the global demand for forest products has increased while...

Institutional dynamics and natural resource management / Alexander Smajgl and Silva Larson -- Institutional diversity and contextual change -- Multiple institutions for multiple outcomes / Elinor Ostrom -- The challenge of maintaining the salience of common property rights with increasing...

Forest resources are an ideal starting point for economic analysis of sustainability. In this book, leading economists discuss key aspects of sustainability and sustainable forest management including complexity, ethical issues, consumer choice theory, intergenerational equity, non-convexities,...