Natural Resource Policy research at the School focuses on understanding the sociopolitical context for natural resource management and decision making. Areas of concentration include sustainable ecosystem, forest, bioenergy, and water-resources management, as well as public involvement in natural-resource-agency policy making.
Faculty Areas of Interests
Predators & ecological hotspots; Aquatic-terrestrial links; Stable isotopes in wildlife ecology; Wind energy-wildlife issues
Sampling, inventory and monitoring program design; Biomass harvesting and forest productivity; Intensive silviculture esp. Populus plantation management; Empirical, process and hybrid forest modelling
Woody bioenergy; Climate change; Natural resource policy; Water resource policy
Environmental policy and environmental science; Sociology of natural resources; Natural resource and environmental policy; Sustainability science; Landscape ecology; Diversity patterns of terrestrial vertebrates; Bird conservation
Demographic and genetic elements of population biology; Ecology of wolves and moose; Environmental ethics