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; Vertebrate habitat ecology; Conservation ethics
Silviculture, Quantitative Silviculture, and Growth & Yield; Populus silviculture, growth and yield, and simulation modelling; Forest productivity and soil sustainability; Empirical, process and hybrid forest modelling; Sampling, inventory and monitoring program design; Forest Biometrics and Mensuration
Woody bioenergy; Climate change; Natural resource policy; Water resource policy; Bioenergy policy
Environmental and Natural Resources Policy; Sustainability science; Landscape ecology; Biodiversity and Conservation; International Trade; Information Theory
Demographic and genetic elements of population biology; Ecology of wolves and moose; Environmental ethics