This volume explores theoretical and applied issues surrounding forest resource allocation. The book is divided into three main subject areas: tropical forests - environment, economics and trade; non-timber valuation - theory and application; and ecosystem management.

1: Pluralism and Pragmatism in the Pursuit of Sustainable Development, E N Castle 2: Global Environmental Value and the Tropical Forests: Demonstration and Capture, D Pearce 3: Local Timber Production and Global Trade: The Environmental Implications of Forestry Trade, R A Sedjo 4: Can Tropical Forests be Saved by Harvesting Non-Timber Products? A Case Study for Ecuador, D Southgate, M Coles-Ritchie and P Salazar-Canelos 5: Conflicts between trade and sustainable forestry policies in the Philippines, H W Wisdom 6: Measuring general public preservation values for forest resources: evidence from contingent valuation surveys, J B Loomis 7: Citizens, consumers and contingent valuation: clarification and the expression of citizen values and issue-opinions, R K Blamey 8: Moral responsibility effects in valuation of WTA for public and private goods by the method of paired comparison, G L Peterson, T C Brown, D W McCollum, P A Bell, A A Birjulin and A Clarke 9: Integrating cognitive psychology into the contingent valuation method to explore the trade-offs between non-market costs and benefits of alternative afforestation programs in Ireland, W G Hutchinson and S M Chilton 10: Valuing tropical rainforest protection using the contingent valuation method, R A Kramer, E Mercer and N Sharme 11: The safe minimum standard approach: an alternative to measuring non-use values for environmental assets? R P Berrens 12: An economic-ecological model for ecosystem management, R Mendelsohn 13: Application of a bioeconomic strategic planning model to an industrial forest in Saskatchewan, B Stewart and M Martel 14: Incentives for managing landscapes to meet non-timber goals: lessons from the Washington landscape management project, B Lippke 15: Perspectives on educating forestry professionals in an environmentally conscious age, J C Nautiyal