Full CV July 2008 - Faculty of Forestry - University of Toronto

A Session on the Environmental Good, Institutions, and Markets at the IUFRO Congress,
August 9, 2005, Brisbane, Australia: I organized this session at the XXII IUFRO World
Congress, August 7-13, 2005, Brisbane Australia. I selected five speakers for this session. The
speakers were from Cameroon, Finland, Norway, and Malaysia.
The US-Canada Forest Products Trade: A Bilateral Symposium, March 7-8, 2005, Michigan
State University, Lansing, Michigan, USA: The symposium was organised by Michigan State
University in collaboration with Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, OMNR, Michigan
Department of Natural Resources, and the Great Lakes Forest Alliance. The symposium was
financially supported by Government of Canada and USDA Forest Service Forest Products
Laboratory. I was one of the key members of the organising committee of this symposium. The
event was again very successful. All the participants recognised the importance and the appropriate
timing of the symposium. Twelve guest speakers, 15 voluntary speakers, and about 50 other
scholars participated in the symposium.
International Conference on Economics of Sustainable Forest Management, May 20-22,
2004. This was the first International Conference on the Economics of Sustainable Forest
Management. The conference was highly successful attended by about 174 participants from
about 40 countries. The unique, integrative, and visionary nature of the conference has been
recognized globally.
International Conference on Natural Capital, Poverty, and Development, Munk Centre
for International Studies, University of Toronto, September 5-8, 2001: The conference was
organized in collaboration with Prof. S. Horton, Munk Centre for International Studies, Prof. R.
Hensall and Adam Fenech, Institute for Environmental Studies, and Dr. Kirk Hamilton, World
Bank. I organized a session on Institutions, Natural Capital and Development.
Workshop on Research Issues, Strategies and Partnerships for Sustainable Forest
Management: Northwestern Ontario and Beyond, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Feb 24-26,
2001: This workshop was organized in collaboration with the University of Manitoba and the
University of Alberta, and the workshop was sponsored by the SFMN, Edmonton, Alberta. The
main objective of the workshop was to bring the researchers from Sustainable Forest
Management Network Sustainable Aboriginal Communities Initiative projects in north western
Ontario as well as SFM Network researchers from across Canada, and their partners together and
share their views and research. The workshop provided a unique opportunity for all the
stakeholders, forest industries, Aboriginal People, OMNR, and environmental groups, in north
western Ontario to share their views on forest management
8.3 Other Scholarly Services to the Profession:
8.3.1. Referee for Scientific Journals
Worked as a referee for articles submitted to the following journals: Agro Forestry Systems,
Australian Journal of Agriculture Economics, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Ecological
Economics, Environmental Management, Environment and Development Economics, Forestry
Chronicle, FORSTARCHIV, Forest Science, Forest Ecology and Management, Forest Policy and
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