In 1994,
the second to last semester of my
graduation from the University of
British Columbia, I applied for four
faculty position. When I get the phone
call from Auburn University at that time
is called School of Forestry for
interview. I did not know where Auburn
was. I went to the library and studied
as much as I could about Auburn
University and about Alabama and become
a factory member later in 1994.
Forest covers onethird of the global
land and we are still deforesting about
5 million hectares of forest every year
globally. that's has a major major
impact on CO2 emission, global
um climate change and most importantly
it affect the livelihood of hundreds of
millions of people. I was a forester at
the very beginning of my anog studies.
At that time I thought if we can
increase the efficiency we use the sun
and use increase the photosynthesis
efficiency we can solve all of the
world's most of the problems. I saw a
lot of barren
land in China and I puzzled myself
why
there so much forest land do not grow
trees. What made people do not plant
plant trees over there is actually its
economics and that's when I realized
that economics and politics are more
important than the technical side of
force. I studied different property
right arrangement. Uh what's those
arrangement? What's the impact on forest
management such as pre-planting such as
of the force management activity such as
timber harvesting there is a big change
in ownership class. There is a
separation of industry timberland
ownership in the last three decades. all
a shift from industry timberland
ownership to institutional templan
ownership
and this book is about the history the
economics and the impact of this
ownership change and also it looks for
the future. My name is Dawi Jang
George Pik, professor of forest
economics and policy and associate team
for research at the college of forestry,
wildlife and environment. I'm the
recipient of creative research and
scholarship award. Last but not the
least, I'm a dieh hard open fan of
everything. Basketball, football,
baseball, golf, you name it. Everything
in me is war ego.