Shashi Kant
Editorial Board, Forest Ecosystems
University of Toronto, Canada
University of Toronto, Canada
Dr. Shashi Kant is a professor of forest resource economics and management and the founding director of the master of science in Sustainability Management (MScSM) Program at the University of Toronto. His research has been focused on extending the boundaries of forest economics beyond the economics of timber and includes economics of sustainable forest management. He has published five books and more than 100 refereed journal articles and book chapters. He is leading a global think tank called New Frontiers of Forest Economics (NEFFE), and is editor-in-chief of a book series, Sustainability, Economics and Natural Resources. He has served as associate editor of Forest Ecosystems, the Canadian Journal of Forest Research and the Journal of Forest Economics, and has guest-edited five special volumes of Forest Policy and Economics. He is the Coordinator of IUFRO Research Group on Forest Economics. He is recipient of many awards including the Order of Ontario, and the Queen?s Award for Forestr.
Areas of expertise: Aboriginal values; Ecological economics; Experimental economics; Forest economics; Life satisfaction approach; Valuation of ecosystem services