- Alumni & George Peake Jr. Professor,
Forest Economics and Policy, School of Forestry and Wildlife
Sciences, Auburn University, 2011-
- Professor, School of Forestry and
Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, 2003-2011
- Associate Professor, School of Forestry
and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, 1999-2003
- Assistant Professor and Forest Extension
Specialist, School of Forestry, Auburn University, 1994-1999
- Research and Teaching Assistant, Faulty
of Forestry, University of British Columbia, 1990-1994
- Research and Teaching Assistant, School
of Forestry, Lakehead University, 1989-1990
- Project Manager, Department of
International Cooperation, State Investment Corporation of Forestry,
1988-89
- Staff member, Ministry of
Forestry, 1984-1986
Primary
Interests
Economic and policy aspects of natural resource
management: Property rights, environmental regulations, institutional economics,
political economy, private forest management, forest products trade, land use, forest-based
economic development, forest investment and finance, and international forestry
Current
Research
- Institutional timberland investment
- Economics of forest ecosystem services (biodiversity and
wetland
conservation)
- Policy process
- Forest products trade
Previous
Research
- Environmental
regulations and property rights laws: Implication for forest land use and
management
- The political economy
of U.S.-Canada forest products trade
- Urbanization, tax policy, and land use changes
- Wildfire economics
- Timberland valuation and appraisals
- Vertical welfare
distribution in forest industry
- Cause and continuation of state forestry incentive programs
- Market, policy, and forest plantation development in the
U.S.
- Property rights and forest management in British Columbia,
Canada
- Inward and outward foreign investment: U.S. and Canadian
forest industry
- Non-industrial private landowner assistance and forest
management
- State property rights law
- U.S. wood products export to China
- Resources, government policy, and forest industry
investment location
- Community Forestry
- Market-oriented reform in China's forestry sector
Outreach
Activities
Developing programs and publications to meet the
information needs for forest products industry, private forest landowners, and relevant
pubic agencies on forest economics and policy matters.
Teaching
Activities
Forest Policy, Forest Economics, Forest Industry Economics,
Natural Resource Economics, Advanced Forest Policy,
Advanced Forest Economics
Journal
Publications
Zhang, D., Y. Lin, and J Prestemon. Forthcoming. From
Deficit to Surplus: An Econometric Analysis of U.S. Forest Products
Trade. Forest Science.
Zhang D., Y. Lin, D. Sasatani.
Forthcoming. Dealing with the Housing Crisis: A Study on Softwood
Sawmills in the Southern U.S. Forest Products Journal.
Parajuli, R.,
D. Zhang. Forthcoming. An Econometric Study of the
Hardwood Sawtimber Stumpage Market in Louisiana. Forest Products
Journal.
Zhang,
D. 2016. Payments for Forest-based Environmental Services: A
Close Look. Forest Policy and Economics 72: 78-84.
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Parajuli, R.,
D. Zhang, and S. J. Chang. 2016. Modeling Stumpage
Markets Using Vector Error Correction vs. Simultaneous Equation
Estimation Approach: A Case of the Louisiana Sawtimber Market. Forest
Policy and Economics 70:16-19.
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Zhang,
D., and Parajuli. 2016. Policy Impacts Estimates Are Sensitive
to Data Selection in Empirical Analysis: Evidence from the United
States-Canada Softwood Lumber Trade Dispute. Canadian Journal of Forest
Research 46: 1343-1347. PDF file
Parajuli, R.,
and D. Zhang. 2016. Welfare Impacts of the 2006 United
States-Canada Softwood Lumber Agreement. Canadian Journal of Forest
Research 46: 950-958. PDF file
Jiang, H., D. Zhang, and W. Wei.
2016. Managerial Behavior and Financial Performance of China’s
State-Owned Forest Enterprises. International Forestry Review 18(2):
192-202. PDF file
Parajuli, R., and D. Zhang. 2016.
Price Linkages between Spot and Futures Markets for Softwood Lumber.
Forest Science. 62(5): 482-489. PDF
file
Zhang,
D., A. Stenger, and P.A. Harou. 2015. Policy Instruments for
Developing Planted Forests: Theory and Practices in China, the U.S.,
Brazil, and France. Journal of Forest Economics 21: 223-237.
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Sasatani. D.,
and D. Zhang. 2015. The Pattern of Softwood Sawmill
Closures in US South: A Survival Analysis. Forest Science 61(4/5):
635-643. PDF file
Zhang,
D., X. Sun, B. Butler, and J. Prestemon. 2015. Harvesting Choices and Timber Supply among Landowners
in the Southern United States. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics
60(3); 409-429.
PDF file
Sasatani. D.,
and D. Zhang. 2015. A Review and Quantitative Analysis
of Southern Yellow Pine in Japanese Housing and Decking Markets. Forest
Products Journal 65(5/6): 239-246. PDF
file
Sun,
X., D. Zhang, and B. Butler. 2015. Timberland Ownerships and
Reforestation in the Southern United States.
Forest Science 61(2): 336-343.
PDF file
Zhang,
D., and A. Stenger. 2014.
Value and Valuation of Forest Ecosystem Services. Journal of Environmental
Economics and Policy. DOI:
10.1080/21606544.2014.980852
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Zhang, L., Z. Zhang,
K. Zhang, Z. Zhang, X. Chen, S. Zhou, G. Dai, and
D. Zhang. 2014. Long-term Timber Supply from State-owned Forests in
Northeastern China.
International Forestry Review 16(3): 310-318.
PDF file
Zhang, D
..,
and A. Stenger. 2014.
Timber Insurance: Perspectives from A Legal Case and A Review of Practices in
the World.
New Zealand Journal of Forest Research 44(Suppl 1): S9.
PDF file
Li, Y., and
D. Zhang. 2014.
Industrial Timberland Ownership and Financial Performance of U.S. Forest
Products Firms. Forest Science 60(3): 569-578.
PDF file
Zhang,
D., and X. Sun 2013.
Assistance Foresters and Nonindustrial Private Forest Management in Alabama.
Southern Journal of Applied
Forestry
37(4): 189-195.
PPDF file
Kant, S., S. Wang, P. Deegen, M. Hostettler, R. von Detten, T. Howard, D. Laband,
C. Montgomery, N. Robert, W. Sekot, G. Valatin, and
D. Zhang. 2013. New Frontiers in
Forest Economics. Forest Policy and
Economics 35: 1-8.
PDF file
Harou, P., C. Cheng,
and
D. Zhang.
2013. The Alternate Test in Forestry.
Forest Policy and Economics
34: 31-46.
PDF file
Zhang, D.,
L. Meng, and M. Polyakov. 2013. Determinants of the Prices of Bare Forestlands
and Pre-merchantable Timber Stands: A Spatial Hedonic Study.
Forest Science
59(4): 400-406.
PDF file
Nagubadi, R.V., and
D. Zhang.
2013. U.S. Imports for Canadian Softwood Lumber in the Context of
Trade Dispute: A Co-integration Approach.
Forest Science
59(5): 517-523.
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Zhang, D.,
B. Butler, and R. Nagubadi. 2012.
Institutional Timberland Ownership in the U.S. South, Magnitude, Location,
Dynamics, and Management. Journal of
Forestry 110(7): 355-361.
PDF file
Meng, L., and
D. Zhang.
2013.
Impacts of Property Tax on Land Use Change Decisions in Georgia.
Urban Ecosystems 16: 3-12.
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Godwin, J., and
D.
Zhang. 2012.
Political Pressure: An Examination of U.S. Senators’
Actions in Restricting Canadian Softwood Lumber Imports.
Canadian Journal of Agricultural
Economics 60(2):263-272.
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Babula, R.A.,
D. Zhang, and J.P. Rothenberg. 2012.
A Dynamic Model of Monthly Demand Model of U.S. Produced Softwood Lumber with a
Futures Market Linkage. Journal of International Agricultural Trade and
Development
8(2): 149-164.
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Nagubadi, R.V., and
D. Zhang. 2011. Bilateral Foreign Direct Investment
in Forest Industry between the U.S. and Canada. Forest Policy and Economics
13(5): 338-344.
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Sun, X., and
D. Zhang. 2011. An Event Analysis of Industrial
Timberland Sales on Shareholder Values of Major U.S. Forest Products Firms.
Forest
Policy and Economics 13(5):
396-401.
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Majumdar,
S., D. Zhang,
and Y. Zhang. 2011. Estimating Regional Softwood Lumber Supply in the United
States Using Seemingly Unrelated Regression.
Forest Products Journal
60(7/8): 709-714.
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Zhang, D..,
and M. Polyakov. 2010. The Geographical Distribution of Plantation Forests and
Land Resources Potentially Available for Pine Plantation in the U.S. South.
Biomass and Bioenery
34(12):1631-1642.
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Nagubadi, R., and D. Zhang.
2010. Urbanization Effects of Timberland Ownership Class: A Modified Multinomial
Logit Analysis.
Southern Journal of Applied Forestry
34(3):101-109.
PDF file
Nagubadi, R., H. Thompson, and D. Zhang.
2009. Productivity, Imports, and Softwood Lumber Dispute Phases.
International Trade Journal
23(3): 301-324.
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Zhang, D., and
Y. Li. 2009.
Forest Endowment, Logging Restrictions, and China’s Wood
Products Trade.
China Economic Review 20: 46-53. PPDF
file
Polyakov, M., and D. Zhang.
2008. Population Gravity and Land Use Change at Watershed Level.
Journal of Agricultural and Applied
Economics
40(2): 649-666.
PDF file
Li,
Y., D. Zhang,
and R. Nagubadi. 2008. Productivity in the U.S. and Canadian Sawmill Industries: A
Nonparametric Programming Analysis.
Forest Products Journal 58(12): 33-40.
PDF file
Nagubadi, R., and D. Zhang.
2008.
Foreign direct investment outflows in the forest products
industry: the case of the United States and Japan. International Forestry Review
10(4):
632-640.
PDF file
Zhang, D.,
H. Wang, and J. Cao. 2008. An Analysis of China’s Forest Resource Valuation
Guidelines: In Comparison and Contrast with A Legal Case in the United States.
Forest Economics (in Chinese) 189: 74-79.
PDF file
Polyakov, M., and D. Zhang.
2008. Property Tax and Land Use Change.
Land Economics 84(3): 396-408.
PDF file
Li, Y., and
D. Zhang. 2008. A Gravity
Model Analysis of China’s Pulp and Paper Products Trade.
TAPPI Journal 91(9): 28-32.
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Li, Y., and D.
Zhang. 2008. A Spatial Panel Data
Analysis of Tree Planting in the U.S. South. Sothern Journal of Applied
Forestry
31(4): 175-182.
PDF file
Zhang, D.,
and E. Owiredu. 2007. Land Tenure, Market and the
Establishment of Forest Plantations in Ghana. Forest Policy and Economics
9: 602-610. PDF
file
Nagubadi, R., and D. Zhang. 2006.
Production Structure and Input Substitution in Canadian Sawmill and Wood
Preservation Industry. Canadian Journal of
Forest Research
36: 3007-3014.
PDF file
Zhang, D
., and R. Nagubadi. 2006. Total Factor Productivity Growth in Sawmills and
Wood Preservation Industry in the U.S. and Canada: A Comparative Study. Forest Science
52(5): 511-521.
PDF file
Li,
Y., and D. Zhang. 2006.
Incidence
of the 1996 U.S.-Canada Softwood Lumber Agreement among Landowners, Loggers, and
Lumber Manufacturers in the U.S. South.
Forest Science
52(4): 422-431.
PDF
file
Nagubadi, R., and D. Zhang. 2006.
Competitiveness in the Sawmills and Wood Preservation Industry in the United
States and Canada.
Forest Science
52(4):340-352.
PDF file
Zhang, D
. 2006.
Property Rights Reform in State-Owned Forest Enterprises: An Inquiry. Forest
Economics
(in Chinese) 162: 16-21 & 167: 13-19.
PDF file
Sun, C., and D.
Zhang. 2006. Timber Harvesting Margins in the South U.S.: A Temporal and
Spatial Analysis. Forest Science
52(2): 273-280.
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Laband, D.,
and D. Zhang. 2006.
Citations, Publications, and Perceptions-Based Rankings of the Research Impact
of North American Forestry Programs.
Journal of Forestry 104(5): 254-261. PDPDF file
Bhattarai, G.R., U.
Hatch, and D. Zhang. 2006. Measuring Socioeconomic Influences on Land Use
Distribution at Watershed Level: A Multinomial Logit Analysis. International
Journal of Ecology andem> Development 4(6): 23-34.
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Zhang, D
.,
A. Hussian, and J. Armstrong. 2006. Supply of Hunting Leases in Alabama. Human Dimension of Wildlife 11(1): 1-14.
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Zhang, D. 2006.
Welfare
Impacts of the 1996 U.S.-Canada Softwood Lumber
Agreement: An Update.
Canadian
Journal of Forest Research
36: 255-261.
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Brown, R.M., and Zhang, D.
2005.
Estimating Supply Elasticity for Disaggregated
Paper Products: A Primal Approach.
Forest Science 51(6):
570-577.
PDF
File
Zhang,
Y.
D. Zhang,, and J. Shelhas. 2005.
Small-scale Non-industrial Private Forest Ownership in the United States:
Rationale and Implications for Forest Management. Silva Fennica 39(3):
443-454.
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Brown, R.M., and Zhang, D.
2005.
The Sustainable Forestry Initiative’s Impact on
U.S. South Stumpage Markets. Canadian
Journal of Forest Research 35: 2056-2064.
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Mehmood, S. and D. Zhang. 2005. Determinants of Forest Landowner Participation in the Endangered
Species Act Safe Harbor Program. Human Dimension of Wildlife
10: 249-257. PDF File
.
2002. Safe
Harbor
for the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker: Private Landowners Share their Views.
Journal of
Forestry
100 (July/August): 24-29.
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Mehmood,
S., and D. Zhang. 2002. Causes for
Continuation of State Cost-Share Program for Nonindustrial
Private
Forest
Landowners. Forest
Science 48(3): 471-478.
PDF file
Zhang,
D. 2001.
Welfare Impacts of the 1996 U.S.-Canada Softwood Lumber Agreements. Canadian
Journal of Forest
Research 31(11): 1958-1967.
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Zhang,
D.,
and W. Flick. 2001. Sticks, Carrots, and Reforestation Investment.
Land Economics 77(3): 443-56.
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Sun,
C., and D. Zhang. 2001. Forest Resources, Government Policy and the
Investment Location Decisions of Forest
Products Industry in the Southern
United States. Forest
Science
47 (2): 169-77.
PDF file
Zhang,
D..
2001. Faustmann in An Uncertain Policy Environment. Forest
Policy and Economics
2: 203-10.
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Mehmood,
S., and D. Zhang. 2001. A Roll Analysis of Endangered Species Act Amendments.
American Journal of Agricultural
Economics 883(3):
501-12.
PDF
file
Zhang,
D.,
and S. Mehmood. 2001. Predicting Non-industrial
Private Forest
Landowners Choices of A Forester in Harvesting and Tree Planting Assistance in Alabama.
Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 25(3):
101-107.
PDF file
Sun,
C., and D. Zhang. 2001.
Assessing the Financial Performance of
Forestry-related Investment Vehicles:
Capital Asset Pricing
Model vs. Arbitrage Pricing Theory. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 83(3): 617-28.
PDF file
Zhang,
D.,
and C. Sun. 2001. U.S.-Canada Trade Disputes and Softwood Lumber Price Volatility.
Forest
Products Journal 51(4): 21-27.
PDF file
Zhang,
D. 2001. Why So Much Forestland in China Would Not Grow Trees? Management World (in Chinese) 3: 120-25.
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Mehmood,
S., and D. Zhang. 2001.
Forest Parcelization in the United
States:
A Study of Contributing Factors. Journal of
Forestry 99(4): 30-34.
PDF file
Jiang,
H., and D. Zhang. 2000.
Forest
Investment Incentives and Property Rights. Agricultural Technical Economics (in
Chinese) 1: 8-18.
PDF file
Zhang, D.., J. Liu, J. Granskog,
and J. Gan. 1998. China: Changing Wood Products Markets. Forest Products
Journal 49
(6): 14-20.
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Zhang, D., S. Warren, and C.
Bailey. 1998. The Role of Assistance Foresters on Nonindustrial Private Forest Management:
Alabama Landowners Perspective. Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 22(2):
101-05.
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Binkley, C.S., and
D. Zhang.
1998. The Impact of Timber-Fee Increases on B.C. Forest Products Companies: An Economic
and Policy Analysis. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 28(4): 617-35.
PDF file
Zhang, D., and P.H. Pearse.
1997. The Influence of the Form of Tenure on Reforestation in British Columbia.
Forest
Ecology and Management 98: 239-50.
PDF file
Zhang, D. 1997. Inward and
Outward Foreign Investment: The Case of U.S. Forest Industry. Forest Products Journal 47(5): 29-35.
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Zhang, D., and P. H. Pearse.
1996. Differences in Silvicultural Investment under Various Types of Forest Tenure in
British Columbia. Forest Science 44(4): 442-49.
PDF file
Zhang, D. 1996. State Property
Rights Laws: What, Where, and How? Journal of Forestry 94(4): 10-15.
PDF file
Flick, W.A., R. Tufts, and
D. Zhang.
1996. Sweet Home as Forest Policy. Journal of Forestry 94(4): 4-8.
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Zhang, D. 1996. Forest Tenures
and Land Value in British Columbia. Journal of Forest Economics 2(1): 1-23.
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Zhang, D., and C.S. Binkley.
1995. The Economic Impacts of Forest Policy Change in British Columbia: An Event Study.
Canadian
Journal of Forest Research 25(6): 978-86.
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Pearse, P.H.,
D. Zhang, and J. Leitch. 1995. Trends in Foreign Investment in Canada's Forest Industry. Canadian
Business Economics 3(3): 54-68.
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Zhang, D., and C.S. Binkley.
1994. Informational Efficiency and Log Storage Returns of Vancouver Log Market.
Canadian
Journal of Forest Research 24(4): 550-57.
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Duinker P. N., P. W. Matakala, and
D.
Zhang. 1991. Community Forestry and Its Implications for Northern Ontario.
The
Forestry Chronicle 67(2): 131-35.
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Zhang, D. 1988. Raising Timber
Price and Revitalizing National Forest Industry Enterprises. Forestry Economics
(in Chinese) 43: 45-49.
Zhang, D. 1988. Geography of
Chinas Economic Forests. Economic Forest Research (in Chinese)
7: 65-71.
Zhang, D. 1987. Macro-scope
Forestry Management in China: Challenge and Strategy. Forestry Work Research
(in Chinese) 11 (7): 24-30.
Book & Chapters
Zhang, D. forthcoming. Economics of Reforestation. In Maisie Heine (ed.). Oxford
Encyclopedia of Environmental Economics.
Liu, J., C. H., L. Meng, Y, Gong (translator) and D. Zhang (reviewer). 2013.
Forest Economics (in Chinese) Chinese Forestry Publishing House.
Zhang, D.
, and P.H. Pearse.
2011. Forest Resource Economics. UBC
Press, Vancouver, Canada.
Order form
Review #1
Review #2 in German
Review #2 (Translated)
Zhang, D.
2007. The Softwood Lumber War: Politics, Economics and the Long U.S.-Canada
Trade Dispute. Resources for the Future Press. Washington, DC.
Order Form
Review #1
Review #2
Review #3
Zhang, D
.
2014. The Political Economy of Forestry. In S. Kant and J. Alavalapati (eds.) Handbook of Forest Economics. Earthscan.
Zhang, D.
2013.
The Political Economy in Forest Policy-making: Economic Efficiency and Beyond.
In S. Kant (ed.) Post-Faustmann Forest
Resource Economics: New Frontiers of Natural Resource Economics. Springer.
PDF file
Polyakov, M., and D. Zhang. 2010. Land Use Dynamics
along Urban-Rural Gradient: A Comparison of Modeling Approaches. Chapter 3 in
Gan, J. Grado, S., and Munn, I. (eds) Global Change and Forestry: Economic and Policy Responses and Impacts. Nova
Publishers.
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Zhang, D
.,
and J. Stanturf. Forest Plantations. Pp
1673-1680 in
Jorgensen, Sven Erik and Fath, Brian D.
(eds.)
Encyclopedia of Ecology, 1st
Edition, Elsevier B.V., Oxford. .
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Nagubadi, R.,
and D. Zhang. 2007. Urbanization and Timberland Use Change in the
Southern United States. Pp. 211-224 in Dube, Yves and Schmithüsen, Franz (eds) Cross-Sector Impacts on Forestry. Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations.
Zhang, D. 2004. Market,
Policy Incentives, and Development of Forest Plantation Resources in the United
States. In What It Takes? Incentives and the Development of Forest Plantation in Asia
Pacific. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Asia
Pacific Forestry Commission. Bangkok, Thailand.
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Teeter, L., B.
Cashore, and D. Zhang. (eds.). 2003. Public Policy for Private
Forestry: Global and Domestic Challenges. CABI International, Wallingford,
Oxon, UK.
Zhang, D
.
2003. Policy Reform and Investment in Forestry. Chapter 5 (P. 85-108) in W.F.
Hyde, B. Belcher, and J. Xu (eds.) China’s Forests: Global Lessons from
Market Reforms. Resource for the Future, Washington, DC.
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Zhang, D.
and S. Mehmood. (eds.) 2001. Forest Law and Economics: Proceedings of the 31st
Southern Forest
Economics Workshop.
School of
Forestry and Wildlife Sciences,
Auburn
University.
Zhang, D.
(Translator). 1993. Introduction
to
Forestry
Economics
(Chinese Edition), Chinese Forestry Publishing House (This was a
book written by Peter H. Pearse and first published in English in 1990 by UBC
Press, Vancouver, Canada.)
Working Papers
Zhang, D., and A. Hussain.
Impact of
U.S.-Canada Softwood Lumber Trade Dispute on Forest Products Companies:
A Stock Market Perspective.
PDF file
Zhang, D.,
and D. Laband. Economic and Environmental Implications of Reforestation
Regulations.
PDF File
Hussian, A., D. Zhang, and J. Armstrong . A Conjoint Analysis of Deer Hunters’
Preferences on Hunting Leases in Alabama.
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