Sustainable Forests: Global Challenges and Local Solutions

David G. Brand, PhD, is manager of sustainable development for the State Forests of New South Wales, Australia. Previously, he worked as a scientist at the Petwawa National Forestry Institute and then moved to the Headquarters of the Canadian Forest Service in Ottawa to direct science and sustainable development, including Cananda’s Model Forest Program. He has published numerous articles on forestry subjects and chaired a series of national and international forestry related committees.

O. Thomas, PhD, is a forestry graduate from the University of Gottingen, Germany, where he earned his doctorate in 1991. He joined Canada’s Model Forest Program in 1993 to work for an association of government agencies, industry, and indigenous people in Saskatchewan. His publications and extension efforts have contributed to the ecological and social foundations of sustainable development in agriculture and forestry.