Shashi Kant

Professor Kant’s research interests and teaching focus on forest resource economics and management, with specific emphasis on the economics of sustainable forest management. This includes the economics of community-based forest management systems; valuation of ecosystem services including social, cultural, and land use activities of First Nations peoples; behavioral economics of peoples involved in co-management of resources; non-market signals of resource scarcity; international trade of forest products; forest tenure; and social choice theory and forest management.