Alumni and George Peake Jr. Professor,
Forest Economics and Policy
Auburn University School of Forestry & Wildlife Sciences
602 Duncan Drive Auburn, Alabama, USA 36849-5418
Phone: (334)844-1067, Fax: (334)844-1084
Email: zhangd1@auburn.edu
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Daowei Zhang Alumni and George Peake Jr. Professor, Forest Economics and Policy Auburn University School of Forestry & Wildlife Sciences 602 Duncan Drive Auburn, Alabama, USA 36849-5418 Phone: (334)844-1067, Fax: (334)844-1084 Email: zhangd1@auburn.edu |
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Education Experience Primary Interests Current Research Previous Research Extension Activities Teaching Activities Selected Publications Book Chapters Working Papers |
Dr. Daowei Zhang is Alumni and
George Peak Jr. Professor of Forest Economics and Policy at Auburn
University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences. He received his
Bachelor and Master degrees from two Chinese forestry universities (Southcentral University of Forestry
and Technology, 1984, and Beijing Forestry University,
1989) in forest science and forest economics, respectively, and his
Ph.D. in forest economics from the University of British Columbia in
1994. He worked as a assistant researcher for Ministry of Forestry and
an economist/project manager for State Investment Corporation of
Forestry in Beijing, a research assistant and teaching assistant for
University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry, and a research
assistant for Lakehead University School of Forestry in Canada. He
joined Auburn University faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1994,
reaching Associate Professor in 1999 and Professor in 2003. Dr. Zhang has taught Forest Policy, Natural Resource Policy, Forest Economics, Forest Sector Economics, Advanced Forest Economics, and Advanced Forest Policy. His research interests are the economic and policy aspects of natural resource management. Specifically he is interested in property rights, environmental policy, political economy, institutional economics, forest products trade, forest investment and finance, land use, private forest management, forest-based economic development, and international forestry. Dr. Zhang served on the Board of Director of the Pinchot Institute for Conservation (2000-2006), the Editorial Board of Forest Science (2007-2011) and Southern Journal of Applied Forestry (2002-2005), Journal of Forest Economics (2013-) and Forest Economic Review (2013-). He is a recipient of an Auburn Author Award by Auburn University in 2007, 2011, and 2013, Award in Forest Science from the Society of American Foresters in 2009, a BC Forum Distinguished Lecturer in Forest Economics and Policy at the University of British Columbia in 2008, a Research Recognition Award and the Director�s Research Award from Alabama Agricultural Experimental Station in 2001 and 2002 respectively, and a regional forestry extension award in 1996. In 2016, he was elected as a Fellow of Society of American Foresters. He has done research and consulting works, lectured, and made presentations in 20 countries.
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
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. Forest Policy, Forest Economics, Forest Industry Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Advanced Forest Policy, Advanced Forest Economics 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. PDF file 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. PDF file 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. PDF file 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. 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.
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 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. 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. 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
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. PDF file 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. PDF file 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. PDF file 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. PDF file 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. PDF file 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. PDF file 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. PDF file 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. PDF file 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. PDF file 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. PDF file Zhang, D., A. Hussian, and J. Armstrong. 2006. Supply of Hunting Leases in Alabama. Human Dimension of Wildlife 11(1): 1-14. PDF File Zhang, D. 2006. Welfare Impacts of the 1996 U.S.-Canada Softwood Lumber Agreement: An Update. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36: 255-261. PDF file 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. PDF File 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. PDF File 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 Lockaby, B.G., D. Zhang, J. McDaniel, H. Tian, and S. Pan. 2005. Interdisciplinary research at the urban-rural interface: The West GA project. Urban Ecosystems 8(1): 7-21. PDF File Zhang, D. and R.V. Nagubadi. 2005. Timberland Use in the Southern United States. Forest Policy and Economics 7: 721-731. PDF File Nagubadi, R.V. and D. Zhang. 2005. Timberland Use by Ownership and Forest Type in Alabama and Georgia. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 37(1): 173-186. PDF file Zhang, D., and D. Laband. 2005. From Senators to the President: Solving the Lumber Problem or Else. Public Choice 123(3-4): 393-410. PDF file Nagubadi, R.V., D. Zhang,, J.P. Prestemon, and D.N. Wear. 2004. Softwood Lumber Products in the United States: Substitutes, Complements, or Unrelated? Forest Science 50(4): 416-426. PDF file Kinnucan, H., and D. Zhang. 2004. Incidence of the 1996 Canada-U.S. Softwood Lumber Agreement and the Optimal Export Tax. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 52(1): 73-88. PDF file Zhang, D. 2004. Endangered Species Act and Timber Harvesting: The Case of Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers. Economic Inquiry 42(1): 150-165. PDF file Hussian. A., D. Zhang, and J. Armstrong. 2004. Willingness-to-pay for Hunting Leases in Alabama. Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 28(1): 21-27. PDF file Sun, C., and D. Zhang. 2003. The Effect of Exchange Rate Volatility on U.S. Exports of Forest Products. Forest Science 49(5): 807-814. PDF file Mehmood, S., Zhang, D., and J. Armstrong. 2003. Factors Associated with Declining in Hunting License Sales in Alabama. Human Dimension of Wildlife 8(4): 243-262. PDF file Zhang, D., and S. Mehmood. 2002. Safe Harbor for the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker: Private Landowners Share their Views. Journal of Forestry 100 (July/August): 24-29. PDF file 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. PDF file Zhang, D., and W. Flick. 2001. Sticks, Carrots, and Reforestation Investment. Land Economics 77(3): 443-56. PDF file 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. PDF file 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. PDF file 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. PDF file 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. PDF file 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. PDF file 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. PDF file Zhang, D. 1996. Forest Tenures and Land Value in British Columbia. Journal of Forest Economics 2(1): 1-23. PDF file 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. PDF file 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. PDF File 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. PDF file 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. PDF file Zhang, D. 1988. Raising Timber Price and Revitalizing National Forest Industry Enterprises. Forestry Economics (in Chinese) 43: 45-49. Zhang, D. 1988. Geography of China’s 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. 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. PDF file 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. . PDF file Nagubadi, R., and D. Zhang. 2007. Urbanization and Timberland Use Change in the Southern United States. Pp. 211-224 in Dube, Yves and Schmith�sen, 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. PDF file 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. PDF file
Zhang, D.
and S. Mehmood. (eds.) 2001. Forest Law and Economics: Proceedings of the 31st
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.) 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. PDF File |
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