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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Climate Change: Where Are We Now? -- Chapter 1. Al Gore and the Greenhouse Gas Theory: Plan A -- Chapter 2. Natural Climate Change: GHGs Are Not the Whole Answer -- Chapter 3. Plan A: Mitigation-A Bridge Too Far? -- Chapter 4. Plan B: The Adaptation Solution -- Chapter 5. Adaptation through Reflectivity and Geoengineering -- Chapter 6. Political Challenges -- Chapter 7. Plan B as Insurance -- Chapter 8. Where from Here? Next Steps as Well as Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction and Summary -- PART I - THE FUTURE U.S. ROLE IN WORLD FOREST RESOURCE TRADE -- World Forest Plantations-- What Are The Implications for U.S. Forest Products Trade? -- Discussion -- U.S. Export and Imports of Some Major Forest Products: The Next Fifty Years -- Discussions -- PART II - THE EFFECT OF RESTRICTIONS UPON U.S. FOREST PRODUCTS TRADE -- U.S.-Canadian Lumber Trade: The Effect of Restrictions -- Discussion -- U.S. Forest Products Trade and the Multilateral Trade Negotiations -- Discussions -- PART III - THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF LOG EXPORT RESTRICTIONS -- Welfare Economics and the Log Export Policy Issue -- Discussion -- U.S.-Japanese Log Trade: Effect of a Ban -- Discussion -- Log Export Restrictions: Causes and Consequences -- Discussion -- Appendix A: Workshop Agenda -- Appendix B: List of Participants

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Orinigal Title Page -- Orinigal Copyright Page -- About Resources for the Future and RFF Press -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Dedication -- 1. Marion Clawson and America's Forests: A Lifetime of Commitment -- 2. What Now? From a Former Chief of the Forest Service -- Discussion -- 3. The Next Decade of the Forest Service: Does the Past Hold the Key to the Future? -- 4. Rethinking Scientific Management: Brand-New Alternatives for a Century-Old Agency -- Discussion -- 5. Forestry in the New Millennium: Creating a Vision That Fits -- Discussion -- 6. State Trust Lands Management: A Promising New Application for the Forest Service? -- Discussion -- 7. Predicting the Future by Understanding the Past: A Historian Considers the Forest Service -- Discussion -- 8. Does the Forest Service Have a Future? A Thought-Provoking View -- Discussion -- 9. The More Things Change...: The Challenge Continues -- 10. Changing Course: Conservation and Controversy in the National Forests of the Sierra Nevada -- Index.

Wood has great potential as a bioenergy source, both as a feedstock for liquid biofuels for the transport sector and also as biomass, a direct source of energy that can be used to produce electric power. Trees, however, are generally slow growing, and some species that do grow quickly are not widely adapted, hence the interest in genetically engineered (GE) trees. This article examines the regulatory process and the effects on development and commercialization of regulatory restrictions and recent court decisions. It discusses recent US legal cases, which -- although not directly involving transgenic trees -- have implications for tree deregulation and the pace of commercialization.