Reuniting Economy and Ecology in Sustainable Development (PDF)

Russ Beaton is Professor of Economics at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. He co-authored Oregon's nationally recognized legislation on land-use planning and has long been involved, both as researcher and citizen, in affairs dealing with energy, the environment, land use, and local and regional economic issues. He has authored studies on timber, agriculture, and urban growth. Among other topics typical of a liberal arts college faculty member, he teaches energy economics, environmental economics, and a course titled "Regional Economics and the Economy of Oregon." Russ lives in Salem, Oregon, and intends to spend the rest of his career involved with issues surrounding the notion of sustainability. . Chris Maser spent over 20 years as a research scientist in natural history and ecology in forest, shrub steppe, subarctic, desert, and coastal settings. Trained primarily as a vertebrate zoologist, he was a research mammalogist in Nubia, Egypt (1963-64) with the Yale University Peabody Museum Prehistoric Expedition and was a research mammalogist in Nepal (1966- 67) for the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit #3 based in Cairo, Egypt, where he participated in a study of tick-borne diseases. He conducted a three-year (1970-73) ecological survey of the Oregon coast for the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington. He was a research ecologist with the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, for 12 years (1975-87), the last 8 years studying old-growth forests in western Oregon, and a landscape ecologist with the Environmental Protection Agency for a year (1990-91). Today he is an independent author as well as an international lecturer and a facilitator in resolving environmental disputes, vision statements, and sustainable community development. He is also an international consultant in forest ecology and sustainable forestry practices. He has written over 260 publications, including the following books: Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an