Green, Thomas Leslie2024-08-132024-08-1319981998https://hdl.handle.net/1828/17961BC's timber industry appears to be unsustainable. Government has drawn on economic analysis applied in a Multiple Accounts framework to reduce social conflict and arrive at more rational forest management decisions. Such studies report income in a way inconsistent with its Hicksian definition reinterpreted in a "full" world. This inconsistency and related deficiencies favour industrial forestry over ecosystem-based approaches. Building on Hicksian income and a societal commitment to sustainable development, I propose that economic analysis of renewable resource extraction be required to account for natural capital through an "interest/depletion" approach, whereby scenarios are evaluated against an ecosystem-based baseline. Applying these proposals to BC's Slocan Valley, where a struggle to protect ecosystems from industrial forestry culminated in civil disobedience, I illustrate how economic consequences are recast in a way relevant to sustainability. Political economy considerations temper the prognosis: values, perspectives, and interests are diverse and contested; power is concentrated; reform unlikely.326 pagesAvailable to the World Wide WebThesis