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by Bin Mei (Author), Michael L. Clutter (Author)
Forestland investment has surged in the past few decades as a result of land ownership change in the forestry industry. Timberland investment and management organizations and real estate investment trusts have bought up land and resources which were divested by vertically integrated forest products companies.
Author Biography
Bin Mei is Professor of the Practice in Natural Resource Finance at Duke University, Durham, NC, where he teaches and conducts research in the area of natural resource investment and nature-based climate solutions. Prior to that, he was Hargreaves Professor of Forest Finance at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA. He is editor of the Journal of Forest Business Research and associate editor of the Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
Michael L. Clutter was Chief Analytics Officer at F&W Forestry, Albany, GA. In addition to his many years of experience in the forestry industry, Michael used to be the Dean and Hargreaves Distinguished Professor of Forest Finance at the University of Georgia's Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. He passed away unexpectedly on December 24, 2022.
