Funding is available at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to support Ph.D. research under the supervision of Craig Johnston (https://labs.russell.wisc.edu/johnston/). Prospective students should have an interest in conducting interdisciplinary research investigating the relationship between forest management and climate change. Governments around the world are looking to timber rich regions for climate change mitigating strategies, yet little is known about the true social and economic costs of using these sources. With this in mind, different techniques may be applied for modeling and numerically solving constrained optimization models that are rooted in economic theory. Specifically, the research may focus on three topics: forest economics and management, the international trade of for

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