Paul Sherman is a resource economist with advanced degrees in both environmental management (Duke University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies) and economics (Ph.D., University of Hawaii). From 1981 to 1983, he was a research assistant at Resources for the Future in Washington, D.C. In 1983 he joined the Economic Analysis of Nature Resources Program at the East-West Center's Environment and Policy Institute in Honolulu, where he remained until 1990. He has also worked as a consultant to U.S.A.I.D. on protected-area issues in Thailand and Indonesia. Dr. Sherman also worked as an econ...