Forest Policy and Economics

2000 - 2025

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Volume 172, issue C, 2025

Three decades of forest policy studies in the countries in the former socialist countries of Europe: A review

Ekaterina Makrickiene, Vilis Brukas, Ivana Živojinović and Zuzana Dobšinská

Becoming a forester. Exploring forest management students' habitus in the making

Diana Cichecki, Hannes Weinbrenner and Stephanie Bethmann

A social-ecological approach to local forest conflict analysis and shaping

Anna S. Brietzke, Engelbert Schramm, Katharina Heß, Diana Hummel, Michael Kreß-Ludwig and Deike U. Lüdtke

Finnish forest owners' intentions to participate in cooperative forest management

Liina Häyrinen, Janne Kaseva and Eija Pouta

The impact of National Forest City Construction on local employment: Evidence from China

Jingqi Dang, Jingru Wang and Bingqian Tu

Forest disturbances change psychological ownership among traditional private forest owners in North Rhine Westphalia

Leonie Wagner and Franziska Miederhoff

What we can learn from India, a forerunner in community centric forest management: An insight for global forest policy and governance

Nick Lalrinmawia, R. Lalengmawia, P.C. Vanlalhluna, Vanlalhruaii Ralte, B.C. Lalremruata and F. Lalnunmawia

The fall of the kings: Power relations and dynamics in Papua's indigenous community in forest resource management

Antoni Ungirwalu, J.R. Mansoben, Yubelince Y. Runtuboi, Sepus M. Fatem, Mariana H. Peday, Jonni Marwa and Ahmad Maryudi

Enhancing actor-centered power theory through actor typology: Insights from community-based conservation in China

Jiacheng Zhao, Pei Zhang, Feng Tian and Weiping Shi

Misalignment between ecologically rapid and economically optimal forest restoration designs

Yuta Kobayashi, Masayuki Sato, Kei Uchida and Akira S. Mori

Implications of China's foreign waste ban on the global waste paper trade networks for circular economy and sustainability

Xinfei Li, Chang Yu, Zhaohua Wang, Chenlu Tao, Hao Li, Gang Diao and Baodong Cheng

Effective communication about forests and trees: An analytical framework for communication among segmented audiences

Lena Riemann

Culture change in the Forest sector: Insights from a participatory workshop at the Women's Forest congress

Jaana Korhonen, Jamie Dahl, Asia L. Dowtin and Leah Rathbun

Social determinants of Chilean forestry workers: A challenge for sustainable industry development

Sandra Alvear-Vega and Nicolas Astudillo-Molina

A comprehensive look at the forest products industry’s economic contribution to the United States: Pre- and post-COVID analysis

Jagdish Poudel and Ram Dahal

The adoption of natural capital accounting: Lessons from the Tasmanian forest management system

Isobella Grover, Shaun Suitor, Julianne O'Reilly-Wapstra, Mark Tocock, Peter Volker and Darla Hatton MacDonald

Rules and interactions around customary tree ownership in forested public lands: A qualitative study in Jharkhand, India

Sabyasachi Kar, Gaurav R. Sinha and Puneet Dwivedi

Impacts of COVID-19 on forestry migrant workers in the Southern United States

Manuja Jayasundara, Carolina Berget and Puneet Dwivedi

Evaluating carbon emissions and removals resulting from Russia's trade in harvested wood products

Roman V. Gordeev and Anton I. Pyzhev

Understanding how urban communities make trade-offs between forest management and ecosystem service objectives

Haotian Cheng, Francisco J. Escobedo, Alyssa S. Thomas, Jesus Felix De Los Reyes, John N. Ng'ombe and José R. Soto

The evolution of land governance in Myanmar: A historical analysis of the people-land nexus in the Konbaung dynasty and British colonial eras

Phyu Phyu Han, Win Min Paing, Masahiko Ota and Takahiro Fujiwara

Calling into the void? German forest dieback 2.0 debate on Twitter. A case study to operationalize the analysis of discursive power in hybrid media systems

Philipp Mack, Ida Wallin, Mariella Susann Zwickel, Jonas Pfistner, Lena König and Daniela Kleinschmit

Towards an efficient implementation of the EU biodiversity strategy in forests – An analysis of alternative voluntary conservation mechanisms and selection criteria

Johanna Kangas and Markku Ollikainen

The impacts of climate-induced insect damage on timberland values in the southeastern U.S

Yuhan Wang and David Lewis

Impact of cost assumptions on forest carbon targets and supply dynamics

Seong-Hoon Cho and James C. Mingie

Missing the forest for the trees: Ekiti State's quest for forestry revenue and its impact on forest managers

Giovanni Occhiali and Michael Falade

Understanding farmers' attitudes and aspirations for tree-cover restoration in the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania

Eleanor Durrant, Pete Howson, Susannah M. Sallu, Deo D. Shirima, Margherita Lala, Sergio G. Milheiras, Francis Lyimo, Petro P. Nyiti, Lilian Mwanga, Esther Kioko and Marion Pfeifer

Forest condition and forest restoration as topics of online communication – An analysis of website performance of selected forest actors in Germany

Sandra Liebal, Josephine Köhler and Norbert Weber

How policy instruments affect forest cover: Evidence from China

Ruihuan Hou, Guoyong Ma and Lu Tong

An evaluation of gravity models and artificial neuronal networks on bilateral trade flows in wood markets

Christian Morland, Julia Tandetzki and Franziska Schier

Volume 171, issue C, 2025

Economic gain of genetically-selected coastal Douglas-fir: Timber, log and carbon value at varying planting densities

M. Isaac-Renton, B. Moore, J. Degner, C. Bealle Statland, B. Bogdanski, L. Sun and M. Stoehr

Gender equality in Nordic forest research – A literature review

Pia Katila, Kristina Svels and Domna Tzemi

“Hands off our forests!” - The impact of the authoritarian rule on polish forest policy in the context of the European Green Deal

Krzysztof Niedziałkowski, Agata Konczal and Marcin Mielewczyk

Bioeconomy governance in the global South: State of the art and the way forward

Daniela Kleinschmit, Alexandru Giurca, Rosa Lehmann, Fabricio Rodríguez and Hariati Sinaga

How nature and landscape quality connect: An exploratory study of their relationship with urban green spaces

Gonzalo de la Fuente de Val

Diversity of plant species used as firewood in indigenous colonized communities: An ethnobotanical study in East Misiones, Argentina

Mario Gabriel Sackser, Lucas Rojas, Héctor Alejandro Keller and Norma Inés Hilgert

Minimising the relative regret of future forest landscape compositions: The role of close-to-nature stand types

Thomas Knoke, Peter Biber, Tobias Schula, Jonathan Fibich and Benjamin Gang

Forest diversity and the distribution of farm revenue - Empirical evidence from forest farms in Taiwan

Tzong-Haw Lee, Yu-You Liou and Hung-Hao Chang

Volume 170, issue C, 2025

An econometric analysis of supply and demand on Sugi sawlog in Japan

Yuji Higuma and Satoshi Tachibana

Spatial effects of ecological cognition on firewood collection by households in protected areas: An analysis based on the giant panda nature reserves

Yijing Zhang, Duxun Zhang, Jinyu Shen and Wei Duan

An integrated conflict analysis approach for the sustainable supply of Forest Ecosystem Services in Germany - the case of forest-based biofuel production

Gino Garcia, Carsten Mann and Tobias Cremer

Factors influencing the expressed willingness to transition from collection to cultivation of non-timber forest products: The case of Caesalpinia spinosa in southern Ecuador

Diana Encalada, Luz María Castro, Omar Cabrera, Pablo Ramón, Fabián Reyes-Bueno and Carola Paul

Forestry policy effectiveness and performance evaluation in China - Quantitative study based on policy texts 1998–2020

Gui Meng, Shuirong Wu and Yangting Yu

Comparing Nordic forest governance: Key informant perspectives

Ayonghe A. Nebasifu, Dalia D'Amato, Hanna Ekström, Niina Pietarinen, Alexia Fridén, Teemu Harrinkari, Bogomil Iliev, Huntley Brownell, Wilhelm May, Maria Brockhaus, Marianne Thomsen and Nils Droste

Biodiversity conservation in private forests: Preferences of Latvian forest owners in the context of involuntary conservation

Ģirts Baranovskis, Oļģerts Nikodemus, Didzis Elferts, Guntis Brūmelis, Agita Līviņa and Anda Mežgaile

Exploring technical efficiency in the European forest sector: A two-stage chance-constrained data envelopment analysis

Alireza Amirteimoori, Tofigh Allahviranloo and Majid Zadmirzaei

The impact of foreign direct investment on innovation in China's forest products industry

Bingqian Tu, Ze Chen and Jingqi Dang

Stakeholder views of adaptation measures to improve climate resilience: Case study evidence from European wood value chains

Annechien Dirkje Hoeben, Marie Lautrup, Julius Willig, Sandra P. García-Jácome, Martin Jankovský, Anne Toppinen, Dijana Vuletić, Mikko Peltoniemi and Tobias Stern

New frontiers of forest economics, IV: Entrepreneurship in forestry: Innovation, uncertainty and profit

Peter Deegen, Sen Wang, Shashi Kant and Martin Hostettler

Reconciling global and local benefits of forest restoration: A shared interdisciplinary perspective

Stephanie Mansourian, William M. Adams, Karma Bouazza, Joice Nunes Ferreira, David J. Ganz, Jack Hurd, Stefano Pagiola, John Parrotta, Bruno Ramamonjisoa, Nanie Ratsifandrihamanana, Roger Villalobos, Gretchen Walters and Christian A. Kull

Building connections: Exploring social network research in forest sciences

Theresa Klara Loch and Daniela Kleinschmit

International climate finance in land use, land use change and forestry in Caribbean Small Island Developing States

Preeya S. Mohan

Improving forest decision-making through complex system representation: A viability theory perspective

Clémence Labarre, Jean-Christophe Domec, Pablo Andrés-Domenech, Kai Bödeker, Logan Bingham and Denis Loustau

Examining the adoption of PEFC chain of custody certification in the Italian forest-based industry: An empirical study on motivations and impacts

Stefano Bruzzese, Filippo Brun, Antonino Galati, Valeria Borsellino, Claudio Mirabella, Antonio Brunori and Simone Blanc

Community engagement in the governance of Cambodian recreation forests

Emerson Carias Padilla, Alessandra Giuliani, Kang Subhadd Kanniya, Vuth Lay Heang, Tol Sokchea, Kalyan Hou and Jérémie Gilliéron

Policy forum: Opportunities and challenges for Vietnamese companies to source sustainable timber from Africa, and implications for future implementation of the EU deforestation regulation

Thu Thuy Pham, Thi Kim Hong Tang and Andrew Lowe

Assessing homestead agroforestry-based livelihoods in Sivasagar District of Assam, India, using livelihood significance index (LSI)

Barasha Rani Das, Manash Jyoti Bhuyan, Nityananda Deka and Prasanta Bhattacharya

Actor and power analysis in urban forests and green spaces management. Insights from the Garden City of West Africa

Patrick Opoku, Collins Ayine Nsor, Emmanuel Acquah, Dorothy Asare Akoto and Norbert Weber

Social media, deliberative communication and conflict management: Reflections based on the example case of Freiburg Im Breisgau (Germany)

Alexander Mäder, Monika Bachinger, Andreas Ziermann, Patricia Harprecht, Volker Kromrey and Franziska Schlemmer

Has China's “only-out, no-in” staff-reduction policy alleviated the material deprivation of forestry worker families? Evidence from China's Natural Forest Protection Program

Bo Cao, Hongge Zhu and Yufang Wang

Partition actions on forestland owned as heir property and the determinants of court decisions

Mahesh Tiwari, Changyou Sun, Donald L. Grebner, Ayoung Kim and Eric McConnell

A needle in a haystack: Projecting the climate impacts on Brazil's pulp and paper industry

Roberto Kimura, Bruno Kanieski da Silva and Changyou Sun

From timber to carbon: Stakeholder acceptance of policy measures supporting forest management transition in Finland

Annika Lonkila, Anna Ott, Samuli Pitzén, Terhi Arola and Suvi Huttunen

“Missing” power features in the Actor-Centered-Power framework: Systematic review and empirical insights from Central Africa's Dja and Faro Landscapes

Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi, Shambhu Charmakar, Roland Azibo Balgah and Lukas Giessen

Stakeholder and social network analysis for understanding forest (fires) management – A contribution based on a systematic literature review

C. Campos Fernandes, S. Valente, Erik Figueiredo and A. Polido

How the talent ecosystem of key state-owned forest areas in China empowers forestry scientific and technological talents aggregation

Shenwei Wan, Shuifa Ke and Chen Liang

Developing a supply chain model for sustainable aviation fuel using logging residues in Georgia, United States

Hosne Ara Akter, Yu-Kai Huang and Puneet Dwivedi

A comprehensive outlook on drought caused economic losses and landowner perceptions concerning drought and erratic rainfall patterns

Galen Hanby, Lu Zhai, Bijesh Mishra and Omkar Joshi

Valuation of forested river riparian buffers: Support for riverine integrity and climate resilience

Mallory Phillips, Kevin J. Boyle and Kristen Swedberg