Forest Policy and Economics

2000 - 2026

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Volume 188, issue C, 2026

Design matters: The micro-dimensions of EU forest-related policies

Alma Galicia Cruz, Eva Lieberherr, Manuel Fischer and Tamaki Ohmura

Diagnosing forest governance through livestock–wildmeat systems: A social-ecological systems analysis from Central Africa

Tiza I. Mfuni

Exploring discourses in the German forest-based bioeconomy: A Q-methodological approach

Charlotte Lobensteiner and Sebastian Losacker

Expanding political forests: On-farm tree planting and restoration governance in Yayo, Southwest Ethiopia

Matiwos Bekele and Detlef Müller-Mahn

Wildly diverse: How Europeans vary in their views on forest landscapes

Jakob Derks, Dennis Roitsch, Marko Lovric, Ajdin Starcevic, Agata Konczal, Rik De Vreese, Gert-Jan Nabuurs and Georg Winkel

Institutionalizing REDD+ safeguards in Ghana: A reinforcement of power asymmetries and existing practices

Esther Wahabu, Juliette Alenda-Demoutiez and Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers

Household decision-making and livelihood capitals in mangrove ecosystems: A systematic review from the Global South

Laura Osorio-Olvera, Gabriela Mendoza-González and Francisco Guerra-Martínez

Local ecological perceptions and informal forest governance: Evidence from sacred forests in Cameroon

Hervé Tchékoté, Chapgang Noubactep, Richard Sufo Kankeu, Abdon Awono, Christine Raimond and Roger Ngoufo

Environmental injustice in the political forests of Romania

George Iordăchescu, Gabriel Girigan and Bogdan Vătavu

‘Green’ jobs, invisible workers: Scalar politics of indecent forest landscape restoration labour in Ethiopia

Matiwos Bekele and Linda Annala Tesfaye

Willingness to change and transition pain - exploring forestry students’ views on future forestry

Ann Grubbström, Stina Powell and Sara Holmgren

Corrigendum to ‘Optimizing Douglas-fir management in the U.S. Pacific Northwest: Integrating timber prices, thinning strategies, and harvest age decisions’ [Forest Policy and Economics 174 (May 2025) 1–9/103490]

Andres Susaeta

How regulatory intensity shapes policy diffusion: Incentive-penalty synergies in Forest Eco-Bank governance

Xin Nie, Mengshi Yang and Zhoupeng Chen

Risk profiles for deforestation-free and legal supply-chains of wood-based products

Jo Van Brusselen, Johanna Klapper, Raul de Paula Pires and Janne Järvikylä

Efficiency and productivity analysis of the secondary wood manufacturing sectors in British Columbia

Lili Sun, Rico Chan and Bryan Bogdanski

Industrial symbiosis and circular economy: Contributions to the development of forest biomass industrial clusters

Luiza Garcia Sell, Flávio José Simioni, Juliana Ferreira Soares, Eduardo Bertol and Luiz Moreira Coelho Junior

Adaptability of nordic non-timber forest products to the European food market: A systematic literature review

Reihaneh Naderi and Jyri Vilko

Beyond formal structures: How community perceptions of legitimacy shape participatory Forest Management in South Nandi, Kenya

Evanson Kimaiyo Maiyo and Charles Omondi Olang'o

Using paradata to improve data quality: A case study on post-wildfire restoration

Ana Castro-Atanes and Maria L. Loureiro

Community perceptions regarding prescribed fires, wildfires, and ecosystem disservices in southern California's Wildland-Urban Interface

Francisco J. Escobedo, Haotian Cheng, Alyssa S. Thomas and Arthur Moses

How to assess the contribution of forests and wood use to climate change mitigation: Navigating through a controversial debate

Gabriele Weber-Blaschke, Matthias Dieter, Thomas Knoke, Marcus Lindner and Jürgen Bauhus

Understanding forest-dependent pastoralists' soil conservation decisions through an integrated behavioral framework

Rahim Maleknia and Raluca Elena Enescu

Forest protection, EKC and LCC dynamics in the world's largest forest nations

Ugur Korkut Pata, Selin Karlilar Pata and Solomon Prince Nathaniel

Volume 187, issue C, 2026

Advancing climate-smart forestry with an interactive decision-support tool that incorporates the preferences of private forest owners

Veera Tahvanainen, Juho Roponen, Bhupinder Singh Saini, Juuso Pajasmaa, Babooshka Shavazipour, Francisco Ruiz, Mikko T. Niemi, Tuomo Takala, Jari Vauhkonen and Kaisa Miettinen

Assessing the economic tradeoffs of various forest management activities to enhance carbon sequestration efforts in Pennsylvania and Maryland

Shivan Gc, Chad C. Papa, Raju Pokharel and Kylie Clay

Forest owners' and farmers' willingness to accept landscape transformation measures for wildfire mitigation: A choice-experiment application

Paulo Flores Ribeiro, Maria João Canadas, Ana Novais, Miguel Leal and José Lima Santos

When growth meets food security: Nonlinear deforestation dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa

Hassan Swedy Lunku, Zaiyang Li and Shaohua Yang

Local voices on conservation equity: Farmer perceptions in Ghana's incentive-based agroforestry program

John Awenva, Lasse Loft and Carsten Mann

Revisiting U.S. softwood lumber demand projections: The central role of residential construction in forest sector outlooks

Craig Johnston, Jinggang Guo and Jeffrey P. Prestemon

The potential mitigation effect of forest-based bioeconomy on carbon emissions: The case of Germany

Lanjiao Wen, Rui Zhang, Anlu Zhang and Zhanli Sun

Evaluating carbon additionality under short-term harvest deferrals in U.S. southern plantation forests

Bruno Kanieski Da Silva, Jesse D. Henderson, Shaun M. Tanger, Andrew R. Tilman, Stephanie Chizmar, Rajan Parajuli, Mohammad Marufuzzaman and Christine C. Fortuin

The effect of wooden corporate buildings on consumer perceptions of sustainability and brand personality

Jakob Utgård, Erlend Nybakk and Eric Hansen

Gender equality in forestry employment: How international frameworks and National Gender Agenda are reflected in Türkiye's forest policy

Seçil Yurdakul Erol and Gizem Şahin

Volume 186, issue C, 2026

Target Groups for Emerging Wildfire Risk Policy: Forest Owners in The Western Pacific Northwest

Mahmood Muttaqee, Alexandra Paige Fischer, Aaron Groth and Jeffrey D. Kline

Where the trees fall: Macroeconomic forecasts for forest-reliant states

Andrew Crawley, Adam Daigneault and Jonathan Gendron

Gravity model of timber trade from Latin America

Nicola Caravaggio and Caterina Conigliani

Visual versus text attributes and how they are presented: A discrete choice experiment on forestry landscape preservation in Quebec

Mamour Fall, Nancy Gélinas and Jie He

Understanding actors' interests and power relations in honey production: Empirical insights from the Western highlands of Cameroon

Muluh Gregory Nguh, Magdalene Silberberger and Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi

Spatial determinants of public forest subsidies: Insights from the EU and China

Xinran Shen, Jiayun Dong, Sven Wunder, Paola Gatto and Francesco Pagliacci

Valuing socio-economic and ecological attributes of forested watershed restoration to reduce wildfire risk in the southwestern U.S

Mohammad Mashiur Rahman, James Meldrum, Julie M. Mueller and Christopher Huber

Globally informed and locally refined: Market, management, and carbon projections for the Southeastern United States forest sector

Richard H. Manner, Jinggang Guo, Matt Clutter, Olakunle E. Sodiya, Robert C. Abt, Raymond M. Sheffield and Justin S. Baker

Dynamic evolution and regional disparities in the resilience of China's timber supply chain

Chenglin Ma, Xueqi Meng, Yulu Liu, Jianhong Huang, Chu Zhang and Jiajia Feng

Wood flow management for supply and demand synchronization: A literature review

Niloofar Jahani, Luc LeBel and Shuva Gautam

How trust shapes the fate of natural resources co-management: Applying trust theory to two matsutake-harvesting communities in the S protected area in China

Xinyang Li, Weiye Wang, Yulin Ran, Ryo Kohsaka and Jinlong Liu

Forestry workers in Chile: Agents of change or collateral damage in the green transition?

Francisca Gutiérrez-Crocco and Pablo Matamala

How prescriptive are forest management plans? On the relational nature of forest management and planning in German public forest management

Ronja Mikoleit

Market instruments and forests: Evaluating the EU'S deforestation-free regulation in Brazil's soy supply chain

Heloiza Stam, Giovani William Gianetti and Joaquim Bento de Souza Ferreira-Filho

Power dynamics and (intergenerational) values: What influences the forest ownership of young translocal forest owners in Finland?

Panu Runko and Irmeli Mustalahti

Implications of the European green deal for forest policy and management across the Baltic States: A nexus perspective

Alessandra Giolo, Vilis Brukas and Johanna Johansson

A systematic review of gender and forest ownership in the global north: Empirical trends and theoretical challenges

Elias Andersson, Miriam Knödler, Maria Johansson and Kristina Johansson

Climate change in Indonesian forest governance: A frame analysis of the scientific discourse

Andita Aulia Pratama, Ahmad Maryudi and Daniela Kleinschmit

Power dynamics and actor interests in community forestry: Insights from Mount Cameroon National Park buffer zones

Elvis Ekwale Agbor, Michael Böcher, Sufo-Kankeu Richard and Maria Enow Ayuk

Reconciling forest product statistics for enhanced sector modeling: A recursive dynamic goal programming approach

Jinggang Guo, Craig Johnston and Jeffrey P. Prestemon

Determining future climate services of the Swiss forest and wood sector: What can we learn from extending global shared socioeconomic pathways?

Annina Guthauser, Roland Olschewski, Tobias Schulz, Irmi Seidl and Pascal Tschumi

Now the forests are of value an everyday historical political ecology from southern Sweden

Hanna Ekström Pigot