Forest Policy and Economics

2000 - 2026

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Volume 182, issue C, 2026

Science-policy interface in participatory reforms: Integrating forest governance principles into Romania's forestry strategy

Nicolae Talpă, Liviu Nichiforel, Aureliu-Florin Hălălișan, Adrian Indreica, Victor Dan Păcurar, Laura Bouriaud, Ionuț Barnoaiea, Marian Drăgoi, Cristian Mihai Enescu and Bogdan Popa

Strategic foundations in public forestry institutions: Testing resource-based and finance-based logics in the strategy of Poland's State Forests National Forest Holding

Szymon Cyfert

Navigating the nexus between customary norms and state laws in shaping rural forest governance: A case study in Aceh Province, Indonesia

Pisca A. Tias, Constance L. McDermott and Mari E. Mulyani

A biblio-econometric analysis of tropical forest loss dynamics

Serge Silatsa Nanda, Francis B.T. Silatsa, Martin Jemo, Martin Yemefack, Junna Iwano and Takahiro Fujiwara

Identifying key components for multiobjective forest management decisions: A case study of state-owned Finnish forests

Bekir Afsar, Johanna Silvennoinen, Kyle Eyvindson, Kaisa Miettinen and Otso Ovaskainen

Not an easy ride: Economic research priorities for pro-environmental trade regulation

Dario Schulz, Johanna Coenen, Mairon Bastos Lima, Laila Berning, Jan Börner, Mathias Cramm, Cecilia Fraccaroli, Gustavo Magalhães de Oliveira, U. Martin Persson, Metodi Sotirov and Sven Wunder

Faster than politics – Policy forecasting ahead of government formation?

Detlef F. Sprinz and Max Krott

Cross-sectoral policy integration of forest biomass for renewable energy in Indonesia

Sukasno,, Nunuk Supriyatno, Johanes P.G. Sutapa and Ahmad Maryudi

Citation dynamics, thematic structure and temporal evolution of research on the Faustmann Forest Economics model (1962–2025)

Sofia Mpekiri and Konstantinos G. Papaspyropoulos

Sinking into standing forests or timber for climate change mitigation: Instrument constituencies and policy preferences

Tamaki Ohmura, Leonard Creutzburg and Eva Lieberherr

Investigating barriers to afforestation in Ireland: Insights from a choice experiment survey

Laqiqige Zhu and Martha O'Hagan-Luff

Decomposing the drivers of forest carbon sink changes from the perspective of digital input: Balancing timber utilization and ecological conservation

Yan Huang, Hanting Yu, Zhelin Liu, Jin Zhang and Jinhuang Lin

Hidden inequality: Rethinking non-timber forest products for bioeconomic development in Southwest China

Jiping Wang and Jun He

Adopting the Palm Oil Moratorium Under External Pressure: Indonesia's Response to the EU’s RED II

Wahyu Wulandari, Testriono, and Moch Faisal Karim

The king's laws yield to village customs: An exploratory study of relational contracting in sustainable forestry

Santiago Velasquez, Thi Nhu-Mai Nong, Quynh Phuong Nguyen and Sundar Venkatesh

Volume 181, issue C, 2025

Shifting industrial geographies of timber production and processing in the Pacific Northwest

Mindy S. Crandall, Liam Resener, Susan Charnley, Jeff Vance Martin and Julia Mycek

Advancing palm oil sustainability to address the climate crisis: Leveraging theory of change and system dynamics model at the jurisdictional level

Herry Purnomo, Beni Okarda, Lila Juniyanti, Sonya Dyah Kusumadewi, Dyah Puspitaloka, Monica Azzahra, Salwa Nadhira, Prasetya Irawan, Nining Liswanti, George C. Schoneveld and Michael A. Brady

A global review of agroforestry research and policy directions: Addressing ecological and socioeconomic challenges through systematic review and bibliometric analysis

Umesh Sharma, Shilpa Sharma, Neeraj Sankhyan, Sunny Sharma and Sarthak Sharma

Using the life satisfaction approach to economically value the health and wellbeing benefits of forest and green space visits in Italy

Aisling Sealy Phelan, Gianluca Grilli, Elena Pisani and Laura Secco

Conflicting interests in the standard setting process of the PEFC forest certification scheme in Finland

Tiina Piiroinen, Minna Pappila and Anna Ott

A policy analysis of peatland-related policies - pressures, ecosystem services, conservation and restoration

Chaitanya Suárez-Rojas and Camilla Widmark

Decision support systems to improve the provision of forest ecosystem services: Stakeholders' opinions and expectations in Italy and North-Macedonia

Sofia Baldessari, Makedonka Stojanovska, Vladimir Stojanovski, Isabella De Meo and Alessandro Paletto

Conflicts and policy priorities drive differences in the EU Forest strategy implementation: Insights from 15 European countries

M. Pecurul-Botines, A. Giurca, H. Pülzl, K. Niedzialkowski, M. Brockhaus, L. Bouriaud, V. Brukas, S. Hajtmarova, M.A. Hoogstra-Klein, A. Konczal, L. Marcinekova, K. Øistad, Š. Pezdevšek Malovrh, N. Pietarinen, L. Secco, J.-L. Roux, B. Wolfslehner and G. Winkel

Deforestation, land use, and malaria incidence in the Brazilian Amazon: A spatial analysis

Luan Marca, Marco Tulio Aniceto Franca, Augusto Mussi Alvim and Evandro Tatim da Silva

Information access, governance support and operational flexibility are needed to drive adaptation of European forests to global change

Julius Willig, Sabeth Häublein, Stefan Sorge, Annechien Brudermann, Elena Cantarello, Josep Maria Espelta, Liina Häyrinen, Tomás Hlasny, Nina Horstmann, Silvija Krajter Ostoić, Marie Lautrup, Maša Zorana Ostrogović Sever, Mikko Peltoniemi, Juan Picos, Yulia Poskakukhina, Björn Reineking, Ian Short, Jonathan Spazzi, Marie Vaney, Dijana Vuletić and Jürgen Bauhus

Policy perceptions and local stakeholder engagement in forest co-management in the Yarlung Tsangpo River Basin, China

Ting Ma, Linsheng Zhong, J. Marc Foggin and Peng Wang

Health, safety, security and environment risk mitigation in a community-based reforestation-for‑carbon project

Alexandra A. Catling, Igor Nascimento de Carvalho, John Herbohn, Dennis Peque, Luiz Pereira, Francis E. Putz, Claudia Romero and Grahame Applegate

Frame analysis of attitudes towards forest-based bioenergy in Europe: Exploring the criticism to improved dialogue

Daniel Bergquist, Elvira Caselunghe, Gustaf Egnell and Johnny de Jong

Mangrove-based carbon market projects: Current trends and future perspectives

Jorge F. Montenegro, Midhun Mohan, Ewane Basil Ewane, Daniel A. Friess, Pandi P. Selvam, Abhilash Dutta Roy, Aaron Althauser, Jacob Tidwell, Julieta Gamboa-Cutz, Caileigh Shoot, Michael S. Watt, Peter I. Macreadie, Daria Agnieszka Karpowicz, Nipuni Perera, Trisha Atwood, Mark Chatting, John A. Burt, Susantha Udagedara, Ian Hendy, Carlos López-Martínez, Dan Exton, Pete Bunting, Rupesh K. Bhomia, Eben N. Broadbent, Martha Lucia Palacios Peñaranda, Sergio de-Miguel, Willie Doaemo, Carlos Alberto Silva and Daniel M. Alongi

Strategic financial decision-making for forest bioenergy: investment scenarios and policy insights for charcoal enterprises in Brazil

Gabriel Browne de Deus Ribeiro, Sebastião Renato Valverde, Angélica de Cássia Oliveira Carneiro, Márcio Lopes da Silva and Gleison Augusto dos Santos

Beyond financial metrics: An integrated framework for capital investment decisions in the Swedish forest industry

Jan Alpenberg, Frida Hansson, Lotten Svensson and Tomasz Wnuk-Pel

Hardening sustainability: Supply chain laws complement cocoa and coffee certifications

Lena Partzsch

Mapping the research of Forest ecosystem Services in Europe: A review

Oliver Truffer, Eva Lieberherr, Kato Van Ruymbeke, Costanza Chimisso, Tim Rowe, Liesbet Vranken and Tamaki Ohmura

Follow the money: Can REDD+ finance compete with established and emerging land investments in Mai-Ndombe, Democratic Republic of Congo?

Niak Sian Koh, Niina Pietarinen, Alizée Ville, Félicien Kengoum, Grace Wong and Maria Brockhaus

Impact of carbon policies on forest carbon sequestration supply at intensive and extensive margins

Xuemin Zhu, Yizhu Long and Han Zhang

Proposing circular bioeconomy design strategy: A crucial step towards sustaining the wood furniture industry in Indonesia

Dhany Yuniati, Dodik Ridho Nurrochmat, Didit Okta Pribadi, Raden Deden Djaenudin, Budi Kuncahyo, Apri Laila Sayekti, Husnul Khotimah and Windi Novia Ratri Wardhani

Testing the effect of ecosystem service and land classification on global values of forested watershed ecosystem services

Khusro Mir and Roy Brouwer

Sequencing the political forest: Power, exclusion, and the corporate hijacking of social forestry in Indonesia

Irfan Saputra, Fatwa Faturachmat, Andi Vika Faradiba Muin, Nurhady Sirimorok and Muhammad Alif K. Sahide

Visitors' experience with conservation areas and their willingness-to-pay for the preservation of old-growth forests

Michael Getzner, Anna Kovarovics, Hanns Kirchmeir, Larissa Posch, Claudia Alessandrelli, Caroline Celis, Simone Mayrhofer and Ruth Vanhaecht

Volume 180, issue C, 2025

The influence of science within forest policy making - the case of payments for forest ecosystem services for climate-adapted forest management in Germany

Tabea V. Schaefers, Max Krott and Michael Kirchner

Psychological ownership and forest management behavior: Development and validation of a multidimensional bifactor scale

Leonie Wagner

Community resource management areas and household food security in northern Ghana: Insights from a socio-ecological systems perspective

Cornelius K.A. Pienaah

Optimal forest management of Douglas-fir in Western Oregon: Stochastic prices, carbon sequestration and wildfire risk

Hsu Y. Kyaw, Andres L. Susaeta and Mindy S. Crandall

Applying the forest load capacity factor to assess environmental sustainability in the Global South

Brayan Tillaguango, Rafael Alvarado, Munir Ahmad, Muntasir Murshed and Cem Işık

Forest product footprint convergence in the Amazon: A panel data analysis of ACTO countries

Veli Yilanci and Maxwell Kongkuah

Volume 179, issue C, 2025

Equity, diversity and inclusion in Canada's forest sector labour force: Are we making progress?

John Boakye-Danquah, Stephen Wyatt and Maureen G. Reed

Recent trends of employment in the forestry and logging sector of India: Evidence from unit-level data of periodic labour force survey (PLFS)

Hanjabam Isworchandra Sharma and Lynda Thoudam

The potential impact of forest loss on drinking water treatment costs in the southeastern U.S

Arpita Nehra, Justin S. Baker, Peter V. Caldwell, Katherine L. Martin, Travis W. Warziniack, Richard H. Manner, Christopher M. Mihiar, Gregory E. Frey and Jennifer K. Costanza

Harnessing women's traditional ecological knowledge through photovoice to address shea tree caterpillar (Cirina butyrospermi) infestation in semi-arid Ghana

Cornelius K.A. Pienaah, Lina Adeetuk, Bipasha Baruah and Isaac Luginaah

Long-term forestation-deforestation dynamics in a socioeconomic perspective: The case of Italy, 1936–2018

Alessia D'Agata, Marco Marchetti, Luca Salvati and Piermaria Corona

Seasonality of the recreational value of forests in Denmark

Tim de Kruiff, Jonas Vester Legarth, Thomas Lundhede, Carl-Emil Pless, Hans Skov-Petersen and Jette Bredahl Jacobsen

Understanding green jobs in the forest sector: Findings from a systematic literature review

Emilin Joma da Silva and Jörg Schweinle

Private forest owner preferences for action- and result-based biodiversity restoration contracts – A discrete choice experiment in Denmark and Finland

Charlotte Marie Süring and Thomas Hedemark Lundhede

Public perceptions of climate and land use drivers of medicinal plant availability in Czech forests: A national survey-based study

Stephen Awuni, Miroslav Hájek, Marcel Riedl, Diana Carolina Huertas-Bernal, Ratna Chrismiari Purwestri, Forzia Ibrahim, Roman Dudik, Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah and Francis Adarkwah

How village communities perceive the relevance of forest ecosystem services: Insights from Himachal Pradesh, India

Kritishnu Sanyal and Shyamasree Dasgupta

Exploring trade-offs in forest carbon storage: A cost-effectiveness study of Nordic forests and harvested wood products

Junhui Hu, Eirik Ogner Jåstad and Per Kristian Rørstad

Unlocking youth opportunities in the forest sector: The role of green jobs in generating youth employment in Malawi

Maggie G. Munthali, Bonface Nankwenya, Zephania Nyirenda, Lemekezani Chilora, Levison Chiwaula, Baxton Chirombo and Wim Troosters

Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of forestry professionals towards artificial intelligence (AI)

Luke Ritter, Derek Andrew Uhey and Alark Saxena

Adapting conservation easement to Chinese conservation context: from theory to practice

Siyuan He and Yu Wei

Building on solid ground? (In)Coordination within Norwegian and Finnish wood construction policies

Håkon Endresen Normann, Erkki-Jussi Nylén, Anne Toppinen and Jani Lukkarinen