Forest Policy and Economics

2000 - 2026

Current editor(s): M. Krott

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Volume 191, issue C, 2026

Forest-fuelled future? Exploring the role of forests in the EU Renewable Energy Directive

Daniela Nousiainen, David Gritten and Blas Mola-Yudego

“It seems to grow quite well down here”: Private managers' fine-scale topographical understandings of forests and the woodland management that emerges

Seumas Bates and Norman Dandy

Sixty years of EU forest policy discourse: An AI-assisted frame analysis of policy documents

Filip Aggestam, Johanna Trummer and Jerylee Wilkes-Allemann

Off-farm income and forest loss: Contrasting effects under changing economic conditions in an exploratory farm-level study

Rafael Sanhueza, René Reyes, Lisandro Roco, Pablo Iribarren and Hisham Zerriffi

Mapping recorded illegal tree-felling intensity for forest-governance screening in China: Evidence from court verdicts and interpretable spatial machine learning

Lin Chen, Yuwei Hong, Yu Liu, Mengxue Yuan, Ximing Quan, Weixing Xue, Pujie Wei, Yingjie Liao and Zhaogui Yan

Insights into the development and key factors of five European governance innovations for forest ecosystem service provision

Stefan Sorge, Carsten Mann and Mónica Hernández-Morcillo

Rethinking participation in forest governance: Applying Arnstein's participation ladder to large-scale social forestry in Java, Indonesia

Elisabeth Sianturi, Seiji Iwanaga and Ryo Kohsaka

Corrigendum to “Market instruments and forests: Evaluating the EU's deforestation-free regulation in Brazil's soy supply chain” [For. Policy Econ. 186 (2026) 103761]

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

Perceived injustice and resource exploitation as drivers of community apathy in REDD+ implementation in Ghana

Prince Owusu, Naamang Ezekiel Liiman, Derrick Werekoh Asaah, Kelvin Boakye, Emil Gasinu, Bright Kusi Appiah, Akosua Pokuaa Yeboah and Sandy Chereh

The development of government-granted forest care initiatives in Taiwan–Establishment of a new business model and its sustainability

Bo-Hsuan Tsai, Carsten Mann and Lasse Loft

Forest landscape restoration and the pursuit of just livelihoods: Reflections from Ghana's modified Taungya system (MTS) restoration approach

Justice Sebuga Kotani, Juan Pastor-Ivars, Michael Osei Asibey and Yetimoni Kpeebi

What drives forest management responses to climate change and climate-induced disturbances? An assessment of the perceptions of national-level actors in four European countries

Špela Pezdevšek Malovrh, Jeanne-Lazya Roux, Metodi Sotirov, Jens Nilsson, Krzysztof Niedzialkowski, Zala Uhan, Marcin Mielewczyk and Pascal Renaud-Bernath

Temporal weighting of the carbon balance in production forests under alternative baseline years and discount rates

Issei Sato, Kizashi Koga and Chihiro Kayo

Behavioral intention to participate in carbon-based forest management: An extension of the theory of planned behavior

Sonika Poudel, Omkar Joshi, Andres Susaeta, Lixia H. Lambert and Ryan DeSantis

Community preferences in integrating adaptive capacity for human-elephant conflict management

Van Viet Nguyen, Chun-Hung Lee and Thi Thanh Thuy Phan

Social representations of forests and their management in a changing climate: Insights from Australia

Rebecca M. Ford, Prativa Sapkota, Andrea Rawluk and Kathryn J.H. Williams

A hybrid simulated annealing and tabu search metaheuristic for the spatial forest harvest scheduling problem

Juliana Casellas Gonçalves, Cassius Tadeu Scarpin and Julio Eduardo Arce

Going green on paper and on ground: The impact of government environmental narratives on forest cover

Saiquan Hu, Yutian Shan and Zhanyu Liu

Volume 190, issue C, 2026

Pathways to community resilience: Comparing community-based forest management practices in Nepal

Sony Baral, Samrat Subedi, Sushma Poudel, Rajesh K. Rai, Bir B. Khanal Chhetri, Gandiv Kafle and Lila Puri

Precision or division? Stakeholder perceptions and tensions in the digital transition of Swedish forests

Joakim Wising, Dimitri Coelho Mollo, Samuel Rönnbäck, Camilla Sandström, Johan Sonesson and William Lidberg

Characterizing Colombia’s REDD＋ projects

Stephanie Larios, Susana Ferreira and Yukiko Hashida

Quantifying the opportunity costs and additional CO2 sequestration potential of a climate adaptation programme in German forest enterprises

Marlen Brinkord, Cornelius Regelmann and Bjoern Seintsch

Protecting old forests: Intersections of law and science

Jamison E. Colburn

Formal and informal dimensions of bricolage: Institutional dynamics driven by traditional forest-related knowledge in China

Minghui Zhang, Jiacheng Zhao and Pei Zhang

Why forest fire management is contested: Global drivers of social conflict

Wanggi Jaung

Pastures of power: A literature review on cattle ranching deforestation in the Amazon

Karla Díaz Parra, Nicolás Espinosa Menéndez and Jean Carlo Rodríguez-de-Francisco

Institutional pathways in forest-based natural climate solutions: A scoping review

Manasi Anand and Steven Wolf

The meaning of climate-smart forestry— A narrative literature review

Elaine Anne Parlade and Gerhard Weiss

Contract design under conflict and tenure informality: Evidence from PES preferences in the Colombian Amazon

Hernán Felipe Trujillo Quintero, Jessica Leahy and Adam Daigneault

Promoting climate policy integration in privately owned forests: How to foster policy acceptance?

Samuli Pitzén, Suvi Huttunen, Annika Lonkila, Iikka Oinonen, Emmi Haltia and Jussi Leppänen

Bioeconomy in Africa and in the EU: A comparative analysis of African and European bioeconomy strategies

Lena Riemann, Nicolas Spohn, Sarah Schmitt, Maria Enow Ayuk, Daniel A. Cordova-Pineda, Michael Böcher and Daniela Kleinschmit

A mixed methods approach to better understand and steer multifunctional forestry in mountain regions of Europe

Maria Nijnik, Mariana Melnykovych, Simone Martino, Simo Sarkki, Albert Nijnik, Serhiy Kopiy, Leonid Kopiy, Katy Joyce, Chen Wang, Sam Poskitt and David Miller

The politics of a consolidated U.S. Wildland Fire Service

Matthew R. Auer and Dhruv Gupta

Community-based forest management in changing contexts: Forest users' perspectives on the future of community forestry in Nepal

Prabin Bhusal, Rajan Parajuli, Erin O. Sills, Conghe Song, Gregory E. Frey and Dil Bahadur Khatri

Forest restoration: One concept, multiple interpretations

Maitane Erdozain, Victoria Madrid, Aitor Àvila Callau, Iciar Alberdi, Isabel Cañellas, Rafael M. Navarro-Cerrillo, Guillermo Palacios-Rodríguez, Jordi Palau and Sergio de-Miguel

Virtual forests and human well-being: A systematic review of forest characteristics and psycho-physiological responses

Arianna Cerutti, Gianluca Grilli and Sandra Notaro

Representations of ‘the local’ in British colonial and contemporary business media (1850s–2010s): The case of Cameroon's forests and forestlands

Felicity Goldsmith, Grace Y. Wong, Ayonghe Nebasifu, Paula Schönach and Maria Brockhaus

Forest-based employment research: Taking stock and looking ahead

Rattiya Suddeephong Lippe, Tatiana Ojeda Luna, Doris Mutta and Jörg Schweinle

Making sense of variation: Discourses of diversified Forest Management in Swedish Forestry

Elias Andersson, Vera Janlert and Luis Andrés Guillén

Bridging gaps in timber price research: An annotated bibliography on hardwood and softwood markets in the US

Sujata Shrestha, Sagar Godar Chhetri, Shaun Tanger and Matthew Pelkki

Knowledge transfer processes in the context of Forest Management in Central Africa: Hybrid bottom-up and top-down governance strategies for sustainability

Maria Enow Ayuk, Michael Böcher, Aristide Yemmafouo, Justin Kamga and Richard Sufo-Kankeu

Is the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) really results-based? Considerations to ensure the effectiveness of the payments

Richard Fischer

Credible MRV as the backbone of blue carbon governance: Lessons from Indonesia's mangroves

Onrizal,, Virni Arifanti and Kiswanto,

Closing the policy-practice gap: What shapes forest owners' intentions to apply alternative harvesting methods?

Isabella Hallberg-Sramek, Fredrik Widemo, Anne-Maarit Hekkala and Sabrina Dressel

Volume 189, issue C, 2026

Differences and similarities in the adoption of the forest functions concept across 14 EU countries

Riccardo Di Cintio and Luigi Portoghesi

A multidimensional place perspective on private forest owners' intention to plant non-native fast-growing broadleaves: Findings from Sweden

Caroline Rapp, Erika Sandow and Louise Eriksson

Co-creation of governance innovations for sustainable forest ecosystem services in Europe

Tatiana Kluvankova, Martin Špaček, Stanislava Brnkalakova, Jiri Louda, Tomáš Szabo, Dominik Horváth, Stefan Sorge and Carsten Mann

Stakeholders' perception about forest fires in the Alpine region

The Trung Hoang, Lena Vilà-Vilardell, Mortimer M. Müller, Giorgio Vacchiano, Gianni Boris Pezzatti, Sylvain Dupire, Christian Schunk and Harald Vacik

Film screenings in the forest: insights from audience feedback

James Scott Robinson, Petro Paul Nnyiti and Kassim Mustafa

Breaking Erysichthon's curse: Unlocking economic growth while sparing forests in Brazil

Marek Hanusch and Joaquim Bento de Souza Ferreira Filho

Policy forum: Between incorporation and reappropriation – The unresolved dilemma of oil palm in Indonesia's forest zones

Muhammad Alif K. Sahide, Fatwa Faturachmat, Abdurahman Abdullah, Muh Ichwan Kadir, Ahsan Yunus and Ahmad Maryudi

The political ecology of compensation: Power and inequality in Bwindi's human–wildlife conflicts

Alvaro Castro Mayo, Vera Flores-Fernandez, Medard Twinamatsiko and Constanza Parra

Can knowledge contribute to better consultation? Power and framing in an education for forestry representatives about reindeer husbandry plans

Ulrika Roos, E. Carina H. Keskitalo and Stefan Sandström

Power and inclusion in REDD+ policy networks in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Félicien Kengoum Djiegni, Monica Di Gregorio, Blaise-Pascal Ntirumenyerwa Mihigo and Maria Brockhaus

Racial capitalism and the duality of exploitation in forest labor contracting

Carl Wilmsen, Reem Hajjar, Gerard F. Sandoval, Heidi Huber-Stearns, Jess Downey and Emily Jane Davis