Forest Policy and Economics

2000 - 2026

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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

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 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