Forest Policy and Economics

2000 - 2025

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Volume 177, issue C, 2025

The legacy of fortress approaches to conservation: Impact of early-life experiences on contemporary natural resource use in Giant Panda Nature reserves, China

Wei Duan, Yicheng Jiang, Nicholas J. Hogarth, Lan Gao and Bo Ouyang

Biosecurity problem representation(s) by tree and forest health actors in Southeast Asia

Russell Warman, Simon Lawson, Morag Glen, Harriot Beazley and Madaline Healey

Factors influencing a forest landowner's choice of incentive program commitment length

Michael A. Kilgore, Gregory E. Frey, Stephanie A. Snyder and Christopher Mihiar

Forest-based bioeconomy and bio-based chemical production in the European Union: Policy issues, institutions, actors, and instruments in a changing forest policy subsystem

Katrin Beer, Michael Böcher, Caroline Ganzer, Anke Blöbaum, Lukas Engel, Theresa De Paula Sieverding, Kai Sundmacher and Ellen Matthies

Landowner willingness to adopt active management practices in the Cross-Timbers forests in USA

Chamali Rodrigo, Omkar Joshi, Neelam C. Poudyal, Aaron Russell and Andres Susaeta

Social sustainability in the forest-based bioeconomy: A narrative review

Jukka Luhas and Mirja Mikkilä

Agricultural subsidies augmented tropical deforestation in the state of Campeche, Mexico

Edward A. Ellis, David Chacón Castillo, Irving Uriel Hernández Gómez, Sergio Madrid Zubirán and Sara María Cuervo Vega

Valuing the cultural services of a forest protected area in Southwestern China: The roles of online deliberation and sample selection

Haojie Chen, Matthew R. Sloggy, Robert Costanza, Ida Kubiszewski, Tong Zhang and Luhua Wu

Forest dependency and food security: Diverse livelihoods in India's tribal heartland

Gautam Prateek and Sumendera Punia

What does the climate crisis mean for forest work science? Urgent call for reviewing of research priorities

Siegfried Lewark and Marion Karmann

Livelihood commercialisation and resource use across the border: Explaining environmental income differences in northern Laos and Vietnam

Joel Persson

Finnish forest owners' willingness to participate in result-based carbon offset schemes

Domna Tzemi, Jussi Leppänen, Hilja Autto and Emmi Haltia

Aligning conservation goals with forest livelihood needs: Using local perspectives to inform policy and practice in Ghana

Ernest Nkansah-Dwamena

Cocoa driven deforestation in Cameroon: Practices and policy

Verina Ingram, Valerie Janssen, Victorine Akenji Neh and Arun Kumar Pratihast

A Buffered Area Restriction Model (BARM) for optimisation of spatially constrained forest harvest scheduling

Sandro Sacchelli, Arturo Annunziata and Matteo Lapucci

The forest restitution process in Serbia: The role of the Serbian Orthodox Church in shaping an adapted forest governance framework

Ivana Živojinović, Jelena Nedeljković, Nenad Petrović, Dragan Nonić, Gerhard Weiss and Liviu Nichiforel

Volume 176, issue C, 2025

Forest property rights within community forests and their role in enhancing economic well-being in rural Ethiopia

Akalu Assfaw Wolde and Enrico Bertacchini

Revealing public attitudes toward ‘substituting plastic with bamboo’ in China: Sentiment and topic analyses using social media data

Jingsong Ji, Xiaoxiao Xu, Vivian W.Y. Tam and Yangzi Zhang

The potential of participatory citizen science for assessing ecosystem services in support of multi-level decision-making – Insights from Switzerland

Johanna Trummer and Jerylee Wilkes-Allemann

Is forest conservation a socially optimal strategy for increasing forest carbon sequestration?

Peichen Gong and Andres Susaeta

Wood-based panel futures price prediction incorporating supply chain features

Chunyuan Chang and Liming Li

Framing forest dieback since 2018 and relating forest restoration: An analysis of the direct communication of forest policy actors in Germany

Josephine Köhler, Sandra Liebal and Norbert Weber

Wildfire risk information sources and the acceptability of fuels treatments near select WUI communities in the Western United States

Kelly Wallace, Hannah Brenkert-Smith, Patricia A. Champ, James R. Meldrum, Grant Webster, Christine Taniguchi, Julia B. Goolsby, Colleen Donovan, Carolyn Wagner, Christopher M. Barth, Josh Kuehn and Suzanne Wittenbrink

Volume 175, issue C, 2025

Farmer perceptions of REDD+ livelihood interventions as incentive mechanism for reducing deforestation in the Juabuso-Bia cocoa forest landscape

Frank Akowuge Dugasseh and Marianne Zandersen

The development of Forest Management Cooperatives from Self-Helping Facilities to Professional Service Providers – A Case Study in Bavaria

Anton Wadenspanner, Anika Gaggermeier and Michael Suda

Integrating cultural perspectives in pro-sustainable-forest-management behavior: Evidence from Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal groups in Ontario, Canada

Zhang Yiwen, Shashi Kant and Ilan Vertinsky

Volume 174, issue C, 2025

Equity in unilateral value chain policies: A monitoring framework for the EUDR and beyond

Constance L. McDermott, Thomas Addoah, Tawiah Agyarko-Kwarteng, Rebecca Asare, Alex Assanvo, Mairon Bastos Lima, Helen Bellfield, Amanda Berlan, Sophia Carodenuto, Toby Gardner, Rachael Garrett, Caitlin Hafferty, Mark Hirons, Verina Ingram, Eric Mensah Kumeh, Joss Lyons-White, John Mason, Patrick Meyfroidt, Jasper Montana, Gustavo L.T. de Oliveira, Sabaheta Ramcilovik-Suominen, Metodi Sotirov, William Thompson and Georg Winkel

Innovating forest science education through problem-based learning: Insights from a public university in Brazil

Luiza Lucena, Audrey Robeson, Cassiano José Lages Marinho Falcão, Lorena Paulina, Ana Clara Santana and Rodrigo Hakamada

Revisiting the gendered division of labour in Swedish forestry: What has changed the last decade?

Andersson Elias and Johansson Maria

Deforestation and economic dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa: Does electricity fluctuations matter on forest conversion?

Hassan Swedy Lunku, Zaiyang Li and Felix Exavery Tebo

Impact of agricultural employment, gross domestic product, informal economy, institutional quality on forest cover in Ecuador

Brayan Tillaguango, Rafael Alvarado, Munir Ahmad, Abdul Rehman, Cem Işık and José Chamba

Does international climate finance contribute to the adoption of zero deforestation policies? Insights from Brazil and Indonesia

Heiner von Lüpke, Bence Mármarosi, Charlotte Aebischer, Egor Trushin, Martha Bolaños, Thomas Webb, Eros Nascimento, Djoko Suroso and Gustavo Breviglieri

Feasibility of woodland expansion for carbon offsetting in Scotland revisited

Paola Ovando, Marie Castellazzi, Andrea Baggio-Compagnucci, Richard J. Hewitt and Alessandro Gimona

Actor-centered power and forest governance: Can a conceptual framework help us understand the conflict in managing national parks in Vietnam?

Nhinh Thi Do, Thorkil Casse and Ta Viet Ton

Modeling willingness to continue participation in payments for ecosystem services programs: A case of China's second phase of the grain for green program in indigenous communities

Lingling Qiu, Shashi Kant and Weizhong Zeng

Optimizing Douglas-fir management in the U.S. Pacific northwest: Integrating timber prices, thinning strategies, and harvest age decisions

Andres Susaeta

Enhancing employment through log export ban: Insights from wood-processing firms in developing countries

Sébastien Marchand and Mouhamed Zerbo

Wood-based textile innovations in the Finnish media: A critical discourse analysis

Venla Wallius and Annukka Näyhä

Mapping actors' interests and protected area management outcomes in the Campo Ma’an landscape of Cameroon

Harry Wirngo Mairomi and Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi

How demand-side incentive policies drive the diffusion of forest wellness tourism products: An agent-based modeling analysis

Ying Li, Yuxin Liu and Wenlong Wang

Volume 173, issue C, 2025

Does gender really matter? How demographics and site characteristics influence behavior and attitudes of German small-scale private forest owners

Peter Hansen, Malin Tiebel, Tobias Plieninger and Andreas Mölder

Rethinking wildfire management policy: Suggestions from firefighters who experienced the 2017 extreme wildfires in Portugal

Vittorio Leone, Mario Elia, Raffaella Lovreglio, Julian Lovreglio, Fernando Correia and Fantina Tedim

Sustainable forestry logistics: Using modified A-star algorithm for efficient timber transportation route optimization

Omid Veisi, Mohammad Amin Moradi, Beheshteh Gharaei, Farid Jabbari Maleki and Morteza Rahbar

Understanding actors' power through conflict dynamics: Insights from small-scale mining on cocoa farms

Eric Mensah Kumeh and Mark Hirons

Economic impacts of maple syrup production potential in Kentucky: Input-output analysis

Bobby Thapa, Thomas O. Ochuodho, John M. Lhotka, William Thomas, Jacob Muller, Thomas J. Brandeis, Edward Olale, Mo Zhou and Jingjing Liang

Participatory mapping of degradation and restoration processes in the Sundarbans mangrove ecosystem

Md. Abul Bashar Polas, Ronju Ahammad, Emmeline Topp and Tobias Plieninger

Forest efficiency assessment and prediction using dynamic DEA and machine learning

Sebastián Lozano, Ester Gutiérrez and Andrés Susaeta

The European union deforestation regulation: Implications for the global forest sector

Craig Johnston, Jinggang Guo and Jeffrey P. Prestemon

Sustainability performance of community forest enterprises (CFES) in Cameroon: Pathways to viable business models

Serge Mandiefe Piabuo, Marjanke Hoogstra-Klein, Verina Ingram, Divine Foundjem-Tita, Peter A. Minang, Lalisa Duguma and Hens Runhaar

Restorative effects of highway roadside urban forests: A simulated approach

Qunyue Liu, Kunneng Jiang, Ziming Wang, Yumeng Wang, Huiting Zhang, Qingju Wang, Hangqing Chen, Donghuang Lin, Ulrika K. Stigsdotter and Yuxiang Lan

Unsiloed agroforestry research and policy: Livelihood and multifunction as chestnut (Castanea sativa) management priorities for Türkiye

Jeffrey Wall, Taner Okan, Coşkun Köse, Nesibe Köse and Elif Basak Aksoy

Environmentality and the making of compliant subjects: Insights from collaborative forest management innovations in Southwestern Ghana

Ransford Sackey, Lawrence Kwabena Brobbey, Eric Mensah Kumeh and Joana Akua Serwaa Ameyaw