Forest Policy and Economics

2000 - 2025

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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

Volume 172, issue C, 2025

Three decades of forest policy studies in the countries in the former socialist countries of Europe: A review

Ekaterina Makrickiene, Vilis Brukas, Ivana Živojinović and Zuzana Dobšinská

Becoming a forester. Exploring forest management students' habitus in the making

Diana Cichecki, Hannes Weinbrenner and Stephanie Bethmann

A social-ecological approach to local forest conflict analysis and shaping

Anna S. Brietzke, Engelbert Schramm, Katharina Heß, Diana Hummel, Michael Kreß-Ludwig and Deike U. Lüdtke

Finnish forest owners' intentions to participate in cooperative forest management

Liina Häyrinen, Janne Kaseva and Eija Pouta

The impact of National Forest City Construction on local employment: Evidence from China

Jingqi Dang, Jingru Wang and Bingqian Tu

Forest disturbances change psychological ownership among traditional private forest owners in North Rhine Westphalia

Leonie Wagner and Franziska Miederhoff

What we can learn from India, a forerunner in community centric forest management: An insight for global forest policy and governance

Nick Lalrinmawia, R. Lalengmawia, P.C. Vanlalhluna, Vanlalhruaii Ralte, B.C. Lalremruata and F. Lalnunmawia

The fall of the kings: Power relations and dynamics in Papua's indigenous community in forest resource management

Antoni Ungirwalu, J.R. Mansoben, Yubelince Y. Runtuboi, Sepus M. Fatem, Mariana H. Peday, Jonni Marwa and Ahmad Maryudi

Enhancing actor-centered power theory through actor typology: Insights from community-based conservation in China

Jiacheng Zhao, Pei Zhang, Feng Tian and Weiping Shi

Misalignment between ecologically rapid and economically optimal forest restoration designs

Yuta Kobayashi, Masayuki Sato, Kei Uchida and Akira S. Mori

Implications of China's foreign waste ban on the global waste paper trade networks for circular economy and sustainability

Xinfei Li, Chang Yu, Zhaohua Wang, Chenlu Tao, Hao Li, Gang Diao and Baodong Cheng

Effective communication about forests and trees: An analytical framework for communication among segmented audiences

Lena Riemann

Culture change in the Forest sector: Insights from a participatory workshop at the Women's Forest congress

Jaana Korhonen, Jamie Dahl, Asia L. Dowtin and Leah Rathbun

Social determinants of Chilean forestry workers: A challenge for sustainable industry development

Sandra Alvear-Vega and Nicolas Astudillo-Molina

A comprehensive look at the forest products industry’s economic contribution to the United States: Pre- and post-COVID analysis

Jagdish Poudel and Ram Dahal

The adoption of natural capital accounting: Lessons from the Tasmanian forest management system

Isobella Grover, Shaun Suitor, Julianne O'Reilly-Wapstra, Mark Tocock, Peter Volker and Darla Hatton MacDonald

Rules and interactions around customary tree ownership in forested public lands: A qualitative study in Jharkhand, India

Sabyasachi Kar, Gaurav R. Sinha and Puneet Dwivedi

Impacts of COVID-19 on forestry migrant workers in the Southern United States

Manuja Jayasundara, Carolina Berget and Puneet Dwivedi

Evaluating carbon emissions and removals resulting from Russia's trade in harvested wood products

Roman V. Gordeev and Anton I. Pyzhev

Understanding how urban communities make trade-offs between forest management and ecosystem service objectives

Haotian Cheng, Francisco J. Escobedo, Alyssa S. Thomas, Jesus Felix De Los Reyes, John N. Ng'ombe and José R. Soto

The evolution of land governance in Myanmar: A historical analysis of the people-land nexus in the Konbaung dynasty and British colonial eras

Phyu Phyu Han, Win Min Paing, Masahiko Ota and Takahiro Fujiwara

Calling into the void? German forest dieback 2.0 debate on Twitter. A case study to operationalize the analysis of discursive power in hybrid media systems

Philipp Mack, Ida Wallin, Mariella Susann Zwickel, Jonas Pfistner, Lena König and Daniela Kleinschmit

Towards an efficient implementation of the EU biodiversity strategy in forests – An analysis of alternative voluntary conservation mechanisms and selection criteria

Johanna Kangas and Markku Ollikainen

The impacts of climate-induced insect damage on timberland values in the southeastern U.S

Yuhan Wang and David Lewis

Impact of cost assumptions on forest carbon targets and supply dynamics

Seong-Hoon Cho and James C. Mingie

Missing the forest for the trees: Ekiti State's quest for forestry revenue and its impact on forest managers

Giovanni Occhiali and Michael Falade

Understanding farmers' attitudes and aspirations for tree-cover restoration in the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania

Eleanor Durrant, Pete Howson, Susannah M. Sallu, Deo D. Shirima, Margherita Lala, Sergio G. Milheiras, Francis Lyimo, Petro P. Nyiti, Lilian Mwanga, Esther Kioko and Marion Pfeifer

Forest condition and forest restoration as topics of online communication – An analysis of website performance of selected forest actors in Germany

Sandra Liebal, Josephine Köhler and Norbert Weber

How policy instruments affect forest cover: Evidence from China

Ruihuan Hou, Guoyong Ma and Lu Tong

An evaluation of gravity models and artificial neuronal networks on bilateral trade flows in wood markets

Christian Morland, Julia Tandetzki and Franziska Schier

Volume 171, issue C, 2025

Economic gain of genetically-selected coastal Douglas-fir: Timber, log and carbon value at varying planting densities

M. Isaac-Renton, B. Moore, J. Degner, C. Bealle Statland, B. Bogdanski, L. Sun and M. Stoehr

Gender equality in Nordic forest research – A literature review

Pia Katila, Kristina Svels and Domna Tzemi

“Hands off our forests!” - The impact of the authoritarian rule on polish forest policy in the context of the European Green Deal

Krzysztof Niedziałkowski, Agata Konczal and Marcin Mielewczyk

Bioeconomy governance in the global South: State of the art and the way forward

Daniela Kleinschmit, Alexandru Giurca, Rosa Lehmann, Fabricio Rodríguez and Hariati Sinaga

How nature and landscape quality connect: An exploratory study of their relationship with urban green spaces

Gonzalo de la Fuente de Val

Diversity of plant species used as firewood in indigenous colonized communities: An ethnobotanical study in East Misiones, Argentina

Mario Gabriel Sackser, Lucas Rojas, Héctor Alejandro Keller and Norma Inés Hilgert

Minimising the relative regret of future forest landscape compositions: The role of close-to-nature stand types

Thomas Knoke, Peter Biber, Tobias Schula, Jonathan Fibich and Benjamin Gang

Forest diversity and the distribution of farm revenue - Empirical evidence from forest farms in Taiwan

Tzong-Haw Lee, Yu-You Liou and Hung-Hao Chang