Forest Policy and Economics

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Volume 170, issue C, 2025

An econometric analysis of supply and demand on Sugi sawlog in Japan

Yuji Higuma and Satoshi Tachibana

Spatial effects of ecological cognition on firewood collection by households in protected areas: An analysis based on the giant panda nature reserves

Yijing Zhang, Duxun Zhang, Jinyu Shen and Wei Duan

An integrated conflict analysis approach for the sustainable supply of Forest Ecosystem Services in Germany - the case of forest-based biofuel production

Gino Garcia, Carsten Mann and Tobias Cremer

Factors influencing the expressed willingness to transition from collection to cultivation of non-timber forest products: The case of Caesalpinia spinosa in southern Ecuador

Diana Encalada, Luz María Castro, Omar Cabrera, Pablo Ramón, Fabián Reyes-Bueno and Carola Paul

Forestry policy effectiveness and performance evaluation in China - Quantitative study based on policy texts 1998–2020

Gui Meng, Shuirong Wu and Yangting Yu

Comparing Nordic forest governance: Key informant perspectives

Ayonghe A. Nebasifu, Dalia D'Amato, Hanna Ekström, Niina Pietarinen, Alexia Fridén, Teemu Harrinkari, Bogomil Iliev, Huntley Brownell, Wilhelm May, Maria Brockhaus, Marianne Thomsen and Nils Droste

Biodiversity conservation in private forests: Preferences of Latvian forest owners in the context of involuntary conservation

Ģirts Baranovskis, Oļģerts Nikodemus, Didzis Elferts, Guntis Brūmelis, Agita Līviņa and Anda Mežgaile

Exploring technical efficiency in the European forest sector: A two-stage chance-constrained data envelopment analysis

Alireza Amirteimoori, Tofigh Allahviranloo and Majid Zadmirzaei

The impact of foreign direct investment on innovation in China's forest products industry

Bingqian Tu, Ze Chen and Jingqi Dang

Stakeholder views of adaptation measures to improve climate resilience: Case study evidence from European wood value chains

Annechien Dirkje Hoeben, Marie Lautrup, Julius Willig, Sandra P. García-Jácome, Martin Jankovský, Anne Toppinen, Dijana Vuletić, Mikko Peltoniemi and Tobias Stern

New frontiers of forest economics, IV: Entrepreneurship in forestry: Innovation, uncertainty and profit

Peter Deegen, Sen Wang, Shashi Kant and Martin Hostettler

Reconciling global and local benefits of forest restoration: A shared interdisciplinary perspective

Stephanie Mansourian, William M. Adams, Karma Bouazza, Joice Nunes Ferreira, David J. Ganz, Jack Hurd, Stefano Pagiola, John Parrotta, Bruno Ramamonjisoa, Nanie Ratsifandrihamanana, Roger Villalobos, Gretchen Walters and Christian A. Kull

Building connections: Exploring social network research in forest sciences

Theresa Klara Loch and Daniela Kleinschmit

International climate finance in land use, land use change and forestry in Caribbean Small Island Developing States

Preeya S. Mohan

Improving forest decision-making through complex system representation: A viability theory perspective

Clémence Labarre, Jean-Christophe Domec, Pablo Andrés-Domenech, Kai Bödeker, Logan Bingham and Denis Loustau

Examining the adoption of PEFC chain of custody certification in the Italian forest-based industry: An empirical study on motivations and impacts

Stefano Bruzzese, Filippo Brun, Antonino Galati, Valeria Borsellino, Claudio Mirabella, Antonio Brunori and Simone Blanc

Community engagement in the governance of Cambodian recreation forests

Emerson Carias Padilla, Alessandra Giuliani, Kang Subhadd Kanniya, Vuth Lay Heang, Tol Sokchea, Kalyan Hou and Jérémie Gilliéron

Policy forum: Opportunities and challenges for Vietnamese companies to source sustainable timber from Africa, and implications for future implementation of the EU deforestation regulation

Thu Thuy Pham, Thi Kim Hong Tang and Andrew Lowe

Assessing homestead agroforestry-based livelihoods in Sivasagar District of Assam, India, using livelihood significance index (LSI)

Barasha Rani Das, Manash Jyoti Bhuyan, Nityananda Deka and Prasanta Bhattacharya

Actor and power analysis in urban forests and green spaces management. Insights from the Garden City of West Africa

Patrick Opoku, Collins Ayine Nsor, Emmanuel Acquah, Dorothy Asare Akoto and Norbert Weber

Social media, deliberative communication and conflict management: Reflections based on the example case of Freiburg Im Breisgau (Germany)

Alexander Mäder, Monika Bachinger, Andreas Ziermann, Patricia Harprecht, Volker Kromrey and Franziska Schlemmer

Has China's “only-out, no-in” staff-reduction policy alleviated the material deprivation of forestry worker families? Evidence from China's Natural Forest Protection Program

Bo Cao, Hongge Zhu and Yufang Wang

Partition actions on forestland owned as heir property and the determinants of court decisions

Mahesh Tiwari, Changyou Sun, Donald L. Grebner, Ayoung Kim and Eric McConnell

A needle in a haystack: Projecting the climate impacts on Brazil's pulp and paper industry

Roberto Kimura, Bruno Kanieski da Silva and Changyou Sun

From timber to carbon: Stakeholder acceptance of policy measures supporting forest management transition in Finland

Annika Lonkila, Anna Ott, Samuli Pitzén, Terhi Arola and Suvi Huttunen

“Missing” power features in the Actor-Centered-Power framework: Systematic review and empirical insights from Central Africa's Dja and Faro Landscapes

Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi, Shambhu Charmakar, Roland Azibo Balgah and Lukas Giessen

Stakeholder and social network analysis for understanding forest (fires) management – A contribution based on a systematic literature review

C. Campos Fernandes, S. Valente, Erik Figueiredo and A. Polido

How the talent ecosystem of key state-owned forest areas in China empowers forestry scientific and technological talents aggregation

Shenwei Wan, Shuifa Ke and Chen Liang

Developing a supply chain model for sustainable aviation fuel using logging residues in Georgia, United States

Hosne Ara Akter, Yu-Kai Huang and Puneet Dwivedi

A comprehensive outlook on drought caused economic losses and landowner perceptions concerning drought and erratic rainfall patterns

Galen Hanby, Lu Zhai, Bijesh Mishra and Omkar Joshi

Valuation of forested river riparian buffers: Support for riverine integrity and climate resilience

Mallory Phillips, Kevin J. Boyle and Kristen Swedberg

Volume 169, issue C, 2024

Forecasting forest-related political decisions in a climate-constrained world – The remuneration of forest ecosystem services in Germany

Detlef F. Sprinz, Tabea V. Schaefers, Freya Lenk and Max Krott

Identifying optimal locations for biochar production facilities to reduce wildfire risk and bolster rural economies: A New Mexico case study

Ram Kumar Adhikari, Tomasz B. Falkowski and Joshua L. Sloan

A preliminary Coasian proposal for tree auditing via planning control of tree farms

Lawrence W.C. Lai, K.W. Chau, Stephen N.G. Davies, Hon Chim Chiu and Frank T. Lorne

The effect of carbon taxes and subsidies on forest carbon sequestration in China

Yizhu Long, Zhen Zhu, Yanzhen Hong, Zhiwen Gong, Hua Li and Han Zhang

From sectoral policy change to cross-sectoral (dis)integration? A longitudinal analysis of the EU's forest and rural development policy

Simon Fleckenstein

Towards open data sharing initiatives in the forestry sector: The example of the Italian National Forestry Information System (SINFor)

Matteo Pecchi, Giovanni D'Amico, Walter Mattioli, Mirko Sossai, Davide Petrucci and Raoul Romano

The legally binding agreement on forests in Europe – Analyzing the unsuccessful attempts at regional regime creation

Evgenia Gordeeva, Helga Pülzl, Bernhard Wolfslehner and Norbert Weber

Can wild urban woodlands be integrated into urban green infrastructure? Insights from urbanites and new urbanites in Chongqing, China

Hao Ma, Zhong Xing, Canhui Cheng and Lu Zhao

Forest fire causes and prevention strategies in Portugal: Insights from stakeholder focus groups

Carla Ferreira, Lígia Costa Pinto and Marieta Valente

Actors, discourses and relations in the Finnish newspapers' forest discussion: Enabling or constraining the sustainability transition?

Annukka Näyhä and Venla Wallius

Who cares what happens with planted forests? A public typology to assist community engagement and communication

Karen M. Bayne and Andrea Grant

Additional measures needed to ensure clove industry does not contribute to tree cover loss in Madagascar

Herizo T. Andrianandrasana, Marco Campera, Fabiola F. Viraina, Peter R. Long and Nikoleta Jones

Research trends in forest policy in Europe and beyond: Insights from the 4th International Forest Policy Meeting (IFPM4)

Agata A. Konczal and Lukas Giessen

Trends in forest livelihoods research – Taking stock in 2024

Ida N.S. Djenontin, Anne M. Larson and Daniel C. Miller

The impacts of climate and energy policy instruments on forest bioeconomy

Jenni Miettinen and Markku Ollikainen

Science as a field of struggle: Gendered experiences of African scholars doing forest governance research

Olena Strelnyk, Susanne Koch, Camilla Tetley, Shizuku Sunagawa and Amani J. Uisso

Leveraging the value chain-landscape governance nexus for non-wood forest products and tropical forest restoration

Lorenz R. Schimetka and Verina J. Ingram

Forest sector models for tropical countries - A case study of Colombia

Oscar Geovani Martínez-Cortés, Shashi Kant and Henrieta Isufllari

The dynamics of deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa: The impact of environmental policy and foreign direct investment on forest conversion

Hassan Swedy Lunku, Zaiyang Li, Shaohua Yang, Amani Shayo and Jonathan Bakadila Ngoma

Substitutability of U.S. and Canadian softwood lumber: A threshold modeling approach

Yifei Zhang and Barry K. Goodwin

An assessment of forest use and it's benefits on livelihoods: A case of the Baka and Bantu communities, Southeast Cameroon

Masse Ma Caliste Omam, Abed-nego Sonfo Tsamo and Hirokazu Yasuoka

Assessing citizens' willingness for participatory forest management planning: A case study in the Czech Republic

Zohreh Mohammadi, Jan Kašpar, Meryem Tahri and Maryna Sherstiuk

Shaping multilateral regional governance of climate and forests: Exploring the influence of Forest industry lobbying on state participation

Fredy David Polo-Villanueva, Simon Schaub, Laura Rivadeneira, Jale Tosun, Lukas Giessen and Sarah Lilian Burns

Analyzing the National Park policymaking process in China from a multiple streams perspective: Domination by the political stream and policy entrepreneurs

Shuning Zhu, Weiye Wang and Jinlong Liu

Preferences for proactive and reactive climate-adaptive forest management and the role of public financial support

Dominik Braunschweiger, Tamaki Ohmura, Janine Schweier, Roland Olschewski and Tobias Schulz

Multiple crises as a policy window for forest and nature a power-analysis from Germany

Annika Thomas and Christiane Hubo

Perspectives on Forest governance among the indigenous communities of India's Eastern Ghats

Anugu Amarender Reddy, Tek Maraseni, Souparna Lahiri, Sikha Karki, Upama Koju, Anita Shrestha and Tim Cadman

The cost of operational complexity: A causal assessment of pre-fire mitigation and wildfire suppression

Jesse D. Young, Erin Belval, Benjamin Gannon, Yu Wei, Christopher O'Connor, Christopher Dunn, Bradley M. Pietruszka, David Calkin and Matthew Thompson

Why do forests persist and re-emerge amidst tropical deforestation pressures? Archetypes of governance and impact pathways

Frank Mintah, Tabi Eckebil Paule Pamela, Christoph Oberlack and Chinwe Ifejika Speranza

Food and the forest: A spatial analysis on the nexus between foreign direct investment and deforestation

Luca Bortolotti, Marta Marson and Donatella Saccone

Outsourcing stumpage price uncertainty with American put option for active timber management11Approved for publication by the director of the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station as manuscript no. 20–24-39,765. Research supported in part by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, McIntire Stennis State Cooperative Research Project LAB 94498

Sun Joseph Chang and Fang Zhang

Forest deliberations: Marteloscopes as sites of encounter between climate activists and forest managers

Manuel John, Kristina Wirth, Anna Kaufmann, Hannah Ertelt and Theresa Frei

How contracted tree farmers engage in and benefit from inclusive value chains: Evidence from Vietnam

Hoang Huu Dinh, Loan Thanh Le and Justus Wesseler

Preliminary evidence of softwood shortage and hardwood availability in EU regions: A spatial analysis using the European Forest Industry Database

Nicola Bozzolan, Frits Mohren, Giacomo Grassi, Mart-Jan Schelhaas, Igor Staritsky, Tobias Stern, Mikko Peltoniemi, Vladimír Šebeň, Mariana Hassegawa, Pieter Johannes Verkerk, Marco Patacca, Aris Jansons, Martin Jankovský, Petra Palátová, Hanna Blauth, Daniel McInerney, Jan Oldenburger, Eirik Ogner Jåstad, Jaroslav Kubista, Clara Antón-Fernández and Gert-jan Nabuurs

Reviewing factors that influence voluntary participation in conservation programs in Latin America

Cristina C. Nuñez Godoy, Federico Colombo Speroni, Mauricio Nuñez-Regueiro and Leonidas Osvaldo Girardin

The oil palm replanting imperative: Are smallholder farmers willing to participate?

Atiqah Amanda Siregar, Alin Halimatussadiah, Faizal Rahmanto Moeis, Wildan Al Kautsar Anky and Doan Nainggolan

A generalized Faustmann model with multiple carbon pools

Zhihan Yu, Zhuo Ning, Han Zhang, Hongqiang Yang and Sun Joseph Chang

Balancing investments in ecosystem services for sustainable forest governance

Elisabeth Veivåg Helseth, Pål Vedeld and Erik Gómez-Baggethun

Enhancing the economic feasibility of fuel treatments: Market and policy pathways for US Federal Lands

David N. Wear, Matthew Wibbenmeyer and Emily Joiner