Forest Policy and Economics

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Volume 17, issue C, 2012

Compliance with sustainable forest management guidelines in three timber concessions in the Venezuelan Guayana: Analysis and implications pp. 3-12

Emilio Vilanova, Hirma Ramírez-Angulo, Gustavo Ramírez and Armando Torres-Lezama

Factors influencing the management regime of Nepal's community forestry pp. 13-17

Ridish K. Pokharel

Avalanche protection by forests — A choice experiment in the Swiss Alps pp. 19-24

Roland Olschewski, Peter Bebi, Michaela Teich, Ulrike Wissen Hayek and Adrienne Grêt-Regamey

Structure and methodology of a public information program (PIP) and the declaration of protected natural areas: The case of the Alto Tajo Natural Park, Spain pp. 25-34

Miguel Aguilar, Álvaro García, José Vicente López Álvarez and José F. García-Hidalgo

Recreational users' willingness to pay and preferences for changes in planted forest features pp. 34-44

Bhubaneswor Dhakal, Richard Yao, James A. Turner and Tim Barnard

Multiple environmental services as an opportunity for watershed restoration pp. 45-58

P.V. Townsend, R.J. Harper, P.D. Brennan, C. Dean, S. Wu, K.R.J. Smettem and S.E. Cook

Contribution of cork oak plantations installed after 1990 in Portugal to the Kyoto commitments and to the landowners economy pp. 59-68

Marta Baptista Coelho, Joana Amaral Paulo, João Henrique Nunes Palma and Margarida Tomé

Bundling of ecosystem services to increase forestland value and enhance sustainable forest management pp. 69-76

Robert L. Deal, Bobby Cochran and Gina LaRocco

Volume 16, issue C, 2012

Political theory in forest policy science pp. 1-6

Wil de Jong, Bas Arts and Max Krott

Forests policy analysis and theory use: Overview and trends pp. 7-13

Bas Arts

A theoretical framework for explaining the choice of instruments in environmental policy pp. 14-22

Michael Böcher

“Smart regulation”: Can policy instrument design solve forest policy aims of expansion and sustainability in Flanders and the Netherlands? pp. 23-34

Peter Van Gossum, Bas Arts and Kris Verheyen

Value and risks of the use of analytical theory in science for forest policy pp. 35-42

Max Krott

Analysing governance modes and shifts — Governance arrangements in Dutch nature policy pp. 43-50

Rikke Arnouts, Mariëlle van der Zouwen and Bas Arts

The Advocacy Coalition Framework in natural resource policy studies — Recent experiences and further prospects pp. 51-64

Metodi Sotirov and Michael Memmler

Strangers among trees: Territorialisation and forest policies in the northern Bolivian Amazon pp. 65-70

Wil de Jong and Sergio A. Ruiz

Confronting the demands of a deliberative public sphere with media constraints pp. 71-80

Daniela Kleinschmit

Foucault in the forests—A review of the use of ‘Foucauldian’ concepts in forest policy analysis pp. 81-92

Georg Winkel

Combining deliberative governance theory and discourse analysis to understand the deliberative incompleteness of centrally formulated plans pp. 93-101

Marleen Buizer and Ann Van Herzele

Reflections on theories in forest policy: Testing, combining or building? pp. 102-108

Norbert Weber

Volume 15, issue C, 2012

Rural development and forest owner innovativeness in a country in transition: Qualitative and quantitative insights from tourism in Poland pp. 3-11

Adam Tomasz Sikora and Erlend Nybakk

Biodiversity protection and economics in long term boreal forest management — A detailed case for the valuation of protection measures pp. 12-21

Even Bergseng, Jon Andreas Ask, Erik Framstad, Terje Gobakken, Birger Solberg and Hans Fredrik Hoen

Research on residents' selection on supplying urban forestry ecological service pp. 22-26

Ying Li and Yao Meng

Cost-benefit analysis of soil and water conservation measure: The case of exclosures in northern Ethiopia pp. 27-36

Bedru Babulo Balana, Bart Muys, Nigussie Haregeweyn, Katrien Descheemaeker, Jozef Deckers, Jean Poesen, Jan Nyssen and Erik Mathijs

Traditional knowledge of Korean native beekeeping and sustainable forest management pp. 37-45

Mi Sun Park and Yeo-Chang Youn

A review of the role of property rights and forest policies in the management of the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest in Bangladesh pp. 46-53

Anjan Kumer Dev Roy, Khorshed Alam and Jeff Gow

Modeling optimal pine stands harvest under stochastic wood stock and price in Chile pp. 54-59

Eduardo Navarrete

Optimum harvesting time and clone choices for eucalyptus growers in Vietnam pp. 60-69

Nguyen Huu-Dung and Youn Yeo-Chang

The Colonial heritage and post-Colonial influence, entanglements and implications of the concept of community forestry by the example of Cameroon pp. 70-77

Mbolo C. Yufanyi Movuh

An investigation into the effects of an emissions trading scheme on forest management and land use in New Zealand pp. 78-90

Thomas Adams and James A. Turner

Determining appropriate forestry extension model: Application of AHP in the Zagros area, Iran pp. 91-97

Davood Samari, Hossein Azadi, Kiumars Zarafshani, Gholamhossein Hosseininia and Frank Witlox

Functioning of farm-grown timber value chains: Lessons from the smallholder-produced teak (Tectona grandis L.f.) poles value chain in Southern Benin pp. 98-107

Augustin K.N. Aoudji, Anselme Adégbidi, Valentin Agbo, Gilbert Atindogbé, Mireille S.S. Toyi, Armand S.I. Yêvidé, Jean C. Ganglo and Philippe Lebailly

Avalanche protection by forests — A choice experiment in the Swiss Alps pp. 108-113

Roland Olschewski, Peter Bebi, Michaela Teich, Ulrike Wissen Hayek and Adrienne Grêt-Regamey

Selecting a forest plan among alternatives: Consistency of preferences within decision support frameworks pp. 114-122

Kyle Eyvindson, Teppo Hujala, Annika Kangas and Mikko Kurttila

Price of CO2 emissions and use of wood in Europe pp. 123-131

Pekka Lauri, A. Maarit I. Kallio and Uwe Schneider

The role of social networks in forest landscape planning pp. 132-139

Alessandro Paletto, Fabrizio Ferretti and Isabella De Meo

An assessment of nonindustrial private forest landowner willingness to harvest woody biomass in support of bioenergy production in Mississippi: A contingent rating approach pp. 140-145

Steven R. Gruchy, Donald L. Grebner, Ian A. Munn, Omkar Joshi and Anwar Hussain

Factors influencing farmers' adoption of slash and burn agriculture in North East India pp. 146-151

Kishor Goswami, Hari Kanta Choudhury and Jitu Saikia

Neoliberalisations in Finnish forestry pp. 152-159

Simo Sarkki and Anna Reetta Rönkä

Adaptive capacity deficits and adaptive capacity of economic systems in climate change vulnerability assessment pp. 160-166

Tim Williamson, Hayley Hesseln and Mark Johnston

Volume 13, issue 8, 2011

Environmental impacts and costs of woody Biomass-to-Liquid (BTL) production and use -- A review pp. 591-602

K. Sunde, A. Brekke and B. Solberg

Linking physical, economic and institutional constraints of land use change and forest conservation in the hills of Nepal pp. 603-613

Krishna Bahadur K.C.

Economic losses to Iberian swine production from forest fires pp. 614-621

Juan Ramón Molina Martínez, Miguel Herrera Machuca, Ricardo Zamora Díaz, Francisco Rodríguez y Silva and Armando González-Cabán

Has deregulation of non-timber forest product controls and marketing in Orissa state (India) affected local patterns of use and marketing pp. 622-629

Ajay Kumar Mahapatra and Charlie M. Shackleton

The political economy of timber taxation: The case of Ghana pp. 630-641

Christian P. Hansen and Jens Lund

Satisfaction across urban consumers of smallholder-produced teak (Tectona grandis L.f.) poles in South Benin pp. 642-651

Augustin K.N. Aoudji, Anselme Adégbidi, Jean C. Ganglo, Valentin Agbo, Armand S.I. Yêvidé, Charles De Cannière and Philippe Lebailly

Volume 13, issue 7, 2011

Green accounting for forest and green policies in China -- A pilot national assessment pp. 513-519

Zhang Ying, Minxue Gao, Junchang Liu, Yali Wen and Weimin Song

The effects of introducing modern technology on the financial, labour and energy performance of forest operations in the Italian Alps pp. 520-524

Raffaele Spinelli and Natascia Magagnotti

From cohesion to conflict in participatory forest management: The case of Ouémé Supérieur and N'Dali (OSN) forests in Benin pp. 525-534

Latifou Idrissou, Annemarie van Paassen, Noelle Aarts and Cees Leeuwis

Seeing the owner behind the trees: A typology of small-scale private woodland owners in England pp. 535-544

Julie Urquhart and Paul Courtney

Farmers' satisfaction with group market arrangements as a measure of group market performance: A transaction cost analysis of Non Timber Forest Products' producer groups in Cameroon pp. 545-553

Divine Foundjem Tita, Marijke D'Haese, Ann Degrande, Zac Tchoundjeu and Patrick Van Damme

Valuation of local preferred uses and traditional ecological knowledge in relation to three multipurpose tree species in Benin (West Africa) pp. 554-562

Thierry D. Houehanou, Achille E. Assogbadjo, Romain Glele Kakaï, Marcel Houinato and Brice Sinsin

Underlying causes of forest cover change in Odisha, India pp. 563-569

Amrita Basu and Narayan Chandra Nayak

The impact of biofuels on the propensity of land-use conversion among non-industrial private forest landowners in Florida pp. 570-574

Nishita Pancholy, Michael H. Thomas, Daniel Solis and Nicholas Stratis

Effects of subsidies on the profitability of energy wood production of wood chips from early thinnings in Finland pp. 575-581

Aaron Petty and Kalle Kärhä

Pushing the boundaries of conventional forest policy research: Analyzing institutional change at multiple levels pp. 582-589

Alain Fréchette and Nathalie Lewis

Volume 13, issue 6, 2011

May the Open Method of Coordination be a new instrument for forest policy deliberations in the European Union? pp. 411-418

Helga Pülzl and Marius Lazdinis

Value of wild mushroom picking as an environmental service pp. 419-424

Juan Martínez de Aragón, Pere Riera, Marek Giergiczny and Carlos Colinas

Optimizing forest management in Finland with carbon subsidies and taxes pp. 425-434

Timo Pukkala

Estimating price and income elasticities of demand for forest products: Cluster analysis used as a tool in grouping pp. 435-445

Tetsuya Michinaka, Satoshi Tachibana and James A. Turner

The realisation of tourism business opportunities adjacent to three national parks in southern Finland: entrepreneurs and local decision-makers matter pp. 446-455

Ashley Selby, Leena Petäjistö and Maija Huhtala

Opening up new strategic options in the pulp and paper industry: Case biorefineries pp. 456-464

Satu Pätäri, Kalevi Kyläheiko and Jaana Sandström

Public preferences for controlling upland invasive plants in state parks: Application of a choice model pp. 465-472

Damian Adams, Anafrida N. Bwenge, Donna J. Lee, Sherry Larkin and Janaki R.R. Alavalapati

Dilemmas and challenges in forest conservation and development interventions: Case of Northwest Pakistan pp. 473-478

Babar Shahbaz, Tanvir Ali and Abid Q. Suleri

Price dynamics in the import wooden bed market of the United States pp. 479-487

Changyou Sun

Modeling forest quality at stand level: A case study of loess plateau in China pp. 488-495

Naijiang Wang and Yeqing Bao

Integrating natural risks into silvicultural decision models: A survival function approach pp. 496-502

Kai Staupendahl and Bernhard Möhring

Financial consequences of losing admixed tree species: A new approach to value increased financial risks by ungulate browsing pp. 503-511

Christian Clasen, Verena C. Griess and Thomas Knoke

Volume 13, issue 5, 2011

Developing forest sinks in Australia and the United States -- A forest owner's prerogative pp. 311-317

Lyndall Bull and Derek Thompson

Factors determining forest management by farmers in northwest Spain: Application of discriminant analysis pp. 318-327

M.F. Marey-Pérez and V. Rodríguez-Vicente

Does forest certification enhance community engagement in Australian plantation management? pp. 328-337

Dare, Melanie (Lain), Jacki Schirmer and Frank Vanclay

Bilateral foreign direct investment in forest industry between the U.S. and Canada pp. 338-344

Rao V. Nagubadi and Daowei Zhang

Forest users and environmental impacts of community forestry in the hills of Nepal pp. 345-352

Ram Pandit and Eddie Bevilacqua

Regional forest organizations and their innovation impact on forestry and regional development in central Switzerland pp. 353-360

Klaus Seeland, Joël Godat and Ralf Hansmann

Contexts and concepts of forest planning in a diverse and contradictory world pp. 361-365

Laurent Mermet and Christine Farcy

Kyoto Protocol and "deforestation": A legal analysis on Turkish environment and forest legislation pp. 366-377

Aynur Aydin Coskun and Gökçe Gençay

Progress towards and barriers to implementation of a risk framework for US federal wildland fire policy and decision making pp. 378-389

David C. Calkin, Mark A. Finney, Alan A. Ager, Matthew P. Thompson and Krista M. Gebert

A case study of socio-economic returns from farm forestry and agriculture in south-east Australia during 1993-2007 pp. 390-395

Hugh T.L. Stewart, Digby H. Race, Allan L. Curtis and Andrew J.K. Stewart

An event analysis of industrial timberland sales on shareholder values of major U.S. forest products firms pp. 396-401

Xing Sun and Daowei Zhang

Effects of stochastic interest rates in decision making under risk: A Markov decision process model for forest management pp. 402-410

Mo Zhou and Joseph Buongiorno

Volume 13, issue 4, 2011

Tropical forest susceptibility to and risk of fire under changing climate: A review of fire nature, policy and institutions in Indonesia pp. 227-233

Hety Herawati and Heru Santoso

Assessing landowner preferences for forest management practices to prevent the southern pine beetle: An attribute-based choice experiment approach pp. 234-241

Frederick J. Rossi, Douglas R. Carter, Janaki R.R. Alavalapati and John T. Nowak

Social acceptability of alternative forest regimes in Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, using stakeholder attitudes as metrics of uncertainty pp. 242-257

Martin Herbert Kijazi and Shashi Kant

Livelihood strategies and the role of forest income in participatory-managed forests of Dodola area in the bale highlands, southern Ethiopia pp. 258-265

Yemiru Tesfaye, Anders Roos, Bruce M. Campbell and Folke Bohlin

Do altered prices and logging costs for logs of small diameters affect the optimum rotation of Norway spruce in mountainous regions? pp. 266-272

Hans A. Jöbstl

Breaking the law? Illegal livelihoods from a Protected Area in Uganda pp. 273-283

David Mwesigye Tumusiime, Paul Vedeld and William Gombya-Ssembajjwe

Implications for forest management of the EU Water Framework Directive's stream water quality requirements -- A modeling approach pp. 284-291

Ljusk Ola Eriksson, Stefan Löfgren and Karin Öhman

Factors influencing people's participation in the forest management program in Burkina Faso, West Africa pp. 292-302

Pascaline Coulibaly-Lingani, Patrice Savadogo, Mulualem Tigabu and Per-Christer Oden

Wood import and export and its relation to major macroeconomics variables in Iran pp. 303-307

Soleiman Mohammadi Limaei, Roghayeh Heybatian, Seyed Mahdi Heshmatol Vaezin and Javad Torkman

Volume 13, issue 3, 2011

Economic impact of enlarging the area of protected forests in Estonia pp. 155-158

Risto Sirgmets, Paavo Kaimre and Allar Padari

Unfolding the organised irresponsibility: Ecosystem approach and the quest for forest biodiversity in Finland, Peru, and Russia pp. 159-165

Juha Hiedanpää, Juha Kotilainen and Matti Salo

Environmental resource consumption pattern in rural Arunachal Pradesh pp. 166-170

Amitava Mitra and Deepak Mishra

Forestry professionalism overrides gender: A case study of nature perception in Germany pp. 171-175

Sabine Storch

Explaining wood stock increases in times of decreasing profitability: A statistical analysis pp. 176-183

Manuel González-Gómez, Mª Soledad Otero Giráldez and Marcos Álvarez-Díaz

Legal vs. certified timber: Preliminary impacts of forest certification in Cameroon pp. 184-190

Paolo Omar Cerutti, Luca Tacconi, Robert Nasi and Guillaume Lescuyer

Can voluntary standards regulate forestry? -- Assessing the environmental impacts of forest certification in Sweden pp. 191-198

Johanna Johansson and Gun Lidestav

Income, poverty and charcoal production in Uganda pp. 199-205

Fydess Khundi, Pamela Jagger, Gerald Shively and Dick Sserunkuuma

Governmental regulation and nongovernmental certification of forests in the tropics: Policy, execution, uptake, and overlap in Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Nicaragua pp. 206-220

Kathleen McGinley and Frederick W. Cubbage

Income generation from wild mushrooms in marginal rural areas pp. 221-226

Mattia Cai, Davide Pettenella and Enrico Vidale

Volume 13, issue 2, 2011

The role of social and policy learning in changing forest governance: An examination of community-based forestry initiatives in the U.S pp. 89-96

Antony S. Cheng, Cecilia Danks and Shorna R. Allred

How and why forest managers adapt to socio-economic changes: A case study analysis in Swiss forest enterprises pp. 97-103

Karin Ingold and Willi Zimmermann

Forestry governance and collective learning process in Italy: Likelihood or utopia? pp. 104-112

Laura Secco, Davide Pettenella and Paola Gatto

Corporate responsibility and sustainable competitive advantage in forest-based industry: Complementary or conflicting goals? pp. 113-123

N. Li and A. Toppinen

Barriers to institutional learning and innovations in the forest sector in Europe: Markets, policies and stakeholders pp. 124-131

Gerard Buttoud, Irina Kouplevatskaya-Buttoud, Bill Slee and Gerhard Weiss

Policy, project and operational networks: Channels and conduits for learning in forest biodiversity conservation pp. 132-142

Eeva Primmer

An obituary for national forest programmes? Analyzing and learning from the strategic use of “new modes of governance” in Germany and Bulgaria pp. 143-154

Georg Winkel and Metodi Sotirov

Volume 13, issue 1, 2011

Investment decisions under uncertainty--A methodological review on forest science studies pp. 1-15

Patrick Hildebrandt and Thomas Knoke

Improving communication among stakeholders through ex-post transactional analysis -- case study on Romanian forestry pp. 16-23

Marian Dragoi, Bogdan Popa and Viorel Blujdea

Wildland fire risk and social vulnerability in the Southeastern United States: An exploratory spatial data analysis approach pp. 24-36

Cassandra Johnson Gaither, Neelam C. Poudyal, Scott Goodrick, J.M. Bowker, Sparkle Malone and Jianbang Gan

Government science in forestry: Characteristics and policy utilization pp. 37-45

Nicole L. Klenk and Gordon M. Hickey

Is an attractive forest also considered well managed? Public preferences for forest cover and stand structure across a rural/urban gradient in northern Portugal pp. 46-54

Sónia Maria Carvalho-Ribeiro and Andrew Lovett

Socio-economic issues in forest management in India pp. 55-60

Sheeladitya Paul and Snigdha Chakrabarti

Modeling the timber supply impact of introducing weevil-resistant spruce in British Columbia with cellular automata pp. 61-68

Olaf Schwab, Thomas Maness, Gary Bull, Clive Welham, Brad Seely and Juan Blanco

An evaluation of West Virginia's Managed Timberland Tax Incentive Program pp. 69-78

Jennifer Fortney, Kathryn G. Arano and Michael Jacobson

A spatial-temporal analysis of the impact of access restrictions on forest landscapes and household welfare in Tanzania pp. 79-85

Elizabeth Robinson and Razack B. Lokina