Forest Policy and Economics

2000 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. Krott

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Volume 153, issue C, 2023

Resetting the forestry commons: Constitutionality as a conflict resolution strategy in African woodlands

Désirée Gmür and Tobias Haller

Medicinal plants production systems in rural Indonesia: Management practices and performance insights

Sri Astutik, Jürgen Pretzsch, Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi and Gerald Kapp

Resilient forest-based value chains? Econometric analysis of roundwood prices in five European countries in the era of natural disturbances

Raphael Asada, Elias Hurmekoski, Annechien Dirkje Hoeben, Marco Patacca, Tobias Stern and Anne Toppinen

Assessing public preferences for a wildfire mitigation policy in Crete, Greece

Haleema Misal, Elsa Varela, Apostolos Voulgarakis, Anastasios Rovithakis, Manolis Grillakis and Yiannis Kountouris

Transformation of the global governance in the cocoa sector with three characteristics: Diversification, flexibilization, and coordination

Haeun Lee and Mi Sun Park

Assessing the emotional and spiritual dimension of forests: A review of existing participatory methods

V. Marini Govigli and S. Bruzzese

A tale of five cities: The role of municipalities in the market diffusion of wooden residential multistory construction and retrofits

A. Viljanen, K. Lähtinen, V. Kanninen and A. Toppinen

Forest protection in the EU's renewable energy directive and nature conservation legislation in light of the climate and biodiversity crisis – Identifying legal shortcomings and solutions

Jessica Stubenrauch and Beatrice Garske

Can a sequential analysis provide a more robust understanding of farmers' adoption decisions? An example from an agroforestry adoption study in Ethiopia

Dagninet Amare and Dietrich Darr

Volume 152, issue C, 2023

Does China's natural forest logging ban affect the stability of the timber import trade network?

Qian Zhang, Baodong Cheng, Gang Diao, Chenlu Tao and Can Wang

Reconciling timber harvesting, biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration in Queensland, Australia

Tyron J. Venn

A governance framework for the design and evaluation of tree planting schemes

Tibebe Weldesemaet Yitbarek, John R.U. Wilson and Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz

National forest timber bids and export price interlinkages in the USA: The bounds testing approach

Jaana Korhonen, Jesse D. Henderson and Jeffrey Prestemon

Gender gaps in the collection and marketing of an underutilized plant species – Baobab in Malawi

Dennis Etemesi Olumeh and Dagmar Mithöfer

Using google search patterns to explain the demand for wild edible mushrooms

L. Diaz-Balteiro, O. Alfranca, R. Voces and M. Soliño

Volume 151, issue C, 2023

Two-decade decentralization and recognition of customary forest rights: Cases from special autonomy policy in West Papua, Indonesia

William R.I. Sopaheluwakan, Sepus M. Fatem, Pande M. Kutanegara and Ahmad Maryudi

Spiritual values in forest management plans in British Columbia and the Netherlands

Catharina de Pater, Bas Verschuuren, Birgit Elands, Iris van Hal and Esther Turnhout

Optimal regimes of prescribed burning in forest plantations in the presence of risk of wildfires in the southeastern United States

Andres Susaeta and Tyler Carney

Optimal harvest decisions for the management of carbon sequestration forests under price uncertainty and risk preferences

Zhihan Yu, Zhuo Ning, Wei-Yew Chang, Sun Joseph Chang and Hongqiang Yang

Making gender visible: Objectives and socio-demographic differences among women forest owners

Juulia Kuhlman, Sami Berghäll and Annukka Vainio

Passive or not? – Examining the diversity within passive forest owners

Anne Matilainen and Merja Lähdesmäki

Enforcement and compliance with the no-burning policy on villagers in Indonesia

Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo, Luca Tacconi and Efendi Agus Waluyo

Inflation hedging effectiveness of farmland and timberland assets in the United States

Srijana Baral and Bin Mei

Analysis of the environmental Kuznets curve for forest fragmentation: The case of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in China

Dandan Deng, Jiayun Dong, Yiwen Zhang, Wenyuan Liang, Kun Liu and Lingchao Li

Institutional structures impeding forest-based social innovation in Serbia and Slovenia

Ivana Živojinović, Todora Rogelja, Gerhard Weiss, Alice Ludvig and Laura Secco

Preferences for a payment for ecosystem services program to control forest fires in Burkina Faso: A choice experiment

Achille Augustin Diendéré and Dominique Kaboré

Volume 150, issue C, 2023

Allowing for compensating lost habitats in the forest: Comparing institutional change in Germany and Switzerland

Tobias Schulz, Tanja Eggenberger, Roland Olschewski and Eva Lieberherr

Should forest enterprises formalize? Insight from a multi-dimensional characterization of informal baobab enterprises

William Kwadwo Dumenu, Louis Gyekye Appiah, Carola Paul and Dietrich Darr

Climate-smart agroforestry systems and practices: A systematic review of what works, what doesn't work, and why

Donatien Ntawuruhunga, Edwin Estomii Ngowi, Halima Omari Mangi, Raymond John Salanga and Kelvin Mashisia Shikuku

Identifying drivers of forest clearances in Switzerland

David Troxler, Astrid Zabel and Adrienne Grêt-Regamey

Can agroforestry compete? A scoping review of the economic performance of agroforestry practices in Europe and North America

Alma Thiesmeier and Peter Zander

Is a sustainability transition possible within the decision-support services provided to Finnish forest owners?

Tuomo Takala, Minna Tanskanen, Maria Brockhaus, Teija Kanniainen, Jukka Tikkanen, Ari Lehtinen, Teppo Hujala and Anne Toppinen

Do economic incentives crowd out motivation for communal land conservation in Ethiopia?

Shunji Oniki, Melaku Berhe, Teklay Negash and Haftu Etsay

Economic growth, institutional quality and deforestation: Evidence from Russia

Kazi Sohag, Anna Gainetdinova and Oleg Mariev

An analysis of economic benefits from wildlife management areas in Oklahoma

Madison Gore, Omkar Joshi, Binod Chapagain, Neelam C. Poudyal and Betsey York

Can REDD+ projects deliver livelihood benefits in private tenure arrangements? Experiences from rural Zambia

Simon Manda and Nyambe Mukanda

Exchange rate and U.S. softwood plywood import from Brazil

Noel Perceval Assogba and Daowei Zhang

Volume 149, issue C, 2023

Conservation by corruption: The hidden yet regulated economy in Nepal's community forest timber sector

Bijendra Basnyat, Thorsten Treue, Ridish Kumar Pokharel, Pankaj Kumar Kayastha and Gajendra Kumar Shrestha

Are indicators useful for measuring and supporting the sustainability of forest use? A Zambian case study

Christine R. Coppinger, Monica Gorman, Anne Markey and Dara A. Stanley

An econometric study of Oregon's log and lumber markets: Estimation of price elasticities using two approaches

Jun Zhai and Olli-Pekka Kuusela

Smallholder perceptions of and willingness to participate in Forest Farmers' Organizations: Insights from case studies in Ethiopia and Tanzania

Kendisha Soekardjo Hintz and Jürgen Pretzsch

A meta-analysis on wood trade flow modeling concepts

Valentin Mathieu and Jean-Marc Roda

How China adopted eco-friendly forest development: Lens of the dual-track mechanism

Jiacheng Zhao, Jinlong Liu and Lukas Giessen

Separating the two faces of “bioeconomy”: Plantation economy and sociobiodiverse economy in Brazil

Ossi I. Ollinaho and Markus Kröger

Implementation gaps affecting the quality of biodiversity conservation management: An ethnographic study of protected areas in Fujian Province, China

Weiye Wang, Daye Zhai and Bo Huang

Volume 148, issue C, 2023

The state-private hybrid forest policy in Myanmar: The impact of neoliberalism on the forestry sector after the 1990s

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

Private forest owner willingness to mobilise wood from dense, small-diameter tree stands

Matevž Triplat, Satu Helenius, Ruben Laina, Nike Krajnc, Thomas Kronholm, Zdenka Ženko and Teppo Hujala

Forest landowner demand for prescribed fire as an ecological management tool in Pennsylvania, USA

Arun Regmi, Melissa M. Kreye and Jesse K. Kreye

Can supply chain laws prevent deforestation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Indonesia?

Lena Partzsch, Lukas Maximilian Müller and Anne-Kathrin Sacherer

Predicting timber theft based on environmental features – Insights from Humboldt Redwoods State Park, US

Stephen F. Pires and Nerea Marteache

Management of German national parks: The role of institutions and actors in defining goals and making decisions

Jan Rommelfanger

Is deforestation needed for growth? Testing the EKC hypothesis for Latin America

María P. Pablo-Romero, Antonio Sánchez-Braza and Jesús Gil-Pérez

Analyzing the relationship between income and life satisfaction of Forest farm households - a behavioral economics approach

Yan-Zhen Hong, Yi-Ju Su and Hung-Hao Chang

Development pathways for co-management in the Sundarban mangrove forest: A multiple stakeholder perspective

Flora Begum, Lisa Lobry de Bruyn, Paul Kristiansen and Mohammad Amirul Islam