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Assessing the wood-basket and characterizing Michigan's logging businesses by their reliance on nonindustrial private forests for stumpage Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Shivan Gc, Karen Potter-Witter, Raju Pokharel, Larry Leefers, Patricia Norris, Emily S. Huff
This study delineates the procurement areas for individual logging businesses to create a combined wood-basket for 115 logging businesses in Michigan using a road transportation network dataset and information collected from a mail survey of logging businesses. Forest ownership and forest condition datasets are used to understand the status of timber resources and the reliance of logging businesses
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Effect of climate change on the land rent of radiata pine plantations in Chile: Site productivity and forest fires Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Rodrigo Labbé, Mario Niklitschek, Marco Contreras
Climate change can severely affect forest plantation productivity and fire regimes in temperate regions. The economic evaluation of these impacts is challenging because of the spatially differentiated effects expected to occur across planted areas. We calculated the combined effect of projected climate change on the stochastic land expectation value (SLEV) for a random sample of stands covering the
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Quantifying additionality thresholds for forest carbon offsets in Mississippi pine pulpwood markets Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-23 David J. Rossi, Justin S. Baker, Robert C. Abt
Concerns over the additionality of carbon sequestration achieved through voluntary carbon market have threatened offset market credibility and stability. There is an urgent need to examine additionality in a dynamic market context. To this end, our analysis focuses on the extent to which deferred harvests of pine roundwood as an offset source can achieve additionality under changing roundwood prices
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Impact of carbon price on the relative profitability of production forestry and permanent forestry for New Zealand plantations Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Bruce Manley
New Zealand has an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) under which forest growers can earn carbon units for increases in carbon stock. Between March 2020 and March 2022 carbon price increased from $24/NZU to $74/NZU. Carbon price increased to the extent that the Land Expectation Value (LEV) of permanent forestry (without clearfelling) exceeds the LEV of production forestry (with clearfelling) on many sites
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Labour informality in forestry: A longitudinal (2009–2020) cross-country analysis of determinants in 70 developing countries Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Rattiya Suddeephong Lippe, Tatiana Ojeda Luna, Waltteri Katajamäki, Jörg Schweinle
Informality accounts for a significant proportion of the forestry labour market and provides a critical livelihood option for millions of people in developing regions. Recent estimates reveal that at least three million people were informally employed in forestry. Nonetheless, informality is highly characterized by decent work deficits, profoundly impacting employment quality and sectoral development
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Associating dietary quality and forest cover in India Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Charlotte Milbank
With the global population expected to reach almost 10 billion by 2050, there is growing concern for how increasing demands for high-quality, sustainable diets will be met. Whilst food production and environmental conservation are often viewed as competing land uses, a growing body of literature supports the importance of forests in providing food and nutritional security. This study used data from
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How human-elephant relations are shaped: A case study of integrative governance process in Xishuangbanna, China Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Feng Ba, Xiaoyun Li, Yao Zhang, Weiping Shi, Pei Zhang
The conservation of nature is of paramount importance for preserving biodiversity. However, it can also give rise to conflicts and challenges for communities dependent on natural resources. In this paper, we focus on the issue of Human-Elephant conflict (HEC) in Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve, China, and investigate the causal linkages between governance systems and HEC. Our research presents
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The livelihood impacts of transnational aid for climate change mitigation: Evidence from Ghana Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Suhyun Jung, Reem Hajjar
While multilateral agencies have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the forestry sector to curb deforestation, mitigate climate change, and improve local livelihoods, there is a lack of rigorous empirical analyses demonstrating past investments' effectiveness in improving livelihoods. We investigate such programs' effectiveness in changing livelihoods by estimating the Forest Investment Program
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Forest bioeconomy at regional scale: A systematic literature review and future policy perspectives Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Gerardo Di Letizia, Caterina De Lucia, Pasquale Pazienza, Giulio Mario Cappelletti
Bioeconomy transition has been recognized as a key solution to tackle emerging environmental and socio-economic challenges. Several scientific publications focus on forest bioeconomy across multiple disciplines at territorial level. However, no studies provide a deep review investigation on forest bioeconomy with specific focus on wood at regional scale in Environmental and Social fields. Stemming
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Herbal medicine promotion for a restorative bioeconomy in tropical forests: A reality check on the Brazilian Amazon Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Klara Lindberg, Amanda Martvall, Mairon G. Bastos Lima, Caroline S.S. Franca
Herbal medicine has experienced a renaissance both for health reasons and as part of a bioeconomy for regions rich in biodiversity and traditional knowledge. Medicinal plant value chains can promote local development and sustainable livelihoods that are critical for forest frontiers in need of inclusive economic alternatives. This sector can become an example of restorative bioeconomy, which not only
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Identifying the factors affecting citizens' willingness to participate in urban forest governance: Evidence from the municipality of Palermo, Italy Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Antonino Galati, Alessandro Coticchio, Ángel Peiró-Signes
Urban and peri-urban forests provide a wide range of benefits especially by providing the inhabitants with numerous ecosystem services that contribute to maintaining and improving the quality of life and environment in urban areas. Studies on urban and peri-urban forests have mainly focused on analyzing citizens' perception of benefits provided by urban green spaces. However, less attention has been
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Non-industrial private forest owners' preferences for fuel reduction cost-share programs in the southeastern U.S. Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Jana Hilsenroth, Kelly A. Grogan, Raelene M. Crandall, Ludie Bond, Misti Sharp
In the southeastern United States, effective large-scale management of wildfire risk, encompassing both fire occurrence and damage to property or assets, requires the participation of non-industrial private forest landowners (NIPFL) to reduce fuel loads on their land. This research utilizes a survey to assess NIPFL's current management practices, history of wildfire on their property, and willingness
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Neoliberal pathways to the bioeconomy: Forest land use institutions in Chile, Finland, and Laos Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Juha Hiedanpää, Sabaheta Ramcilovik-Suominen, Matti Salo
Global capitalism has changed the Earth system to the extent that the current epoch is called the Anthropocene. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), land use change has played a crucial role in this profound functional shift in the Earth system. The Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) and its follow-up processes have insisted the same regarding the persisting decline in biodiversity
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Innovation in forest tree genetics: A comparative economic analysis in the European context Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Aline Fugeray-Scarbel, Xavier Irz, Stéphane Lemarié
In the context of global environmental change, European forests are expected to fulfil a broad range of functions, including the supply of raw materials to the bioeconomy, biodiversity preservation, and the provision of ecological services. Given fast progress in applied genetics, the selection and diffusion of genetically improved forest reproductive material (FRM) has a role to play towards the achievement
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Forests: A passive CO2 sink or an active CO2 pump? Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Michael Köhl, Leam M. Martes
Forests are considered an important component on the road to climate neutrality. Together with technical and other nature-based solutions, they should help to compensate for unavoidable residual emissions. Forests are seen primarily as a carbon sink, removing CO2 from the atmosphere through biomass growth. The desire to increase the sink capacity of forests to achieve climate neutrality suggests the
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Fixing the meaning of floating signifier: Discourses and network analysis in the bioeconomy policy processes in Argentina and Uruguay Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Julián Daniel Mijailoff, Sarah Lilian Burns
The concept of bioeconomy has spread globally as a floating signifier leading to multiple policies and strategies. As an ambiguous concept, bioeconomy policy agendas at national levels draw on a variety of discourses and visions later reshaped by the particular political and social contexts of each country or region. From the broad boundaries of the overarching bioeconomy meta-discourse, local dominant
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Close-to-nature forestry and intensive forestry – Two response patterns of forestry professionals towards climate change adaptation Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Dennis Roitsch, Silvia Abruscato, Marko Lovrić, Marcus Lindner, Christophe Orazio, Georg Winkel
Climate change poses a major challenge for forest management in Europe. Understanding how forestry professionals perceive climate change is critical to inform decision-making on climate change adaptation. The aim of this study was to explore the perceptions of forestry professionals regarding climate change and its effects on forests, as well as the importance of different forest management strategies
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Estimating timber supply elasticity of private forest landowners in the US South Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Kabindra Shahi, Jacek Siry, Pete Bettinger, Yanshu Li, Jonathan Smith
In the US South, private forest landowners own the majority of timberland; therefore, understanding the timber supply behavior of these landowners is a fundamental forest economic question. This study estimates the pine stumpage supply equations and elasticities of private landowners in TimberMart-South (TMS) regions. It uses individual landowner pine stumpage (sawtimber, pulpwood, and Chip-N-Saw [CNS])
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Environmental certification of woody charcoal: A choice experiments application Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 L. Rocchi, R. Campioni, A. Brunori, E. Mariano
The European market of woody charcoal is characterized by low transparency about the origin of the raw material, with negative consequences on forest management and legality. Thus, certifications that guarantee the sustainable management of forests or the chain of custody are fundamental tools for reaching sustainability. However, certification schemes covered a minor share of the market. This work
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Multi-stakeholder actors in resource management in Ghana: Dynamics of community-state collaboration in resource use management of the Mole National Park, Larabanga Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-22 Samuel Ziem Bonye, Gordon Yenglier Yiridomoh, Vivian Nsiah
Sustainable forest resource management through state-community collaboration has taken center stage over the past decades in resource management discourses. In Ghana, forest reserves are observed to be on the decline due to poaching and encroachment by fringe communities. This study aims to contribute to the literature gap by examining the dynamics of community-state collaboration in forest resource
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Institutional layering in climate policy: Insights from REDD+ governance in Indonesia Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-22 Silvio Hermawan, Moch Faisal Karim, Lena Rethel
Climate change adaptation in low- and middle-income countries has magnified the urgency of transforming forest governance. Despite the increased international pressure, progress is hampered by inefficiencies in forest-related state institutions that struggle with coordination, mediating political interests, and strategic policy formulation. Focusing on Indonesia's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation
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What ‘counts’ in international forest policy research? A conference ethnography of valuation practice and habitus in an interdisciplinary social science field Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-22 Susanne Koch, Camilla Tetley
In this paper, we examine implicit values, norms and orientations that guide international forest policy research (FPR). We link Bourdieu's praxeological theory and valuography to empirically grasp disciplinary habitus manifesting in valuation practice at International Forest Policy Meetings. Conferences provide spaces where scholars negotiate ‘what counts’. In presenting and discussing research, they
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Strictest nature conservation: China's national park policy underpinned by power shift and turf dynamic Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-19
China initiated the national park policy in 2015 to achieve the strictest nature conservation. This study pointed out that the core of this policy is to increase central authority. Hence, adopting the bureaucratic politics and Actor-centered Power theory, the study aimed to analyze the power shift and turf dynamics among ministries in the national park policy process. Based on the evidence, the study
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Who knew afforestation was such a challenge? Motivations and impediments to afforestation policy in New Zealand Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-12
Tree planting is becoming a global panacea for offsetting greenhouse gas emissions and providing other ecosystem services. New Zealand is no exception. In New Zealand, it is estimated that up to 1.2 million ha. of marginal and non-productive land could be planted in trees. Despite a number of incentive schemes in recent years, the desired level of planting has not been achieved. While ‘barriers’ have
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All talk and no action? Making change and negotiating gender equality in Swedish forestry Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Kristina Johansson, Maria Johansson, Elias Andersson
This study analyses how women professionals make sense of change with regard to gender (in)equality in the Swedish forestry sector. While most participants described an increased focus on gender equality in the sector, perceptions of change varied. Descriptions emphasising progress observe change in the sense that an increased focus on gender equality has meant that explicit sexism is no longer tolerated
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The political rationalities of governing deforestation in Colombia Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Darío Gerardo Zambrano-Cortés, Jelle Hendrik Behagel
Reducing emissions by deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) is a mechanism that aims to reduce global carbon emissions by protecting tropical forests. The practice of REDD+ implementation varies considerably in different contexts and studies have pointed its persistence despite concrete results. In this article, we focus on how rationalities of government intervene in the translation of REDD+
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Devolution of tenure rights in forestland in China: Impact on investment and forest growth Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Yuanyuan Yi
I investigate whether devolution of forestland tenure rights to households in China triggered forest investment and the impact on forest conditions. I use a panel dataset of a two-round survey of over 10,000 forestland plots held by 1500 households in eight provinces before and after the devolution. Using a quasi-experimental regression approach, I find that forestland devolved to households has higher
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Perceptions and reality: How National Forest System employee views correlate with frequency of unsold timber offerings Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Sonia R. Bruck, Gregory E. Frey
When National Forest System (NFS) tracts of timber are offered for sale and do not receive any bids from prospective buyers, mandated sales targets may be missed, additional costs can be incurred to the agency, and there is potentially lost opportunity for sustainable forest management. We validated NFS employee perceptions of unsold or “no-bid” offerings against observed no-bid sales. Using ordinary
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Attracting and retaining women in forest entomology and forest pathology Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Jessica A. Hartshorn, Eckehard G. Brockerhoff, Maartje J. Klapwijk, Mariella Marzano, Rebecca J. Ganley, Molly N. Darr
Inclusion of women in the forest entomology and forest pathology workforce has been a difficult journey. While policies and resources exist for organizations and departments to increase diversity and retain women, there still exist large gaps in gender parity at forest research institutions globally. It is imperative that we better understand the barriers that exist for women in forest entomology and
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Active timber management by outsourcing stumpage price uncertainty with the American put option Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Sun Joseph Chang, Fan Zhang
Timber production is risky, with price uncertainties caused by stumpage price fluctuations. In this study, the American put option is employed to outsource such uncertainty and establish the reservation prices at various stand ages. Put option values and the reservation prices derived thereof, thus, help forestland owners decide whether the stumpage price is high enough to justify an immediate timber
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Building a scale to measure individual social entrepreneurship orientation (ISEO) of forest students in Latin America Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Sandra Rodríguez-Piñeros, Mauricio Sabogal-Salamanca, Virginia Ibarvo-Urista, Nelson Aguilar-Palma, Rosalia Sánchez-Basualdo, Liz F. Villarraga-Flórez
Deforestation and poverty are problems that have gained the attention of governments, researchers, and international agendas. To fight these problems, the World Economic Forum suggested 15 transitions in three socio-economic systems that, if carried out, would allow the building of more resilient societies and generate up to 395 million jobs by 2030. Latin America (LA) has a great potential to implement
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Forecasting pine sawtimber stumpage prices: A comparison between a time series hybrid model and an artificial neural network Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Sabhyata Lamichhane, Bin Mei, Jacek Siry
We conducted a comparative analysis of the predictive ability of classical econometric models and artificial neural networks (ANNs) for pine sawtimber stumpage prices across 22 TimberMart-South regions in the US using quarterly prices from 1976 to 2022. We evaluated model accuracy via root mean square error and mean absolute percentage error metrics and employed the modified Diebold-Mariano test to
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Is it more important to increase carbon sequestration, biodiversity, or jobs? A case study of citizens' preferences for forest policy in Finland Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Erkki Mäntymaa, Janne Artell, Jukka T. Forsman, Artti Juutinen
Forest management plays an important role in mitigating the most serious threats to the well-being of current and future generations: climate change and biodiversity loss. We examine citizens' preferences for alternative forest management policy goals, including the provision of carbon sinks, biodiversity, and forest sector jobs, using a discrete choice experiment in Finland. We explore preference
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Households' livelihood in restricted forest landscapes: What is the impact of contextual factors? Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Azin Sadeghi, Eliza Zhunusova, Sven Günter, Matthias Dieter
In response to the loss of forest cover and biodiversity, forest conservation policies have been increasingly pursued worldwide. Such policies are often criticized for limiting the access of locals to forest resources, raising the question if nature conservation and poverty alleviation goals are compatible. Few studies have attempted to examine the impact of forest restriction on the livelihood of
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Indigenous Knowledge in the Amazon's Bioeconomy: Unveiling Bioepistemicide through the case of Kambo Medicine Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Maria Fernanda Gebara, Sabaheta Ramcilovic-Suominen, Michael Franz Schmidlehner
Indigenous knowledges have received increased attention in environmental governance issues over the last decade, especially biodiversity. Epistemic injustices, however, remain. Forms of knowledge that differ from dominant ‘Western’ knowledge are either not recognized and valued as equal, or are misused for land reoccupation and knowledge appropriation that further settler colonialism. Drawing on the
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Centralized governance for food safety of non-timber forest products: Wild-simulated ginseng in the Republic of Korea Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Tae Hoon Kim, Hansol Lee, Haeun Lee, Mi Sun Park
Global interest in non-timber forest products is increasing, owing to their contribution to the diversification of forest livelihoods. Wild-simulated ginseng (WSG) is a non-timber forest product that has received attention for promoting the livelihood of mountain villages and providing healthy foods in the Republic of Korea. The country's government policy for specializing the WSG with high commercial
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Challenging the dominant path of forest policy? Bottom-up, citizen forest management initiatives in a top-down governance context in Poland Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Krzysztof Niedziałkowski, Piotr Chmielewski
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Sharing economy in the forestry sector: Opportunities and barriers Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 P. Palátová, R. Rinn, M. Machoň, H. Paluš, R.C. Purwestri, V. Jarský
In the past years, the popularity of a sharing economy has increased, frequently in relation to accommodation and car sharing. There are many positive aspects to sharing, especially in cost reduction. The subject of our research was to find out whether a sharing economy and its principles have their place in the forestry sector, using the example of the Czech Republic. Three research questions were
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What causes deforestation and land cover change in Riau Province, Indonesia Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Lila Juniyanti, Rospita Odorlina Pilianna Situmorang
Riau has experienced massive forest conversion and the highest deforestation rate in Sumatra and the world. International and local level deforestation and land cover change studies in Riau already exist. However, understanding the drivers and actors behind this land cover change remains challenging, partly because the studies are spread across many domains and disciplines. We provide a literature
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Are prices converging in the global sawnwood market? Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Jose M. Gil, Antonio Montañés, Bernardo Vásquez-González
This paper aims at addressing if the increasing globalization in the international sawnwood markets has caused export prices to converge to a single reference price or, alternatively, certain restrictions remain to generate a segmented market where different reference prices for each market segment co-exist. Annual price series for the top-10 exporting countries are considered for that purpose. Results
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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 Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Jessica Stubenrauch, Beatrice Garske
Forests ecosystems have an indispensable value for global climate and biodiversity protection. Alongside manifold other functions, forests ecosystems are important suppliers of raw materials in a post-fossil world. However, without effective legal restrictions, the increasing demand for woody biomass for energy production counteracts effective forest conservation in Europe and third countries. Against
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A tale of five cities: The role of municipalities in the market diffusion of wooden residential multistory construction and retrofits Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 A. Viljanen, K. Lähtinen, V. Kanninen, A. Toppinen
To enhance sustainable urban development, cities may contribute to the market diffusion of wooden multistory residential construction (WMC) and to wood use in the renovations of old multistory residential buildings (i.e., wooden retrofits). For the construction sector, building with wood enables a shift from the dominant concrete-based building regime, which has hindered the industrialization of building
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Can a sequential analysis provide a more robust understanding of farmers' adoption decisions? An example from an agroforestry adoption study in Ethiopia Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Dagninet Amare, Dietrich Darr
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The concept of the human-forest relationship (HFR) – Definition and potentials for forest policy research Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Tuulikki Halla, Jana Holz, Reetta Karhunkorva, Jaana Laine
Forests are a crucial and contested part of nature. Their management is at the center of policies and conflicts around global sustainability aspirations and potential futures. Human attitudes and practices play major role in these policies and conflicts. This article focuses on the meanings humans attach to forests. These meanings act as drivers influencing activities and decision-making from forest
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Assessing the emotional and spiritual dimension of forests: A review of existing participatory methods Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-17 V. Marini Govigli, S. Bruzzese
Spirituality, aesthetic enjoyment, relaxation, and emotions are key non-material intangible values experienced in forests. Despite being a central issue to present-day forest policy and regulation, they are difficult to assess because they are intertwined with people's values and beliefs. In this paper, we explore which participatory methods can serve best to identify and evaluate the emotional and
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Assessing public preferences for a wildfire mitigation policy in Crete, Greece Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Haleema Misal, Elsa Varela, Apostolos Voulgarakis, Anastasios Rovithakis, Manolis Grillakis, Yiannis Kountouris
The increased frequency and severity of wildfires in the Mediterranean region generates significant damages in ecosystems and landscapes while harming human populations. Institutional complexities, along with socioeconomic and demographic changes encouraging development into the wildland-urban interface, rural abandonment, and focus on fire suppression, are increasing the vulnerability and flammability
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Medicinal plants production systems in rural Indonesia: Management practices and performance insights Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Sri Astutik, Jürgen Pretzsch, Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi, Gerald Kapp
The management of production system regarding the sustainable use of medicinal plants rely, in part, on the operational approaches employed by actors in input-process-output (IPO) schemes. This is done in a bid to gain competitive performance in medicinal plants systems—both extractive (forest gathering) and cultivation (forest farming and farm plantation). In the context of Indonesia, one of the key
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Transformation of the global governance in the cocoa sector with three characteristics: Diversification, flexibilization, and coordination Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Haeun Lee, Mi Sun Park
The cocoa sector has continued its global efforts to address various environmental and social issues. This research aims to unpack characteristics of the global cocoa governance focusing on global actors, rules, and agendas through content analysis with global documents related to the cocoa sector. This research includes the 60 year time frame from 1962, the year of establishment of Intergovernmental
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Resilient forest-based value chains? Econometric analysis of roundwood prices in five European countries in the era of natural disturbances Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Raphael Asada, Elias Hurmekoski, Annechien Dirkje Hoeben, Marco Patacca, Tobias Stern, Anne Toppinen
Climate change poses a growing threat to European forests due to the increasing frequency and severity of storms, insect outbreaks, and other natural disturbances. Natural disturbances affect both the volume and the quality of harvested wood and increase the tendency of increased salvage loggings, reducing roundwood prices over the short-term. The increase of unexpected inflow of wood resources prompted
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Impacts of rising COVID-19 incidence and changed working conditions on forest visits in early 2020 of the pandemic: Evidence from Switzerland Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Anne C. Wunderlich, Boris Salak, K. Tessa Hegetschweiler, Nicole Bauer, Marcel Hunziker
The COVID-19 pandemic forced many nations to implement a certain degree of lockdown measures to contain the spread of the virus. It has been reported that recreational visits to forests and green spaces increased in response to the lockdown. In this study, we investigated the effect of the policy-induced changes in working conditions during the lockdown period, as well as the effect of COVID-19 infection
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Resetting the forestry commons: Constitutionality as a conflict resolution strategy in African woodlands Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Désirée Gmür, Tobias Haller
This paper comparatively analyses three case studies in Mali, Senegal and Tanzania regarding common property institutions for forest commons and their transformations during colonial and post-colonial times. Then common pool resource management was fragmented and common property was increasingly turned into state and private property and local control over resources was removed. This led to grabbing
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Preferences for a payment for ecosystem services program to control forest fires in Burkina Faso: A choice experiment Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Achille Augustin Diendéré, Dominique Kaboré
The successful implementation of a payments for ecosystem services (PES) program depends on a mix of incentives, including nonmonetary incentives. This study investigates local households' willingness to enroll in a PES program that controls forest fires in the Nazinon forest of Burkina Faso. A choice experiment is conducted with 200 household heads to elicit their preferences for the different attributes
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Enforcement and compliance with the no-burning policy on villagers in Indonesia Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo, Luca Tacconi, Efendi Agus Waluyo
Wildfires, including on carbon-rich peatlands, continue to haunt Indonesia every dry season. They have disastrous health, economic, environmental, and climate consequences. As a key measure to manage wildfires, laws strictly prohibit the burning of land and forests, targeting corporate and individual fire users. The literature suggests that weak law enforcement contributes to Indonesia's persistent
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Institutional structures impeding forest-based social innovation in Serbia and Slovenia Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Ivana Živojinović, Todora Rogelja, Gerhard Weiss, Alice Ludvig, Laura Secco
The potential of forest-based social innovations (SI) can be understood by looking at existing institutional structures, relevant policy programmes and instruments, as well as the roles of the various relevant actors in SI frameworks. The case examples from Serbia and Slovenia aim to understand how existing institutional structures have become embedded in SI over the years as well as where gaps and
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Passive or not? – Examining the diversity within passive forest owners Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Anne Matilainen, Merja Lähdesmäki
The structural changes that affect forest owners at the European level have entailed the threat of their becoming more passive in their forest management. These “so-called” passive forest owners represent a challenge for policy-makers, as they typically do not pursue explicit forest management goals and put less weight on externalities demanded of the forest resources by society. At the national level
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Analysis of the environmental Kuznets curve for forest fragmentation: The case of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in China Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Dandan Deng, Jiayun Dong, Yiwen Zhang, Wenyuan Liang, Kun Liu, Lingchao Li
In recent decades, the international community has become increasingly concerned about several important environmental challenges including forest fragmentation. In this study, we develop a county-level panel dataset for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region of China from 2000 to 2018 and use remote-sensing image data to estimate forest fragmentation. We use a panel threshold regression model to group
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Making gender visible: Objectives and socio-demographic differences among women forest owners Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Juulia Kuhlman, Sami Berghäll, Annukka Vainio
Women forest owners represent a large share of non-industrial private forest owners in Western countries. Gender affects many aspects of forest ownership, and women are underrepresented in forestry, forest organisations and forestry practices. The objective of this study is to improve the understanding of women forest owners' objectives and their relationship with socio-demographic attributes. The
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Spiritual values in forest management plans in British Columbia and the Netherlands Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Catharina de Pater, Bas Verschuuren, Birgit Elands, Iris van Hal, Esther Turnhout
Spiritual values are part of major global forest-related policies and strategies for sustainable forest management. Despite ongoing research and current debates, the significance of spiritual values in sustainable forest management in the Global North remains under-theorised. As Forest Management Plans represent an important nexus between policies and practices, this study clarifies the significance
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Inflation hedging effectiveness of farmland and timberland assets in the United States Forest Policy Econ. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Srijana Baral, Bin Mei
We examine the effectiveness of private- and public-equity farmland and timberland assets in hedging actual, expected, and unexpected inflation by using the capital asset pricing model under inflation. Rolling regression is used to assess the time-varying ability of hedging inflation. Results show that private-equity farmland can hedge all inflation types with a 15-year investment horizon, whereas