Forest Policy and Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Forest Policy and Economics is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Science as a field of struggle: Gendered experiences of African scholars doing forest governance research81
Effects of designating non-public forests for ecological purposes on farmer's forestland investment: A quasi-experiment in southern China68
Visitor satisfaction with WMAs: A case study from Oklahoma60
Flow and structural effects in asymmetric forest transitions under climate and economic pressure: A regime-switching approach57
Prospects and challenges for policy convergence between the EU and China to address imported deforestation56
Corrigendum to “Nonindustrial private forest landowner perspectives on forest certification: A look at awareness and barriers” [Forest Policy and Economics 131 (2021), 102552]48
Contributing to healthy forests: Social preferences for pest and disease mitigation programs in Spain42
From asking “would I be ready?” to “would I belong?”: Preparedness perceptions of forest and natural resources university students in the United States to enter the workforce42
Conservation by corruption: The hidden yet regulated economy in Nepal's community forest timber sector41
Conflicting interests in the standard setting process of the PEFC forest certification scheme in Finland41
Cocoa driven deforestation in Cameroon: Practices and policy40
Creating the landscape, one stand at a time: The dual roles of timber buyers in the nested domains of Swedish forestry38
The impacts of climate and energy policy instruments on forest bioeconomy36
Does international climate finance contribute to the adoption of zero deforestation policies? Insights from Brazil and Indonesia36
Impact of carbon price on the relative profitability of production forestry and permanent forestry for New Zealand plantations35
From timber to carbon: Stakeholder acceptance of policy measures supporting forest management transition in Finland35
Development pathways for co-management in the Sundarban mangrove forest: A multiple stakeholder perspective35
Local perception and attitude toward community forest concessions in the Democratic Republic of Congo35
Inflation hedging effectiveness of farmland and timberland assets in the United States32
Governing multiple-use forests as commons and the capability approach. The case of forestry and the Sami reindeer herders in Sweden32
Actors' participation and power manifestations in tax regimes of small-scale tree growing32
Three decades of forest policy studies in the former socialist countries of Europe: A review32
Navigating crowds: Reconsidering visitor recreational experience and crowding preference for a forest park in Taiwan31
A policy analysis of peatland-related policies - pressures, ecosystem services, conservation and restoration31
Wood flow management for supply and demand synchronization: A literature review30
Corrigendum to ‘Ways to Maintain and Challenge Hegemony: Actor Coalitions in Finnish Forest Governance’ [Forest Policy and economics (2025) FORPOL_103572]30
Climate change in Indonesian forest governance: A frame analysis of the scientific discourse29
Current status of improved forest management carbon offset projects in the US voluntary market29
A tale of five cities: The role of municipalities in the market diffusion of wooden residential multistory construction and retrofits29
Forest bioeconomy at regional scale: A systematic literature review and future policy perspectives29
Citation dynamics, thematic structure and temporal evolution of research on the Faustmann Forest Economics model (1962–2025)27
Identifying long-run and short-run relationships in the European Union softwood market27
The cost of operational complexity: A causal assessment of pre-fire mitigation and wildfire suppression27
The political rationalities of governing deforestation in Colombia27
Public acceptance of policies to reduce forest loss: Evidence from a large-N cross-national survey in East Africa26
The role of price incentives in enhancing carbon sequestration in the forestry sector of Hungary25
The implementation of agroforestry in Namibia: A street-level bureaucracy perspective25
Mapping actors' interests and protected area management outcomes in the Campo Ma’an landscape of Cameroon25
The role of internal culture for coping with uncertainty in forest management24
Substitutability of U.S. and Canadian softwood lumber: A threshold modeling approach23
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Why are non-wood forest products still the poor relative in Global Forest Resources Assessments?23
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Research trends in forest policy in Europe and beyond: Insights from the 4th International Forest Policy Meeting (IFPM4)23
The legally binding agreement on forests in Europe – Analyzing the unsuccessful attempts at regional regime creation23
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Forest diversity and the distribution of farm revenue - Empirical evidence from forest farms in Taiwan23
Rights based approaches to forest landscape restoration; learning from the Indian forest policy experience22
The impact of National Forest City Construction on local employment: Evidence from China22
A systematic review of gender and forest ownership in the global north: Empirical trends and theoretical challenges21
Aligning conservation goals with forest livelihood needs: Using local perspectives to inform policy and practice in Ghana21
Forests, trees and the eradication of poverty21
Competitiveness and upgrading in global value chains: A multiple-country analysis of the wooden furniture industry21
The influence of discounting ecosystem services in robust multi-objective optimization – An application to a forestry-avocado land-use portfolio21
Long-term forestation-deforestation dynamics in a socioeconomic perspective: The case of Italy, 1936–201821
Developing a supply chain model for sustainable aviation fuel using logging residues in Georgia, United States21
Enhancing actor-centered power theory through actor typology: Insights from community-based conservation in China20
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Trade effects of transnational timber legality assurance regimes: Evidence from the lacey act amendment on China’s forest product exports20
Greening the blue Pacific: Lessons on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+)20
Livelihood (in)justice and forest governance in the Sundarbans mangrove ecosystem20
Are you okay with overtourism in forests? Path between crowding perception, satisfaction, and management action of trail visitors in South Korea20
The impact of extreme disturbance events on the economic attractiveness of stand types: A Monte Carlo simulation-based study20
Exploring trade-offs in forest carbon storage: A cost-effectiveness study of Nordic forests and harvested wood products19
A Buffered Area Restriction Model (BARM) for optimisation of spatially constrained forest harvest scheduling19
A comparative analysis of timber harvesting, timber supply, and tree planting across ownerships and regions of the United States19
Challenging the dominant path of forest policy? Bottom-up, citizen forest management initiatives in a top-down governance context in Poland19
US imports of softwood lumber: Assessing the significance of spillover effects19
Policy perceptions and local stakeholder engagement in forest co-management in the Yarlung Tsangpo River Basin, China19
Risk preferences, adoption and welfare impacts of multiple agroforestry practices18
The coalitional politics of the European Union Regulation on deforestation-free products18
Determining future climate services of the Swiss forest and wood sector: What can we learn from extending global shared socioeconomic pathways?18
Common preferences of European small-scale forest owners towards contract-based management18
Exploring technical efficiency in the European forest sector: A two-stage chance-constrained data envelopment analysis18
Deferred rotation carbon programs for even-aged forests: Aligning landowner and societal objectives18
Passive or not? – Examining the diversity within passive forest owners18
Effect of climate change on the land rent of radiata pine plantations in Chile: Site productivity and forest fires17
Voluntary sustainability standards to cope with the new European Union regulation on deforestation-free products: A gap analysis17
From narrative to actions: Theoretical framework for the integration of reframed narratives into New Zealand's agricultural policy17
Carbon emissions embedded in China's paper trade: Estimated outcomes of alternative approaches17
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Fixing the meaning of floating signifier: Discourses and network analysis in the bioeconomy policy processes in Argentina and Uruguay16
Forest efficiency assessment and prediction using dynamic DEA and machine learning16
Mapping the research of Forest ecosystem Services in Europe: A review16
The legacy of fortress approaches to conservation: Impact of early-life experiences on contemporary natural resource use in Giant Panda Nature reserves, China16
Motivations behind the forest managers’ decision making about mixed forests in the Czech Republic16
Decision support systems to improve the provision of forest ecosystem services: Stakeholders' opinions and expectations in Italy and North-Macedonia16
Conservation policy and forest transition in Zagros forests: Statistical analysis of human welfare, biophysical, and climate drivers16
Whose forest? A two-level collective action perspective on struggles to reach polycentric governance16
Mapping two centuries of forest governance in Nordic countries: An open access database16
The role of local deities and traditional beliefs in promoting the sustainable use of mangrove ecosystems16
Assessing the emotional and spiritual dimension of forests: A review of existing participatory methods15
Forest subsidy distribution in five European countries15
Forest benefits and willingness to pay for sustainable forest management15
Additional measures needed to ensure clove industry does not contribute to tree cover loss in Madagascar15
Are prices converging in the global sawnwood market?15
Indonesia's options in becoming a high-income country: Accelerating the turning point in deforestation?15
Impact of the FLEGT license on Indonesian plywood competitiveness in the European Union15
Forest landowner demand for prescribed fire as an ecological management tool in Pennsylvania, USA15
The Role of Forests and Trees in Poverty Dynamics15
Harnessing the full potential of a global forest-based bioeconomy through non-timber products: Beyond logs, biotechnology, and high-income countries14
How village communities perceive the relevance of forest ecosystem services: Insights from Himachal Pradesh, India14
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The impact of conservation and land use transitions on the livelihoods of indigenous peoples: A narrative review of the northern Thai highlands14
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Framing forest dieback since 2018 and relating forest restoration: An analysis of the direct communication of forest policy actors in Germany14
The anatomy of social capital of a Canadian indigenous community: Implications of social trust field experiments for community-based forest management14
Is voluntarism an effective and legitimate way of governing climate adaptation? A study of private forest owners in Sweden14
Optimized strategies for nitrogen fertilizer application in Populus plantations in the context of climate change mitigation14
How nature and landscape quality connect: An exploratory study of their relationship with urban green spaces14
Hidden inequality: Rethinking non-timber forest products for bioeconomic development in Southwest China13
Actors, discourses and relations in the Finnish newspapers' forest discussion: Enabling or constraining the sustainability transition?13
When intentions do not matter: Climate change mitigation and adaptation innovations in the Forest-based sector13
The role of forest bathing in emergency management13
Future wood demands and ecosystem services trade-offs: A policy analysis in Norway13
Political parties as allies for the forestry sector: A case study from Germany13
Good intentions meet complex realities: CITES listing of diverse frankincense (Boswellia species) might do more harm than good13
Bioeconomy in countries of the Mekong region: Stakeholder understanding and perceptions in Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos13
How contracted tree farmers engage in and benefit from inclusive value chains: Evidence from Vietnam13
Understanding farmers' attitudes and aspirations for tree-cover restoration in the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania13
Forest certification and its impact on business management and market performance: The key role of motivations13
Institutional layering in climate policy: Insights from REDD+ governance in Indonesia13
Sequencing the political forest: Power, exclusion, and the corporate hijacking of social forestry in Indonesia13
Does agroforestry contribute to household food security? A micro-perspective from southern Rwanda13
Forest carbon offset protocols in compliance carbon markets13
Regional sustainability transition through forest-based bioeconomy? Development actors' perspectives on related policies, power, and justice13
Transformation of the global governance in the cocoa sector with three characteristics: Diversification, flexibilization, and coordination13
Factors influencing the shift from cocoa to rubber production in Wasa Amenfi Central District in the Western region of Ghana13
Prices versus quantities in forest regulation13
Optimal regimes of prescribed burning in forest plantations in the presence of risk of wildfires in the southeastern United States13
Comparing expert priorities for sustainable forest management indicators across developed and developing countries: a Delphi-informed cross-national survey13
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Recent trends of employment in the forestry and logging sector of India: Evidence from unit-level data of periodic labour force survey (PLFS)12
Developing community-based criteria for sustaining non-timber forest products: A case study with the Missanabie Cree First Nation12
How policy instruments affect forest cover: Evidence from China12
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Financial accounting of Douglas fir management12
Gender and women in scientific literature on bioeconomy: A systematic review12
Creating economic incentives for agroforestry in Assam12
Exploring the impact of tenure arrangements and incentives on sustainable forest use: Evidence from a framed-field experiment in Ethiopia12
Deforestation, land use, and malaria incidence in the Brazilian Amazon: A spatial analysis12
Culture change in the Forest sector: Insights from a participatory workshop at the Women's Forest congress11
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Sinking into standing forests or timber for climate change mitigation: Instrument constituencies and policy preferences11
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A global review of agroforestry research and policy directions: Addressing ecological and socioeconomic challenges through systematic review and bibliometric analysis11
Towards an efficient implementation of the EU biodiversity strategy in forests – An analysis of alternative voluntary conservation mechanisms and selection criteria11
The oil palm replanting imperative: Are smallholder farmers willing to participate?11
Deciphering the plot preferences of forest contractors when purchasing stumpage through conjoint analysis11
Forest clearances, compensatory afforestation and biodiversity offsetting in forests: Balancing flexibility and equivalency in Switzerland11
Examining the cross-sector impact of NGOs' roles on forest-certification policy: An empirical study in China11
Assessing the wood-basket and characterizing Michigan's logging businesses by their reliance on nonindustrial private forests for stumpage11
Does gender really matter? How demographics and site characteristics influence behavior and attitudes of German small-scale private forest owners11
Who cares what happens with planted forests? A public typology to assist community engagement and communication11
An analysis of wood availability under six policy scenarios of commercial forest plantations in Colombia11
An assessment of the sustainability of family forests in the U.S.A.11
Can agroforestry compete? A scoping review of the economic performance of agroforestry practices in Europe and North America11
Unlocking youth opportunities in the forest sector: The role of green jobs in generating youth employment in Malawi11
Who knew afforestation was such a challenge? Motivations and impediments to afforestation policy in New Zealand10
Research approaches to sustainable forest-based value creation: A literature review10
Is a sustainability transition possible within the decision-support services provided to Finnish forest owners?10
Integrating economic and ecological drivers in forest product yield forecasting: A Finnish case study10
The state-private hybrid forest policy in Myanmar: The impact of neoliberalism on the forestry sector after the 1990s10
The potential impact of forest loss on drinking water treatment costs in the southeastern U.S.10
What does the climate crisis mean for forest work science? Urgent call for reviewing of research priorities10
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Implementation gaps affecting the quality of biodiversity conservation management: An ethnographic study of protected areas in Fujian Province, China10
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A biblio-econometric analysis of tropical forest loss dynamics10
Invasive alien tree species (Acacia mearnsii) shaping the energy insecurity complex in rural South Africa10
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Effects of forests and forest-related activities on the subjective well-being of residents in a Japanese watershed: An econometric analysis through the capability approach10
Environmentality and the making of compliant subjects: Insights from collaborative forest management innovations in Southwestern Ghana9
Participatory mapping of degradation and restoration processes in the Sundarbans mangrove ecosystem9
Should forest enterprises formalize? Insight from a multi-dimensional characterization of informal baobab enterprises9
Perceptions and reality: How National Forest System employee views correlate with frequency of unsold timber offerings9
Drones take flight in forests: Uncovering the ‘tree’-mendous potential and ‘timber’-rific challenges for German forest managers by applying the technology acceptance model9
Food ethnobotany of forest resource in the high-altitude Himalaya Mountains: Enhancing the food sovereignty of ethnic groups9
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Psychological ownership and forest management behavior: Development and validation of a multidimensional bifactor scale9
Policy integration and coherence of EU and Finnish forest policy9
Trust, tenure security and investment in high-value forests9
Ways to maintain and challenge hegemony: Actor coalitions in Finnish forest governance9
Cross-sectoral policy integration of forest biomass for renewable energy in Indonesia9
Medicinal plants production systems in rural Indonesia: Management practices and performance insights9
Livelihood strategies, baobab income and income inequality: Evidence from Kordofan and Blue Nile, Sudan9
Assessing actor power in the trade-offs between ecosystem services affecting forest management – A case study from Central Slovakia9
Building a scale to measure individual social entrepreneurship orientation (ISEO) of forest students in Latin America9
Forest carbon incentive programs for non-industrial private forests in Oregon (USA): Impacts of program design on willingness to enroll and landscape-scale program outcomes9
Correlating forested green infrastructure to water rates and adverse water quality incidents: A spatial instrumental variable regression model9
Assessing the potential of the ‘typical forest enterprise approach’ for research in forest economics and application in policy making: A comparative analysis based on five national case studies9
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Shaping future foresters: Assessing employers and recent graduates' perceptions on changing demands in forest sector employment9
Forest-based land reform partnerships in rural development and the sustenance of timber markets. Learning from two South African cases9
Self-efficacy toward prescribed burning among female and male family forest landowners in Georgia, US9
Reconciling global and local benefits of forest restoration: A shared interdisciplinary perspective9
Local policy networks in support of wood-based construction: A case study from Joensuu, Finland8
Holistic analysis of factors influencing the adoption of agroforestry to foster forest sector based climate solutions8
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 Program8
Enhancing wood products through ENplus, FSC and PEFC certifications: Which attributes do consumers value the most?8
A trading market for uncertain carbon removal by land use in the EU8
Making gender visible: Objectives and socio-demographic differences among women forest owners8
EUTR implementation in the Italian wood-energy sector: Role and impact of (ongoing) digitalisation8
Theorising and analysing the forest-based bioeconomy through a global production network lens8
Policy options to regulate timber and agricultural supply-chains for legality and sustainability: The case of the EU and Brazil8
Towards more inclusive community landscape governance: Drivers and assessment indicators in northern Ghana8
Sustainability performance of community forest enterprises (CFES) in Cameroon: Pathways to viable business models8
How to identify and interpret weak signals of change in the forest bioeconomy8
The fall of the kings: Power relations and dynamics in Papua's indigenous community in forest resource management8
New frontiers of forest economics, IV: Entrepreneurship in forestry: Innovation, uncertainty and profit8
Intersectional perspectives on land relations of oil palm plantations: A decolonial feminist approach on Indonesia's bioeconomy8
Structural policy coordination for forest ecosystem services management in the legal accountability system8
Forest fire causes and prevention strategies in Portugal: Insights from stakeholder focus groups8
Corrigendum to “Evaluation analysis of the compensation payments schemes for ecosystem services: The case of Czech and Slovak Republic” [Forest Policy and Economics 163 (2024) 10320]8
Households' livelihood in restricted forest landscapes: What is the impact of contextual factors?8
Terminal value: A crucial and yet often forgotten element in timber harvest scheduling and timberland valuation8
Reconciling forest product statistics for enhanced sector modeling: A recursive dynamic goal programming approach8
A generalized Faustmann model with multiple carbon pools8
Farmer perceptions of REDD+ livelihood interventions as incentive mechanism for reducing deforestation in the Juabuso-Bia cocoa forest landscape8
Gender equality in Nordic forest research – A literature review8
Understanding actors' interests and power relations in honey production: Empirical insights from the Western highlands of Cameroon8
Estimating the causal effect of forestry programs on forest recovery in a REDD+ priority area in Michoacán, Mexico8
Forest sector models for tropical countries - A case study of Colombia8
Collective participation in conservation easements in rural China: Evidence from the Qianjiangyuan National Park8
Regional economic and employment impacts of industrial decline in the forest sector: Evidence from sawmill closures in Michigan7
The potential of participatory citizen science for assessing ecosystem services in support of multi-level decision-making – Insights from Switzerland7
A mathematical model for strategic management of the forest supply chain considering its products and energy generation7
Herbal medicine promotion for a restorative bioeconomy in tropical forests: A reality check on the Brazilian Amazon7
Why do forests persist and re-emerge amidst tropical deforestation pressures? Archetypes of governance and impact pathways7
Differential values associated with outdoor recreational access among the wildlife management area permit holders7
Assessing economic benefits and costs of carbon sinks in boreal rotation forestry7
An environmental Kuznets curve for global forests: An application of the mi-lasso estimator7
Interactions between formal and informal institutions governing community and small-scale timber enterprises: The case of the Ampiyacu river basin in the Peruvian Amazon7
A comprehensive outlook on drought caused economic losses and landowner perceptions concerning drought and erratic rainfall patterns7
Information access, governance support and operational flexibility are needed to drive adaptation of European forests to global change7
Finding a Neue Gemeinschaft in rural Indonesia: A discussion of forest community digital transformation7
Examining the adoption of PEFC chain of custody certification in the Italian forest-based industry: An empirical study on motivations and impacts7
Evaluation analysis of the compensation payments schemes for ecosystem services: The case of Czech and Slovak Republic7
Improving forest decision-making through complex system representation: A viability theory perspective7
Centralized governance for food safety of non-timber forest products: Wild-simulated ginseng in the Republic of Korea7
Spatial effects of ecological cognition on firewood collection by households in protected areas: An analysis based on the giant panda nature reserves7
Combating new challenges with old political solutions? Policy responses to climate change and climate- induced disturbances in European forests7
A heuristic typology of mediator-centered power in land use conflicts: An actor centered analysis for developing countries7
The performance of global forest governance: Three contrasting perspectives7
Governing Europe's forests for multiple ecosystem services: Opportunities, challenges, and policy options7
Analyzing the National Park policymaking process in China from a multiple streams perspective: Domination by the political stream and policy entrepreneurs7
Now the forests are of value an everyday historical political ecology from southern Sweden7
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