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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Effects of designating non-public forests for ecological purposes on farmer's forestland investment: A quasi-experiment in southern China81
Visitor satisfaction with WMAs: A case study from Oklahoma71
Flow and structural effects in asymmetric forest transitions under climate and economic pressure: A regime-switching approach69
Corrigendum to “Nonindustrial private forest landowner perspectives on forest certification: A look at awareness and barriers” [Forest Policy and Economics 131 (2021), 102552]61
Conflicting interests in the standard setting process of the PEFC forest certification scheme in Finland58
Impact of carbon price on the relative profitability of production forestry and permanent forestry for New Zealand plantations45
Conservation by corruption: The hidden yet regulated economy in Nepal's community forest timber sector45
Creating the landscape, one stand at a time: The dual roles of timber buyers in the nested domains of Swedish forestry44
The impacts of climate and energy policy instruments on forest bioeconomy44
Does international climate finance contribute to the adoption of zero deforestation policies? Insights from Brazil and Indonesia44
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
Cocoa driven deforestation in Cameroon: Practices and policy41
Science as a field of struggle: Gendered experiences of African scholars doing forest governance research41
Development pathways for co-management in the Sundarban mangrove forest: A multiple stakeholder perspective40
Actors' participation and power manifestations in tax regimes of small-scale tree growing39
Prospects and challenges for policy convergence between the EU and China to address imported deforestation39
The role of price incentives in enhancing carbon sequestration in the forestry sector of Hungary37
Public acceptance of policies to reduce forest loss: Evidence from a large-N cross-national survey in East Africa37
Inflation hedging effectiveness of farmland and timberland assets in the United States37
Navigating crowds: Reconsidering visitor recreational experience and crowding preference for a forest park in Taiwan36
Three decades of forest policy studies in the former socialist countries of Europe: A review34
Corrigendum to ‘Ways to Maintain and Challenge Hegemony: Actor Coalitions in Finnish Forest Governance’ [Forest Policy and economics (2025) FORPOL_103572]34
Governing multiple-use forests as commons and the capability approach. The case of forestry and the Sami reindeer herders in Sweden33
The political rationalities of governing deforestation in Colombia32
From timber to carbon: Stakeholder acceptance of policy measures supporting forest management transition in Finland32
Current status of improved forest management carbon offset projects in the US voluntary market31
Identifying long-run and short-run relationships in the European Union softwood market31
The cost of operational complexity: A causal assessment of pre-fire mitigation and wildfire suppression30
A policy analysis of peatland-related policies - pressures, ecosystem services, conservation and restoration30
Wood flow management for supply and demand synchronization: A literature review29
Climate change in Indonesian forest governance: A frame analysis of the scientific discourse29
Editorial Board29
Mapping actors' interests and protected area management outcomes in the Campo Ma’an landscape of Cameroon28
Citation dynamics, thematic structure and temporal evolution of research on the Faustmann Forest Economics model (1962–2025)27
Forest bioeconomy at regional scale: A systematic literature review and future policy perspectives27
The implementation of agroforestry in Namibia: A street-level bureaucracy perspective27
A tale of five cities: The role of municipalities in the market diffusion of wooden residential multistory construction and retrofits27
The role of internal culture for coping with uncertainty in forest management26
Developing a supply chain model for sustainable aviation fuel using logging residues in Georgia, United States26
The legally binding agreement on forests in Europe – Analyzing the unsuccessful attempts at regional regime creation25
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Substitutability of U.S. and Canadian softwood lumber: A threshold modeling approach25
Research trends in forest policy in Europe and beyond: Insights from the 4th International Forest Policy Meeting (IFPM4)25
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Forest diversity and the distribution of farm revenue - Empirical evidence from forest farms in Taiwan25
Why are non-wood forest products still the poor relative in Global Forest Resources Assessments?24
Corrigendum to ‘Optimizing Douglas-fir management in the U.S. Pacific Northwest: Integrating timber prices, thinning strategies, and harvest age decisions’ [Forest Policy and Economics 174 (May 2025) 24
Rights based approaches to forest landscape restoration; learning from the Indian forest policy experience24
The impact of National Forest City Construction on local employment: Evidence from China24
Long-term forestation-deforestation dynamics in a socioeconomic perspective: The case of Italy, 1936–201824
A systematic review of gender and forest ownership in the global north: Empirical trends and theoretical challenges22
Aligning conservation goals with forest livelihood needs: Using local perspectives to inform policy and practice in Ghana22
Greening the blue Pacific: Lessons on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+)22
The influence of discounting ecosystem services in robust multi-objective optimization – An application to a forestry-avocado land-use portfolio21
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The impact of extreme disturbance events on the economic attractiveness of stand types: A Monte Carlo simulation-based study21
Trade effects of transnational timber legality assurance regimes: Evidence from the lacey act amendment on China’s forest product exports21
Exploring trade-offs in forest carbon storage: A cost-effectiveness study of Nordic forests and harvested wood products20
Policy perceptions and local stakeholder engagement in forest co-management in the Yarlung Tsangpo River Basin, China20
Passive or not? – Examining the diversity within passive forest owners20
Deferred rotation carbon programs for even-aged forests: Aligning landowner and societal objectives20
US imports of softwood lumber: Assessing the significance of spillover effects20
Exploring technical efficiency in the European forest sector: A two-stage chance-constrained data envelopment analysis19
Common preferences of European small-scale forest owners towards contract-based management19
Carbon emissions embedded in China's paper trade: Estimated outcomes of alternative approaches19
Determining future climate services of the Swiss forest and wood sector: What can we learn from extending global shared socioeconomic pathways?19
A Buffered Area Restriction Model (BARM) for optimisation of spatially constrained forest harvest scheduling19
Risk preferences, adoption and welfare impacts of multiple agroforestry practices19
Challenging the dominant path of forest policy? Bottom-up, citizen forest management initiatives in a top-down governance context in Poland18
Risk profiles for deforestation-free and legal supply-chains of wood-based products18
Enhancing actor-centered power theory through actor typology: Insights from community-based conservation in China18
Willingness to change and transition pain - exploring forestry students’ views on future forestry18
The coalitional politics of the European Union Regulation on deforestation-free products18
A comparative analysis of timber harvesting, timber supply, and tree planting across ownerships and regions of the United States18
Efficiency and productivity analysis of the secondary wood manufacturing sectors in British Columbia18
Are you okay with overtourism in forests? Path between crowding perception, satisfaction, and management action of trail visitors in South Korea18
Voluntary sustainability standards to cope with the new European Union regulation on deforestation-free products: A gap analysis18
Livelihood (in)justice and forest governance in the Sundarbans mangrove ecosystem17
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Assessing the emotional and spiritual dimension of forests: A review of existing participatory methods17
Effect of climate change on the land rent of radiata pine plantations in Chile: Site productivity and forest fires17
From narrative to actions: Theoretical framework for the integration of reframed narratives into New Zealand's agricultural policy17
Additional measures needed to ensure clove industry does not contribute to tree cover loss in Madagascar17
Whose forest? A two-level collective action perspective on struggles to reach polycentric governance17
Impact of the FLEGT license on Indonesian plywood competitiveness in the European Union17
Motivations behind the forest managers’ decision making about mixed forests in the Czech Republic17
The anatomy of social capital of a Canadian indigenous community: Implications of social trust field experiments for community-based forest management16
Mapping two centuries of forest governance in Nordic countries: An open access database16
How to assess the contribution of forests and wood use to climate change mitigation: Navigating through a controversial debate16
Are prices converging in the global sawnwood market?16
Forest landowner demand for prescribed fire as an ecological management tool in Pennsylvania, USA16
The role of local deities and traditional beliefs in promoting the sustainable use of mangrove ecosystems16
Indonesia's options in becoming a high-income country: Accelerating the turning point in deforestation?16
The legacy of fortress approaches to conservation: Impact of early-life experiences on contemporary natural resource use in Giant Panda Nature reserves, China16
Harnessing the full potential of a global forest-based bioeconomy through non-timber products: Beyond logs, biotechnology, and high-income countries16
Decision support systems to improve the provision of forest ecosystem services: Stakeholders' opinions and expectations in Italy and North-Macedonia16
Mapping the research of Forest ecosystem Services in Europe: A review15
Forest subsidy distribution in five European countries15
Optimized strategies for nitrogen fertilizer application in Populus plantations in the context of climate change mitigation15
Prices versus quantities in forest regulation15
Comparing expert priorities for sustainable forest management indicators across developed and developing countries: a Delphi-informed cross-national survey15
Regional sustainability transition through forest-based bioeconomy? Development actors' perspectives on related policies, power, and justice15
Conservation policy and forest transition in Zagros forests: Statistical analysis of human welfare, biophysical, and climate drivers15
The impact of conservation and land use transitions on the livelihoods of indigenous peoples: A narrative review of the northern Thai highlands15
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Good intentions meet complex realities: CITES listing of diverse frankincense (Boswellia species) might do more harm than good15
Framing forest dieback since 2018 and relating forest restoration: An analysis of the direct communication of forest policy actors in Germany15
Future wood demands and ecosystem services trade-offs: A policy analysis in Norway15
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Forest efficiency assessment and prediction using dynamic DEA and machine learning15
Bioeconomy in countries of the Mekong region: Stakeholder understanding and perceptions in Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos15
Fixing the meaning of floating signifier: Discourses and network analysis in the bioeconomy policy processes in Argentina and Uruguay15
Optimal regimes of prescribed burning in forest plantations in the presence of risk of wildfires in the southeastern United States15
How village communities perceive the relevance of forest ecosystem services: Insights from Himachal Pradesh, India15
Does agroforestry contribute to household food security? A micro-perspective from southern Rwanda14
‘Green’ jobs, invisible workers: Scalar politics of indecent forest landscape restoration labour in Ethiopia14
Forest carbon offset protocols in compliance carbon markets14
How contracted tree farmers engage in and benefit from inclusive value chains: Evidence from Vietnam14
Breaking Erysichthon's curse: Unlocking economic growth while sparing forests in Brazil14
Actors, discourses and relations in the Finnish newspapers' forest discussion: Enabling or constraining the sustainability transition?14
Institutional layering in climate policy: Insights from REDD+ governance in Indonesia14
Forest certification and its impact on business management and market performance: The key role of motivations14
Sequencing the political forest: Power, exclusion, and the corporate hijacking of social forestry in Indonesia14
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 China14
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Assessing the wood-basket and characterizing Michigan's logging businesses by their reliance on nonindustrial private forests for stumpage13
The oil palm replanting imperative: Are smallholder farmers willing to participate?13
How policy instruments affect forest cover: Evidence from China13
Transformation of the global governance in the cocoa sector with three characteristics: Diversification, flexibilization, and coordination13
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Gender and women in scientific literature on bioeconomy: A systematic review13
Exploring the impact of tenure arrangements and incentives on sustainable forest use: Evidence from a framed-field experiment in Ethiopia13
Financial accounting of Douglas fir management13
Deforestation, land use, and malaria incidence in the Brazilian Amazon: A spatial analysis13
Understanding farmers' attitudes and aspirations for tree-cover restoration in the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania13
The role of forest bathing in emergency management13
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Creating economic incentives for agroforestry in Assam12
Towards an efficient implementation of the EU biodiversity strategy in forests – An analysis of alternative voluntary conservation mechanisms and selection criteria12
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Culture change in the Forest sector: Insights from a participatory workshop at the Women's Forest congress12
Does gender really matter? How demographics and site characteristics influence behavior and attitudes of German small-scale private forest owners12
Who cares what happens with planted forests? A public typology to assist community engagement and communication12
When intentions do not matter: Climate change mitigation and adaptation innovations in the Forest-based sector12
Developing community-based criteria for sustaining non-timber forest products: A case study with the Missanabie Cree First Nation12
Recent trends of employment in the forestry and logging sector of India: Evidence from unit-level data of periodic labour force survey (PLFS)12
Factors influencing the shift from cocoa to rubber production in Wasa Amenfi Central District in the Western region of Ghana12
A global review of agroforestry research and policy directions: Addressing ecological and socioeconomic challenges through systematic review and bibliometric analysis12
Unlocking youth opportunities in the forest sector: The role of green jobs in generating youth employment in Malawi12
Is a sustainability transition possible within the decision-support services provided to Finnish forest owners?11
Forest clearances, compensatory afforestation and biodiversity offsetting in forests: Balancing flexibility and equivalency in Switzerland11
A biblio-econometric analysis of tropical forest loss dynamics11
Who knew afforestation was such a challenge? Motivations and impediments to afforestation policy in New Zealand11
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The potential impact of forest loss on drinking water treatment costs in the southeastern U.S.11
What does the climate crisis mean for forest work science? Urgent call for reviewing of research priorities11
Examining the cross-sector impact of NGOs' roles on forest-certification policy: An empirical study in China11
Deciphering the plot preferences of forest contractors when purchasing stumpage through conjoint analysis11
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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
The state-private hybrid forest policy in Myanmar: The impact of neoliberalism on the forestry sector after the 1990s11
Sinking into standing forests or timber for climate change mitigation: Instrument constituencies and policy preferences11
Invasive alien tree species (Acacia mearnsii) shaping the energy insecurity complex in rural South Africa11
Industrial symbiosis and circular economy: Contributions to the development of forest biomass industrial clusters10
Perceptions and reality: How National Forest System employee views correlate with frequency of unsold timber offerings10
Implementation gaps affecting the quality of biodiversity conservation management: An ethnographic study of protected areas in Fujian Province, China10
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Psychological ownership and forest management behavior: Development and validation of a multidimensional bifactor scale10
Policy integration and coherence of EU and Finnish forest policy10
Research approaches to sustainable forest-based value creation: A literature review10
Food ethnobotany of forest resource in the high-altitude Himalaya Mountains: Enhancing the food sovereignty of ethnic groups10
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 studies10
Integrating economic and ecological drivers in forest product yield forecasting: A Finnish case study10
Assessing actor power in the trade-offs between ecosystem services affecting forest management – A case study from Central Slovakia10
Cross-sectoral policy integration of forest biomass for renewable energy in Indonesia10
Medicinal plants production systems in rural Indonesia: Management practices and performance insights10
Ways to maintain and challenge hegemony: Actor coalitions in Finnish forest governance10
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Trust, tenure security and investment in high-value forests10
Building a scale to measure individual social entrepreneurship orientation (ISEO) of forest students in Latin America10
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Forest carbon incentive programs for non-industrial private forests in Oregon (USA): Impacts of program design on willingness to enroll and landscape-scale program outcomes10
Drones take flight in forests: Uncovering the ‘tree’-mendous potential and ‘timber’-rific challenges for German forest managers by applying the technology acceptance model10
Analyzing the National Park policymaking process in China from a multiple streams perspective: Domination by the political stream and policy entrepreneurs9
Households' livelihood in restricted forest landscapes: What is the impact of contextual factors?9
Estimating the causal effect of forestry programs on forest recovery in a REDD+ priority area in Michoacán, Mexico9
Enhancing wood products through ENplus, FSC and PEFC certifications: Which attributes do consumers value the most?9
Self-efficacy toward prescribed burning among female and male family forest landowners in Georgia, US9
EUTR implementation in the Italian wood-energy sector: Role and impact of (ongoing) digitalisation9
A trading market for uncertain carbon removal by land use in the EU9
Reconciling global and local benefits of forest restoration: A shared interdisciplinary perspective9
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]9
Livelihood strategies, baobab income and income inequality: Evidence from Kordofan and Blue Nile, Sudan9
Intersectional perspectives on land relations of oil palm plantations: A decolonial feminist approach on Indonesia's bioeconomy9
Reconciling forest product statistics for enhanced sector modeling: A recursive dynamic goal programming approach9
Differences and similarities in the adoption of the forest functions concept across 14 EU countries9
Understanding actors' interests and power relations in honey production: Empirical insights from the Western highlands of Cameroon9
Forest sector models for tropical countries - A case study of Colombia9
Making gender visible: Objectives and socio-demographic differences among women forest owners9
Assessing the economic tradeoffs of various forest management activities to enhance carbon sequestration efforts in Pennsylvania and Maryland9
Shaping future foresters: Assessing employers and recent graduates' perceptions on changing demands in forest sector employment9
Structural policy coordination for forest ecosystem services management in the legal accountability system9
Gender equality in Nordic forest research – A literature review9
Forest fire causes and prevention strategies in Portugal: Insights from stakeholder focus groups9
Institutionalizing REDD+ safeguards in Ghana: A reinforcement of power asymmetries and existing practices9
Towards more inclusive community landscape governance: Drivers and assessment indicators in northern Ghana9
Policy options to regulate timber and agricultural supply-chains for legality and sustainability: The case of the EU and Brazil9
Theorising and analysing the forest-based bioeconomy through a global production network lens9
Environmentality and the making of compliant subjects: Insights from collaborative forest management innovations in Southwestern Ghana9
Should forest enterprises formalize? Insight from a multi-dimensional characterization of informal baobab enterprises9
Participatory mapping of degradation and restoration processes in the Sundarbans mangrove ecosystem9
Strategic foundations in public forestry institutions: Testing resource-based and finance-based logics in the strategy of Poland's State Forests National Forest Holding8
Interactions between formal and informal institutions governing community and small-scale timber enterprises: The case of the Ampiyacu river basin in the Peruvian Amazon8
Regional economic and employment impacts of industrial decline in the forest sector: Evidence from sawmill closures in Michigan8
Rules and interactions around customary tree ownership in forested public lands: A qualitative study in Jharkhand, India8
Centralized governance for food safety of non-timber forest products: Wild-simulated ginseng in the Republic of Korea8
Evaluation analysis of the compensation payments schemes for ecosystem services: The case of Czech and Slovak Republic8
Sustainability performance of community forest enterprises (CFES) in Cameroon: Pathways to viable business models8
Collective participation in conservation easements in rural China: Evidence from the Qianjiangyuan National Park8
Holistic analysis of factors influencing the adoption of agroforestry to foster forest sector based climate solutions8
A generalized Faustmann model with multiple carbon pools8
Improving forest decision-making through complex system representation: A viability theory perspective8
Influence of communication channels on forestry programs participation: Evidence from smallholders in Vietnam8
Forest dependency and food security: Diverse livelihoods in India's tribal heartland8
Qualitative perspectives on safety, health, and productivity from Northeast United States loggers: Implications for industry sustainability8
Why do forests persist and re-emerge amidst tropical deforestation pressures? Archetypes of governance and impact pathways8
Assessing economic benefits and costs of carbon sinks in boreal rotation forestry8
Farmer perceptions of REDD+ livelihood interventions as incentive mechanism for reducing deforestation in the Juabuso-Bia cocoa forest landscape8
Terminal value: A crucial and yet often forgotten element in timber harvest scheduling and timberland valuation8
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
New frontiers of forest economics, IV: Entrepreneurship in forestry: Innovation, uncertainty and profit8
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Missing the forest for the trees: Ekiti State's quest for forestry revenue and its impact on forest managers8
The performance of global forest governance: Three contrasting perspectives8
Production, consumption and trade-based forest land and resource footprints in the Nordic and Baltic countries8
An environmental Kuznets curve for global forests: An application of the mi-lasso estimator8
Examining the adoption of PEFC chain of custody certification in the Italian forest-based industry: An empirical study on motivations and impacts8
Differential values associated with outdoor recreational access among the wildlife management area permit holders8
How to identify and interpret weak signals of change in the forest bioeconomy8
Local policy networks in support of wood-based construction: A case study from Joensuu, Finland8
The fall of the kings: Power relations and dynamics in Papua's indigenous community in forest resource management8
Now the forests are of value an everyday historical political ecology from southern Sweden8
Forestry policy effectiveness and performance evaluation in China - Quantitative study based on policy texts 1998–20207
Mangrove forest conservation vs shrimp production: Uncovering a sustainable co-management model and policy solution for mangrove greenbelt development in coastal Bangladesh.7
Forest protection, EKC and LCC dynamics in the world's largest forest nations7
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