Forest Policy and Economics

Research interest in gender and its implications for forest ownership in the Global North has increased over recent decades, contributing to a growing body of empirical studies. At the same time, the historical dominance of men and masculinities in forestry and forest management has shaped both policy and knowledge production, creating persistent biases in how forest ownership is understood. To a…

Forests and trees have diverse meanings in Finland that are claimed for many different purposes. Urbanisation has and will continue to increase the number of translocal forest owners, leading to the diversification of forest ownership, values, utilisation, and human-forest relationships. It is important for translocal forest owners, the generation of future forest owners, to gauge the values and …

The instrument of forest planning is regarded as the bedrock of multifunctional forest management, serving as the nexus between forest management concepts and practice. Despite this pivotal function, its linkage to day-to-day forest management has rarely been studied. This case study employs the theory-methods package of practice theory and a variety of qualitative data from public forest managem…

Forest restoration in a watershed can provide numerous ecological improvements and social benefits, including reducing the risk of extreme wildfire. Understanding the values of the accrued benefits can be used to evaluate the use of funds to support restoration. The Rio Grande watershed is a vast watershed covering approximately 335,000 mile 2 (867,646 km 2 ). The Rio Grande watershed provides a …

The European Union's Deforestation-Free Regulation (EUDR), approved in 2023 and set to take effect in December 2026, mandates plot-level traceability and physical segregation of compliant from non-compliant products in supply chains linked to deforestation. This paper assesses the economic and environmental impacts of EUDR compliance costs on Brazil's soybean supply chain. Using a dynamic multire…

Indonesia is one of the world's largest tropical forest countries, contributing substantial emissions through deforestation and fires, while the forest sector is expected to deliver a major share of national climate targets. This dual role makes climate change a potentially contested issue in forest governance. To understand how the issue is defined and problematized, this paper examines how clim…

This study integrates recently updated National-Scale Volume Biomass (NSVB) estimates with a spatially-aware carbon accounting methodology in the SubRegional Timber Supply (SRTS) model to project forest market dynamics, land use change, inventory, and carbon fluxes for the Southeastern United States through 2070. Using four socioeconomic scenarios from the 2020 Resources Planning Act (RPA) Assess…

The integration of climate targets into EU forest governance is politically contentious, with policy actors pursuing conflicting objectives through justice-based claims of victimisation and marginalisation, often resulting in intractable conflicts. This paper examines how justice is framed and perceived by policy actors in political debates concerning the EU's Land Use, Land Use Change, and Fores…

Community-based natural resource governance is often promoted in the name of sustainability, yet long-term outcomes remain elusive. This study examines the impact of various types of trust as the underpinning factor for the long-term resilience of co-management arrangements. Using a four-type trust framework, dispositional, affinitive, rational, and procedural, the study compares trust trajectori…