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Public acceptance of policies to reduce forest loss: Evidence from a large-N cross-national survey in East Africa 公众对减少森林损失政策的接受程度:来自东非大型跨国调查的证据
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103727
Aloyce Hepelwa , Peter Babyenda , Michael Ndwiga , Matilda Ntiyakunze , Boscow Okumu , Hailemariam Teklewold , Jesper Stage , Daniel Slunge
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Policy forum: Indigenous forest rights at a crossroads? A critical look at Indonesia's planned forestry law amendment 政策论坛:处于十字路口的土著森林权利?印尼计划中的林业法修正案的批判性审视
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103730
Muhammad Alif K. Sahide , Abdurrahman Abdullah , Moira Moeliono
{"title":"Policy forum: Indigenous forest rights at a crossroads? A critical look at Indonesia's planned forestry law amendment","authors":"Muhammad Alif K. Sahide ,&nbsp;Abdurrahman Abdullah ,&nbsp;Moira Moeliono","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103730","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103730","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Indonesia's ongoing fourth amendment of Forestry Law No. 41/1999 represents a critical juncture for indigenous forest rights, amplified by the country's commitment at the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP 30) to recognize 1.4 million hectares of customary forests. This policy forum examines the structural challenges facing this reform through empirical evidence from five case studies. Our analysis reveals current recognition frameworks, including governance paradoxes, historical amnesia, elite capture, ontological exclusion, and the prioritization of business concessions over constitutional rights. These cases demonstrate recurring patterns of jurisdictional conflicts, political economy pressures, and ontological mismatches that transcend regional specificities. The analysis contends that the amendment must transition from symbolic to substantive recognition by integrating historical justice, post-recognition governance, and legal pluralism. Without addressing these structural issues, Indonesia risks perpetuating the very inequalities the constitutional court sought to remedy, while undermining its international climate commitments. The amendment thus represents a critical test of political will: whether the state will continue privileging procedural compliance that manages inequality, or courageously pursue the substantive justice needed to make forest conservation and community rights genuinely mutually reinforcing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"185 ","pages":"Article 103730"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146147644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Is expectation disconfirmation related to stakeholder satisfaction and willingness to engage in national parks? A case study of Shennongjia National Park in China 期望不符合与利益相关者满意度和参与国家公园的意愿有关吗?以中国神农架国家公园为例
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103728
Yangyang Zhang , Zhen Fu , Yang Xiang , Chucai Peng , Mingjun Teng , Lixiong Zeng , Wanji Yang , Lei Pan , Pengcheng Wang
{"title":"Is expectation disconfirmation related to stakeholder satisfaction and willingness to engage in national parks? A case study of Shennongjia National Park in China","authors":"Yangyang Zhang ,&nbsp;Zhen Fu ,&nbsp;Yang Xiang ,&nbsp;Chucai Peng ,&nbsp;Mingjun Teng ,&nbsp;Lixiong Zeng ,&nbsp;Wanji Yang ,&nbsp;Lei Pan ,&nbsp;Pengcheng Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103728","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103728","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As the construction of national parks progresses, core stakeholders evaluate the gap between their actual outcomes and their psychological expectations across economic, social, cultural, and ecological dimensions. Drawing on expectation disconfirmation theory, this study conceptualizes this cognitive gap as expectation disconfirmation, defined from a subjective perspective as the extent to which stakeholders' psychological expectations remain unmet, reflected in the degree of negative disconfirmation. This study, based on the pilot area of Shennongjia National Park in Hubei Province, China, employs structural equation modeling to systematically examine the direct and indirect pathways among three categories of core stakeholders (<em>N</em> = 605). The analysis focuses on economic expectation disconfirmation (EED), social expectation disconfirmation (SED), cultural expectation disconfirmation (CED), and ecological expectation disconfirmation (EcED), and their relationships with stakeholder satisfaction and participation intention. The results indicate that (1) During the construction of the national park, different types of stakeholders exhibit both shared and distinct patterns of expectation disconfirmation. Among these, EED and SED consistently merged as the primary dimensions prioritized across groups. (2) CED varied significantly among stakeholder groups, with notable differences in its influence on satisfaction and participation intention. Specifically, for land users, the pathway linking CED to satisfaction and participation intention was not statistically significant (<em>p</em> &gt; 0.05). In contrast, for individual operators and government officials, CED showed a significant indirect pathway association with participation intention through satisfaction (<em>p</em> &lt; 0.05). (3) For land users, ED, SED, and EcED all exhibited significant negative associations with lower levels of satisfaction and weaker participation intention. Among individual operators and government officials, the relationship between expectation disconfirmation and participation intention is primarily mediated by satisfaction, underscoring its crucial role in shaping stakeholder engagement. (4) Furthermore, there was a significant positive pathway association between satisfaction and participation intention (<em>p</em> &lt; 0.01). Within the cross-sectional research framework, the findings indicate a systematic relationship among the levels of expectation disconfirmation of different stakeholders, satisfaction, and participation intention, providing empirical insights into exploring stakeholder participation mechanisms in national park community governance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 103728"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146135185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The impact of sunk costs and path dependencies on nonfarm employment of smallholder rubber farmers: Evidence from Southwest China 沉没成本和路径依赖对橡胶小农非农就业的影响:来自西南地区的证据
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103723
Shi Min , Minda Yang , Qianying Jia , Hermann Waibel
{"title":"The impact of sunk costs and path dependencies on nonfarm employment of smallholder rubber farmers: Evidence from Southwest China","authors":"Shi Min ,&nbsp;Minda Yang ,&nbsp;Qianying Jia ,&nbsp;Hermann Waibel","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103723","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103723","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The price of natural rubber has remained low since 2011, which has had negative effects on the income of smallholder rubber farmers. However, smallholder rubber farmers are often reluctant to shift from rubber cultivation to nonfarm employment, potentially due to the sunk costs and path dependencies associated with rubber cultivation. Using three-wave panel data from 612 smallholder rubber farmers in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture (XSBN) in Yunnan Province, China, this study examines the impact of these sunk costs and path dependencies on smallholder rubber farmers' participation in nonfarm employment. The results show that both sunk costs and path dependencies had significant and negative effects on smallholder rubber farmers' nonfarm employment, and increased path dependencies amplified the inhibitory effect of sunk costs on nonfarm employment. The effects of sunk costs, path dependencies, and their interaction on nonfarm employment were heterogeneous, and more pronounced negative impacts were observed among households exclusively reliant on rubber cultivation, those with limited social networks, and those located in villages with inadequate road infrastructure. This study provides a better understanding of the relatively low nonfarm employment rate of smallholder rubber farmers in the context of persistently low rubber prices. The findings also have significant implications for policy design aimed at facilitating the structural transformation of smallholder rubber farmers and helping them overcome long-term livelihood challenges caused by persistently low rubber prices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 103723"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146075558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Hunter preferences and values for recreational deer hunting in special management zones in Pennsylvania, USA 美国宾夕法尼亚州特殊管理区猎人对休闲猎鹿的偏好和价值
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103729
Arun Regmi , Melissa M. Kreye , Duane R. Diefenbach , Jesse K. Kreye
{"title":"Hunter preferences and values for recreational deer hunting in special management zones in Pennsylvania, USA","authors":"Arun Regmi ,&nbsp;Melissa M. Kreye ,&nbsp;Duane R. Diefenbach ,&nbsp;Jesse K. Kreye","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103729","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103729","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Deer abundance negatively impacts forest ecosystems, particularly forest regeneration dynamics via excessive browsing, potentially altering stand structure, species composition, and species richness. In the United States, controlling white-tailed deer (<em>Odocoileus virginianus</em>) populations has been a challenge for managers. To facilitate localized population control and sustain forest health, the Pennsylvania Game Commission implemented the Deer Management Assistance Program (DMAP) that provides landowners with permits for hunters to harvest antlerless deer on enrolled lands in addition to wildlife management unit (WMU) antlerless licenses. We surveyed 2127 DMAP hunters across three state forests in central and northcentral Pennsylvania in 2021, to evaluate economic value of deer hunting, hunter preferences, and intentions to participate in future antlerless deer hunting under changing hunting conditions. Integrating revealed and stated preference methods, we utilized individual travel costs derived from the travel cost method (TCM) as a cost attribute within a choice experiment (CE) model to quantify trade-offs in decision-making. The TCM results reveal that hunters generated $87 per trip in consumer surplus from hunting in DMAP areas, varying by sites, trip frequencies and durations. The CE results reveal that hunters expressed greater preferences for sites with fewer permits available, higher deer density, and fewer other hunters. Findings reveal that continued hunter participation is influenced less by maximizing harvest opportunity and more by experiences that fit hunters' intrinsic motivations and place attachment. Findings can inform policy adjustments to DMAP that better reflect hunter preferences that help enhance participation and program effectiveness for localized deer density management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 103729"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146135187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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From exploitation to sustainable use: Examining historical institutional barriers to sustainable forest governance in Ethiopia 从开发到可持续利用:考察埃塞俄比亚可持续森林治理的历史制度障碍
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103726
Akalu Assfaw Wolde
{"title":"From exploitation to sustainable use: Examining historical institutional barriers to sustainable forest governance in Ethiopia","authors":"Akalu Assfaw Wolde","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103726","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103726","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite decades of global promotion, decentralization and participatory forest management have consistently failed to achieve sustainable and inclusive outcomes in developing countries. Ethiopia exemplifies this paradox, experiencing persistent deforestation and the marginalization of local communities despite a century of forest legislation across successive political regimes and pioneering participatory forest management initiatives. Existing research has examined technical and socio-economic drivers of forest governance challenges but has largely overlooked the enduring influence of historical institutional legacies that shape governance outcomes. This study investigates why sustainable and equitable forest governance has repeatedly failed in Ethiopia, focusing on the persistence and reconfiguration of path-dependent institutional features and their effects on governance outcomes. Through a systematic analysis of secondary data from the late 19th century to the present, the research examines the evolution, persistence, and governance effects of key institutional structures shaping forest management outcomes. The findings reveal that despite surface-level political transformations, foundational institutions and extractive practices have remained largely resilient. This institutional persistence creates a vicious cycle where formal reforms are systematically subverted by entrenched legacies, explaining the consistent failure of reforms. The study concludes that effective forest governance reform in Ethiopia and similar contexts must move beyond technical policy design to actively dismantle these resilient, path-dependent institutional structures. Future research and policy interventions should incorporate explicit strategies for institutional disruption at critical junctures and engage deeply with the historical roots of present-day power imbalances to enable genuine transition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 103726"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146135188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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What do stakeholders want from multifunctional forest landscapes and can bottom-up collaborations help them to get it? 利益相关者希望从多功能森林景观中得到什么?自下而上的合作能否帮助他们实现这一目标?
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103724
Lucas Dawson , Per Angelstam
{"title":"What do stakeholders want from multifunctional forest landscapes and can bottom-up collaborations help them to get it?","authors":"Lucas Dawson ,&nbsp;Per Angelstam","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103724","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103724","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Policies addressing climate change, biodiversity loss, and rural development are driving the transition towards multifunctional forest landscapes (MFLs) across Europe and beyond. MFLs are interdependent social-ecological systems that integrate diverse human uses and ecological functions to fulfil ecological, socio-cultural, and economic interests.</div><div>A significant challenge in developing MFLs is the perceived incompatibility among stakeholder interests. Collaborative approaches are often proposed to negotiate trade-offs and resolve conflicts over competing forest uses. However, fostering effective dialogue remains difficult in contested landscapes. There is a pressing need to understand the desired goods, services, and values that various stakeholder groups seek from MFLs.</div><div>This study employs a complex systems approach to identify key themes and factors influencing stakeholder perceptions of MFLs, drawing on focus groups and interviews with diverse participants in a collaborative initiative in the Tiveden forest massif, Sweden. Using the Social-Ecological Systems Framework, we analyse these themes in relation to the biophysical and socio-political components that characterise natural resource management systems. Our findings indicate that conflicting economic functions are vital for the wellbeing of local communities and businesses, alongside efforts to resolve these conflicts. While the findings suggest opportunities for bottom-up initiatives for MFLs, significant constraints persist, including the negative impacts of conventional forestry practices, lack of trust among stakeholders, and critical knowledge gaps. Additionally, our study highlights power asymmetries in forest governance, underscoring the need for systemic changes to facilitate the transition towards MFLs. These findings contribute to the discourse on sustainable forest management and offer valuable lessons for similar efforts in diverse contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 103724"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146075560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Dealing with the cost of EUDR compliance data and potential monetisation: Opportunities and risks 处理EUDR合规数据的成本和潜在的货币化:机遇和风险
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103709
Lydia Afriyie-Kraft, Astrid Zabel, Thomas Breu
{"title":"Dealing with the cost of EUDR compliance data and potential monetisation: Opportunities and risks","authors":"Lydia Afriyie-Kraft,&nbsp;Astrid Zabel,&nbsp;Thomas Breu","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103709","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103709","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) introduces strict due diligence obligations, requiring EU operators to trace the origin of commodities and verify that they are deforestation-free. While existing research has largely focused on the design of the regulation and the challenges of its enforcement, little attention has been paid to the role of EUDR compliance data as both a cost factor and a potential asset. This paper analyses the costs of EUDR compliance data, paying particular attention to the distributional effects among market actors. It also explores the opportunities for monetising such data and the implications for producer privacy and data protection. Our findings suggest that compliance costs may not be evenly distributed across the supply chain, with producers in exporting countries being particularly vulnerable. This could create unintended market distortions, including price shifts and the supplanting of EUDR-relevant commodities by illicit alternatives. Notably, the monetisation of EUDR compliance data could offer producer countries new revenue streams. However, many EUDR-relevant commodities originate from countries with weak data protection frameworks, raising concerns about the potential misuse of producers' data. While data monetisation could help offset EUDR compliance costs, it must be accompanied by robust data protection laws. We recommend harmonising, strengthening and enforcing data protection laws in producer countries to ensure that the benefits of EUDR compliance are not achieved at the expense of the most vulnerable. Addressing these issues is critical to aligning the EUDR with broader objectives of sustainability, fairness and inclusive global value chains.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 103709"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146014947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Does the public value ecosystem services secured by pine savanna restoration and bobwhite management on private lands? 公众是否重视私人土地上松木稀树草原恢复和山齿鹑管理所确保的生态系统服务?
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103711
Nicole M. Nimlos , Elizabeth F. Pienaar , James A. Martin
{"title":"Does the public value ecosystem services secured by pine savanna restoration and bobwhite management on private lands?","authors":"Nicole M. Nimlos ,&nbsp;Elizabeth F. Pienaar ,&nbsp;James A. Martin","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103711","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103711","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Private land stewardship in the southeastern United States is crucial to attain pine savanna restoration and conservation of the threatened northern bobwhite (<em>Colinus virginianus</em>). Both government and privately funded conservation efforts secure numerous ecosystem services, including groundwater recharge, scenic open spaces, and biodiversity. Yet, we have incomplete information on whether the public values these ecosystem services. From June 15th to July 19th, 2022, we administered stated preference choice experiment surveys to 770 members of the public in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina to ascertain if the public values ecosystem services provided by pine savanna and bobwhite conservation. We analyzed data using hybrid mixed logit models. Respondents positively valued recovery of threatened bobwhite and gopher tortoise populations and high levels of groundwater recharge and scenic open space. Respondents with higher moral obligations to prevent land use conversion (personal norms, awareness of consequences, and ascription of responsibility related to conservation) were more likely to support allocation of taxes to pine savanna restoration on private lands. Respondents' moral obligation to prevent land use conversion was positively correlated with their engagement in outdoor recreational activities. Our findings indicate that the public values pine savanna and bobwhite conservation efforts on private lands in the Southeast, and that outreach related to pine savanna restoration efforts should appeal to people's moral obligation to support conservation of biodiversity, habitat restoration, and the provision of ecosystem services.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 103711"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146025779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Boreal forests at risk: Absence of climate perspectives in current management policies 处于危险中的北方森林:当前管理政策中缺乏气候视角
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103713
Els Ribbers , Hanna Lee , Priscilla A. Mooney , Helene Muri , Amy M.P. Oen
{"title":"Boreal forests at risk: Absence of climate perspectives in current management policies","authors":"Els Ribbers ,&nbsp;Hanna Lee ,&nbsp;Priscilla A. Mooney ,&nbsp;Helene Muri ,&nbsp;Amy M.P. Oen","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103713","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103713","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Boreal forests influence climate both biogeochemically through carbon uptake and biogeophysically through evapotranspiration, turbulent fluxes and albedo, and are in turn impacted by climate through biotic and abiotic damages. This systematic literature review and qualitative narrative policy review and analysis aims to get a better insight into the discrepancy between policy and science on forestry action to mitigate climate warming in high latitude jurisdictions. We identify climate effects on and from forests with corresponding management options in a systematic review of scientific literature following PRISMA guidelines. These results were combined with a qualitative policy review and analysis to identify the climate and forestry policies from all boreal-to-Arctic jurisdictions and determine how (many of) these climate effects ended up in forest and climate policy. There is mounting evidence that in boreal regions, albedo-driven warming can partially offset, and in some contexts be comparable to, carbon-driven cooling; the balance varies by season, forest type and disturbance history. However, although all analysed jurisdictions (Alaska, Canada, European Union, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Russia) recognise the forests' role in carbon uptake, none recognise the albedo effect, and none translate these climate effect into binding regulatory measures. Nor do most of the jurisdictions take into account possible risk of climate-related damages. This might lead to ineffective and even adverse forest and climate measures. Our study emphasises a need for more evidence-based and comprehensive climate and forestry policies and regulations, along with a proactive approach to adopting these measures swiftly.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 103713"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146001807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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