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How village communities perceive the relevance of forest ecosystem services: Insights from Himachal Pradesh, India 乡村社区如何感知森林生态系统服务的相关性:来自印度喜马偕尔邦的见解
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-09-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103618
Kritishnu Sanyal, Shyamasree Dasgupta
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Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of forestry professionals towards artificial intelligence (AI) 林业专业人员对人工智能(AI)的知识、态度和实践
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103626
Luke Ritter, Derek Andrew Uhey, Alark Saxena
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Understanding green jobs in the forest sector: Findings from a systematic literature review 理解森林部门的绿色工作:来自系统文献综述的发现
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-09-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103608
Emilin Joma da Silva, Jörg Schweinle
{"title":"Understanding green jobs in the forest sector: Findings from a systematic literature review","authors":"Emilin Joma da Silva,&nbsp;Jörg Schweinle","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103608","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103608","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The forest sector has undergone significant transformations driven by environmental and societal concerns, resulting in policies to promote sustainability, technological innovation, and the bioeconomy. These policies have had an impact on employment, with green jobs emerging as a potential outcome of an environmentally sustainable economy. However, for jobs to be considered ‘green’, they must meet criteria for decent work – criteria that are underexplored within the forest sector. This study conducts a systematic literature review (following the Reporting standards for Systematic Evidence Synthesis) to investigate what are green jobs in the forest sector, characterize these jobs and identify incentives that have promoted they. A total of 50 English-language publications were analysed. The findings indicated that while the forest sector has generated jobs with certain positive aspects of job quality (e.g., fair earnings), unfavourable characteristics persists (e.g., informal employment). Moreover, policies promoting green job often lack systematic assessment of the quality of the jobs they create. This study underscores the need for more robust data collection on job quality to inform policies that align sustainability objectives with decent work standards. It further revels the complex interplay between environmental goals and employment dynamics in the forest sector, emphasizing the importance of clear, operational standards for defining and supporting green jobs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 103608"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145045628","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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Unlocking youth opportunities in the forest sector: The role of green jobs in generating youth employment in Malawi 释放青年在森林部门的机会:绿色工作在创造马拉维青年就业中的作用
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-09-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103625
Maggie G. Munthali , Bonface Nankwenya , Zephania Nyirenda , Lemekezani Chilora , Levison Chiwaula , Baxton Chirombo , Wim Troosters
{"title":"Unlocking youth opportunities in the forest sector: The role of green jobs in generating youth employment in Malawi","authors":"Maggie G. Munthali ,&nbsp;Bonface Nankwenya ,&nbsp;Zephania Nyirenda ,&nbsp;Lemekezani Chilora ,&nbsp;Levison Chiwaula ,&nbsp;Baxton Chirombo ,&nbsp;Wim Troosters","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103625","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103625","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Green jobs offer significant potential to address high youth unemployment rates in low-income countries. Utilising data from the 2023 Malawi Green Corps Survey, this study employed the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) approach to assess the impact of green jobs on the welfare of youths in Malawi. The study randomly sampled 989 youths (628 project beneficiaries and 361 non-beneficiaries) from 10 districts in Malawi. The findings reveal that the project successfully recruited 2027 youths into green jobs focused on forest, soil and water conservation. Further results indicate that participation in the project positively impacted the youth's income and entrepreneurship development. The estimations indicate an increase in the current income of the youths involved in green jobs by approximately MK108,000. The results also show that the project increased the proportion of youths engaged in businesses by 42 %, further strengthening the connection between green jobs and entrepreneurial development. Results further demonstrated the need for long-term planning of green jobs to have a meaningful impact on poverty reduction. These findings underscore the transformative potential of green jobs in providing decent employment opportunities for youths in Malawi. Consequently, this study recommends that the government and other stakeholders develop strategies and policies to effectively engage youths in the green sectors, ensuring sustainable development and economic resilience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 103625"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145045629","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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Exploring trade-offs in forest carbon storage: A cost-effectiveness study of Nordic forests and harvested wood products 探索森林碳储存的权衡:北欧森林和采伐木材产品的成本效益研究
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-09-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103619
Junhui Hu, Eirik Ogner Jåstad, Per Kristian Rørstad
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Equity, diversity and inclusion in Canada's forest sector labour force: Are we making progress? 加拿大森林部门劳动力的公平、多样性和包容性:我们取得进展了吗?
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-09-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103595
John Boakye-Danquah , Stephen Wyatt , Maureen G. Reed
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Seasonality of the recreational value of forests in Denmark 丹麦森林娱乐价值的季节性
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-09-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103607
Tim de Kruiff , Jonas Vester Legarth , Thomas Lundhede , Carl-Emil Pless , Hans Skov-Petersen , Jette Bredahl Jacobsen
{"title":"Seasonality of the recreational value of forests in Denmark","authors":"Tim de Kruiff ,&nbsp;Jonas Vester Legarth ,&nbsp;Thomas Lundhede ,&nbsp;Carl-Emil Pless ,&nbsp;Hans Skov-Petersen ,&nbsp;Jette Bredahl Jacobsen","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103607","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103607","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The importance of forest composition and appearance for recreational value is well-known, with a preference for deciduous species over coniferous species in Denmark. Yet, the effect of seasonal variation in appearance of these species on recreational preferences remain underexplored. In this paper, we combine three datasets to examine how seasonality affects people's preferences for forest visits. Using a repeated choice experiment over a one-year period, we find that the Danish public's preference for deciduous over coniferous forests is far more pronounced in spring and summer than in autumn and winter. Using forest visitor data from counting stations across Denmark, we demonstrate that the seasonal variation in visitor numbers is more pronounced for forests with a higher share of deciduous trees. Finally, we use PPGIS data to show that respondents travel to and stay shorter in the forest in the winter. The mode of transport, however, is stable over the year. Thus, out of five elements important for the calculation of welfare estimates, being species preference, travel distance, visit frequency, visit duration and transport mode, we find that the first four vary significantly by season, with no significant seasonal variation for the latter. We conclude that previous valuation studies, primarily based on spring or summer seasons, are upper bounds on the preference for deciduous forests over coniferous forests as well as for travel distance. Future valuation studies on forest recreation should pay closer attention to the effects of seasonality to produce non-biased estimates.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 103607"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145026973","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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Private forest owner preferences for action- and result-based biodiversity restoration contracts – A discrete choice experiment in Denmark and Finland 私人森林所有者对基于行动和结果的生物多样性恢复合同的偏好——丹麦和芬兰的离散选择实验
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103609
Charlotte Marie Süring, Thomas Hedemark Lundhede
{"title":"Private forest owner preferences for action- and result-based biodiversity restoration contracts – A discrete choice experiment in Denmark and Finland","authors":"Charlotte Marie Süring,&nbsp;Thomas Hedemark Lundhede","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103609","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103609","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Payment for ecosystem services schemes aimed at private forest owners have recently garnered renewed interest as a policy tool to promote forest restoration efforts in the EU. Although schemes that pay for biodiversity results rather than management actions have not yet been applied in the European forest sector, the EU's new State aid regulations now explicitly allow for their implementation, as evidence from the agricultural sector suggests that they are potentially more cost-effective than their action-based counterparts. We conduct a discrete choice experiment to estimate Danish and Finnish forest owners' compensation requirements for engaging in action- and result-based biodiversity schemes with contract targets based on empirically established relationships between forest structural attributes and species richness levels. We find that, on average and depending on the schemes' targets, Danish forest owners need 29–56% more compensation to enroll in result-based contracts than in action-based ones, while Finnish forest owners require a markup of 101–135%. Our results demonstrate that average compensation requirements for voluntary biodiversity schemes can vary substantially across countries and contract designs. In terms of scheme design, forest owners generally favor payments in annual instalments to lump sum payments at the start or end of the contract term, and for payments to be tied to continuous increases in outcome indicators rather than to particular thresholds. Danish owners prefer to monitor contract outcomes with support of a consultant, on average. Finnish owners have a preference for self-monitoring under action-based contracts, but highly disprefer being involved in monitoring efforts under result-based contracts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 103609"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145010515","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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Public perceptions of climate and land use drivers of medicinal plant availability in Czech forests: A national survey-based study 公众对捷克森林药用植物可得性的气候和土地利用驱动因素的看法:一项基于国家调查的研究
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103610
Stephen Awuni , Miroslav Hájek , Marcel Riedl , Diana Carolina Huertas-Bernal , Ratna Chrismiari Purwestri , Forzia Ibrahim , Roman Dudik , Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah , Francis Adarkwah
{"title":"Public perceptions of climate and land use drivers of medicinal plant availability in Czech forests: A national survey-based study","authors":"Stephen Awuni ,&nbsp;Miroslav Hájek ,&nbsp;Marcel Riedl ,&nbsp;Diana Carolina Huertas-Bernal ,&nbsp;Ratna Chrismiari Purwestri ,&nbsp;Forzia Ibrahim ,&nbsp;Roman Dudik ,&nbsp;Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah ,&nbsp;Francis Adarkwah","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103610","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103610","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Medicinal plants are vital to forest ecosystem services, contributing to biodiversity, public health, and rural livelihoods. In the Czech Republic, the perceived availability of these resources is increasingly threatened by climate change and land use change. This study explores key environmental drivers perceived by the public to affect the availability of medicinal plants and examines forest owners' adoption of management strategies to sustain these resources. Based on a national perception-based survey of 1500 respondents, including 53 forest owners, regression and descriptive statistical methods were employed to examine reported environmental drivers and management strategies. The findings reveal that climate change and excessive chemical use are widely perceived as major stressors associated with the reduced availability of medicinal plants. However, only 45 % of surveyed forest owners reported adopting formal management strategies, leaving substantial forest areas at risk from environmental pressures perceived to threaten medicinal plant resources. Among those implementing measures, forest restoration, organic agriculture, landscape protection, and pest control were the most implemented. Broader conservation schemes such as Natura 2000 were underutilised. These perception-based insights highlight the need for targeted policy interventions, including financial incentives, technical support, and education, to enhance forest owners' implementation of sustainable practices and support the long-term conservation of medicinal plant resources in Czech forests. Engaging the general public through education and participatory conservation efforts is also essential, given their key role in shaping demand and supporting forest protection.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 103610"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145019367","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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Long-term forestation-deforestation dynamics in a socioeconomic perspective: The case of Italy, 1936–2018 社会经济视角下的长期造林-毁林动态:意大利1936-2018年的案例
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103606
Alessia D'Agata , Marco Marchetti , Luca Salvati , Piermaria Corona
{"title":"Long-term forestation-deforestation dynamics in a socioeconomic perspective: The case of Italy, 1936–2018","authors":"Alessia D'Agata ,&nbsp;Marco Marchetti ,&nbsp;Luca Salvati ,&nbsp;Piermaria Corona","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103606","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103606","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To explore long-term socio-ecological relationships at the local scale, this study investigates the evolution of forest cover (1936–2018) vis à vis population, settlements, and economic activities in Italy using geo-spatial information sources that combine environmental and socioeconomic indicators. Long-term forestation (or deforestation) dynamics were assessed in more than 8000 municipalities through a comprehensive analysis of the background socioeconomic context. A multivariate framework integrating descriptive statistics and maps, exploratory pairwise correlations, and a confirmative canonical correlation analysis, has discriminated five distinctive paths in forest cover change over time. Urbanization-driven deforestation in accessible and economically dynamic flat-hilly districts, and forestation after land abandonment in remote rural areas, have been the most frequent processes of landscape transformation in Italy. The empirical findings of this study reveal the complex interactions between forests and local communities, thus supporting the core assumption of the well-known Forest Transition Theory, a key research topic in forest assessment and policy. A peculiar contribution of this research lies in highlighting local specificities in forest dynamics, which are shown to depend strictly on the economic and demographic characteristics of local communities, as well as on the degree of land protection. Triggering a path of sustainable development in rural areas requires policies that combine factors potentially beneficial for the environment, such as the expansion of forests, in order to create a more balanced set of socio-ecological conditions. This will help reducing depopulation and fostering local economies through low-impact socio-demographic processes that are compatible with the environmental quality typical of ‘forest dominated’ landscapes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 103606"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144933379","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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