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Policy perceptions and local stakeholder engagement in forest co-management in the Yarlung Tsangpo River Basin, China 中国雅鲁藏布江流域森林共同管理的政策观念和当地利益相关者参与
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103655
Ting Ma , Linsheng Zhong , J. Marc Foggin , Peng Wang
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Psychological ownership and forest management behavior: Development and validation of a multidimensional bifactor scale 心理所有权与森林经营行为:多维双因素量表的开发与验证
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103624
Leonie Wagner
{"title":"Psychological ownership and forest management behavior: Development and validation of a multidimensional bifactor scale","authors":"Leonie Wagner","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103624","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103624","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Private forest ownership in Germany is undergoing profound demographic and structural transformation, resulting in a more heterogeneous population of owners with diverse values and management practices. These changes necessitate new theoretical and methodological approaches to understanding owner behavior. This study develops and validates a novel measurement instrument for psychological ownership in the context of private forestry in Germany, using a bifactor model with five specific factors. Drawing on two large-scale surveys in Bavaria and Lower Saxony, we employ exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis as well as structural equation modeling to examine the factorial structure and predictive validity of psychological ownership. Our results demonstrate that psychological ownership is significantly associated to self-implemented forest management and extensive climate change adaptation strategies, while visit frequency emerges as the most important exogenous predictor. In contrast, psychological ownership does not affect delegated forest management. Factors such as property size and membership in forest owner associations primarily influence the orthogonal factor self-investment, which is not connected to psychological ownership. Notably, the presented instrument requires further refinement and validation, particularly with regard to the stability of the identity and knowledge factors. We recommend extending the psychological ownership approach to encompass broader actor networks involved in forest management. Our findings underscore the need for policy instruments and advisory services that address the full spectrum of owner motivations and identities, and for further research into the complex actor networks that shape forest management decisions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"180 ","pages":"Article 103624"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145156693","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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Forest product footprint convergence in the Amazon: A panel data analysis of ACTO countries 亚马逊森林产品足迹趋同:ACTO国家的面板数据分析
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103632
Veli Yilanci, Maxwell Kongkuah
{"title":"Forest product footprint convergence in the Amazon: A panel data analysis of ACTO countries","authors":"Veli Yilanci,&nbsp;Maxwell Kongkuah","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103632","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103632","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the convergence of forest product footprints (FPF) among seven Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) countries from 1961 to 2022. The research investigates whether FPF levels are converging or diverging across these nations, which share the Amazon rainforest. Employing a panel unit root test that accounts for smooth and sharp structural breaks, the study identifies both convergence and divergence patterns. Colombia, Ecuador, and Guyana show evidence of convergence, potentially driven by conservation policies and indigenous land management. Conversely, Brazil and Peru demonstrate divergence, likely influenced by extensive agriculture, mining, and international trade in forest products. The findings emphasize the need for coordinated regional policies within ACTO to foster sustainable forest management practices, address divergent national interests, and prioritize environmental conservation in the Amazon.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"180 ","pages":"Article 103632"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145156690","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 influence of science within forest policy making - the case of payments for forest ecosystem services for climate-adapted forest management in Germany 科学对森林政策制定的影响——以德国为适应气候变化的森林管理支付森林生态系统服务费用为例
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103599
Tabea V. Schaefers, Max Krott, Michael Kirchner
{"title":"The influence of science within forest policy making - the case of payments for forest ecosystem services for climate-adapted forest management in Germany","authors":"Tabea V. Schaefers,&nbsp;Max Krott,&nbsp;Michael Kirchner","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103599","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103599","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Forest science provides extensive scientific information. Its influence on forest-related political decision-making, however, has often proved to be negligible. For this reason, a case study on the payment of forest ecosystem services (PFES) in Germany examines the extent to which other factors influence the political knowledge transfer process and demonstrates, through a power-based definition of actors, the opportunities for political influence of researchers in the political process. An innovative approach for a quantitative analysis of political influence is employed, consisting of the four elements “coercion”, “(dis-) incentives”, “dominant information”, and “scientific information”. Using the newly introduced terms “focused interest” and “focused influence”, a differentiated analysis of the political influence of actors in relation to political issues is enabled. It becomes evident that the use of political influence resources by actors varies between political issues. For greater political impact of scientific information, a stronger consideration of the individual roles of actors and issues is recommended. The study further positions the augmented actor-centered power (ACP) framework vis-à-vis broader power theories and other ACP scholarship, highlighting its distinct suitability for tracing influence in forest policy making.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"180 ","pages":"Article 103599"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145156692","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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Optimal forest management of Douglas-fir in Western Oregon: Stochastic prices, carbon sequestration and wildfire risk 俄勒冈西部道格拉斯冷杉的最佳森林管理:随机价格、碳固存和野火风险
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103629
Hsu Y. Kyaw , Andres L. Susaeta , Mindy S. Crandall
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Community resource management areas and household food security in northern Ghana: Insights from a socio-ecological systems perspective 加纳北部社区资源管理领域和家庭粮食安全:从社会生态系统角度的见解
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103628
Cornelius K.A. Pienaah
{"title":"Community resource management areas and household food security in northern Ghana: Insights from a socio-ecological systems perspective","authors":"Cornelius K.A. Pienaah","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103628","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103628","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Food insecurity remains a pressing challenge in rural Ghana, particularly in the semi-arid northern regions where sociodemographic, socio-economic, and environmental factors heighten household risks. In response, Community Resource Management Areas (CREMAs) have been introduced as decentralized governance structures to promote sustainable natural resource management, biodiversity, and improve livelihoods. However, the extent to which CREMAs influence household food security remains underexplored. Grounded in the Socio-Ecological Systems (SES) framework, this study has two main objectives: (1) to determine variations in food security between households located within CREMAs and those outside CREMAs (non-CREMA households), and (2) to analyze the socio-demographic and socio-economic factors that explain such variations. Cross-sectional data were collected from 517 smallholder farmer households across four community contexts, Wechiau, Dorimo, Zukpiri, and Chakali, in northern Ghana. Using ordered logistic regression analysis, the results show that households within CREMAs experience lower levels of severe food insecurity compared to non-CREMA households. Food security outcomes varied across zones, influenced by factors such as age, education, gender, household size, wealth, home gardening, livestock rearing, access to credit, and remittances, with context-specific effects. These findings underscore the vital role of CREMAs in enhancing household food security by promoting improved resource governance and sustainable practices. A dual approach is recommended to address food insecurity in northern Ghana. This entails scaling up CREMAs and reinforcing community resource management, while simultaneously strengthening governance, broadening financial and livelihood opportunities, and providing targeted support to vulnerable households.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"180 ","pages":"Article 103628"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145120163","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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Applying the forest load capacity factor to assess environmental sustainability in the Global South 应用森林负荷能力因子评估全球南方的环境可持续性
IF 3.8 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103631
Brayan Tillaguango , Rafael Alvarado , Munir Ahmad , Muntasir Murshed , Cem Işık
{"title":"Applying the forest load capacity factor to assess environmental sustainability in the Global South","authors":"Brayan Tillaguango ,&nbsp;Rafael Alvarado ,&nbsp;Munir Ahmad ,&nbsp;Muntasir Murshed ,&nbsp;Cem Işık","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103631","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103631","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Forests play a critical role in achieving environmental sustainability because they absorb polluting waste from anthropogenic activities and produce biomass. However, the forest load capacity of developing countries has deteriorated due to the overload of unregulated economic activities. This study examines the determinants of environmental sustainability, as measured by the forest load capacity factor, in countries of the Global South. The factors considered are GDP per capita, governance, gender inequality index, women's political empowerment, youth unemployment, and the informal sector. The study covers the period 1991–2022, and we employ a suite of advanced panel data models. The econometric strategy includes cointegration techniques with structural breaks, long-run elasticities, quantile regressions, and causality models. The findings show that environmental sustainability exhibits a cointegrating relationship with the regressors when considering structural breaks in the series resulting from external and internal shocks. We also show that the regressors have a heterogeneous effect on environmental sustainability across the distribution. The estimators differ between sustainable and non-sustainable countries in the Global South. The results of the causality test show that environmental sustainability has a structural relationship with GDP per capita, governance, women's political empowerment, and informal sector This research contributes to the debate on environmental sustainability by covering a large sample of developing countries, and we consider the role of gender in the pursuit of Sustainable Development Goals 13 and 15.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"180 ","pages":"Article 103631"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145109988","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 : 2025-10-01 Epub 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":"2025-10-01","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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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 : 2025-10-01 Epub 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":"2025-10-01","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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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 : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103595
John Boakye-Danquah , Stephen Wyatt , Maureen G. Reed
{"title":"Equity, diversity and inclusion in Canada's forest sector labour force: Are we making progress?","authors":"John Boakye-Danquah ,&nbsp;Stephen Wyatt ,&nbsp;Maureen G. Reed","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103595","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103595","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Around the world, the labour force supporting commercial forestry has been male-dominated and Canada is no exception. Women, Indigenous Peoples and immigrants in Canada often face systemic barriers such as racism, sexism that result in specific inequalities including income disparities, job segregation, and uneven opportunities for training and mentorship. In response, federal and provincial governments, industry, and educational institutions have introduced policies and taken action to enhance equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in the labour force across multiple sectors. In this paper, we explore Canada's progress in building a diverse and equitable forestry labour force. We analysed data from national forestry strategies (1981–2019), State of Canada's Forests Reports (1990–2023), and the quinquennial national Census (1991–2021), using proxies to examine progress in employment opportunities and representation of three equity-denied groups: women, Indigenous Peoples, and immigrants. Although there are high-level policies for EDI, federal government documents for the forest sector revealed little attention to EDI, with the exception of promoting opportunities for Indigenous workers. Census data show slow and uneven progress with respect to labour force participation, income, and job segregation in forestry. While there is progress in opportunities for Indigenous people, the data show that they still have lower incomes and occupy fewer management positions than others employed in commercial forestry. We reflect on several limitationsin the available data and conclude that if the forest sector in Canada and other similar contexts seeks to advance EDI in its forestry labour force, it must commit to broad motivations for diversity beyond industry competitiveness, set clear targets, introduce new practices, take action and publicly report on the results.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 103595"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145026972","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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