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Developing a supply chain model for sustainable aviation fuel using logging residues in Georgia, United States 在美国乔治亚州开发利用伐木残留物的可持续航空燃料供应链模型
IF 4 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103401
Hosne Ara Akter , Yu-Kai Huang , Puneet Dwivedi
{"title":"Developing a supply chain model for sustainable aviation fuel using logging residues in Georgia, United States","authors":"Hosne Ara Akter ,&nbsp;Yu-Kai Huang ,&nbsp;Puneet Dwivedi","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103401","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103401","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) as a drop-in fuel from biomass feedstocks can reduce carbon emissions and provide resiliency to the aviation sector in light of the volatile nature of conventional aviation fuel (CAF) prices. This study aims to develop a supply chain model for SAF derived from unutilized logging residues across Georgia, a prominent forestry state located in the southern region of the United States. We employed a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model to minimize the total discounted cost of the SAF supply chain using the Ethanol-to-Jet (ETJ) production pathway over ten years of operation. Three SAF demand scenarios were selected, i.e., meeting 20 % (high), 10 % (medium), and 5 % (low) of total SAF demand at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Results indicate a unit production cost of US $1.92 L<sup>−1</sup>, US $2.03 L<sup>−1</sup>, and US $2.25 L<sup>−1</sup> for the high, medium, and low demand scenarios, respectively. Over a period of ten years, to produce 3.74, 1.87, and 0.94 billion liters of SAF in scenarios A, B, and C, respectively, 38.5, 19.2, and 9.6 million Mg of logging residues are required. The capital investment and operating cost at biorefineries accounted for an average of 77 % and 22 % of the total unit cost, respectively, across scenarios. The GHG intensity of the SAF was 767 g CO<sub>2</sub>e L<sup>−1</sup> on average across scenarios, providing about 70 % of carbon savings relative to CAF. The supply chain model suggested 54 biomass processing units (BPUs) and 13 bio-refineries across Georgia under the high demand scenario, 27 BPUs and 7 bio-refineries under the medium scenario, and 14 BPUs and 4 bio-refineries under the low SAF demand scenario. Our study is expected to provide new insights into the emerging market of SAF in Georgia and beyond.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 103401"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142889294","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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“Missing” power features in the Actor-Centered-Power framework: Systematic review and empirical insights from Central Africa's Dja and Faro Landscapes 以行动者为中心的权力框架中 "缺失 "的权力特征:中部非洲 Dja 和 Faro 地貌的系统回顾和经验启示
IF 4 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103395
Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi , Shambhu Charmakar , Roland Azibo Balgah , Lukas Giessen
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Stakeholder and social network analysis for understanding forest (fires) management – A contribution based on a systematic literature review 理解森林(火灾)管理的利益相关者和社会网络分析-基于系统文献综述的贡献
IF 4 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103396
C. Campos Fernandes , S. Valente , E. Figueiredo , A. Polido
{"title":"Stakeholder and social network analysis for understanding forest (fires) management – A contribution based on a systematic literature review","authors":"C. Campos Fernandes ,&nbsp;S. Valente ,&nbsp;E. Figueiredo ,&nbsp;A. Polido","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103396","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103396","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Finding strategies and measures to prevent and mitigate wildfires is at the top of the socio-political agendas in Europe. This is due to an increase in the recurrence and intensity of wildfires, but also to constraints related to fire planning and management system, which includes and deals with multiple organizations, entities, and stakeholders, fostering diverse potential tensions and conflicts, and generally based on poor communication, which, altogether, may compromise a successful operationalization of fire management policies.</div><div>Stakeholder analysis (SA) is a methodology that can help to understand and cope with those limitations. Its application enables the understanding of the relevant actors, their goals, interests, plans, influence levels, resources, behavior, and interrelations. Considering the limitations of SA methods in determining the role of communication networks and understanding the patterns of interaction, Social Network Analysis (SNA) emerges as an essential tool for assessing the relationships among actors, their positions within a network, and the drivers of the different interactions.</div><div>In this vein, a systematic literature review was conducted to explore how SA and SNA have been addressed by European studies regarding forests and, particularly, wildfires. The 41 articles selected were subjected to a quantitative and qualitative thematic analysis considering several dimensions, such as its main purpose and expected impact, the research methods used, the stakeholders' categorization, or the limitations and contributions. One of the study's more significant findings relates to the crucial roles played by the different approaches to understand the existing system and to support policy- and decision-making processes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 103396"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142873927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Reconciling global and local benefits of forest restoration: A shared interdisciplinary perspective 协调森林恢复的全球和地方利益:一个共享的跨学科视角
IF 4 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103381
Stephanie Mansourian , William M. Adams , Karma Bouazza , Joice Nunes Ferreira , David J. Ganz , Jack Hurd , Stefano Pagiola , John Parrotta , Bruno Ramamonjisoa , Nanie Ratsifandrihamanana , Roger Villalobos , Gretchen Walters , Christian A. Kull
{"title":"Reconciling global and local benefits of forest restoration: A shared interdisciplinary perspective","authors":"Stephanie Mansourian ,&nbsp;William M. Adams ,&nbsp;Karma Bouazza ,&nbsp;Joice Nunes Ferreira ,&nbsp;David J. Ganz ,&nbsp;Jack Hurd ,&nbsp;Stefano Pagiola ,&nbsp;John Parrotta ,&nbsp;Bruno Ramamonjisoa ,&nbsp;Nanie Ratsifandrihamanana ,&nbsp;Roger Villalobos ,&nbsp;Gretchen Walters ,&nbsp;Christian A. Kull","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103381","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103381","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Restoring ecosystems, and forests in particular, has become a global priority. At larger scales, forest restoration must necessarily reconcile the needs and priorities of multiple stakeholders and, in doing so, raises several governance challenges. Approaching governance in the context of forest restoration through an interdisciplinary lens provides a complex picture consistent with the multiple factors that impact forest restoration. Focusing on one specific governance challenge, namely, how to balance global to local benefits of forest restoration, serves to demonstrate the complexity and value of approaching these challenges with an interdisciplinary lens. This paper presents several options, including: the need for a multi-scale and functioning governance structures or mechanisms involving decision-makers from local to national and international scales; considering multiple brokers (or “intermediaries”) as important leverage points; sharing tools with national governments that help to ensure that restoration brings a balanced flow of benefits to their citizens; redressing power imbalances by strengthening social capital and building the capacity of community-level organizations; recognizing rights (to land or forest tenure rights – whether to communities or privately to local community members); creating a dedicated funding stream for restoration; changing the focus from quantitative targets for tree planting/restoration to more multi-objective based approaches; acknowledging and emphasizing that forest restoration can yield multiple benefits for many individuals or groups, and ensuring that these can be realized.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 103381"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142873933","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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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 Program 中国“只出不进”的减员政策是否缓解了林业工人家庭的物质匮乏?来自中国天然林保护项目的证据
IF 4 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103391
Bo Cao , Hongge Zhu , Yufang Wang
{"title":"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 Program","authors":"Bo Cao ,&nbsp;Hongge Zhu ,&nbsp;Yufang Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103391","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103391","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The existing literature primarily assesses the effectiveness of self-governance models in decentralized forest management, while studies on state-centered government regulation are scarce. This gap may introduce biases in comparative analyses of forest management models. This paper provides new evidence to evaluate China's government regulation model from a welfare perspective. First, we construct a material deprivation index (MDI) of forestry worker families based on a new individual-level household survey data collected from 56 state forest enterprises (SFEs) across three provinces in China. Second, combined with historical enterprise-level attrition data in SFEs, we find that, during the period of China's Natural Forest Protection Program, the “only-out, no-in” staff-reduction policy alleviated the material deprivation of forestry worker families. Various identification strategies including the instrumental variable method have confirmed the above causal relationship. Third, we further divide the MDI into three subindexes: quality of life, living environment, and social relations. We find that the cumulative staff-reduction scale has negative causal effect on reducing forestry worker families' material deprivation in terms of the second subindex, but has no effect in terms of the first and third subindexes. Lastly, when the sample is divided into two groups—households living on the mountain and down the hill—the negative causal effect exists only for the latter group. These results update the empirical literature on government regulation model effectiveness and provide significant references for comparative studies on forest management model diversity. They hold substantial implications for the innovation and optimization of forest management models in developing countries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 103391"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142873970","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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Valuation of forested river riparian buffers: Support for riverine integrity and climate resilience 森林河流缓冲带的评估:对河流完整性和气候适应能力的支持
IF 4 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103406
Mallory Phillips , Kevin J. Boyle , Kristen Swedberg
{"title":"Valuation of forested river riparian buffers: Support for riverine integrity and climate resilience","authors":"Mallory Phillips ,&nbsp;Kevin J. Boyle ,&nbsp;Kristen Swedberg","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103406","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103406","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the connection between river riparian buffers and property values. The buffers protect the integrity of aquatic ecosystems and support resilience to rising temperatures and severe storms due to climate change. A hedonic study using 18,782 property sales was conducted to estimate the value of riverfront land and forested riparian buffers along the New and Watauga Rivers in North Carolina. Property owners place a significant value on river frontage and the associated amenities – 30 % of a riverfront property value is attributable to the river frontage, about $133,653 of a mean property value of $445,510. Owners of river-front properties value forested riparian buffers but there is a catch, they do not want all the riparian buffer on their land forested. Property sale prices increase as the percentage of the riparian buffer that is forested increases and prices are maximized at 40 % tree cover. At 40 % tree cover, 37 % property sale prices are attributable to riparian tree cover. However, with 100 % tree cover property values are reduced by about $175,000 relative to an average priced property with no riparian tree cover. The results can help government agencies and NGOs interested in riverine ecosystem resilience in the face of development and climate change to motivate revegetation of riparian buffers with limited tree cover; it is in the financial, and esthetic, interest of landowners to increase the forested portion of their riparian buffer. If extensive tree cover is desired, say greater than 50 % forested, landowner education and revegetation cost-sharing programs are unlikely to provide sufficient incentives to garner landowner participation and more sophisticated programing is required.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 103406"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142889246","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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Stakeholder views of adaptation measures to improve climate resilience: Case study evidence from European wood value chains 利益相关者对提高气候适应能力的适应措施的看法:来自欧洲木材价值链的案例研究证据
IF 4 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103379
Annechien Dirkje Hoeben, Marie Lautrup, Julius Willig, Sandra P. García-Jácome, Martin Jankovský, Anne Toppinen, Dijana Vuletić, Mikko Peltoniemi, Tobias Stern
{"title":"Stakeholder views of adaptation measures to improve climate resilience: Case study evidence from European wood value chains","authors":"Annechien Dirkje Hoeben,&nbsp;Marie Lautrup,&nbsp;Julius Willig,&nbsp;Sandra P. García-Jácome,&nbsp;Martin Jankovský,&nbsp;Anne Toppinen,&nbsp;Dijana Vuletić,&nbsp;Mikko Peltoniemi,&nbsp;Tobias Stern","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103379","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103379","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines stakeholders' views of the feasibility and effectiveness of climate change adaptation measures across selected wood value chains in Europe based on survey data from 182 respondents. Respondents view the future implementation of adaptation measures as more feasible and effective than present implementation. Managers of conifer forests see more opportunities for implementing measures than managers of non-coniferous forests. This may be ascribed to the many measures currently being applied in countries with even-aged, non-site-adapted vulnerable coniferous forests. Furthermore, measures that predominantly increase resilience against bark beetle outbreaks and windthrow events are viewed more effective in coniferous forests, where these events are more frequent. Softwood processing experts generally consider implementing measures at processing facilities as less feasible and effective than hardwood processing experts. This may be due to the benefits gained by some softwood value chain segments from lower roundwood prices (which also applies to the lower-quality segments of hardwood processing), the more diversified raw material base in the softwood value chain and in secondary and tertiary processing facilities, and the hardwood industry's dominant reliance on high-quality wood, which cannot be harvested prematurely. Policy implications include prioritising measures with high effectiveness and resolving barriers to their feasibility. The findings highlight the need to invest in infrastructure and transition to mixed-species forests to create and manage climate-resilient forests effectively. Non-coniferous forests also require a shift from even-aged to uneven-aged stands. Respondents from the processing industry prioritise investments in infrastructure and acquiring flexible machinery for processing diverse tree species and damaged wood.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 103379"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142889301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Biodiversity conservation in private forests: Preferences of Latvian forest owners in the context of involuntary conservation 私人森林的生物多样性保护:拉脱维亚森林所有者在非自愿保护背景下的偏好
IF 4 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103369
Ģirts Baranovskis , Oļģerts Nikodemus , Didzis Elferts , Guntis Brūmelis , Agita Līviņa , Anda Mežgaile
{"title":"Biodiversity conservation in private forests: Preferences of Latvian forest owners in the context of involuntary conservation","authors":"Ģirts Baranovskis ,&nbsp;Oļģerts Nikodemus ,&nbsp;Didzis Elferts ,&nbsp;Guntis Brūmelis ,&nbsp;Agita Līviņa ,&nbsp;Anda Mežgaile","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103369","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103369","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Private forests play an important role in biodiversity conservation. Countries utilize various mechanisms for integrating private forests into biodiversity conservation strategies. While voluntary private forest conservation of biodiversity dominates in Nordic Europe countries, in Latvia the involuntary approach remains the main biodiversity conservation path. We aimed to explore the attitude of Latvian forest owners towards existing forest biodiversity conservation mechanisms, and preferences regarding potential motivating mechanisms. Our survey (analysis of 599 responses) was targeted on forest owners who had experienced biodiversity conservation related restrictions under involuntary conservation and who owned forest properties with significant biodiversity values. Our results suggested that owners of small forest properties under 5 ha, who are less financially dependent on forestry income and lack forestry education, as well as female forest owners, are more positive towards biodiversity conservation measures. Our results showed that most forest owners were not ready to accept substantial forestry restrictions. However, they would be ready to accept minor forestry restrictions such as no felling during bird breeding season and obligation of retention of a greater number of ecologically important trees and deadwood. Most forest owners considered the existing compensation system (annual payments) to be unfair. However, our results did not reveal larger acceptance for a voluntary conservation approach, as opposed to the existing system. Provision of information regarding biodiversity conservation in forest management remains a crucial task, however it primarily should be addressed through the forestry education system and forestry institution information channels.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 103369"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142756108","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 foreign direct investment on innovation in China's forest products industry 外商直接投资对中国林产品产业创新的影响
IF 4 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103371
Bingqian Tu , Ze Chen , Jingqi Dang
{"title":"The impact of foreign direct investment on innovation in China's forest products industry","authors":"Bingqian Tu ,&nbsp;Ze Chen ,&nbsp;Jingqi Dang","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103371","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103371","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The forestry industry, with its high resource dependence, long production cycles, and extensive development modes, lags behind other industries in terms of innovation. This study examines the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on product innovation in China's forest products industry. We use data from 146,526 forest products enterprises spanning the years 1998 to 2013, merged with patent application records from the China National Patent Database, and employ a two-way fixed effects model. Our estimates show that a 10 % increase in FDI is associated with a 0.86 % increase in patent applications, a smaller effect than in other industries. In particular, we examine how this positive effect of FDI on innovation is affected by the specific production and layout features of the forest products industry. We find that this effect is greater in regions rich in forest resources and non-coastal areas. Additionally, enterprises in this industry often focus on strategic innovations, such as product design, rather than substantial technological change, with innovation priorities differing across sub-sectors. Mechanism analyses reveal that FDI promotes innovation in forest products enterprises by increasing R&amp;D investments, optimizing the marketing environment, and alleviating financial constraints. Extended analyses indicate significant spillover effects of FDI-driven innovation across the industry, especially between the upstream and downstream segments of the supply chain. We advise the global forest products industry to consider these unique production and layout features in their development strategies, and suggest a reorientation of government innovation policies toward long-term goals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 103371"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142756088","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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An integrated conflict analysis approach for the sustainable supply of Forest Ecosystem Services in Germany - the case of forest-based biofuel production 德国森林生态系统服务可持续供应的综合冲突分析方法——以森林生物燃料生产为例
IF 4 2区 农林科学
Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103361
Gino Garcia, Carsten Mann, Tobias Cremer
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