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Agricultural subsidies augmented tropical deforestation in the state of Campeche, Mexico 农业补贴加剧了墨西哥坎佩切州的热带森林砍伐

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Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103525

Edward A. Ellis , David Chacón Castillo , Irving Uriel Hernández Gómez , Sergio Madrid Zubirán , Sara María Cuervo Vega

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Valuing the cultural services of a forest protected area in Southwestern China: The roles of online deliberation and sample selection 西南某森林保护区文化服务价值评估：网络审议和样本选择的作用

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Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103526

Haojie Chen , Matthew R. Sloggy , Robert Costanza , Ida Kubiszewski , Tong Zhang , Luhua Wu

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Factors influencing a forest landowner's choice of incentive program commitment length 影响林地所有者激励计划承诺期限选择的因素

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Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103513

Michael A. Kilgore , Gregory E. Frey , Stephanie A. Snyder , Christopher Mihiar

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Social sustainability in the forest-based bioeconomy: A narrative review 森林生物经济中的社会可持续性：述评

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Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103523

Jukka Luhas, Mirja Mikkilä

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The legacy of fortress approaches to conservation: Impact of early-life experiences on contemporary natural resource use in Giant Panda Nature reserves, China

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Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103499

Wei Duan , Yicheng Jiang , Nicholas J. Hogarth , Lan Gao , Bo Ouyang

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Biosecurity problem representation(s) by tree and forest health actors in Southeast Asia 东南亚树木和森林健康行动者的生物安全问题代表

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Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103509

Russell Warman , Simon Lawson , Morag Glen , Harriot Beazley , Madaline Healey

{"title":"Biosecurity problem representation(s) by tree and forest health actors in Southeast Asia","authors":"Russell Warman , Simon Lawson , Morag Glen , Harriot Beazley , Madaline Healey","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103509","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103509","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tree and forest biosecurity policies and practices are evolving in response to changing and growing threats. While much research is reflected in the literature on solving the problem(s) of biosecurity, less has been written about how the problem is represented. We analysed how the problem of tree and forest biosecurity is represented by researchers, quarantine and government officials in Southeast Asian countries. Foremost, we find, is a problem representation of protecting trees and forests from pest and disease threats, driven by the movement of goods and people across borders, for social and ecological benefits. Inside this problem representation there is an elaboration of technical and administrative challenges—what we call ‘inner’ problems. Away from these inner problems, however, we find less engagement with contextual issues in the problem representation—‘outer’ problems. These outer problems of social, economic and political aspects of the biosecurity problem are pivotal to understanding biosecurity's central dilemma, that is, conducting trade and movement of people while managing the risk of pest and disease spread. Representing biosecurity as a technical and administrative problem alone consolidates the idea of biosecurity as a problem only for experts. Here, we argue this representation should be challenged when a growing body of biosecurity research and policy discussion points to the need for relational, networked and shared responsibilities in biosecurity systems. Paying attention to how biosecurity is problematised, inner <em>and</em> outer, provides an opportunity to support policymakers and practitioners in developing diversified forest biosecurity social networks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 103509"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143947409","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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Landowner willingness to adopt active management practices in the Cross-Timbers forests in USA 土地所有者在美国交叉木材森林中采取积极管理措施的意愿

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Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103522

Chamali Rodrigo , Omkar Joshi , Neelam C. Poudyal , Aaron Russell , Andres Susaeta

{"title":"Landowner willingness to adopt active management practices in the Cross-Timbers forests in USA","authors":"Chamali Rodrigo , Omkar Joshi , Neelam C. Poudyal , Aaron Russell , Andres Susaeta","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103522","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103522","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cross-Timbers (CT) forests, located in a transition ecoregion between eastern forests and western grasslands of the southern Great Plains of the United States, provide numerous ecosystem services to the residents of Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas. Growing climate variability, decades of fire suppression, woody plant encroachment, anthropogenic activities, and notable lack of active management have altered the original composition of these forests. As most CT forestlands are privately owned, understanding the factors influencing landowners' willingness to implement active forest management is very important. This study investigated landowner preferences regarding thinning and prescribed burning, which are two key forest management practices –– through a mixed-mode survey of forestland owners in the CT region. Results suggested that landowners' willingness to adopt thinning is significantly influenced by the age of forest landowners, forest land holding size, and status of encroachment by woody plants. Similarly, landowners' willingness to adopt prescribed burning is significantly influenced by forest land holding size, status of encroachment by woody plants, education level, and non-timber ownership objectives such as wildlife habitat management, recreational hunting and fishing, and land investment. These findings are useful to stakeholders in identifying likely or unlikely adaptors of these management practices, initiating or tailoring educational programs, Extension and outreach strategies to relevant audience, and adopting policies that can promote sustainable management of CT forests.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 103522"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143947408","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 property rights within community forests and their role in enhancing economic well-being in rural Ethiopia 社区森林内的森林产权及其在提高埃塞俄比亚农村经济福利方面的作用

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Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103498

Akalu Assfaw Wolde , Enrico Bertacchini

{"title":"Forest property rights within community forests and their role in enhancing economic well-being in rural Ethiopia","authors":"Akalu Assfaw Wolde , Enrico Bertacchini","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103498","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103498","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the distribution of forest property rights and their impact on the economic well-being of community forest users in rural Ethiopia. Addressing a critical gap in the literature, the research explores the differentiated effects of operational-level and collective-choice rights on financial gains within community-based forest management (CBFM). Primary data from 365 community forest users were analyzed using OLS, Quantile, and IV regression methods. The findings reveal that community forest users exercise moderate operational rights but perceive significant restrictions on their collective-choice rights. Women and marginalized groups report particularly lower security regarding these rights. Econometric analyses indicate that specific rights—such as access, management, and alienation rights—significantly influence income from community forests. Additionally, both operational and collective-choice rights are found to positively affect income at the aggregate level, underscoring the importance of secure forest property rights. However, the results also highlight notable disparities in the impact of property rights. Households with a male head, small forests, and those with high forest dependence experience greater benefits from secure rights. Moreover, access to private forest plots consistently reduces the benefits derived from community forests, suggesting lower investment efforts in communal forest resources by private forest owners. The study underscores the need to strengthen forest property rights, implement targeted interventions, and promote integrated land-use practices to enhance the economic, social, and environmental outcomes of community forests in Ethiopia and similar contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"176 ","pages":"Article 103498"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144204235","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 forest conservation a socially optimal strategy for increasing forest carbon sequestration? 森林保护是增加森林碳封存的社会最优策略吗？

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Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103511

Peichen Gong , Andres Susaeta

{"title":"Is forest conservation a socially optimal strategy for increasing forest carbon sequestration?","authors":"Peichen Gong , Andres Susaeta","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103511","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103511","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Previous studies show that the optimal rotation period would be infinitely long when carbon price is sufficiently high, indicating that forest preservation could serve as an optimal strategy for mitigating global warming. This paper examines the impact of the substitution effect of harvested wood products (HWP) and the risk of natural disturbances on the optimality of infinitely long rotation period. Our analysis shows that when the substitution effects of HWP are significant, the optimal rotation remains finite regardless of how high the carbon price is. Conversely, when the substitution effects are minimal, there exists a threshold carbon price beyond which the optimal rotation period becomes infinite. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the risk of natural disturbances can either increase or decrease the likelihood that forest preservation remains the optimal choice for climate change mitigation. A numerical example illustrates that even with conservative assumptions about the substitution effect of HWP, the optimal rotation remains finite, and the risk of forest damage further reduces the optimal rotation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"176 ","pages":"Article 103511"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143946999","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-based bioeconomy and bio-based chemical production in the European Union: Policy issues, institutions, actors, and instruments in a changing forest policy subsystem

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Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103521

Katrin Beer , Michael Böcher , Caroline Ganzer , Anke Blöbaum , Lukas Engel , Theresa De Paula Sieverding , Kai Sundmacher , Ellen Matthies

{"title":"Forest-based bioeconomy and bio-based chemical production in the European Union: Policy issues, institutions, actors, and instruments in a changing forest policy subsystem","authors":"Katrin Beer , Michael Böcher , Caroline Ganzer , Anke Blöbaum , Lukas Engel , Theresa De Paula Sieverding , Kai Sundmacher , Ellen Matthies","doi":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103521","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103521","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The chemical industry is one of the largest consumers of fossil raw materials in the European Union (EU). Phasing out the use of fossil carbon both for energetic and material use (decarbonization/defossilization) requires the introduction of alternative processes and systems of production and consumption. One strategy that brings forward the defossilization of the chemistry sector is the use of biomass (bio-based carbon) as a raw material to produce bio-based chemical products. Our analysis focuses on the intersection of the forest-based bioeconomy, bio-based chemical production, and consumer preferences. It points out how the sustainability transition of the chemical industry changes the forest-based bioeconomy policy subsystem in the EU. Drawing on the Political Process inherent Dynamics Approach (PIDA), we apply a mixed-methods research design that integrates three scientific perspectives in an interdisciplinary approach. We illustrate how shifts in forestry, the chemical industry, and consumer preferences change the forest-based bioeconomy policy subsystem. Numerous strategies and goals referring to international agreements have been introduced by the EU in recent years and new actors from the chemical industry are entering the policy subsystem. Yet, new instruments are needed and developed for the regulation of the carbon cycle and negative emissions. The study provides directions for research on the defossilization of the chemical industry through the use of forest biomass and points out potential conflicts and trade-offs in production, consumption, and regulation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12451,"journal":{"name":"Forest Policy and Economics","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 103521"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143943210","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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