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Economics
Bernardo Trejos, Juan Carlos Flores
Summary: This study analyzed the influence of property rights on community forestry and devolution policies. It found that historical policy changes have affected community forestry initiatives, but recent policies have helped promote community forestry. De facto land tenure arrangements are also important in local forest management.
FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS
(2021)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Daniel C. Miller, Pushpendra Rana, Katia Nakamura, Samantha Irwin, Samantha H. Cheng, Sofia Ahlroth, Emilie Perge
Summary: The majority of forest property rights interventions focus on rights to access a forest area or withdraw resources from it, with generally positive or mixed impacts on poverty. However, more robust quasi-experimental assessments show greater variation in the reported impacts on poverty dimensions.
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
(2021)
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Environmental Studies
Brita Goldstein, Mindy S. Crandall, Erin Clover Kelly
Summary: In the U.S., the combination of federal, state, and local forest rules and programs create the policy environment for private forest landowners. This study utilizes interviews with policy experts to investigate the range of forest policies and the influence of key actors on policy changes. The study highlights the important role of private property rights and the need to balance protection of public trust resources.
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Environmental Studies
Min Li, Apurbo Sarkar, Yuge Wang, Ahmed Khairul Hasan, Quanxing Meng
Summary: This research evaluates the impact of ecological property rights on farmers' investment behavior in economic forests and constructs an evaluation framework. The results show that forest land use rights, economic products, and eco-product income rights positively influence farmers' forestry investment, while disposal rights have a negative impact. Additionally, only the right to profit from ecological products affects farmers' investment willingness. The study also finds that the integrity of property rights and farmers' forest land expropriation risk have an impact on investment decisions.
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Christopher B. Barrett
Summary: Research on vaccines, crop seeds, and other innovations for low- or middle-income countries can be incentivized by extending patent protection for profitable but non-essential inventions.
Article
Forestry
Austin Himes, Matthew Betts, Christian Messier, Robert Seymour
Summary: The triad in forestry refers to a landscape management regime consisting of intensive plantation management, ecological forest reserves, and a matrix of forests managed for multiple uses. It has the potential to balance the global demand for timber products and the provision of ecosystem services. However, there are challenges to its wider adoption, and more research is needed to compare its efficacy with other forest landscape management schemes.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Economics
Erin Clover Kelly, Mindy S. Crandall
Summary: There is remarkable variety in forest management policies on privately-owned lands across the United States, with each state emphasizing different approaches. A discourse analysis of state-produced documents reveals four discourse categories, allowing for comparison of policy approaches and resources.
FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Vladimir Stojanovski
Summary: Due to recent political changes, economic practice in North Macedonia has shifted away from state ownership towards supporting sustainable management of private forests. However, socialist structures and practices still hinder the institutionalization of private forestry.
Article
Economics
Hexing Long, Wil de Jong, Zhang Yiwen, Jinlong Liu
Summary: This study focuses on China's forest devolution reform and explores why communities allocated forests to groups of households rather than individuals. The analysis indicates that community empowerment plays a role in institutional choices, leading to different preferences from state-level actors. Factors such as physical allocation challenges, decreasing reliance on forests, and the development of a forest rights market are found critical in selecting user group management in the reform.
FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Forestry
Enric Vadell, Jesus Peman, Pieter Johannes Verkerk, Maitane Erdozain, Sergio De-Miguel
Summary: This study examines the development and trends of forest management practices in Spain since the mid-20th century, identifying challenges and decisions that may need to be reconsidered to promote multifunctionality in forestry.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Biology
Matthew G. Betts, Benjamin T. Phalan, Christopher Wolf, Susan C. Baker, Christian Messier, Klaus J. Puettmann, Rhys Green, Scott H. Harris, David P. Edwards, David B. Lindenmayer, Andrew Balmford
Summary: Forest loss and degradation pose the greatest threats to global biodiversity, and finding a balance between conservation and wood production remains a challenge. Expanding high-yielding tree plantations could provide more forest land for protection, but leads to reduced biodiversity, while adopting extensive ecological management may better simulate natural forest structures with compromised wood yields.
BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS
(2021)
Article
Forestry
Demeng Jiang, Xinran Miao, Yuanli Zhu, Tao Xiong, Jiayan Wang, Fangyuan Hua
Summary: Commercial timber plantations have limited capacity to support biodiversity. Tree mixtures, a widely promoted approach, have been tested in Eucalyptus monocultures in southern China. The study found that tree mixtures showed modest advantages over monocultures during the breeding season, but both plantation types had shortfalls compared to mature native forests. Tree mixtures tended to benefit species that foraged in the medium-low strata and depended more on mature forest habitat.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Review
Engineering, Environmental
Malin Tiebel, Andreas Moelder, Tobias Plieninger
Summary: This study examines the perspectives of small-scale private forest owners on nature conservation, finding that factors such as gender, education level, forest management practices, and ecological values of the property impact conservation perspectives. Recommendations are synthesized based on a natural resource conflict management framework, aiming to strengthen sustainable forest management by integrating nature conservation and resource use in decision-making processes.
Article
Forestry
Kamal Acharya, Nicolae Talpa, Aureliu Florin Halalisan, Bogdan Popa
Summary: Community forestry has a significant role in Nepal, but improvements are needed in areas such as product diversification, marketing, and management.
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Georg Winkel, Metodi Sotirov, Cassandra Moseley
Summary: This paper assesses conflicts along the Global Forest Environmental Frontier by summarizing 11 contributions to a special issue on the topic, revealing shared patterns and trajectories in forest environmental conflicts on various continents.
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Biodiversity Conservation
Anna Stens, Jean-Michel Roberge, Erik Lofmarck, Karin Beland Lindahl, Adam Felton, Camilla Widmark, Lucy Rist, Johanna Johansson, Annika Nordin, Urban Nilsson, Hjalmar Laudon, Thomas Ranius
BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION
(2019)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Janina Priebe, Elsa Reimerson, Isabella Hallberg-Sramek, Anna Stens, Camilla Sandstrom, Erland Marald
Summary: This study investigates the leverage and contextual factors of transformative change, using the forest-climate nexus in Sweden as a case study. The analysis reveals that future transformative change is often perceived as universal and detached from context, while past transformative change is linked to community values and pluralism. Understanding the complex spatio-temporal relations and meaning-making helps identify how leverage emerges from context and gains richer meaning for individuals experiencing transformative change.
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Economics
Sara Lorenzini, Nadia von Jacobi
Summary: This paper fills the gap in the literature on polycentric governance by focusing on the micro-processes of conflict that precede its establishment. Through a comparative analysis of four case studies, the authors find that conflict can lead to negotiations and the eventual establishment of common procedural rules, which can sustain polycentric governance.
FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS
(2024)
Article
Economics
Hubert Palus, Lenka Marcinekova, Jaroslav Salka
Summary: The complexity and comprehensiveness of sustainability issues in forest certification schemes require knowledge based and transparent decision-making processes, which involve open and multi-stakeholder participation. This study examines the latest PEFC national sustainable forest management standard revision process in Slovakia from the viewpoint of stakeholder participation. The results highlight the importance of stakeholder understanding, trust, and satisfaction in the effectiveness of the revision process.
FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS
(2024)
Article
Economics
Nicholas Palaschuk, Jason Gauthier, Ryan Bullock
Summary: Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) are important for the spiritual and cultural identity of Indigenous communities, but current forest policies in Canada do not adequately protect these resources. This research used a participatory approach and community interviews to document local criteria, elements, and values related to NTFP development and conservation. The resulting framework can guide decision making and promote socio-economic benefits for the Missanabie Cree First Nation.
FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS
(2024)
Article
Economics
Laila Berning, Metodi Sotirov
Summary: This paper analyzes the coalition politics driven by beliefs and interests in the new European Union Regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR). The study identifies pro-regulation and contra-regulation coalitions and highlights the strategic alliance formed between pro-EUDR business actors and other pro-coalitions. Despite opposition from a weaker contra-regulation coalition, the EUDR was ultimately institutionalized as a compromise solution accommodating different beliefs and interests of state and non-state actors.
FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS
(2024)
Article
Economics
Mehwish Zuberi, Michael Spies, Jonas o. Nielsen
Summary: Smallholder farmers play a crucial role in agrarian value chains in the Global South, but they are often neglected in technology-oriented agricultural interventions. However, they face challenges such as lack of resources, established crop rotation patterns, and market and climatic factors.
FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS
(2024)
Article
Economics
James Chamberlain, Carsten Smith-Hall
Summary: More countries are adopting novel approaches to transition to a forest-based bioeconomy, which can address global challenges such as sustainable forest management, poverty alleviation, and climate change mitigation. Utilizing non-timber forest products is crucial for the realization of a forest-based bioeconomy.
FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS
(2024)
Article
Economics
Keith Barney
Summary: The social impacts of industrial wood plantations in Southeast Asia, specifically in Laos, are debated. This study finds that under certain conditions, these plantations can positively contribute to local livelihoods, but there are still issues of land dispossession and inadequate compensation.
FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS
(2024)