Showing papers in "Forest Policy and Economics in 2012"

TL;DR: The REDD proposal as mentioned in this paper is based on the principle that developing countries "pay" an opportunity cost to conserve their forests and would prefer other choices and convert their wooden lands to other uses.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take a political economy perspective to analyze Indonesia's policies on the allocation of forest land (kawasan hutan) and assess the changes in forest land allocation that are needed to enable REDD+ to compete with other sectors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the findings of a Delphi survey, conducted in four European regions (Great Britain, Nordic Region, Central Europe and Iberia) to assess public preferences for 12 key structural attributes of forests.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a theoretical framework to guide future research on the legal verification of global forest governance and its potential to reinforce, rather than detract from, global certification and good forest governance initiatives.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed an approach based on the core policy objectives of the program to evaluate the community forestry outcomes, which alleviates the poverty of forest users, empowering them, and improving the condition of the forests.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the livelihoods of communities around Mikumi, Tanzania's fourth largest national park, and impacts of living close to the park and found that the average income is around 0.45 USD per person per day and even the least poor group earn no more than an average of 2 USD/cap and day.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the extent and pattern of non-timber forest product (NTFP) income contribution to livelihoods of forest-adjacent people and the income related socioeconomic factors is crucial in designing any development and conservation initiative.

TL;DR: In this paper, the potential benefits for bundling different ecosystem services such as water quality, wetlands, species conservation, and carbon are assessed and an integrated accounting protocol for combining these services.

TL;DR: The evolution of the A'WOT method with AHP, SMART and SMAA-O techniques applied within SWOT is reviewed, and their applicability and the MCDS methods more generally are studied through required assessment techniques of decision-makers' preferences.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a typology of four ideal-type governance modes (i.e., hierarchical, closed co-, open co-, co-and self-governance) that can be used to analyse governance shifts.

TL;DR: In this article, the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) has been promoted as a promising theoretical approach of policy change and stability, however, the authors identify several empirical anomalies and conceptual inconsistencies regarding advocacy coalition properties and causal paths to policy change.

TL;DR: In this paper, an analytical framework is developed to explain the choice of environmental policy instruments better than the most important traditional approaches (naive instrumentalism and public choice), without overestimating or underestimating factors that support and limit instrument change.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed local residents' perceptions, attitudes and participation towards national protected areas and found that most respondents held favorable perceptions and attitudes towards the National Protected Area.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the heterogeneity of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) use by tribal communities in northeast India, a global hot spot by examining diversity of NTFPs at-large, its consumption pattern, and contribution to rural income and forest revenue.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the effect of the establishment of eucalyptus and pine plantations on local people's social valuations of ecosystem services in a case study in Uruguay.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the use of the Foucauldian concepts in forest policy analysis is conducted, focusing on the use Foucaultian thinking in the analysis of forest policy.

TL;DR: The authors provides an overview of theories currently used in forest policy analysis and examines trends in theory use over time, and assess whether the sub-discipline of Forest Policy Analysis deviates from the "mother discipline" of the policy sciences, and if so, how and to what extent.

TL;DR: In this paper, the diversity of wild food species and socio-economic factors that support farmers' choice for the species used in these systems were assessed, and the most culturally important species ranked by locals were determined for each climatic zone and the relations between the targeted species in traditional agroforestry systems and the reasons which support peasants' choices were described through a Principal Component Analysis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the likely impacts of climate-induced changes on the provisioning of forest ecosystem goods and services and its effect on the economic and social well-being of the society, including the national economy and the livelihoods of forest-dependent people.

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study has been done, applying a combination of a top-down and bottom-up approach with multi-criteria analysis (MCA) to identify a set of C&I with different groups of stakeholders in selected sites at the forestry management unit level.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the historic German discourse on forest functions with the current international debate on ecosystem services and analyzes the factors that may have triggered or inhibited the development and the institutionalization of both underlying concepts and subordinate debates.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors contribute to the emerging body of quantitative knowledge on the economic importance of forests to rural households through a study in the Nepal Himalaya, where the average forest income share of total annual household income was 22%, ranging from 12 to 31%.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a new paradigm change in forest management and conservation, precipitated by forest carbon, and concluded that anticipatory planned adaptation of all facets of forestry to climate change imposes mitigation and adaptation as new boundary conditions for sustainable forest management, and amounts to a paradigm change.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of a case study from the Swiss Alps, where they determined the willingness to pay for avalanche protection based on a choice experiment combined with virtual reality visualizations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider two ways that economic concepts inform adaptive capacity assessments within the context of climate change vulnerability analysis, using an economics framework, there are rational and logical reasons why different individuals and different organized human systems have different levels of adaptive capacity and these differences do not necessarily correlate to differences in vulnerability.

TL;DR: The economic feasibility of utilizing woody biomass to produce biofuel lies in the willingness to harvest by non-industrial private forest (NIPF) landowners, who control 71% of forestland in the southern United States as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a study to identify and quantify family forest landowner interest in participating in a voluntary carbon market trading program in the Lake States, USA and found that carbon program characteristics alongside landowner and parcel characteristics are associated with the decision to participate in a carbon credit program.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the economic and social impacts of the Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) and found that the program was, in general, inefficient because productivity and environmental heterogeneity were given scant consideration in Northeast China.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored attitudes of visitor segments towards visitor and environmental management in the Gesaeuse National Park, Austria, based on the degree of visitor affinity to the national park.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the value of bundling payments for environmental services from watershed restoration, including water quality improvement and carbon sequestration coupled with wood production, and compare the net returns with the existing agricultural land-use, using as an example the 408,000-ha Warren-Tone watershed (WT) in south-western Australia.