Showing papers in "Forest Policy and Economics in 2017"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize the current evidence base examining the contribution of forest and trees to agricultural production and livelihoods in the tropics, where production often occurs within complex land use mosaics that are increasingly subjected to concomitant climatic and anthropogenic pressures.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use frame analysis and a Pathways approach to investigate the underlying governance model, focusing on the way policy problems are addressed, goals, implementation procedures, outcomes and the resulting pathways to sustainability.

TL;DR: The increasing diversity of non-industrial private forest owners (PFOs) in Europe has been recognized by policy makers and the forestry sector at large as discussed by the authors, and the authors have developed the typologies of these owners.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the ways in which forests contribute to livelihoods, including interactions between them, and how they change as landscapes transition, and point to the need to move beyond single-year data collection to comparable temporal points and panel data as well as the importance of accounting for a) subsistence use values, b) commercial use values and c) ecological forest contributions in poverty alleviation policies.

TL;DR: This article analyzed Finland's forest policy from the perspective of the Pathways to Sustainability approach and concluded that the dominant pathway to sustainability in Finnish forest policy aims at reconciling the different dimensions of sustainability by producing more of everything.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a comprehensive literature review to clarify the methodological issues in GHG effects assessments of harvested wood products (HWP) and wood bioenergy substitution, and identify knowledge gaps to inform future research.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the role of agriculture-forest landscapes in the provision of wild food in rapidly transforming shifting cultivation communities in northern Laos and found that wild food contributed less to human diets in areas where pressure on land from commercial agriculture and conservation efforts was more intense.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how eco-label credibility and retailer type affect green purchasing intentions (GPIs) and found that consumers who purchase furniture at supermarkets exhibited a lower GPI compared with consumers at other furniture retailers, ceteris paribus.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of harvesting intensity on the development of forest resources, timber supply, carbon balance, and biodiversity indicators of Finnish forestry in nine 10-year simulation periods under the current climate were examined.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented the results of the research for prioritization strategies of sustainable development of ecotourism in National Park Djerdap (NPDJ), Serbia.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the political dimension of the German model by tracing the birth and evolution of the so-called LOWE programme, a much noticed governmental forest management program in the German state of Lower Saxony.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify empirical evidence pointing to why oil palm companies emerge as powerful actors in land use conflicts in West Kalimantan, Indonesia and use the case of forest lands claimed by different actors, i.e., a timber plantation company, an oil palm company, and local communities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the potential of markets and their interaction with policies to leverage investment for forest and landscape restoration in the tropics is explored and four key opportunities for regulating markets to promote FLR are identified: economic mechanisms, technological, educational or infrastructural investment; legal and enforcement mechanisms; and market-led standards and certification schemes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data from the Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture in five countries: Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a detailed analysis of forest transition in India, exploring the direct and underlying causes and factors that explain deforestation and forest degradation, decline in deforestation and degradation, and forest recovery.

TL;DR: In this paper, a five-year research project to evaluate REDD+ quality of governance and develop governance standards for the mechanism is described. But the authors conclude that REDD+, while it will be successful in combatting climate change in the Anthropocene, will only partially succeed in combating climate change.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a review of 60 unique REDD+ costs and benefits studies and found that no single study covers all categories of costs in a comparable form, including transaction and implementation costs, total costs, and monetary benefits.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the performance of three types of plantations: 5, 6 and 10-year rotations, and found that the 5-year rotation is for the sole purpose of producing woodchips and the 6-and 10-years rotations produce both timber and wood chips.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a reality check for the prospects of REDD+ to deliver on this promise, through analyzing three pioneer cases in Brazil, Ecuador, and Mexico, based on field work, key-informant interviews and analysis of primary and secondary documents.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of economic globalization on forest transition were discussed, and the links between trade, adjustment of trade structure, FDI and forest transition in nine Asian countries were explored.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on forest residues generated primarily from the harvesting of natural production forests and industrial forest plantations; and wood processing mill residues and estimated the economic value of forest biomass when it was pelletized was estimated to be about US$ 5.6 per ton wood residues.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the main factors motivating companies operating in the Italian forest based industry to implement FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) standard, as a tool to promote responsible forest management and traceability of derived products, and the impact of this standard on the economic and organisational results.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed forest area, biomass dynamics, and factors influencing deforestation and forest restoration in China and found that the natural disasters and economic development drove forest dynamics and transition in China.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a methodology for the development of a certified forest areas at 1 km resolution, which can help to make more accurate information on forest certification available, promote the sharing of data and encourage more transparent and sustainable forest management.

TL;DR: In this paper, the consequences of various management options on different aspects of sustainable forest management through scenario analysis using a forestry decision support system was assessed using a web-based multi-criteria decision analysis framework.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with people responsible for the selected innovation cases in three non-timber forest products (NTFP)based enterprises in Slovenia, Serbia and FYR Macedonia.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) forest management certification standards has been evaluated by using economic valuation methods and governance indicators in Kilwa, Tanzania.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used discriminant analysis to identify relationships between bio-physical variables (forest cover area and land under cultivation) and socioeconomic variables (GDP, assets and infrastructure), and the transition status (transition vs no transition) of the countries.

TL;DR: In this article, the establishment of a REDD+ pilot project in Kilosa district, Tanzania has been analyzed and the legitimacy of the process of introducing REDD and the outcomes in the form of new governance structures has been evaluated.