Journal: Forest Policy and Economics

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  • Institutional analysis of evolution of joint forest management in India
    Item type: Journal Article
    Behera, Bhagirath; Engel, Stefanie (2006)
    Forest Policy and Economics
  • Ecosystem services and forest fires in India
    Item type: Journal Article
    Schmerbeck, Joachim; Kohli, A.; Seeland, Klaus T. (2015)
    Forest Policy and Economics
  • Simulation of a Swiss wood fuel and roundwood market
    Item type: Journal Article
    Kostadinov, Fabian; Holm, Stefan; Steubing, Bernhard; et al. (2014)
    Forest Policy and Economics
  • Forest clearances, compensatory afforestation and biodiversity offsetting in forests: Balancing flexibility and equivalency in Switzerland
    Item type: Journal Article
    Schulz, Tobias; Ohmura, Tamaki; Troxler, David; et al. (2024)
    Forest Policy and Economics
    The settlement area is expanding at the cost of agricultural land in densely populated regions such as Central Europe. This development is also affecting the forest. Forest clearances due to, e.g. traffic and energy infrastructure development, require afforestation elsewhere but surfaces providing appropriate soil are increasingly scarce. Switzerland is an important case in point. It is densely populated, exhibits a large amount of forest – also in the lowlands – and although it features a strong forest protection law, it recently allowed compensating forest clearances with non-forest related offsets. Based on the results of a Q-methodology survey conducted during a stakeholder workshop, we show that pressure for more flexible forest specific rules largely stems from “outside” the forest sector, i.e. the agriculture and development sector. Only a small group of actors aims at reinstalling the more restrictive regime, whereas the largest group of actors embraces the status quo. This group rejects expansion of more flexible rules and adheres to strengthening the top of the mitigation hierarchy, i.e. prioritizing the mitigation of habitat loss caused by development. This interpretation of biodiversity offsetting aligns with the conviction that development needs to respect the limits of growth. Prioritizing the mitigation hierarchy requires a planning rather than a market coordination approach. We show that in a context with rigid biodiversity offsetting rules, following a multipurpose forest regime and with high land-use competition, stakeholder preferences impede the integration of habitat banking approaches into the planning of compensatory afforestation and biodiversity offsetting in the forest.
  • Mapping the research of Forest ecosystem Services in Europe: A review
    Item type: Journal Article
    Truffer, Oliver; Lieberherr, Eva; Van Ruymbeke, Kato; et al. (2025)
    Forest Policy and Economics
    Research on forest ecosystems is abundant, yet the societal needs for forest ecosystem services (FES) remains less examined. Understanding these needs—especially across different societal actors—offers a promising path to ease pressure on the provision of forest ecosystem services and navigate the goal conflicts of forest policy under the EU Green Deal. Using a semi-systematic literature review, we categorize the existing research on the need for forest ecosystem services within distinct European forestry paradigms and investigate how well the literature covers each service and actor type. In 107 assessed articles, we find that cultural ecosystem services are researched most prominently while provisioning services are addressed the least. While the literature in our corpus is inclined towards recreationists and the public, crucial actors such as forest owners or forest managers are examined seldomly. Furthermore, we find several articles that assess the synergies and conflicts fostered by different management approaches. We connect this finding to a qualitative mismatch between the need for forest ecosystem services described in the literature and the provision of these services that is shaped by different ideas on sustainable forest management. By highlighting gaps and shortcomings in the literature we set the stage for future research on the need for forest ecosystem services.
  • Communication campaigns to engage (non-traditional) forest owners: A European perspective
    Item type: Journal Article
    Wilkes-Allemann, Jerylee; Deuffic, Philippe; Jandl, Robert; et al. (2021)
    Forest Policy and Economics
    In Europe, private forest owners play an important role in achieving sustainability goals, such as those set by the European Green Deal. Efficient communication and coordination with these actors is therefore central. However, ongoing structural changes in forest ownership have in many cases silenced traditional communication channels, especially those involving owners of small forests. Their economic performance is often negligible at an individual level, yet collectively their forests play a pivotal role in a context of increasing demand for wood products. In this article, we analyse and compare forest campaigns in nine European countries. Specifically, we assess one-way and two-way communication models applying different techniques to engage (non-traditional) forest owners. Our analysis of 34 campaigns shows that (i) one-way communication models are still more widely used in the forest sector to engage non-traditional forest owners than two-way communication models; (ii) one-way communication aims at informing and is effective for short-term awareness raising, while two-way communication aims at persuading and is essential to trigger forest management activities over the long-term, (iii) interactive learning tools can play a crucial role for reaching and engaging (non-traditional) forest owners. We further conclude that campaigns could be improved by having 1) joint campaigns with public and private actors, 2) convincing narratives developed based on a good understanding of forest owners' motivations, 3) adapting the timing of campaigns to windows of opportunities and 4) developing intermediary associations (e.g. non-traditional forest owner associations) as connectors and trust builders between different actors as they play a crucial role in providing information to forest owners and supporting their engagement.
  • Erratum to “Avalanche Protection by Forests - A Choice Experiment in the Swiss Alps”
    Item type: Other Journal Item
    Olschewski, Roland; Bebi, Peter; Teich, Michaela; et al. (2012)
    Forest Policy and Economics
  • Influence of consumers' socioecological and economic orientations on preferences for wood products with sustainability labels
    Item type: Journal Article
    Hansmann, Ralf; Köllner, Thomas; Scholz, Roland W. (2006)
    Forest Policy and Economics
  • Governance approaches in Swiss forest biodiversity policy
    Item type: Journal Article
    Kaeser, Alexandra; Bernasconi, Jasmin; Zimmermann, Willi (2013)
    Forest Policy and Economics
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