There is a new trend in international forest policy science. Over the past decade the term “discourse” has entered the …

Deforestation and forest degradation remain high worldwide, and one of the dominant underlying causes for this forest … studies two of these regimes, the European Union's Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) action plan and its … forest degradation (REDD+). The interactions between these two international policies at the national level, namely in Ghana …

Increasing competition over the world's forest resources will likely aggravate conflict, though conflict should not be … protected areas and few involve commercial forestry. The reasons for the rise of different approaches to collaboration in … protected areas and commercially managed forest lands are explored through a comparison of two conflicts embedded in different …

We study reforms and institutional changes in Russian forestry from the time of Peter the Great to the present. Using … archival materials and in-depth interviews with participants of the forest sector, we show the strong path-dependence of … Russian forestry and how post-Soviet developments echo the reform patterns of previous centuries. The outcomes of numerous …

incentives may potentially alter the country's economic landscape. However, current forest and land allocation policies and … politics support economic activities that promote the exploitation of forest assets. More recently, global needs for energy and … food have increased pressure on forest land. The REDD+ mechanism is designed to reverse this situation and create …

Amidst Myanmar (Burma)'s political reform process the forest sector remains an important area awaiting democratisation … has however played a decisive role in determining forest sector policy and indeed has exerted a significant influence on …

Policies governing forest ecosystems can mitigate climate change in many ways, making use of various ecosystem services …-off analysis, we analyse the coherence of Finnish policies affecting forest bioenergy and carbon sequestration, two contrasting … demand of the services by utilizing natural science and policy assessment approaches. We find forest bioenergy, representing …