Three decades of forest policy studies in the countries in the former socialist countries of Europe: A review

IF 4 2区 农林科学 Q1 ECONOMICS Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI:10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103398
Ekaterina Makrickiene , Vilis Brukas , Ivana Živojinović , Zuzana Dobšinská
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Since the late 1980s, the transformative changes in former socialist societies have provided a unique context for forest policy research. However, a comprehensive review of this body of scholarship has been lacking. This paper addresses this gap by by reviewing forest policy studies for 19 countries of the ex-socialist realm. We identified 285 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, published in 1990–2024. Bibliometric and narrative analysis revealed several positive trends including rapidly growing number of publications, and between other aspects, improving gender balance in the authorship. There is an evident increase of the research capacity as the domestic contributors clearly prevail over the foreign authors since 2015. The output, measured bythe number of published studies, differs remarkably among the analysed countries. The Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia lead in publication numbers, while Montenegro, Moldova, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Belarus rank at the bottom.
“State forestry” (42 % of the total count) and “private forestry” (30 %) are the two prevailing thematic hubs among the sampled studies. Our review confirms substantial influence of ideological and institutional legacies from the socialist period with such outcomes as the dominating power of state actors, prevalence of strong regulatory approaches and limited decision space for private forest owners. Important topics for future research include, among others, deeper sociological understanding of forest restitution and of reform processes in state forestry; red tape and corruption in the forest sector, trust between private and state actors; better balancing of regulatory, economic and informational instruments; and national accommodations of the forest-related EU policies.
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欧洲前社会主义国家三十年森林政策研究:回顾
自1980年代末以来,前社会主义社会的变革为森林政策研究提供了独特的背景。然而,对这一学术体系的全面回顾一直缺乏。本文通过回顾19个前社会主义国家的森林政策研究来解决这一差距。我们在1990-2024年间发表的285篇国际同行评议期刊上的文章。文献计量学和叙事分析揭示了几个积极的趋势,包括出版物数量的迅速增长,以及在其他方面,作者的性别平衡得到改善。自2015年以来,国内作者明显超过外国作者,研究能力明显提高。以发表的研究数量来衡量的产出,在被分析的国家之间差别很大。捷克共和国、波兰和斯洛伐克在出版物数量上领先,而黑山、摩尔多瓦、阿尔巴尼亚、波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那和白俄罗斯排名垫底。
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Forest Policy and Economics
Forest Policy and Economics 农林科学-林学
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148
审稿时长
21.9 weeks
期刊介绍: Forest Policy and Economics is a leading scientific journal that publishes peer-reviewed policy and economics research relating to forests, forested landscapes, forest-related industries, and other forest-relevant land uses. It also welcomes contributions from other social sciences and humanities perspectives that make clear theoretical, conceptual and methodological contributions to the existing state-of-the-art literature on forests and related land use systems. These disciplines include, but are not limited to, sociology, anthropology, human geography, history, jurisprudence, planning, development studies, and psychology research on forests. Forest Policy and Economics is global in scope and publishes multiple article types of high scientific standard. Acceptance for publication is subject to a double-blind peer-review process.
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