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The evolution of land governance in Myanmar: A historical analysis of the people-land nexus in the Konbaung dynasty and British colonial eras

IF 4 2区农林科学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Forest Policy and Economics

Pub Date : 2025-02-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103446

Phyu Phyu Han , Win Min Paing , Masahiko Ota , Takahiro Fujiwara

Contemporary environmental challenges are deeply entwined with land-related issues, necessitating a comprehensive understanding of the historical dynamics between communities and land for practical solutions. Myanmar has encountered significant societal and political disruptions during the colonial era. This study traces the evolving governance of the people-land relationship spanning the final Burmese state, the Konbaung dynasty period, and the British colonial era. Employing Foucauldian governmentality theory and genealogical analysis, this study illuminates traditional governance predating the colonial era while highlighting the distorted shifts in the people-land nexus. The monarchical Burmese state was instrumental in crafting a traditional agrarian society rooted in the tenets of Buddhist statecraft. It upheld liberal governance principles and recognized individual land property rights, fostering agricultural population in both regulatory and practical contexts. However, the British, despite propagating liberal ideologies, established an authoritarian top-down government in the forested areas, using modern statistical methods and scientific mapping. This study highlights the historical dynamics of the people-land relationship in Myanmar, providing essential insights for addressing contemporary environmental challenges and formulating policies that address contemporary land-related issues with sustainable and more equitable solutions. Future land policies should prioritize individual property rights and acknowledge the intrinsic connection between local communities and forested lands for sustainable governance.

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The adoption of natural capital accounting: Lessons from the Tasmanian forest management system

IF 4 2区农林科学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Forest Policy and Economics

Pub Date : 2025-02-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103441

Isobella Grover , Shaun Suitor , Julianne O'Reilly-Wapstra , Mark Tocock , Peter Volker , Darla Hatton MacDonald

Natural capital accounting (NCA) provides a systematic framework to integrate broader economic and environmental data in a way that aligns with traditional financial accounting. This fuller set of information allows organisations to better manage their environmental risks and dependencies. However, NCA adoption remains limited and fragmented in the forestry sector. We utilise semi-structured interviews as part of an Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework to examine the incentives and barriers faced by public and private forestry organisations in adopting NCA. This paper contributes to forestry management by querying the reasons for these gaps in adoption, as well as the barriers preventing adoption and utilisation of NCA at the organisational scale. We base our study in Tasmania, Australia, using its forest management system as a case study. We find that a wide range of Tasmanian organisations perceive clear incentives for adoption. Among them, recognised reporting approaches, access to financial markets and investment opportunities, additional data to inform decision-making, as well as new evidence to support social licence to operate. However, significant barriers exist, such as lack of baseline data, limited internal capacity and often ambiguous guidance on account compilation. These barriers could be addressed through greater standardisation of existing NCA frameworks, establishing accounting standards for natural capital, and increased private-public sector collaboration. Addressing these barriers could enable the adoption of NCA at scale, enhancing the management of natural resources.

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Calling into the void? German forest dieback 2.0 debate on Twitter. A case study to operationalize the analysis of discursive power in hybrid media systems

IF 4 2区农林科学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Forest Policy and Economics

Pub Date : 2025-02-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103447

Philipp Mack , Ida Wallin , Mariella Susann Zwickel , Jonas Pfistner , Lena König , Daniela Kleinschmit

Forest dieback 2.0 is the common term for describing climate change-related forest damages that sparked a nation-wide debate in Germany starting in 2018. Referring to the “first” forest dieback in the 1980s that inspired environmental movements and policy changes, raises questions concerning today's mobilization potential. Political communication has been profoundly transformed, mainly through the spread of digital media. To understand the current debate, it is thus crucial to consider the complex entanglements in hybrid media systems. We contribute to the operationalization of analyzing discursive power in hybrid media systems, through Twitter-actor-networks as well as tweet-hyperlink-networks, representing a communication space where older and newer media logics blend. Results suggest a scattered debate characterized by insulated communication networks of few central actors. Whereas forestry frames dominate original tweets, nature conservation frames are more likely to be amplified through retweets. Despite having largest number of followers, legacy media actors show low centralities in the Twitter-network. However, their influence must be seen in regard to the referred hyperlinks. Interactions between tweets and hyperlinks revealed different mechanisms for how frames are introduced and amplified. Besides mainly following the cleavage between forestry and nature conservationists, alternative frames instrumentalize forest damages to call for climate action or climate change skepticism. Despite these controversies and insulated communication, the forest dieback 2.0 debate on Twitter does not appear to be destructively polarized. Nevertheless, further research needs to carefully examine the polarization potential. Due to the limited outreach, however, the Twitter debate largely seems like a calling into the void.

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Evaluating carbon emissions and removals resulting from Russia's trade in harvested wood products

IF 4 2区农林科学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Forest Policy and Economics

Pub Date : 2025-02-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103444

Roman V. Gordeev , Anton I. Pyzhev

Harvested wood products (HWP) are carbon reservoirs that remain underutilized in decarbonization policies due to the superficiality of carbon flux estimates in international trade in forest products. This paper focuses on the emissions and removals associated with Russia's foreign trade in HWP. For the first time, we provide estimates of these carbon fluxes for individual Russian regions for 2016–2020. Our findings indicate that the Siberian and North-Western regions are the primary contributors to carbon emissions from international trade. A comparison of estimates from the stock change approach (SCA), the production approach (PA), and the atmospheric flow approach (AFA) points to the latter as the most suitable for application in Russia given the significant proportion of exports in the sales of roundwood and sawn timber. Furthermore, we supplemented the estimates of carbon stock change from HWP trade using an approximation of rail and maritime trade routes for transporting timber from and to Russia. We found that the transportation emissions induced by overland and maritime HWP trade flows account for about 7 % of the total carbon balance from Russia's HWP trade. The largest volumes of emissions from HWP shipments are generated by the main exporters in North-Western Russia and Siberia, as well as regions that play a major role in freight handling.

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Diversity of plant species used as firewood in indigenous colonized communities: An ethnobotanical study in East Misiones, Argentina 土著殖民社区用作柴火的植物物种多样性：阿根廷东米西奥内斯的民族植物学研究

IF 4 2区农林科学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Forest Policy and Economics

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103409

Mario Gabriel Sackser , Lucas Rojas , Héctor Alejandro Keller , Norma Inés Hilgert

The use and consumption of firewood implies a detailed knowledge of species, and its materialisation translates into culturally mediated practices. This study analyses the link between users and the variety of species employed as firewood and the diversity of uses by settler and Guarani populations in Misiones, Argentina. Information was obtained through semi-structured interviews, free listings, participant observation, and botanical walks. The richness of species was assessed considering the species mentioned and their associated uses, and the usage categories of both cultural groups were compared. The cultural importance of the species was estimated based on the Consensus and Versatility of Use. In total, 84 species were recorded. The species with the highest Consensus of Use between Guarani and settlers were Holocalyx balansae and Parapiptadenia rigida, respectively. We identified six use categories, with cooking being the most cited in both groups. There were no reports for the “ritual/religious” category among the settlers. In both cultural groups, firewood is the main energy resource, but there are differences in the mode and object of use. Among the Guarani, firewood and fire represent fundamental elements in their way of life and culture beyond satisfying their material needs.

柴火的使用和消费意味着对物种的详细了解，其物质化转化为文化媒介的实践。本研究分析了阿根廷米西奥内斯定居者和瓜拉尼人使用木柴的多样性与木柴使用者之间的联系。通过半结构化访谈、免费列表、参与性观察和植物漫步获得信息。结合所提到的物种及其相关利用对物种的丰富度进行了评价，并比较了两种文化群体的利用类别。该物种的文化重要性是基于共识和用途的多功能性来估计的。共录得84种。瓜拉尼人与定居者的共识度最高的物种分别是白莲花（Holocalyx balansae）和硬鳞花（Parapiptadenia rigida）。我们确定了六种用途类别，烹饪是两组中引用最多的。在定居者中没有关于“仪式/宗教”类别的报告。在这两个文化群体中，木柴都是主要的能源，但在使用方式和使用对象上存在差异。对于瓜拉尼人来说，木柴和火代表了他们生活方式和文化的基本元素，而不仅仅是满足他们的物质需求。

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Minimising the relative regret of future forest landscape compositions: The role of close-to-nature stand types 减少未来森林景观构成的相对遗憾：接近自然的林分类型的作用

IF 4 2区农林科学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Forest Policy and Economics

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103410

Thomas Knoke , Peter Biber , Tobias Schula , Jonathan Fibich , Benjamin Gang

Increasingly uncertain decision outcomes prevail in forest management and hamper choosing a single optimal management alternative. Confronting all management alternatives with multiple future scenarios and selecting an alternative minimising the regret under the worst scenario may provide suitable guidance under such uncertainty. Here, we search for future forested landscape compositions using regret minimisation for different objectives. We consider even-aged and uneven-aged stand types (called close-to-nature stand types) as management alternatives. Close-to-nature forest stand types supported the minimisation of regret for all objectives (represented by financial return, volume increment, C-storage, and two biodiversity indicators). However, close-to-nature stand types covered 18 % to 43 % of the future forest landscape in our study, which shows that even-aged stands are also necessary. For example, supporting biodiversity or multiple objectives simultaneously required large proportions of light-demanding and climate-change-tolerant Oak stands (even aged). Such Oak stands are difficult to achieve under shady conditions with limited canopy openings, which is typical for uneven-aged systems. Building on robust Pareto frontiers, we show a substantial trade-off between supporting biodiversity and maximising financial return but only a moderate trade-off between supporting biodiversity and maximising the C storage in a forest landscape. We suggest that such landscape-level trade-offs be quantified and discussed more intensively.

越来越不确定的决策结果在森林管理中普遍存在，妨碍了选择单一的最佳管理备选方案。面对多种未来情景的所有管理方案，并选择一种在最坏情景下最小化后悔的替代方案，可以在这种不确定性下提供适当的指导。在这里，我们使用遗憾最小化来寻找未来的森林景观组成。我们考虑均匀龄和非均匀龄林分类型（称为接近自然的林分类型）作为管理选择。接近自然的林分类型支持所有目标（以经济回报、体积增量、碳储量和两个生物多样性指标为代表）的遗憾最小化。然而，在我们的研究中，接近自然的林分类型占未来森林景观的18%至43%，这表明平均年龄的林分也是必要的。例如，支持生物多样性或同时实现多个目标需要大量的光照要求和耐气候变化的橡树林（即使是老化的）。这样的橡树林很难在阴凉的条件下实现，树冠开口有限，这是典型的不均匀老化系统。基于强大的帕累托边界，我们显示了支持生物多样性和最大化经济回报之间的重大权衡，但在支持生物多样性和最大化森林景观中的碳储量之间只有适度的权衡。我们建议对这种景观层面的权衡进行量化和更深入的讨论。

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“Hands off our forests!” - The impact of the authoritarian rule on polish forest policy in the context of the European Green Deal “别碰我们的森林！”——在《欧洲绿色协议》的背景下，威权统治对波兰森林政策的影响

IF 4 2区农林科学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Forest Policy and Economics

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103402

Krzysztof Niedziałkowski , Agata Konczal , Marcin Mielewczyk

In recent years, numerous initiatives and instruments from the European Union have aimed to address climate change. As a result, forest policies of member states—formally outside the EU's direct competencies—have come under increasing pressure from the EU. Member states' responses have varied, largely influenced by their unique socio-economic and political contexts regarding forest policies. This paper examines the impact of an authoritarian shift in Poland, observed from 2015 to 2023, on the responsiveness of domestic forest policy and key policy actors to European policy stimuli. To this end, we collected and analysed data on forest policy development through desk research and 30 semi-structured interviews with representatives of key stakeholder groups. We interpreted the results using the Advocacy Coalition Framework. Our findings suggest that the authoritarian context in Poland initially strengthened eurosceptic attitudes among dominant actors in the forest policy subsystem, hindering the implementation of new measures aimed at addressing climate change and biodiversity decline. However, autocratic policymaking gradually weakened the coherence of the dominant forest coalition, compromised the social legitimacy of foresters, and positioned forest-related issues within a clear party-political framework. Consequently, the major external shock to the subsystem—the 2023 general elections and the subsequent change in government—opened a window of opportunity for significant forest policy changes aligned with the European Green Deal.

近年来，欧盟提出了许多旨在应对气候变化的倡议和文书。结果，成员国的森林政策——在形式上不属于欧盟的直接管辖范围——受到了来自欧盟越来越大的压力。各会员国的反应各不相同，很大程度上受其独特的森林政策社会经济和政治背景的影响。本文考察了2015年至2023年观察到的波兰威权主义转变对国内森林政策和主要政策参与者对欧洲政策刺激的响应能力的影响。为此，我们通过案头研究和与主要利益攸关方代表进行的30次半结构化访谈，收集和分析了森林政策制定方面的数据。我们使用倡导联盟框架来解释结果。我们的研究结果表明，波兰的专制背景最初加强了森林政策子系统中主要参与者的欧洲怀疑态度，阻碍了旨在应对气候变化和生物多样性下降的新措施的实施。然而，专制的政策制定逐渐削弱了占主导地位的森林联盟的凝聚力，损害了森林人的社会合法性，并将与森林有关的问题置于明确的政党政治框架内。因此，对子系统的主要外部冲击- 2023年大选和随后的政府更迭-为与欧洲绿色协议一致的重大森林政策变化打开了机会之窗。

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Gender equality in Nordic forest research – A literature review 北欧森林研究中的性别平等——文献综述

IF 4 2区农林科学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Forest Policy and Economics

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103399

Pia Katila, Kristina Svels, Domna Tzemi

The article reviews and synthetises scientific research in the intersection of gender and the forest sector published during the past 20 years (2004–2023), focusing on the Nordic countries of Finland, Norway and Sweden. The systematic review of 88 scientific articles presents the state of the art of forest and gender-related research and examines how the main issue areas included in the eight key objectives of the European Union Gender Equality Strategy are addressed in the research and the related results. A large share of the reviewed research focused on non-industrial private forest owners, investigating the differences between male and female forest owners with respect to forest ownership, use and management and related objectives and values. A notable gap exists in the research on gender issues in decision making, policies and politics. While policy analyses from gender perspective are important for advancing gender equality and for avoiding unintended consequences, only two studies analysed forest policy from a gender perspective. Furthermore, a better understanding of gendered norms, culture and institutional stickiness that upholds gendered institutions and processes is needed. The politics of gender, i.e., gendered power relations, is a fundamental issue in advancing gender equality but it is not addressed in the reviewed research. The findings from the reviewed studies also emphasise the importance of moving beyond the female/male dichotomy and employing an intersectional approach.

本文回顾和综合了过去20年（2004-2023年）发表的关于性别与森林部门交叉的科学研究，重点是芬兰、挪威和瑞典等北欧国家。对88篇科学论文的系统审查介绍了森林和与性别有关的研究的最新状况，并审查了在研究和相关结果中如何处理欧洲联盟性别平等战略的八个关键目标所包括的主要问题领域。审查的研究大部分集中于非工业私人森林所有者，调查男女森林所有者在森林所有权、使用和管理以及有关目标和价值方面的差异。在决策、政策和政治方面对性别问题的研究存在明显的差距。虽然从性别角度进行政策分析对促进性别平等和避免意外后果很重要，但只有两项研究从性别角度分析了森林政策。此外，需要更好地了解维持性别机构和进程的性别规范、文化和机构粘性。性别政治，即性别权力关系，是推进性别平等的一个基本问题，但在审查的研究中没有涉及。回顾研究的结果还强调了超越男女二分法和采用交叉方法的重要性。

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Impacts of COVID-19 on forestry migrant workers in the Southern United States

IF 4 2区农林科学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Forest Policy and Economics

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103443

Manuja Jayasundara , Carolina Berget , Puneet Dwivedi

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted many aspects of life and affected numerous sectors in the United States (US), including the forestry sector, which heavily depends on temporary migrant guest workers to perform roles that are difficult to fill with local labor. We conducted a qualitative case study focusing on a single labor contracting company that supplies workers for forestry projects in the US South to examine how the pandemic affected migrant workers.

The study involved a total of 25 interviews with participants, including migrant workers employed by the company, their employer, and other relevant stakeholders. Drawing on existing literature, a theoretical perspective was identified to explore the vulnerable nature of migrant workers and analyze the pandemic's effects on them.

While social isolation, a common characteristic of migrant work, helped reduce exposure to COVID-19, shared living and travel arrangements hindered effective isolation within crews. Additionally, the absence of health insurance compounded their vulnerability. Despite minimal disruptions to working hours, which allowed salaries and remittances to remain stable, temporary travel restrictions and visa delays caused delays in the arrival of H2B workers. The pandemic exacerbated existing vulnerabilities, such as increased disposability and dependence on employers. However, some workers displayed agency by leaving when their earning potential was at risk, challenging assumptions about passive victimhood.

In response to these findings, future policies should prioritize improving living and working conditions, ensuring access to healthcare, streamlining visa processes, and strengthening worker protections to better prepare for disruptive events like the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Social determinants of Chilean forestry workers: A challenge for sustainable industry development

IF 4 2区农林科学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Forest Policy and Economics

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103439

Sandra Alvear-Vega, Nicolas Astudillo-Molina

Objective

This study aims to identify the social determinants (SD) that influence employment in Chile’'s forestry sector. This study contributes to the existing body of knowledge by examining the interaction between various social determinants and the likelihood of individuals working in the forestry sector.

Methodology

To achieve this objective, data from the 2022 National Socioeconomic Characterization Survey, was used. 7700 people were included in this study. SDs were categorized into five groups according to the ESG criteria for social perspective: diversity; wage gap; employment benefits; workplace safety; and social programs. A probit model was used to determine average marginal effects. The model classified 92.7 % of the data accurately.

Results

Individuals most likely to work in the forestry sector are predominantly male, with lower educational levels, aged between 35 and 65, under fixed-term contracts, belonging to the lowest income quintiles, without economic or food incentives, facing health and nutrition issues due to lack of funds, and lacking access to communication or the Internet.

Conclusion

Workers in the forestry industry exhibit high social vulnerability, far from the social determinants established in ESG standards.

Value

This study of the Chilean forestry industry highlights the social dimension of ESG based on secondary data, differing from those published by companies. Studies of this type contribute to generating greater transparency and trust among stakeholders, thus promoting the formulation of policies and business strategies that help improve employment conditions in the forestry sector within the context of persistent inequalities.

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