This special issue contains seven papers detailing forest economics and governance. Specifically, the papers discuss the following topics: forest economics and policy for better forest governance; German discourse on forest functions and the global ecosystem services debate; payments for...

The eight contributions in this special issue have been elicited from the First IUFRO All-Division-9-Conference, held in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Hercegovina, during 8-11 May 2012. The special issue subscribes to the tradition of assessing forest governance within the scientific realm. Further, the papers...

The methodologies and operational instruments for the assessment of forest governance are still under development. While there are some advanced initiatives focused on forest governance assessment at international/national scale, there are relatively few at local level. However, assessments of...

Innovations in the forest sector may be very different in origin, objectives, context and content. This paper analyses several institutional innovations with the capacity to create considerable changes in the rules of the game of forest policy making in Austria, Scotland and France. All cases...

This special issue contains papers discussing various aspects of forest governance. Topics covered include: the role of social and policy learning in changing forest governance based on community-based forestry initiatives in the USA; adaptation of forest managers to socio-economic changes in a...

'Forest governance' refers to new modes of regulation in the forest sector, such as decentralized, community-based and market-oriented policy instruments and management approaches. Its main theoretical basis consists of two mainstream models: rational choice and neo-institutionalism. Since these...

This paper aims to assess the emergence of the concept of forest governance in the field of forest policy analysis. This assessment is mainly theoretical in nature. The various meanings and main criticisms of forest governance will be dealt with. In so doing, the paper applies the so-called 'Triple ...

There is much talk about the need for stakeholder participation and inter-sectoral coordination in forest policy and management. But there is limited understanding about forest agencies' role in the adoption of new governance modes and their contribution to policy delivery. By drawing on a...

Leaving the centralized and trying to embrace the market economy, the forestry sector of the country has been brought to a challenge of moving from government to the new trend of governance. The paper examines whether governance principles of participation, accountability and transparency are...

This special issue contains 6 papers presented at the European Forest Institute-French Institute of Forestry, Agricultural and Environmental Engineering-IUFRO international symposium held in June 2004 in Epinal, France. The papers are entitled: (1) Key concepts and methods of programme evaluation...