This paper analyses the movement and settlement of Brazilian citizens in Bolivia's tropical forests to explore theoretical frameworks of forest policy analysis in forested borderlands. While unauthorized cross-border interactions in tropical forest regions are quite common, the implications for ...

The use of theory in forest policy studies has given a new face to forest policy science, as it matured from an applied academic field to a specialized sub-discipline. In addition to doing science to support policy, forest policy academics engage in research to expand policy sciences. The link to...

Conflict timber is defined as wood that has been traded or taxed at some point in the chain of custody by armed groups. This paper examines the basic characteristics of the conflict timber phenomenon and reviews options available for preventing and controlling its occurrence.

China has endeavored to devolve collective forests to individual households or user groups in the past decades. However, few studies have explored the community-level institutional selection process in the forest devolution reforms. Based on a longitudinal case study in Fujian province, this study...

We analyze legality in the forest sector in Bolivia, focusing particularly on the domestic timber value chain in the northern Bolivian Amazon. Bolivia adopted wide-reaching forest, land and democratic regulatory changes since the mid-1990s that were partly intended to reduce illegal logging and...

The paper provides a detailed analysis of forest transition in India, exploring the direct and underlying causes and factors that explain deforestation and forest degradation, decline in deforestation and forest degradation, and forest recovery. The paper reviews these causes and factors during the ...

The Mixteca Alta region in Oaxaca, Mexico is characterized by its severely degraded landscapes. In the last three decades, the region has experienced a remarkable local forest transition. This paper reveals the drivers that favored local forest transition in five communities of Mixteca Alta. Three...

Trade barriers of forest products are often advocated in the name of protecting forest resources. Whether the promoting of trade of forest products will increase or decrease the global forest resources is still a matter of debate. We offer an assessment of how forest product trade helps shape...

This special issue comprises 11 papers which reflect on the use of social science theory in forest policy studies. The papers can be classified into two groups, with the first group focusing on a particular theory or several theories and makes a link with forest policy science, and the second group ...

This report assesses the experiences of forest rehabilitation in Vietnam and draws strategic lessons from these experiences to guide new forest rehabilitation projects. The report highlights lessons from Vietnam's experiences that will be helpful beyond the country border. This report has the...