Forest economics in Russia is reviewed from pro-Soviet times to the present, showing how, in 100 years, forestry has gone from being an important source of revenue for the state in 1913 to being a serious loss-maker in 2013. The main reasons for this reversal of profitability during the Soviet...

Implementing sustainable forest management (SFM) policy on the ground is not straightforward, and depends on the social-ecological context. To meet the need for place-based stakeholder collaboration towards regionally adapted knowledge production and learning in support of SFM an integrated...

We examine the historical legacy of the Soviet Union on the current rate of human-induced soil erosion in its successor countries. We use a spatial regression discontinuity design and high-resolution soil erosion data. Our results suggest strong discontinuities in current soil erosion rates along...

The article examines the history of using wood and timber waste and annual plants in the Soviet Union from the 1950s to the 1960s. In the middle of the twentieth century, Soviet leadership, producers and scientists expressed their anxiety about the lack of forests near pulp and paper plants, and...

In a paper by Nijnik and van Kooten [See Forestry in the Ukraine: the road ahead? Forest Policy and Economics. (2000) 1, 139-151], the performance of the Ukrainian forest sector during the country's transition from state command-and-control to a market economy is addressed. The authors gave a brief ...

A reply is given to the comment by Polyakov and Sydor [See Forestry in the Ukraine: the road ahead? Forest Policy and Economics. (2004) this issue, 1-5]. This paper argues that Ukraine's forests are better protected under a Soviet-style command and control system than under a market system. A...

The substitution possibilities between imports and domestically produced goods and commodities are usually measured by Armington elasticities. These elasticities are essential parameters that have large affect on the result of trade models. The purpose of this study is to estimate disaggregated...

Lake Baikal is located on the southern tableland of East Siberian Russia. The west coast of the lake has vast forest resources and excellent ecological conditions, and this area and the Mongolian Plateau constitute an important ecological security barrier in northern China. Land-use/cover change is ...

Wood chip, mainly used to produce paper and other products traditionally, has also been used to produce biofuel. The global demand for wood chip is increasing as policies promote the use of biomass for renewable energy. The USA has been a major exporter of wood chip worldwide, but US exports of...

In recent decades, the Internet, together with information and communication technologies such as personal computers and cellular phones, has provided an electronic alternative to newspapers and printed materials. We examine how Internet adoption has affected worldwide demand for newsprint and...