Ethiopia has experienced a long-term deforestation with broad implications for human life and economic activities, but conventional frameworks of economic accounting are not able to assess the country's economic and environmental sustainability in the faceof such deforestation problem. In this...

Natural hazards are the main threat for forest all over the world. Some of these disturbances may be insured such as fire and/or storm in some European countries. However, forest insurance has trouble to spread in particular because of the existence of some brakes such as the forest insurance...

The forest timber product economy has recently faced challenges that include: increasing competition between the timber and energy markets for available resources, changing demand for timber, and wood-processing over capacities. It has been observed throughout Europe and in Germany specifically,...

Sustainable forest management is a key to maintaining the economic, social, environmental and cultural benefits and services of forests for the long term. In Turkey, all forestry activities, such as regeneration and stand tending, are carried out according to forest management plans, which are...

The success of the PES programme in developing countries depends on the active participation and contribution of rural households. This paper investigates the factors influencing rural households' decision to participate in the PES programme in the N'hambita Community in Sofala Province,...

Compliance is one of the central, but often overlooked challenges that actors face as they seek to devise and implement environmental policies. Therefore this paper draws upon multiple models of rule compliance to assess the factors influencing compliance in the high forest zone of Ghana....

The concept of Reducing Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) dominates international debates on the role of forests in climate change mitigation, but concrete implementation remains a challenge. In contrast to this general trend, Brazil emerged as a noteworthy exception due to the...