The International Forestry Review is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes original research and review papers on all aspects of forest policy and science, with an emphasis on issues of transnational significance. It is published four times per year, in March, June, September and December. Theme editions are a regular feature and attract a wide audience. Click here for subscription details.

The IFR is part of The Global Forest Information Service - GFIS

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Editor

• Alan Pottinger

Chair of the Editorial Board

• Jim Ball – President, Commonwealth Forestry Association

Editorial Board

• Fred Babweteera - Director, Budongo Conservation Field Station, Uganda
• Susan Braatz - FAO/Secretariat of the UN Forum on Forests, New York, USA
• Eberhard Bruenig- University of Hamburg, Germany
• Neil Byron - Australian Productivity Commission, Melbourne, Australia
• Jim Carle - FAO, Rome, Italy
• Ebby Chagala - Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI), Nairobi, Kenya
• Mafa Chipeta - FAO, Rome, Italy
• Jonathan Cornelius - James Cook University, Australia
• John Innes - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
• Peter Kanowski - Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
• Jean-Paul Lanly - Conseil Général du Génie Rural, des Eaux et des Forêts, Paris, France
• Roger Leakey - James Cook University, Australia
• Bill Mason - Forest Research, Edinburgh, UK
• Cesar Sabogal - CIFOR, Belém, Brazil
• Naresh Saxena - Independent, New Delhi, India
• Jeffrey Sayer - Science Adviser: International Union for Conservation of Nature, Switzerland
• Lee Su See - Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Malaysia
• Josef Turok - International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI), Rome, Italy
• Claire Williams - National Evolutionary Synthesis Center & Forest History Society, Durham, NC, USA
• Peter Wood - Independent, Oxford, UK

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• Guidelines for authors submitting a Comment
• Guidelines for referees
• Guidelines for book reviewers
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• Young Scientist Publication Award
• Online guide to scientific writing 

The International Forestry Review is available online. This is a free service to members and subscribers and provides on-line access to the full text of the IFR. Non-members can view abstracts free of charge and use a pay-per-view facility to download individual papers.

The International Forestry Review and the University of Oxford have undertaken a major project to digitize the complete archive of the journal, stretching back to 1922, in order to make it available to foresters, policy makers, students and anyone interested in the development of international forestry over the past 80 years. The archive is available free of charge here.

Back issues of the IFR are available for £10 per copy, plus postage.

Missing issues (i.e. those not delivered on time) should be reported within 60 days of the publication month in question. Requests from members received later than this will be dealt with as back issues, and charged accordingly.

Special Issues of the International Forestry Review provide the most up-to-date synthesis of major forestry issues.  The following Special Issues have been produced:

• Forests, biodiversity and food security
• Forests and gender
• Forest taxation and tropical forest management
• Equity in Community Forestry -  Insights from the North and South
• REDD and the Evolution of an International Forest Regime
• The Indian Forest Sector - Current Trends and Future Challenges
• Africa - its forests and their future
• Forestry in China: policy, consumption and production in forestry’s newest superpower 
• Illegal logging
• NTFPs revisited

Special Issues have been supported by the following organisations: