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Aims and scope

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. Special Issues are a regular feature and attract a wide audience. Click here for subscription details.
Latest issue

Volume 15, Issue 1, 2013

  PAPERS

Helping to self-help? External interventions to stimulate local collective action in Joint Forest Management, Maharashtra, India C. BARNES and F. VAN LAERHOVEN

Impact of protected forests on rural households’ fuel tree planting in Chiro district, eastern Ethiopia B. ADMASU, H. JEMA, N. CHISHOLM and P. ENRIGHT

Emergence and rise of eucalypt veneer production in China R.J. ARNOLD, Y.J. XIE, S.J. MIDGLEY, J.Z. LUO and X.F. CHEN

Development of a village-level livelihood monitoring tool: a case-study in Viengkham District, Lao PDR B. BELCHER, F. BASTIDE, J.C. CASTELLA and M. BOISSIERE

Reviewing the main characteristics of the international forest regime complex and partial explanations for its fragmentation L. GIESSEN

The contribution of bamboo to household income and rural livelihoods in a poor and mountainous county in Guangxi, China N.J. HOGARTH and B. BELCHER

Regional shifts of employment growth in the European wood-based panel and furniture industries T. OSSES, U. KIES and A. SCHULTE

Revisiting the Palcazu Forest Management Model and its sustainability for timber extraction in the tropics X.J. RONDON, D.L. GORCHOV and F. CORNEJO

Proactiveness and corporate social performance in the global forest industry A. TUPPURA, A. TOPPINEN and A. JANTUNEN

The virtue of conflict: an institutional approach to the study of conflict in community forest governance F. VAN LAERHOVEN and K.P. ANDERSSON 

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Editorial Board 

Editor Alan Pottinger  
Editorial Board - Chair Jeffrey Sayer James Cook University, Australia
Editorial Board Fred Babweteera Budongo Conservation Field Station, Uganda
  Eberhard Bruenig University of Hamburg, Germany
  Neil Byron Australian Productivity Commission, Australia
  José Joaquin Campos CATIE, Costa Rica
  Jim Carle Independent, New Zealand
  Ebby Chagala Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI), Kenya
  Ben Chikamai Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI), Kenya
  Mafa Chipeta Independent, Malawi
  Jonathan Cornelius World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Peru
  John Innes University of British Columbia, Canada
  Peter Kanowski CIFOR, Indonesia
  Roger Leakey James Cook University, Australia
  Bill Mason Forest Research, Edinburgh, UK
  Jack Putz University of Florida, USA
  Lee Su See Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Malaysia
  Changyou Sun Mississippi State University, USA
  Jermome Vanclay Southern Cross University, Australia
  Claire Williams National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, NC, USA
  Michael J. Wingfield Food and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), South Africa
  Peter Wood Independent, Oxford, UK

Information for contributors 

IFR online

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. Click here for the International Forestry Review online.

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.

IFR back issues and missing issues 

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 

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

Copyright 

Copyright for all material published in the International Forestry Review resides with the Commonwealth Forestry Association.