About Forestry Economics Review

Aims and scope

Forestry Economics Review aims to publish high level and original articles about forest economics and management studies, to advocate standard and rigorous research method, and encourage the combination of theoretical & empirical studies. It also aims to provide an academic platform to publish high level research result of forest economy for domestic and international researchers, especially the peers who engage in forest economics research.

FER seeks to encourage and present innovative ideas, particularly those new theories, thinking, and viewpoints which are based on sufficient data and in-depth study. We advocate a rigorous, simple, fresh, lucid and lively style of writing.

The journal scope includes but not limited to:

  • Forestry economics theory and policy
  • Forest resources and environmental management
  • Forestry and sustainable development
  • Forestry and climate change
  • Forestry tenure reform
  • Forestry farmer behaviour and rural forestry organisation construction
  • Forest products market and trade
  • Forestry finance
  • Forestry human resource management and green administration
  • Biomass energy
  • Economics of forest ecosystems
  • Agroforestry
  • Forest certification
  • Theory of ecological civilization construction
  • Grassland economics and management

When submitting a manuscript, authors will be taken to a service called Paperpal Preflight, an AI-driven tool that checks manuscripts against the journal's author guidelines. Authors are free to use or bypass this step and submit directly to ScholarOne.

Open access

All articles published in FER are published Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 licence.