This paper serves as an introduction to a Special Issue (SI) of the Journal of Forest Policy
and Economics dedicated to forest investment and finance. The Special Issue stemmed from …

A series of international initiatives have set ambitious goals for restoring global forests. This
review synthesizes natural and social science research on forest restoration (FR), with a …

Using a time-varying spillover approach, we investigate volatility spillovers between natural
alternative investments, ie timber and water, and a battery of traditional instruments …

Restoring tree cover in tropical countries has the potential to benefit millions of smallholders
through improvements in income and environmental services. However, despite their …

Forest plantations have expanded rapidly in response to financial support from the state and
local governments and have had significant positive impacts on rural livelihoods and …

High-rise residential timber buildings (≥ 8 stories) are an emerging and promising domain,
primarily owing to their capacity to deliver notable environmental and economic benefits …

Investment products labelled as sustainable, as well as regulations on sustainable finance,
such as the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities, are on the rise globally. While some of …

This manuscript reports on an effort to account, estimate, and document, to the fullest extent
possible, direct payments for ecosystem services to private forest landowners in the United …

Community-based forest management has become increasingly widespread in Africa since
the 1990s as an approach to conserving local forests while contributing social and economic …

Smallholder tree-growers make substantial contributions to commercial wood flows in many
countries in Asia. Many of these growers choose eucalypt and/or acacia species, which offer …