Sustainable Forestry: State-of-the-Art Reviews and Future Research Directions
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Forestry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 May 2027 | Viewed by 43
Special Issue Editor
Interests: land system science; sustainability science; forest transition; land use displacement; sustainable forest management; ecosystem services; biodiversity; climate change; nature-based solutions; GIScience and remote sensing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to assemble scholarly contributions that critically synthesize the current state of knowledge in sustainable forestry while identifying key research gaps and future research priorities. In this Special Issue, we welcome all types of review papers and perspectives, including systematic reviews, meta-analyses, scoping reviews, critical reviews, and forward-looking perspectives. Contributions are expected to provide robust, evidence-based insights that advance understanding and support informed decision-making for sustainable forest management.
This Special Issue contributes to sustainability by providing robust scientific syntheses that inform decision-making across scales, from local forest management to global policy frameworks. By identifying key challenges, trade-offs, and opportunities for synergy, including the role of forests as nature-based solutions to climate change and biodiversity loss, the collection supports the development of evidence-based strategies for conserving forest ecosystems while enabling sustainable use, reinforcing forestry as one of the central pillars in addressing climate change, biodiversity loss, and socio-ecological resilience.
This Special Issue welcomes contributions addressing themes including, but not limited to, the following:
- Sustainable forest management: concepts, evolution, and implementation challenges;
- Forests and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);
- Forest biodiversity conservation and ecosystem resilience;
- Forests and climate change mitigation and adaptation, including carbon dynamics and nature-based solutions;
- Social-ecological systems, governance, and community-based forest management;
- Land-use change, deforestation, forest degradation, and restoration pathways;
- Forest transition theory, patterns, and regional trajectories;
- Forest land-use displacement, spillover leakage and effects, including telecoupled dynamics;
- Forest-based bioeconomy and sustainable production systems;
- Policy instruments, certification schemes, and institutional frameworks;
- Advances in geospatial technologies, remote sensing, and data-driven approaches for forest monitoring;
- Trade-offs and synergies among ecosystem services (e.g., carbon, biodiversity, disaster risk reduction);
- Nexus approaches linking forests with other systems or sectors.
Dr. Ronald Estoque
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sustainable forestry
- sustainable forest management
- forest conservation
- biodiversity
- climate change mitigation and adaptation
- nature-based solutions
- forest transition
- land-use displacement
- land system science
- sustainability science
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