Invitation to contribute

Dear Authors,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the upcoming issue of the Journal of Forest Business Research (JFBR), which will focus on forest investment and finance. JFBR publishes two issues annually, with submission deadlines on 1 March and 1 September. The corresponding issues are released at the end of June and December, respectively. However, all accepted papers are published continuously online, ensuring timely dissemination of your research.

Examples of subjects that are within the scope of the JFBR include, but are not limited to the following:

  1. Forest investment finance and business
  • timberland investments,
  • forest finance,
  • portfolio management,
  • business structures and forest investment strategies,
  • conservation forestry,
  • corporate social responsibility,
  • ESG in forest investments,
  • sustainable business practices within the forestry sector.
  1. Forest-related industries and wood market dynamics
  • wood markets,
  • wood-product trade and policy,
  • timber prices and forecasts,
  • production, consumption, and trade of forest products,
  • forestry contractors,
  • business leadership and organizational management.
  1. Forest silviculture and management
  • intensively managed plantations,
  • natural and high conservation value forest management,
  • improved technologies for forest management and investments,
  • forest carbon and bioenergy markets,
  • agroforestry, silvopasture and biodiversity.
  1. Natural resource economics and policy
  • forest economics,
  • risk, uncertainty, and decision-making,
  • policy and law,
  • natural resource and ecosystem service investments.

Please feel free to disseminate this announcement to any colleagues who might be interested. All submissions will undergo an anonymous peer review process to guarantee high scientific quality and relevance to the subject. 

All accepted papers will be instantly published on Journal’s website. All articles and contact details of corresponding authors will be included in our press release service, which means that your work draws the attention of all the main media organizations in the world, who may choose to feature the work in newspaper and other media reports.

Yours sincerely,

Rafał Chudy, Frederick Cubbage, Bin Mei and Jacek Siry