Forest and Society

Forest and Society is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal and is rated according to international publication standards. We swiftly publish articles online, with printed versions published twice a year on a broad category of topics. We invite scholarly contributions on Southeast Asia, including works beyond this geographical scope, when engaging on a comparative or timely policy topic relevant to the region. Forest and Society promote scholarly, theoretical, pragmatic, and contemporary research, making a clear conceptual and methodological contribution to existing international literature. These may include but are not limited to various fields such as planning/management, geography, forestry, sociology, land use, anthropology, history, ecology, legal studies, economics, environmental and sustainability studies, international relations, psychology, and others, particularly those that engage with people, land, and forest

Our international editorial board fills a gap in the socio-ecological fields by promoting interdisciplinary work on studying human-environment and human-forest relations, produced amidst and for those interested and located in the Southeast Asia region. The journal is not preferential to theoretical or applied research and seeks to serve as a bridge between knowledge levels. Current efforts are envisioned to gradually improve research quality alongside support to capacity-building initiatives to improve research in the region. In Forest and Society, it is also possible to publish special issues and special sections upon request. A special issue enables us to publish papers focusing on specific themes, often related to an emerging or under-researched topic.

Here are various thematic topics of our published work:

Agrarian Transformation in Thailand
The Future of Tanah Papua
Gender and landscape governance
The commons and commoning
Social forestry in Indonesia
Community-based conservation in the Wallacea region
Land, livelihoods, and change amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
Applications of remote sensing technology
Land use conflict and mediation
Political ecology
International forest regime
Justice Outlook in the Global-South Frontiers
Nature and landscape conservation
Methodological engagement
Notes from the field
Policy forum
Book review