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