Emerging from discussions within IUFRO’s Small-scale Forestry group, Small-scale Forestry was originally published as Small-scale Forest Economics, Management and Policy in 2002, with a view to providing an international forum for publishing high quality, peer-reviewed papers on pure and applied research into small-scale forestry. Although of particular interest to the global research community, the journal is also relevant to both policy makers and forest managers.

The scope of the journal is necessarily quite broad, given the range of issues relevant to small-scale forestry. These include the social, economic and technical dimensions of farm, family, non-industrial, agro- and community forestry. Papers are accepted on the basis that they relate specifically to forestry at this scale, and that they are based on high quality research using accepted quantitative and/or qualitative methodology.

Empirical, theoretical, modeling, and methodological papers are all welcome. The following research areas are particularly relevant to the journal:

the role of small-scale forestry in rural development
financial modeling and decision support systems
enhancing return from non-wood products
social impacts of small-scale forestry
marketing, forest co-operatives and growers organizations
role and effectiveness of government support and subsidies
innovative research techniques
education and extension
certification
silvicultural, wood harvesting and processing techniques and technologies
impediments to small-scale forestry development
monitoring socio-economics
forest management behaviour and timber supply

Editor-in-Chief:
Brett J. Butler 
U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Managing Editor:
John Herbohn
School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072, Australia
Associate Editors:
Stephen Harrison, University of Queensland, Brisbane St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
Donald Hodges, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee USA
Teppo Hujala, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland
Shiba P. Kar, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, Stevens Point, Wisconsin USA
Zhao Ma, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana USA
Špela Pezdevšek Malovrh, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Sharif Ahmed Mukul, Independent University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Digby Race, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia
Noriko Sato, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Raffaele Spinelli, National Research Council of Italy, Sesto Fiorentino, FIorence, Italy
Yaoqi Zhang, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA
Editorial Board:
Keith A. Blatner, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
Gerard Buttoud, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy 
Matthew Carroll, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA 
Tove Enggrob Boon, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Christoph Hartebrodt, Forest Research Instiute Baden-Württemberg, Freiburg, Germany
Michael Jacobson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
James Johnson, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
Heimo Karppinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
David Lamb, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
Gun Lidestav, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umea, Sweden 
Ikuo Ota, Ehime University, Japan
Bill Slee, James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, UK
Jungho Suh, The University of Adelaide, SA, Australia
Jerome Vanclay, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, Australia 
Tyron Venn, University of Montana, MT, USA