Forest and Society

Forest and Society is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by the Faculty of Forestry at Hasanuddin University in Makassar, Indonesia, and devoted to the social study of forests and land across Southeast Asia.《森林与社会》是印度尼西亚望加锡哈桑丁大学（Hasanuddin University）林学院主办的开放获取同行评审期刊，关注东南亚森林与土地的社会研究。

It was launched in 2017 and has become one of the few English-language venues devoted specifically to Indonesian forest politics and to the communities that live with those forests.该刊创办于 2017 年，此后成为少数专门讨论印度尼西亚森林政治以及林地社区处境的英文平台之一。

Articles address governance, livelihoods and land use, and the readership spans university departments, non-governmental organisations and government agencies working on Indonesian forests.文章讨论治理、生计与土地利用，读者群包括研究印度尼西亚森林的高校院系、非政府组织与政府部门。

Scope

• Work published here starts from the premise that forests are ecological objects and social products at once, shaped by law, custom, capital and administrative practice.本刊论文的共同前提在于，森林既属于生态范畴，也由法律和习俗层层塑造，资本与行政实践同样参与其中。
• Political ecology supplies much of the analytical vocabulary, and contributors are encouraged to connect empirical cases to wider debates about state power and resource control.政治生态学为刊物提供了主要的分析语汇，作者也被鼓励把个案与围绕国家权力和资源控制的更大论争联系起来。
• Land and forest tenure sits at the centre of the programme, including statutory allocation and customary claims, as well as the everyday negotiation of access rights.土地与森林权属处于刊物议题的中心，涵盖法定配置与习惯法主张，也涉及获取权的日常协商。
• Indonesia's social forestry programme, which reallocates state forest land to villages and community groups, receives sustained attention from both empirical and comparative angles.印度尼西亚的社会林业计划把国有林地重新分配给村庄与社区团体，相关研究从实证与比较两个方向持续展开。
• Customary institutions (adat) and village-level authority form a second cluster of interests, and the recognition of local rights runs through nearly every issue.习惯法机构（adat）与村级权威构成第二组议题，地方权利认定几乎贯穿每一期。
• Livelihoods research examines how households draw on timber, rattan and honey, on swidden plots and on wage work, often across several landscapes at the same time.生计研究考察家庭如何同时依赖木材、藤条与蜂产品，也涉及轮作地块和雇工收入。
• Commodity frontiers attract close scrutiny, from oil palm expansion and pulpwood plantations to artisanal mining on forest margins and the labour regimes that accompany each of them.商品前沿是重点审视对象，从油棕扩张与纸浆林种植园，到林区边缘的手工采矿及其劳动体制，均有专文讨论。
• Conservation practice and protected-area governance are treated as social questions, with attention to displacement, co-management arrangements and the politics of wildlife encounters.保护实践与保护地治理被当作社会问题处理，涉及迁出安置、共管安排以及野生动物冲突的政治过程。
• Climate policy enters through studies of REDD+, of carbon accounting and of benefit sharing, and through work on how international finance reshapes village institutions.气候政策经由 REDD+ 研究进入刊物视野，涉及碳核算与收益分配，国际资金如何改造村庄制度同样受到追问。
• Peatland drainage, fire and haze recur as themes because they tie together plantation concessions, smallholder clearance and transboundary environmental governance.泥炭地排水与林火雾霾反复出现，这类议题把种植园特许权、小农清地以及跨境环境治理连在一起。
• Administrative reorganisation after decentralisation, including village law and district licensing practice, is analysed with an eye to the gap between rule and implementation.分权之后的行政重组同样在讨论范围内，包括村庄法与县区许可实践，分析多聚焦规则与执行之间的落差。
• Questions of gender, class and generation run through the empirical papers, as do the distributive effects of certification schemes and market-based instruments.性别、阶层与代际问题贯穿实证论文，认证制度与市场工具在分配上的后果也被逐项检视。
• Methodologically the journal favours long fieldwork, ethnography and participatory approaches, while remaining open to quantitative and mixed designs that address the same questions.方法上偏好长期田野、民族志与参与式路径，同时接纳能回应同类问题的定量研究与混合设计。
• Comparative work that sets Southeast Asian cases beside cases from Africa or Latin America is welcomed, provided the comparison carries substantive argument.把东南亚个案与非洲或拉美经验并列的比较研究受到欢迎，前提是比较本身承载实质论证。
• Besides full research articles, the journal carries review essays, policy forums, short communications and book reviews that comment on current Indonesian and regional debates.除完整研究论文外，刊物还设有综述、政策论坛、短通讯与书评，回应印度尼西亚及区域内的当下争论。

History

• The journal appeared in 2017 under the Faculty of Forestry at Hasanuddin University, the main school training foresters for eastern Indonesia.期刊于 2017 年由哈桑丁大学林学院创办，该院是印度尼西亚东部培养林业人才的主要院系。
• The journal is organised by a forest and society research group at the faculty, and the editorial base has stayed in Makassar since the first issue.刊物由该院一个森林与社会研究团体操持，编辑部自创刊号起一直留在望加锡。
• Fifteen Crossref records carry the 2017 imprint, a modest start beside the thirty to forty items deposited in recent years.2017 年留有 15 条 Crossref 记录，与近几年每年 30 至 40 篇的规模相比只是起步。
• Output rose steadily afterwards, from twelve records in 2018 to twenty-two in 2019 and twenty-nine in 2020, before reaching forty-two in 2021.此后发文量稳步上升，2018 年为 12 条记录，2019 年 22 条，2020 年 29 条，2021 年达到 42 条。
• Roughly 280 records have been deposited with Crossref in total, and annual output has settled between twenty-four and forty items in recent years.目前累计向 Crossref 存缴约 280 条记录，近几年每年稳定在 24 至 40 篇之间。
• Open access was the arrangement from the first issue, with no subscription wall and no charge to readers, which helped the journal reach practitioners as well as academics.创刊号起即采用开放获取，读者无需订阅也不付费，这一安排让实务工作者与学者都能读到文章。
• The title was accepted into the Emerging Sources Citation Index during the early 2020s, and its first Journal Impact Factor, published in 2023, stood at 1.7.刊物在 2020 年代初期进入 Emerging Sources Citation Index，2023 年公布的首个影响因子为 1.7。
• The figure fell to 1.1 for 2024 and recovered to 1.9 for 2025, when the journal ranked 43rd of 92 titles in Forestry and sat in the second quartile.该数值在 2024 年回落到 1.1，2025 年回升至 1.9，同年位列林业类第 43 位（共 92 种），处于第二分区。
• Publication has remained at two issues a year, a pace that suits the length of the fieldwork-based articles the journal tends to attract.刊期始终保持每年两期，这一节奏与刊物常收到的长周期田野论文相称。
• Production runs on the university's Open Journal Systems installation, where submission, review and layout pass through a single workflow.出版流程依托学校部署的 Open Journal Systems 平台，投稿、评审与排版在同一套系统中完成。
• Coverage broadened from Indonesia to Southeast Asia as a whole, and comparative or cross-border studies now appear alongside single-country work.报道范围从印度尼西亚扩展到整个东南亚，跨国比较研究与单一国别研究如今并列刊出。
• Themed collections appear from time to time, usually built around a policy debate that several authors are addressing at once.专题合辑不时推出，多围绕若干作者同时回应的政策争论组织。
• Back issues are digitised and permanently available, and each article carries a DOI registered at publication, which keeps older volumes citable.过刊全部数字化并长期开放，每篇文章在出版时即注册 DOI，旧卷因此仍可被规范引用。

Editors

• Two editors-in-chief share the desk, Muhammad Alif K. Sahide of the Faculty of Forestry at Hasanuddin University and Micah R. Fisher of the East-West Center in the United States, with the editorial office in Makassar behind them.主编由两位学者共同担任，分别为哈桑丁大学林学院的（Muhammad Alif K. Sahide）与美国东西方中心的（Micah R. Fisher），编辑部设在望加锡。

• Three associate editors-in-chief widen that core, Bart Verheijen of Leiden University, Nurhady Sirimorok of the Peasant School Network PAYO-PAYO and Nurul Hasfi of Universitas Diponegoro.三位副主编扩大了这个核心，分别为莱顿大学的（Bart Verheijen）、农民网络 PAYO-PAYO 的（Nurhady Sirimorok）与迪波内戈罗大学的（Nurul Hasfi）。
• The wider board is international as well, with Peter Edwards at Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research in New Zealand, Lei Xie at Shandong University, Lukas Giessen at Dresden University of Technology and Jefferson M. Fox at the East-West Center, while Ahmad Maryudi represents Universitas Gadjah Mada at home.更广的编委同样来自多国，包括新西兰 Manaaki Whenua 土地保护研究所的（Peter Edwards）、山东大学的（Lei Xie）、德累斯顿工业大学的（Lukas Giessen）与东西方中心的（Jefferson M. Fox），国内则有加查马达大学的（Ahmad Maryudi）。

• Editors cover forest policy, agrarian studies, anthropology, remote sensing and development geography, which matches the mix of political ecology and applied forestry that the scope asks for.编委的研究方向覆盖森林政策、农业研究、人类学、遥感与发展地理，与范围声明所要求的政治生态学与应用林业并重相合。
• An international advisory board reviews the journal's direction each year and advises on scope, on ethics and on the balance of regions represented in its pages.国际顾问委员会每年审视刊物方向，并就范围、伦理以及各地区稿件的比重提出意见。
• Manuscripts are first screened by an editor for fit and completeness, and those that pass go to reviewers with expertise in the relevant field.稿件先由编辑就选题契合度与材料完整性作初筛，通过者送交熟悉该领域的评审人。
• Reviewers are drawn largely from scholars with regional expertise in Southeast Asia, and reports are expected to address evidence, method and argument rather than style alone.评审人多选自熟悉东南亚的学者，评审意见须针对证据、方法与论证，而不只是文字表达。
• The handling editor weighs the reports and issues the decision, so the final call rests with the journal and not with any single reviewer.处理编辑权衡各份评审意见后作出决定，最终裁量权属于刊物，不落在任何一位评审人手里。
• Authors receive the reports through the online system and are asked to answer each point in a response letter when they submit a revision.作者通过在线系统收到评审意见，提交修改稿时须附答复信，逐条回应评审提出的问题。
• Manuscripts are submitted in English through the journal's site, and correspondence with the editorial office is conducted in English throughout the process.稿件经刊物网站在线提交，语言为英语，与编辑部的往来通信全程使用英语。
• Shorter formats go through the same assessment, though policy forums and book reviews are handled by a designated editor and usually move faster.短篇稿件遵循同样的评估程序，政策论坛与书评由指定编辑负责，处理周期相对短一些。
• Proposals for special issues are considered by the editorial team, and an accepted proposal is assigned a guest editor who works with a member of the standing board.专刊提案由编辑团队审议，获准的提案会指定客座编辑，与常设编委中的一位共同推进。
• Content decisions are taken by the editors alone, and the university's role stays with publishing and infrastructure.内容层面的决定由编辑独立作出，大学的角色限于出版与基础设施支持。
• The composition of the board is reviewed periodically, with an eye to widening the range of countries and career stages represented.编委会构成定期调整，用意在于扩大所代表的国家范围与职业阶段。