SDG 15 Life on Land

Incentivize Sustainable Forest Management

SDG15.B icon image © Springer NatureForests provide oxygen, clean water, and a variety of other essential services. But responsibly and sustainably managing them requires financing. UN SDG 15.B aims to finance and incentivize sustainable forest management. This includes providing financial resources to support sustainable forest management practices, as well as creating incentives for businesses and individuals to engage in sustainable forest management.

Here you’ll find a curated selection of research articles, special issues, collections, books, and chapters, covering a range of critical topics connected to UN SDG 15.B. 

Featured Books

Featured Journals

Featured Chapters

Sustainable Forestry Analysis Method Based on Sample Plot Data

Principles of National Forest Inventory Method

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Outlook for the Forest-Based Bioeconomy

Forest Bioeconomy and Climate Chang

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Forest Resources of the World: Present Status and Future Prospects

Land Degradation Neutrality: Achieving SDG 15 by Forest Management

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Featured Articles

Agroforestry improves food security and reduces income variability in semi-arid tropics of central India

Agroforestry Systems

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Forest Owners’ Perspectives Concerning Non-Timber Forest Products, Everyman’s Rights, and Organic Certification of Forests in Eastern Finland

Small-Scale Forestry

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Funding for planting missing species financially supports the conversion from pure even-aged to uneven-aged mixed forests and climate change mitigation

European Journal of Forest Research

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High deforestation trajectories in Cambodia slowly transformed through economic land concession restrictions and strategic execution of REDD+ protected areas

Scientific Reports

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Mangrove plantation and fuelwood supply chain dynamics in the Keta Lagoon Complex Ramsar Site, Ghana

Wetlands Ecology and Management

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Conservation of the priority natural habitat 62CO* ponto-sarmatian steppes on the territory of the European Union—historic review with emphasis of comparison and current perspectives

Biodiversity and Conservation

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Integrating landscape ecology into landscape practice in Central African Rainforests

Landscape Ecology

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Fast and easy bioassay for the necrotizing fungus Botrytis cinerea on poplar leaves

Plant Methods

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Information for authors

Contact a publishing editor © Mitarart, iStockphotoGetting started publishing your SDG 15 work at Springer Nature is easy. Springer Nature aspires to lead in publishing SDG research, and especially in open access (OA) SDG research.

You can add impact and power to your SDG-related research when you publish it at Springer Nature, and alongside leading research (like the examples above). Research published OA at Springer Nature gets more exposure. For example, research published in fully OA Springer Nature journals are downloaded over 7,000 times on average (up to 5x more than competitors) and cited 7.39 times on average.

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