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Editorial policy
Since 1947, in more than sixty countries, Bois et Forêts des Tropiques
has been disseminating knowledge and research findings to do with forests in hot regions.
Articles should be short, comprehensive and accessible to the targeted readership. To
this end, subjects discussed must be of general interest and addressed to an informed
international audience.
Geographical focus and languages
Articles have to do with the world's warm and hot regions, be they in
the tropics or around the Mediterranean.
Depending on where authors are from, the magazine publishes articles in
French, English and Spanish. Each article in French is accompanied by a one-page synopsis in
English. Abstracts are in French, English and Spanish.
The contents of a typical issue
- An editorial
- A thematic dossier including several articles
- A heading called "Le point sur/Focus" encompassing various topical subjects
- Economic trends or legal trends
- News about the timber sector
- Research notes
- Reports on international events
- A selection of books and CD-Roms
Publication calendar
Bois et Forêts des Tropiques is a quarterly magazine.
How the magazine operates
The way the magazine operates is guaranteed by three committee:
- A scientific committee, made up of members of the international community,
representing the external guarantee of the magazine's quality
- An editorial board, which contributes to the implementation of the editorial policy
- A reading committee, which checks and approves articles
Themes
The magazine publishes articles and information about the forest and forestry
sector, multi-purpose land and forest management, and the environmental approaches resulting
therefrom. In order to act as an organ disseminating the in-depth and broad-based knowledge
required for sustainable management in the world's warm and hot regions, the following themes
are dealt with:
- International discussions and implementation of international
agreements on forests, biodiversity, desertification, and climate change
- Development of policies and economies of countries in the South in the
forest-timber-environment sectors
- International timber trade and strategy of the major private operators
- Contribution of different on-going agricultural and forestry speculations to do
with carbon storage and clean development systems
- Spatial organization of biodiversity
- Description and dynamics of permanent and forest ecosystems, be they natural or planted
- Behavior of main forest species
- Fauna-flora relations
- Carbon cycles
- Impacts of logging on flora and fauna
- Silviculture of natural forests and plantations
- Agro-silvo-pastoralism
- Land rehabilitation and ecological engineering
- Forest sociology, what motivates those involved, population-tree-forest interactions
and coordination of uses
- Integrated forest development and viable management methods
- Multi-purpose land and forest management
- Decentralized management of forest resources and other natural resources
- Knowledge, description, processing and preservation of wood and timber
- Assessment and use of non-ligneous forest products
- Description and use of natural substances coming from forest products
- Processing energy from the ligneous biomass, corresponding ecological
challenges and organizational methods of forest-fuelwood sectors
Composition of the editorial board and the scientific committee
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