Aims & Scope
The Revue forestière française is published by the Nancy center of AgroParisTech.
Which readers?
The Revue forestière française targets a diverse audience: owners or managers of forest domains; forest managers working in public or private forests – usually engineers or technicians; administrative heads of diverse public, parapublic or private organisations involved in forest management; researchers, teachers and university-level students in ecology; lastly and more generally, any person interested in the ‘forest-wood-natural environments’ theme.
Which articles?
The Revue forestière française publishes around 60 articles in 600 pages distributed in four quarterly issues of around 100 pages each every year, gathering voluntary or guest contributions (bimonthly issues until 2021). Some thematic issues are addressed to one subject in particular. The other, ordinary, issues deal with various topics.
Ordinary issues are sometimes introduced by an editorial, and are subdivided into the following main topics:
Policies and institutions; Biology and ecology; Natural or human hazards; Planning and management; Tools and methods; Activities, products and markets; Environment, culture and society; History and territories; Opinions; ‘Topical news’ briefs: miscellaneous news; ‘Law’ briefs: legislation and legal precedents; ‘Publications’ briefs: book reports; ‘Summaries briefs’: summaries of theses dedicated to the forest and wood.
Certain topics like ‘Wood sales of public forests’ are treated from year to year.
Thematic issues serve as references for several years.
Thematic issues correspond to collections of articles coming from scientific or technical conferences (e.g., Regefor workshops) or to syntheses about a specific topical theme (e.g., “Forests and public health”).
Thematic issues are supervised by one or several guest editors-in-chief, in collaboration with the Revue forestière française team.
Which authors?
The authors belong to three main categories:
- Practitioners who mainly work on the field and can expound on the problems they have encountered as well as the solutions they have found;
- Researchers from all disciplines willing to disseminate the results of their works in French outside the strictly scientific context, particularly when they are going to be implemented at life size;
- Decision-makers who express themselves about the evolutions of forestry practices, today’s great strategic questions, and the major stakes of forestry.
Multiple proofs of conscientious work
The Revue forestière française was created in its present form and name in 1949. It followed after the Revue des Eaux et Forêts created in 1862, and the Annales whose first issue dates back to 1808.
The journal has a reading committee: each article is submitted to the critical reading of the editor-in-chief and at least two specialists of the subject. The reading committee helps the authors to reach their goal, improves the readability of the articles, and acts a recognised token of accuracy.
Standing aside from any bias related to doctrines – official or non-official ones – is a strong ambition of the Revue forestière française that leads it to open its columns to diverging points of view expressed under an acceptable form for all.