Transnational Forest Governance Arrangements dataset (TFGA-dataset)

Key message 

The Transnational Forest Governance Arrangements dataset is the first to compile a comprehensive set of governance arrangements whose spatial ambits span three or more national jurisdictions, and which formally address forests as a main issue. As this dataset provides information on key institutional variables of these arrangements for the year 2023, it can be reused to assess the theoretical argument that regional governance arrangements are more effective than their global counterparts, as well as to explore the drivers of institutional fragmentation in transnational forest governance.

Keywords
Regional environmental cooperation; International forest regime; Institutional design; Membership; Spatial ambit; Issue scope; Centralisation; Control; Governance function

Publication
Polo-Villanueva, F.D., Tavares, A.A.d., Giessen, L. et al. Transnational Forest Governance Arrangements dataset (TFGA-dataset). Annals of Forest Science 82, 18 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13595-025-01288-5

Data availability
The datasets generated are available in the ZENODO repository, https://zenodo.org/records/14831667and the metadata describing the data set are accessible at: https://metadata-afs.nancy.inra.fr/geonetwork/srv/fre/catalog.search#/metadata/42c6ab18-14e8-4bd7-9669-991896c1e467.

Handling editor
Erwin Dreyer and Veronique Lesage