Valuing Mediterranean forests : towards total economic value / edited by Maurizio Merlo and Lelia Croitoru.
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TextPublisher: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2005Copyright date: 2005Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 406 pages) : illustrations, maps, chartsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- Forest policy -- Mediterranean Region
- Forests and forestry -- Economic aspects -- Mediterranean Region
- Forestry Economics, (New March 2000)
- Policy and Planning
- Forests and Forest Trees (Biology and Ecology)
- Silviculture and Forest Management
- Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000)
- Economic evaluation
- Forest economics
- Forest management
- Forest policy
- Forests
- Non-market benefits
- Social participation
- Valuation
- EE112
- EE120
- KK100
- KK110
- UU485
- 634.9/09182/2 23
- SD217.M44 V25 2005eb
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic value of Mediterranean forests, including not just commonly measured benefits such as timber but also, more importantly, the public goods and externalities they provide. It consists of 25 chapters structured into 3 parts: part 1 provides an overview of the problem and of the approach followed, and summarizes the results; part 2 includes detailed national level case studies of 18 countries and territories bordering the Mediterranean Sea (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Cyprus, Greece, Albania, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal); and part 3 highlights the institutional and policy implications that result from the valuation efforts of the country chapters. This book brings together forest valuations at the national level from 18 Mediterranean countries, based on extensive data collection by local experts, and uses a coherent analytical framework for collecting these valuations in a consistent way. Estimates are carried out from a per country and cross country perspective, and uses these results to propose policy recommendations to be undertaken locally within individual countries and across countries.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Maurizio Merlo and Lelia Croitoru -- The State of Mediterranean Forests / Maurizio Merlo and Paolo Paiero -- Concepts and Methodology : a First Attempt Towards Quantification / Maurizio Merlo and Lelia Croitoru -- Mediterranean Forest Values / Lelia Croitoru and Maurizio Merlo -- Morocco / Mohammed Ellatifi -- Algeria / Abdelah Nédjahi and Mohamed Zamoum -- Tunisia / Hamed Daly-Hassen and Ameur Ben Mansoura -- Egypt / Lelia Croitoru -- Palestine / Roubina Ghattas, Nader Hrimat and Jad Isaac -- Israel / Avi Gafni -- Lebanon / Elsa Sattout, Salma Talhouk and Nader Kabbani -- Syria / Ibrahim Nahal and Salim Zahoueh -- Turkey / Mustafa Fehmi Türker, Mehmet Pak and Atakan Öztürk -- Cyprus / Department of Forests -- Greece / Vassiliki Kazana and Angelos Kazaklis -- Albania / Kostandin Dano -- Croatia / Rudolf Sabadi, Dijana Vuletić and Joso Grac̆an -- Slovenia / Robert Mavsar, Lado Kutnar and Marko Kovac -- Italy / Lelia Croitoru, Paola Gatto, Maurizio Merlo and Paolo Paiero -- France / Claire Montagné, Jean-Luc Peyron, Alexandra Niedzwiedz and Odile Colnard -- Spain / Pablo Campos, Alejandro Caparrós and Enrique Sanjurjo -- Portugal / Américo M.S. Carvalho Mendes -- Institutional and Policy Implications in the Mediterranean Region / Paola Gatto and Maurizio Merlo -- Decentralization and Participation : Key Challenges for Mediterranean Public Forest Policy / Eduardo Rojas-Briales -- The Need for an International Agreement on Mediterranean Forests / Américo M.S. Carvalho Mendes.
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