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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819785603321

Titolo

Valuing Mediterranean forests : towards total economic value / / edited by Maurizio Merlo and Lelia Croitoru

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wallingford : , : CABI Publishing, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

1-280-90838-6

9786610908387

1-84593-018-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 406 pages) : illustrations, maps

Altri autori (Persone)

MerloMaurizio

CroitoruLelia

Disciplina

634.9091822

Soggetti

Forests and forestry - Economic aspects - Mediterranean Region

Forest policy - Mediterranean Region

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contributors; Foreword; Dedication and Acknowledgements; Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 The State of Mediterranean Forests; 3 Concepts and Methodology: a First Attempt Towards Quantification; 4 Mediterranean Forest Values; 5 Morocco; 6 Algeria; 7 Tunisia; 8 Egypt; 9 Palestine; 10 Israel; 11 Lebanon; 12 Syria; 13 Turkey; 14 Cyprus; 15 Greece; 16 Albania; 17 Croatia; 18 Slovenia; 19 Italy; 20 France; 21 Spain; 22 Portugal; 23 Institutional and Policy Implications in the Mediterranean Region

24 Decentralization and Participation: Key Challenges for Mediterranean Public Forest Policy 25 The Need for an International Agreement on Mediterranean Forests; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic value of Mediterranean forests, including not only the more obvious benefits (e.g. timber), but also the less commonly-measured public goods (e.g. tourism and conservation) that these forests provide. It brings together forest valuations at the national level from eighteen Mediterranean countries, based on extensive local data collection, and thus allows comprehensive analyses within countries as well as comparative



analyses across countries. Forest benefits were classified within the Total Economic Value (TEV) framework.