Estimating environmental benefits of afforestated areas. Case study in the Iberian peninsula
1999
Gonzalez Gomez, M. (Universidade de Vigo (Spain). Departamento de Economia Aplicada)
This paper reports the results from a case-study around the environmental economic value provided by afforested areas with distinct management objectives. The application sheds light on some of the problems in considering the non-market output associated to different forest uses. The goal is to learn more about the benefits for society derived from the provision of public recreational facilities and public afforestation programmes, in a unique context, that of Galicia (North-western Spain) and Portugal, where rotation periods in forestry plantations are short, and land previously used for agriculture as well as native wood-lands that have been cut or burnt down are being replanted with fast growing species. The paper supports the view that Contingent Valuation (CV) is an appropriate technique for the valuation of the benefits.
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