Valuing Mediterranean forests

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"This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic value of Mediterranean forests, including not just commonly measured benefits such as timber, but also the public goods and externalities they provide. Uniquely, it brings together forest valuations at the national level from 18 Mediterranean countries, based on extensive local data collection. It places these values in the context of the institutions and policies that affect Mediterranean forests and leads to proposed new policy approaches for increasing the provision of positive public goods and externalities and reducing the negative ones. This book will be of significant interest to those studying forestry, and environmental and natural resource economics."--BOOK JACKET.