Valuing Mediterranean forests: towards total economic value

414 Pages·2005·3.497 MB·English

by  Merlo, M., Croitoru, L. (Eds.)

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Valuing Mediterranean Forests
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Valuing Mediterranean Forests
Towards Total Economic Value
Edited by
Maurizio Merlo
and
Lelia Croitoru
CABI
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1. Forests and forestry--Economic aspects--Mediterranean Region. 2. Forest policy--
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Contents
Contributors ix
Foreword xiii
Dedication and Acknowledgements xv
Acronyms and Abbreviations xvii
1 Introduction 1
Maurizio Merlo and Lelia Croitoru
PART I. MEDITERRANEAN FOREST VALUES
2 The State of Mediterranean Forests 5
Maurizio Merlo and Paolo Paiero
3 Concepts and Methodology: a First Attempt Towards Quantification 17
Maurizio Merlo and Lelia Croitoru
4 Mediterranean Forest Values 37
Lelia Croitoru and Maurizio Merlo
PART II. COUNTRY SITUATIONS
5 Morocco 69
Mohammed Ellatifi
6 Algeria 89
Abdelah Nédjahi and Mohamed Zamoum
7 Tunisia 105
Hamed Daly-Hassen and Ameur Ben Mansoura
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8 Egypt 123
Lelia Croitoru
9 Palestine 133
Roubina Ghattas, Nader Hrimat and Jad Isaac
10 Israel 147
Avi Gafni
11 Lebanon 161
Elsa Sattout, Salma Talhouk and Nader Kabbani
12 Syria 177
Ibrahim Nahal and Salim Zahoueh
13 Turkey 195
Mustafa Fehmi Türker, Mehmet Pak and Atakan Öztürk
14 Cyprus 213
Department of Forests
15 Greece 229
Vassiliki Kazana and Angelos Kazaklis
16 Albania 241
Kostandin Dano
17 Croatia 249
Rudolf Sabadi, Dijana Vuleti´c and Joso Grac(cid:1)an
18 Slovenia 263
Robert Mavsar, Lado Kutnar and Marko Kovac
19 Italy 279
Lelia Croitoru, Paola Gatto, Maurizio Merlo and Paolo Paiero
20 France 299
Claire Montagné, Jean-Luc Peyron, Alexandra Niedzwiedz and Odile Colnard
21 Spain 319
Pablo Campos, Alejandro Caparrós and Enrique Sanjurjo
22 Portugal 331
Américo M.S. Carvalho Mendes
PART III. TOWARDS A MEDITERRANEAN FORESTS MULTI-PURPOSE POLICY
23 Institutional and Policy Implications in the Mediterranean Region 353
Paola Gatto and Maurizio Merlo
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24 Decentralization and Participation: Key Challenges for Mediterranean
Public Forest Policy 373
Eduardo Rojas-Briales
25 The Need for an International Agreement on Mediterranean Forests 391
Américo M.S. Carvalho Mendes
Index 397
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Contributors
AmeurBenMansouraisRangelandManagementExpert,ArabCenterforStudiesofAridZones
and Drylands (ACSAD), Damascus, Syria.
Yves Birot is Research Director, 5 allée Canto Cigalo, 30400 Villeneuve-Lez-Avignon, France.
E-mail: [email protected]
Pablo Campos is Senior Researcher, Instituto de Economià y Geografía (CIFOR), Pinar 25,
28006 Madrid, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]
AlejandroCaparrósisSeniorResearcher,InstitutodeEconomíayGeografía,ConsejoSuperior
de Investigaciones Científicas, Pinar 25, 28006 Madrid, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]
Odile Colnard is Researcher at Laboratoire d’Economie Forestière (UMR ENGREF/INRA),
14 Rue Girardet, CS 4216, F-54042 Nancy Cedex, France.
LeliaCroitoruisResearcheratUniversityofPadova,CentreforEnvironmentalAccountingand
ManagementinAgricultureandForestry(CONTAGRAF),ViaRoma34,CorteBenedettina,35020
Legnaro (PD), Italy. E-mail: [email protected]
HamedDaly-HassenisResearcherinForestEconomicsattheNationalInstituteofResearchon
Rural Engineering, Water and Forestry (INRGREF), B.P. 10, Ariana – 2080, Tunisia. E-mail:
[email protected]
Kostandin Dano is Chief of Resources Sector, DGFP – General Directorate of Forests and
Pastures,SilvicultureandManagementofForestResourcesSector,RueSamiFrasheriGodinano.
4,Tirana, Albania.E-mail:[email protected]
Department of Forests, Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment, Louki
Akrita 26, PC 1414 Nicosia, Cyprus. Contact: Xenos Hadjikyriacou, E-mail: [email protected]
Mohammed Ellatifi is Senior Forestry Officer at Department of Waters, Forests and
Desertification Control, PO Box 50070, 20070 Casablanca Ghandi, Morocco. E-mail:
[email protected]@softhome.net
Avi Gafni is Research Coordinator, Forest Division, Land Development Authority, Jewish
NationalFund(JNF),MobilePostShimshon,KKLEshtaol,Israel99775.E-mail:[email protected]
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x Contributors
Paola Gatto is Lecturer of Forest Economics at University of Padova, Department of Land
and Agro-Forestry Systems, Agripolis, Via Roma, 35020 Legnaro (PD), Italy. E-mail:
[email protected]
Roubina Ghattas is Research Associate at the Applied Research Institute Jerusalem (ARIJ),
P.O.Box 860, Caritas St., Bethlehem, West Bank. E-mail: [email protected]
Joso Graan isDScScientificadvisoratForestResearch Institute,Jastrebarsko,Cvjetno naselje
41, 10450 Jastrebarsko, Croatia. E-mail: [email protected]
Nader Hrimat is AssistantDirector General at the Applied Research InstituteJerusalem (ARIJ),
PO Box 860, Caritas St, Bethlehem, West Bank. E-mail: [email protected]
JadIsaacisDirectoroftheAppliedResearchInstituteJerusalem(ARIJ),POBox860,CaritasSt,
Bethlehem, West Bank. E-mail: [email protected]
Nader Kabbani is AssistantProfessor at the Department of Economics,American University of
Beirut, PO Box 11-0236, Beirut, Lebanon. E-mail: [email protected]
Angelos Kazaklis is Director, Centre for Integrated Environmental Management (CIEM),
39 Androutsou Str., 55132 Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, Greece.
VassilikiKazanaisSeniorLecturer,TechnologicalEducationInstituteofKavala,Departmentof
Forestry at Drama, 1st km Kalampaki-Drama, 66100 Drama, Greece. E-mail: vkazana@teikav.
edu.gr and [email protected]
Marko Kovac is Researcher at Slovenian Forestry Institute, Vecna pot 2, 1000 Ljubljana,
Slovenia.
LadoKutnarisResearcheratSlovenianForestryInstitute,Vecnapot2,1000Ljubljana,Slovenia.
Robert Mavsar is Researcher at Slovenian Forestry Institute, Vecna pot 2, 1000 Ljubljana,
Slovenia. E-mail: [email protected]
AméricoM.S.CarvalhoMendesisProfessorattheFacultyofEconomicsandManagementof
thePortugueseCatholicUniversity,RegionalCentreofPorto,RuaDiogoBotelho,1327,4169-005
Porto, Portugal. E-mail: [email protected]
MaurizioMerlowasProfessorofForestEconomicsandPolicyatTheUniversityofPadovaand
DirectoroftheCentreforEnvironmentalAccountingandManagementinAgricultureandForestry
(CONTAGRAF),ViaRoma34,CorteBenedettina,35020Legnaro(PD),Italy(diedAugust2003).
Claire Montagné is Researcher at Laboratoire d’Economie Forestière (UMR ENGREF/INRA),
14 Rue Girardet, CS 4216, F-54042 Nancy Cedex, France. E-mail: montagne@nancy-engref.
inra.fr
IbrahimNahalisProfessorEmeritusatAleppoUniversity,DepartmentofForestryandEcology,
PO Box 5008, Aleppo, Syria. E-mail: [email protected]
Abdellah Nédjahi is Director of National Institute of Forest Research (INRF), Arboretum de
Baïnem B.P. 37, Chéraga, Alger, Algeria. E-mail: [email protected]
Alexandra Niedzwiedz is Database Manager at Laboratoire d’Economie Forestière (UMR
ENGREF/INRA), 14 Rue Girardet, CS 4216, F-54042 Nancy Cedex, France.
Andreas Ottitsch is Programme Manager at the European Forest Institute, Torikatu 34,
80100 Joensuu, Finland. E-mail: [email protected]
AtakanÖztürkisResearchAssistantofForestryatKafkasUniversity,FacultyofForestry,Division
of Forest Economics in the Department of Forest Engineering, Artvin, Turkey.
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Paolo Paiero is Professor of Forest Botany, Department of Land and Agro-Forestry Systems,
Agripolis, Via Roma, 35020 Legnaro (PD), Italy. E-mail: [email protected]
Mehmet PakisAssistantProfesorofForestryatKahramanmarasSütçüimamUniversity,Faculty
of Forestry, Division of Forest Economics in the Department of Forest Engineering,
Kahramanmaras, Turkey.
Marc PalahiisProgrammeManageroftheMEDFOREXProject,CentreTecnològicForestalde
Catalunya, Pujada del Seminari, s/n, Solsona, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]
Jean-Luc Peyron is Director of Laboratoire d’Economie Forestière (UMR ENGREF/INRA),
14 Rue Girardet, CS 4216, F-54042 Nancy Cedex, France.
EduardoRojas-BrialesisProfessoratAgricultureandForestFaculty,PolytechnicUniversityof
Valencia,Campus de Vera s/n E-46022 Valencia, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]
RudolfSabadiis Professor (retired) at Faculty of Forestry, University of Zagreb, Croatia.
Enrique Sanjurjo is Researcher, Instituto Nacional de Ecología, Anillo Periférico 5000,
04530 Coyoacán, México, Distrito Federal, Mexico.E-mail: [email protected]
Elsa Sattout is Associate Researcher at the Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Food
and Agricultural Sciences, American University of Beirut, PO Box 11-0236-Beirut, Lebanon.
E-mail: [email protected]
Roger A. Sedjo is Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future, Washington DC, USA. E-mail:
[email protected]
José Maria Solano is Head of the Forest Planning area at Dirección General para la
conservación de la Naturaleza, Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, Gran via de San Francisco,
4, Madrid, Spain.E-mail: [email protected]
Salma Talhouk is Associate Professor at the Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Food
and Agricultural Sciences, American University of Beirut, PO Box 11-0236-Beirut, Lebanon.
E-mail: [email protected]
Mustafa Fehmi Türker is Professor of Forestry at Karadeniz Technical University, Faculty of
Forestry,DivisionofForestEconomicsintheDepartmentofForestEngineering,61080Trabzon,
Turkey. E-mail: [email protected]
Dijana Vuletic is DSc Project leader at Forest Research Institute,Jastrebarsko, Cvjetno naselje
41, 10450 Jastrebarsko, Croatia. E-mail: [email protected]
Salim Zahoueh is Assistant Professor at Aleppo University, Department of Forestry and
Ecology, seconded since 1996 to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
He is presently Assistant FAO Representative in the Syrian Arab Republic, Damascus, Syria.
E-mail: [email protected]
MohamedZamoumisResearcheratNationalInstituteofForestResearch(INRF),Arboretumde
Baïnem B.P. 37, Chéraga, Alger, Algeria. E-mail: [email protected]
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