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Payment for environmental services as economic tool to enhance the environmental service market: the case of non-wood forest products and services in the Veneto's mountain forests
Full text linkThe thesis explores the evolution of environmental service (ES) commercialization in the Veneto's mountain areas, thought the implementation of payment for environmental service (PES) schemes. Starting with the description of general theory beyond PES based on the principal statement of the contract theory, we introduce the ES commercialization through the analysis of an alternative forest business, based on recreational wild mushroom picking (RWMP) that became recently an important income source for forest managers in mountain areas. Across a multiple case study, the role of governance of WM resources have been highlight arguing the need to have a direct link between WM resources and stakeholder coordination. The case of RWMP has been used to introduce the concepts of ES user's direct utility and ES commercialization by bottom up initiatives; scarcely addressed in water sector, where a top-down approach by the central government prevails. Finally, an estimation of Veneto dwellers' willingness to pay (WTP) has been assessed through a choice experiment application, to highlight key factors determining their preferences to spend for ES provision improvement. The results confirm the attitude of people to have higher WTP for the ES directly used, even if a key role is played by people knowledge to create ES demand
Environmental services under climatic change: better income from forests? In: Forest Management of Mediterranean Forest Under the New Context of Climate Change.Ed. M.E.Lucas-Borja
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Pagamenti per Servizi Ambientali e Capitale Sociale nelle aree protette: stato dell'arte
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Paying for Water-related Forest Services: A Survey on Italian Payment Mechanisms
Full text linkThe paper reviews the state of implementation of one of the most relevant mechanisms of payments for environmental services (PES) in the forestry sector: the systems of payments for water-related forest services. Three water services with economic relevance are analyzed with reference to the Italian context: hydropower generation, tap-water supply and mineral water use by industry. Using the consolidated definition of PES as a basis for the analysis and considering the regulatory framework on water, we compared the three water-related services to describe the strengths and weaknesses in environmental services provision. From the analysis we deduced that pure PES schemes do not exist in the water sector in Italy, while PES-like schemes driven by public authorities have a relatively long and consolidated tradition but need to be better oriented and more widely implemented in order to compensate the providers of the services
Policy instruments to preserve or restore woodlands and to improve the supply of forest goods and services
Full text linkIn the Mediterranean region, policy makers and forest managers are seeking for policy instruments to fill the gap between financial and economic profitability in forest management. This paper reviews these policy instruments focusing on the market-based instruments and specifically on payments for environmental service (PES). We focus on the implementation problems of PES schemes looking at barriers and opportunities offered to their development in the Mediterranean region
Mountainous case (3.9 and Appendix 5.1.5)
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“who benefits” from the forest externalities. The basis for the analyses are the data from the surveys presented in D.2.1-D.2.3. In order to look at this issue across case studies, we have chosen to look at measures that are policy relevant across case studies and/or measures that showed important effects in one or more case studies and perform the exact same analysis for the different cases. The focus of chapter 3-9 and Appendix 5.1.5 is on the mountainous case study located in Italy
Exploring the willingness to pay for forest ecosystem services by residents of the Veneto Region
Full text linkForests produce a wide array of goods, both private and public. The demand for forest ecosystem services is increasing in many European countries, yet there is still a scarcity of data on values at regional scale for Alpine areas. A Choice Experiment survey has been conducted in order to explore preferences, uses and the willingness of the Veneto population to pay for ecosystem services produced by regional mountain forests. The results show that willingness to pay is significant for recreation and C-sequestration but not for biodiversity conservation, landscape and other ecosystem services. These findings question the feasibility of developing market-based mechanisms in Veneto at present and cast light on the possible role of public institutions in promoting policy actions to increase the general awareness of forest-related ecosystem service
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