Robert Mavsar

Economic, Legal and Social Aspects of Post-Fire Management

Ideally decisions about post fire management and restoration measures should consider ecological, social and economic criteria. This chapter presents which economic and social aspects are important when implementing post-fire management and restoration. First two key economic criteria, economic efficiency and distributional effects, that should be considered are explored. Whereas, the subsequent sections review legal and social aspects of post fire management.

Valuing trade-offs between local forest uses and environmental services in Tunisia

ABSTRACT Successive afforestation programmes undertaken in Tunisia have doubled the forest surface area in the last 50 years. A choice experiment exercise was used to estimate the social welfare associated with a plantation programme in Tunisia. The application dealt with different environmental services, and access of local users to the forest. The results show that having access to the forests for recreational activities has an average willingness to pay of 6.46 Tunisian dinar (TND) per person and year, for five years. In contrast, limiting access to the afforested areas for grazing and other uses decreases the overall welfare by 5.63 TND per person and year. An individual marginal value of 4.29 × 10−5 TND per ton of CO2 sequestered was obtained. Furthermore, a 1% decrease of dam sedimentation is worth 2.16 TND per person and year. However, results are subject to heterogeneity, particularly regarding rural and urban populations. This paper highlights that preferences for environmental services depend on socio-economic attributes, the welfare of local users could lower due to restricted access to the forest. It was found that population heterogeneity influenced the valuation results and is to be considered in policy designs based on this type of studies.

Des bureaux régionaux pour des thèmes de recherche spécifiques aux régions

L’EFI dispose de cinq bureaux regionaux. Les bureaux repartis geographiquement en Europe sont un element a part entiere de l’institut et traitent de themes de recherche de pertinence regionale. L’une de leurs tâches principales est de traiter ces themes dans un contexte europeen par la mise en reseau des competences specialisees des organismes forestiers installes dans les regions, qui sont souvent des membres associes de l’EFI. DOSS I E R : L E S V I N G T A N S DE L ’ E F I