Towards the economic valuation of ecosystem production from cork oak forests in Sardinia (Italy)

The study aimed at assessing the value and trade-offs of a number of ecosystem services associated to cork oak woodland management under different sylvicultural options in state-owned forests in Sardinia.

Forests deliver a range of goods and services that are important for human well-being and environmental health: understanding the interactions with respect to their provision, trade-offs and synergies, as well as the drivers influencing their interactions, represents a challenge for forest resources management. Under this context, a tool for economic valuation of ecosystem production from cork oak forests is provided, with distinctive respect to the assessment of the effects of alternative silvicultural options on cork and fodder production, carbon sequestration, and water yield.

Piermaria Corona piermaria.corona@crea.gov.it,  https://www.crea.gov.it/en/web/foreste-e-legno

Nicola Puletti   nicola.puletti@crea.gov.it, https://www.crea.gov.it/en/web/foreste-e-legno

Sandro Dettori sdettori@uniss.it, https://agrariaweb.uniss.it/it 

Corona P, Quatrini V, Schirru M, Dettori S, Puletti N (2018). Towards the economic valuation of ecosystem production from cork oak forests in Sardinia (Italy). iForest 11: 660-667. - doi: 10.3832/ifor2558-011

https://iforest.sisef.org/abstract/?id=ifor2558-011