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Economic, Legal and Social Aspects of Post-Fire Management

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Post-Fire Management and Restoration of Southern European Forests

Part of the book series: Managing Forest Ecosystems ((MAFE,volume 24))

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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.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    This differs from the term cost efficiency, which measures how well the inputs in a production process are used to produce a fixed set of outputs.

  2. 2.

    For an overview of alternative and complementary evaluation methods see for example EFTEC (2006).

  3. 3.

    In economics, utility is a measure of relative satisfaction.

  4. 4.

    See also Sect. 3.2.1.2.

  5. 5.

    For an example see http://eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu/library/themes/erosion/ClimChalp/Rusle.html

  6. 6.

    For more details about non-market valuation methods see Sect. 3.2.1.2.

  7. 7.

    More on revealed preference methods in Bockstael and McConnell (2007).

  8. 8.

    More on stated preference methods in Kanninen, B. J. (Ed.) (2007).

  9. 9.

    Actually a number of indicators exist (e.g., benefit-cost ratio, internal rate of return) that are complementary to the net present value and that would be considered when conducting a CBA.

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    Piermaria Corona & Anna Barbati

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Mavsar, R., Varela, E., Corona, P., Barbati, A., Marsh, G. (2012). Economic, Legal and Social Aspects of Post-Fire Management. In: Moreira, F., Arianoutsou, M., Corona, P., De las Heras, J. (eds) Post-Fire Management and Restoration of Southern European Forests. Managing Forest Ecosystems, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2208-8_3

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