Indicators of sustainable forest management to evaluate the socio-economic functions of coppice in Tuscany, Italy

Riccioli, Francesco; Fratini, Roberto; Marone, Enrico; Fagarazzi, Claudio; Calderisi, Marco; Brunialti, Giorgio

doi:10.1016/j.seps.2019.100732

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“…This scenarios has a high degree of influence on forest management, and even though it has been characterized by long turnovers and income delays over time, it shows positive effects on aspects related to the environment (e.g., species diversity) and socio-economics (e.g., net revenue), particularly on those related to recreation. This scenario also reveals higher values of recreation, that are related, as argued by Riccioli et al [85], "to the perception that people have of the forest. In this case, conversion is the option that most resembles a high forest, therefore it is pleasing to visitors.…”

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confidence: 54%

“…This is probably due to the fact that users tend to interpret the word "natural" as a synonym for wilderness or naturalness, which has been widely documented in the literature [88][89][90][91][92][93]. Despite this, it is important to point out that these scenarios also have advantages because they enhance the contribution to the carbon cycle and the health and vitality of forest ecosystems [8,85]. Natural evolution also allows the restoration of natural ecological dynamics and an increase in biodiversity.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Mapping the Recreational Value of Coppices’ Management Systems in Tuscany

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In recent decades the growing interest in forested areas has led to a higher level of appreciation and consideration regarding the various benefits and services provided by forests. Despite this, when it comes to acknowledging their economic value and their capacity to produce income, the production of timber seems to be the main or even the only function that is considered. However, by adopting a sustainable forest management approach, the value related to non-market forest functions could also be considered. The present paper aims to quantify the potential income related to the recreational value of coppice forest by considering three different management systems: traditional coppice, active conversion to high forest and the natural evolution of forest. In order to do so, a contingent valuation method was used, and 248 forest users were surveyed in the region of Tuscany, Italy. The surveys included a revised price-list method, and the results obtained showed the existence of willingness to pay (WTP) for the maintenance of forests. Users showed a strong preference for conversion to high forest, while natural evolution was the least preferred management option. People’s perception on this matter was also assessed based on their specific location, by georeferencing all of the respondents’ answers: considering this, it was observed that belonging to a municipality located in or close to the mountains (i.e., mountain and natural municipalities) influenced the users’ WTP to maintain natural evolution.

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Mapping the Recreational Value of Coppices’ Management Systems in Tuscany

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“…This study represents a first step to support the economic sustainability of fire extinction activities, and offers a useful basis to further improve the choice of correct planning strategies based on sustainable management of natural areas, as argued by and Riccioli et al (2020). Future improvements of the methodology applied in this study should focus on the accumulation of the annual TEV of forest considering an accurate restoring time, which could be differentiated by the type of function and silvicultural system (coppice or hight forest).…”

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The economic value of fire damages in Tuscan agroforestry areas

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Fratini²,

Montanino³

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The Tuscan Region (Central Italy) spends about 12 million euros every year in the prevention and suppression of forest fires. In this context, this study aims to analyse the economic and environmental benefits derived from fire suppression activities. Starting from a case study of a real fire event in Tuscany, we simulated three hypothetical scenarios (with different fire durations) without fire extinction activities planned by using the open source software FAR-SITE. Benefits derived from fire extinction activities can be quantified as the avoided damage, which has been calculated through the estimation of the total economic value of forests not destroyed by fire thanks to the extinction action. The avoided damage is represented by the difference between values of forest areas burned by the real fire event and those burned by simulated fire. By providing an economic estimation of avoided damages, our results confirm that forest fire services and forest management have a high impact on both the economy and the environment.

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“…coppices vs high forests). In particular, there is a growing interest in redeveloping coppice systems in some communities mainly for economic reasons, in particular a fast production of biomass or firewood products and an easier regeneration, but also sometimes for ecological purposes such as to favor biodiversity linked to a variety of microhabitats due to the multi-stemmed growth form of the trees (Kirby et al 2017;Yücesan et al, 2019;Riccioli et al, 2020;Mattioli et al 2016). In this study, we evaluated various aspects such as forest structure, plant species diversity, regeneration and soil attributes in two forest systems: coppice-with-standards stands abandoned after an intense period of exploitation and high forest stands submitted to a low intensity of management.…”

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Diverging consequences of past forest management on plant and soil attributes in ancient oak forests of southwestern Iran

Heydari

Roshan

Lucas‐Borja

et al. 2021

Forest Ecology and Management

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The oak (Quercus brantii Lindl.) semiarid forests of western Iran are among the oldest and host a remarkable diversity. However, the originally high forests were largely converted to coppices and submitted to a long history of traditional management and human disturbances. We investigated the effect of past management and forest structure on soil properties and vegetation diversity on two forest systems: coppice-with-standards stands abandoned after an intense period of exploitation (CWS) and high forest stands (HF) submitted to a low intensity of management. We selected in each system three 1-2 ha stands and sampled 30 plots to measure vegetation diversity, forest structure using structural indices and, main soil factors including bulk density, nutrients, organic carbon and porosity. We found a higher species diversity in HF than in CWS with respectively 7 woody species in the former and only 4 in the latter as well as a higher structural complexity. Plant composition differed also between the two systems and multivariate analyses revealed clear associations between vegetation composition and soil factors in particular soil nutrients, soil porosity for HF and bulk density and texture for CWS. In fact, contents in soil nutrients were higher in HF than in CWS for total nitrogen (0.28 vs 0.15 %), available phosphorus (22.82 vs 15.47 ppm), available nitrogen (0.28 vs 0.15 ppm), and organic matter (2.58 vs 1.61 %) whereas soils of CWS showed a higher bulk density (1.39 vs 1.29) and a lower porosity (47.66 vs 51.50 %). This study thus revealed the legacy of the past forest management actions on the different components of the forest ecosystem. We concluded that the conservative management in high forests was more favourable for the protection of soil and vegetation diversity than in the traditional coppicing system.

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Indicators of sustainable forest management to evaluate the socio-economic functions of coppice in Tuscany, Italy

Cited by 18 publications

References 40 publications

Mapping the Recreational Value of Coppices’ Management Systems in Tuscany

Mapping the Recreational Value of Coppices’ Management Systems in Tuscany

The economic value of fire damages in Tuscan agroforestry areas

Diverging consequences of past forest management on plant and soil attributes in ancient oak forests of southwestern Iran

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