This paper deals with private forest owners' insurance demand against forest fire risk. Econometric analysis is … realized on a sample of forest owners from Aquitaine. It allows identifying determinants of participation to insurance from … the expected loss of forestry income, self-insurance, uncertainty characterizing the probability of occurrence of natural …

panel data on 139 countries during the 1990-2012 period, we find that democracy is associated with lower levels of forest … coverage. Although our results appear counter-intuitive, further analyses reveal the positive effect of democracy on forest … impact of democracy on forest coverage becomes positive. Our results suggest that a democratic government's priority to …

topic. This article investigates the causes of forest fires frequency and intensity in Italy during the first decade of the … capture the impacts on forest fires regarding changes in both socioeconomic and climatic conditions. Italy is treated as a …

We investigate the reliability of transferring benefit estimates of forest recreation obtained from discrete choice CV … data and conditional on forest-specific attributes. The transfer reliability is checked against the forest …