<title>Abstract</title> Relatively little attention has been given to the differences in value of statistical life (VSL) from developed and less developed countries. The paper derives a cross‐countries VSL estimate based on road fatality accidents and it provides a test to check for such differences....

The forest area burnt annually in the European Mediterranean region has more than doubled since the 1970s. In these forests, the main preventive action consists of forest compartmentalization by fuel break networks, which entail high costs and sometimes significant negative impacts. While many...