Spending time in a forest benefits human health and well-being. Based on the forest spatial types (forest interior and … forest edge spaces), landscape elements (architecture, water and roads) and forest stands (coniferous, broadleaf and bamboo … effects of forest spatial landscape characteristics of different forest spatial types, element compositions and forest stands …

other forest products; have cultural values; deliver recreation benefits and ecosystem services, including regulation of … soil, air and water; are reservoirs for biodiversity; and act as carbon sinks. The impact from human activities on forest … health and on natural forest growth and regeneration raises widespread concern. Many forest resources are threatened by …

Data from a large-scale contingent valuation study are used to investigate the effects of forest attributes on … willingness to pay for forest recreation in Ireland. In particular, the presence of a nature reserve in the forest is found to …

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 …

hectare estimates of the economic value of some selected ecosystem services for all forest biomes in the world, identified …

hectare estimates of the economic value of some selected ecosystem services for all forest biomes in the world, identified …

should enhance public awareness, promote forest-based small and medium enterprises, and involve indigenous and local …

(urban) forest land, starting from the multifunctional role of these new forests. We start with a simple presentation of the …, such as tree planting and forest management on the one hand and opportunity costs on the other hand. On the benefit side we … values. Non-use and option values capture forest benefits that are independent from the actual use made of the forest area …

zones - setback distances to settlements and forest bans - which are implemented for wind power deployment in Germany. The … substitution effect for forest bans. We also show that the actual sign and size of opportunity costs depends a lot on the cost …