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Valuing Mediterranean forests: Towards total economic value

This book is an attempt at quantifying 'Total Economic Value' (TEV) of Mediterranean forests across 18 countries. TEV represents the ways in which a natural resource, such as a forest, is valuable to people. Mediterranean forests have always been managed for multiple users, not just timber harvesting. The many benefits from forests include timber, non-timber products such as...

The ore mountains: Will successive recovery of forests from lethal disease be successful
The Ore Mountains (the Krušné Hory Mountains) are located in Central Europe on the border between the Czech Republic and Saxony, Germany. They are known as an area where air pollution has had a very severe impact. Sulphur dioxide, produced mainly by coal power plants and the chemical industry, caused extensive decay of forests in the upper part of the Ore Mountains during the 1970s and 1980s....
Classification of current vegetation cover and Alpine treeline ecotone in the Praded Reserve (Czech Republic), using remote sensing
The goal of the study was to derive up-to-date and complex information on the current vegetation cover of the Praded Reserve (Hrubý Jeseník Mountains, Czech Republic), with special regard to the unique alpine treeline ecotone formed by krummholz of Norway spruce. The authors argue that the data of remote sensing and automated techniques of image processing should be preferably used. Accordingly,...
Sustainable tourism in the montane protected areas: Building partnership between NGOs’ and managers of protected areas

From 25 to 28 October 2007, Sucha Beskidzka in Poland played host to the III International Seminar on Mountain Tourism entitled: "Sustainable Tourism in the Montane Protected Areas. Building Partnership Between NGOs' and Managers of Protected Areas".

The Seminar was organised by: International Friends of Nature, Polish Tourist Country Lovers' Society (PTTK) –...

Tourism in poor rural areas: diversifying the product and expanding the benefits in rural Uganda and the Czech Republic
The purpose of this paper is to explore strategies for expanding tourism in poor rural areas. It draws on an overview of the likely challenges and motivations involved in promoting rural tourism, and on two new case studies from the Czech Republic and Uganda, complemented by insights from other rural tourism initiatives elsewhere. It does not focus on rural tourism at well-established or high-...
MAB in the mountains of Europe and the former Soviet Union

This Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) Digest provides an overview of scientific activities undertaken within MAB Project 6, whose focus is on mountain areas. It considers MAB activities in the mountains of nine European countries -- Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, and Switzerland -- and the former USSR. It is in these countries that the...

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