Portugal
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...
Mountain Areas: So critical, so sensitive, so underestimated Mountain areas represent an enormous benefit to society. Today, in our modern society, many people look for mountains as sports, leisure or tourism areas, as more or less remote spaces one can visit to relax and gain energies for a busy and stressful life in the urban environment. But how many really know and understand the...
In Portugal, the mountain areas have an important expression, occupying about 30% of the continental part of the territory (Ferreira and Ventura, 1999). These areas, due to their physical characteristics and ways of life, mostly relying on agriculture and forestry production, were marginalized, have been repelling population, and tend to be vulnerable, in economic, social, cultural,...
