The paper analyses the contribution of private forestry to the global rural economy of a less favored area in the Italian Appenninnes. Recent studies carried out on such areas have indicated that forestry is often carried out with purposes other than purely financial ones, for example for their contribution to the total family income and their role in providing an opportunity for employing a labour force that would have otherwise been idle. In doing so, forestry also produces indirect economic benefits, for example the protection of soils, recreation and amelioration of landscape. After evaluating the extent of the contribution of forestry to the total family income, the paper attempts to assess the impact of the abandonment of the forestry activity according to a shadow price approach of forestry labour. This is done through a Linear Programming model carried out on a regional basis.
Economic Improvement of Farm Woodlands in Marginal Areas
GATTO, PAOLA
1990
Abstract
The paper analyses the contribution of private forestry to the global rural economy of a less favored area in the Italian Appenninnes. Recent studies carried out on such areas have indicated that forestry is often carried out with purposes other than purely financial ones, for example for their contribution to the total family income and their role in providing an opportunity for employing a labour force that would have otherwise been idle. In doing so, forestry also produces indirect economic benefits, for example the protection of soils, recreation and amelioration of landscape. After evaluating the extent of the contribution of forestry to the total family income, the paper attempts to assess the impact of the abandonment of the forestry activity according to a shadow price approach of forestry labour. This is done through a Linear Programming model carried out on a regional basis.
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