We would like to enter in a project that aims at the Evaluation of the socio-economic value of ecosystem services of forests protected by the Italian Forestry Fund (FFI).
The Italian Forestry Fund (FFI) works to protect and preserve forestry heritage by explicitly renouncing timber exploitation, adopting a conservation model based on the principle of “non-productive utilization.” Within this framework, forests become a source of multiple collective benefits, often invisible in conventional economic balance sheets. However, the lack of a monetary assessment of these benefits reduces the possibility of institutional recognition, political support, and the activation of compensation mechanisms such as Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES).
General objective: Quantify the socioeconomic value of ecosystem services (ES) provided by forests protected by the FFI, in order to enhance the visibility of their contribution to collective well-being and support active conservation policies and compensation tools.
Specific objectives:
1. Identify and classify the ES provided by areas managed by the FFI;
2. Quantify, where possible, the monetary value of these services;
3. Provide knowledge tools and recommendations for policy, PES, and environmental accounting.
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