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The Benefit Transfer Method for the Economic Evaluation of Urban Forests

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The communities’ interest in urban forestry is growing, recently also in order to face the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Although the multiple benefits (ecosystem services) that forestry provides in cities are recognized by the international community, the issue of economic evaluation of each service in the context of urban renewal processes is still little debated.

This paper describes the Benefit Transfer Method (BTM) as a framework for estimating the total economic value of urban forests. This is done with the aim of outlining an economic model to support decision-making processes. The model is tested on a set of Italian cities. Research perspectives are in the conclusions.

This contribution is to be attributed in equal parts to the two authors

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  1. Department of Architecture and Design, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Francesco Sica

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, Fisciano, SA, Italy

    Antonio Nesticò

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Sica, F., Nesticò, A. (2021). The Benefit Transfer Method for the Economic Evaluation of Urban Forests. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021. ICCSA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12954. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86979-3_3

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