The monetary value of the rural landscape in Gallura (Italy): a choice experiment analysis

Journal title RIVISTA DI ECONOMIA AGRARIA
Author/s Fabio A. Madau, Pietro Pulina
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2013/2
Language English Pages 19 P. 7-25 File size 908 KB
DOI 10.3280/REA2013-002001
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La tutela e la valorizzazione del paesaggio rurale rappresentano temi di rilievo strategico all’interno della Politica Agricola Comunitaria (PAC). E evidente, infatti, che le caratteristiche di un paesaggio rurale possono mutare significativamente a seconda dei possibili cambiamenti di scenario che condizionano l’uso delle superfici destinate all’agricoltura. Tali effetti possono essere indotti dalle dinamiche dei prodotti agroalimentari e dalle scelte promosse dal decisore pubblico. Le aree forestali, in virtu della loro valenza ricreazionale e di conservazione del territorio, rivestono un ruolo importante nel caratterizzare i paesaggi rurali. Il presente studio e volto a valutare il contributo delle foreste e di altri usi alternativi a fini agricoli nel determinare il valore del paesaggio rurale in Gallura (Sardegna, Italia). La metodologia Choice Experiment (CE) e stata applicata a questo scopo, con l’obiettivo di stimare il valore attribuito a tre specifici attributi paesaggistici, che riflettono altrettanti usi del suolo diffusi in Gallura: presenza di foreste, di vigneti e di pascolo. La disponibilita a pagare stimata per la conservazione della foresta e risultata essere assai piu alta di quelle relative al pascolo e ai vigneti. Da questi risultati discendono alcune importanti implicazioni sul piano degli indirizzi di politica agraria.

Keywords: Choice Experiment, rural landscape, rural and environmental policies, forestry economics and estimation

Jel codes: Q23, Q51, Q56

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Fabio A. Madau, Pietro Pulina, The monetary value of the rural landscape in Gallura (Italy): a choice experiment analysis in "RIVISTA DI ECONOMIA AGRARIA" 2/2013, pp 7-25, DOI: 10.3280/REA2013-002001