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: Received: 17 May 2023 / Approved: 18 May 2023 / Online: 18 May 2023 (05:18:40 CEST)
How to cite:
Shuleva, N.; Kolev, K. Valuation of the Water Protection Function of Forest Territories and Income Allocation: a Case Study of Bulgaria. Preprints2023, 2023051273. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.1273.v1
Shuleva, N.; Kolev, K. Valuation of the Water Protection Function of Forest Territories and Income Allocation: a Case Study of Bulgaria. Preprints 2023, 2023051273. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.1273.v1
Shuleva, N.; Kolev, K. Valuation of the Water Protection Function of Forest Territories and Income Allocation: a Case Study of Bulgaria. Preprints2023, 2023051273. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.1273.v1
APA Style
Shuleva, N., & Kolev, K. (2023). Valuation of the Water Protection Function of Forest Territories and Income Allocation: a Case Study of Bulgaria. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.1273.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Shuleva, N. and Konstantin Kolev. 2023 "Valuation of the Water Protection Function of Forest Territories and Income Allocation: a Case Study of Bulgaria" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.1273.v1
Abstract
The owners of forests with water protection functions in Bulgaria do not receive compensation for their limited right to use wood and non-wood forest products from the forest areas they own. At the same time, the contribution derived from forests with water protection functions is received by water users and water consumers, whereas the costs of managing the forests are borne by their owners. The problem thus defined is not a forestry one, but an economic one, and the purpose of this paper ensues therefrom, namely to propose and test a methodology for valuating the produc-tion function of forest areas with water protection function in Bulgaria, allowing a fair distribu-tion of income between the forest owner and the user of forest ecosystem services. The methodol-ogy is based on the form of forest management and the analytical expression of the economic rela-tionship between a forest owner and a user of forest ecosystem services, constructed using Schen-rock’s formula. It has been tested with actual data on forest areas with water protection functions falling within the administrative and territorial scope of Velingrad municipality and based on the obtained results proposals have been made for the distribution of the contributions generated by forest ecosystems between the forest owner and the user of the forest ecosystem services.
Keywords
forest ecosystem services; rental income; wood production function of forests; water protection and regulation function of forests
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Other
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