This book represents a unique point of view of the financial evaluation of all forest ecosystem services (production, support, regulation and cultural). The financial valuation methods described in this book also refer to the contribution they make to economic sectors. The determination of the monetary value of ecosystem services was carried out using several economic valuation methods, depending on the need and relevance for the target area of the case study. A forest is all the more economically valuable the more complex the capacity of ecological systems to provide ecosystem services. The reader may find answers and results in this book to help them account for all the benefits that a forest offers.
Laureniu Ciornei holds a PhD in Economics from the Romanian Academy, and a degree in Forestry and Law from the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (Romania) and Spiru Haret University (Romania), respectively, with in-depth studies (postgraduate) in Environmental Management, Sustainable Development, Leadership and Psychopedagogy.Currently, Dr Ciornei works at the Center for Agroforestry Biodiversity Studies and Research, within the Romanian Academy, being coordinator of the Department of Forest Biodiversity. At the same time, he is an associate professor of Environmental Management and Sustainable Development at the Faculty of Humanities, Social and Natural Sciences, Hyperion University, Romania. In the last 5 years he has published 10 specialized books and 38 scientific articles, some of them in prestigious international publishing houses. His latest work, 'Economic Evaluation of Forest Ecosystems', was printed in 2023. Another work, 'Mapping Degraded Natural and Semi-Natural Ecosystems', of which Laureniu Ciornei is co-author, received the 'Gheorghe Ionescu-ieti' prize of the Romanian Academy in 2020.
