Second Year

Some major features of Mediterranean forests make institutional factors very relevant in their sustainability:

Positive externalities are a major part of their output and some of their main threats, such as fires, are negative externalities, whose internalization needs appropriate institutional mechanisms;
in many places there land use conflicts (agricultural/forest uses, urban/forest uses) also calling for regulation through appropriate institutions;
being multifunctional systems, there is a need for institutional mechanisms where all the relevant stakeholders can cooperate to promote the different functions of forests;
to many persons and communities in the Mediterranean world forests have other values besides use and exchange values which are part of their collective identity embodied in local institutions;
finally, the institutional settings in which forest are owned and managed vary a lot around the Mediterranean world and this diversity has to be taken into account for a successful implementation of public policies and management guidelines aiming at sustainable forest management.

This specialization is designed to train students:
in learning the economic concepts appropriate to analyze situations where collective action is needed to cope with social conflict and to promote sustainable development;
in applying these concepts to Mediterranean forests.

The sub-programme is organized in five courses:

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