Valoración económica de una plantación de ciprés (Cupressus Lusitánica Mill) por el servicio forestal de provisión de madera en la parroquia de Manú, del cantón Saraguro, Ecuador

Abstract

This research seeks to economically quantify the value of direct use of the wood supply service using market prices of cypress plantations with and without forest management, located in the Manú parish, in southern Ecuador. For this purpose, this purpose economic modeling of scenarios with and without forest management is used, in order to diagnose the current state of the Ecuadorian forestry production sector and economically assess the service of wood production in commercial forests or cypress plantations located in the Manú Parish of the Saraguro Canton. The inclusion of several economic aspects in the scenarios, makes it possible to determine more "realistic" forest optimization, which would normally result in a better use of forestry.