| Abstract: |
This working paper estimates the impact on the local economy of the High Garda
Natural Park of alternative management scenarios for the West Garda Regional
Forest. The local economy is specialized in tourist services and strongly
linked to the tourist presence and their level of expenditure. We wish to
investigate the effects of the participative management strategy, which takes
into account users preferences and the non-participative strategy, using the
SAM multiplier analysis. The local SAM has been constructed considering three
sectors: agriculture, tourism and a third aggregate sector including all the
other activities. The resident population has been divided into two
categories: residents employed in the tourist sector and the remaining
resident population. The SAM analysis shows that the accounting representation
of the local economy is meaningful and that the participative program, if
chosen by the central regional management, would be the most desirable program
also at the local level. |