National Forest Inventory IFN4 Valuation

The National Forest Inventory (IFN) is the project of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge that provides homogeneous information at a national level on Spanish forests and their evolution, both from a forestry and forest biodiversity point of view. This project is structured over time with a ten-year periodicity (art. 28 of the Forestry Law), and after 60 years of validity, it is finishing its fourth cycle (IFN4), which began in 2008. The valuation cartography associated with IFN4 is provided, comprised of 16 raster layers: The economic valuation in euro cents per hectare of each information provided by each layer and the total result of that valuation are represented. The layers are: economic valuation of food and raw material production, wood production, firewood production, pine nut production, cork production, forest pasture production, water provision, recreational services, hunting, avoided sedimentation in reservoirs, carbon capture, carbon capture by trees, carbon capture by scrubland, conservation of biological diversity, total economic valuation without water and total economic valuation.

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Basic information
Resource type Spatial data set
Date of creation 2024-10-23
Date of last revision 2025-01-18
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Metadata identifier IFN4_valoracion
Metadata language Spanish
Themes (NTI-RISP)
High-value dataset category Geospatial
ISO 19115 topic category biota
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Spatial information
INSPIRE identifier ESMITECOIFN4VALORACION20241031001
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Geographic identifier Spain
Coordinate Reference System EPSG:25830
Spatial representation Type Grid
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"{\"type\": \"Polygon\", \"coordinates\": [[[-18.16, 27.64], [4.32, 27.64], [4.32, 43.79], [-18.16, 43.79], [-18.16, 27.64]]]}"
Spatial resolution of the dataset 25.000 m
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The economic valuation of the services provided by the forest environment allows us to quantify, in monetary terms, the increase in well-being that society experiences thanks to them. The methodology applied has been designed with a prudent approach, so the results obtained must be interpreted as the minimum value of natural resources. The methodology designed within the framework of the project “Valuation of natural assets in Spain” (VANE), prepared by the Ministry of the Environment, and Rural and Marine Environment, has been used as a basic reference for the valuation. In accordance with this methodology, environmental services are identified and grouped into a series of relatively homogeneous aspects. Thus, 13 environmental services are valued specifically, which are aggregated into 7 different aspects.
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Update frequency Decennial
Sources
  1. Cuarto Inventario Forestal Nacional (IFN4)
  2. Mapa Forestal de España 1:25.000 (MFE25)
  3. Anuario de Estadística Agraria
  4. Anuario de Estadística Forestal
  5. así como múltiples fuentes del Estado y CC.AA. de valoración de productos forestales y estudios técnicos específicos en materia de erosión
  6. turismo
  7. agua y especies animales
  8. entre otros.
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Responsible Party
Name of the dataset creator Jefa de Área de Inventario y Estadísticas Forestales
Name of the dataset maintainer Área de Banco de Datos de la Naturaleza
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Email of the dataset creator mdpasalodos@miteco.es
Website of the dataset creator https://www.miteco.gob.es/
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Email of the dataset maintainer buzon-bdatos@miteco.es
Website of the dataset maintainer https://www.miteco.gob.es/