Forests ecosystems provide a multiplicity of goods and services of crucial ecological, social and economic importance for the sustainability of our society. Forest goods and services represent the benefits that human populations derive, directly or indirectly, from forest ecosystems functions (MEA 2005) and are therefore an inherently anthropogenic concept, since it is the presence of human beings as valuing agents that enables the translation of the basic ecological structures and processes of forests into value-laden entities. .
