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Does eco-certification stem tropical deforestation? Forest Stewardship Council certification in Mexico.

dc.contributor.authorBlackman, A.
dc.contributor.authorRivera-Planter, M.
dc.contributor.authorGoff, L.
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-23T18:55:19Z
dc.date.available2022-01-23T18:55:19Z
dc.identifier.urihttps://open.fsc.org/handle/resource/552
dc.languageen
dc.rightsPaywalled content
dc.titleDoes eco-certification stem tropical deforestation? Forest Stewardship Council certification in Mexico.en
dcterms.abstractSince its creation more than 25 years ago as a voluntary, market-based approach to improving forest management, forest certification has proliferated rapidly in developing countries. Yet we know little about whether and under what conditions it affects deforestation. We use rich forest management unit-level panel data—including information on deforestation, certification, regulatory permitting, and geophysical and socioeconomic land characteristics—along with matched difference-in-differences models to identify the effect of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification on deforestation in Mexico, the country with the third-highest number of FSC certifications in the developing world. We test for a variety of different temporal and subgroup effects but are unable to reject the null hypothesis that certification does not affect deforestation.en
dcterms.issued2018
dcterms.typeJournal Article
dspace.entity.typePublication
fsc.evidenceCategoryFSC effect-related studies
fsc.focus.forestType(not yet curated)
fsc.focus.forestZoneTropical
fsc.focus.sustainDimension2. Environmental
fsc.focus.tenureManagement(not yet curated)
fsc.focus.tenureOwnership(not yet curated)
fsc.issue.environmentalForest loss
fsc.topic.environmental2.1. Forest cover
fscdoc.hashidden.adminyes
fscdoc.hashidden.useryes
fscdoc.intransitionno
is.coverage.countryMexico
is.coverage.regionNorth America
is.evaluation.collection(not yet curated)
is.evidenceSubTypeData collected post-intervention
is.evidenceTypeComparative study with matched control
is.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2018.04.005
is.identifier.fscdoihttp://dx.doi.org/10.34800/fsc-international616
is.journalNameJournal of Environmental Economics and Management
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