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Logging concessions, certification and protected areas in the Peruvian Amazon: forest impacts from combinations of development rights and land-use restrictions

dc.contributor.authorRico, J.
dc.contributor.authorPanlasigui, S.
dc.contributor.authorLoucks, C.J.
dc.contributor.authorSwenson, J.
dc.contributor.authorPfaff, A.
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-23T18:56:18Z
dc.date.available2022-01-23T18:56:18Z
dc.identifier.urihttps://open.fsc.org/handle/resource/748
dc.titleLogging concessions, certification and protected areas in the Peruvian Amazon: forest impacts from combinations of development rights and land-use restrictionsen
dcterms.abstractEconomic activities (agriculture, logging, mining) drive tropical forest loss, so balancing development and conservation involves tradeoffs - as well as synergies. Conservation policies, such as protected areas (PAs), may save more forest when they include some development rights (Pfaff et al. 2014). There is less evidence about when development policies, such as logging concessions, include some conservation restrictions. The right to log creates an incentive for private firms to defend their forest assets, although firms could raise or reduce forest loss depending upon their capacities to defend, their motivations to log and public oversight. Reduced loss may be rewarded through voluntary certification or third-party oversight of logging practices, whose impact we hypothesize depends upon firms' logging motivations and their capacities to restrict loss. To shed empirical light, we examine forest impacts from rights and restrictions within the Peruvian Amazon during 2000-2013, removing biases using location and year effects. Compared to control forests outside of concessions and PAs, we find PAs reduce tree-cover loss − while those PAs that include development rights save more forest than strict PAs, for each region. Logging concessions reduce forest loss in Madre de Dios, yet they increase loss in Ucayali. Certification has an impact - 1% reduction in 2000-2013 forest loss − only in Madre de Dios, consistent with higher certification impacts if private firms choose to restrict lossen
dcterms.accessRightsPublic
dcterms.accessRightsOpen access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationRico, J., et al., 2018. 'Logging Concessions, Certification and Protected Areas in the Peruvian Amazon: Forest Impacts from Combinations of Development Rights and Land-Use Restrictions,' Banco de M'xico Working Papers 2018-11en
dcterms.issued2017
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherBanco de M'xico
dspace.entity.typePublication
fsc.evidenceCategoryFSC-relevant
fsc.focus.forestZoneTropical
fsc.focus.sustainDimensionEnvironmental
fsc.issue.environmentalDeforestation, tree cover loss
fsc.subjectForests
fsc.subjectCertification
is.availability.fullTextFull text available
is.contributor.funderTypePrivate
is.contributor.memberForest Stewardship Council
is.coverage.countryPeru
is.coverage.countryAlpha2PE
is.coverage.geographicLevelRegion
is.coverage.latitude-4.260293
is.coverage.longitude-74.326283
is.coverage.placeLoreto Region
is.coverage.regionSouth America
is.evaluation.collectionMapping
is.evaluation.comparisonTreatment vs Control
is.evaluation.counterfactsYes
is.evaluation.dataSourceGeospatial data layers
is.evaluation.dataSourceNational Statistics - national government data
is.evaluation.notesAppears to be unpublished student paper
is.evaluation.outcomeyes
is.evidenceResourceTypePrimary
is.evidenceTypeEmpirical study
is.focus.sectorsAgriculture
is.focus.sectorsForestry
is.focus.sustainDimensionEnvironmental
is.focus.sustainLensLandscape approaches
is.focus.systemElementMandE outcomes and impacts
is.focus.systemElementMandE performance monitoring
is.identifier.codeImpacts
is.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.36095/banxico/di.2018.11
is.identifier.fscdoihttp://dx.doi.org/10.34800/fsc-international652
is.identifier.schemeNameForest Stewardship Council
is.identifier.schemeTypeVoluntary Sustainability Standards
is.item.reviewStatusPeer reviewed
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