Illegal logging as a disincentive to the establishment of a sustainable forest sector in the Amazon

Brazil recently began granting timber concessions in public forests to promote sustainable forest use. The effectiveness of this strategy hinges on the design and implementation of the concessions themselves as well as their competitive position within the logging sector as a whole. There is, howeve...

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Autores: Santos de Lima, Letícia|||0000-0002-0268-2055, Merry, Frank, Soares-Filho, Britaldo, Oliveira Rodrigues, Hermann, Santos Damaceno, Christiane dos, Bauch, Marcos A.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
SDG 15 - Life on Land
SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
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title Illegal logging as a disincentive to the establishment of a sustainable forest sector in the Amazon
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Santos de Lima, Letícia|||0000-0002-0268-2055
SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
SDG 15 - Life on Land
SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
title_short Illegal logging as a disincentive to the establishment of a sustainable forest sector in the Amazon
title_full Illegal logging as a disincentive to the establishment of a sustainable forest sector in the Amazon
title_fullStr Illegal logging as a disincentive to the establishment of a sustainable forest sector in the Amazon
title_full_unstemmed Illegal logging as a disincentive to the establishment of a sustainable forest sector in the Amazon
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dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Santos de Lima, Letícia|||0000-0002-0268-2055
Merry, Frank
Soares-Filho, Britaldo
Oliveira Rodrigues, Hermann
Santos Damaceno, Christiane dos
Bauch, Marcos A.
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author_facet Santos de Lima, Letícia|||0000-0002-0268-2055
Merry, Frank
Soares-Filho, Britaldo
Oliveira Rodrigues, Hermann
Santos Damaceno, Christiane dos
Bauch, Marcos A.
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
SDG 15 - Life on Land
SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
topic SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
SDG 15 - Life on Land
SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
description Brazil recently began granting timber concessions in public forests to promote sustainable forest use. The effectiveness of this strategy hinges on the design and implementation of the concessions themselves as well as their competitive position within the logging sector as a whole. There is, however, a lack of information on the competitive interaction between legal and illegal logging and its effects on concessions profits. We address this knowledge gap by using a spatially explicit simulation model of the Amazon timber industry to examine the potential impact of illegal logging on timber concessions allocation and profits in a 30-year harvest cycle. In a scenario in which illegal logging takes place outside concessions, including private and public "undesignated" lands, concession harvested area would decrease by 59% due to competition with illegal logging. Moreover, 29 out of 39 National Forests (≈74%) would experience a decrease in harvested area. This "leakage" effect could reduce concession net rents by up to USD 1.3 Billion after 30 years. Federal and State "undesignated" lands, if not adequately protected, could have 40% of their total volume illegally harvested in 30 years. Our results reinforce the need to invest in tackling illegal logging, if the government wants the forest concessions program to be successful.
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