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

ABSTRACT: 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 harve

SUBMITTER: Santos de Lima L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6281205 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature