Forest concessions and eco-certifications in the Peruvian Amazon: Deforestation impacts of logging rights and logging restrictions
Journal Article (Journal Article)
Concessions that grant logging rights to firms support economic development based on forest resources. Eco-certifications put sustainability restrictions on the operations of those concessions. For spatially detailed data, including many pre-treatment years, we use new difference-in-differences estimators to estimate 2002–2018 impacts upon Peruvian Amazon forests from both logging concessions and their eco-certifications. We find that the concessions − which in theory could raise or reduce forest loss − did not raise loss, if anything reducing it slightly by warding off spikes in deforestation pressure. Eco-certifications could reduce or raise forest loss, yet we find no significant impacts.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Rico-Straffon, J; Wang, Z; Panlasigui, S; Loucks, CJ; Swenson, J; Pfaff, A
Published Date
- March 1, 2023
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 118 /
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1096-0449
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0095-0696
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1016/j.jeem.2022.102780
Citation Source
- Scopus