
Forest concessions and eco-certifications in the Peruvian Amazon: Deforestation impacts of logging rights and logging restrictions
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Rico-Straffon, J; Wang, Z; Panlasigui, S; Loucks, CJ; Swenson, J; Pfaff, A
Published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
March 1, 2023
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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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
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1096-0449
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0095-0696
Publication Date
March 1, 2023
Volume
118
Related Subject Headings
- Agricultural Economics & Policy
- 3801 Applied economics
- 1402 Applied Economics
- 1401 Economic Theory
- 0502 Environmental Science and Management
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Rico-Straffon, J., Wang, Z., Panlasigui, S., Loucks, C. J., Swenson, J., & Pfaff, A. (2023). Forest concessions and eco-certifications in the Peruvian Amazon: Deforestation impacts of logging rights and logging restrictions. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2022.102780
Rico-Straffon, J., Z. Wang, S. Panlasigui, C. J. Loucks, J. Swenson, and A. Pfaff. “Forest concessions and eco-certifications in the Peruvian Amazon: Deforestation impacts of logging rights and logging restrictions.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 118 (March 1, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2022.102780.
Rico-Straffon J, Wang Z, Panlasigui S, Loucks CJ, Swenson J, Pfaff A. Forest concessions and eco-certifications in the Peruvian Amazon: Deforestation impacts of logging rights and logging restrictions. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 2023 Mar 1;118.
Rico-Straffon, J., et al. “Forest concessions and eco-certifications in the Peruvian Amazon: Deforestation impacts of logging rights and logging restrictions.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, vol. 118, Mar. 2023. Scopus, doi:10.1016/j.jeem.2022.102780.
Rico-Straffon J, Wang Z, Panlasigui S, Loucks CJ, Swenson J, Pfaff A. Forest concessions and eco-certifications in the Peruvian Amazon: Deforestation impacts of logging rights and logging restrictions. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 2023 Mar 1;118.

Published In
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
DOI
EISSN
1096-0449
ISSN
0095-0696
Publication Date
March 1, 2023
Volume
118
Related Subject Headings
- Agricultural Economics & Policy
- 3801 Applied economics
- 1402 Applied Economics
- 1401 Economic Theory
- 0502 Environmental Science and Management