Forest concessions and eco-certifications in the peruvian amazon: Deforestation impacts of logging rights and logging restrictions
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management(2022)
Abstract
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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Key words
certification,Concession,Deforestation,Peru,Impact evaluation,Difference-in-differences
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