Author: Banerjee, O.
Title: Modeling Forest Sector Illegality in a Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Framework: The Case of Forest Concessions in Brazil
Summary: The Brazilian forest sector has undergone crisis due to complexities involved in investment in an insecure political environment, a regime of ambiguous property rights, forest sector illegality and enormous pressure for agricultural expansion. To address these challenges, Brazil’s Public Forest Management Law was approved in 2006 enabling private forest management on public forestland. By assessing the policy in a dynamic computable general equilibrium framework we find that household welfare improves and legal forestry grows at an accelerated rate. In the absence of improved monitoring and enforcement, however, forest concessions are shown to have a depressing effect on the price of forest land and accelerate illegal forestry operations.
Details: Santiago, Chile: Twelfth Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, 2009. 43p.
Source: Conference Paper: Internet Resource: Accessed September 30, 2012 at
Year: 2009
Country: Brazil
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Shelf Number: 126520
Keywords:
DeforestationForest Management (Brazil)Illegal Logging (Brazil)Natural ResourcesOffenses Against the Environment |
