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Linking National Forestry Reform Through Forest Concession Policy and Land Cover Change

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In Peru, a new forest reform process laid the foundation for the establishment of a large sector of private small and medium-sized forest enterprises to practice responsible forest management. This paper analyzes the influence of a newly established concession system on forest landscape change. Specifically, the paper examines whether the concession system promoted and increased land-cover changes and changed fragmentation patterns between 2001 and 2010. Classified Landsat images at 2-year intervals from 2001 to 2003 and 2006 to 2010 were used to examine trajectories in forest, non-forest and regrowth areas. Non-linear changes were found to have occurred in each of the forest classes. Changes in fragmentation varied in size, density, aggregation and configuration over the study period. Forest reforms account for changes in specific land-cover classes through pattern dynamics within timber concessions. However, not all results relate to landscape pattern metrics. Although new forest legislation has been important in reorganizing the forest sector, other causal factors including levels of technological and managerial expertise, credit availability and law enforcement structures play a decisive role in the successive implementation of forest legislation.

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  1. According to this law a series of basic concepts for SFM were introduced and understood as more responsible practices, including: harvesting of forests through long-term contracts (40 years); obligation to present management plans; payment of a harvesting fee for the total area under concession; and a legal framework to promote forest certification.

  2. World Reference System (WRS) is a path and row-comprised global grid system used to locate a rectangular scene of satellite imagery.

  3. Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus satellite instrument.

  4. Universal Transverse Mercator geographic coordinate system.

  5. World Geodetic System standard coordinate frame/reference surface.

  6. This file was acquired through the Peruvian National Institute of Natural Resources-INRENA.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by an international dissertation fellowship from the Compton Foundation, the Tropical and Development Conservation Research Fellowship, and the Tropical and Development Conservation Field Research Grant. The authors thank Stephen Perz, Manuel Guariguata, David Salisbury, Fred Rossy, Steve Harrison and two anonymous reviewers for the many constructive comments and suggestions on the manuscript.

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    Andrea B. Chávez

  2. Consultant for International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Dhaka, 1212, Bangladesh

    Rosa E. Cossío

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Chávez, A.B., Cossío, R.E. Linking National Forestry Reform Through Forest Concession Policy and Land Cover Change. Small-scale Forestry 13, 349–366 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11842-013-9258-y

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