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Deforestation and timber production in Congo after implementation of sustainable management policy: A reaction to the article by J.S.Brandt, C. Nolte and A. Agrawal (Land Use Policy 52:15–22)
Karsenty, Alain; Romero, Claudia; Cerutti, Paolo Omar et al.
2017In Land Use Policy, 65, p. 62-65
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Keywords :
Deforestation; Republic of Congo; Remote-sensing analysis; Sustainable forest management policies
Abstract :
[en] This viewpoint paper presents a reaction to the article by Brandt et al. (2016). It highlights the complexitiesinherent to the attribution of deforestation impacts to policy interventions when using remote-sensingdata. This critique argues that in the context of the Congo a suite of factors (i.e., population density inparticular) other than those considered by Brandt et al. (e.g., type of forest, distance from roads and mar-kets) play essential roles in determining the fates of forests. It also contends that care is needed whenmaking decisions regarding which units will be included in the comparison group so that contextual fac-tors and on-the-ground information are properly considered (e.g., when logging operations are inactiveor when a concession is used for ‘conservation’ purposes). Finally, it proposes that a focus on an analysisof deforestation rates for a given level of timber production might be a metric that more accurately rep-resents one aspect of the consequences of forest management, which should also consider the appraisalof trade-offs associated with a larger set of social, financial and ecological objectives.
Disciplines :
Phytobiology (plant sciences, forestry, mycology...)
Environmental sciences & ecology
Author, co-author :
Karsenty, Alain
Romero, Claudia
Cerutti, Paolo Omar
Doucet, Jean-Louis ;  Université de Liège > Ingénierie des biosystèmes (Biose) > Laboratoire de Foresterie des régions trop. et subtropicales
Putz, Francis E.
Bernard, Christelle
Eba'a Atyi, Richard
Douard, Pascal
Claeys, Florian
Desbureaux, Sébastien
Ezzine de Blas, Driss
Fayolle, Adeline  ;  Université de Liège > Ingénierie des biosystèmes (Biose) > Gestion des ressources forestières et des milieux naturels
Fomété, Timothée
Forni, Eric
Gond, Valéry
Gourlet-Fleury, Sylvie
Kleinschroth, Fritz
Mortier, Frédéric
Nasi, Robert
Nguinguiri, Jean-Claude
Vermeulen, Cédric ;  Université de Liège > Ingénierie des biosystèmes (Biose) > Laboratoire de Foresterie des régions trop. et subtropicales
de Wasseige, Carlos
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Language :
English
Title :
Deforestation and timber production in Congo after implementation of sustainable management policy: A reaction to the article by J.S.Brandt, C. Nolte and A. Agrawal (Land Use Policy 52:15–22)
Publication date :
2017
Journal title :
Land Use Policy
ISSN :
0264-8377
eISSN :
1873-5754
Publisher :
Pergamon Press - An Imprint of Elsevier Science, Oxford, United Kingdom
Volume :
65
Pages :
62-65
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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