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Assessing the Role of Group Heterogeneity in Community Forest Concessions in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve

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  • Lea Fortmann
  • Brent Sohngen
  • Douglas Southgate

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We use land use data from Guatemala to estimate the impact of a community forest concession policy on avoided deforestation when accounting for group heterogeneity. Our analysis includes communities with significant forestry experience, along with communities comprising recent settlers with primarily agricultural backgrounds. Employing a matched difference-in-differences approach, we compare deforestation in community concessions relative to a matched control area. We find the concession policy reduced deforestation throughout the study region, with the most significant effects in the recently settled concessions. While there is also evidence of leakage in this group, overall, there is a net reduction in deforestation.

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  • Lea Fortmann & Brent Sohngen & Douglas Southgate, 2017. "Assessing the Role of Group Heterogeneity in Community Forest Concessions in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 93(3), pages 503-526.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:landec:v:93:y:2017:i:3:p:503-526
    Note: DOI: 10.3368/le.93.3.503
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    • Q57 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Ecological Economics

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