Public forest management: a literature review with an emphasis on the forest concession

Abstract

In 2006, the Law on Public Forest Management (Law 11,284 / 2006) was created to regulate the use and management of public forests for sustainable production, with principles such as regulating the efficient and rational use of forests. In 1998, the Brazilian government created the national forest program with the objective of stimulate sustainable forest management, and in 2000 another decree on the program had objectives that indicated that manage forest was more than exploring timber and non-timber products, but the regulation of public forest management only occurred through federal law . 11,284, of March 2, 2006, created to regulate the use and management of public forests for sustainable production. Public forest management can be carried out in three ways, creation of national, state and municipal forests and the forest concession, the main object of this review article. The work was carried out through bibliographic research on the management of public production forests, with an emphasis on forestry concessions. The bibliographic research was carried out in scientific articles, and the like, official websites of the government and current Brazilian legislation that deals with forest management. One of the strong points of the public forest management law is that from it public forests could no longer be privatized and the only form of use by private companies would be through forest concessions. The management of public production forests in Brazil requires advance control of deforestation and illegal logging, land grabbing, land regularization, allocation of areas to communities, and improvement of the management of conservation units. In general, the forest concession has become another management tool, but not significant enough to inhibit illegal logging, to increase legal timber production and to generate environmental, economic and social benefits. The law of public forest management requires changes, but when it comes to exploitation in the Amazon, we must carefully consider the terms “accelerate and flexibilityâ€.