Illegal Logging and Related Timber Trade - Dimensions, Drivers, Impacts and Responses: A Global Scientific Rapid Response Assessment Report

6 MULTIPLE AND INTERTWINED IMPACTS OF ILLEGAL FOREST ACTIVITIES

Chapter 6 Multiple and Intertwined Impacts of Illegal Forest Activities Lead author: Pablo Pacheco Contributing authors: Paolo Omar Cerutti, David P. Edwards, Guillaume Lescuyer, Elena Mejía, Guillermo Navarro, Krystof Obidzinski, Benno Pokorny and Plinio Sist

CONTENTS

6.1 Introduction

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6.2 A Conceptualization of Impacts

6.3 Main Impacts across Four Dimensions

6.4 Impact Trajectories across Different Situations

6.4.1 Large-scale Industrial Logging Operations

6.4.2 Informal Small-scale and Ar tisanal Production

6.4.3 Illegal Forest Conversion to Agriculture

6.5 Conclusions

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