SUSTAINABILITY SCENARIOS FOR FOREST MANAGEMENT IN THE AMAZON
Deforestation. Environmental impacts. Legislation. Forest management.
Studies show that the performance of forest management is promising, increasing profit, significantly reducing field work time, waste, log splitting, opening roads and, consequently, forest damage and harvesting costs. Unfortunately, however, the predatory pattern of logging has led to a drastic reduction in forest resources, causing severe impacts to Amazonian ecosystems, mainly due to (a) reduced knowledge of the potential for commercial use of the species, (b) low competitiveness that the products derived from sustainable forest management plans have the low price and constant supply of deforestation wood, (c) excessive bureaucracy that end up perpetuating the authorization of the Management Plans by the competent environmental agencies, (d) generalist forest legislation , (e) differences in the interpretation of forest legislation, (f) non-acceptance of new management scenarios, (g) lack of land security and (h) barriers to access to the external market each time more demanding when the origin and socio-environmental quality of forest products. In this sense, Brazil can not be forever a country with potential, it has to transform potentiality into economic, social and environmental gains for the population, the traditional populations that depend on the forest to survive. This thesis aimed to propose sustainability scenarios in compliance with legal regulations. Demonstrating, through simulations, that the management of the maximum possible species does not guarantee the sustainability of the activity as proposed by the competent environmental agencies. Since the inclusion of species with low commercial value and the low legally permitted volume of exploitation increases the impacts from the activity and increases harvest costs, they detract from the sustainability and attractiveness of forest management. This is a great impediment to the effective adoption by the businessmen of the timber sector.