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[Economic Impact] Reduction of incentives for local people to invest in forest management as uncertainty of resulting benefits increases. [Equity Impact] Negative impact on the poor and indigenous groups that cannot use their lands as a capital asset. Use of forest lands by external actors, such as corporations in concession areas impoverishes the poor further and creates conditions for social and conflict and often violent political upheaval [Environmental Impact] Conflicts and uncertainty contribute to deforestation, propagation of forest fires and general degradation of the forest environment. [Policy] 
No recognition of traditional forest land ownership rights, to concentrate presumably superior decisions in the hands of government
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