Abstract
Wood is one of the most important forest products in the northeast of Brazil, and it is increasingly necessary that its exploitation can be carried out in a sustainable way. In this sense, the forest management has been proposing significant improvement of the environmental characteristics of this activity. The objective of this paper was to identify and analyze the activity of forest exploitation through Sustainable Forest Management Plans (PMFS), in the state of Piauí. The localization and the production data analyzed were in the period from 2010 to 2015.The diagnosis of PMFS in Piauí state was carried out by consulting the database of the licensing coordination of the State Department of Environment and Water Resources (SEMAR), from January to March 2016. The 96 PMFS holders of authorization accounted for more than 117.510,60 hectares of managed area, in properties in which extensions ranged from 67.60 to 34,208.00 ha, with an area managed by property between 40.00 and 24,969.00 ha. The plots adopted for the annual exploration had dimensions between 7.50 and 1,945.70 ha. The authorized annual volume in the period was 1,998.986.20 st/year. The analysis of the plans indicates that the state of Piauí has capacity to supply energy matrix from woody material of forest management activities and that this still results in a significant environmental benefit, due to the sustainability potential of the activity.
Keywords:
Firewood; Sustainability; Forestry resources
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