Proximate Causes and Underlying Driving Forces of Tropical Deforestation

By H. Geist, Eric F. Lambin. 2002

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High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change (2013, background): “The information content of the presented data sets, which are publicly available, provides a transparent, sound, and consistent basis on which to quantify critical environmental issues, including (i) the proximate causes of the mapped forest disturbances (15); (ii) the carbon stocks and associated e”
Changing Drivers of Deforestation and New Opportunities for Conservation (2009, background): “Because the human ecologies of the major regional blocks of tropical forest differ so much, we chose, like Geist and Lambin (2002), to conduct separate analyses for each region.”
The interaction of human population, food production, and biodiversity protection (2017, neutral): “Most tropical deforestation since the 1980s is due to the expansion of plantations and ranches (50, 78).”
Approaches and terminology for causal analysis in land systems science (2016, background): “INUS causes are familiar to land systems scientists, for example, in describing combinations or synergies of factors causing tropical deforestation and desertification (also called ‘chain-logical causation’) (Geist & Lambin, 2002, 2004).”
Land use patterns and related carbon losses following deforestation in South America (2015, background): “Agricultural expansion, in particular pasture, was the most dominant driver of deforestation in South America.”
Dynamics of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change in Tropical Regions (2003, background): “In meta-analyses of case studies of tropical deforestation (33) and dryland degradation or desertification by the same authors, the proportion of cases in which dominant, single, or key factors operate at either the proximate or underlying level was low (ca.”
Spatial ecology and conservation of two sloth species in a cacao landscape in limón, Costa Rica (2007, background): “Large scale production of ‘estate crops’ such as bananas, pineapple and intensively grown coffee simplify landscapes and reduce floral and faunal diversity (Helmuth and Lambin 2002; Tilman et al 2002).”