Changing Drivers of Deforestation and New Opportunities for Conservation

By T. Rudel, Ruth S. DeFries, Gregory P. Asner, W. Laurance. Conservation Biology, 2009

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Land property rights, agricultural intensification, and deforestation in Indonesia (2018, background): “…for environmental conservation are widely discussed: extensive farming with higher levels of ecological functions but also higher land demand, and intensive farming with lower levels of ecological functions and lower land demand (Green et al., 2005; Rudel et al., 2009b; Tscharntke et al., 2012).”
• Characterizing commercial oil palm expansion in Latin America: land use change and trade (2017, background): “rural population pressure as the principal driver acting on natural systems [1].”
• The Potential for Species Conservation in Tropical Secondary Forests (2009, background): “…and recovery that led to the initial development of secondary forest may have major implications for the persistence and recovery of forest vegetation, yet these factors, which are often spatially irregular, have not been evaluated well at sufficiently large scales (Rudel et al. 2009 [this issue]).”
• Enhancing the sustainability of commodity supply chains in tropical forest and agricultural landscapes (2013, background): “The area occupied by these commodities has grown rapidly over the last two decades (Monfreda et al., 2008; Rudel et al., 2009; Table 1) and is likely to continue to expand as the global population and per capita food consumption continue to increase, accompanied by a dietary shift toward meat and…”
• The Ecological Impact of Biofuels (2010, background): “Rates of deforestation have historically been tied to rural population growth, but globalization has increased the role of intensive commodity production (crops, livestock, and lumber) in deforestation over the past two decades (Barona et al. 2010, Rudel et al. 2009).”
• Land use patterns and related carbon losses following deforestation in South America (2015, background): “Gaining insight in spatiotemporal dynamics is essential since drivers of forest loss vary from region to region and change over time (Rudel et al 2009, Boucher et al 2011).”
• Examining protected area effectiveness in Sumatra: importance of regulations governing unprotected lands (2012, background): “In unprotected areas, governments increasingly sanction forest conversion to industrial-scale activities (e.g., mining, plantations; Rudel et al. 2009).”
• Discovery of fifth serotype of dengue virus (DENV-5): A new public health dilemma in dengue control. (2015, background): “As sylvatic dengue is native to the natural forests, deforestation activities such as uncontrolled population movement, unplanned and substandard housing, poor water storage facilities and improper waste disposal management systems provide ideal conditions for the emergence of DENV-5 by disturbing t”
• Trajectories of deforestation, coffee expansion and displacement of shifting cultivation in the Central Highlands of Vietnam (2013, unknown): “Smallholders cultivating food for subsistence or for local markets, usually 39 using shifting cultivation, were often held as the primary agents of deforestation throughout the 40 1960s to 1980s (Rudel et al. 2009).”