The Amazon is the largest tropical forest area on Earth, and is undergoing rapid deforestation since the last four decades. These conversions are mostly located in frontier areas distributed along the so-called “arc of deforestation”. Within this large zone, various land use change processes are ...
Mertens, B.
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Piketty, M.G.
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Venturieri, A.
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Alves, D.
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Tourrand, Jean François
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[Contrasted land use and development trajectories in the Brazilian Amazon]
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Contrasted land use and development trajectories in the Brazilian Amazon
This paper analyzes geo-referenced data to elucidate the relations between deforestation and access to roads and markets, attributes of the physical environment, land tenure, and zoning policies in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. It presents separate models for Santa Cruz as a whole and for seven different ...
Mertens, B.
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Kaimowitz, D.
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Puntodewo, A.
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Vanclay, J.K.
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Mendez, P.
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[Modeling deforestation at distinct geographic scales and time periods in Santa Cruz, Bolivia]
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Modeling deforestation at distinct geographic scales and time periods in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
The objective of this study is to better understand the complexity of deforestation processes in southern Cameroon by testing a multivariate, spatial model of land-cover change trajectories associated with deforestation. The spatial model integrates a spectrum of independent variables that charac...