Classifying drivers of global forest loss
Abstract
Mapping global deforestation patterns Forest loss is being driven by various factors, including commodity production, forestry, agriculture, wildfire, and urbanization. Curtis et al. used high-resolution Google Earth imagery to map and classify global forest loss since 2001. Just over a quarter of global forest loss is due to deforestation through permanent land use change for the production of commodities, including beef, soy, palm oil, and...
Paper Fields
Computer science
Biology
Geography
Business
Economics
Environmental science
Ecology
Programming language
Archaeology
Finance
Economic growth
Macroeconomics
Agriculture
Production (economics)
Natural resource economics
Agroforestry
Climate change
Agricultural economics
Land use
Urbanization
Global warming
Commodity
Amazon rainforest
Palm oil
Deforestation (computer science)
Land use, land-use change and forestry
Paper Details
Title
Classifying drivers of global forest loss
DOI
Published Date
Sep 14, 2018
Journal
Volume
361
Issue
6407
Pages
1108 - 1111
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