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Deforestation --- Déboisement --- Déboisement --- Conversion, Forest --- Depletion of forests --- Disforestation --- Forest conversion --- Forest depletion --- Forest-land conversion --- Clearing of land --- Forest fires --- Plants --- Extinction

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Deforestation and forest degradation represent a significant fraction of the annual worldwide human-induced emission of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, the main source of biodiversity losses and the destruction of millions of people's homes. Despite local/regional causes, its consequences are global. This book provides a general view about deforestation dynamics around the world, incorporating analyses of its causes, impacts and actions to prevent it. Its 17 Chapters, organized in three sections, refer to deforestation impacts on climate, soil, biodiversity and human population, but also describe several initiatives to prevent it. A special emphasis is given to different remote-sensing and mapping techniques that could be used as a source for decision-makers and society to promote forest conservation and control deforestation.

Deforestation. --- Conversion, Forest --- Depletion of forests --- Disforestation --- Forest conversion --- Forest depletion --- Forest-land conversion --- Clearing of land --- Forest fires --- Plants --- Extinction --- Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques

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Forests and forestry --- Deforestation --- Forêts --- Déboisement --- Conversion, Forest --- Depletion of forests --- Disforestation --- Forest conversion --- Forest depletion --- Forest-land conversion --- Clearing of land --- Forest fires --- Plants --- Exploitation --- Extinction

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Déboisement --- Deforestation --- Pauvreté --- Poverty --- Paupérisme rural --- Rural poverty --- Zone tropicale --- Tropical zones --- Développement rural --- Rural development --- Afrique --- Africa --- -630*4 <6> --- 504.73.064 <6> --- Conversion, Forest --- Depletion of forests --- Disforestation --- Forest conversion --- Forest depletion --- Forest-land conversion --- Clearing of land --- Forest fires --- Plants --- Extinction --- AFR Africa --- deforestation --- forestry --- tropical forests --- 630*4 <6> --- Deforestation - Africa --- Lutte --- Geopolitique

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A multi-disciplinary team of authors analyze the economics of Brazilian deforestation using a large data set of ecological and economic variables. They survey the most up to date work in this field and present their own dynamic and spatial econometric analysis based on municipality level panel data spanning the entire Brazilian Amazon from 1970 to 1996. By observing the dynamics of land use change over such a long period the team is able to provide quantitative estimates of the long-run economic costs and benefits of both land clearing and government policies such as road building. The authors find that some government policies, such as road paving in already highly settled areas, are beneficial both for economic development and for the preservation of forest, while other policies, such as the construction of unpaved roads through virgin areas, stimulate wasteful land uses to the detriment of both economic growth and forest cover.

Deforestation. --- Deforestation --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Forestry --- Econometric models --- Economic aspects --- Brazil --- Economic policy. --- Environmental Sciences and Forestry. Forestry --- Econometric models. --- Silviculture --- Tropical Silviculture --- Business, Economy and Management --- Economics --- Tropical Silviculture. --- Conversion, Forest --- Depletion of forests --- Disforestation --- Forest conversion --- Forest depletion --- Forest-land conversion --- Clearing of land --- Forest fires --- Plants --- Extinction