As the terrestrial human footprint continues to expand, the amount of native forest that is free
from significant damaging human activities is in precipitous decline. There is emerging …

BACKGROUND Many key global sustainability challenges are closely intertwined
(examples are provided in the figure). These challenges include air pollution, biodiversity …

One-third of global forest is harvested for timber, generating~ US $1.5 trillion annually. High-
severity wildfires threaten this timber production. Here we combine global maps of logging …

Despite substantial focus on sustainability issues in both science and politics, humanity
remains on largely unsustainable development trajectories. Partly, this is due to the failure of …

Given the substantial contributions of forest biodiversity and ecosystem services to society,
forest sciences have a large potential to contribute to the integrity and sustainability of our …

The human population is projected to reach 11 billion this century, with the greatest
increases in tropical develo** nations. This growth, in concert with rising per-capita …

Conservation biologists are devoting an increasing amount of energy to debating whether
land sparing (high‐yielding agriculture on a small land footprint) or land sharing (low …

Using newly-released and globally available high-resolution remote sensing data on forest
loss, we update the assessment of the cross-country determinants of deforestation in …

Griggs et al.(2013) redefine sustainable development as “development that meets the needs
of the present while safeguarding Earth's life-support system, on which the welfare of current …

Oil palm is one of the most rapidly expanding crops throughout the humid tropics. In
Indonesia, the expansion is largely driven by smallholder farmers. While recent research …