Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation

F Pendrill, TA Gardner, P Meyfroidt, UM Persson… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Tropical deforestation continues at alarming rates with profound impacts on ecosystems,
climate, and livelihoods, prompting renewed commitments to halt its continuation. Although it …

Broader applicability of the metacoupling framework than Tobler's first law of geography for global sustainability: A systematic review

N Manning, Y Li, J Liu - Geography and Sustainability, 2023 - Elsevier
Complex sustainability issues in the Anthropocene, with rapid globalization and global
environmental changes, are increasingly interlinked between not only nearby systems but …

[HTML][HTML] An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world's tropical dry woodlands

M Pratzer, P Meyfroidt, M Antongiovanni… - Global Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Land use is a key driver of the ongoing biodiversity crisis and therefore also a major
opportunity for its mitigation. However, appropriately considering the diversity of land-use …

An inclusive, empirically grounded inventory facilitates recognition of diverse area-based conservation of nature

S Qin, Y He, REG Kroner, S Shrestha, BH Coutinho… - One Earth, 2024 - cell.com
As the international community strives to conserve 30% of Earth's lands and waters by 2030,
the full extent of area-based conservation remains unclear. Official databases do not fully …

Changing determinants of international conservation funding committed to major deforestation regions in South America

S Qin, M Pratzer, P Meyfroidt, T Kuemmerle - Biological Conservation, 2023 - Elsevier
International conservation funding to low-and middle-income countries has increased
significantly in recent years. However, understanding of the underlying factors driving the …

Moving beyond simplistic representations of land use in conservation

T Kuemmerle - Conservation Letters, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Land use is both a major cause of the biodiversity crises and a potential solution to it.
Decisions about land use are made in complex social–ecological systems, yet conservation …

Tropical dry woodland loss occurs disproportionately in areas of highest conservation value

A Buchadas, M Jung, M Bustamante… - Global change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical and subtropical dry woodlands are rich in biodiversity and carbon. Yet, many of
these woodlands are under high deforestation pressure and remain weakly protected. Here …

Links between deforestation, conservation areas and conservation funding in major deforestation regions of South America

S Qin, A Buchadas, P Meyfroidt, Y He… - People and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Land‐use change is a major driver of biodiversity loss, affecting tropical forests and
savannas at an unprecedented rate. To protect these ecosystems and their biodiversity …

[PDF][PDF] Transboundary flows in the metacoupled Anthropocene: typology, methods, and governance for global sustainability

Y Li, N Jia, X Yu, N Manning, X Lan, J Liu - Ecology and Society, 2023 - par.nsf.gov
The world has become increasingly metacoupled through flows of materials, energy, people,
capital, and information within and across systems. Transboundary flows, connecting …

Re-MEDIAting distant impacts-how Western media make sense of deforestation in different Brazilian biomes

F Mempel, F Bidone - Environmental Sociology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Brazil plays a central role in Western depictions of and narratives on tropical deforestation.
In this contribution, we gather a large text corpus from Western media outlets with articles on …