Vegetation fires are an essential component of the Earth system but can also cause
substantial economic losses, severe air pollution, human mortality and environmental …

A growing concern on the deleterious effects of chemical inputs to the environment has been
on the rise from the excessive use of chemical inputs leading to soil and water pollution …

Mosaic landscapes under shifting cultivation, with their dynamic mix of managed and natural
land covers, often fall through the cracks in remote sensing–based land cover and land use …

This meta-analysis of land-cover transformations of the past 10–15 years in tropical forest-
agriculture frontiers world-wide shows that swidden agriculture decreases in landscapes …

Palm oil producing countries regularly promote the positive impact of oil palm agriculture on
poverty alleviation, despite limited evidence about the contribution of this crop on village …

Industrial agricultural plantations are a rapidly increasing yet largely unmeasured source of
tropical land cover change. Here, we evaluate impacts of oil palm plantation development …

Landsat-7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) and Landsat-8 Operational Land
Imager (OLI) and Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) are currently operational for routine Earth …

Understanding how land‐use intensification affects forest resilience is a key for elucidating
the mechanisms underlying regeneration processes and for planning more sustainable land …

Expanding global and regional markets are driving the conversion of traditional subsistence
agricultural and occupied non-agricultural lands to commercial-agricultural purposes. In …

This paper explores the major interactions between the transformation of swidden farming
and the pursuit of rural livelihoods in the uplands of Southeast Asia. The paper draws on …