Deforestation and degradation are tied to a complex array of socioeconomic and political
factors. Many assume that among the most important of these are the particular bundles of …

Protected areas are leading tools in efforts to slow global species loss and appear also to
have a role in climate change policy. Understanding their impacts on deforestation informs …

Summary For Acre, in the Brazilian Amazon, we find that protection types with differences in
governance, including different constraints on local economic development, also differ in …

Protected areas are the leading forest conservation policy for species and ecoservices goals
and they may feature in climate policy if countries with tropical forest rely on familiar tools …

Ecuador's territory harbors a unique set of species and ecosystems, many of them endemic
to the countries' territory and subject to different sources of threat of anthropogenic origin …

The work of conservation biology has grown from local studies of single species into a
discipline concerned with map** and managing biodiversity on a global scale. Remote …

This paper evaluates the impact of protected areas on land-cover clearing, using a metadata
analysis of information on 49 locations from 22 countries. Protected areas had significantly …

Los bosques de la Amazonia peruana han experimentado importantes transformaciones
desde mediados del siglo pasado. Este trabajo evaluó los Cambios de Cobertura y Uso del …

The goal of this work is to explore diverse factors that have induced the loss of forest areas
in the State of Mexico from 1993 to 2000, using a technique for local analysis known as …

This paper analyzes deforestation in areas of overlap** land tenure in the northern
Ecuadorian Amazon. We use a random coefficients model to test for differences in forest …