This literature review identifies the impacts of different renewable energy pathways on
ecosystems and biodiversity, and the implications of these impacts for transitioning to a …

Anthropogenic drivers of global change include rising atmospheric concentrations of carbon
dioxide and other greenhouse gasses and resulting changes in the climate, as well as …

Under suitable conditions, deforested land used for agricultural crops or pastures can revert
to forest through the assisted or unassisted process of natural regeneration. These naturally …

Land use cover change (LUCC) has a crucial role in global environmental change,
impacting both ecosystem services and biodiversity. Evaluating the trends and possible …

Conversion of land cover is one of the main causes of global environmental change and
identifying the regions where sustained trends of land change are occurring provides useful …

Although developing countries have established scores of new protected areas over the
past three decades, they often amount to little more than “paper parks” that are chronically …

Although over 40years of satellite imagery has greatly helped in documenting the location
and extent of human impact, especially deforestation, our ability to confidently detect current …

Forest certifications (FCs) and community forest management (CFM) are two major forest
governance interventions whose aim is to reverse forest degradation and deforestation …

Prior research has examined the relationship between physical landscapes and ecosystem
services, but the distribution of ecosystem services by land tenure and protected areas is …

In this study, we evaluate deforestation processes and its relationship with different
production and conservation land uses in the state of Quintana Roo in the Yucatan …