Fire is a significant agent of landscape transformation on Earth, and a dynamic and
ephemeral process that is challenging to map. Difficulties include the seasonality of native …

In the 1970s and 1980s, rubber tappers in the western Amazonian state ofAcre achieved the
status of environmental icons, and secured remarkablepolicy goals. Specifically, they gained …

Abstract The United Nations climate treaty may soon include a mechanism for compensating
tropical nations that succeed in reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and forest …

Background Reserves are the principal means to conserve forests and biodiversity, but the
question of whether reserves work is still debated. In the Amazon, fires are closely linked to …

Global environmental change has motivated multiple interventions in pursuit of sustainable
outcomes within tropical forest landscapes. Fire is recognised as a key stressor facing forest …

The positioning of federal fire brigades in the Brazilian Amazon is based on an
oversimplified prediction of fire occurrences, where inaccuracies can affect the policy's …

Forest fires exacerbate carbon emissions, threaten biodiversity and cause welfare losses to
local populations. Most fires accidentally ignite from mismanaged swidden and pasture fires …

Wildfires are becoming increasingly dominant in tropical landscapes due to reinforcing
feedbacks between land cover change and more severe dry conditions. This study focused …

Intensification of cattle ranching has the potential to reduce deforestation rates in the
Brazilian Amazon by decreasing the demand for new agricultural land. Explicit spatial …

Fire in the forested tropics has profound environmental, economic, and social impacts at
multiple geographical scales. Causes of tropical fires are widely documented, although …