Forest conversion for agriculture is the most expansive signature of human occupation on
the Earth's surface. This paper develops a conceptual model of factors underlying frontier …

The Amazon biome, spanning nine countries, has one of the highest rates of deforestation
worldwide. This deforestation contributes to biodiversity loss, climate change, the spread of …

Agricultural intensification, an increase in per-area productivity, may spare forests otherwise
lost to agricultural expansion. Yet which conditions enable such sparing or whether …

Humanity is facing major societal challenges that are complex and systemic in the nature of
their drivers, interactions, and impacts. Because buildings and cities play a substantial role …

The Amazon has a diverse array of social and environmental initiatives that adopt forest-
based land-use practices to promote rural development and support local livelihoods …

Cropland abandonment is a widespread land-change process globally, which can stem from
the accelerated outmigration of the population from rural to urban areas, socio-economic …

In Europe and elsewhere, agri‐environmental schemes (AES) are designed to reduce
agriculture's impacts on the environment. Designing effective schemes requires an …

Natural and social scientists everywhere are struggling to understand how to proceed in the
face of continued biodiversity loss and the injustices brought upon people living in and …

Conservation governance is increasingly globalized, particularly supply chain polices
implemented by multinational corporations. However, the ways that local elite narratives and …

Group-shared attributes, coded in cultural systems, heavily influence how land is used.
Despite recent advances in behavioural theory, the central role of culture in land-use …