Population growth and natural resources are intricately linked and play role in climate
disruption and farmers' ability to adapt to climate change especially in developing countries …

Increasing food demand has led to significant agricultural expansion globally with negative
impacts on resources and the environment, a perfect manifestation of the Water-Energy …

Although rural out-migration has significantly transformed land use at the local to regional
scale, the links between rural out-migration and land use change are not well understood …

When first published in 2009, Nature's Matrix set out a radical new approach to the
conservation of biodiversity. This new edition pushes the frontier of the …

In recent years, the Cerrado deforestation has increased considerably, reaching rates higher
than in the Amazonian realm. Although the effects of deforestation are well known, the …

While mainstream academic literature over the past ten years has tended to identify
commercial and industrialized agriculture as the primary driver of deforestation, national …

This paper provides the first analysis at the sub-municipality scale of the relationships
between population densities and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon between 2000 and …

Both researchers and policy makers have repeatedly expressed concerns that migration will
enhance conflicts regarding renewable resources in destination areas. This concept is …

Migration is not new. In recent decades however, human mobility has increased in numbers
and scope and has helped fuel a global shift in the human population from predominantly …

Agricultural expansion remains the most prominent proximate cause of tropical deforestation
in Latin America, a region characterized by deforestation rates substantially above the world …