It is projected that 25 million km of new paved roads will be developed globally by 2050—
enough to encircle the planet more than 600 times. Roughly 90% of new roads will be built …

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 …

This article presents a meta-analysis of what drives deforestation and what stops it, based
on a comprehensive database of 121 spatially explicit econometric studies of deforestation …

Protected areas (PAs) cover a quarter of the tropical forest estate. Yet there is debate over
the effectiveness of PAs in reducing deforestation, especially when local people have rights …

Global efforts to reduce tropical deforestation rely heavily on the establishment of protected
areas. Measuring the effectiveness of these areas is difficult because the amount of …

As global efforts to protect ecosystems expand, the socioeconomic impact of protected areas
on neighboring human communities continues to be a source of intense debate. The debate …

" Despite the vast number of books and reports on tropical deforestation, there's confusion
about the causes of forest loss and forest poverty, and the effectiveness of policy responses …

Why is natural resource exploitation not yielding greater benefits for the poor economies? In
this second edition of his landmark book, Barbier explores this paradox in three parts. Part I …

Tropical forest degradation emits carbon at a rate of~ 0.5 Pg· y− 1, reduces biodiversity, and
facilitates forest clearance. Understanding degradation drivers and patterns is therefore …

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 …