In the face of global deforestation, and given the dependence of rural communities on forests for livelihoods, diverse and interconnected ecological and social drivers of land use change must be identified for successful conservation. The first chapter of this thesis focuses on land uses, analysing perceived influences on decision-making, and addressing historical factors and gendered perspectives as salient but poorly studied influences on the landscape. The case study was conducted in an indigenous communal land of eastern Panama that has experienced high deforestation since village settlement. We completed participatory mapping of lands, conducted semi-structured interviews and carried out participatory activities including wealth rankin...
The expansion of agriculture has resulted in large-scale habitat loss, the fragmentation of forests,...
The expansion of agriculture has resulted in large-scale habitat loss, the fragmentation of forests,...
International audienceMost landscape cover assessments for conservation programmes rely largely on r...
AbstractCase studies of social-ecological landscapes that consider local, spatially explicit land co...
Forest ecosystems play a critical role as carbon sinks at the global scale. Rapid land use/cover cha...
The Lacandona Rainforest, southern Mexico, is the largest remaining tropical rainforest in North Ame...
The relatively undisturbed tropical forest regions offer unique opportunities to mitigate climate ch...
A growing body of evidence points to the effectiveness of indigenous territories in reducing tropica...
Land tenure and tenure security are among the most important factors determining the viability and s...
Natural forest management and conservation projects such as reducing emissions from deforestation an...
Studies of land-use/land cover change are an important means for examining the viability of communit...
A full copy of this thesis will be available via this medium in future, once its contents have been ...
Participatory mapping and GIS are both necessary to model the interactions between humans and their ...
The tropical deforestation literature advocates multi-agent enquiry in recognition that key dynamics...
Land use/cover change (LUCC) associated with tropical deforestation produces 6-17% ofthe total anthr...
The expansion of agriculture has resulted in large-scale habitat loss, the fragmentation of forests,...
The expansion of agriculture has resulted in large-scale habitat loss, the fragmentation of forests,...
International audienceMost landscape cover assessments for conservation programmes rely largely on r...
AbstractCase studies of social-ecological landscapes that consider local, spatially explicit land co...
Forest ecosystems play a critical role as carbon sinks at the global scale. Rapid land use/cover cha...
The Lacandona Rainforest, southern Mexico, is the largest remaining tropical rainforest in North Ame...
The relatively undisturbed tropical forest regions offer unique opportunities to mitigate climate ch...
A growing body of evidence points to the effectiveness of indigenous territories in reducing tropica...
Land tenure and tenure security are among the most important factors determining the viability and s...
Natural forest management and conservation projects such as reducing emissions from deforestation an...
Studies of land-use/land cover change are an important means for examining the viability of communit...
A full copy of this thesis will be available via this medium in future, once its contents have been ...
Participatory mapping and GIS are both necessary to model the interactions between humans and their ...
The tropical deforestation literature advocates multi-agent enquiry in recognition that key dynamics...
Land use/cover change (LUCC) associated with tropical deforestation produces 6-17% ofthe total anthr...
The expansion of agriculture has resulted in large-scale habitat loss, the fragmentation of forests,...
The expansion of agriculture has resulted in large-scale habitat loss, the fragmentation of forests,...
International audienceMost landscape cover assessments for conservation programmes rely largely on r...