Forest Transitions: Towards a Global Understanding of Land Use Change
Places experience forest transitions when declines in forest cover cease and recoveries in forest cover begin. Forest transitions have
occurred in two, sometimes overlapping circumstances. In some places economic development has created enough non-farm jobs to
pull farmers off of the land, thereby inducing the spontaneous regeneration of forests in old fields. In other places a scarcity of forest
products has prompted governments and landowners to plant trees in some fields. The transitions do little to conserve biodiversity,
but they do sequester carbon and conserve soil, so governments should place a high priority on promoting them.
RUDEL Thomas K.;
COOMES Oliver T.;
MORAN Emilio;
ACHARD Frederic;
ANGELSEN Arild;
XU Jianchu;
LAMBIN Eric;
2006-09-15
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JRC30812
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC30812,
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