Forest restoration is a strategy to reverse forest loss and degradation. We overviewed
deforestation in the period 1975–2018 in the Brazilian Amazon and the projects, techniques …

Building on different bodies of the governance literature, we propose a conceptual
framework specifying nine scale-sensitive governance arrangements that aim to (1) create …

A mix of public policy and market interventions in the mid‐2000s led to historic reductions in
deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. The collateral impact of these forest conservation …

Monitoring forest–agriculture mosaics is crucial for understanding landscape heterogeneity
and managing biodiversity. Mapping these mosaics from remotely sensed imagery remains …

Over the past 25 years, the study of driving forces of landscape change has developed into a
central theme in land change science by contributing to theory development, promoting the …

The 'frontier'is central to a new wave of development scholarship, but the broad deployment
of the concept has blurred several key dimensions of frontier development. We focus on the …

Decentralized governance can facilitate the participation of non‐government actors in
natural resource management. Yet efforts to increase participation can also enhance the …

Highlights•The socio-environmentalist based policies are far from achieving their goals of
sustainability.•Post-environmentalism is the current development paradigm in the Brazilian …

Low-carbon oriented land use change is crucial to tackling climate change issues in rapidly
urbanizing metropolitans. Previous studies lacked to consider how the cross-level …

In the agricultural frontiers of Brazil, the distinction between forested and deforested lands
traditionally used to map the state of the Amazon does not reflect the reality of the forest …