Land use and land cover change (LUCC) affects regional climate through modifications in
the water balance and energy budget. These impacts are frequently expressed by: changes …

Forest cover change directly affects biodiversity, the global carbon budget, and ecosystem
function. Within Latin American and the Caribbean region (LAC), many studies have …

Soy has become one of the world's most important agroindustrial commodities–serving as
the nexus for the production of food, animal feed, fuel and hundreds of industrial products …

Latin America has the planet's largest land reserves for agriculture and had the most rapid
agricultural expansion during the twenty-first century. A large portion of the expansion …

The Government of Beans is about the rough edges of environmental regulation, where
tenuous state power and blunt governmental instruments encounter ecological destruction …

The advancement of South America's agro-pastoral frontier has been widely linked to losses
in biodiversity and tropical forests, with particular impacts on the Brazilian cerrado, the …

South America has been an epicenter of land cover and land use change (LCLUC) for over
five decades due to rapid agricultural expansion along forest frontiers, the establishment of …

The ends of work--Exhaustion and endurance in sick landscapes: cheap tea and the work of
monoculture in the Dooars, India/Sarah Besky--The concentration of killing: soy, labor, and …

Land-use and land-cover change has been a topic that has called the attention of the
scientific community for decades. Because of the importance of tropical and subtropical …

Land-cover change detection using satellite remote sensing is largely confined to the era of
Landsat satellites, from 1972 to present. However, the Corona, Argon, and Lanyard …