The U-net is nowadays among the most popular deep learning algorithms for land use/land
cover (LULC) mapping; nevertheless, it has rarely been used with synthetic aperture radar …

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 …

Tropical reforestation is a significant component of global environmental change that is far
less understood than tropical deforestation, despite having apparently increased widely in …

The forest transition is a concept used to describe and explain the transition from a
dwindling to an expanding forest area in a given region or country. Three main explanations …

Human societies constantly interact with the environment through mutual feedbacks and
adaptations. The aim of this research was to analyze human and environmental dimensions …

Deforestation represents one of the main factors contributing to the greenhouse gas
emissions that cause climate change. In the Brazilian Amazon, deforestation remains a …

New forests are expanding around the world. In many regions, regrowth rates are
surpassing deforestation rates, resulting in “forest transitions,” or net gains in forest cover …

Forest dynamics in the Latin American tropics now take directions that no one would have
predicted a decade ago. Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has dropped by over 80 …

Estimating forest area at a national scale within the United Nations program of Reducing
Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is primarily based on land …

We have constructed a comprehensive database of 117 spatially explicit econometric
studies of deforestation published in peer-reviewed academic journals from 1996-2013. We …