Abstract Changes in land systems generate many sustainability challenges. Identifying more
sustainable land-use alternatives requires solid theoretical foundations on the causes of …

Within a region plagued by deforestation, Vietnam has experienced an exceptional
turnaround from net forest loss to forest regrowth. This so-called forest transition, starting in …

Forest ecosystems play an indispensable role in addressing various pressing sustainability
and social-ecological challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss. However …

The forestry sector in Myanmar continues to face many challenges concerning sustainable
forest management. Even though the participation of local people is a key principle of forest …

Vietnam's forests have experienced a notable transformation over the past 20 years from net
deforestation to reforestation and expanding forests. Continued reforestation that aims to …

Income inequality is a critical issue of socio-economic development, particularly in rural
areas where forest-dependent people are often vulnerable to the intervention of forest …

Achieving a global forest transition, that is a shift from deforestation to reforestation, is
important for climate-change mitigation. Forest transitions are enabled by socioecological …

Abstract The Republic of Korea (ROK) started to experience forest transition in the 1960s in
spite of severe deforestation and forest degradation by the mid 1950s. This ROK case …

Abstract The Himalaya Plateau including Nepal is' greening up'that has important
implications to ecosystem services such as water supply, carbon sequestration, and local …

Understanding the drivers of forest transitions is relevant to inform effective forest
conservation. We investigate pathways of forest transitions in the United States (1920 …