Population pressure and global markets drove a decade of deforestation in Africa's Albertine Rift
Year: 2014
Type: preprint
Abstract: Africa's Albertine Rift faces a juxtaposition of rapid human population growth in a biodiversity hotspot. Using satellite-derived forest cover change, we examined national socioeconomic, demographic, and agricultural production data, and local level demographic and geographic variables, to assess multilevel forces driving significant deforestation outside protected areas over the first decade of the 21st century across six countries in the Albertine Rift.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Institution: University of Florida
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1819323667