FOR201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ecosystem Services, Federal Land Development Authority, Bera Lake
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For210h1: lecture 10 - causes of tropical deforestation. Often are a low proportion of the total. Figure 2: causes of deforestation in the amazon, 2000-2005. Some statistics are based on self-reporting of governments. All remote-sensing based estimates have uncertainty based on resolution, and. Cloud forests are a challenge to record. Solutions must be found in the socio-economic realm. High population density can be consistent with forest protection. Japan has very high population density, yet forest cover has been increasing: Large increase in old-growth forests over the past 20 years. There is evidence for and against the theory. Involves clearing small regions of forests and planting a variety of crops and then moving on after the soil has been depleted. Other argument that primitive swidden agriculture is largely responsible for tropical deforestation is now defunked. However, shifted cultivators and rural poverty generally may play important roles in some regions. Cultivators who have been pushed out of their home regions.
