Proximate Causes and Underlying Driving Forces of Tropical Deforestation
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- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 52 (2) , 143-150
- https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2002)052[0143:pcaudf]2.0.co;2
Abstract
One of the primary causes of global environmental change is tropical deforestation, but the question of what factors drive deforestation remains largely unansweThis publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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