Challenging the linear forestation narrative in the Neo-tropic: Regional patterns and processes of deforestation and regeneration in southern Mexico

Geographical Journal

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 147-161

  Kolb, Melanie ^a,b   Galicia, Leopoldo ^b  

^a Comision Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad ^*  (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Change patterns and processes; Governmental policies; Land use and land cover change; Mexico; Regional scale

Indexed keywords

AERIAL SURVEY; BIODIVERSITY; DEFORESTATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY POLICY; GOVERNMENT; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; NEOTROPICAL REGION; REFORESTATION; REGIONAL PATTERN; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WATERSHED;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84860609780     PISSN: 00167398     EISSN: 14754959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2011.00431.x     Document Type: Article

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