Factors controlling patterns of deforestation in moist evergreen Afromontane forests of Southwest Ethiopia

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 304, Issue , 2013, Pages 171-181

  Getahun, K ^a,b   Van Rompaey, A ^a   Van Turnhout, P ^a   Poesen, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Afromontane; Coffee; Deforestation; Land use change; Logistic regression; Southwest Ethiopia

Indexed keywords

AFROMONTANE; DEFORESTATION PATTERNS; ETHIOPIA; EVERGREEN AFROMONTANE FORESTS; LAND-USE CHANGE; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MARKET INTEGRATION; SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTOR;

COFFEE; COMMERCE; LOGISTICS;

DEFORESTATION;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; COFFEE; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVERGREEN FOREST; LAND USE CHANGE; MARKET SYSTEM; MONTANE FOREST; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

AIR CRAFT; COFFEE; COMMERCE; DEFORESTATION; ETHIOPIA; LAND USE; PHOTOGRAPHY; SATELLITES;

ETHIOPIA; JIMMA; OROMIA;

EID: 84878437489     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.05.001     Document Type: Article

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