Accelerated deforestation driven by large-scale land acquisitions in Cambodia

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 772-775

  Davis, Kyle Frankel ^a   Yu, Kailiang ^a   Rulli, Maria Cristina ^b   Pichdara, Lonn ^c,d   D'Odorico, Paolo ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Cambodia Development Resource Institute   (Cambodia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DATA SET; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FOREST COVER; LAND RIGHTS; LAND USE CHANGE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CAMBODIA;

EID: 84942802851     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2540     Document Type: Article

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