Forest transitions: towards a global understanding of land use change |
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| Institution: | 1. Departments of Human Ecology & Sociology, Rutgers University, 55 Dudley Road, New Brunwick, NJ 08901, USA;2. Department of Geography, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, Canada H3A2K6;3. Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, 701 East Kirkwood, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA;4. Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit, Joint Research Centre of the European Union, TP 263 Via Fermi, I 21020 Ispra, Italy;5. Department of Economics & Social Sciences, Agricultural University of Norway, P.O. Box 5033, N-1432 Aas, Norway;6. Department of Plant Geography & Ethnobotany, Kunming Institute of Botany, Heilongtan, Kunming, Yunnan 650204, China;7. Department of Geography, Catholic University of Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique |
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| Abstract: | Places experience forest transitions when declines in forest cover cease and recoveries in forest cover begin. Forest transitions have occurred in two, sometimes overlapping circumstances. In some places economic development has created enough non-farm jobs to pull farmers off of the land, thereby inducing the spontaneous regeneration of forests in old fields. In other places a scarcity of forest products has prompted governments and landowners to plant trees in some fields. The transitions do little to conserve biodiversity, but they do sequester carbon and conserve soil, so governments should place a high priority on promoting them. |
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