Beyond tropical deforestation: from tropical deforestation to forest cover dynamics and forest development/

Beyond tropical deforestation: from tropical deforestation to forest cover dynamics and forest development/ edited by Didier Babin - Paris: UNESCO, 2005. - 526 p. ; 24 cm.

List of tables --
List of figures --
List of plates --
List of boxes --
List of contributors --
List of acronyms --
Introduction Didier Babin --
Part 1: Measuring and Understanding Deforestation and Forest Dynamics --
1. The changing objectives of FAO forest resource evaluation Martin-Eric Loffeier and Julie Brayer --
2. A spatial approach to deforestation phenomena : what remote sensing can contribute Jacques Imbernon. 7. Deforestation and its impact on biological diversity :a question of scale Richard Pasquis and Meriem Bouamrane --
8. Deforestation and fires : the example of Madagascar Alain Bertrand and Rivo Ratsimbarison --
9. Environmental impact of deforestation : the retreat of the mangrove versus mangle dynamics Marie-Christine Cormier-Salem --
10. Tropical forest dynamics and climate change Bruno Locatelli and Alain Karsenty --
Part 2: Forest Dynamics as a Complex Society Process --
11. Can deforestation help rebuild forests? The Indonesian agroforests Geneviève Michon and Meriem Bouamrane. 12. Does population growth affect wooded-cover dynamics? Bruno Locatelli, Stanislas Boissau and Jacques Weber --
13. The spread of the Merina people in Madagascar and natural forest and eucalyptus stand dynamics Alain Bertrand --
14. Forest dynamics : the case of Burundi : images, views, farmer innovations and forestry policies Philippe Guizol and Cléto Ndikumagenge --
15. Agricultural occupation patterns in an immigration zone in south-western Burkina Faso Xavier Augusseau and Souleymane Pare. 16. Agricultural pioneer fronts, the crest of a far-reaching wave : the social and spatial dimension of lowland colonization in Nicaragua Christophe Maldidier --
17. Grazing impact on the savannah in Burkina Faso : a three-scale investigation of ligneous plant dynamics in animal production zones Sandrine Petit, Marie Bussière and Julie Laurent --
18. Analysis of the anthropic causes of changes in riverbank formations in an agropastoral area of Burkina Faso (Sidéradougou) Stephane de la Rocque, Mohamed Diallo and Jean Cesar.

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Forest dynamics

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