Browsing Applied Mathematics by Subject "Deforestation"
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Carrot Or Stick? Modelling How Landowner Behavioural Responses Can Cause Incentive-Based Forest Governance To Backfire
(Public Library of Science, 2013-10-30)Mitigating the negative impacts of declining worldwide forest cover remains a significant socio-ecological challenge, due to the dominant role of human decision-making. Here we use a Markov chain model of land-use dynamics ... -
Outlook On A Worldwide Forest Transition
(Public Library of Science, 2013-10-09)It is not clear whether a worldwide "forest transition" to net reforestation will ever occur, and the need to address the main driver-agriculture-is compelling. We present a mathematical model of land use dynamics based ...