Emilio F. Moran

TL;DR: In this article, the authors track some of the major myths on driving forces of land cover change and propose alternative pathways of change that are better supported by case study evidence, concluding that neither population nor poverty alone constitute the sole and major underlying causes of land-cover change worldwide.

TL;DR: Synthesis of six case studies from around the world shows that couplings between human and natural systems vary across space, time, and organizational units and have legacy effects on present conditions and future possibilities.

TL;DR: This paper is a comprehensive exploration of all the major change detection approaches implemented as found in the literature and summarizes and reviews these techniques.

TL;DR: Forest transitions have occurred in two, sometimes overlapping circumstances: economic development and scarcity of forest products have prompted governments and landowners to plant trees in some fields as mentioned in this paper, and these transitions do little to conserve biodiversity, but they do sequester carbon and conserve soil, so governments should place a high priority on promoting them.

TL;DR: In this article, an integrated framework based on telecoupling, an umbrella concept that refers to socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances, is proposed to understand and integrate various distant interactions better.