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Kategorie Textpublikation
Referenztyp Zeitschriften
DOI 10.1007/s13280-025-02199-5
Lizenz creative commons licence
Titel (primär) Thirty years of drivers and patterns of land-use change across the Amazon biome
Autor Brizuela-Torres, D. ORCID logo ; Zinngrebe, Y.; Rounswell, M.; Brown, C.
Quelle Ambio
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
Department NSF
Band/Volume 54
Heft 12
Seite von 2135
Seite bis 2153
Sprache englisch
Topic T5 Future Landscapes
Supplements Supplement 1
Supplement 2
Supplement 3
Supplement 4
Keywords Agricultural frontiers; Cropland expansion; Indigenous Territories; Mining; Protected Areas; Tropical deforestation
Abstract The Amazon biome is crucial for achieving global biodiversity and climate targets but is severely threatened by deforestation and land-use change. While direct deforestation drivers have been analysed, their interactions with socio-economic and land-use dynamics, and the effects of policy interventions remain poorly understood, partly due to limited long-term data. To address this, we present and provide a pan-Amazonian dataset of potential deforestation drivers for the period 1990–2020 and assess their main trends, emergent land-use archetypes, and links to socio-economic dynamics. Our findings reveal a general commoditization of deforestation frontiers—i.e. expansion of export-oriented crops and extractive activities, with regional particularities and different degrees of commoditization. Understanding large-scale patterns of land-use change is key to support policies that effectively address the shifting interactions between deforestation, land-use change, and socio-economic dynamics. These include agricultural and extractive industries’ expansion, migration and armed conflicts in the Amazon, and other frontiers of the Global South.
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Brizuela-Torres, D., Zinngrebe, Y., Rounswell, M., Brown, C. (2025):
Thirty years of drivers and patterns of land-use change across the Amazon biome
Ambio 54 (12), 2135 - 2153 10.1007/s13280-025-02199-5