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| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Journals |
| DOI | 10.1007/s13280-025-02199-5 |
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| Title (Primary) | Thirty years of drivers and patterns of land-use change across the Amazon biome |
| Author | Brizuela-Torres, D.
; Zinngrebe, Y.; Rounswell, M.; Brown, C. |
| Source Titel | Ambio |
| Year | 2025 |
| Department | NSF |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Page From | 2135 |
| Page To | 2153 |
| Language | 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. |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=30847 |
| 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 |
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