Tropical Reforestation
This research theme explores how and where certain tropical regions have experienced unprecedented forest expansion as broader economic and agricultural transitions spur a 'great redistribution' of forests, settlement, and land use. Interest focuses on both casual and purposeful interactions between development pathways and policy, forest management (REDD+), and conservation.
Current & Future Research
Focus Areas
Previous Research
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Pathways of forest recovery and socio-economic development, particularly in Panama
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Strategic socio-economic development to meet forest management and carbon sequestration targets
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Spatial modelling of reforestation trends
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Trends in land use and settlement across Latin America prompting regional forest recovery, observed via satellite image analysis, reformulating forest-transition theory (collaboration with PARTNERS Research Coordination Network)
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Temporal profiles of long-term forest recovery in MesoAmerica
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Tele-connections between forest recovery in MesoAmerica, migration and economic collapse
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Globalized trade in forest and agricultural commodities and related linkages between reforestation in importing countries and deforestation in exporting countries (collaboration with PARTNERS Research Coordination Network)
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Reforestation 'spatial contagion' pan-tropically relative to deforestation
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The integration of census 'microdata' with satellite imagery to determine parallel trajectories of economic development and reforestation
Latin America & Caribbean
Mesoamerica
Panama
Global tropics
Sample Publications (see all)
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