Deforestation Near Public Lands: An Empirical Examination of Associated Processes

Remote Sensing of Human–Environment Interactions in Global Change Research: A Review of Advances, Challenges and Future Directions

“…Seventy studies returned in our search utilized land use or land cover assessments in some capacity, whether it be the main focus of the study or as a component of the overall methodology. Change detection is a widely utilized methodology [10,32,35,[40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52] along with assessing drivers of LUCC [10,26,41,48,[53][54][55][56][57][58][59]. All studies which integrated social data (Table 6) also used some form of LULC data or assessment in their study to establish linkages between changes in land use or land cover and various socio-economic and human wellbeing outcomes.…”

“…Studies that assess vegetation dynamics or deforestation commonly use proxies for vegetation health such as the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) [27,[50][51][52]54,[57][58][59][67][68][69][70][71][72] or Disturbance Index [47], or through overall LUCC assessment to quantify changes in aerial extents of forest [32,40,56,73,74]. NDVI has been incorporated into studies for a variety of purposes.…”

“…Vegetation change or deforestation studies tend to benefit from the inclusion of social data because of its utility in examining and providing proxies or quantifiable drivers associated with human activities or mobility. Moon & Farmer [56] incorporate census data in their analysis to determine drivers of deforestation near public lands, while Gaughan et al [50] incorporated limited census and key informant interview data to determine drivers of deforestation related to tourism. Tan et al [74] identified psychological impacts of deforestation on humans through published media including scientific publications and news media with an eye towards future land management and planning.…”