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Socioeconomic perspective of deforestation and forest degradation in Nepal [1]

Deforestation and forest degradation are the major ecological problems in developing countries. It is a dynamic process which can be attributed to various socioeconomic and biophysical factors, resulting in the conversion of forest area into a mosaic of mature forest fragments, pasture and degraded habitat.
In this research, a multi-agent analysis of social and economic complexity of deforestation was developed for Nepal at two different scales. It offered the temporal analysis of forest changes, people

Publication Date: 
01/01/2009
Menaka Panta [2]
Inha University [3]
Tags:
Forest Resources [4], Forest Management [5], Deforestation [6], Forest Products [7], People [8], Poverty [9], Geographical Information Systems (GIS) [10], Nepal [11], Food Security [12]
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