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Land cover dynamics following a deforestation ban in northern Costa Rica [1]

Forest protection policies potentially reduce deforestation and re-direct agricultural expansion to already-cleared areas. Using satellite imagery, we assessed whether deforestation for conversion to pasture and cropland decreased in the lowlands of northern Costa Rica following the 1996 ban on forest clearing, despite a tripling of area under pineapple cultivation in the last

Publication Date: 
01/07/2013
M E Fagan [2], R S DeFries [3], S E Sesnie & et al [4]
Environmental Research Letters [5]
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Tags:
Deforestation [6], Costa Rica [7], Land Use [8], Pineapple [9], Banana [10], Sugarcane [11], Agriculture [12], Pesticide Use [13], Forest Conservation [14], Remote Sensing [15], Forest Policy [16]

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Source URL: http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/land-cover-dynamics-following-deforestation-ban-northern-costa-rica

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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/land-cover-dynamics-following-deforestation-ban-northern-costa-rica
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/m-e-fagan
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/r-s-defries
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/s-e-sesnie-et-al
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/environmental-research-letters
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/deforestation
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/costa-rica
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-use
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/pineapple
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/banana
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sugarcane
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/pesticide-use
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forest-conservation
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/remote-sensing
[16] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forest-policy