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Forest Transition in Vietnam and Bhutan: Causes and Environmental Impacts

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Prospects for a forest transition in Tropical Asia would have wide implications for global environmental change. Data from the latest Forest Resources Assessment (FAO 2006) showed a net increase in forest cover between 1990 and 2005 in four Asian countries: Bhutan, India, China, and Vietnam (Kauppi et al. 2006; Mather 2007, Chapters 7 and 15). Vietnam had been severely deforested during the ­previous decades (FAO 1993). Since the mid-1990s, however, the deforestation trend has been largely reversed and forest cover has increased notably, although not everywhere in the country.

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Meyfroidt, P., Lambin, E.F. (2009). Forest Transition in Vietnam and Bhutan: Causes and Environmental Impacts. In: Nagendra, H., Southworth, J. (eds) Reforesting Landscapes. Landscape Series, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9656-3_14

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