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Agricultural transitions at dryland and tropical forest margins: actors, scales and trade-offs

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  • Land Tenure
  • Humid Forest
  • Wood Extraction
  • Tropical Deforestation
  • Forest Transition

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Land-Use/Cover Change (LUCC) Project, University of Louvain, 3, Place Louis Pasteur, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    Helmut Geist

  2. Chair of the Land-Use/Cover Change (LUCC) Project and Professor at the Geog, University of Louvain, 3, Place Louis Pasteur, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    Eric Lambin

  3. Senior Research Scientist The Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA

    Cheryl Palm

  4. Principal Economist and Global Coordinator of the Alternatives to Slash-and, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), 30677, Nairobi, Kenya

    Thomas Tomich

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  1. Head of the Research Unit Management of Natural Resources, LEI, Wageningen UR, 29703, 2502, LS, The Hague, The Netherlands

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  2. Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, 2124, MS 2124, College Station, Texas, USA

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Geist, H., Lambin, E., Palm, C., Tomich, T. (2006). Agricultural transitions at dryland and tropical forest margins: actors, scales and trade-offs. In: Brouwer, F., McCarl, B.A. (eds) Agriculture and climate beyond 2015. Environment & policy, vol 46. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4368-6_4

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