Seeking sustainable pathways for land use in Latin America

Research

• The forest transition in São Paulo, Brazil: historical patterns and potential driversPDF

  Adriane Calaboni, Leandro R. Tambosi, Alexandre T. Igari, Juliana S. Farinaci, Jean Paul Metzger, Maria Uriarte

• Toward understanding the dynamics of land change in Latin America: potential utility of a resilience approach for building archetypes of land-systems changePDF

  Juan C. Rocha, Matilda M. Baraibar, Lisa Deutsch, Ariane de Bremond, Jordan S. Oestreicher, Florencia Rositano, Cecilia C. Gelabert

• The changing chagras: traditional ecological knowledge transformations in the Colombian AmazonPDF

  Valentina Fonseca-Cepeda, C. Julián Idrobo, Sebastián Restrepo

• Beyond PES and REDD+: Costa Rica on the way to climate-smart landscape management?PDF

  Linda Wallbott, Giuseppina Siciliano, Markus Lederer

• Multiscale spatial planning to maintain forest connectivity in the Argentine Chaco in the face of deforestationPDF

  Sebastián A Torrella, María Piquer-Rodríguez, Christian Levers, Rubén Ginzburg, Gregorio Gavier-Pizarro, Tobias Kuemmerle

• Beyond proximate and distal causes of land-use change: linking Individual motivations to deforestation in rural contextsPDF

  Ximena Rueda, Maria Alejandra Velez, Lina Moros, Luz Angela Rodriguez

• Forests expand as livestock pressure declines in subtropical South AmericaPDF

  Rafael E Bernardi, Marion Buddeberg, Matías Arim, Milena Holmgren

• Toward negotiated mitigation of landslide risks in informal settlements: reflections from a pilot experience in Medellín, ColombiaPDF

  Harry Smith, Françoise Coupé, Soledad Garcia-Ferrari, Helena Rivera, Wilmar Edgardo Castro Mera

• Agricultural expansion in Uruguayan grasslands and priority areas for vertebrate and woody plant conservationPDF

  Alejandro Brazeiro, Marcel Achkar, Carolina Toranza, Lucía Bartesaghi