Deforestation in the Kayabi Indigenous Territory: Simulating and Predicting Land Use and Land Cover Change in the Brazilian Amazon

Land use/cover change practices in the Brazilian Amazon, such as cattle ranching, logging, agriculture, mining, and urbanization are the major contributors to deforestation and have major impacts on ecosystems and environmental processes at local, regional and global scales. A simulation of future...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hugo de Alba Martínez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia 2017-04-01
Series:Revista Cartográfica
Subjects:
GIS
Online Access:https://revistasipgh.org/index.php/rcar/article/view/346