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The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths

20013,689 citationsJournal Article

Authors

Éric F. Lambin

B. L. Turner · Clark University

Samuel Babatunde Agbola · University of Ibadan

Arild Angelsen · The Research Council of Norway

Oliver T. Coomes · McGill University

Rodolfo Dirzo · Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Topics & Keywords

Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management Land Use and Ecosystem Services Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

UN Sustainable Development Goals

No poverty

Publication Details

Published in: Global Environmental Change

Volume 11, Issue 4, pp. 261-269

DOI: 10.1016/s0959-3780(01)00007-3

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 29.60

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Günther Fischer · International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Carl Folke · Stockholm University

Paunescu George · Centre For Development Studies

Katherine Homewood · University College London

Jacques Imbernon · Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement

Rik Leemans · National Institute for Public Health and the Environment

Xiubin Li · Chinese Academy of Sciences

Emilio F. Morán · Indiana University Bloomington

Michael Mortimore · Drylands Research

P. S. Ramakrishnan · Jawaharlal Nehru University

John F. Richards · Duke University

Helle Skånes · Stockholm University

Will Steffen · Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Glenn Davis Stone · Washington University in St. Louis

Uno Svedin · Swedish Research Council

A. Veldkamp · Wageningen University & Research

Coleen Vogel · University of the Witwatersrand

Jianchu Xu · Chinese Academy of Sciences