Forest Cover Changes in Lao Tropical Forests: Physical and Socio-Economic Factors are the Most Important Drivers

  • Deforestation drivers
  • Forest cover reporting

Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) has been experiencing significant forest depletion since the 1980s, but there is little evidence to demonstrate the major causes and underlying drivers for the forest cover changes. In this study, we investigated the relationship between forest cover decrease and increase in the south of Lao PDR between 2006 and 2012 and selected physical and socio-economic factors. We used a map of forest cover changes derived from analysis of Landsat ETM+ imagery in 2006 and 2012, together with socio-economic and physical environmental data from the national authorities

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Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)

Publication date

2017

Publisher

Land Open Access Journal

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Yes

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CC-BY-NC-4.0

Co-author (individual)

Chittana Phompila, Megan Lewis, Bertram Ostendorf, Kenneth Clarke

Language

English

Date modified

19 Jul 2018