Alan Grainger

TL;DR: Rudel et al. demonstrate the existence of the general phenomenon of “land sparing,” by showing that cropland area has increased more slowly than population since 1970, but find relatively little evidence that intensification has gone further.

TL;DR: In this article, a two-zone national political economy model is outlined and illustrated by examples from the Philippines and Thailand to overcome the limitations of existing aggregated national deforestation models in explaining the impact of changes in agricultural technological on deforestation.

TL;DR: Bastin et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the area of land suitable for expanding tree cover, and can be used to extend their analysis to include the area available land and operational feasibility, and support some of their findings.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a modular mechanism for science-policy communication in the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), which consists of three modules: a Science-Policy Interface (SPI), an international self-governing and self-organizing Independent Non-Governmental Group of Scientists; and Regional Science and Technology Hubs in each UNCCD region.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the underlying causes of the shift by analyzing changes in the relative strength of different interest groups within the framework of a policy pressures model, and found that internal pressures had a stronger impact on Thai forest policy than external pressures.