Eloi L. Dalla-Nora

TL;DR: An innovative spatially explicit modelling approach capable of representing alternative pathways of the clear-cut deforestation, secondary vegetation dynamics, and the old-growth forest degradation is developed, and net deforestation-driven carbon emissions for the different scenarios are estimated.

TL;DR: In a context of international scrutiny, important efforts are being made to preserve Brazil's tropical forests as discussed by the authors, while the destruction of its Cerrado biome advances with increasing leaps but with limited success.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review and analyze the general structure of the land use models that have most recently been used to explore land use change in the Amazon, seeking to investigate methodological factors that could explain the divergence between the observed and projected rates, paying special attention to the land demand calculations.

TL;DR: An innovative land use modeling approach is explored to simulate how the growing demand for land could affect future deforestation trends in Bolivia, using the LuccME framework to create a spatially-explicit land cover change model and run it under three different deforestation scenarios, spanning from the present-2050.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of traditional populations in conservation and land use planning in the Brazilian Amazon has been explored and compared with the post-environmental development model that currently dominates the land use dynamics of Amazonia and which is in stark contrast with previous advances in environmental protection.