Laura Aileen Sauls

TL;DR: Geospatial and qualitative data are used to explain how infrastructure and extractive industry lead directly and indirectly to deforestation, forest degradation, and increasingly precarious rights for forest peoples in Amazonia, Indonesia, and Mesoamerica.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the extent to which extractive industry and infrastructure investments create pressure on forest resources, community rights and livelihoods, and discuss forms of contentious action that have emerged in response to these pressures, asking how far and in what ways this contention has elicited changes in the policies that govern investment and extractive industries.

TL;DR: The current political context challenges any effort to strengthen the socio-ecological governance of large-scale infrastructure, but it also presents opportunities.

TL;DR: This paper proposes methods for raster datasets where detailed analysis of all categorical transitions would be initially overwhelming, and creates two measurements that summarizes change at the pixel and landscape levels in ways that communicate where and how categories transition over time.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Mesoamerican Alliance of Peoples and Forests (MAPF) has proposed a new fund to support Indigenous peoples' claims to territory and community well-being.