Journal
JOURNAL OF LAND USE SCIENCE
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 36-54Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/1747423X.2016.1261948
Keywords
Coffee; deforestation; land use; protected area; transboundary; Trifinio
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Funding
- NASA LCLUC Grant [NNX13AC70G]
- Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnologia y Telecomunicaciones (MICITT)
- Consejo Nacional para Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnologicas (CONICIT) in Costa Rica
- NASA [476392, NNX13AC70G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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Strategic planning to increase forest cover in Central American transboundary areas of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor requires understanding land-cover and land-use change trends and drivers. We estimated forest cover change from remotely sensed land-cover and land-use classifications from 1986, 2001, and 2010, in the tri-national Trifinio Region, bordering El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Our analysis spanned subnational, national, regional, and protected border areas. We determined correlations with direct drivers of deforestation, developing a multilevel linear regression model. Higher population density significantly correlated with deforestation; coffee, agroforestry, and pasture replaced forests. The tri-national park retained forests compared to neighboring areas, but additionality requires more research. The literature on drivers suggests similar processes and factors in other tropical regions. Forest cover governance efficacy is highly variable. Results indicate relationship between governance and forest cover though more comprehensive understanding of this complex region is needed to determine their causality.
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