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GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL
Volume 166, Issue -, Pages 2-13Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2000.tb00002.x
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forest trends; deforestation; population trends; global environmental change
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The relationship between national trends in forest area and population is reviewed at the global scale. Evidence of an inverse relationship is confirmed. The relationship, however, may have weakened in recent decades, and it has clearly undergone a reversal in some countries during the nineteenth to twentieth centuries. The theme of a changing relationship through time is thus developed, as is that of an asymmetrical relationship in the sense that the forest: area is likely to stabilize before population, on the basis of modelling from the current demographic relationship, the global forest area should stabilize before the middle of the twenty-first century.
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