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July 12, 2022

A new article in Environmental Research Letters anticipates tree plantation expansion will continue to drive deforestation in SE Asia, and argues significantly heightened protection is needed to secure the long-term preservation of high and medium-integrity forest, especially in highly contested forest frontier regions.

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February 17, 2020

This study, which included work by GLP Members Roman Carrasco and Jose Don T. De Alban, investigated the dynamics and drivers of informal gold mining in northern Myanmar to shed light on the conditions needed for alternative livelihood and enforcement interventions to succeed. It was published in Conservation Science and Practice.

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August 18, 2017

GLP Member Roman Carrasco published an update of the national accounts of 80 nations that underwent tropical deforestation from 2000 to 2012 and evaluated their development trajectories using weak and strong sustainability criteria. 

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August 18, 2017

GLP Member Roman Carrasco has published in PLOS Biology about trade-offs between agricultural benefits, carbon emissions, and losses of multiple ecosystem services because of tropical deforestation from 2000 to 2012.

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