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Forest area net change rate per country in 2020. Deforestation is defined as the conversion of forest to other land uses (regardless of whether it is human-induced). [14] Deforestation and forest area net change are not the same: the latter is the sum of all forest losses (deforestation) and all forest gains (forest expansion) in a given period ...
Deforestation is a primary contributor to climate change, [1] [2] and climate change affects the health of forests. [3] Land use change , especially in the form of deforestation, is the second largest source of carbon dioxide emissions from human activities, after the burning of fossil fuels .
Land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF), also referred to as Forestry and other land use (FOLU) or Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU), [3] [4]: 65 is defined as a "greenhouse gas inventory sector that covers emissions and removals of greenhouse gases resulting from direct human-induced land use such as settlements and ...
English: In this paper we afford a quantitative analysis of the sustainability of current world population growth in relation to the parallel deforestation process adopting a statistical point of view. We consider a simplified model based on a stochastic growth process driven by a continuous time random walk, which depicts the technological ...
Deforestation: This is the clearing of forests for agricultural, urban, or industrial development. Deforestation can have a number of negative environmental impacts, including soil erosion, flooding, and climate change. Urbanization: This is the growth of cities and towns. Urbanization can lead to the conversion of agricultural land, forests ...
For now, deforestation of the Amazon rainforest has been the greatest threat to it, and the main reason why, as of 2022, about 20% of it had been deforested and another 6% "highly degraded". [95] Yet, climate change is also a threat as it exacerbates wildfire and interferes with precipitation.
Changes in forest area (like deforestation) may follow a pattern suggested by the forest transition (FT) theory, [9] whereby at early stages in its development a country is characterized by high forest cover and low deforestation rates (HFLD countries).
The documentary is a follow-up to Attenborough's Climate Change – The Facts (2019). [3] It premiered on 13 September 2020 on BBC One at 8 p.m. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The audience peaked at an estimated 4.5 million viewers; BBC commissioner Jack Bootle reported that viewership rose by 600,000 over the course of the program.