In this paper, we conducted a systematic review of case studies and a causal network analysis to identify, map, and articulate the relationships between the drivers, actors, and mechanisms of forest change across Himalayas.
I have two new papers coming out soon. First, about the drivers and mechanisms of forest change in the Himalayas led by a friend and colleague, Akash Verma, to be published in Global Environmental Change; and second, about the conservation required beyond the existing protected area network to improve species and habitat representation in a global biodiversity hotspot led by yours truly to be published in Biological Conservation.
Watch this space!
In this paper, we modelled species distributions of dipterocarps in the Philippines, an important tree family that are key to maintaining structure and function of tropical forests in Southeast Asia, to understand potential impacts of deforestation and climate change on their current and future distributions.
Here, we demonstrate a systematic approach--identify, characterise, explain--for investigating a land-cover regime shift by integrating two complementary analytical frameworks.
I am happy to announce our recently accepted paper for publication in Conservation Biology journal. The paper entitled, Untangling the proximate causes and underlying drivers of deforestation and forest degradation in Myanmar, is the product of our research lab, and a study led by Ms Cheng Ling Lim and Dr Graham Prescott under the supervision of Prof Edward Webb (our lab’s lead principal investigator) and Prof Alan Ziegler (our collaborator and lead principal investigator of the Wet Lab at the NUS Department of Geography) [1].
In this study, we used a system‐dynamics approach and causal‐network analysis to determine the proximate causes and underlying drivers of forest loss and degradation in Myanmar from 1995 to 2016 and to articulate the linkages among them.