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A gis-based assessment on the vulnerability and future extent of the tropical forests of the congo basin
- Source :
- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 114:107-121
- Publication Year :
- 2006
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2006.
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Abstract
- This paper examines the vulnerability of the Congo Basin's forests through a GIS platform, taking into consideration the variables of population growth, road density, logging concession, and forest fragmentation. The assessment indicates that the forests will continue to shrink towards the interior over the next 50 years. Current contiguous forests will fragment into three large blocks, including one on the west side of the Congo River and two in the Democratic Republic of Congo, while a large number of small forest patches will retain in the periphery of the large blocks. The study shows that integrated GIS assessment of the driving forces of tropical deforestation can shed light on the future forest distribution and provide a tool to address the broader implications of social and economic development for tropical deforestation.
- Subjects :
- Conservation of Natural Resources
Tropical Climate
Geographic information system
business.industry
Urbanization
Logging
Environmental resource management
Vulnerability
General Medicine
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Structural basin
Pollution
Trees
Geography
Rivers
Deforestation
Environmental protection
Tropical climate
Geographic Information Systems
Population growth
Africa, Central
business
Environmental Monitoring
General Environmental Science
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15732959 and 01676369
- Volume :
- 114
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....75ef34b512fd8758a253e15e68282a7a