GEOG 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Asteroid Family, Shifting Cultivation, Anchovy

• School: McGill University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 216
• Professor: Benjamin Forest

Document Summary

Or forests that have been left to regenerate: honduras, cuba: have net gains more forests than there were in the past, returning on marginal lands: dry, steep lands. Land regrown; need for ecological services: what is the type of forest being lost in the tropics, 1. Intact (primary, continuous forests) over very large areas: 2. Disturbed forests; not entirely cleared, but is disturbed/fragmented: shifting cultivation, logging, size of circle indicates area lost, quality of forest being lost, greatest expansion into forest is for cattle pasture (33m hectares in south. 3: global forest gain, forest returning in russia, western europe, scandinavia, and some parts of south. 4: population: deforestation caused by too many people. Inappropriate technologies: slash and burn agriculture which is inefficient. Ill-defined property rights: incentives provided for stewardship and protection. Amazon was a net importer for beef: marginally profitable for livestock, promoted road building and cattle ranching with support from multinational banking.