Table of Contents
Table of Contents
SECTION 1. Deforestation: Analysis of Causes and Effects pp.1-2
Chapter 1. Globalization and Deforestation: An Examination of the Environmental Effects of Direct Investment in the Forest Sector in Cameroon
(Richard S. Mbatu, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Geography, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA)pp.3-34
Chapter 2. The Environmental Impacts of Resettlements and Refugees on the Forest Resources of Southwestern Ethiopia
(Mekuria Argaw and Tamrat Kassa, Addis Ababa University, Center for Environmental Science, Addis Ababa and others)pp.35-78
SECTION 2. Quantitative Studies of Deforestation and Related Themes
7 pp.79-80
Chapter 3. The Trends and Drivers of Deforestation: A Cross-Country Seemingly Unrelated Regression Analysis for the REDD+ Policies
(Richard J. Culas, School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Australia)pp.81-100
Chapter 4. Study of the Coverage of Plants and the Evaluation of Deforestation
(Sira Allende, Carlos Bouza and Amita D. Chakraborty, Universidad de La Habana, Cuba and others)pp.101-114
Chapter 5. Mathematical Modelling of Malaria Using Differential Equations
(Nita H. Shah and Jyoti Gupta, Department of Mathematics, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India)pp.115-132
Chapter 6. A Meta-Analysis Study of Deforestation due to Grazing
(Carlos Bouza and Jose F. Garcia, Universidad de La Habana, Cuba and others)pp.133-152
Chapter 7. A Dynamic Landscape of Forest Regeneration in a Deforesting Forest Frontier
(Sean Sloan, Department of Resource Management and Geography, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and others)
pp.153-188
Chapter 8. Tree Trunk Diameter Estimation in Rain Forest Ecology: Analysis and Optimal Control
(R. Dorville, A. Omrane and E. Robo-Petit, Laboratoire CEREGMIA, IUFM de Guyane, Cayenne, France, and others)pp.189-202
Index pp.205-215