DEFORESTATION AROUND THE WORLD - India Environment Portal

Contents
Preface IX
Part 1 Deforestation Impacts 1
Chapter 1 The Climatic Effects of Deforestation
in South and Southeast Asia 3
Rachindra Mawalagedara and Robert J. Oglesby
Chapter 2 Impacts of Deforestation on Climate
and Water Resources in Western Amazon 21
Ranyére Silva Nóbrega
Chapter 3 Deforestation and Water Borne Parasitic Zoonoses 35
Maria Anete Lallo
Chapter 4 Impact of Deforestation on the Sustainability
of Biodiversity in the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor 49
Vani Starry Manoharan, John Mecikalski,
Ronald Welch and Aaron Song
Chapter 5 Dinaric Karst – An Example of Deforestation
and Desertification of Limestone Terrain 73
Andrej Kranjc
Chapter 6 Landslides Caused Deforestation 95
Diandong Ren, Lance M. Leslie and Qingyun Duan
Chapter 7 Deforestation Dynamics: A Review and Evaluation
of Theoretical Approaches and Evidence from Greece 123
Serafeim Polyzos and Dionysios Minetos
Part 2 Mapping Deforestation 143
Chapter 8 Geospatial Analysis of Deforestation and Land Use
Dynamics in a Region of Southwestern Nigeria 145
Nathaniel O. Adeoye, Albert A. Abegunde and Samson Adeyinka