2001•Global Environmental ChangeOpen access

The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths

Éric F. Lambin, Billie Lee Turner, Helmut Geist, Samuel Babatunde Agbola, Arild Angelsen, John W. Bruce, Oliver T. Coomes, Rodolfo Dirzo, Günther Fischer, Carl Folke, Paunescu George, Katherine Homewood, Jacques Imbernon, Rik Leemans, Xiubin Li, Emilio Federico Moran, Michael J. Mortimore, P. S. Ramakrishnan, John F. Richards, Helle Skånes, Will Steffen, Glenn Davis Stone, Uno Svedin, A. Veldkamp, Coleen H. Vogel, Jianchu Xu

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Key concepts: Land cover, Cover (algebra), Poverty, Land use, Geography, Mythology, Population, Natural resource economics