Köthke, Margret; Leischner, Bettina; Elsasser, Peter - In: Forest Policy and Economics 28 (2013) C, pp. 23-37
The forest transition (FT) hypothesis implies that changes in a region's forest cover follow a determinable pattern of decline and later re-expansion over time, which is supposed to be similar across regions and countries. Such a uniform pattern – if empirically proven and quantified – might...