📢[Research Article] Modeling deforestation drivers in the Brazilian Amazon: a comparison of quantitative approaches by Alisson Castro Barreto, Tailon Martins & Adriano Mendonça Souza
👉Article link: doi.org/10.1080/20964471.202…
💌#Deforestation in the Brazilian #Amazon, with approximately 17% of the #biome lost, remains a critical global issue. This study finds that while traditional models like #OLS and #ARIMA offer useful insights, the #BVAR model more effectively captures the complex temporal dynamics of #deforestation by modeling lagged effects and feedback loops. Granger causality tests, impulse response analysis, and variance decomposition collectively reveal that cattle ranching is the dominant short-term driver, while timber extraction emerges as the primary long-term influence on deforestation.
#environmentalmodeling#bigearthdata#digitalearth#geoscience#GIS#remotesensing#Brazil#statisticalmethod
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