Synergies and trade-offs of national conservation policy and agro-forestry management over forest loss in Argentina during the last decade

G MARTÍNEZ PASTUR; T SCHLICHTER; S MATTEUCCI; JH GOWDA; A HUERTAS HERRERA; M TORO; MV LENCINAS; JM CELLINI; PL PERI

Latin America in times of global environmental change

Springer

Lugar: Cham; Año: 2020; p. 135 - 155

images, national ordination classes, forest regions maps and other variables were combined in a GIS with national 35 data-bases (social, agriculture, industry) to determine the evolution of potential drivers of forest changes.The main potential drivers of change were: (i) population growth, (ii) road density, (iii) crops area, (iv) livestock and (v) fires. Payment of incentives by the government can not fully stop the deforestation but decrease the forest loss rate. 40 New approaches must be considered to built-in flexibility actions according to local conditions and constraints, which are influenced by social and economic contexts. Thus, it is necessary to establish new regional policies associated with the factors linked to the loss of forest cover, in the search for sustainable management alternatives that combine economic and conservation proposals.