Abstract
The most extensive footprint of human habitation of the Earth’s surface is inscribed on the landscape through forest conversion for agriculture, logging, and urbanization. The planet’s intact old-growth forests have dwindled to approximately one-fifth of their original cover.
As the global crisis deepens, deforestation ... cries out for the geographer’s attention. Human manipulation of the plant cover, especially through agricultural clearing ... is the most evident of all human relationships with the physical earth and is thus central to cultural geography (Parsons 1994).
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Carr, D.L. (2004). Tropical Deforestation. In: Janelle, D.G., Warf, B., Hansen, K. (eds) WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2352-1_47
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