Date of Publication: January 13, 2020

Author: Beth Tellman, Nicholas R. Magliocca, Peter H. Verburg

Summary:

Advances in remote sensing have helped to understand the human drivers of land-use change globally, but have neglected the role of illicit transactions. This Perspective presents a framework to identify illicit land transactions, and an approach to link them to land uses using remotely sensed data.

Link to Full Reading:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0457-1