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Global evidence that deforestation amplifies flood risk and severity in the developing world

2007-11-01

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With the wide acceptance of forest-protection policies in the developing world comes a requirement for clear demonstrations of how deforestation may erode human well-being and economies. For centuries, it has been believed that forests provide protection against flooding. However, such claims have given rise to a heated polemic, and broad-scale quantitative evidence of the possible role of forests in flood protect...

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Literature Corpus work: 475507af-9987-58a6-996f-1f0ba6e51bb9
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01446.x

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