SES archetypes

Advancement in remote sensing have drastically increased our ability to monitor land cover changes at high spatial and temporal resolution. Research on global forest dynamics has, until now, mainly focused on quantifying trends in areal cover per region. However, local studies have showed clear links between socio-economic drivers and spatio-temporal patterns of forest cover. This work has created a set of archetypes of social-ecological systems, and how spatio-temporal forest patterns emergence from the specific human-environment interactions within those archetypes. In this project, local spatio-temporal patterns of land cover and forest change are studied across the globe, providing a data-driven approach to linking forest dynamics to underlying socio-economic drivers such has human population growth.