Geographical
FAO/FRA codes for continent and countries.
Geographical Scale of the study
1. Community
2. Region within a country.
3. Country.
4. Continental.
5. Global.
6. Sub-continent
Time Period
1. Before 1980
2. 1980 - 1989
3. 1990 - 1999
4. 2000 - 2009
Attributed Cause of Deforestation (Only list causes that the authors cite in the body of their analysis).
1. Timber/logging.
2. Ranching/cattle, and other livestock
3. Plantation agriculture
4. Smallholder agriculture
5. Fuelwood (household use)
6. Road construction (including railroads)
7. Mineral extraction
8. Hydroelectric development
9. Industrial processing
10. War
11. International market forces
12. Government policies and subsidies
13. Population increase
14. Poverty/income level
15. Education level
16. Legal status of land tenure
17. National debt
18. Colonization
19. Urbanization
20. Fire
Type of Information
1. Remote sensing/aerial photography.
2. Household survey.
3. Key informants interview - field study.
4. Key informants interview - non-field study (outside of rain forest region).
5. Field observation.
6. Secondary source (other literature - date source).
7. Forest cover estimates (only if they collected and analyzed the data).
8. Rates of forest loss (only if they collected the data).
Other comments
Any comments that are needed to explain a coding decision, justify an article’s inclusion in the list, and/or clarify the type of information the author(s) provide.
