Baseline land use and land cover change report at the four sites in seasonal dry forests in South America

The aim of this report is to present baseline information on the patterns and drivers of land use and land cover changes for each of the four sites studied within the framework of the project “Socio-ecological resilience in the face of global environmental change in heterogeneous landscapes – building a common platform for understanding and action” . Particular focus is placed on land cover and land use changes that are associated to large-scale, commodity agriculture, as the expansion of the latter is a major process in the reconfiguration of the social-ecological landscape in all four sites. The timeframe considered varies depending on the availability of data as well as the land use and land cover changes of importance for each sit The project propose the construction of a shared platform to understand socio-ecological resilience and adaptive capacity in the face of rapid large-scale environmental change. This will include the co-production, between scientists and a wide range of other stakeholders, of a shared framework, a set of research questions and a detailed path for their implementation in empirical research, practice and policy.