Concept map_causes & impacts of deforestation

Primary

Economic Development

Commercial Logging

Mining

Hydroelectricity

Population increase

Building of settlements

Secondary

Rapid Urbanisation

Farming

Shifting Cultivation

Subsistence Farming

Commercial Farmng

Forest Fires

Building of land transportation

Positive

Primary

Economic development

Job Creation

Increase people's standard of living

Secondary

Accessible to other natural resources within the forested land

Negative

Primary

Loss of biodiversity (Flora & Fauna)

Nutrient cycle disruption

Soil deterioration

Impact on tribal groups

Taking away their land for housing and agriculture

Secondary

Global warming

Floods and deteriorating water quality

Air Pollution

Local

Regional