The Human Impacts Database

A collection of useful numbers for quantifying the impacts of the human presence on Earth.

This quantity is a single measurement of the quantity at a given point in time (2001 — 2015).


Value:		21 × 10¹⁰ m² / yr see this value in other units This is equivalent to... 21 × 10⁴ km² / yr 21 × 10⁶ Ha / yr
HuID:		78576
Relevant Year(s):		2001 — 2015
Summary:		Total forest area lost due to commodity-driven deforestation, shifting agriculture, forestry, wildfire, and urbanization in 2015.
Method:		Value is calculated from map based measurements that commodity-driven deforestation is ≈ 5 MHa/yr accounting for 25% of all forest disruption (see HuID: 96098 ).
Source:		Curtis, P. G., Slay, C. M., Harris, N. L., Tyukavina, A., Hansen, M. C. Classifying drivers of global forest loss. Science (2018)
Dataset:		Average forest loss by driver (2001 — 2015) (Curtis2018_table1_drivers_forest_loss.csv) global resolution
Original Data License:		Science Journals Default License
Added By:		gchure