@conference {2017,
	title = {The Forest Transition theory under scrutiny. Towards a Degrowth-inspired Land-Change Science},
	booktitle = {Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity},
	year = {2014},
	address = {Leipzig},
	abstract = {<p>As an emerging new paradigm, degrowth is influencing and being influenced by different research fields and theoretical frameworks. In this paper I explore how degrowth may engage with land-change science. I focus on the Forest Transition (FT) framework, one of the main theoretical bodies of land-change science, and use it to illustrate some of the conceptual and empirical weaknesses of this research field. The FT posits a national shift from a shrinking to an expanding forest area led by economic modernization. Based on a critical review I advance that a forest fetishism permeating the research on FT tends to obscure the complexity of land-change processes. I hypothesize that the FT{\textquoteright}s assumption that forest recoveries are good per se is to be related to the widespread assumption that growth is the ultimate and inevitable goal of any society. I conclude by exploring how degrowth can contribute to a more nuanced understanding of land-change processes.</p>},
	author = {Iago Otero}
}
