Extent and causes of forest cover changes in Vietnam’s provinces 1993-2013: a review and analysis of official data by Roland Cochard, Dung Tri Ngo, Patrick O. Waeber, and Christian A. Kull This is the author-archived pre-print version of an article published in the journal Environmental Reviews (NRC Press) Citiation: Cochard, R, DT Ngo, PO Waeber & CA Kull (2017) Extent and causes of forest cover changes in Vietnam’s provinces 1993-2013: a review and analysis of official data. Environmental Reviews. doi: 10.1139/er-2016- 0050. published online 29 September 2016 in ‘early view’; definitive version expected June 2017 The official version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/er-2016-0050 1 Extent and causes of forest cover changes 2 in Vietnam’s provinces 1993-2013: a 3 review and analysis of official data 4 5 Roland Cochard1,* 6 Dung Tri Ngo2,3 7 Patrick O. Waeber3 8 Christian A. Kull4, 5 9 10 11 1Institute of Integrative Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, 12 Universitätsstrasse 16, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland 13 2Institute of Resources and Environment, Hue University, Hue City, Vietnam 14 3Forest Management and Development, Department of Environmental Sciences, Swiss 15 Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Universitätsstrasse 16, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland 16 4Institute of Geography and Sustainability, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, 17 Switzerland 18 5Centre for Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University, 3800 Melbourne, 19 Vic, Australia 20 21 *corresponding author: Roland Cochard, Rietholzstrasse 14, 8125 Zollikerberg, Switzerland; 22 phone: ++41 79 8857344; e-mail:
[email protected] 23 24 Word count (main text only): 11’156 words 25 Word count (abstract): 335 words 26 Word count (including abstract and references): 16’890 27 1 28 Abstract 29 30 Within a region plagued by deforestation, Vietnam has experienced an exceptional turn-around from 31 net forest loss to forest regrowth.