FOREST FOOTPRINT

The Forest Footprint for Cities focuses on tropical and subtropical deforestation, where deforestation is defined as the permanent land-use change from forest land to crop, pasture, or plantation forest land (Pendrill et al. 2019a, 2019b, 2020). While this includes some temperate regions (i.e., Chile, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan), the majority of temperate and boreal forests are excluded from this analysis as there is little permanent deforestation in these forests (Curtis et al. 2018). Further, what data exist on deforestation in temperate and boreal forests is not able to be parsed out into commodity-specific drivers of deforestation as in Pendrill et al. (2019a, 2019b, 2020). Temperate and boreal forest loss and degradation are important issues; however, the vast majority of recent forest loss in these areas is attributed not to food products (as with tropical and subtropical deforestation) but to timber harvesting in managed forests (Curtis et al. 2018; Goldman et al. 2020;..