... authors with whom I learned so much about the issues of deforestation around the world. I am also Deforestation Around the World 22 Deforestation rates of the State during the period 1988 ... the world. The chapters are divided in three sections: (I) Deforestation Impacts, (III) Mapping Deforestation, and (II) Preventing Deforestation. Chapter 1 (Oglesby) discusses the impacts of ... methodology, an unsupervised classification method, with potential to map deforestation. Stocks et al. (Chapter 10) demonstrate how deforestation mapping is important for forest protection in the Waodani...