Global society has experienced the damaging impacts of forest cover loss for a

long time (Allen & Barnes, 1985). Currently, global forest cover continues to decline
(Köthke et al., 2013). FAO (2010) predicts that the current annual global forest loss is
about 13 million hectares accounting for approximately 17 percent of the total annual
greenhouse gas emissions (IPCC, 2007). In the coming future, increasing global
demand for food, biofuels and natural resources gives more pressure on forests
(Carlson et al., 2012).
Deforestation has been attributed to various damaging impacts resulting in
increasing global costs (Uusivuori et al., 2002). In micro level, deforestation is
associated with fires, soil erosion, watershed deterioration and microclimate change.
Globally, deforestation may cause negative global consequences: timber supply,
hydrologic unbalance, biodiversity, global cycles of substantial elements and massive
carbon emissions.
Deforestation is not just an environmental concern but also a multi-socio-
economic-demographic one. Even now, it has been put in the global political agenda
(Köthke et al., 2013). In academic fields, deforestation initiates an ever growing
multidiscipline researches and studies (Damette & Delacote, 2012), either at the global,
regional, national, sub national or site level. Deforestation is no longer a forest sector
per se, but a multi-sectoral problem.