10 results on '"le Polain de Waroux, Y."'
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2. Middle-range theories of land system change
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Meyfroidt, P., Roy Chowdhury, R., de Bremond, A., Ellis, E.C., Erb, K.-H., Filatova, T., Garrett, R.D., Grove, J.M., Heinimann, A., Kuemmerle, T., Kull, C.A., Lambin, E.F., Landon, Y., le Polain de Waroux, Y., Messerli, P., Müller, D., Nielsen, J.Ø., Peterson, G.D., Rodriguez García, V., Schlüter, M., Turner, B.L., II, and Verburg, P.H.
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- 2018
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3. Intensification in agriculture-forest frontiers: Land use responses to development and conservation policies in Brazil
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Garrett, R.D., Koh, I., Lambin, E.F., le Polain de Waroux, Y., Kastens, J.H., and Brown, J.C.
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- 2018
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4. Inclusion, transparency, and enforcement: How the EU-Mercosur trade agreement fails the sustainability test
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Kehoe, L., dos Reis, T.N.P., Meyfroidt, P., Bager, S., Seppelt, Ralf, Kuemmerle, T., Berenguer, E., Clark, M., Frankel Davis, K., zu Ermgassen, E.K.H.J., Farrell, K.N., Friis, C., Haberl, H., Kastner, T., Murtough, K.L., Persson, U.M., Romero-Muñoz, A., O’Connell, C., Valeska Schäfer, V., Virah-Sawmy, M., le Polain de Waroux, Y., Kiesecker, J., Kehoe, L., dos Reis, T.N.P., Meyfroidt, P., Bager, S., Seppelt, Ralf, Kuemmerle, T., Berenguer, E., Clark, M., Frankel Davis, K., zu Ermgassen, E.K.H.J., Farrell, K.N., Friis, C., Haberl, H., Kastner, T., Murtough, K.L., Persson, U.M., Romero-Muñoz, A., O’Connell, C., Valeska Schäfer, V., Virah-Sawmy, M., le Polain de Waroux, Y., and Kiesecker, J.
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Trade agreements could help to protect human rights, critical ecosystems, and the climate—but only if sustainability becomes a cornerstone of international trade. The EU-Mercosur trade agreement fails to meet our three tenets of sustainable trade agreements: (1) inclusion of local communities, (2) transparency mechanisms to trace commodities and provide open-access information, and (3) enforcement to legally uphold sustainability commitments.
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- 2020
5. Middle-range theories of land system change
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UCL - SST/ELI/ELIC - Earth & Climate, Meyfroidt, Patrick, Roy Chowdhury, R., de Bremond, A., Ellis, E.C., Erb, K.-H., Filatova, T., Garrett, R.D., Grove, J.M., Heinimann, A., Kuemmerle, T., Kull, C.A., Lambin, Eric, Landon, Y., le Polain de Waroux, Y., Messerli, P., Müller, D., Nielsen, J.Ø., Peterson, G.D., Rodriguez Garcia, Virginia, Schlüter, M., Turner, B.L., Verburg, P.H., UCL - SST/ELI/ELIC - Earth & Climate, Meyfroidt, Patrick, Roy Chowdhury, R., de Bremond, A., Ellis, E.C., Erb, K.-H., Filatova, T., Garrett, R.D., Grove, J.M., Heinimann, A., Kuemmerle, T., Kull, C.A., Lambin, Eric, Landon, Y., le Polain de Waroux, Y., Messerli, P., Müller, D., Nielsen, J.Ø., Peterson, G.D., Rodriguez Garcia, Virginia, Schlüter, M., Turner, B.L., and Verburg, P.H.
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Changes in land systems generate many sustainability challenges. Identifying more sustainable land-use alternatives requires solid theoretical foundations on the causes of land-use/cover changes. Land system science is a maturing field that has produced a wealth of methodological innovations and empirical observations on landcover and land-use change, from patterns and processes to causes. We take stock of this knowledge by reviewing and synthesizing the theories that explain the causal mechanisms of land-use change, including systemic linkages between distant land-use changes, with a focus on agriculture and forestry processes. We first review theories explaining changes in land-use extent, such as agricultural expansion, deforestation, frontier development, and land abandonment, and changes in land-use intensity, such as agricultural intensification and disintensification. We then synthesize theories of higher-level land system change processes, focusing on: (i) land-use spillovers, including land sparing and rebound effects with intensification, leakage, indirect land-use change, and land-use displacement, and (ii) land-use transitions, defined as structural non-linear changes in land systems, including forest transitions. Theories focusing on the causes of land system changes span theoretically and epistemologically disparate knowledge domains and build from deductive, abductive, and inductive approaches. A grand, integrated theory of land system change remains elusive. Yet, we show that middle-range theories – defined here as contextual generalizations that describe chains of causal mechanisms explaining a well-bounded range of phenomena, as well as the conditions that trigger, enable, or prevent these causal chains –, provide a path towards generalized knowledge of land systems. This knowledge can support progress towards sustainable social- ecological systems.
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- 2018
6. Intensification in agriculture-forest frontiers: Land use responses to development and conservation policies in Brazil
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UCL - SST/ELI/ELIC - Earth & Climate, Garrett, R.D., Koh, I., Lambin, Eric, le Polain de Waroux, Y., Kastens, J.H., Brown, J.C., UCL - SST/ELI/ELIC - Earth & Climate, Garrett, R.D., Koh, I., Lambin, Eric, le Polain de Waroux, Y., Kastens, J.H., and Brown, J.C.
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Deforestation associated with agricultural expansion, particularly that of extensive cattle ranching, remains a pressing challenge for sustainable development and climate mitigation efforts in South America. In response to these challenges, national and local governments, as well as private and non-governmental actors, have developed new forest conservation governance mechanisms. In addition to reducing deforestation for agricultural expansion, it is hoped that these policies may lead to the intensification of existing agricultural regions, thereby contributing to global food availability and continued rural development. The objective of this study is to understand the timing and spatial patterns of crop and pasture intensification in agriculture-forest frontiers in the context of changing conservation policies and rural development. We focus on Mato Grosso, the largest soy and cattle producing state in Brazil, which spans the Cerrado and Amazon biomes and has experienced among the highest levels of deforestation for agricultural expansion globally. Using econometric analysis of remotely sensed and agricultural survey data, we find that cropland and pasture intensification are both linked to increasing forest conservation restrictions and broader supply chain development. However, the effect of conservation restrictions on intensification is lower in regions where there is more forest remaining. While crop and pasture area dynamics are often coupled in agriculture-forest frontiers, crop intensification does not appear to have contributed to pasture intensification through animal feed production. Intensification of crop and pasture areas was associated with temporary, immediate reductions in local deforestation, but crop intensification was associated with increased deforestation over longer time periods. These results suggest that targeted investments in supply chain infrastructure in the Amazon frontier could promote intensification and relieve pressure to clear fo
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- 2018
7. Middle-range theories of land system change
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Meyfroidt, P, Roy Chowdhury, R, de Bremond, A, Ellis, EC, Erb, KH, Filatova, T, Garrett, RD, Grove, JM, Heinimann, A, Kuemmerle, T, Kull, CA, Lambin, EF, Landon, Y, le Polain de Waroux, Y, Messerli, P, Müller, D, Nielsen, J, Peterson, GD, Rodriguez García, V, Schlüter, M, Turner, BL, Verburg, PH, Meyfroidt, P, Roy Chowdhury, R, de Bremond, A, Ellis, EC, Erb, KH, Filatova, T, Garrett, RD, Grove, JM, Heinimann, A, Kuemmerle, T, Kull, CA, Lambin, EF, Landon, Y, le Polain de Waroux, Y, Messerli, P, Müller, D, Nielsen, J, Peterson, GD, Rodriguez García, V, Schlüter, M, Turner, BL, and Verburg, PH
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© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Changes in land systems generate many sustainability challenges. Identifying more sustainable land-use alternatives requires solid theoretical foundations on the causes of land-use/cover changes. Land system science is a maturing field that has produced a wealth of methodological innovations and empirical observations on land-cover and land-use change, from patterns and processes to causes. We take stock of this knowledge by reviewing and synthesizing the theories that explain the causal mechanisms of land-use change, including systemic linkages between distant land-use changes, with a focus on agriculture and forestry processes. We first review theories explaining changes in land-use extent, such as agricultural expansion, deforestation, frontier development, and land abandonment, and changes in land-use intensity, such as agricultural intensification and disintensification. We then synthesize theories of higher-level land system change processes, focusing on: (i) land-use spillovers, including land sparing and rebound effects with intensification, leakage, indirect land-use change, and land-use displacement, and (ii) land-use transitions, defined as structural non-linear changes in land systems, including forest transitions. Theories focusing on the causes of land system changes span theoretically and epistemologically disparate knowledge domains and build from deductive, abductive, and inductive approaches. A grand, integrated theory of land system change remains elusive. Yet, we show that middle-range theories – defined here as contextual generalizations that describe chains of causal mechanisms explaining a well-bounded range of phenomena, as well as the conditions that trigger, enable, or prevent these causal chains –, provide a path towards generalized knowledge of land systems. This knowledge can support progress towards sustainable social-ecological systems.
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- 2018
8. Explaining the emergence of land-use frontiers.
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Meyfroidt P, Abeygunawardane D, Baumann M, Bey A, Buchadas A, Chiarella C, Junquera V, Kronenburg García A, Kuemmerle T, le Polain de Waroux Y, Oliveira E, Picoli M, Qin S, Rodriguez García V, and Rufin P
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Land-use expansion is linked to major sustainability concerns including climate change, food security and biodiversity loss. This expansion is largely concentrated in so-called 'frontiers', defined here as places experiencing marked transformations owing to rapid resource exploitation. Understanding the mechanisms shaping these frontiers is crucial for sustainability. Previous work focused mainly on explaining how active frontiers advance, in particular, into tropical forests. Comparatively, our understanding of how frontiers emerge in territories considered marginal in terms of agricultural productivity and global market integration remains weak. We synthesize conceptual tools explaining resource and land-use frontiers, including theories of land rent and agglomeration economies, of frontiers as successive waves, spaces of territorialization, friction and opportunities, anticipation and expectation. We then propose a new theory of frontier emergence, which identifies exogenous pushes, legacies of past waves and actors' anticipations as key mechanisms by which frontiers emerge. Processes of differential rent creation and capture and the built-up of agglomeration economies then constitute key mechanisms sustaining active frontiers. Finally, we discuss five implications for the governance of frontiers for sustainability. Our theory focuses on agriculture and deforestation frontiers in the tropics but can be inspirational for other frontier processes including for extractive resources, such as minerals., Competing Interests: We declare we have no competing interests., (© 2024 The Authors.)
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- 2024
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9. Reply to Levine-Schnur: Decisions to deforest illegally are influenced by fines and their perceived enforcement probability.
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le Polain de Waroux Y, Garrett RD, Heilmayr R, and Lambin EF
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- Humans, Perception, Conservation of Natural Resources, Probability
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- 2016
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10. Land-use policies and corporate investments in agriculture in the Gran Chaco and Chiquitano.
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le Polain de Waroux Y, Garrett RD, Heilmayr R, and Lambin EF
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- Animals, Bolivia, Brazil, Cattle, Policy, Agriculture economics, Agriculture legislation & jurisprudence, Conservation of Natural Resources, Investments, Professional Corporations economics, Rainforest
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Growing demand for agricultural commodities is causing the expansion of agricultural frontiers onto native vegetation worldwide. Agribusiness companies linking these frontiers to distant spaces of consumption through global commodity chains increasingly make zero-deforestation pledges. However, production and land conversion are often carried out by less-visible local and regional actors that are mobile and responsive to new agricultural expansion opportunities and legal constraints on land use. With more stringent deforestation regulations in some countries, we ask whether their movements are determined partly by differences in land-use policies, resulting in "deforestation havens." We analyze the determinants of investment decisions by agricultural companies in the Gran Chaco and Chiquitano, a region that has become the new deforestation "hot spot" in South America. We test whether companies seek out less-regulated forest areas for new agricultural investments. Based on interviews with 82 companies totaling 2.5 Mha of properties, we show that, in addition to proximity to current investments and the availability of cheap forestland, lower deforestation regulations attract investments by companies that tend to clear more forest, mostly cattle ranching operations, and that lower enforcement attracts all companies. Avoiding deforestation leakage requires harmonizing deforestation regulations across regions and commodities and promoting sustainable intensification in cattle ranching.
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- 2016
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