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Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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Journal article
Published: 25 July 2021 in Journal of Land Use Science
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Land system science (LSS) has substantially advanced understanding of land dynamics throughout the world. However, studies that explicitly address the causative role of culture in land systems have been fairly limited relative to those examining other structural dimensions (e.g. markets, policies, climate). In this paper, we aim to start a discussion on how to better include culture in LSS. Through four examples, we show how aspects of culture influence land systems in myriad ways. Building on existing causal land system models, we propose a conceptual framework for the role of culture in land use and summarize promising methodological innovations for exploring it further. We conclude with some thoughts on how the study of culture and its integration through reflexive, locally grounded approaches, while challenging, provides new opportunities for the development of LSS.

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Yann Le Polain De Waroux; Rachael D. Garrett; Mollie Chapman; Cecilie Friis; Jeffrey Hoelle; Leonie Hodel; Kelly Hopping; Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer. The role of culture in land system science. Journal of Land Use Science 2021, 1 -17.

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Yann Le Polain De Waroux, Rachael D. Garrett, Mollie Chapman, Cecilie Friis, Jeffrey Hoelle, Leonie Hodel, Kelly Hopping, Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer. The role of culture in land system science. Journal of Land Use Science. 2021; ():1-17.

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Yann Le Polain De Waroux; Rachael D. Garrett; Mollie Chapman; Cecilie Friis; Jeffrey Hoelle; Leonie Hodel; Kelly Hopping; Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer. 2021. "The role of culture in land system science." Journal of Land Use Science , no. : 1-17.

Journal article
Published: 17 May 2021 in World Development
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Once fire-resistant rainforests are becoming fire prone. Uncontrolled fires reflect new ecologies of the Anthropocene, driven by interactions of multiple actors and sectors across scales. They threaten the ecological integrity of tropical forests, impact global climate regimes and importantly cause considerable social and economic burdens. Numerous smallholder farming communities throughout the forested tropics experience the immediate place-based damages of uncontrolled fires and increasingly flammable landscapes. However, these burdens remain largely ‘invisible’ as leading narratives concentrate on losses accrued at aggregate scales, including to climate and biodiversity. Rather, smallholder farmers are often cast as culprits of contagion rooted in colonial condemnation of their customary fire-based agricultural practices. We use an environmental justice lens, notably the dimensions of recognition and distribution, to reveal the distributional burdens of uncontrolled fires for these land managers. We use empirical data from four case studies in three countries: Brazil, Madagascar and the Philippines, to explore the i) burdens of uncontrolled fire, ii) changing risks, iii) drivers and iv) responses to uncontrolled fire, and finally, the v) level of smallholder dependence on intentional fire. We show that place-based burdens of uncontrolled landscape fire are significant, including in landscapes where fire frequency is low. Burdens are both material and non-material and include infringements on food security, health, livelihoods, social relations and the burden of prohibitive fire policy itself. Equitable responses to uncontrolled fires must be sensitive to the distinctions between fire types. Further, we suggest that through bringing visibility to the place-based burdens of uncontrolled fires, we can begin to co-design resilient responses that avoid placing the final burden of risk reduction on to marginalized smallholder farming communities.

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Rachel Carmenta; Federico Cammelli; Wolfram Dressler; Camila Verbicaro; Julie G. Zaehringer. Between a rock and a hard place: The burdens of uncontrolled fire for smallholders across the tropics. World Development 2021, 145, 105521 .

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Rachel Carmenta, Federico Cammelli, Wolfram Dressler, Camila Verbicaro, Julie G. Zaehringer. Between a rock and a hard place: The burdens of uncontrolled fire for smallholders across the tropics. World Development. 2021; 145 ():105521.

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Rachel Carmenta; Federico Cammelli; Wolfram Dressler; Camila Verbicaro; Julie G. Zaehringer. 2021. "Between a rock and a hard place: The burdens of uncontrolled fire for smallholders across the tropics." World Development 145, no. : 105521.

Research paper
Published: 01 January 2021 in Ecosystems and People
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Available empirical evidence about the impacts of large-scale agricultural investments (LAIs) in low-income countries is skewed towards the assessment of economic benefits. How LAIs affect land use and the environment is less understood. This study assesses how small-scale farmers living close to an LAI perceive the changes LAI's inflict on land use, land management, and tree cover in Kenya, Mozambique, and Madagascar. It also investigates their perceptions regarding LAI's impacts on the general environment and people's health, as well as on employment opportunities, infrastructure, and conflicts. 271 small-scale farmers were interviewed and their perceptions supported by a remote-sensing-based analysis of land use and land cover changes. Results show that LAIs contributed both directly and indirectly to deforestation in Mozambique, triggered changes in small-scale farmers’ agricultural land management in Kenya, and caused pastoralists to lose access to grazing land in Madagascar. Despite some benefits from employment opportunities and infrastructure improvement, the majority of respondents perceived the overall impacts of LAIs as negative, highlighting reduced access to land and water, pollution, health issues, and unsatisfactory working conditions. We urgently need to invest in devising concrete transformative options to improve LAIs’ contribution to sustainable development in their host countries.

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Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer; Peter Messerli; Markus Giger; Boniface Kiteme; Ali Atumane; Maya Da Silva; Lovasoa Rakotoasimbola; Sandra Eckert. Large-scale agricultural investments in Eastern Africa: consequences for small-scale farmers and the environment. Ecosystems and People 2021, 17, 342 -357.

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Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer, Peter Messerli, Markus Giger, Boniface Kiteme, Ali Atumane, Maya Da Silva, Lovasoa Rakotoasimbola, Sandra Eckert. Large-scale agricultural investments in Eastern Africa: consequences for small-scale farmers and the environment. Ecosystems and People. 2021; 17 (1):342-357.

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Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer; Peter Messerli; Markus Giger; Boniface Kiteme; Ali Atumane; Maya Da Silva; Lovasoa Rakotoasimbola; Sandra Eckert. 2021. "Large-scale agricultural investments in Eastern Africa: consequences for small-scale farmers and the environment." Ecosystems and People 17, no. 1: 342-357.

Research article
Published: 18 December 2020 in Journal of Land Use Science
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In complex tropical forest frontier landscapes, ecosystem service (ES) models are essential tools to test impacts of different land schemes on people. Considering several factors of supply, demand and flow and focusing on local stakeholders, we developed nine ES models using Bayesian networks and applied them in different land scenarios in Myanmar’s Tanintharyi Region. We found land use and tenure as well as demand for specific products to be the key factors determining final ES outcomes. While forested lands have high regulating and overall balanced ES bundles, mixed agricultural lands provide subsistence and commercial products as well as better environmental education opportunities. By contrast, commercial agricultural concessions strongly limit ES outcomes for local communities. As our models reveal more distinct impacts of land policy scenarios in a homogeneous setting, where demand is better accounted for, we recommend their use for spatially explicit analyses of forest frontier landscapes.

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Melanie Feurer; Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer; Andreas Heinimann; Su Myat Naing; Jürgen Blaser; Enrico Celio. Quantifying local ecosystem service outcomes by modelling their supply, demand and flow in Myanmar’s forest frontier landscape. Journal of Land Use Science 2020, 16, 55 -93.

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Melanie Feurer, Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer, Andreas Heinimann, Su Myat Naing, Jürgen Blaser, Enrico Celio. Quantifying local ecosystem service outcomes by modelling their supply, demand and flow in Myanmar’s forest frontier landscape. Journal of Land Use Science. 2020; 16 (1):55-93.

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Melanie Feurer; Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer; Andreas Heinimann; Su Myat Naing; Jürgen Blaser; Enrico Celio. 2020. "Quantifying local ecosystem service outcomes by modelling their supply, demand and flow in Myanmar’s forest frontier landscape." Journal of Land Use Science 16, no. 1: 55-93.

Review article
Published: 22 August 2020 in Applied Geography
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This paper contributes to debates on the implications of land-based investments on local livelihoods in the Global South. Drawing on a comprehensive national dataset on land concessions in Laos, and 2005 and 2015 village-level poverty rates, we examine the association between land-based investments and poverty at the village level in Lao rural areas. Results outline contexts in which land-based investments have either positive or adverse association with village-level poverty change rates; they also reveal factors that determine village-level poverty reduction in Laos. Our results suggest that poverty rates in villages affected by land-based investments decreased significantly between 2005 and 2015, following the national trend in Laos. However, in cases where land-based investments caused more farmland loss, poverty reduction was low or poverty rates increased over this period. Results further reveal that land-based investments implemented in more remote areas or poorer villages had a stronger association with poverty reduction. However, poverty was not a central consideration for the establishment of land-based investments. Our findings fill an important gap, providing a middle-level analysis from which grounded observations are analyzed alongside national trends.

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Vong Nanhthavong; Michael Epprecht; Cornelia Hett; Julie G. Zaehringer; Peter Messerli. Poverty trends in villages affected by land-based investments in rural Laos. Applied Geography 2020, 124, 102298 .

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Vong Nanhthavong, Michael Epprecht, Cornelia Hett, Julie G. Zaehringer, Peter Messerli. Poverty trends in villages affected by land-based investments in rural Laos. Applied Geography. 2020; 124 ():102298.

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Vong Nanhthavong; Michael Epprecht; Cornelia Hett; Julie G. Zaehringer; Peter Messerli. 2020. "Poverty trends in villages affected by land-based investments in rural Laos." Applied Geography 124, no. : 102298.

Journal article
Published: 16 July 2020 in Land Use Policy
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Sustainable land governance in a telecoupled world is currently a challenge. Distant actors, institutions, and interactions shape local land uses and are assumed to affect sustainable development in critical ways as they exert new and often additional claims on land and trigger adverse local impacts like displacement. Action towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is urgently needed, as are agents of change that will initiate sustainability transformations. However, empirical studies on transformation pathways towards sustainable land governance remain scarce. Moreover, very few studies have addressed the identification of actors through whom such transformation might be achieved. To address this gap, we analysed the likelihood of actors becoming agents of change based on their aims, resources, and relational profiles in the land governance network. Our study focused on Madagascar, a country that manifests unsustainable land governance, with distant actors increasingly influencing local land use. We combined an analysis of agency with social network analysis to disentangle attributes and the transformative potential of different actors involved in land governance in northeastern Madagascar. Our results show that actors have different combinations of aims, resources, and relational profiles. Combined analysis of their agency and social networks enabled us to identify potential agents of change and yielded options for transformation actions through which they can become operational agents of change. Our research contributes to promoting pathways to sustainability transformations where actors with various agency levels and social network assets are empowered to establish sustainable land governance. The combination of agency analysis and social network analysis is an innovative method that helps to advance sustainability science.

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O. Ravaka Andriamihaja; Florence Metz; Julie G. Zaehringer; Manuel Fischer; Peter Messerli. Identifying agents of change for sustainable land governance. Land Use Policy 2020, 100, 104882 .

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O. Ravaka Andriamihaja, Florence Metz, Julie G. Zaehringer, Manuel Fischer, Peter Messerli. Identifying agents of change for sustainable land governance. Land Use Policy. 2020; 100 ():104882.

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O. Ravaka Andriamihaja; Florence Metz; Julie G. Zaehringer; Manuel Fischer; Peter Messerli. 2020. "Identifying agents of change for sustainable land governance." Land Use Policy 100, no. : 104882.

Journal article
Published: 25 June 2020 in Land Use Policy
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Many experts agree that more agricultural investment is needed in the global South to improve local food security and reduce poverty. However, there is a lack of consensus about the types of investment needed to achieve these goals. This paper contributes to the literature on large agricultural investments and corresponding business models by inventorying and analysing such investments in Kenya’s Nanyuki area. We identify four clusters of business models that differ primarily by type of production and other distinct determinants, namely: demand from markets; access to land; land tenure regime and colonial history; actors involved; biophysical context; labour availability; and governance of the value chain via private standards. The study results shed light on the factors that help or hinder implementation of large agricultural investments and shape their impacts in the context of African land use systems. The way land is accessed represents one of the most-decisive factors determining the risks and opportunities associated with such projects. We find that most investments in the Nanyuki area occur on land bought or leased from private owners.

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Markus Giger; Emily Mutea; Boniface Kiteme; Sandra Eckert; Ward Anseeuw; Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer. Large agricultural investments in Kenya’s Nanyuki Area: Inventory and analysis of business models. Land Use Policy 2020, 99, 104833 .

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Markus Giger, Emily Mutea, Boniface Kiteme, Sandra Eckert, Ward Anseeuw, Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer. Large agricultural investments in Kenya’s Nanyuki Area: Inventory and analysis of business models. Land Use Policy. 2020; 99 ():104833.

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Markus Giger; Emily Mutea; Boniface Kiteme; Sandra Eckert; Ward Anseeuw; Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer. 2020. "Large agricultural investments in Kenya’s Nanyuki Area: Inventory and analysis of business models." Land Use Policy 99, no. : 104833.

Special issue article
Published: 06 March 2020 in The European Journal of Development Research
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Competition over land is at the core of many sustainable development challenges in Myanmar: villagers, companies, governments, ethnic minority groups, civil society organisations and non-governmental organisations from local to the international level claim access to and decision-making power over the use of land. Therefore, this article investigates the actor interactions influencing land-use changes and their impacts on the supply of ecosystem services and human well-being. We utilise a transdisciplinary mixed-methods approach and the analytical lens of the social-ecological systems framework. Results reveal that the links between land-use changes, ecosystem services and human well-being are multifaceted; For example ecosystem services can decline, while human well-being increases. We explain this finding through three different pathways to impact (changes in the resource systems, the governance systems or the broader social, economic and political context). We conclude with implications of these results for future sustainable land governance.

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Flurina Schneider; Melanie Feurer; Lara Maria Lundsgaard-Hansen; Win Myint; Cing Don Nuam; Katharina Nydegger; Christoph Oberlack; Nwe Nwe Tun; Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer; Aung Myin Tun; Peter Messerli. Sustainable Development Under Competing Claims on Land: Three Pathways Between Land-Use Changes, Ecosystem Services and Human Well-Being. The European Journal of Development Research 2020, 32, 316 -337.

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Flurina Schneider, Melanie Feurer, Lara Maria Lundsgaard-Hansen, Win Myint, Cing Don Nuam, Katharina Nydegger, Christoph Oberlack, Nwe Nwe Tun, Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer, Aung Myin Tun, Peter Messerli. Sustainable Development Under Competing Claims on Land: Three Pathways Between Land-Use Changes, Ecosystem Services and Human Well-Being. The European Journal of Development Research. 2020; 32 (2):316-337.

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Flurina Schneider; Melanie Feurer; Lara Maria Lundsgaard-Hansen; Win Myint; Cing Don Nuam; Katharina Nydegger; Christoph Oberlack; Nwe Nwe Tun; Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer; Aung Myin Tun; Peter Messerli. 2020. "Sustainable Development Under Competing Claims on Land: Three Pathways Between Land-Use Changes, Ecosystem Services and Human Well-Being." The European Journal of Development Research 32, no. 2: 316-337.

Review
Published: 20 February 2020 in Sustainability
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Increasing connections and influences from near to far have changed social structures, access to natural resources, and essential livelihoods of smallholders (i.e., those with incomes generated primarily from natural resources on small rural properties). However, the potential benefits and negative impacts from these connections to smallholders’ livelihoods and social-ecological effects remain understudied. In this paper, we applied the frameworks of pericoupling and telecoupling (human-nature interactions between adjacent and distant systems, respectively) to systematically investigate how the flows linking smallholder systems to other systems affect their livelihoods, and causing varying economic, social, and environmental effects from case to case. We synthesized 12 cases of smallholder systems around the world that are linked to adjacent and distant systems through flows of goods, people, resources, and/or information. In each case, we summarized smallholders’ agency, i.e., capability on the formation or operation of these flows, and the changes on livelihoods on the economic, social, and environment effects. Results suggest that strong smallholder agency is associated more with positive than negative effects. Smallholders with medium to high agency have greater overall well-being within the area of interest. Smallholders integrated in pericoupled systems often have strong agency. Being spillover systems in an intercoupled system (e.g., large-scale agricultural investments) can often cause negative outcomes unless smallholders have additional pericoupling flows. Our findings suggest one potential approach to ending poverty and increasing well-being for smallholders is creating and increasing pericoupling flows to empower smallholders for desired livelihood and social-ecological outcomes.

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Yue Dou; Ramon Felipe Bicudo Da Silva; Paul McCord; Julie G. Zaehringer; Hongbo Yang; Paul R. Furumo; Jian Zhang; J. Cristóbal Pizarro; Jianguo Liu. Understanding How Smallholders Integrated into Pericoupled and Telecoupled Systems. Sustainability 2020, 12, 1596 .

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Yue Dou, Ramon Felipe Bicudo Da Silva, Paul McCord, Julie G. Zaehringer, Hongbo Yang, Paul R. Furumo, Jian Zhang, J. Cristóbal Pizarro, Jianguo Liu. Understanding How Smallholders Integrated into Pericoupled and Telecoupled Systems. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (4):1596.

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Yue Dou; Ramon Felipe Bicudo Da Silva; Paul McCord; Julie G. Zaehringer; Hongbo Yang; Paul R. Furumo; Jian Zhang; J. Cristóbal Pizarro; Jianguo Liu. 2020. "Understanding How Smallholders Integrated into Pericoupled and Telecoupled Systems." Sustainability 12, no. 4: 1596.

Original research article
Published: 21 January 2020 in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
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Global change processes are increasing their pace and reach, leading to telecoupled situations, where distant factors come to outpace local determinants of land use change. Often, these dynamics drive agricultural intensification processes, with as yet unclear implications for the well-being of human populations living in the areas affected. This study explores how two key telecoupling dynamics affect local well-being in the biodiversity hotspot of Madagascar. It focuses on forest frontier landscapes, which are undergoing processes of agricultural intensification as a consequence of distant factors. Concretely, we look at how the recent establishment of two, largely externally funded, terrestrial protected areas, Masoala National Park and Makira Natural Park, and the ongoing price boom for two export cash crops, vanilla and clove, have influenced the well-being of local populations in the country's north-east. We present data from eight focus group discussions conducted in four villages located on the periphery of the two protected areas. Drawing on the “capabilities approach,” we identify the key components of the local understanding of well-being, lay out the interconnections between these components, and explore how the two telecoupling processes affect well-being dynamics. Our findings reveal that well-being components present bundle characteristics, where increases or decreases in one component lead to parallel increases, or decreases in a set of them. We further ascertain that telecoupling processes might lead to trade-offs between well-being components. These findings highlight the need for a holistic understanding of human well-being when planning protected areas, and when designing governance mechanisms to steer local landscapes under intense cash crop price fluctuations toward sustainable outcomes.

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Jorge C. Llopis; Clara Léonie Diebold; Flurina Schneider; Paul C. Harimalala; Laby Patrick; Peter Messerli; Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer. Capabilities Under Telecoupling: Human Well-Being Between Cash Crops and Protected Areas in North-Eastern Madagascar. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 2020, 3, 1 .

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Jorge C. Llopis, Clara Léonie Diebold, Flurina Schneider, Paul C. Harimalala, Laby Patrick, Peter Messerli, Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer. Capabilities Under Telecoupling: Human Well-Being Between Cash Crops and Protected Areas in North-Eastern Madagascar. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 2020; 3 ():1.

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Jorge C. Llopis; Clara Léonie Diebold; Flurina Schneider; Paul C. Harimalala; Laby Patrick; Peter Messerli; Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer. 2020. "Capabilities Under Telecoupling: Human Well-Being Between Cash Crops and Protected Areas in North-Eastern Madagascar." Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 3, no. : 1.

Research paper
Published: 01 January 2020 in Ecosystems and People
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Julie G. Zaehringer; Lara Lundsgaard-Hansen; Tun Tun Thein; Jorge C. Llopis; Nwe Nwe Tun; Win Myint; Flurina Schneider. The cash crop boom in southern Myanmar: tracing land use regime shifts through participatory mapping. Ecosystems and People 2020, 16, 36 -49.

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Julie G. Zaehringer, Lara Lundsgaard-Hansen, Tun Tun Thein, Jorge C. Llopis, Nwe Nwe Tun, Win Myint, Flurina Schneider. The cash crop boom in southern Myanmar: tracing land use regime shifts through participatory mapping. Ecosystems and People. 2020; 16 (1):36-49.

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Julie G. Zaehringer; Lara Lundsgaard-Hansen; Tun Tun Thein; Jorge C. Llopis; Nwe Nwe Tun; Win Myint; Flurina Schneider. 2020. "The cash crop boom in southern Myanmar: tracing land use regime shifts through participatory mapping." Ecosystems and People 16, no. 1: 36-49.

Brief communication
Published: 18 November 2019 in Nature Sustainability
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In light of continuing global biodiversity loss, one ambitious proposal has gained considerable traction amongst conservationists: the goal to protect half the Earth. Our analysis suggests that at least one billion people live in places that would be protected if the Half Earth proposal were implemented within all ecoregions. Taking into account the social and economic impacts of such proposals is central to addressing social and environmental justice concerns, and assessing their acceptability and feasibility.

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Judith Schleicher; Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer; Constance Fastré; Bhaskar Vira; Piero Visconti; Chris Sandbrook. Protecting half of the planet could directly affect over one billion people. Nature Sustainability 2019, 2, 1094 -1096.

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Judith Schleicher, Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer, Constance Fastré, Bhaskar Vira, Piero Visconti, Chris Sandbrook. Protecting half of the planet could directly affect over one billion people. Nature Sustainability. 2019; 2 (12):1094-1096.

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Judith Schleicher; Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer; Constance Fastré; Bhaskar Vira; Piero Visconti; Chris Sandbrook. 2019. "Protecting half of the planet could directly affect over one billion people." Nature Sustainability 2, no. 12: 1094-1096.

Journal article
Published: 23 October 2019 in Environmental Science & Policy
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This study contributes to the ongoing discussion on how to attribute and evaluate the contribution of transdisciplinary research to sustainable development. As co-created knowledge is a key product of transdisciplinary research, we tested the hypothesis that the extent to which this knowledge is utilized beyond the project consortia, in different areas – from scientific methods and insights to policy decisions – and across a continuum of geographical scales can be used to identify potential impact pathways. For this purpose, we developed an analytical framework that links the transdisciplinary process to six possible utilization stages, which we used as indicators of the usability of co-created knowledge. We gathered data from 22 research projects active in 36 countries using a survey and semi-structured interviews. Our results show that even during implementation of the projects, co-created knowledge is utilized by multiple actors at different stages, in all areas and at all scales simultaneously, suggesting multiple impact pathways. Project knowledge is predominantly utilized for national-level policymaking, and research partners named co-creation of knowledge with key stakeholders as the most frequently used mechanism for promoting knowledge utilization. Closer analysis revealed different understandings of and approaches to knowledge co-creation. These can be linked to weaker or stronger definitions of transdisciplinarity. The analysis shows that researchers using strong transdisciplinarity approaches typically face challenges in encompassing multiple epistemologies and facilitating dialogue. Some results suggest that inclusion and collaboration in co-creating knowledge can empower actors otherwise excluded. Our research shows that although transdisciplinary projects have nonlinear impact pathways, these can be partially assessed using the proposed analytical framework. Further, our results indicate a link between usability, inclusion, and collaboration in transdisciplinary research. We conclude with the observation that transdisciplinarity and its requirements still need to be better understood by actors within and beyond the research community.

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J. Jacobi; A. Llanque; Sabin Bieri; E. Birachi; R. Cochard; N. Depetris Chauvin; C. Diebold; R. Eschen; E. Frossard; Thomas Guillaume; Stephanie Jaquet; Fabrice Kampfen; M. Kenis; Delwendé Innocent Kiba; H. Komarudin; J. Madrazo; G. Manoli; S.M. Mukhovi; V.T.H. Nguyen; C. Pomalègni; S. Rüegger; F. Schneider; N. TriDung; P. von Groote; M.S. Winkler; Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer; C Robledo-Abad. Utilization of research knowledge in sustainable development pathways: Insights from a transdisciplinary research-for-development programme. Environmental Science & Policy 2019, 103, 21 -29.

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J. Jacobi, A. Llanque, Sabin Bieri, E. Birachi, R. Cochard, N. Depetris Chauvin, C. Diebold, R. Eschen, E. Frossard, Thomas Guillaume, Stephanie Jaquet, Fabrice Kampfen, M. Kenis, Delwendé Innocent Kiba, H. Komarudin, J. Madrazo, G. Manoli, S.M. Mukhovi, V.T.H. Nguyen, C. Pomalègni, S. Rüegger, F. Schneider, N. TriDung, P. von Groote, M.S. Winkler, Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer, C Robledo-Abad. Utilization of research knowledge in sustainable development pathways: Insights from a transdisciplinary research-for-development programme. Environmental Science & Policy. 2019; 103 ():21-29.

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J. Jacobi; A. Llanque; Sabin Bieri; E. Birachi; R. Cochard; N. Depetris Chauvin; C. Diebold; R. Eschen; E. Frossard; Thomas Guillaume; Stephanie Jaquet; Fabrice Kampfen; M. Kenis; Delwendé Innocent Kiba; H. Komarudin; J. Madrazo; G. Manoli; S.M. Mukhovi; V.T.H. Nguyen; C. Pomalègni; S. Rüegger; F. Schneider; N. TriDung; P. von Groote; M.S. Winkler; Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer; C Robledo-Abad. 2019. "Utilization of research knowledge in sustainable development pathways: Insights from a transdisciplinary research-for-development programme." Environmental Science & Policy 103, no. : 21-29.

Journal article
Published: 28 September 2019 in Environmental Modelling & Software
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The management of multi-use landscapes is challenging, but essential when aiming at preserving the potential for ecosystem service provision. Land-use decisions lay at the center of this challenge. While land-use decision models may help to transparently grasp land-use decisions, the parameterization of such models is difficult as human decision-making is often not rational. We show here how we used a serious game to parameterize a Bayesian network-based land-use decision model. To elicit validation, game outputs are transformed to conditional probabilities and compared to conditional probabilities parameterized via a questionnaire and workshop exercises. The analysis of four types of validity shows encouraging results for criterion, respondent-related and practice-related validation. However, content validation (sensitivity analysis) was disappointing initially. We discuss how the success in validation quality may be related to the design of the game and conclude that the transfer from a game to Bayesian networks could improve the parameterization quality.

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Enrico Celio; R. Ntsiva N. Andriatsitohaina; Julie G. Zaehringer. A serious game to parameterize Bayesian networks: Validation in a case study in northeastern Madagascar. Environmental Modelling & Software 2019, 122, 104525 .

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Enrico Celio, R. Ntsiva N. Andriatsitohaina, Julie G. Zaehringer. A serious game to parameterize Bayesian networks: Validation in a case study in northeastern Madagascar. Environmental Modelling & Software. 2019; 122 ():104525.

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Enrico Celio; R. Ntsiva N. Andriatsitohaina; Julie G. Zaehringer. 2019. "A serious game to parameterize Bayesian networks: Validation in a case study in northeastern Madagascar." Environmental Modelling & Software 122, no. : 104525.

Chapter
Published: 22 March 2019 in Telecoupling
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Land is at the core of our planet’s sustainable development challenges. Different actors have contesting claims on ecosystem services provided by local land systems. Land-use changes therefore always entail trade-offs in terms of ecosystem service provision. The United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development offers a normative frame for land system science to produce relevant knowledge for transformation. Such knowledge should include an understanding of social-ecological systems from a systemic as well as a power perspective. Telecoupled interactions between distant systems present an additional challenge to knowledge production requiring methodological innovation. To co-produce evidence for navigating trade-offs inherent to land-use changes, we need to embrace the three knowledge dimensions of systems, target, and transformation knowledge and make use of inter- and transdisciplinary research approaches.

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Julie G. Zaehringer; Flurina Schneider; Andreas Heinimann; Peter Messerli. Co-producing Knowledge for Sustainable Development in Telecoupled Land Systems. Telecoupling 2019, 357 -381.

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Julie G. Zaehringer, Flurina Schneider, Andreas Heinimann, Peter Messerli. Co-producing Knowledge for Sustainable Development in Telecoupled Land Systems. Telecoupling. 2019; ():357-381.

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Julie G. Zaehringer; Flurina Schneider; Andreas Heinimann; Peter Messerli. 2019. "Co-producing Knowledge for Sustainable Development in Telecoupled Land Systems." Telecoupling , no. : 357-381.

Journal article
Published: 12 March 2019 in Land
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Extensive land use changes in forest frontier landscapes are leading to trade-offs in the supply of ecosystem services (ES) with, in many cases, as yet unknown effects on human well-being. In the Tanintharyi Region of Myanmar, a forest frontier landscape facing oil palm and rubber expansion, little is known about local perspectives on ES and the direct impact of trade-offs from land use change. This study assessed the trade-offs experienced with respect to 10 locally important ES from land user perspectives using social valuation techniques. The results show that while intact forests provide the most highly valued ES bundle, the conversion to rubber plantations entails fewer negative trade-offs than that to oil palm. Rubber plantations offer income, fuelwood, a good microclimate, and even new cultural identities. By contrast, oil palm concessions have caused environmental pollution, and, most decisively, have restricted local people’s access to the respective lands. The ES water flow regulation is seen as the most critical if more forest is converted; other ES, such as non-timber forest products, can be more easily substituted. We conclude that, from local perspectives, the impact of ES trade-offs highly depends on access to land and opportunities to adapt to change.

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Melanie Feurer; Andreas Heinimann; Flurina Schneider; Christine Jurt; Win Myint; Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer. Local Perspectives on Ecosystem Service Trade-Offs in a Forest Frontier Landscape in Myanmar. Land 2019, 8, 45 .

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Melanie Feurer, Andreas Heinimann, Flurina Schneider, Christine Jurt, Win Myint, Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer. Local Perspectives on Ecosystem Service Trade-Offs in a Forest Frontier Landscape in Myanmar. Land. 2019; 8 (3):45.

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Melanie Feurer; Andreas Heinimann; Flurina Schneider; Christine Jurt; Win Myint; Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer. 2019. "Local Perspectives on Ecosystem Service Trade-Offs in a Forest Frontier Landscape in Myanmar." Land 8, no. 3: 45.

Review
Published: 16 February 2019 in Sustainability
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In an increasingly interconnected world, human–environment interactions involving flows of people, organisms, goods, information, and energy are expanding in magnitude and extent, often over long distances. As a universal paradigm for examining these interactions, the telecoupling framework (published in 2013) has been broadly implemented across the world by researchers from diverse disciplines. We conducted a systematic review of the first five years of telecoupling research to evaluate the state of telecoupling science and identify strengths, areas to be improved, and promising avenues for future study. We identified 89 studies using any derivation of the term telecoupling. These works emphasize trade flows, information transfer, and species dispersal at international, national, and regional scales involving one or a few countries, with China, Brazil, and the United States being the most frequently studied countries. Our review showed a rising trend in publications and citations on telecoupling, with 63% of identified telecoupling studies using the framework’s specific language (e.g., “flows”, “agents”). This result suggests that future telecoupling studies could apply the standardized telecoupling language and terminology to better coordinate, synthesize, and operationalize interdisciplinary research. Compelling topics for future research include operationalization of the telecoupling framework, commonalities among telecouplings, telecoupling mechanisms and causality, and telecoupled systems governance. Overall, the first five years of telecoupling research have improved our understanding of human–environment interactions, laying a promising foundation for future social–ecological research in a telecoupled world.

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Kelly E. Kapsar; Ciara L. Hovis; Ramon Felipe Bicudo da Silva; Erin K. Buchholtz; Andrew K. Carlson; Yue Dou; Yueyue Du; Paul R. Furumo; Yingjie Li; Aurora Torres; Di Yang; Ho Yi Wan; Julie G. Zaehringer; Jianguo Liu. Telecoupling Research: The First Five Years. Sustainability 2019, 11, 1033 .

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Kelly E. Kapsar, Ciara L. Hovis, Ramon Felipe Bicudo da Silva, Erin K. Buchholtz, Andrew K. Carlson, Yue Dou, Yueyue Du, Paul R. Furumo, Yingjie Li, Aurora Torres, Di Yang, Ho Yi Wan, Julie G. Zaehringer, Jianguo Liu. Telecoupling Research: The First Five Years. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (4):1033.

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Kelly E. Kapsar; Ciara L. Hovis; Ramon Felipe Bicudo da Silva; Erin K. Buchholtz; Andrew K. Carlson; Yue Dou; Yueyue Du; Paul R. Furumo; Yingjie Li; Aurora Torres; Di Yang; Ho Yi Wan; Julie G. Zaehringer; Jianguo Liu. 2019. "Telecoupling Research: The First Five Years." Sustainability 11, no. 4: 1033.

Journal article
Published: 06 February 2019 in Sustainability
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In north-eastern Madagascar, maintenance of biodiversity competes with expansion of land for agriculture and mining. The concept of “telecoupling” provides a framework for analysis of distant actors and institutions that influence local land use decisions. However, there is a lack of knowledge regarding the extent of telecoupling of land governance in north-eastern Madagascar and a lack of evidence regarding its role in driving land use change and land competition. Using a descriptive Social Network Analysis, we disentangled distant interactions between actors in terms of flows and institutions. Our findings show that the domains of economic and environmental interactions are dominated by actors from different sectors that have claims on the same land but generally do not interact. Distant influences occurring via remote flows of goods, money, and institutions serve to reinforce local land competition. Balancing economic and environmental land claims for more sustainable regional development in north-eastern Madagascar requires collaboration between actors across sectors, scales, and domains.

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O. Ravaka Andriamihaja; Florence Metz; Julie G. Zaehringer; Manuel Fischer; Peter Messerli. Land Competition under Telecoupling: Distant Actors’ Environmental versus Economic Claims on Land in North-Eastern Madagascar. Sustainability 2019, 11, 851 .

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O. Ravaka Andriamihaja, Florence Metz, Julie G. Zaehringer, Manuel Fischer, Peter Messerli. Land Competition under Telecoupling: Distant Actors’ Environmental versus Economic Claims on Land in North-Eastern Madagascar. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (3):851.

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O. Ravaka Andriamihaja; Florence Metz; Julie G. Zaehringer; Manuel Fischer; Peter Messerli. 2019. "Land Competition under Telecoupling: Distant Actors’ Environmental versus Economic Claims on Land in North-Eastern Madagascar." Sustainability 11, no. 3: 851.

Articles
Published: 02 January 2019 in Journal of Land Use Science
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We applied a participatory mapping approach supported by very high-resolution satellite imagery to reconstruct spatially explicit, year-to-year land use transitions in two highly biodiverse, data-scarce forest frontier landscapes in north-eastern Madagascar. We explored these transitions in the light of major continuous trends and discrete events highlighted by local farmers as influencing their land use decisions. Our results suggest that the process of establishing protected areas first reinforced ongoing deforestation, but later led to a significant reduction of forest loss rates. Recent cash crop booms appear to have induced agricultural intensification processes in our study landscapes, while also putting additional pressure on forests, as people may be encouraged to clear forest for cash crop cultivation. These findings are crucial to understanding rapid land use change processes in forest frontier contexts in the humid tropics, and especially to informing natural resource governance and development initiatives in complex mosaic landscapes.

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Jorge C. Llopis; Paul C. Harimalala; Roger Bär; Andreas Heinimann; Zo Hasina Rabemananjara; Julie G. Zaehringer. Effects of protected area establishment and cash crop price dynamics on land use transitions 1990–2017 in north-eastern Madagascar. Journal of Land Use Science 2019, 14, 52 -80.

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Jorge C. Llopis, Paul C. Harimalala, Roger Bär, Andreas Heinimann, Zo Hasina Rabemananjara, Julie G. Zaehringer. Effects of protected area establishment and cash crop price dynamics on land use transitions 1990–2017 in north-eastern Madagascar. Journal of Land Use Science. 2019; 14 (1):52-80.

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Jorge C. Llopis; Paul C. Harimalala; Roger Bär; Andreas Heinimann; Zo Hasina Rabemananjara; Julie G. Zaehringer. 2019. "Effects of protected area establishment and cash crop price dynamics on land use transitions 1990–2017 in north-eastern Madagascar." Journal of Land Use Science 14, no. 1: 52-80.

Review
Published: 27 November 2018 in Sustainability
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Telecoupled flows of people, organisms, goods, information, and energy are expanding across the globe. Causes are integral components of the telecoupling framework, yet the rigor with which they have been identified and evaluated to date is unknown. We address this knowledge gap by systematically reviewing causal attribution in the telecoupling literature (n = 89 studies) and developing a standardized causal terminology and typology for consistent use in telecoupling research. Causes are defined based on six criteria: sector (e.g., environmental, economic), system of origin (i.e., sending, receiving, spillover), agent, distance, response time (i.e., time lapse between cause and effect), and direction (i.e., producing positive or negative effects). Using case studies from the telecoupling literature, we demonstrate the need to enhance the rigor of telecoupling causal attribution by combining qualitative and quantitative methods via process-tracing, counterfactual analysis, and related approaches. Rigorous qualitative-quantitative causal attribution is critical for accurately assessing the social-ecological causes and consequences of telecouplings and thereby identifying leverage points for informed management and governance of telecoupled systems.

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Andrew K. Carlson; Julie G. Zaehringer; Rachael D. Garrett; Ramon Felipe Bicudo Silva; Paul R. Furumo; Andrea N Raya Rey; Aurora Torres; Min Gon Chung; Yingjie Li; Jianguo Liu. Toward Rigorous Telecoupling Causal Attribution: A Systematic Review and Typology. Sustainability 2018, 10, 4426 .

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Andrew K. Carlson, Julie G. Zaehringer, Rachael D. Garrett, Ramon Felipe Bicudo Silva, Paul R. Furumo, Andrea N Raya Rey, Aurora Torres, Min Gon Chung, Yingjie Li, Jianguo Liu. Toward Rigorous Telecoupling Causal Attribution: A Systematic Review and Typology. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (12):4426.

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Andrew K. Carlson; Julie G. Zaehringer; Rachael D. Garrett; Ramon Felipe Bicudo Silva; Paul R. Furumo; Andrea N Raya Rey; Aurora Torres; Min Gon Chung; Yingjie Li; Jianguo Liu. 2018. "Toward Rigorous Telecoupling Causal Attribution: A Systematic Review and Typology." Sustainability 10, no. 12: 4426.