MIDLAND SIGNED
Developing middle-range theories linking land use displacement, intensification and transitions
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Project "MIDLAND" data sheet
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| Coordinator |
UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN
Organization address contact info |
| Coordinator Country | Belgium [BE] |
| Project website | https://erc-midland.earth |
| Total cost | 1˙498˙420 € |
| EC max contribution | 1˙498˙420 € (100%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)) |
| Code Call | ERC-2015-STG |
| Funding Scheme | ERC-STG |
| Starting year | 2016 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2016-05-01 to 2021-04-30 |
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| 1 | UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN | BE (LOUVAIN LA NEUVE) | coordinator | 1˙498˙420.00 |
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Project objective
Land is a nexus for crucial societal and environmental challenges including food security, access to water, land degradation, biodiversity loss, and climate change. Development of solutions to balance these tradeoffs and synergies is currently hindered by the lack of theories explaining the conditions under which different pathways of land change occur and lead to different outcomes, integrating human and environmental aspects.
This project will develop and test integrated middle-range theories explaining the linkages between three of the major processes in land systems, i.e., (i) land use intensification and expansion, (ii) land use displacement and trade, and (iii) land use transitions or regime shifts. The work will focus on the emerging agricultural frontier of Southern African dry forests and savannas, which is a threatened and understudied region, and its linkages with distant places.
To overcome current limitations, the project builds on (i) experience in empirical, place-based studies, (ii) strong knowledge of social sciences and human-environment theories, (iii) rigorous inductive and deductive approaches to develop and test theories, and (iv) new ways to analyze linkages between distant social-ecological systems.
We will analyze: (i) The strategic field of actors’ coalitions, institutions and distant linkages in emerging frontiers; (ii) Links between land use displacement, leakage, and local land changes; (iii) Pathways of agricultural expansion and intensification in tropical landscapes; and (iv) The conditions for transformative governance of land systems to foster resilient landscapes that sustain ecosystem services and livelihoods. These results will then be integrated to move towards the next generation of land system science, which will be able to develop, test and be guided by theoretical models. This will contribute to more relevant insights for social-ecological systems broadly and for sustainability and other social and natural sciences.
Publications
| year | authors and title | journal | last update |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 |
Allison M Thomson, Erle C Ellis, HÉctor Ricardo Grau, Tobias Kuemmerle, Patrick Meyfroidt, Navin Ramankutty, Gete Zeleke Sustainable intensification in land systems: trade-offs, scales, and contexts published pages: 37-43, ISSN: 1877-3435, DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2019.04.011 |
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 38 | 2019-08-05 |
| 2019 |
Patrick Meyfroidt, Dilini Abeygunawardane, Navin Ramankutty, Allison Thomson, Gete Zeleke Interactions between land systems and food systems published pages: 60-67, ISSN: 1877-3435, DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2019.04.010 |
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 38 | 2019-08-05 |
| 2019 |
Darla K Munroe, Mateus Batistella, Cecilie Friis, Nestor Ignacio Gasparri, Eric F Lambin, Jianguo Liu, Patrick Meyfroidt, Emilio Moran, Jonas Østergaard Nielsen Governing flows in telecoupled land systems published pages: 53-59, ISSN: 1877-3435, DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2019.05.004 |
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 38 | 2019-08-05 |
| 2019 |
Jonas Ø Nielsen, Ariane de Bremond, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Cecilie Friis, Graciela Metternicht, Patrick Meyfroidt, Darla Munroe, Unai Pascual, Allison Thomson Toward a normative land systems science published pages: 1-6, ISSN: 1877-3435, DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2019.02.003 |
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 38 | 2019-08-05 |
| 2019 |
Christoph Oberlack, Diana Sietz, Elisabeth Bürgi Bonanomi, Ariane de Bremond, Jampel Dell\'Angelo, Klaus Eisenack, Erle C. Ellis, Graham Epstein, Markus Giger, Andreas Heinimann, Christian Kimmich, Marcel TJ Kok, David Manuel-Navarrete, Peter Messerli, Patrick Meyfroidt, Tomáš VáclavÃk, Sergio Villamayor-Tomas Archetype analysis in sustainability research: meanings, motivations, and evidence-based policy making published pages: , ISSN: 1708-3087, DOI: 10.5751/es-10747-240226 |
Ecology and Society 24/2 | 2019-08-05 |
| 2019 |
Thomas K. Rudel, Patrick Meyfroidt, Robin Chazdon, Frans Bongers, Sean Sloan, H. Ricardo Grau, Tracy Van Holt, Laura Schneider Whither the forest transition? Climate change, policy responses, and redistributed forests in the twenty-first century published pages: , ISSN: 0044-7447, DOI: 10.1007/s13280-018-01143-0 |
Ambio | 2019-08-05 |
| 2018 |
T.A. Gardner, M. Benzie, J. Börner, E. Dawkins, S. Fick, R. Garrett, J. Godar, A. Grimard, S. Lake, R.K. Larsen, N. Mardas, C.L. McDermott, P. Meyfroidt, M. Osbeck, M. Persson, T. Sembres, C. Suavet, B. Strassburg, A. Trevisan, C. West, P. Wolvekamp Transparency and sustainability in global commodity supply chains published pages: , ISSN: 0305-750X, DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.05.025 |
World Development | 2019-05-04 |
| 2018 |
P. Meyfroidt, R. Roy Chowdhury, A. de Bremond, E.C. Ellis, K.-H. Erb, T. Filatova, R.D. Garrett, J.M. Grove, A. Heinimann, T. Kuemmerle, C.A. Kull, E.F. Lambin, Y. Landon, Y. le Polain de Waroux, P. Messerli, D. Müller, J.Ø. Nielsen, G.D. Peterson, V. Rodriguez GarcÃa, M. Schlüter, B.L. Turner, P.H. Verburg Middle-range theories of land system change published pages: 52-67, ISSN: 0959-3780, DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.08.006 |
Global Environmental Change 53 | 2019-05-04 |
| 2017 |
Karl-Heinz Erb, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Patrick Meyfroidt, Julia Pongratz, Axel Don, Silvia Kloster, Tobias Kuemmerle, Tamara Fetzel, Richard Fuchs, Martin Herold, Helmut Haberl, Chris D. Jones, Erika MarÃn-Spiotta, Ian McCallum, Eddy Robertson, Verena Seufert, Steffen Fritz, Aude Valade, Andrew Wiltshire, Albertus J. Dolman Land management: data availability and process understanding for global change studies published pages: 512-533, ISSN: 1354-1013, DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13443 |
Global Change Biology 23/2 | 2019-05-04 |
| 2018 |
Angela Kronenburg GarcÃa Territorial Conflicts, Agency and the Strategic Appropriation of Interventions in Kenya’s Southern Drylands published pages: 4156, ISSN: 2071-1050, DOI: 10.3390/su10114156 |
Sustainability 10/11 | 2019-05-04 |
| 2017 |
Yann le Polain de Waroux, Matthias Baumann, Nestor Ignacio Gasparri, Gregorio Gavier-Pizarro, Javier Godar, Tobias Kuemmerle, Robert Müller, Fabricio Vázquez, José Norberto Volante, Patrick Meyfroidt Rents, Actors, and the Expansion of Commodity Frontiers in the Gran Chaco published pages: 204-225, ISSN: 2469-4452, DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2017.1360761 |
Annals of the American Association of Geographers 108/1 | 2019-05-04 |
| 2018 |
Ruben Weesie, Angela Kronenburg GarcÃa From Herding to Farming under Adaptation Interventions in Southern Kenya: A Critical Perspective published pages: 4386, ISSN: 2071-1050, DOI: 10.3390/su10124386 |
Sustainability 10/12 | 2019-05-04 |
| 2017 |
Patrick Meyfroidt Mapping farm size globally: benchmarking the smallholders debate published pages: 31002, ISSN: 1748-9326, DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa5ef6 |
Environmental Research Letters 12/3 | 2019-05-04 |
| 2018 |
Robert Huber, Martha Bakker, Alfons Balmann, Thomas Berger, Mike Bithell, Calum Brown, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, Hang Xiong, Quang Bao Le, Gabriele Mack, Patrick Meyfroidt, James Millington, Birgit Müller, J. Gareth Polhill, Zhanli Sun, Roman Seidl, Christian Troost, Robert Finger Representation of decision-making in European agricultural agent-based models published pages: 143-160, ISSN: 0308-521X, DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2018.09.007 |
Agricultural Systems 167 | 2019-05-04 |
| 2018 |
Patrick Meyfroidt Trade-offs between environment and livelihoods: Bridging the global land use and food security discussions published pages: 9-16, ISSN: 2211-9124, DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2017.08.001 |
Global Food Security 16 | 2019-05-04 |
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