Category: LULI

Klinger Co-Edits Special Issue of Territory, Politics, Governance

Julie M. Klinger, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and Associate Director of the Land Use & Livelihoods Initiative at the GDP Center, co-edited a recently published special issue of the journal Territory, Politics, Governance with Joshua Muldavin, Professor in the Department of Geography at Sarah Lawrence College.  The […]

Criteria for effective zero-deforestation commitments

By R.D. Garrett, S. Levy, K.M. Carlson, T.A. Gardner, J. Godar, J. Clapp, P. Dauvergne, R. Heilmayr, Y. le Polain de Waroux, B. Ayre, R. Barr, B. Døvre, H.K. Gibbs, S. Hall, S. Lake, J.C. Milder, L.L. Rausch, R. Rivero, X.Rueda, R. Sarsfield, B. Soares-Filho, N. Villoria.   Global Environmental Change 54 (2019) 135-147.

Toward Rigorous Telecoupling Causal Attribution: A Systematic Review and Typology

The scope and intensity of human-environment interactions have increased dramatically since the Industrial Revolution, so much so that scientists now recognize the existence of coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) wherein people interact with natural components.  To successfully study the complex ecological, economic, political, social and cultural interactions among CHANS, scientists have developed a telecoupling […]

Klinger Named VP of Board of Eco-Fashion Enterprise Jhoole

Julie Klinger, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and Associate Director of the Land Use & Livelihoods Initiative (LULI), was elected as Vice President of the Board for Jhoole, a fair-trade eco-fashion enterprise that works with women weavers and artisans in Maheshwar, India. The Sarees from this […]

Ecological and Economic Benefits of Integrating Sheep into Viticulture Production

Balancing the production of agricultural goods, species conservation, and environmental integrity has become a critical concern for the twenty-first century. One potential option to preserve and improve the ecological intensification of agricultural systems is the integration of cropland with livestock grazing to achieve integrated crop and livestock systems. A journal article in Agronomy for Sustainable […]

Environmental Impacts of Oil Crop Expansion in the Tropics: Contrasting Soybeans in South America with Oil Palm in Southeast Asia

Oil crops play a critical role in global food and energy systems, providing cooking oils for human consumption, biofuels for energy, feed for animals and ingredients in beauty products and industrial processes. This versatility makes them desirable in both local and global markets, with recent substantial expansion of oil crop agriculture. However, this expansion has […]

The Role of Supply-Chain Initiatives in Reducing Deforestation

Growing public concern about the contribution of forest loss to climate change and biodiversity decline has spurred new initiatives by private sector actors to eliminate deforestation from their operations and supply chains, including the adoption of aspirational goals by corporations. The number of private commitments to reduce deforestation from supply chains has greatly increased in […]

Nationwide Shift to Grass-Fed Beef Requires Larger Cattle Population

In the United States, there is growing interest in producing more beef from cattle raised in exclusively pasture-based systems, rather than grain-finishing feedlot systems, due to the perception that it is more environmentally sustainable. Yet, existing understanding of the environmental impacts of exclusively pasture-based systems is limited by a lack of clarity about cattle herd […]

Short Gianotti publishes on productivity gains & risk management in Land Use Policy

Anne Short Gianotti, Associate Director of the Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative (LULI) at the GDP Center and Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University, recently published the article “Pursuing productivity gains and risk reduction in a multi-hazard landscape: A case study from eastern Uganda” in the journal Land Use Policy.   […]