Global land governance: from territory to flow?

Sikor, Thomas; Auld, Graeme; Bebbington, Anthony; Benjaminsen, Tor A.; Gentry, Bradford S.; Hunsberger, Carol; Izac, A. M. N.; Margulis, Matias E.; Plieninger, Tobias; Schroeder, Heike; Upton, Caroline

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2013.06.006

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“…First, while land governance is partly shifting from territorial, e.g., state-based, to flow-centered arrangements, e.g., product certification schemes, multiple territorial and flow-centered governance arrangements often coexist (Sikor et al 2013). Tensions among them create fragmented institutional systems, and their interaction generates land system outcomes.…”

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“…For example, actors can be characterized according to their means and assets at their disposal and their values, beliefs, and social capital, while ecosystems may be characterized according to their boundaries, productivity, equilibrium properties, fluxes and Sikor et al (2013) and Moser and Hart (2015). Table 1.…”

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Polycentric governance in telecoupled resource systems

Oberlack¹,

Boillat²,

Brönnimann³

et al. 2018

E&S

107

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ABSTRACT. Recent advances in land system science and in institutional analysis provide complementary, but still largely disconnected perspectives on land use change, governance, and sustainability in social-ecological systems, which are interconnected across distance. In this paper we bring together the emerging concept of telecoupled land systems and the established concept of polycentric governance to support the analysis and the development of sustainable land governance in interconnected social-ecological systems. We operationalize the two concepts by analyzing networks of action situations in which interactions between proximate and distant actors as well as socioeconomic and ecological processes cause land use change and affect the sustainability of land systems. To illustrate this integrated approach empirically, we analyze a case of transnational biofuel investment in Sierra Leone. We identify the characteristics of, and activities in, networks of action situations that affect the sustainability of land systems related to this case. Integration of the two concepts of telecoupled land systems and polycentric governance enables analysts to identify interactions in polycentric governance systems (1) as drivers of telecoupled sustainability problems and (2) as transformative approaches to such problems. The method provides one way for linking place-based analysis of land change with process-based analysis of land governance.

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Section: Linking and Operationalizing Analysis Of Telecoupled Systemsmentioning

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Polycentric governance in telecoupled resource systems

Oberlack¹,

Boillat²,

Brönnimann³

et al. 2018

E&S

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“…The recent recognition of the role of global commodity trade in forest conversion has led to a new emphasis on the private governance of flows of goods, via production and sustainability standards (6). Successful land-use governance requires a mix of flow-and territory-based private and public policy instruments delivered by both state and private actors (7).…”

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Land-use policies and corporate investments in agriculture in the Gran Chaco and Chiquitano

Waroux

Garrett

Heilmayr

et al. 2016

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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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.pollution haven | leakage | land-use change | soy | cattle

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“…Wet forest analysts have focused on centralized controls from federal governments, as in Brazil [43], or on the governance of global flows of commodities to places where a significant fraction of consumers want to purchase green certified products [44]. These policy instruments make sense given the industrial scale of many producers in the wet forests and the long-distance flows of the commodities that they produce.…”

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The Dynamics of Deforestation in the Wet and Dry Tropics: A Comparison with Policy Implications

Rudel

2017

Forests

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Forests in the dry tropics differ significantly from forests in the humid tropics in their biomass and in their socio-ecological contexts, so it might be reasonable to assume that the dynamics that drive deforestation in these two settings would also differ. Until recently, difficulties in measuring the extent of dry tropical forests have made it difficult to investigate this claim empirically. The release of high resolution LANDSAT satellite imagery in 2013 has removed this impediment, making it possible to identify variations in the extent of wet and dry forests within countries by measuring variations in the canopy cover of their forests. These metrics have in turn made it possible to investigate human differences in the dynamics of deforestation between dry forested and wet forested nations in the tropics. Cross-national analyses suggest that international trade in agricultural commodities plays a more important role in driving deforestation in the wet tropics than it does in the dry tropics. The variable salience of international trade as a driver has important implications, described here, for the success of policies designed to slow deforestation in the dry tropics and the wet tropics. Curbing dry forest losses, in particular, would appear to require locally focused and administered policies.

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Global land governance: from territory to flow?

Cited by 134 publications

References 65 publications

Polycentric governance in telecoupled resource systems

Polycentric governance in telecoupled resource systems

Land-use policies and corporate investments in agriculture in the Gran Chaco and Chiquitano

The Dynamics of Deforestation in the Wet and Dry Tropics: A Comparison with Policy Implications

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