Explaining the emergence of land-use frontiers
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| author | Meyfroidt, Patrick Abeygunawardane, Dilini Baumann, Matthias Bey, Adia Buchadas, Ana Chiarella, Cristina Junquera, Victoria García, Angela Kronenburg Kuemmerle, Tobias de Waroux, Yann le Polain Oliveira, Eduardo Picoli, Michelle Qin, Siyu García, Virginia Rodriguez Rufin, Philippe |
| author_facet | Meyfroidt, Patrick Abeygunawardane, Dilini Baumann, Matthias Bey, Adia Buchadas, Ana Chiarella, Cristina Junquera, Victoria García, Angela Kronenburg Kuemmerle, Tobias de Waroux, Yann le Polain Oliveira, Eduardo Picoli, Michelle Qin, Siyu García, Virginia Rodriguez Rufin, Philippe |
| contents | 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 due 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 abnormal 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. |
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| spellingShingle | Explaining the emergence of land-use frontiers Meyfroidt, Patrick Abeygunawardane, Dilini Baumann, Matthias Bey, Adia Buchadas, Ana Chiarella, Cristina Junquera, Victoria García, Angela Kronenburg Kuemmerle, Tobias de Waroux, Yann le Polain Oliveira, Eduardo Picoli, Michelle Qin, Siyu García, Virginia Rodriguez Rufin, Philippe General Economics Economics 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 due 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 abnormal 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. |
| title | Explaining the emergence of land-use frontiers |
| topic | General Economics Economics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12487 |