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Peer-reviewed journal articles
  1. del Giorgio, O., Robinson, B.E. and le Polain de Waroux, Y. (2022) Impacts of Agricultural Commodity Frontier Expansion on Smallholder Livelihoods: An Assessment through the Lens of Access to Land and Resources in the Argentine Chaco. Journal of Rural Studies 93 (July 2022): 67–80. Versión en castellano aquí.
  2. Levers, C., Romero-Muñoz, A., Baumann, M., De Marzo, T.,  Fernández, P.D., Gasparri, N.I., Gavier-Pizarro, G.I., le Polain de Waroux, Y., Piquer-Rodríguez, M., Seper-Pascual, A., and Kuemmerle, T. (2021) Agricultural Expansion and the Ecological Marginalization of Forest-Dependent People. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, no. 44.
  3. del Giorgio, O., Messager, M.L. and le Polain de Waroux, Y.. (2021) Fenced off: Measuring Growing Restrictions on Resource Access for Smallholders in the Argentine Chaco. Applied Geography 134: 102530. Versión en castellano aquí.
  4. le Polain de Waroux, Y., Garrett, R., Chapman, M., Friis, C., Hoelle, J., Hodel. L., Hopping, K., and Zaehringer, J.G. (2021) The Role of Culture in Land System Science. Journal of Land Use Science, July 25, 2021, 1–17.
  5. le Polain de Waroux, Y., Neumann, J., O’Driscoll, A., and Schreiber, K. (2021). Pious Pioneers: The Expansion of Mennonite Colonies in Latin America. Journal of Land Use Science, December 15, 2020, 1–17. Versión en castellano aquí. Deutsche Version hier. Data available here.
  6. Lewin, A., Erinjery, J.J., le Polain de Waroux, Y., Tripler, E., and Iwamura, T. Land-Use Differences Modify Predator-Prey Interactions and Acacia Vegetation in a Hyperarid Ecosystem. Journal of Arid Environments 192: 104547.
  7. Kehoe, L., T., Meyfroidt, P., Bager, S., Seppelt, R., Kuemmerle, T., Berenguer, E., le Polain de Waroux, Y.  et al. (2020). Inclusion, Transparency, and Enforcement: How the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement Fails the Sustainability Test. One Earth 3: 1-5.
  8. Fernández, P.D., le Polain de Waroux, Y., Jobbágy, E.G., Loto, D.E. and Gasparri, N.I. (2020). A Hard-to-Keep Promise: Vegetation Use and Aboveground Carbon Storage in Silvopastures of the Dry Chaco. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 303: 107-117.
  9. le Polain de Waroux, Y. (2019). Capital has no homeland: The formation of transnational producer cohorts in South America’s commodity frontiers. Geoforum 105: 131-144. Versión en castellano aquí).
  10. Garrett, R.D., Levy, S., Carlson, K.M., Gardner, T.A., Godar, J., Clapp, J., Dauvergne, P., Heilmayr, R., le Polain de Waroux, Y., Ayre, B., Barr, R., Døvre, B., Gibbs, H.K., Hall, S., Lake, S., Milder, J.C., Rausch, L.L., Rivero, R., Rueda, X., Sarsfield, R., Soares-Filho, B., Villoria, N., (2019). Criteria for effective zero-deforestation commitments. Global Environmental Change 54, 135–147.
  11. le Polain de Waroux, Y., Garrett, R. D., Graesser, J., Nolte, C., White, C., & Lambin, E. F. (2019). The restructuring of South American soy and beef production and trade under changing environmental regulations. World Development 121: 188–202.
  12. Garrett, R. D., I. Koh, E. F. Lambin, Y. le Polain de Waroux, J. H. Kastens, and J. C. Brown (2018). Intensification in Agriculture-Forest Frontiers: Land Use Responses to Development and Conservation Policies in Brazil. Global Environmental Change 53: 233–43.
  13. P. Meyfroid, 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 García, M. Schlüter, B.L. Turner, P.H. Verburg. (2018) Middle-Range Theories of Land System Change. Global Environmental Change 53: 52–67.
  14. Iwamura, T., le Polain de Waroux, Y., & Mascia, M.B. (2018). Considering people in systematic conservation planning: insights from land system science. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 16(7): 388-396.
  15. Coomes, O.T., MacDonald, G. & le Polain de Waroux, Y. (2018). Geo-spatial Land Price Data: A Public Good for Global Change Science and Policy. BioScience 68(7): 481-484.
  16. Nolte, C., Gobbi, B., le Polain de Waroux, Y., Piquer-Rodríguez, M., Butsic, V., & Lambin, E. F. (2018). Challenges in attributing avoided deforestation to policies and actors: lessons from provincial forest zoning in the Argentine Dry Chaco. Ecological Economics 150: 346-352.
  17. Lambin, E.F., Gibbs, H., Carlson, K.L., Fleck, L., Garrett, R.D., Heilmayr, R., le Polain de Waroux, Y., McDermott, C., McLaughlin, D., Newton, P., Nolte, C., Pacheco, P., Rausch, L., Streck, C., Thorlakson, T., & Walker, N. (2018) The role of supply-chains initiatives in reducing deforestation. Nature Climate Change 8: 109-116.
  18. le Polain de Waroux, Y., Baumann, M., Gasparri, N.I., Gavier-Pizarro, G., Godar, J., Kuemmerle, T., Müller, R., Vázquez, F., Volante, J.N. & Meyfroidt, P. (2018) Rents, actors, and the expansion of commodity frontiers in the Gran Chaco. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 108(1):204-225. Pre-print pdf. Versión en castellano aquí.
  19. Nolte, C., Gobbi, B., le Polain de Waroux, Y., Piquer-Rodríguez, M., Butsic, V., & Lambin, E. F. (2017) Decentralized land use zoning reduces large-scale deforestation in a major agricultural frontier. Ecological Economics (136), 30–40.
  20. Nolte, C., le Polain de Waroux, Y., Munger, J., Reis, T. N. P., & Lambin, E. F. (2017). Conditions influencing the adoption of effective anti-deforestation policies in South America’s commodity frontiers. Global Environmental Change, (43), 1–14.
  21. le Polain de Waroux, Y., Garrett, R., Heilmayr, R., & Lambin, E.F. (2016). Land use policies and corporate investments in agriculture in the Gran Chaco. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(15): 4021-4026.
  22. le Polain de Waroux, Y., Garrett, R. D., Heilmayr, R., & Lambin, E. F. (2016). Reply to Levine-Schnur: Decisions to deforest illegally are influenced by fines and their perceived enforcement probability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(25), E3469-E3469.
  23. Gasparri, N. I., Kuemmerle, T., Meyfroidt, P., le Polain de Waroux, Y., & Kreft, H. (2016). The Emerging Soybean Production Frontier in Southern Africa: Conservation Challenges and the Role of South‐South Telecouplings. Conservation Letters 9(1): 21-31.
  24. Gasparri, N. I., & le Polain de Waroux, Y. (2014). The coupling of South American soybean and cattle production frontiers: new challenges for conservation policy and land change science. Conservation Letters 8(4): 227-241.
  25. le Polain de Waroux, Y. & Chiche, J. (2013). Market integration, livelihood transitions and environmental change in ecologically marginal areas: a case study from Morocco. Human Ecology 41(4): 535-545.
  26. le Polain de Waroux, Y. (2013). Dégradation environnementale et développement économique dans l’arganeraie d’Aoulouz. Sécheresse 24(1):29-38.
  27. le Polain de Waroux, Y. (2013). The social and environmental context of argan oil production. Nature Product Communications 8(1): 1-4.
  28. le Polain de Waroux, Y. & Lambin, E.F. (2013). Niche commodities and rural poverty alleviation: Contextualizing the contribution of argan oil to rural livelihoods in Morocco. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 103(3): 589-607.
  29. le Polain de Waroux, Y. & Lambin, E.F. (2012) Monitoring degradation in arid and semi-arid forests and woodlands: The case of the argan woodlands (Morocco). Applied Geography 32(2):777-786.

Book chapters
  1. le Polain de Waroux, Y. (2019) Livelihoods through the lens of telecoupling. In: Telecoupling: Exploring Land-Use Change in a Globalised World. Nielsen, J.Ø. and Friis, C., Editors. Palgrave Macmillan Publishers.

Policy briefs
  1. C. Nolte, B. Gobbi, Y. le Polain de Waroux, M. Piquer-Rodríguez, V. Butsic and E.F. Lambin. (2018). Understanding policy impact
    amidst controversy: Lessons from forest zoning in Argentina    . Global Governance Lab Policy Brief. Montreal, Canada: Institute for the Study of International Development, McGill University.
  2. Garrett, R., Lambin, E.F., and le Polain de Waroux, Y. 2017. To eliminate deforestation in South America, reduce differences in regulations across regions and actors. ISID Policy Brief PB-2017-05. Montreal, Canada: Institute for the Study of International Development, McGill University. (versión en Castellano aquí)
  3. Nolte, C., Gobbi, B., le Polain de Waroux, Y., Piquer-Rodríguez, M., Butsic, V., & Lambin, E. F. (2017). La ley de bosques redujo las tasas de deforestación en las provincias de Salta, Chaco y Santiago del Estero. Policy Brief.

Other reports
  1. del Giorgio, O. Informe sobre las condiciones de vida de las comunidades campesinas del Departamento Pellegrini, Santiago del Estero, Argentina. Report to interview participants, June 2021.
  2. le Polain de Waroux, Y. Cadenas de valor y expansión del sector agropecuario en el Gran Chaco Americano. Report to interview participants, January 2014.
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