Peer-reviewed journal articles
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • le Polain de Waroux, Y. (2013). Dégradation environnementale et développement économique dans l’arganeraie d’Aoulouz. Sécheresse 24(1):29-38.
  • 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
Policy briefs
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • 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.
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