Highlights•Distant drivers, including remote market demand, increasingly influence land
changes.•Environmental policies have indirect and distant land use consequences.• …

Inside the engine-room of China's economic growth—the China Development Bank Anyone
wanting a primer on the secret of China's economic success need look no further than China …

World-systems analysis has developed rapidly over the past thirty years. Today's students
and junior scholars come to world-systems analysis as a well-established approach …

The authors engage ecological modernization and treadmill of production theories as well
as the longstanding postmaterialist values hypothesis and the objective problems subjective …

In this paper we address two topical questions: How do the quality of governance and
agricultural intensification impact on spatial expansion of agriculture? Which aspects of …

Agricultural expansion remains the most prominent proximate cause of tropical deforestation
in Latin America, a region characterized by deforestation rates substantially above the world …

China's unprecedented economic growth path over the last two decades has been
paralleled by an exponential growth in the consumption of natural resources and in …

The process of global deforestation calls for urgent attention, particularly in South America
where deforestation rates have failed to decline over the past 20 years. The main direct …

Agricultural expansion remains the most important proximate cause of tropical deforestation,
while interactions between socio-economic, technological and institutional factors represent …

The intent of the present article is to expand upon the discussion concerning the
transnational organization of production, the treadmill logic which drives this organization …