Mairon holds a PhD in Environmental Studies from the VU University Amsterdam (2014) and has worked for 15 years on the policy and governance dimensions of sustainable development. He has worked extensively on Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, India and Indonesia on themes related to sustainable agriculture, value chain development and forest conservation, including REDD+, climate-smart agriculture, sustainable food security and landscape approaches. He held postdoctoral positions both at Wageningen University & Research Centre (Netherlands) and at the Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) before becoming a research fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). Mairon is research coordinator for the Trase initiative on sustainable supply chains, and currently focuses on leverage points for land-use sustainability transitions in Latin America.
Themes
Telecoupling of land use systems, Land governance, Land use and conflict
A new piece in Biological Conservationsynthesizes thinking across a broad range of scales and disciplines and develops a model of conservation that moves beyond the site level emphasis of contemporary conservation.
The webinar recording and presenters' slides are now available from the GLP Telecoupling Research Towards Sustainable Transformation of Land Systems Working Group's May webinar "The Telecoupled Implications of EU's New Regulation on 'Deforestation-free' Supply Chains".
A new paper in Biological Conservation offers a dual-branched conservation model that commands novel actions to tackle distant wealth-related drivers of biodiversity decline, while enhancing site-level conservation to empower biodiversity stewards.
A new paper in Conservation draws from over 70 local interviews with stakeholders in Brazil to assess the role that relational values can play as a “deep” leverage point for a land-use transition in the Amazon.
