Cecilie Friis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3707761 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cecilie Friis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cecilie |
| FAMILY NAME | Friis |
| SIGNATURE | FRIIS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4738-3761 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Construction of an Environmental Villain: A Discourse Analysis of Upland Maize Farming in Thailand
Since the mid‐2010s, Thai public discourse has villainised upland maize cultivation in northern Thailand for deforestation and environmental degradation through the popular imagery of bald mountains. The attention has prompted a new wave of land‐use interventions urging upland smallholders to replace maize with trees and perennials. In this paper, we use discourse analysis to analyse the problem and solution narratives around upland maize and pro…
Reaping what we sow: Centering values in food systems transformations research
In many transdisciplinary research settings, a lack of attention to the values underpinning project aims can inhibit stakeholder engagement and ultimately slow or undermine project outcomes. As a research collective (The Careoperative), we have developed a set of four shared values through a facilitated visioning process, as central to the way we work together: care, reflexivity, inclusivity, and collectivity. In this paper, we explore the implic…
Towards Planetary Politics—A Conversation with Concito
In this episode, we speak with senior advisors Andreas Lind and Cecilie Friis from the Danish think tank CONCITO about their project From Planetary Boundaries to Planetary Policies. They explore how addressing the climate crisis requires confronting the broader web of interconnected environmental challenges—and how Earth-system science can inform more effective and equitable policy responses. Lind and Friis discuss the urgent need to move from ab…
Planetary Politics: Challenging the Rules of the Game
The increasing transgression of the Earth’s planetary boundaries is calling attention to the urgent need for rethinking governance and policymaking to handle the multiple, interconnected climate and environmental crises of our time. International scholarly debates have emphasized the necessity of new global responses and planetary solutions to address these planetary-scale challenges. However, most regulatory work and decision-making regarding cl…
Boom and bust: Variegated livelihood pathways among rural households in the banana boom in northern Laos
Crop booms are a significant driver of change for both rural landscapes and smallholder livelihoods. Cavendish bananas have boomed in northern Laos and replaced maize, the previous boom crop, through land leasing contracts between farmers and Chinese companies. This study of two villages in Oudomxay Province explores rural households' participation in this banana boom and the conjunctures that shape variegated livelihood pathways and outcomes. Ho…
Enabling spaces for bridging scales: Scanning solutions for interdisciplinary human-environment research
To tackle the twenty-first-century challenges for sustainability, a deeper understanding of their complexity is needed. Hence, interdisciplinary human–environment research integrating knowledge, perspectives, and solutions across scales is crucial. Yet, questions of ‘scale’ and ‘scaling’ continue to challenge human–environment research. Despite substantial scholarly attention to scales, no unified definitions and understanding exist, causing conf…
Beyond the boom-bust cycle: An interdisciplinary framework for analysing crop booms
The expansion of commercial agriculture is one of the primary drivers of livelihood and land-use changes in the world. Globalisation and other factors have intensified this expansion to the point where booms in single cash crops overtake entire regions before going bust, a pattern that is particularly pervasive in resource frontiers. Using case studies across the Mekong Region, a place which serves as a harbinger for crop booms globally, we propo…
Toward spatial fit in the governance of global commodity flows
Global commodity flows between distally connected social-ecological systems pose important challenges to sustainability governance. These challenges are partly due to difficulties in designing and implementing governance institutions that fit or match the scale of the environmental and social problems generated in such telecoupled systems. We focus on the spatial dimension of governance fit in relation to global commodity flows and telecoupled sy…
Creating leadership collectives for sustainability transformations
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-021-00909-y
Mineral exhaustion and its livelihood implications for artisanal and small-scale miners
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is a vital livelihood practice around the world, especially in the Global South. In Tanzania, millions of people depend on artisanal and small-scale gold mining and many of these people are in Geita, the main gold mining region of Tanzania. Based on qualitative research conducted in this region, this paper engages the artisanal and small-scale miners’ experiences of gold mining. It highlights how extracting …
Inclusion, Transparency, and Enforcement: How the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement Fails the Sustainability Test
Thinking through connections in food and energy transitions
KEYWORDS: Sustainability transitionspatial connectionsspacefood systemsenergy systemsengaged pluralism
Governing flows in telecoupled land systems
Toward a normative land systems science
Science should provide solutions for societal transformations towards sustainability in the face of global environmental change. Land system science, as a systemic science focused on complex socioecological interactions around land use and associated trade-offs and synergies, is well placed to contribute to this agenda. This goal requires a stronger engagement with the normative implications of scientific practice, research topics, questions and …
Spillover systems in a telecoupled Anthropocene: Typology, methods, and governance for global sustainability
Land-use change in a telecoupled world: The relevance and applicability of the telecoupling framework in the case of banana plantation expansion in Laos
Friis, C., and J. Ø. Nielsen. 2017. Land-use change in a telecoupled world: the relevance and applicability of the telecoupling framework in the case of banana plantation expansion in Laos. Ecology and Society 22(4):30. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09480-220430
Changing local land systems: Implications of a Chinese rubber plantation in Nambak District, Lao PDR
This paper investigates the direct and cascading land system consequences of a Chinese company's land acquisition for rubber cultivation in northern Laos. Transnational land acquisitions are increasingly acknowledged as an important driver of direct land use conversion with implications for local land‐based livelihoods. The paper presents an empirical case study of the village of Na Nhang Neua in Nambak District, Luang Prabang Province, using a m…
Small-scale land acquisitions, large-scale implications: Exploring the case of Chinese banana investments in Northern Laos
The scholarly debate around ‘global land grabbing’ is advancing theoretically, methodologically and empirically. This study contributes to these ongoing efforts by investigating a set of ‘small-scale land acquisitions’ in the context of a recent boom in banana plantation investments in Luang Namtha Province, Laos. In relation to the actors, scales and processes involved, the banana acquisitions differ from the state-granted large-scale land acqui…
Small-scale land acquisitions, large-scale implications: Exploring the case of Chinese banana investments in Northern Laos
The scholarly debate around ‘global land grabbing’ is advancing theoretically, methodologically and empirically. This study contributes to these ongoing efforts by investigating a set of ‘small-scale land acquisitions’ in the context of a recent boom in banana plantation investments in Luang Namtha Province, Laos. In relation to the actors, scales and processes involved, the banana acquisitions differ from the state-granted large-scale land acqui…
Spillover systems in a telecoupled Anthropocene: Typology, methods, and governance for global sustainability
Mineral exhaustion and its livelihood implications for artisanal and small-scale miners
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is a vital livelihood practice around the world, especially in the Global South. In Tanzania, millions of people depend on artisanal and small-scale gold mining and many of these people are in Geita, the main gold mining region of Tanzania. Based on qualitative research conducted in this region, this paper engages the artisanal and small-scale miners’ experiences of gold mining. It highlights how extracting …
Governing flows in telecoupled land systems
Toward a normative land systems science
Science should provide solutions for societal transformations towards sustainability in the face of global environmental change. Land system science, as a systemic science focused on complex socioecological interactions around land use and associated trade-offs and synergies, is well placed to contribute to this agenda. This goal requires a stronger engagement with the normative implications of scientific practice, research topics, questions and …
Creating leadership collectives for sustainability transformations
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-021-00909-y
Beyond the boom-bust cycle: An interdisciplinary framework for analysing crop booms
The expansion of commercial agriculture is one of the primary drivers of livelihood and land-use changes in the world. Globalisation and other factors have intensified this expansion to the point where booms in single cash crops overtake entire regions before going bust, a pattern that is particularly pervasive in resource frontiers. Using case studies across the Mekong Region, a place which serves as a harbinger for crop booms globally, we propo…
Land-use change in a telecoupled world: The relevance and applicability of the telecoupling framework in the case of banana plantation expansion in Laos
Friis, C., and J. Ø. Nielsen. 2017. Land-use change in a telecoupled world: the relevance and applicability of the telecoupling framework in the case of banana plantation expansion in Laos. Ecology and Society 22(4):30. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09480-220430
Toward spatial fit in the governance of global commodity flows
Global commodity flows between distally connected social-ecological systems pose important challenges to sustainability governance. These challenges are partly due to difficulties in designing and implementing governance institutions that fit or match the scale of the environmental and social problems generated in such telecoupled systems. We focus on the spatial dimension of governance fit in relation to global commodity flows and telecoupled sy…
Boom and bust: Variegated livelihood pathways among rural households in the banana boom in northern Laos
Crop booms are a significant driver of change for both rural landscapes and smallholder livelihoods. Cavendish bananas have boomed in northern Laos and replaced maize, the previous boom crop, through land leasing contracts between farmers and Chinese companies. This study of two villages in Oudomxay Province explores rural households' participation in this banana boom and the conjunctures that shape variegated livelihood pathways and outcomes. Ho…
Enabling spaces for bridging scales: Scanning solutions for interdisciplinary human-environment research
To tackle the twenty-first-century challenges for sustainability, a deeper understanding of their complexity is needed. Hence, interdisciplinary human–environment research integrating knowledge, perspectives, and solutions across scales is crucial. Yet, questions of ‘scale’ and ‘scaling’ continue to challenge human–environment research. Despite substantial scholarly attention to scales, no unified definitions and understanding exist, causing conf…
Changing local land systems: Implications of a Chinese rubber plantation in Nambak District, Lao PDR
This paper investigates the direct and cascading land system consequences of a Chinese company's land acquisition for rubber cultivation in northern Laos. Transnational land acquisitions are increasingly acknowledged as an important driver of direct land use conversion with implications for local land‐based livelihoods. The paper presents an empirical case study of the village of Na Nhang Neua in Nambak District, Luang Prabang Province, using a m…
Small-scale land acquisitions, large-scale implications: Exploring the case of Chinese banana investments in Northern Laos
The scholarly debate around ‘global land grabbing’ is advancing theoretically, methodologically and empirically. This study contributes to these ongoing efforts by investigating a set of ‘small-scale land acquisitions’ in the context of a recent boom in banana plantation investments in Luang Namtha Province, Laos. In relation to the actors, scales and processes involved, the banana acquisitions differ from the state-granted large-scale land acqui…
Land-use change in a telecoupled world: The relevance and applicability of the telecoupling framework in the case of banana plantation expansion in Laos
Friis, C., and J. Ø. Nielsen. 2017. Land-use change in a telecoupled world: the relevance and applicability of the telecoupling framework in the case of banana plantation expansion in Laos. Ecology and Society 22(4):30. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09480-220430
Spillover systems in a telecoupled Anthropocene: Typology, methods, and governance for global sustainability
Governing flows in telecoupled land systems
Toward a normative land systems science
Science should provide solutions for societal transformations towards sustainability in the face of global environmental change. Land system science, as a systemic science focused on complex socioecological interactions around land use and associated trade-offs and synergies, is well placed to contribute to this agenda. This goal requires a stronger engagement with the normative implications of scientific practice, research topics, questions and …
Inclusion, Transparency, and Enforcement: How the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement Fails the Sustainability Test
Thinking through connections in food and energy transitions
KEYWORDS: Sustainability transitionspatial connectionsspacefood systemsenergy systemsengaged pluralism
Creating leadership collectives for sustainability transformations
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-021-00909-y
Mineral exhaustion and its livelihood implications for artisanal and small-scale miners
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is a vital livelihood practice around the world, especially in the Global South. In Tanzania, millions of people depend on artisanal and small-scale gold mining and many of these people are in Geita, the main gold mining region of Tanzania. Based on qualitative research conducted in this region, this paper engages the artisanal and small-scale miners’ experiences of gold mining. It highlights how extracting …
Enabling spaces for bridging scales: Scanning solutions for interdisciplinary human-environment research
To tackle the twenty-first-century challenges for sustainability, a deeper understanding of their complexity is needed. Hence, interdisciplinary human–environment research integrating knowledge, perspectives, and solutions across scales is crucial. Yet, questions of ‘scale’ and ‘scaling’ continue to challenge human–environment research. Despite substantial scholarly attention to scales, no unified definitions and understanding exist, causing conf…
Beyond the boom-bust cycle: An interdisciplinary framework for analysing crop booms
The expansion of commercial agriculture is one of the primary drivers of livelihood and land-use changes in the world. Globalisation and other factors have intensified this expansion to the point where booms in single cash crops overtake entire regions before going bust, a pattern that is particularly pervasive in resource frontiers. Using case studies across the Mekong Region, a place which serves as a harbinger for crop booms globally, we propo…
Toward spatial fit in the governance of global commodity flows
Global commodity flows between distally connected social-ecological systems pose important challenges to sustainability governance. These challenges are partly due to difficulties in designing and implementing governance institutions that fit or match the scale of the environmental and social problems generated in such telecoupled systems. We focus on the spatial dimension of governance fit in relation to global commodity flows and telecoupled sy…
Boom and bust: Variegated livelihood pathways among rural households in the banana boom in northern Laos
Crop booms are a significant driver of change for both rural landscapes and smallholder livelihoods. Cavendish bananas have boomed in northern Laos and replaced maize, the previous boom crop, through land leasing contracts between farmers and Chinese companies. This study of two villages in Oudomxay Province explores rural households' participation in this banana boom and the conjunctures that shape variegated livelihood pathways and outcomes. Ho…
Reaping what we sow: Centering values in food systems transformations research
In many transdisciplinary research settings, a lack of attention to the values underpinning project aims can inhibit stakeholder engagement and ultimately slow or undermine project outcomes. As a research collective (The Careoperative), we have developed a set of four shared values through a facilitated visioning process, as central to the way we work together: care, reflexivity, inclusivity, and collectivity. In this paper, we explore the implic…
Towards Planetary Politics—A Conversation with Concito
In this episode, we speak with senior advisors Andreas Lind and Cecilie Friis from the Danish think tank CONCITO about their project From Planetary Boundaries to Planetary Policies. They explore how addressing the climate crisis requires confronting the broader web of interconnected environmental challenges—and how Earth-system science can inform more effective and equitable policy responses. Lind and Friis discuss the urgent need to move from ab…
Planetary Politics: Challenging the Rules of the Game
The increasing transgression of the Earth’s planetary boundaries is calling attention to the urgent need for rethinking governance and policymaking to handle the multiple, interconnected climate and environmental crises of our time. International scholarly debates have emphasized the necessity of new global responses and planetary solutions to address these planetary-scale challenges. However, most regulatory work and decision-making regarding cl…
The Construction of an Environmental Villain: A Discourse Analysis of Upland Maize Farming in Thailand
Since the mid‐2010s, Thai public discourse has villainised upland maize cultivation in northern Thailand for deforestation and environmental degradation through the popular imagery of bald mountains. The attention has prompted a new wave of land‐use interventions urging upland smallholders to replace maize with trees and perennials. In this paper, we use discourse analysis to analyse the problem and solution narratives around upland maize and pro…
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