Leah VanWey is a social demographer and environmental social scientist. Her research currently focuses on household responses to a payment for reforestation program in the Atlantic Forest in Brazil, together with the social and environmental impacts of the program. She is committed to interdisciplinary research, and has worked with anthropologists, geographers, demographers, sociologists, urban planners, historians, geoscientists and ecologists at various times. At Brown, Professor VanWey has served as Senior Deputy Director of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Associate Director of the Population Studies and Training Center, and Associate Provost for Academic Space. She currently serves as Dean of the School of Professional Studies. Leah received her PhD from the University of North Carolina, where she was a trainee in the Carolina Population Center, and has previously taught at Indiana University.
| Richards, Peter, Arima, Eugenio, VanWey, Leah, Cohn, Avery, Bhattarai, Nishan. "Are Brazil's Deforesters Avoiding Detection?." Conservation Letters, 2016. |
| Cohn, Avery S., VanWey, Leah K., Spera, Stephanie A., Mustard, John F. "Cropping frequency and area response to climate variability can exceed yield response." Nature Climate change, vol. 6, no. 6, 2016, pp. 601-604. |
| Roy, Eric D., Richards, Peter D., Martinelli, Luiz A., Coletta, Luciana Della, Lins, Silvia Rafaela Machado, Vazquez, Felipe Ferraz, Willig, Edwin, Spera, Stephanie A., VanWey, Leah K., Porder, Stephen. "The phosphorus cost of agricultural intensification in the tropics." NPLANTS, vol. 2, no. 5, 2016, pp. 16043. |
| Richards, Peter D., VanWey, Leah K. "A Second Act in Rural Migration in Western Pará: Rural Out-Migration and the Legacy of Amazon Colonization." Journal of Latin American Geography, vol. 14, no. 2, 2015, pp. 53-75. |
| Richards, Peter D., VanWey, Leah. "Farm-scale distribution of deforestation and remaining forest cover in Mato Grosso." Nature Climate change, 2015. |
| Richards, Peter, Pellegrina, Heitor, VanWey, Leah, Spera, Stephanie. "Soybean Development: The Impact of a Decade of Agricultural Change on Urban and Economic Growth in Mato Grosso, Brazil." PLoS ONE, vol. 10, no. 4, 2015, pp. e0122510. |
| Richards, Peter, VanWey, Leah. "Where Deforestation Leads to Urbanization: How Resource Extraction Is Leading to Urban Growth in the Brazilian Amazon." Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 105, no. 4, 2015, pp. 806-823. |
| VanWey, Leah K, Richards, Peter D. "Eco-certification and greening the Brazilian soy and corn supply chains." Environmental Research Letters, vol. 9, no. 3, 2014, pp. 031002. |
| Randell, Heather F., VanWey, Leah K. "Networks Versus Need: Drivers of Urban Out-Migration in the Brazilian Amazon." Popul Res Policy Rev, vol. 33, no. 6, 2014, pp. 915-936. |
| Guedes, Gilvan R., VanWey, Leah K., Hull, James R., Antigo, Mariangela, Barbieri, Alisson F. "Poverty dynamics, ecological endowments, and land use among smallholders in the Brazilian Amazon." Social Science Research, vol. 43, 2014, pp. 74-91. |
| Spera, Stephanie A, Cohn, Avery S, VanWey, Leah K, Mustard, Jack F, Rudorff, Bernardo F, Risso, Joel, Adami, Marcos. "Recent cropping frequency, expansion, and abandonment in Mato Grosso, Brazil had selective land characteristics." Environmental Research Letters, vol. 9, no. 6, 2014, pp. 064010. |
| VanWey, L. K., Spera, S., de Sa, R., Mahr, D., Mustard, J. F. "Socioeconomic development and agricultural intensification in Mato Grosso." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 368, no. 1619, 2013, pp. 20120168-20120168. |
| VanWey, Leah, Vithayathil, Trina. "Off-farm Work among Rural Households: A Case Study in the Brazilian Amazon." Rural Sociol, vol. 78, no. 1, 2012, pp. 29-50. |
| Guedes, Gilvan Ramalho, Queiroz, Bernardo Lanza, Barbieri, Alisson Flávio, VanWey, Leah Karin. "Ciclo de vida domiciliar, ciclo do lote e mudança no uso da terra na Amazônia Brasileira: revisão crítica da literatura." Rev. bras. estud. popul., vol. 28, no. 1, 2011, pp. 231-240. |
| VanWey, Leah K., Guedes, Gilvan R., D’Antona, Álvaro O. "Out-migration and land-use change in agricultural frontiers: insights from Altamira settlement project." Popul Environ, vol. 34, no. 1, 2011, pp. 44-68. |
| D'Antona, Alvaro, Vanwey, Leah, Ludewigs, Thomas. "Polarização da estrutura fundiária e mudanças no uso e na cobertura da terra na Amazônia." Acta Amazonica, vol. 41, no. 2, 2011, pp. 223-232. |
| Guedes, Gilvan Ramalho, Queiroz, Bernardo Lanza, VanWey, Leah Karin. "Transferências intergeracionais privadas na Amazônia rural brasileira." Nova econ., vol. 19, no. 2, 2009. |
| Parker, Dawn C., Entwisle, Barbara, Rindfuss, Ronald R., Vanwey, Leah K., Manson, Steven M., Moran, Emilio, An, Li, Deadman, Peter, Evans, Tom P., Linderman, Marc, Mussavi Rizi, S. Mohammad, Malanson, George. "Case studies, cross-site comparisons, and the challenge of generalization: comparing agent-based models of land-use change in frontier regions." Journal of Land Use Science, vol. 3, no. 1, 2008, pp. 41-72. |
| De Oliveira D'Antona, A., Cak, A. D., VanWey, L. K. "Collecting Sketch Maps to Understand Property Land Use and Land Cover in Large Surveys." Field Methods, vol. 20, no. 1, 2008, pp. 66-84. |
| Rindfuss, Ronald R., Entwisle, Barbara, Walsh, Stephen J., An, Li, Badenoch, Nathan, Brown, Daniel G., Deadman, Peter, Evans, Tom P., Fox, Jefferson, Geoghegan, Jacqueline, Gutmann, Myron, Kelly, Maggi, Linderman, Marc, Liu, Jianguo, Malanson, George P., Mena, Carlos F., Messina, Joseph P., Moran, Emilio F., Parker, Dawn C., Parton, William, Prasartkul, Pramote, Robinson, Derek T., Sawangdee, Yothin, Vanwey, Leah K., Verburg, Peter H. "Land use change: complexity and comparisons." Journal of Land Use Science, vol. 3, no. 1, 2008, pp. 1-10. |
| de Sherbinin, Alex, VanWey, Leah K., McSweeney, Kendra, Aggarwal, Rimjhim, Barbieri, Alisson, Henry, Sabine, Hunter, Lori M., Twine, Wayne, Walker, Robert. "Rural household demographics, livelihoods and the environment." Global Environmental Change, vol. 18, no. 1, 2008, pp. 38-53. |
| D'Antona, Álvaro de Oliveira, VanWey, Leah Karin. "Estratégia para amostragem da população e da paisagem em pesquisas sobre uso e cobertura da terra." Rev. bras. estud. popul., vol. 24, no. 2, 2007. |
| VanWey, Leah K., D’Antona, Álvaro O., Brondízio, Eduardo S. "Household demographic change and land use/land cover change in the Brazilian Amazon." Popul Environ, vol. 28, no. 3, 2007, pp. 163-185. |
| VanWey, Leah K, Cebulko, Kara B. "Intergenerational Coresidence Among Small Farmers in Brazilian Amazônia." Journal of Marriage and Family, vol. 69, no. 5, 2007, pp. 1257-1270. |
| D’Antona, Álvaro O., VanWey, Leah K., Hayashi, Corey M. "Property Size and Land Cover Change in the Brazilian Amazon." Popul Environ, vol. 27, no. 5-6, 2006, pp. 373-396. |
| VanWey, Leah Karin, Tucker, Catherine M., McConnell, Eileen Diaz. "Community Organization, Migration, and Remittances in Oaxaca." Latin American Research Review, vol. 40, no. 1, 2005, pp. 83-107. |
| VanWey, L. K., Rindfuss, R. R., Gutmann, M. P., Entwisle, B., Balk, D. L. "Confidentiality and spatially explicit data: Concerns and challenges." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 102, no. 43, 2005, pp. 15337-15342. |
| VanWey, Leah K. "Land Ownership as a Determinant of International and Internal Migration in Mexico and Internal Migration in Thailand1." Int Migr Rev, vol. 39, no. 1, 2005, pp. 141-172. |
| Entwisle, Barbara, Walsh, Stephen J., Rindfuss, Ronald R., VanWey, Leah K. "Population and Upland Crop Production in Nang Rong, Thailand." Popul Environ, vol. 26, no. 6, 2005, pp. 449-470. |
| VanWey, Leah Karin. "Altruistic and Contractual Remittances Between Male and Female Migrants and Households in Rural Thailand." Demography, vol. 41, no. 4, 2004, pp. 739-756. |
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | PhD | University of North Carolina |
| 1999 | MA | University of North Carolina |
| 1996 | BA | University of North Carolina |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Mustard, John | Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Professor of Environment and Society |
| Porder, Stephen | Acacia Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology and Environment and Society |
Department of Sociology
Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Population Studies and Training Center
Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences
Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
| EMBA 2310 - Natural Collections: Responses of Biodiversity, Industrialization and Change |
| ENVS 1553 - Feeding Ten Billion - The past, present and future of food |
| ENVS 1920 - Methods for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research |
| SOC 2010 - Multivariate Statistical Methods I |
| SOC 2430 - Fields and Methods of Social Research |
| UNIV 2020 - Professional Development |
