Leah VanWey is a social demographer and environmental social scientist. She currently has two lines of research. One line studies population change, socioeconomic development, and environmental change associated with the expansion of mechanized agriculture in Brazil. The second is examining 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 and Associate Director of the Population Studies and Training Center. She currently serves as Associate Provost for Academic Space. She 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. 2016; 6 (6) : 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. 2016; 2 (5) : 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. 2015; 14 (2) : 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. 2015; 10 (4) : 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. 2015; 105 (4) : 806-823. |
| VanWey, Leah K, Richards, Peter D Eco-certification and greening the Brazilian soy and corn supply chains. Environ. Res. Lett.. 2014; 9 (3) : 031002. |
| Randell, Heather F., VanWey, Leah K. Networks Versus Need: Drivers of Urban Out-Migration in the Brazilian Amazon. Popul Res Policy Rev. 2014; 33 (6) : 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. 2014; 43 : 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. Environ. Res. Lett.. 2014; 9 (6) : 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. 2013; 368 (1619) : 20120168-20120168. |
| VanWey, Leah, Vithayathil, Trina Off-farm Work among Rural Households: A Case Study in the Brazilian Amazon. Rural Sociol. 2012; 78 (1) : 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.. 2011; 28 (1) : 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. 2011; 34 (1) : 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. 2011; 41 (2) : 223-232. |
| Guedes, Gilvan Ramalho, Queiroz, Bernardo Lanza, VanWey, Leah Karin Transferências intergeracionais privadas na Amazônia rural brasileira. Nova econ.. 2009; 19 (2) |
| 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. 2008; 3 (1) : 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. 2008; 20 (1) : 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. 2008; 3 (1) : 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. 2008; 18 (1) : 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.. 2007; 24 (2) |
| 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. 2007; 28 (3) : 163-185. |
| VanWey, Leah K, Cebulko, Kara B Intergenerational Coresidence Among Small Farmers in Brazilian Amazônia. Journal of Marriage and Family. 2007; 69 (5) : 1257-1270. |
| D’Antona, Álvaro O., VanWey, Leah K., Hayashi, Corey M. Property Size and Land Cover Change in the Brazilian Amazon. Popul Environ. 2006; 27 (5-6) : 373-396. |
| VanWey, Leah Karin, Tucker, Catherine M., McConnell, Eileen Diaz Community Organization, Migration, and Remittances in Oaxaca. Latin American Research Review. 2005; 40 (1) : 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. 2005; 102 (43) : 15337-15342. |
| VanWey, Leah K. Land Ownership as a Determinant of International and Internal Migration in Mexico and Internal Migration in Thailand1. International Migration Review. 2005; 39 (1) : 141-172. |
| Entwisle, Barbara, Walsh, Stephen J., Rindfuss, Ronald R., VanWey, Leah K. Population and Upland Crop Production in Nang Rong, Thailand. Popul Environ. 2005; 26 (6) : 449-470. |
| VanWey, Leah Karin Altruistic and Contractual Remittances Between Male and Female Migrants and Households in Rural Thailand. Demography. 2004; 41 (4) : 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 Environmental Studies |
| Porder, Stephen | Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Environment and Society, Graduate Program Co-Director for the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Program |
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
| ENVS 1920 - Methods for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research |
| SOC 2020 - Multivariate Statistical Methods II |
| SOC 2320 - Migration |
