A5010739172- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Forest Management and Policy
- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Environmental Sustainability in Business
- Animal and Plant Science Education
University of Vermont
2016-2025
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
2018-2021
World Wildlife Fund
2013-2017
University of East Anglia
2007-2016
Princeton University
2010-2016
WWF Colombia
2013-2014
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
2010-2013
Princeton Public Schools
2011
It has become essential in policy and decision‐making circles to think about the economic benefits (in addition moral scientific motivations) humans derive from well‐functioning ecosystems. The concept of ecosystem services been developed address this link between ecosystems human welfare. Since decisions are often evaluated through cost–benefit assessments, an analysis can help make service research operational. In paper we provide some simple analyses discuss key concepts involved...
Abstract Reforestation is a critical means of addressing the environmental and social problems deforestation. China’s Grain-for-Green Program (GFGP) world’s largest reforestation scheme. Here we provide first nationwide assessment tree composition GFGP forests combined ecological economic study aimed at understanding GFGP’s biodiversity implications. Across China, are overwhelmingly monocultures or compositionally simple mixed forests. Focusing on birds bees in Sichuan Province, find that...
Tropical forest degradation emits carbon at a rate of ~0.5 Pg·y −1 , reduces biodiversity, and facilitates clearance. Understanding drivers patterns is therefore crucial to managing forests mitigate climate change reduce biodiversity loss. Putative affecting stocks, carbon, have variously been described previously, but these not quantitatively assessed together or tested systematically. Economic theory predicts systematic allocation land its highest use value in response distance from...
Protected areas positively affect several aspects of human well-being across the developing world.
Urban, peri-urban forests and other natural areas provide a wide range of material non-material benefits to people known as ecosystem services. Access these has been linked for physical mental health local populations. In the spring 2020, COVID-19 global pandemic forced many governments impose set restrictions including closure businesses, cancelation public events schooling, social distancing, limitations on size gatherings, travel restrictions. During this period restrictions, we conducted...
While Quality of Life (QOL) has long been an explicit or implicit policy goal, adequate definition and measurement have elusive.Diverse "objective" "subjective" indicators across a range disciplines scales, recent work on subjective well-being (SWB) surveys the psychology happiness spurred renewed interest.Drawing from multiple disciplines, we present integrative QOL that combines measures human needs with happiness.QOL is proposed as multiscale, multi-dimensional concept contains...
Abstract Many human populations are dependent on marine ecosystems for a range of benefits, but we understand little about where and to what degree people rely these ecosystem services. We created new conceptual model map the dependence based magnitude benefit, susceptibility loss that availability alternatives. focused mapping nutritional, economic, coastal protection dependence, our is repeatable, scalable, applicable other ecosystems, designed incorporate additional services data. Here...