Research, Training, Outreach
Links to portfolio of current work
- Tropical soil carbon and land use
Dr. Erika Marin-Spiotta (Geography), Emily Atkinson (grad student, Geography)
Seeking to create economic benefits for the poor while sustainably managing natural resources - Impact of water payments for ecosystem services on local income distribution in Mexico
Dr. Jennifer Alix-Garcia (Agricultural and Applied Economics)
Understanding how cash transfer schemes, conditional on sustainable environmental management, affect household and community level behaviors, and how these behaviors affect environmental outcomes. - Land tenure, governance, and payments for ecosystem services
Dr. Lisa Naughton (Geography)
Series of activities to inform PES policy. - Enabling access for rural poor to PES and REDD Programs.
Dr. Lisa Naughton (Geography)
Providing synthesis of research from Tropical Andes regarding the critical role of land tenure as an enabling condition for payments and ecosystem services. - Land management in Trinidad and Tobago
Dr. Steven Ventura (Soil Science)
Collaboration with the group in Trinidad and Tobago tasked by the T&T government to institute transparent and efficient management of state lands. - Strengthening local capacity to verify ecosystem services and achieve wildlife-friendly certification
Dr. Adrian Treves (Nelson Institute)
Building on tangible conservation results and gathering lessons on how to build local capacity to engage in conservation - Conservation and livelihoods, Nagarahole, India
Dr. Adrian Treves (Nelson Institute), Dr. Lisa Naughton (Geography)
Evaluating voluntary resettlement as a management option for protecting endangered species, mitigating human-wildlife conflicts and improving human livelihoods. - Decision-making and authority over natural resource management, Mali
Dr. Matthew Turner (Geography), Leif Brottem (grad student, Geography)
Applied research into governance and institutions for coping with environmental change in the Sahel. - Indigenous governance of natural resources for sustainable economic development
Dr. Susana Lastarria (Urban and Regional Planning)
Documenting the growing influence of indigenous women in the governance of natural resources - Climate change and malaria risk
Dr. Jonathan Patz (Nelson Institute)
Analysis of climate change impacts on malaria risk. Results featured in the 2008 IUCN World Conservation Congress in Barcelona. - Impact of climate change on biodiversity in the tropical Andes
Dr. Jack Williams (Geography)
Analysis of climate change impacts on future novel and disappearing climates in the tropical Andes. Results featured in the 2008 IUCN World Conservation Congress in Barcelona.