Ongoing Projects:

• 2013-2016: 'Developing an Options Market and Complementary Financial Structures to Mobilize Private Capital for REDD+ and Manage Climate Policy Risks' (with Environmental Defense Fund (EDF); International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). Funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, NORAD)
• 2012-2013: 'Bioenergy/Biofuels Scoping Review' (with Angela Doku and Salvatore Di Falco. Funded by the Department for International Development, DFID)
• 2010-2013: 'The REDD Game: A didactic tool for designing effective, efficient and equitable policies to deliver REDD in Bolivia' (with Diana Weinhold - LSE, Ben Groom - SOAS, Evan Killick - Sussex, Ugur Bilge - LSE, Juan Carlos Ledezma - Conservation International, Lykke Andersen - Conservation International, Luis Carlos Jemio - INESAD) - link to project webpage
• 2010-2013: 'Assessing the Impact of Institutional Conditions Upon Programme Design for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation' (with Timothy Laing, LSE. Funding from the Economic and Social Research Council, ESRC)
• 2008-2013: 'Direct and Indirect Impacts of Biofuel Production in Brazil: Land Use, Forest Conversion and Social Welfare' (with Saraly Andrade de Sa - ETH Zurich, Stefanie Engel - ETH Zurich. Funding from the Jeunes Chercheurs programme, Swiss Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries, KFPE, and Research Fellow Partnership Programme for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources, RFPP)

Completed Projects:

• 2005-2012: 'The Emergence of Co-Management Agreements in Lore Lindu National Park in Sulawesi, Indonesia' (with Stefanie Engel, Alex Pfaff - Duke University, Mahawati Mappatoba - Stability of Rainforest Margins in Indonesia, STORMA. Funding from the Robert Bosch Foundation)
• 2008-2010: 'Climate Change, Land Use and External Changes', as part of Climate Policy Making for Enhanced Technological and Institutional Innovations - ClimPol (with the Institute for Environmental Decisions, IED - ETH Zurich. Funding from the Competence Center Environment and Sustainability, CCES, ETH Zurich)
• 2006-2010: 'Payments for Environmental Services and the Role of Market Constraints' (with Ben Groom - School of Oriental and African Studies, London)
• 2007-2009: 'Avoided Deforestation: Prospects for Mitigating Climate Change' (co-edited with Stefanie Engel - ETH Zurich)
• 2005-2009: 'Design of Payments for Environmental Services in the Context of Weak Property Rights and Commercial Interests' (with Stefanie Engel - ETH Zurich)
• 2005: 'Determinants of Firewood Collection and Use in Rural Households, Namibia' (with the International Institute for Environment and Development, IIED, London)
• 2005: 'Impacts of the Millennium Development Goals in Developing Countries' (with the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP, New York)
• 2002-2005: 'Impacts of Decentralization on Forest-Dependent Communities in Indonesia' and 'The Determinants of Post-Decentralization Outcomes from Logging Agreements in Indonesia' (PhD research, the Center for Development Research, Bonn. Funding from the Robert Bosch Foundation grant no: 32.5.8041.0003.0)
• 2002-2003: 'Impacts of Free Trade on Forest Governance' (with the International Institute for Environment and Development, IIED, London and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, Rome)
• 2001-2003: 'Physical and Economic Accounts for UK Fisheries' (with Office for National Statistics, ONS, London, UK)
• 2001-2002: 'Development of Methodologies for Quantifying Illegal Logging' (with the Centre for International Forestry Research, CIFOR, Indonesia)
• 2001: 'Valuation of UK Household Visual Disamenity Associated with Electricity Pylons' (for the National Grid, UK)

Grants obtained:

• 2013-2016: 'Developing an Options Market and Complementary Financial Structures to Mobilize Private Capital for REDD+ and Manage Climate Policy Risks', Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, NORAD [with Environmental Defense Fund (EDF); International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)].

• 2010-2012: 'The REDD Game: A didactic tool for designing effective, efficient and equitable policies to deliver REDD in Bolivia', Natural Environmental Research Council, Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) Programme Framework project, £240,000 [with Diana Weinhold and Lykke Andersen]

• 2010-2013: 'Assessing the Impact of Institutional Conditions Upon Programme Design for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation', Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), winner of studentship Nomination (Quota) Competition, 2010 [with Timothy Laing]

• 2008-2011: 'Direct and Indirect Impacts of Biofuel Production in Brazil: Land Use, Forest Conversion and Social Welfare', Jeunes Chercheurs programme, Swiss Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries (KFPE), 33,500 CHF [with Saraly Andrade de Sa]

• 2008-2011: 'Direct and Indirect Impacts of Biofuel Production in Brazil: Land Use, Forest Conversion and Social Welfare', Research Fellow Partnership Programme for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources (RFPP), 60,000 CHF [with Saraly Andrade de Sa]

• 2008-2011: 'Climate Policy Making for Enhanced Technological and Institutional Innovations' (ClimPol), Competence Center in Environment and Sustainability (CCES), 1,170,000 CHF [with consortium, writing team]