Research on Land Use and Deforestation

   

Refereed Journal Articles

• “New Data on Public Biodiversity Spending” (with Ben Groom). Nature Ecology & Evolution, March 2021

• “Modelling Land Use, Deforestation, and Policy: A Hybrid Optimisation-Heterogeneous Agent Model with Application to the Bolivian Amazon” (with Lykke Andersen, Ben Groom, Evan Killick, Juan Carlos Ledezma, Charles Palmer). Ecological Economics, vol. 135, pp. 76-90, May 2017

• “Net Carbon Emissions from Deforestation in Bolivia during 1990-2000 and 2000-2010: Results from a carbon bookkeeping model” (with Lykke Andersen, Anna Sophia Doyle, Susana del Granado, Juan Carlos Ledezma, Agnes Medinaceli, Montserrat Valdivia), PLoS ONE 11(3): e0151241, 2016

• “Boom-Bust Patterns in the Brazilian Amazon” (with Eustaquio Reis and Petterson M. Vale), Global Environmental Change (35):391-399, 2015

• “Soybeans, Poverty and Inequality in the Brazilian Amazon” (with Eustaquio Reis and Evan Killick), World Development, vol 52, December 2013

• “A social and ecological assessment of tropical land uses at multiple scales: the Sustainable Amazon Network” (with Toby A. Gardner, et al.) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 368 (20120166), April 2013

• “Valuing future development rights and the costs of conservation easements” (with Kathryn Anderson) Ecological Economics, Volume 68, Issues 1-2, December 2008

• “Transportation costs and the spatial distribution of land use in the Brazilian Amazon” (with Eustaquio Reis), Global Environmental Change vol. 18, issue 1, pp. 54-68, February 2008

• “An Estimation of Land Degradation in the Amazon” Ecological Economics, 31(1) October 1999

   

Books

• The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon, (with Clive W.J. Granger, Eustaquio Reis, Lykke Andersen, and Sven Wunder).  Cambridge University Press, December 2002