Erin Sills
ES
Bio
Education
B.A. Princeton University (1990)
M.A. Duke University (1996)
Ph.D. Duke University (1998)
Research Interests
Markets and payments for non-timber forest benefits; Forest-based livelihoods and economic development (including current project on community forestry in Nepal ); Deforestation and land use in the tropics (including current project on sociohydrology of the Brazilian Amazon); Impact evaluation (including current project on energy poverty in southern Africa).
Courses
FOR 414 – World Forestry
NR 595 – Survey Methods
ES200 – Climate Change and Sustainability
Area(s) of Expertise
Economic Development, International Forestry, Impact Evaluation
Publications
- Community sawmills can save forests: Forest regrowth and avoided deforestation due to vertical integration of wood production in Mexican community forests , ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS (2025)
- Conservation: The secondary road to deforestation , CURRENT BIOLOGY (2025)
- Money matters: Does access to financial services foster household energy transitions in Africa? , ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE (2025)
- What motivates local leaders of community forests in Nepal? An examination of leaders' expressed values and experiences , ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY (2025)
- A Qualitative Assessment of Interrelated Impacts of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic on the Timber Supply Chain in the Southern United States , SOCIETY & NATURAL RESOURCES (2024)
- Action needed to make carbon offsets from forest conservation work for climate change mitigation , SCIENCE (2023)
- Can REDD plus succeed? Occurrence and influence of various combinations of interventions in subnational initiatives , GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS (2023)
- Conservation motivations and willingness to pay for wildlife management areas among recreational user groups , Land Use Policy (2023)
- Credit credibility threatens forests , SCIENCE (2023)
- Forest-Based Employment in the Southern United States amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Causal Inference Analysis , Forest Science (2023)