Erin Sills
Professor
Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources
Jordan Hall 3110
Area(s) of Expertise
Economic Development, International Forestry
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; Deforestation and land use in the tropics; Impact evaluation of conservation policies.
Courses
Publications
- Does certification change the trajectory of tree cover in working forests in the tropics? An application of the synthetic control method of impact evaluation (2018)
- Creating an appropriate tenure foundation for REDD plus : The record to date and prospects for the future (2018)
- Evidence-based causal chains for linking health, development, and conservation actions (2018)
- Wealth and the distribution of benefits from tropical forests: Implications for REDD (2018)
- What is private land stewardship? Lessons from agricultural opinion leaders in North Carolina (2018)
- A hybrid optimization-agent-based model of REDD plus payments to households on an old deforestation frontier in the Brazilian Amazon (2018)
- Comparing methods for assessing the effectiveness of subnational REDD plus initiatives (2017)
- Comparing methods for assessing the effectiveness of subnational REDD plus initiatives (2017)
- Explaining environmental health behaviors: Evidence from rural India on the influence of discount rates (2017)
- Building the evidence base for REDD plus : Study design and methods for evaluating the impacts of conservation interventions on local well-being (2017)