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
- 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)
- What is a "Community Perception" of REDD plus ? A systematic review of how perceptions of REDD plus have been elicited and reported in the literature (2016)
- How study design influences the ranking of medicinal plant importance: A case study from Ghana, West Africa (vol 69, pg 306, 2015 ) (2016)
- Impacts of the conservation education program in Serra Malagueta Natural Park, Cape Verde (2016)
- Tropical forest seeds in the household economy: effects of market participation among three sociocultural groups in the Upper Xingu region of the Brazilian Amazon (2016)
- Busting the boom-bust pattern of development in the Brazilian Amazon (2016)
- REDD plus at a critical juncture: Assessing the limits of polycentric governance for achieving climate change mitigation (2015)
- How study design influences the ranking of medicinal plant importance: A case study from Ghana, West Africa (2015)