Erin Sills
Professor and Interim Department Head
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 (including current project on sociohydrology of the Brazilian Amazon); Impact evaluation (including current project on energy poverty in southern Africa).
Courses
ES200 – Climate Change and Sustainability
Publications
- Impacts of Protected Area Deforestation on Dry‐Season Regional Climate in the Brazilian Amazon (2020)
- Investing in local capacity to respond to a federal environmental mandate: Forest & economic impacts of the Green Municipality Program in the Brazilian Amazon (2020)
- Making incremental progress: impacts of a REDD+ pilot initiative in Nepal (2020)
- Overstated carbon emission reductions from voluntary REDD+ projects in the Brazilian Amazon (2020)
- REDD+ in Theory and Practice: How Lessons From Local Projects Can Inform Jurisdictional Approaches (2020)
- Assessing Residents’ Place Attachment to the Guatemalan Maya Landscape Through Mixed Methods Photo Elicitation (2019)
- Deconstructing the policyscape for reducing deforestation in the Eastern Amazon: Practical insights for a landscape approach (2019)
- The Brazilian Forest Code and riparian preservation areas: spatiotemporal analysis and implications for hydrological ecosystem services (2019)
- A A hybrid optimization-agent-based model of REDD plus payments to households on an old deforestation frontier in the Brazilian Amazon (2018)
- Causal inference in environmental conservation: The role of institutions (2018)