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 (including current project on sociohydrology of the Brazilian Amazon); Impact evaluation (including current project on energy poverty in southern Africa).
Courses
Publications
- Deconstructing the policyscape for reducing deforestation in the Eastern Amazon: Practical insights for a landscape approach (2019)
- 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)
- Converting Forests to Farms: The Economic Benefits of Clearing Forests in Agricultural Settlements in the Amazon (2018)
- Creating an appropriate tenure foundation for REDD plus : The record to date and prospects for the future (2018)
- Cross-discipline evidence principles for sustainability policy (2018)
- 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)
- Evidence-based causal chains for linking health, development, and conservation actions (2018)
- Hunting in Afghanistan: variation in motivations across species (2018)
- Impacts of REDD plus payments on a coupled human-natural system in Amazonia (2018)