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
- 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)
- Evaluating the long-term impacts of promoting "green" agriculture in the Amazon (2015)
- Private development-based forest conservation in Patagonia: Comparing mental models and revealing cultural truths (2015)
- Estimating the impacts of local policy innovation: The synthetic control method applied to tropical deforestation (2015)
- Do payments pay off? evidence from participation in Costa Rica's PES program (2015)
- Public health impacts of ecosystem change in the Brazilian Amazon (2015)