Land use is regulated through various mixes of command-and-control interventions that
directly affect land use via land use restrictions, and other public interventions that indirectly …

Inspired by the success of evidence-based medicine, environmental scholars and
practitioners have grown enthusiastic about applying a similar evidence-based approach to …

An important part of conservation practice is the empirical evaluation of program and policy
impacts. Understanding why conservation programs succeed or fail is essential for …

This article presents a meta-analysis of what drives deforestation and what stops it, based
on a comprehensive database of 121 spatially explicit econometric studies of deforestation …

The awareness of the need for robust impact evaluations in conservation is growing and
statistical matching techniques are increasingly being used to assess the impacts of …

To develop effective environmental policies, we must understand the mechanisms through
which the policies affect social and environmental outcomes. Unfortunately, empirical …

State-controlled protected areas (PAs) have dominated conservation strategies globally, yet
their performance relative to other governance regimes is rarely assessed comprehensively …

Tropical East Asia is home to over one billion people and faces massive human impacts
from its rising population and rapid economic growth. It has already lost more than half of its …

Fires associated with agricultural and plantation development in Indonesia impact
ecosystem services and release emissions into the atmosphere that degrade regional air …

Commodity crop expansion, for both global and domestic urban markets, follows multiple
land change pathways entailing direct and indirect deforestation, and results in various …