Erin Sills
Biographic Data
| ID | 190835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erin Sills |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erin |
| FAMILY NAME | Sills |
| SIGNATURE | SILLS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 384 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
What motivates local leaders of community forests in Nepal? An examination of leaders’ expressed values and experiences
Nepal’s community forestry (CF) program, a globally recognized model of participatory forest management, relies on voluntary local leaders to guide forest management and governance decisions. Sustaining voluntary leadership has become increasingly challenging because of outmigration, declining forest dependence, and growing urban influence on rural livelihoods. In this study, we explore the values and motivations of existing leaders of community …
The Role of Forests and Trees in Poverty Dynamics
Allocation versus completion
Investing in local capacity to respond to a federal environmental mandate
Estimating Smallholder Opportunity Costs of Redd
Compensating forest users for the opportunity costs of foregoing deforestation and degradation was one of the original distinguishing features of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation). In the early days of REDD+, such costs for tropical smallholders were believed to be quite low, but this has increasingly been questioned. A decade after the concept was proposed, direct payments to forest stakeholders remain rare, while con…
Impacts of the conservation education program in Serra Malagueta Natural Park, Cape Verde
Environmental and conservation education programs are commonly offered in the rapidly expanding network of protected areas in developing countries. There have been few evaluations of these programs and their impacts on participants. At Serra Malagueta Natural Park in Cape Verde, we assessed changes in environmental knowledge, opinions, and behaviors among visiting school children and a comparison group that did not visit the park. Participation i…
Busting the Boom–Bust Pattern of Development in the Brazilian Amazon
How Study Design Influences the Ranking of Medicinal Plant Importance
Targeting areas for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (Redd+) projects in Tanzania
The Reliability of Retrospective Data on Asset Ownership as a Measure of Past Household Wealth
Asset ownership is frequently used to assess the welfare status of households in rural areas of developing countries. Researchers often want to know the prior status of households or how that status has changed over time. In a case study in the Brazilian Amazon, we compare recall data with contemporary reports on assets from a panel survey. We consider multiple dimensions of the consistency of retrospective and contemporary data and seek to ident…
Linking Forest Tenure Reform, Environmental Compliance, and Incentives
The Influence of Place Meanings on Conservation and Human Rights in the Arizona Sonora Borderlands
Rachel ShellabargerRachel Shellabarger is a graduate student in Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University, M. Nils Peterson*Nils Peterson is an Assistant Professor of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology at North Carolina State University, Erin SillsErin Sills is an Associate Professor of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University & Frederick CubbageFred Cubbage is a Professor of …
Improving Household Surveys Through Computer-Assisted Data Collection
Data on land use change and socioeconomic dynamics in developing countries are often collected via paper-and-pencil interviewing (PAPI). This article reviews a computer-aided personal interviewing (CAPI) methodology adopted for the fourth wave of a panel survey administered in a remote region of the Brazilian Amazon in 2009. Ruggedized touch-screen laptops were used to address challenges associated with survey administration in this setting as we…
Welfare Outcomes and the Advance of the Deforestation Frontier in the Brazilian Amazon
Evaluating land use and livelihood impacts of early forest carbon projects
Policy instruments to enhance multi-functional forest management
Taking stock of agroforestry adoption studies
Staged authenticity and heritage tourism
Staged authenticity and heritage tourism
Policy instruments to enhance multi-functional forest management
Linking Forest Tenure Reform, Environmental Compliance, and Incentives
Evaluating land use and livelihood impacts of early forest carbon projects
The Role of Forests and Trees in Poverty Dynamics
Estimating Smallholder Opportunity Costs of Redd
Compensating forest users for the opportunity costs of foregoing deforestation and degradation was one of the original distinguishing features of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation). In the early days of REDD+, such costs for tropical smallholders were believed to be quite low, but this has increasingly been questioned. A decade after the concept was proposed, direct payments to forest stakeholders remain rare, while con…
Welfare Outcomes and the Advance of the Deforestation Frontier in the Brazilian Amazon
Busting the Boom–Bust Pattern of Development in the Brazilian Amazon
Investing in local capacity to respond to a federal environmental mandate
Improving Household Surveys Through Computer-Assisted Data Collection
Data on land use change and socioeconomic dynamics in developing countries are often collected via paper-and-pencil interviewing (PAPI). This article reviews a computer-aided personal interviewing (CAPI) methodology adopted for the fourth wave of a panel survey administered in a remote region of the Brazilian Amazon in 2009. Ruggedized touch-screen laptops were used to address challenges associated with survey administration in this setting as we…
How Study Design Influences the Ranking of Medicinal Plant Importance
Allocation versus completion
Impacts of the conservation education program in Serra Malagueta Natural Park, Cape Verde
Environmental and conservation education programs are commonly offered in the rapidly expanding network of protected areas in developing countries. There have been few evaluations of these programs and their impacts on participants. At Serra Malagueta Natural Park in Cape Verde, we assessed changes in environmental knowledge, opinions, and behaviors among visiting school children and a comparison group that did not visit the park. Participation i…
Targeting areas for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (Redd+) projects in Tanzania
The Reliability of Retrospective Data on Asset Ownership as a Measure of Past Household Wealth
Asset ownership is frequently used to assess the welfare status of households in rural areas of developing countries. Researchers often want to know the prior status of households or how that status has changed over time. In a case study in the Brazilian Amazon, we compare recall data with contemporary reports on assets from a panel survey. We consider multiple dimensions of the consistency of retrospective and contemporary data and seek to ident…
Taking stock of agroforestry adoption studies
Staged authenticity and heritage tourism
Policy instruments to enhance multi-functional forest management
Evaluating land use and livelihood impacts of early forest carbon projects
Welfare Outcomes and the Advance of the Deforestation Frontier in the Brazilian Amazon
The Influence of Place Meanings on Conservation and Human Rights in the Arizona Sonora Borderlands
Rachel ShellabargerRachel Shellabarger is a graduate student in Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University, M. Nils Peterson*Nils Peterson is an Assistant Professor of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology at North Carolina State University, Erin SillsErin Sills is an Associate Professor of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University & Frederick CubbageFred Cubbage is a Professor of …
Improving Household Surveys Through Computer-Assisted Data Collection
Data on land use change and socioeconomic dynamics in developing countries are often collected via paper-and-pencil interviewing (PAPI). This article reviews a computer-aided personal interviewing (CAPI) methodology adopted for the fourth wave of a panel survey administered in a remote region of the Brazilian Amazon in 2009. Ruggedized touch-screen laptops were used to address challenges associated with survey administration in this setting as we…
Linking Forest Tenure Reform, Environmental Compliance, and Incentives
Targeting areas for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (Redd+) projects in Tanzania
The Reliability of Retrospective Data on Asset Ownership as a Measure of Past Household Wealth
Asset ownership is frequently used to assess the welfare status of households in rural areas of developing countries. Researchers often want to know the prior status of households or how that status has changed over time. In a case study in the Brazilian Amazon, we compare recall data with contemporary reports on assets from a panel survey. We consider multiple dimensions of the consistency of retrospective and contemporary data and seek to ident…
Impacts of the conservation education program in Serra Malagueta Natural Park, Cape Verde
Environmental and conservation education programs are commonly offered in the rapidly expanding network of protected areas in developing countries. There have been few evaluations of these programs and their impacts on participants. At Serra Malagueta Natural Park in Cape Verde, we assessed changes in environmental knowledge, opinions, and behaviors among visiting school children and a comparison group that did not visit the park. Participation i…
Busting the Boom–Bust Pattern of Development in the Brazilian Amazon
How Study Design Influences the Ranking of Medicinal Plant Importance
Estimating Smallholder Opportunity Costs of Redd
Compensating forest users for the opportunity costs of foregoing deforestation and degradation was one of the original distinguishing features of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation). In the early days of REDD+, such costs for tropical smallholders were believed to be quite low, but this has increasingly been questioned. A decade after the concept was proposed, direct payments to forest stakeholders remain rare, while con…
Investing in local capacity to respond to a federal environmental mandate
Allocation versus completion
The Role of Forests and Trees in Poverty Dynamics
What motivates local leaders of community forests in Nepal? An examination of leaders’ expressed values and experiences
Nepal’s community forestry (CF) program, a globally recognized model of participatory forest management, relies on voluntary local leaders to guide forest management and governance decisions. Sustaining voluntary leadership has become increasingly challenging because of outmigration, declining forest dependence, and growing urban influence on rural livelihoods. In this study, we explore the values and motivations of existing leaders of community …
Geography (12 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (11 works) · Economics (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (7 works) · Deforestation (computer science (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works)