D C Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 10090 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D C Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | D C |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois Department of Natural Resources |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6812-0314 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1936 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
A horizon scan of global issues on forests and livelihoods for 2026
Mapping the social-ecological suitability of agroforestry in the US Midwest
Agroforestry practices offer the potential to increase agricultural sustainability, but their adoption remains limited, especially in some of the world’s most highly productive regions like the United States (US) Midwest. Integrated assessment of the environmental, social, and economic factors that determine agroforestry’s potential benefits and social acceptability is needed to effectively target agroforestry expansion. To meet this need, we use…
International climate and biodiversity funding
Trends in forest livelihoods research – Taking stock in 2024
The impact of forest product collection and processing on household income in rural Liberia
An investment strategy to address biodiversity loss from agricultural expansion
The landmark 2019 Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Global Assessment cited land-use change as the primary driver of biodiversity loss. The 2016 peace agreement in Colombia has led to increasing agricultural expansion into biodiversity-rich forests. We have focused on the case of Colombia to demonstrate an approach to maximize the biodiversity benefits from limited conservation funding while …
Forests, trees and the eradication of poverty
The Role of Forests and Trees in Poverty Dynamics
Scaling smallholder tree cover restoration across the tropics
Restoring tree cover in tropical countries has the potential to benefit millions of smallholders through improvements in income and environmental services. However, despite their dominant landholding shares in many countries, smallholders’ role in restoration has not been addressed in prior global or pan-tropical restoration studies. We fill this lacuna by using global spatial data on trees and people, national indicators of enabling conditions, …
Social Values and Knowledge Predict Attitudes within an Urban Protected Area in El Salvador
Urban protected areas are faced with numerous pressures from intensified land uses that jeopardize their sustainability, particularly in Central America where there is an abundance of areas managed for conservation yet limited financing. An understanding of the factors that influence public support for fee programs is of paramount importance but difficult to anticipate without empirical evidence of the social phenomena that influence attitudes. H…
A global review of the impact of forest property rights interventions on poverty
Forest plantations and local economic development
Forests, trees and poverty alleviation
Predicting the long-term social and ecological impacts of tree-planting programs
The Number and Spatial Distribution of Forest-Proximate People Globally
Agroforestry as a pathway to agricultural yield impacts in climate-smart agriculture investments
Yield effects of climate-smart agriculture aid investment in southern Malawi
Resource recovery from sanitation to enhance ecosystem services
Forests as pathways to prosperity
Understanding the adoption of climate-smart agriculture
Machine learning to analyze the social-ecological impacts of natural resource policy
Machine learning promises to advance analysis of the social and ecological impacts of forest and other natural resource policies around the world. However, realizing this promise requires addressing a number of challenges characteristic of the forest sector. Forests are complex social-ecological systems (SESs) with myriad interactions and feedbacks potentially linked to policy impacts. This complexity makes it hard for machine learning methods to…
Protected areas and the sustainable governance of forest resources
Prevalence, economic contribution, and determinants of trees on farms across Sub-Saharan Africa
Who are forest-dependent people? A taxo nomy to aid livelihood and land use decision-making in forested regions
The relationship between forests and people is of substantial interest to peoples and agencies that govern and use them, private sector actors that seek to manage and profit from them, NGOs who support and implement conservation and development projects, and researchers who study these relationships and others. The term ⿿forest-dependent people⿿ is widely used to describe human populations that gain some form of benefits from forests. But despite…
Assessing the impact of international conservation aid on deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa
International conservation donors have spent at least $3.4 billion to protect biodiversity and stem tropical deforestation in Africa since the early 1990s. Despite more than two decades of experience, however, there is little research on the effect of this aid at a region-wide scale. Numerous case studies exist, but show mixed results. Existing research is usually based on community perception or focused on short-term donor objectives rather than…
Explaining Global Patterns of International Aid for Linked Biodiversity Conservation and Development
Understanding the adoption of climate-smart agriculture
Forests as pathways to prosperity
The Role of Forests and Trees in Poverty Dynamics
Prevalence, economic contribution, and determinants of trees on farms across Sub-Saharan Africa
Who are forest-dependent people? A taxo nomy to aid livelihood and land use decision-making in forested regions
The relationship between forests and people is of substantial interest to peoples and agencies that govern and use them, private sector actors that seek to manage and profit from them, NGOs who support and implement conservation and development projects, and researchers who study these relationships and others. The term ⿿forest-dependent people⿿ is widely used to describe human populations that gain some form of benefits from forests. But despite…
Predicting the long-term social and ecological impacts of tree-planting programs
Payments for ecosystem services and the financing of global biodiversity conservation
Scaling smallholder tree cover restoration across the tropics
Restoring tree cover in tropical countries has the potential to benefit millions of smallholders through improvements in income and environmental services. However, despite their dominant landholding shares in many countries, smallholders’ role in restoration has not been addressed in prior global or pan-tropical restoration studies. We fill this lacuna by using global spatial data on trees and people, national indicators of enabling conditions, …
Yield effects of climate-smart agriculture aid investment in southern Malawi
Forests, trees and the eradication of poverty
Forests, trees and poverty alleviation
Measuring Cross-National Norms
The impact of forest product collection and processing on household income in rural Liberia
An investment strategy to address biodiversity loss from agricultural expansion
The landmark 2019 Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Global Assessment cited land-use change as the primary driver of biodiversity loss. The 2016 peace agreement in Colombia has led to increasing agricultural expansion into biodiversity-rich forests. We have focused on the case of Colombia to demonstrate an approach to maximize the biodiversity benefits from limited conservation funding while …
Social Values and Knowledge Predict Attitudes within an Urban Protected Area in El Salvador
Urban protected areas are faced with numerous pressures from intensified land uses that jeopardize their sustainability, particularly in Central America where there is an abundance of areas managed for conservation yet limited financing. An understanding of the factors that influence public support for fee programs is of paramount importance but difficult to anticipate without empirical evidence of the social phenomena that influence attitudes. H…
Forest plantations and local economic development
Protected areas and the sustainable governance of forest resources
Anecdotal History of the Science of Sound to the Beginning of the 20th Century
Measuring Cross-National Norms
Payments for ecosystem services and the financing of global biodiversity conservation
Explaining Global Patterns of International Aid for Linked Biodiversity Conservation and Development
Assessing the impact of international conservation aid on deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa
International conservation donors have spent at least $3.4 billion to protect biodiversity and stem tropical deforestation in Africa since the early 1990s. Despite more than two decades of experience, however, there is little research on the effect of this aid at a region-wide scale. Numerous case studies exist, but show mixed results. Existing research is usually based on community perception or focused on short-term donor objectives rather than…
The importance of national political context to the impacts of international conservation aid
National political context is widely understood to be an important factor shaping the ecological and socio-economic impacts of protected areas (PAs) and other conservation interventions. Despite broad recognition that national political context matters, however, there is little systematic understanding about how and why it matters, particularly in the context of PAs. This article seeks to advance empirical and theoretical understanding of the inf…
Who are forest-dependent people? A taxo nomy to aid livelihood and land use decision-making in forested regions
The relationship between forests and people is of substantial interest to peoples and agencies that govern and use them, private sector actors that seek to manage and profit from them, NGOs who support and implement conservation and development projects, and researchers who study these relationships and others. The term ⿿forest-dependent people⿿ is widely used to describe human populations that gain some form of benefits from forests. But despite…
Prevalence, economic contribution, and determinants of trees on farms across Sub-Saharan Africa
Machine learning to analyze the social-ecological impacts of natural resource policy
Machine learning promises to advance analysis of the social and ecological impacts of forest and other natural resource policies around the world. However, realizing this promise requires addressing a number of challenges characteristic of the forest sector. Forests are complex social-ecological systems (SESs) with myriad interactions and feedbacks potentially linked to policy impacts. This complexity makes it hard for machine learning methods to…
Protected areas and the sustainable governance of forest resources
Resource recovery from sanitation to enhance ecosystem services
Forests as pathways to prosperity
Understanding the adoption of climate-smart agriculture
The Number and Spatial Distribution of Forest-Proximate People Globally
Agroforestry as a pathway to agricultural yield impacts in climate-smart agriculture investments
Yield effects of climate-smart agriculture aid investment in southern Malawi
A global review of the impact of forest property rights interventions on poverty
Forest plantations and local economic development
Forests, trees and poverty alleviation
Predicting the long-term social and ecological impacts of tree-planting programs
An investment strategy to address biodiversity loss from agricultural expansion
The landmark 2019 Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Global Assessment cited land-use change as the primary driver of biodiversity loss. The 2016 peace agreement in Colombia has led to increasing agricultural expansion into biodiversity-rich forests. We have focused on the case of Colombia to demonstrate an approach to maximize the biodiversity benefits from limited conservation funding while …
Forests, trees and the eradication of poverty
The Role of Forests and Trees in Poverty Dynamics
Scaling smallholder tree cover restoration across the tropics
Restoring tree cover in tropical countries has the potential to benefit millions of smallholders through improvements in income and environmental services. However, despite their dominant landholding shares in many countries, smallholders’ role in restoration has not been addressed in prior global or pan-tropical restoration studies. We fill this lacuna by using global spatial data on trees and people, national indicators of enabling conditions, …
Social Values and Knowledge Predict Attitudes within an Urban Protected Area in El Salvador
Urban protected areas are faced with numerous pressures from intensified land uses that jeopardize their sustainability, particularly in Central America where there is an abundance of areas managed for conservation yet limited financing. An understanding of the factors that influence public support for fee programs is of paramount importance but difficult to anticipate without empirical evidence of the social phenomena that influence attitudes. H…
Economics (25 works) · Geography (23 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (22 works) · Ecology (20 works) · Business (18 works) · Environmental resource management (17 works) · Economic growth (13 works) · Agriculture (12 works) · Environmental planning (11 works) · Livelihood (11 works)