Martin Reinhardt Nielsen

Biographic Data

ID155647
NAMEMartin Reinhardt Nielsen
GIVEN NAMESMartin Reinhardt
FAMILY NAMENielsen
SIGNATURENIELSEN M R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Copenhagen
ORCID0000-0002-8941-6031
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS58
WORKS AS AUTHOR31
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Weathering hard times with bushmeat

    Open AccessPrachi Jhamb, Susana Ferreira et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2026

    While bushmeat can be a crucial protein source for food insecure households, its consumption and trade raise significant concerns for both human health and wildlife conservation. Here we investigate how rainfall shocks influence rural households’ income from and reliance on bushmeat hunting. Drawing on data from nearly 8,000 rural households across 24 low- and middle-income countries, matched to gridded rainfall records and detailed agricultural …

  • Living with elephants

    Open AccessMuhammad Faizan Usman, Martin Reinhardt Nielsen et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2025

    The Kavango‐Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KaZa TFCA) is home to one of the largest populations of African savanna elephants (approximately 227,000), a species iconic for ecological balance but also a major driver of human–elephant conflict (HEC). This study investigates how spatial and socio‐economic factors shape household perceptions and tolerance towards elephants in the Zimbabwean part of KaZa TFCA. Using a survey sample of 668 hou…

  • Frontier tourism development and inequality in the Nepal Himalaya

    Rune Bolding Bennike, Martin Reinhardt NielsenARTICLEJournal of Sustainable Tourism2023Cited by: 4References: 20

    This article proposes ‘frontier tourism development’ as an apt analytical lens through which to understand contemporary tourism development in rural peripheries. Based on a rich case study of more than 90% of households across seven villages in the Manaslu Conservation Area, the article analyses local-level inequalities in participation and benefits from tourism development in one of the world’s most remote peripheries—the high Himalayas of Nepal…

  • Understanding determinants of the intention to buy rhino horn in Vietnam through the Theory of Planned Behaviour and the Theory of Interpersonal Behaviour

    Open AccessHoai Nam Dang Vu, Martin Reinhardt NielsenARTICLEEcological Economics2022Cited by: 1References: 6

    Demand for rhino horn in Asian markets is driving a rhino poaching crisis in Africa. Despite the urgency of understanding consumers' motivations and demand, social-psychological factors underpinning the intention to buy rhino horn remain under-investigated. This study examined rhino horn demand using a novel approach combining the theory of planned behaviour and the theory of interpersonal behaviour. We conducted a survey on a unique sample of 42…

  • Women, wellbeing and Wildlife Management Areas in Tanzania

    K Homewood, Martin Reinhardt Nielsen et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Peasant Studies2022Cited by: 4References: 64

    Community-based wildlife management claims pro-poor, gender-sensitive outcomes. However, intersectional political ecology predicts adverse impacts on marginalised people. Our large-scale quantitative approach draws out common patterns and differentiated ways women are affected by Tanzania's Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs). This first large-scale, rigorous evaluation studies WMA impacts on livelihoods and wellbeing of 937 married women in 42 vill…

  • Conserving rhinos by legal trade

    Open AccessHoai Nam Dang Vu, Martin Reinhardt Nielsen et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2021Cited by: 1References: 2

    A legal rhino horn trade is suggested in order to reduce poaching. To examine the implications of this proposition, we conducted a choice experiment with 345 rhino horn consumers in Vietnam, investigating their preferences for legality, source, price and peer experience of medicinal efficacy as attributes in their decision to purchase rhino horn. We calculated consumers' willingness to pay for each attribute level. Consumers preferred and were wi…

  • Reference group influences and campaign exposure effects on rhino horn demand

    Open AccessHoai Nam Dang Vu, Martin Reinhardt Nielsen et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2020

    While considerable effort is invested in rhino horn demand reduction campaigns, it is unclear to what extent users are exposed to and accept the messages in these ads. We investigate recall as an indicator of exposure and the influence of different reference groups by conducting 50 semi‐structured interviews with self‐reported rhino horn users in Hanoi using an interpretative thematic analysis. The decision to buy or use rhino horn was almost exc…

  • Saving rodents, losing primates—Why we need tailored bushmeat management strategies

    Open AccessMona Bachmann, Martin Reinhardt Nielsen et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2020

    Efforts to curb the unsustainable wildlife trade in tropical forests conceptualize bushmeat as a generic resource, exploited by a homogeneous group. However, bushmeat is composed of miscellaneous species differing in risks of zoonotic disease transmissions, sensitivity to hunting and abundance. If people choose these species for varying reasons, mitigation approaches that neglect specific drivers would likely target abundant species, e.g. rodents…

  • Examining the Consistency of Folk Identifications of Trees to Implement Community-Based Biodiversity Monitoring

    Open AccessNerea Turreira-García, Søren Brofeldt et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2020

  • Evidence or delusion

    Open AccessHoai Nam Dang Vu, Martin Reinhardt NielsenARTICLEHuman Dimensions of Wildlife2020

    Considerable effort has been devoted to reducing rhinoceros (i.e., rhino) horn demand by changing consumer behavior. Implementing organizations often claim that their campaigns are based on reliable insights into rhino horn demand and that there is no scientific support for any medicinal effects of rhino horn. In this opinion piece, we evaluate the scientific evidence supporting this claim and discuss how campaigns using a delusive and paternalis…

  • Environmental Income as a Pathway Out of Poverty? Empirical Evidence on Asset Accumulation in Nepal

    Solomon Zena Walelign, Martin Reinhardt Nielsen et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2019

    Using unique, environmentally augmented household panel data reflecting households’ annual cash and subsistence income portfolios, we model change over time in the value of four assets – livestock, implements, savings, and jewellery. A seemingly unrelated regression model reveals that although environmental resources on average contribute 16 per cent of the total household income, the contribution to asset accumulation is limited. Hence, environm…

  • Impact of Tanzania’s Wildlife Management Areas on household wealth

    Open AccessAidan Keane, Jens Friis Lund et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019Cited by: 3References: 8

  • Protected areas, household environmental incomes and well-being in the Greater Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem

    Open AccessXi Jiao, Solomon Zena Walelign et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2019Cited by: 3References: 11

    Protected areas are an important cornerstone in the attempt to halt habitat and species losses. While it is widely recognized that local communities impact on conservation outcomes, there is a limited understanding of the economic importance of environmental resources in protected areas to local household incomes and well-being. This inhibits the development and implementation of efficient conservation policies. This paper, using the iconic case …

  • Transformation of Livelihood Institutions and the Organization of Punan Dayak Communities in Berau District, East Kalimantan

    Open AccessDyah Ita Mardiyaningsih, Arya Hadi Dharmawan et al.ARTICLESodality Jurnal Sosiologi Pedesaan2018

    The social-ecological system of forests are changing with increasing modernity and has prompted the forest-dependent Dayak Punan community to adapt to the new conditions. In addition to changing livelihood structures, the institutional setting and social norms of subsistence strategies are also undergoing adaptation process. Therefore, the main question of this research is what institutional transformation are occuring of livelihoods in the Punan…

  • Institutional Rhetoric Versus Local Reality

    Open AccessRose Peter Kicheleri, Thorsten Treue et al.ARTICLESAGE Open2018

    Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) are establishments that promote wildlife conservation and rural development in Tanzania. However, through focus group discussions, key informant interviews, a questionnaire survey, and literature review, we found that the participation of local people in both the establishment and management of the WMA was limited and rife with conflict. While benefits have materialized at the communal level, local people saw neit…

  • Understanding utilitarian and hedonic values determining the demand for rhino horn in Vietnam

    Hoai Nam Dang Vu, Martin Reinhardt NielsenARTICLEHuman Dimensions of Wildlife2018

    We examined utilitarian and hedonic values as motivations for rhino horn use in Vietnam. We also evaluated consumers’ response to consequences of the illegal trade in behavior modification campaigns and the likely outcome of a legalized trade. The most prevalent use was for treatment of hangovers indicating utilitarian values, although difficult to separate from the hedonic value in projecting success in business. A ritualized way of honoring ter…

  • The Importance of Wild Meat in the Global South

    Open AccessMartin Reinhardt Nielsen, Henrik Meilby et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2018

  • Environmental Uncertainty and Self-monitoring in the Commons

    Open AccessSergio Marrocoli, Tsegaye T Gatiso et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2018

  • Redd+ policy design and policy learning

    Open AccessZachary Wurtzebach, Thorkil Casse et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2018Cited by: 3References: 17

  • The potential of the Global Person Generated Index for evaluating the perceived impacts of conservation interventions on subjective well-being

    Open AccessRanaivo Rasolofoson, Ranaivo A Rasolofoson et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2018Cited by: 4References: 11

    There is growing interest in the importance of ensuring that biodiversity conservation is not achieved at the expense of local people’s well-being. It has been suggested that when evaluating the impact of an intervention, the affected population should be allowed to define well-being (requiring a subjective measure), and impacts (requiring a participatory approach), but very few, if any, conservation evaluations live up to these standards. We use…

  • Can PES and Redd+ match Willingness To Accept payments in contracts for reforestation and avoided forest degradation? The case of farmers in upland Bac Kan, Vietnam

    Open AccessMartin Reinhardt Nielsen, Ida Theilade et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2018Cited by: 1References: 34

  • Household determinants of bushmeat and eru (Gnetum africanum) harvesting for cash in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Open AccessRiyong Kim Bakkegaard, Martin Reinhardt Nielsen et al.ARTICLEEnvironment Development and…2017

  • Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence on the True Local Welfare Costs of Forest Conservation in Madagascar

    Open AccessO Sarobidy Rakotonarivo, Jette B Jacobsen et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2017Cited by: 9References: 10

    Protected areas may impose local welfare costs through the enforcement of use restrictions. Predicting their welfare impacts before their establishment could help with the design of compensation schemes. Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are increasingly used for ex ante evaluations but their validity is largely untested in low-income settings. Using a case study of a new REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) proje…

  • Quantifying the economic contribution of wild food harvests to rural livelihoods

    Open AccessGordon M Hickey, Mariève Pouliot et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2016Cited by: 21References: 7

  • Reshaping Conservation

    Open AccessMikkel Funder, Finn Danielsen et al.ARTICLEConservation and Society2013

    Drawing on a study of community-managed forest reserves in southern Tanzania, this article discusses how community members engage and shape inclusive protected area management practices to produce outcomes that were not intended by external implementers. The article shows how a participatory natural resource monitoring scheme operating in the area becomes part of the villagers' collective and individual efforts to assert their claims to territory…