James T Erbaugh

Biographic Data

ID1573603
NAMEJames T Erbaugh
GIVEN NAMESJames T
FAMILY NAMEErbaugh
SIGNATUREERBAUGH J T
AFFILIATIONSDartmouth College
ORCID0000-0002-0602-9045
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS21
TOTAL CITATIONS82
WORKS AS AUTHOR21
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX6

  • Sustainable forest transitions

    Open AccessJohan A Oldekop, Katie Devenish et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2025

    Restoring forests is key to addressing the climate and biodiversity crises and can benefit forest-dependent communities.However, frequent social and ecological trade-offs between these goals pose significant challenges for forest restoration efforts.Our understanding of how to maximize positive social and ecological restoration outcomes is hindered by the absence of a social-ecological theory of forest restoration.We present a new analytical ''su…

  • Smallholder participation in zero-deforestation supply chain initiatives in the Indonesian palm oil sector

    Open AccessMichael Eggen, Robert Heilmayr et al.ARTICLEElementa Science of the…2024

    As actors in tropical agricultural commodity supply chains implement commitments to end deforestation, they risk exacerbating social inequities by excluding smallholder farmers, who are important producers of many tropical commodity crops. Here, we explore the potential for independent oil palm smallholders in Indonesia to participate in zero-deforestation supply chains. We find that these smallholders are underrepresented in the share of zero-de…

  • Impacts of warming on outdoor worker well-being in the tropics and adaptation options

    Open AccessYuta J Masuda, Luke Parsons et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2024

  • Global evidence of human well-being and biodiversity impacts of natural climate solutions

    Open AccessCharlotte H Chang, James T Erbaugh et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2024References: 14

  • Farmer perspectives on crop residue burning and sociotechnical transition in Punjab, India

    Open AccessJames T Erbaugh, Gurpreet Singh et al.ARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2024References: 6

    Burning rice stubble is a common practice for millions of farmers across the Indo-Gangetic Plains. Though burning represents a low input, cost-effective strategy of crop residue management (CRM), it produces harmful air pollution, and it releases greenhouse gasses. Large-scale transition to no-burn CRM in northwest India will require social and technological change. We analyze data from 60 focus group discussions and 24 interviews with farmers an…

  • Impermanence and failure

    Open AccessJames T ErbaughARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Projects that pay communities or individuals to conserve natural areas rarely continue indefinitely. When payments cease, the behaviors they motivate can change. Previous research on conservation-based payments recognizes the impermanence of conservation success, but it does not consider the legacy of payments that failed to effect change. This research assesses impermanence and failure by investigating the legacy of village-level conservation pa…

  • Scaling smallholder tree cover restoration across the tropics

    Open AccessPriya Shyamsundar, François Cohen et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2022Cited by: 6References: 7

    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, …

  • Sociotechnical stability and equilibrium

    Open AccessJames T Erbaugh, Christopher W Callahan et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2021References: 19

  • Global forces of change

    Open AccessPriya Shyamsundar, Laura Aileen Sauls et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2021Cited by: 1References: 34

  • Levers for alleviating poverty in forests

    Open AccessReem Hajjar, Peter Newton et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2021Cited by: 5References: 35

  • Global forest restoration and the importance of prioritizing local communities

    Open AccessJames T Erbaugh, Nabin Pradhan et al.ARTICLENature Ecology & Evolution2020

  • Fishery observers address arctic fishery discards

    Open AccessHunter T Snyder, James T ErbaughARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Fishery observers are prevalent actors in the global effort to reduce discards in fisheries, but there remains considerable uncertainty about how effective they are. We analyzed high-resolution logbook records of individual hauls ( n = 127 415) across five-and-a-half-years (2012–2018) for all of Greenland’s large-scale fisheries to determine if onboard fishery observers influence the mandatory reporting of discards. To do so, we used exact matchi…

  • The boom of social forestry policy and the bust of social forests in Indonesia

    Open AccessMuhammad Alif K Sahide, Micah R Fisher et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2020Cited by: 5References: 26

  • Responsibilization and social forestry in Indonesia

    Open AccessJames T ErbaughARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2019Cited by: 8References: 30

    The current expansion of social forestry in Indonesia represents an unprecedented transfer of forest management responsibilities to user-groups across the archipelago. The Indonesian state aims to formalize co-management across 12.7 Mha of forest area to enhance community well-being and environmental as well as economic outcomes for the Indonesian public. Contemporary social forestry in Indonesia thus represents a form of natural resource respons…

  • Toward sustainable agriculture in the tropics

    Open AccessJames T Erbaugh, James Erbaugh et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2019Cited by: 1References: 8

  • Paradigm shift and business as usual through policy layering

    Open AccessJames T Erbaugh, Dodik Ridho NurrochmatARTICLELand Use Policy2019Cited by: 4References: 42

  • Forest landscape restoration for livelihoods and well-being

    Open AccessJames T Erbaugh, Johan A OldekopARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2018Cited by: 12References: 17

  • Making a bridge between livelihoods and forest conservation

    Open AccessJun Harbi, James T Erbaugh et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2018Cited by: 13References: 22

  • Green without envy

    Open AccessFrancesca L Mcgrath, James T Erbaugh et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2018Cited by: 1

    McGrath, F., J. T. Erbaugh, B. Leimona, S. Amaruzaman, N. P. Rahadian, and L. Carrasco. 2018. Green without envy: how social capital alleviates tensions from a Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) program in Indonesia. Ecology and Society 23(4):10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10181-230410

  • Shifting contestation into cooperation

    Open AccessDodik Ridho Nurrochmat, Ignatius Adi Nugroho et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2017Cited by: 15References: 3

  • Contesting national and international forest regimes

    Open AccessDodik Ridho Nurrochmat, Arya Hadi Dharmawan et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2014Cited by: 11References: 4