Peter Newton
Biographic Data
| ID | 404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Newton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Newton |
| SIGNATURE | NEWTON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3992-0483 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 155 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Synergies between poverty reduction and biodiversity conservation
Advancing biodiversity through poverty solutions
A horizon scan of global issues on forests and livelihoods for 2026
Global forest dataset incongruence creates high uncertainties for conservation, climate, and development policy
Food systems narratives in Colombia: Embracing Diverse Perspectives Can Enable Hybrid Innovation Pathways That Address Food System Challenges
When analyzing food systems challenges, considering multiple different narratives might lead to solutions that are more innovative and grounded in the local context relative to considering just a single narrative. However, the relationship between narrative diversity and innovation in food systems is not fully understood. Understanding the structure of and interactions between different food systems narratives can help researchers to identify opp…
Supply, demand and polarization challenges facing US climate policies
Does service, scholarship, and teaching activity vary across demographic groups and time? Changing patterns among professors at two university campuses
A monitoring, reporting and verification system for low carbon agriculture: A case study from Brazil
Property size and forest cover were key determinants of forest restoration in Southern Bahia in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil
Palm oil, people, Pongo, and peat: Using case studies to teach about socio-environmental sustainability in tropical commodity supply chains
Low carbon readiness in social context: Introducing the social context of environmental identity model
Low carbon readiness (LCR) is an aspect of environmental identity, an individual citizen’s willingness to reduce carbon emissions and transition to low carbon lifestyle as a personal striving . Nevertheless, individuals’ personal strivings are strongly influenced by the social context in which they are situated. We propose the social context of environmental identity model, which postulates that social contexts for LCR have a nested structure. Th…
Forests, trees and poverty alleviation: Policy implications of current knowledge
Levers for alleviating poverty in forests
Research frontiers on forests, trees, and poverty dynamics
Access to information affects the adoption of integrated systems by farmers in Brazil
Woodlot management and livelihoods in a tropical conservation landscape
In biodiversity hotspots, there is often tension between human needs and conservation, exacerbated when protected areas prevent access to natural resources. Forest-dependent people may compensate for exclusion by managing unprotected forests or cultivating planted woodlots. Outside Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, household wood product needs are high and population growth puts pressure on the environment. We investigated the role of …
What Is Regenerative Agriculture? A Review of Scholar and Practitioner Definitions Based on Processes and Outcomes
Regenerative agriculture is an alternative means of producing food that, its advocates claim, may have lower – or even net positive – environmental and/or social impacts. Regenerative agriculture has recently received significant attention from producers, retailers, researchers, and consumers, as well as politicians and the mainstream media. Despite widespread interest in regenerative agriculture, no legal or regulatory definition of the term ‘re…
Beyond small lot subdivision: Towards municipality-initiated and resident-supported precinct scale medium density residential infill regeneration in greyfield suburbs
Land supply for new housing in the established middle-suburbs (greyfields), where much urban infill potential exists, is “locked up” due to restrictive land-use regulation. As a result, most residential infill is occurring as fragmented, sub-optimal small lot subdivision. This paper outlines critical aspects in implementing a new development model – greyfield precinct renewal – which requires transformative change in municipal strategic planning,…
The Number and Spatial Distribution of Forest-Proximate People Globally
A global analysis of the social and environmental outcomes of community forests
Economic Impacts of Payments for Environmental Services on Livelihoods of Agro-extractivist Communities in the Brazilian Amazon
The role of zero-deforestation commitments in protecting and enhancing rural livelihoods
Pursuing sustainability through multi-stakeholder collaboration: A description of the governance, actions, and perceived impacts of the roundtables for sustainable beef
Sustainable urban systems: Co-design and framing for transformation
Rapid urbanisation generates risks and opportunities for sustainable development. Urban policy and decision makers are challenged by the complexity of cities as social-ecological-technical systems. Consequently there is an increasing need for collaborative knowledge development that supports a whole-of-system view, and transformational change at multiple scales. Such holistic urban approaches are rare in practice. A co-design process involving re…
Chinese migration, consumption, and housing in twenty-first century Australia
International migration has changed the demographics and dynamics of Australia's population since European settlement. It continues to be a principal driver in the growth of its cities, including a projected doubling of major city populations by mid-century. The influence of migrants on metropolitan housing markets-and urban consumption more generally-has been significant, and the socio-spatial influence of migration in Australia has been the foc…
Enhancing the sustainability of commodity supply chains in tropical forest and agricultural landscapes
Sustainable urban systems: Co-design and framing for transformation
Rapid urbanisation generates risks and opportunities for sustainable development. Urban policy and decision makers are challenged by the complexity of cities as social-ecological-technical systems. Consequently there is an increasing need for collaborative knowledge development that supports a whole-of-system view, and transformational change at multiple scales. Such holistic urban approaches are rare in practice. A co-design process involving re…
Research frontiers on forests, trees, and poverty dynamics
Community forest management and Redd
A global analysis of the social and environmental outcomes of community forests
Brazil's National Environmental Registry of Rural Properties: Implications for Livelihoods
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…
Consequences of actor level livelihood heterogeneity for additionality in a tropical forest payment for environmental services programme with an undifferentiated reward structure
Cities of the 21st Century: New Technologies and Spatial Systems
Residential Area Characteristics and Residential Area Homogeneity: Further Thoughts on Extensions to the Factorial Ecology Method
This brief article follows an earlier one which identified deficiencies in the descriptive power of the factorial ecology method. Attention is focused here on within-area variations through use of an Index of Qualitative Variation. Application of this index to data for Christchurch, New Zealand, along with the 'classical' factorial ecology approach, provides a more detailed description of the sociospatial environment than has hitherto been possib…
Pursuing sustainability through multi-stakeholder collaboration: A description of the governance, actions, and perceived impacts of the roundtables for sustainable beef
Levers for alleviating poverty in forests
The resilience of integrated agricultural systems to climate change
We reviewed studies addressing the extent to which more integrated agricultural systems ( IAS ) have been found to be more resilient to climate variability and climate change than more specialized agricultural systems. We found limited literature directly addressing the topic, necessitating the use of proxy measures to enlarge the sample. Where necessary, we used agricultural system richness and diversity as proxies for the presence of the sort o…
Forests, trees and poverty alleviation: Policy implications of current knowledge
Overcoming barriers to low carbon agriculture and forest restoration in Brazil: The Rural Sustentável project
The Rural Sustentável project aims to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, reduce poverty, and promote sustainable rural development in the Brazilian Amazon and Atlantic Forest biomes: by restoring deforested and degraded land, and by facilitating and promoting the uptake of low carbon agricultural technologies. The project offers farmers a) access to information, through demonstration units and field days; b) access to technical assistance, throug…
A monitoring, reporting and verification system for low carbon agriculture: A case study from Brazil
Access to information affects the adoption of integrated systems by farmers in Brazil
Chinese migration, consumption, and housing in twenty-first century Australia
International migration has changed the demographics and dynamics of Australia's population since European settlement. It continues to be a principal driver in the growth of its cities, including a projected doubling of major city populations by mid-century. The influence of migrants on metropolitan housing markets-and urban consumption more generally-has been significant, and the socio-spatial influence of migration in Australia has been the foc…
The Social Impact of Industrial and Resource Development on Local Communities: A Survey of Residents' Views
This paper describes the results of two surveys of public attitudes, perceptions, and expectations regarding large‐scale energy development projects in the Latrobe Valley, Victoria. A baseline survey was conducted in 1974, before plans for a massive increase in planned energy generation for the Valley had begun to be instituted (projected to inject 440MW per year additional capacity to the year 1989, compared with an average annual increase of 52…
The role of zero-deforestation commitments in protecting and enhancing rural livelihoods
Residential Area Characteristics and Residential Area Homogeneity: Further Thoughts on Extensions to the Factorial Ecology Method
This brief article follows an earlier one which identified deficiencies in the descriptive power of the factorial ecology method. Attention is focused here on within-area variations through use of an Index of Qualitative Variation. Application of this index to data for Christchurch, New Zealand, along with the 'classical' factorial ecology approach, provides a more detailed description of the sociospatial environment than has hitherto been possib…
Choice of residential location in an urban environment
The Social Impact of Industrial and Resource Development on Local Communities: A Survey of Residents' Views
This paper describes the results of two surveys of public attitudes, perceptions, and expectations regarding large‐scale energy development projects in the Latrobe Valley, Victoria. A baseline survey was conducted in 1974, before plans for a massive increase in planned energy generation for the Valley had begun to be instituted (projected to inject 440MW per year additional capacity to the year 1989, compared with an average annual increase of 52…
PC-based sketch planning methods for transport and urban applications
Cities of the 21st Century: New Technologies and Spatial Systems
Australia's Information Landscapes
New technologies and the infrastructure and industries that develop around them have continuously shaped and re-shaped physical and cultural landscapes throughout history. While the antecedents of the information and communications revolution can be traced back beyond the twentieth century, the major burst of telematic products and services and their supporting infrastructures has occurred over the past quarter century. Furthermore, this developm…
The Availability and Use of Published Information in Urban Study
Field work has always occupied a central position in geographic teaching. Despite claims which relate to the inroads made by field work (preparation, participation and presentation of results) into valuable classroom time, it is evident that the weight of feeling is in favour of the existence of a teaching programme in which field work plays an integral role. In many situations the amount of time associated with field work can be considerably red…
Consequences of actor level livelihood heterogeneity for additionality in a tropical forest payment for environmental services programme with an undifferentiated reward structure
Liveable and Sustainable? Socio-Technical Challenges for Twenty-First-Century Cities
Australian cities rate high internationally on liveability and well-being indices. State and metropolitan governments are keen to promote the liveability of their cities as a means of attracting mobile capital, skilled labor, and tourists. An examination of the liveability-environmental sustainability nexus, however, suggests that Australia's capital cities have gained their high liveability ratings as a result of having inputs of high, and now u…
Spatial, Temporal, and Economic Constraints to the Commercial Extraction of a Non–timber Forest Product: Copaíba (Copaifera spp.) Oleoresin in Amazonian Reserves
Enhancing the sustainability of commodity supply chains in tropical forest and agricultural landscapes
Community forest management and Redd
Carbon, biodiversity, and livelihoods in forest commons: Synergies, trade-offs, and implications for Redd
Understanding the relationships and tradeoffs among management outcomes in forest commons has assumed new weight in the context of parallels between the objectives of community forest management and those of reduced emissions for deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) \nprograms to reduce carbon emissions while supporting local livelihoods. We examine the association between biophysical, demographic, institutional and socio-economic variabl…
Overcoming barriers to low carbon agriculture and forest restoration in Brazil: The Rural Sustentável project
The Rural Sustentável project aims to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, reduce poverty, and promote sustainable rural development in the Brazilian Amazon and Atlantic Forest biomes: by restoring deforested and degraded land, and by facilitating and promoting the uptake of low carbon agricultural technologies. The project offers farmers a) access to information, through demonstration units and field days; b) access to technical assistance, throug…
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…
Smallholder Agriculture and Climate Change
Hundreds of millions of the world's poorest people directly depend on smallholder farming systems. These people now face a changing climate and associated societal responses. We use mapping and a literature review to juxtapose the climate fate of smallholder systems with that of other agricultural systems and population groups. Limited direct evidence contrasts climate impact risk in smallholder agricultural systems versus other farming systems, …
The resilience of integrated agricultural systems to climate change
We reviewed studies addressing the extent to which more integrated agricultural systems ( IAS ) have been found to be more resilient to climate variability and climate change than more specialized agricultural systems. We found limited literature directly addressing the topic, necessitating the use of proxy measures to enlarge the sample. Where necessary, we used agricultural system richness and diversity as proxies for the presence of the sort o…
Brazil's National Environmental Registry of Rural Properties: Implications for Livelihoods
Economic Impacts of Payments for Environmental Services on Livelihoods of Agro-extractivist Communities in the Brazilian Amazon
The role of zero-deforestation commitments in protecting and enhancing rural livelihoods
Pursuing sustainability through multi-stakeholder collaboration: A description of the governance, actions, and perceived impacts of the roundtables for sustainable beef
Sustainable urban systems: Co-design and framing for transformation
Rapid urbanisation generates risks and opportunities for sustainable development. Urban policy and decision makers are challenged by the complexity of cities as social-ecological-technical systems. Consequently there is an increasing need for collaborative knowledge development that supports a whole-of-system view, and transformational change at multiple scales. Such holistic urban approaches are rare in practice. A co-design process involving re…
Chinese migration, consumption, and housing in twenty-first century Australia
International migration has changed the demographics and dynamics of Australia's population since European settlement. It continues to be a principal driver in the growth of its cities, including a projected doubling of major city populations by mid-century. The influence of migrants on metropolitan housing markets-and urban consumption more generally-has been significant, and the socio-spatial influence of migration in Australia has been the foc…
What Is Regenerative Agriculture? A Review of Scholar and Practitioner Definitions Based on Processes and Outcomes
Regenerative agriculture is an alternative means of producing food that, its advocates claim, may have lower – or even net positive – environmental and/or social impacts. Regenerative agriculture has recently received significant attention from producers, retailers, researchers, and consumers, as well as politicians and the mainstream media. Despite widespread interest in regenerative agriculture, no legal or regulatory definition of the term ‘re…
Beyond small lot subdivision: Towards municipality-initiated and resident-supported precinct scale medium density residential infill regeneration in greyfield suburbs
Land supply for new housing in the established middle-suburbs (greyfields), where much urban infill potential exists, is “locked up” due to restrictive land-use regulation. As a result, most residential infill is occurring as fragmented, sub-optimal small lot subdivision. This paper outlines critical aspects in implementing a new development model – greyfield precinct renewal – which requires transformative change in municipal strategic planning,…
Geography (31 works) · Business (25 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (23 works) · Economics (23 works) · Ecology (19 works) · Environmental resource management (16 works) · Agriculture (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Natural resource economics (12 works) · Environmental planning (11 works)