Luke Sanford
Biographic Data
| ID | 4270490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luke Sanford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luke |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanford |
| SIGNATURE | SANFORD L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2641-0636 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ecosystem Restoration Across Political Regimes
International bodies like the United Nations increasingly champion ecosystem restoration as a key tool to combat environmental degradation. Democratic governance is often positioned as a key element of restoration “success.” We compiled a list of restoration “successes” from the UN Restoration Flagship Program and used the Economist Democracy Index to classify each according to the regime type under which restoration took place. Surprisingly, mos…
A Community-Engaged Approach to Community Health Needs and Assets Assessment for Public Health Research
The Morehouse School of Medicine Prevention Research Center (MSM-PRC) conducted a Community Health Needs and Assets Assessment (CHNAA) survey using a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) approach. In this article, we will demonstrate the application of CBPR in informing research agenda and implementation strategies. We will discuss the practical considerations and potential benefits of engaging the community in data collection, interpret…
Addressing Missingness in Serialized Bureaucratic Data
Courts around the world are putting their data online, making information about caseloads, parties, and decisions available to the public. Yet, this data is far from complete, and often only reflects a portion of courts' dockets. We offer and validate a set of tools for leveraging serialized bureaucratic data from courts to estimate the proportion of cases available to the public and the time courts take to make decisions. Using data from more th…
Democratization, Elections, and Public Goods
This article shows that over the last three decades, competitive elections were associated with increased deforestation. Protection of forested areas provides long‐term public goods, while their destruction provides short‐term private goods for particular voters. Politicians facing a competitive election offer voters access to forested areas mainly for small‐scale farming or commercial use of timber in exchange for electoral support. I test this …
Disparate air pollution reductions during California’s Covid-19 economic shutdown
Cookstoves illustrate the need for a comprehensive carbon market
Existing carbon offset protocols for improved cookstoves do not require emissions testing. They are based only on estimated reductions in the use of non-renewable biomass generated by a given stove, and use simplistic calculations to convert those fuel savings to imputed emissions of carbon dioxide (CO _2 ). Yet recent research has shown that different cookstoves vary tremendously in their combustion quality, and thus in their emissions profiles …
Democratization, Elections, and Public Goods
This article shows that over the last three decades, competitive elections were associated with increased deforestation. Protection of forested areas provides long‐term public goods, while their destruction provides short‐term private goods for particular voters. Politicians facing a competitive election offer voters access to forested areas mainly for small‐scale farming or commercial use of timber in exchange for electoral support. I test this …
Disparate air pollution reductions during California’s Covid-19 economic shutdown
Cookstoves illustrate the need for a comprehensive carbon market
Existing carbon offset protocols for improved cookstoves do not require emissions testing. They are based only on estimated reductions in the use of non-renewable biomass generated by a given stove, and use simplistic calculations to convert those fuel savings to imputed emissions of carbon dioxide (CO _2 ). Yet recent research has shown that different cookstoves vary tremendously in their combustion quality, and thus in their emissions profiles …
Disparate air pollution reductions during California’s Covid-19 economic shutdown
Democratization, Elections, and Public Goods
This article shows that over the last three decades, competitive elections were associated with increased deforestation. Protection of forested areas provides long‐term public goods, while their destruction provides short‐term private goods for particular voters. Politicians facing a competitive election offer voters access to forested areas mainly for small‐scale farming or commercial use of timber in exchange for electoral support. I test this …
A Community-Engaged Approach to Community Health Needs and Assets Assessment for Public Health Research
The Morehouse School of Medicine Prevention Research Center (MSM-PRC) conducted a Community Health Needs and Assets Assessment (CHNAA) survey using a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) approach. In this article, we will demonstrate the application of CBPR in informing research agenda and implementation strategies. We will discuss the practical considerations and potential benefits of engaging the community in data collection, interpret…
Addressing Missingness in Serialized Bureaucratic Data
Courts around the world are putting their data online, making information about caseloads, parties, and decisions available to the public. Yet, this data is far from complete, and often only reflects a portion of courts' dockets. We offer and validate a set of tools for leveraging serialized bureaucratic data from courts to estimate the proportion of cases available to the public and the time courts take to make decisions. Using data from more th…
Ecosystem Restoration Across Political Regimes
International bodies like the United Nations increasingly champion ecosystem restoration as a key tool to combat environmental degradation. Democratic governance is often positioned as a key element of restoration “success.” We compiled a list of restoration “successes” from the UN Restoration Flagship Program and used the Economist Democracy Index to classify each according to the regime type under which restoration took place. Surprisingly, mos…
Political science (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (2 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)