Matthew E Fagan

Biographic Data

ID6569161
NAMEMatthew E Fagan
GIVEN NAMESMatthew E
FAMILY NAMEFagan
SIGNATUREFAGAN M E
AFFILIATIONSColumbia University
ORCID0000-0002-8023-9251
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS11
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Forwarding forest restoration

    Open AccessMariana C Hernández-Montilla Mariana C Hernández-Montilla, Mariana…ARTICLEPeople and Nature2026

    Restoring forests can help conserve biodiversity, mitigate climate change and enhance human well‐being. Despite financial and political support for global forest restoration initiatives, projects continue to face persistent challenges and trade‐offs between environmental, climatic and socio‐economic goals. To better understand existing and future challenges and opportunities, we convened a diverse panel of 25 international experts from academia, …

  • A convergence research approach to resolving ‘wicked problems’

    Open AccessJ A Devine, Nicholas Magliocca et al.ARTICLEApplied Geography2025

    Many contemporary social and environmental problems are increasingly ‘wicked.’ Convergence research offers an effective approach to tackle wicked problems by integrating diverse epistemologies, methodologies, and expertise. Yet, there exists little discussion of how to develop and employ a convergence research approach. This article describes our collaborative research efforts to achieve convergence research and team science. For over a decade, w…

  • The expansion of tree plantations across tropical biomes

    Open AccessMatthew E Fagan, Do‐Hyung Kim et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2022Cited by: 1References: 2

  • Coupled social and ecological outcomes of agricultural intensification in Costa Rica and the future of biodiversity conservation in tropical agricultural regions

    Open AccessIrene Shaver, Adina Chain‐Guadarrama et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2015Cited by: 9References: 13

  • Multiple pathways of commodity crop expansion in tropical forest landscapes

    Open AccessPatrick Meyfroidt, K M Carlson et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2014

    Commodity crop expansion, for both global and domestic urban markets, follows multiple land change pathways entailing direct and indirect deforestation, and results in various social and environmental impacts. Here we compare six published case studies of rapid commodity crop expansion within forested tropical regions. Across cases, between 1.7% and 89.5% of new commodity cropland was sourced from forestlands. Four main factors controlled pathway…

  • Land cover dynamics following a deforestation ban in northern Costa Rica

    Open AccessMatthew E Fagan, Ruth Defries et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2013

    Forest protection policies potentially reduce deforestation and re-direct agricultural expansion to already-cleared areas. Using satellite imagery, we assessed whether deforestation for conversion to pasture and cropland decreased in the lowlands of northern Costa Rica following the 1996 ban on forest clearing, despite a tripling of area under pineapple cultivation in the last decade. We observed that following the ban, mature forest loss decreas…

  • Biophysical and Socioeconomic Factors Associated with Forest Transitions at Multiple Spatial and Temporal Scales

    Open AccessCharles B Yackulic, Matthew Fagan et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2011Cited by: 1

    Yackulic, C. B., M. Fagan, M. Jain, A. Jina, Y. Lim, M. Marlier, R. Muscarella, P. Adame, R. DeFries, and M. Uriarte. 2011. Biophysical and socioeconomic factors associated with forest transitions at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Ecology and Society 16(3): 15. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04275-160315