Outreach

Media mentions:

• https://india.mongabay.com/2025/05/forests-can-both-help-and-hinder-malaria-transmission-mortality/

• https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/environmental-benefits-or-social-but-rarely-both-under-rspo-study-finds/

• https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/climate-change-reforestation/

• https://www.wired.com/story/nature-can-save-humanity-from-climate-doom-but-not-on-its-own/

• https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protect-species-and-save-the-planet-at-once/

• https://www.weforum.org/stories/2015/09/how-protecting-mangrove-forests-tackles-climate-change/

Publications

1. Contributing Author to IPBES 2019. The assessment report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services on Global Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, 2019 . Available: https://www.ipbes.net/global-assessment-biodiversity-ecosystem-services

2.  “The impact of protected areas on avoiding blue carbon emissions: Evidence from Indonesia”. 2023 Case study contributed to the IUCN’s Guidelines for Managers, Planners and Policy-Makers on Climate Change Mitigation in Protected or Conserved Areas. Lead: D. Miteva [Report released at the World Conservation Congress, Oct. 9-15, 2025 in AbuDhabi]

3. “Farmer Perspectives about the Minnesota Agricultural Water Quality Certification Program”(2024). Report to the Minnesota Agricultural Water Quality Certification Program. Lead: A. Pradhananga

Research Handbook on Ecosystem Services (Edward Elgar Publishing)

Presentations

• "Vertical integration Reduces Forest Loss in Mexican Common Property Resource systems", Conservation Impact Evaluation and Implementation Science Virtual Series, Society for Conservation Biology (2024). Recording here 

• “Do protected areas protect mangroves: Evidence from Indonesia”, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) (2023), online

• “On the links between forest conservation and human health: Evidence from the developing world”, Institute for Population Research seminar (2022), The Ohio State University

• “Climate change mitigation in developing countries”, Solve Climate 2030, The Ohio State University (2022), online

• “Planning for sustainable development”, Sustainable Agriculture for the Protection of Species and Habitats workshop, Bulgaria (2021), online

• “Harnessing local knowledge and global data to promote sustainability”with Natalia Zappernick**, oral presentation, Community Outreach Conference, Columbus, OH (Jan. 2019).  

• “Biodiversity policy: What works, what doesn’t?” workshop participant, Gothenburg, Sweden (2018)

• “Conservation Evaluation 3.0: What’s next for policy analysis? Asking and answering the right questions”Policy Forum presentation, oral presentation, World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Gothenburg, Sweden (2018)