Publications (* = co-lead authorship; ^= student/mentee)
2018
Rieb JT, Chaplin-Kramer R, Daily GC, Armsworth PR, Böhning-Gaese K, Bonn A, Cumming GS, Eigenbrod F, Grimm V, Jackson BM, Marques A, Pattanayak SK, Pereira H, Peterson GD, Ricketts TH, Robinson BE, Schröter M, Schulte LA, Seppelt R, Turner MG, and Bennett EM. (2018). “Response to Kabisch and Colleagues” BioScience. (accepted). doi: 10.1093/biosci/bix154
Robinson BE, Masuda Y, Kelly A, Holland MB, Bedford C, Childress M, Fletschner D, Game E, Ginsburg C, Hilhorst T, Lawry S, Miteva D, Musengezi J, Naughton-Treves N, Nolte C, Sunderlin W, Veit P. 2018. “Incorporating land tenure security into conservation” Conservation Letters. (accepted). doi: 10.1111/conl.12383.
2017
Robinson BE, Li P, Hou XY. 2017. “Institutional change in social-ecological systems: the evolution of grassland management in Inner Mongolia” Global Environmental Change. 47: 64-75. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.08.012.
Cullen DA, Cease AJ, Latchininsky AV, Ayali A, Berry K, Buhl J, De Keyser R, Foquet B, Hadrich JC, Matheson T., Ott SR, Poot-Pech MA, Robinson BE, Smith JM, Song H, GA, Vanden Broeck J, Verdonck R, Verlinden H, Rogers SM. 2017. “From Molecules to Management: Mechanisms and Consequences of Locust Phase Polyphenism” Advances in Insect Physiology. 53: 167–285.
Rieb JT, Chaplin-Kramer R, Daily GC, Armsworth PR, Böhning-Gaese K, Bonn A, Cumming GS, Eigenbrod F, Grimm V, Jackson BM, Marques A, Pattanayak SK, Pereira H, Peterson GD, Ricketts TH, Robinson BE, Schröter M, Schulte LA, Seppelt R, Turner MG, and Bennett EM. 2017. “When, Where, and How Nature Matters for Ecosystem Services: Challenges for the Next Generation of Ecosystem Service Models” Bioscience. (9): 820-833. doi: 10.1093/biosci/bix075.
Wang LJ, Zheng H, Zhao H, Robinson BE. 2017. “Nitrogen balance dynamic during 2000-2010 in the Yangtze River Basin croplands, with special reference to the relative contributions of arable area and synthetic fertilizer N application rate changes” PLoS ONE. 12(7): e0180613. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0180613
Robinson BE, Holland M, Naughton-Treves L. 2017. “Community land titles alone will not protect forests” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(29): e5764. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1707787114. (letter).
Peng WJ^, Zheng H, Robinson BE, Cong L, Wang FC. 2017. “Household livelihood strategy choices, impact factors and environmental consequences in Miyun reservoir watershed, China” Sustainability. 9(2): 175. doi: 10.3390/su9020175.
2016
Zheng H, Li YF, Robinson BE, Liu G, Ma DC, Wang FC, Ouyang ZY, Daily G. 2016. “Using ecosystem-service tradeoffs to inform water conservation policies and management practices” Frontiers in Ecology & Environment. 14(10): 527-532. doi: 10.1002/fee.1432.
Robinson BE. 2016. “Conservation versus livelihoods: spatial management of non-timber forest product harvests in a two-dimensional model” Ecological Applications. 26(4): 1170-1185. doi: 10.1890/14-2483.1.
Holland TG, Coomes OT, Robinson BE. 2016. “Evolving frontier land markets and the opportunity cost of sparing forests in western Amazonia” Land Use Policy. 58: 456–471. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.08.015.
van Vliet J, Magliocca N, Büchner B, Cook E, Beneyas JMR, Ellis EC, Heinimann A, Keys E, Lee TM, Liu J, Mertz O, Meyfroidt P, Moritz M, Christopher Poeplau, Robinson BE, Seppelt R, Seto K, Verburg PH. 2016. “Meta-studies in land system science: current coverage and prospects” Ambio. 45(1): 15-28. doi: 10.1007/s13280-015-0699-8.
2015
Cease AJ, Elser JJ, Fenichel EP, Hadrich, JC, Harrison JF, Robinson BE. 2015. “Living with locusts: connecting soil nitrogen, locust outbreaks, livelihoods, and livestock markets” BioScience. 65: 551-558. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biv048.
2014
Robinson BE, Holland M, Naughton-Treves L. 2014. “Does Secure Land Tenure Save Forests? A meta-analysis of the relationship between land tenure and tropical deforestation” Global Environmental Change. 29: 281-293. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.05.012.
Holland MB, de Koning F, Morales M, Naughton-Treves L, Robinson BE, Suarez L. 2014. “Complex Tenure and Deforestation: Implications for Conservation Incentives in the Ecuadorian Amazon” World Development. 55: 21-36. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.01.012.
2013 & earlier
Robinson BE*, Zheng H*, Liang YC, Polasky S, Ma DC, Wang FC, Ruckelshaus M, Ouyang ZY, Daily GC. 2013. “The benefits, costs and livelihood implications of a regional payment for ecosystem service program” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(41): 16681-6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1312324110.
Robinson BE, Provencher B and Lewis, D. 2013. “Managing wild resources: institutional choice and the recovery of resource rent in southwest China” World Development. 48: 120-132. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.04.004.
Dong M, Robinson BE. 2012. “A Comparative Study of Matsutake Mushroom Collection and Economic Implications” Forestry Economics. 2: 82-87 (in Chinese).
van den Hoek J, Baumgartner J, Doucet-Beer E, Hildebrant T, Robinson BE, Zinda, JA. 2012. “Understanding the Challenges and Rewards of Social-Ecological Research in China” Society & Natural Resources. 25(12). doi: 10.1080/08941920.2012.658985.
Robinson BE*, Baumgartner J*. 2011. “Cultivating a demand for clean cookstoves” Science. 334(6063): 1636. doi: 10.1126/science.334.6063.1636-b. (letter)
Lewis D, Barham B, Robinson BE. 2011. “Are there spatial spillovers in the adoption of clean technology? The case of organic dairy farming” Land Economics. 87(2): 250-267. doi: 10.1353/lde.2011.0030.
Yang XF, Wilkes A, Yang YP, Xu JC, Geslani CS, Gao F, Yang J, Robinson BE. 2009. “Common and Privatized: Conditions for Wise Management of Matsutake Mushroom in NW Yunnan Province, China” Ecology and Society. 14(2).
Rieb JT, Chaplin-Kramer R, Daily GC, Armsworth PR, Böhning-Gaese K, Bonn A, Cumming GS, Eigenbrod F, Grimm V, Jackson BM, Marques A, Pattanayak SK, Pereira H, Peterson GD, Ricketts TH, Robinson BE, Schröter M, Schulte LA, Seppelt R, Turner MG, and Bennett EM. (2018). “Response to Kabisch and Colleagues” BioScience. (accepted). doi: 10.1093/biosci/bix154
Robinson BE, Masuda Y, Kelly A, Holland MB, Bedford C, Childress M, Fletschner D, Game E, Ginsburg C, Hilhorst T, Lawry S, Miteva D, Musengezi J, Naughton-Treves N, Nolte C, Sunderlin W, Veit P. 2018. “Incorporating land tenure security into conservation” Conservation Letters. (accepted). doi: 10.1111/conl.12383.
2017
Robinson BE, Li P, Hou XY. 2017. “Institutional change in social-ecological systems: the evolution of grassland management in Inner Mongolia” Global Environmental Change. 47: 64-75. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.08.012.
Cullen DA, Cease AJ, Latchininsky AV, Ayali A, Berry K, Buhl J, De Keyser R, Foquet B, Hadrich JC, Matheson T., Ott SR, Poot-Pech MA, Robinson BE, Smith JM, Song H, GA, Vanden Broeck J, Verdonck R, Verlinden H, Rogers SM. 2017. “From Molecules to Management: Mechanisms and Consequences of Locust Phase Polyphenism” Advances in Insect Physiology. 53: 167–285.
Rieb JT, Chaplin-Kramer R, Daily GC, Armsworth PR, Böhning-Gaese K, Bonn A, Cumming GS, Eigenbrod F, Grimm V, Jackson BM, Marques A, Pattanayak SK, Pereira H, Peterson GD, Ricketts TH, Robinson BE, Schröter M, Schulte LA, Seppelt R, Turner MG, and Bennett EM. 2017. “When, Where, and How Nature Matters for Ecosystem Services: Challenges for the Next Generation of Ecosystem Service Models” Bioscience. (9): 820-833. doi: 10.1093/biosci/bix075.
Wang LJ, Zheng H, Zhao H, Robinson BE. 2017. “Nitrogen balance dynamic during 2000-2010 in the Yangtze River Basin croplands, with special reference to the relative contributions of arable area and synthetic fertilizer N application rate changes” PLoS ONE. 12(7): e0180613. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0180613
Robinson BE, Holland M, Naughton-Treves L. 2017. “Community land titles alone will not protect forests” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(29): e5764. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1707787114. (letter).
Peng WJ^, Zheng H, Robinson BE, Cong L, Wang FC. 2017. “Household livelihood strategy choices, impact factors and environmental consequences in Miyun reservoir watershed, China” Sustainability. 9(2): 175. doi: 10.3390/su9020175.
2016
Zheng H, Li YF, Robinson BE, Liu G, Ma DC, Wang FC, Ouyang ZY, Daily G. 2016. “Using ecosystem-service tradeoffs to inform water conservation policies and management practices” Frontiers in Ecology & Environment. 14(10): 527-532. doi: 10.1002/fee.1432.
Robinson BE. 2016. “Conservation versus livelihoods: spatial management of non-timber forest product harvests in a two-dimensional model” Ecological Applications. 26(4): 1170-1185. doi: 10.1890/14-2483.1.
Holland TG, Coomes OT, Robinson BE. 2016. “Evolving frontier land markets and the opportunity cost of sparing forests in western Amazonia” Land Use Policy. 58: 456–471. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.08.015.
van Vliet J, Magliocca N, Büchner B, Cook E, Beneyas JMR, Ellis EC, Heinimann A, Keys E, Lee TM, Liu J, Mertz O, Meyfroidt P, Moritz M, Christopher Poeplau, Robinson BE, Seppelt R, Seto K, Verburg PH. 2016. “Meta-studies in land system science: current coverage and prospects” Ambio. 45(1): 15-28. doi: 10.1007/s13280-015-0699-8.
2015
Cease AJ, Elser JJ, Fenichel EP, Hadrich, JC, Harrison JF, Robinson BE. 2015. “Living with locusts: connecting soil nitrogen, locust outbreaks, livelihoods, and livestock markets” BioScience. 65: 551-558. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biv048.
2014
Robinson BE, Holland M, Naughton-Treves L. 2014. “Does Secure Land Tenure Save Forests? A meta-analysis of the relationship between land tenure and tropical deforestation” Global Environmental Change. 29: 281-293. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.05.012.
Holland MB, de Koning F, Morales M, Naughton-Treves L, Robinson BE, Suarez L. 2014. “Complex Tenure and Deforestation: Implications for Conservation Incentives in the Ecuadorian Amazon” World Development. 55: 21-36. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.01.012.
2013 & earlier
Robinson BE*, Zheng H*, Liang YC, Polasky S, Ma DC, Wang FC, Ruckelshaus M, Ouyang ZY, Daily GC. 2013. “The benefits, costs and livelihood implications of a regional payment for ecosystem service program” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(41): 16681-6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1312324110.
Robinson BE, Provencher B and Lewis, D. 2013. “Managing wild resources: institutional choice and the recovery of resource rent in southwest China” World Development. 48: 120-132. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.04.004.
Dong M, Robinson BE. 2012. “A Comparative Study of Matsutake Mushroom Collection and Economic Implications” Forestry Economics. 2: 82-87 (in Chinese).
van den Hoek J, Baumgartner J, Doucet-Beer E, Hildebrant T, Robinson BE, Zinda, JA. 2012. “Understanding the Challenges and Rewards of Social-Ecological Research in China” Society & Natural Resources. 25(12). doi: 10.1080/08941920.2012.658985.
Robinson BE*, Baumgartner J*. 2011. “Cultivating a demand for clean cookstoves” Science. 334(6063): 1636. doi: 10.1126/science.334.6063.1636-b. (letter)
Lewis D, Barham B, Robinson BE. 2011. “Are there spatial spillovers in the adoption of clean technology? The case of organic dairy farming” Land Economics. 87(2): 250-267. doi: 10.1353/lde.2011.0030.
Yang XF, Wilkes A, Yang YP, Xu JC, Geslani CS, Gao F, Yang J, Robinson BE. 2009. “Common and Privatized: Conditions for Wise Management of Matsutake Mushroom in NW Yunnan Province, China” Ecology and Society. 14(2).
Reports & Book Chapters
Chaplin-Kramer R, Bennett E, Robinson BE, Brauman K, Daily G, West P. “Chapter 4: Determining the value of ecosystem services in agriculture.” in Agricultural resilience: perspectives from ecology and economics. ed. Sarah Gardner S, Ramsden S, & Hails R. Ecological Reviews Publications. (in press)
BE Robinson, Binder S, Ruckelshaus M, Arkema K, Daily G, Polasky S, Rosenthal A. 2013. “Measuring infrastructure’s impact on livelihoods though ecosystem change.” Report submitted to the Rockefeller Foundation.
BE Robinson, Naughton-Treves L, Holland M. 2010. “Does land tenure impact deforestation? A review of recent literature” Land Tenure Center Policy Memo, delivered to USAID.
BE Robinson. 2010. “Mushrooms and the Tragedy of the Commons” Book Excerpt in Mushrooms in Forests and Woodlands: Resource Management, Values & Livelihoods. ed. AB Cunningham and XF Yang. Earthscan Press.
JW Bruce, Lastarria-Cornhiel S, Holland MB, Robinson BE, Naughton-Treves L, Wendland KJ. 2010. “Key Concepts and terms related to land tenure and property rights for forest conservation based on direct incentives” Book chapter in Seguridad En La Tenencia De La Tierra E Incentivos Para La Conservación De Los Bosques. ed. M Morales, et al. Ecolex, Quito, Ecuador. (in Spanish).
B Rajagopal… Robinson BE. 2006. “From Promise To Performance: Ecological Sanitation as a Step Toward the Elimination of Manual Scavenging in India” MIT Center for International Studies.
BE Robinson, Binder S, Ruckelshaus M, Arkema K, Daily G, Polasky S, Rosenthal A. 2013. “Measuring infrastructure’s impact on livelihoods though ecosystem change.” Report submitted to the Rockefeller Foundation.
BE Robinson, Naughton-Treves L, Holland M. 2010. “Does land tenure impact deforestation? A review of recent literature” Land Tenure Center Policy Memo, delivered to USAID.
BE Robinson. 2010. “Mushrooms and the Tragedy of the Commons” Book Excerpt in Mushrooms in Forests and Woodlands: Resource Management, Values & Livelihoods. ed. AB Cunningham and XF Yang. Earthscan Press.
JW Bruce, Lastarria-Cornhiel S, Holland MB, Robinson BE, Naughton-Treves L, Wendland KJ. 2010. “Key Concepts and terms related to land tenure and property rights for forest conservation based on direct incentives” Book chapter in Seguridad En La Tenencia De La Tierra E Incentivos Para La Conservación De Los Bosques. ed. M Morales, et al. Ecolex, Quito, Ecuador. (in Spanish).
B Rajagopal… Robinson BE. 2006. “From Promise To Performance: Ecological Sanitation as a Step Toward the Elimination of Manual Scavenging in India” MIT Center for International Studies.