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Books

Holland MB, Mastuda YM, Robinson BE (editors). “Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Development.” Palgrave/Springer-Nature. December 2021.

Publications  (* = co-lead authorship; ^= student/mentee)

2021
Bennett E, Morrison P, Holzer JM, Winkler KJ, Fraser EDG, Green SJ, Robinson BE, Sherren K, Botzas-Coluni J, Palen W. 2021. “Facing the challenges of using place-based social-ecological research to support ecosystem service governance at multiple scales​​” Ecosystems and People. (accepted). doi: 10.1080/26395916.2021.1995046
Thierry H^, Parrott L, Robinson BE. “Next steps for ecosystem service models: integrating complex interactions and beneficiaries” FACETS. 6: 1646-1669. doi: 10.1139/facets-2020-0116.

Baijnath-Rodino JA^, Albizua A, Sushama L, Bennett E, Robinson BE. “Determining Freshwater Lake Communities’ Vulnerability to Snowstorms in the Northwest Territories” Water. 13(13): 1816. doi:​​ ​​10.3390/w13131816. 

Li RN,  Zheng H, O'Connor P, Xu HS, Li YK, Lu F, Robinson BE, Ouyang ZY, Hai Y, Daily GC. “Time and space catch up with restoration programs that ignore ecosystem service tradeoffs” Science Advances. 7(14):eabf8650. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abf8650.

Schreiber K^, Hickey G, Metson G, Robinson BE, MacDonald G. 2021. "Quantifying the foodshed: A systematic review of urban food flow and local food self-sufficiency research" Environmental Research Letters. 16: 023003. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/abad59.

Tseng TW^, Robinson BE, Bellemare MF, BenYishay A, Blackman A, Boucher T, Childress M, Holland MB, Kroeger T, Linkow B, Diop M, Naughton L, Rudel T, Sanjak J, Shyamsundar P, Veit P, Sunderlin W, Zhang W, Masuda YJ. 2021. “Influence of land tenure interventions on human well-being and environmental outcomes” Nature Sustainability. 4: 242-251. doi: 10.1038/s41893-020-00648-5 

Sohns A^, Ford J, Adamowski J, Robinson BE. 2021. “Participatory Modeling of Water Vulnerability in Remote Alaskan Households Using Causal Loop Diagrams” Environmental Management. doi: 10.1007/s00267-020-01387-1.

Mandle L, Shields-Estrada A, Chaplin-Kramer R, Mitchell MGE, Bremer LL, Gourevitch JD, Hawthorne P, Johnson JA, Robinson BE, Smith JR, Sonter LJ, Verutes GM, Vogl AL, Daily GC, Ricketts TH. 2021. “Increasing decision relevance of ecosystem service science” Nature Sustainability. 4:161–169. doi: 10.1038/s41893-020-00625-y.

2020
Crook D^, Robinson BE, Li P. 2020. “The impact of snowstorms, droughts and locust outbreaks on livestock in Inner Mongolia: anticipation and adaptation to environmental shocks” Ecological Economics. 177:106761. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106761.

Guo YN, Zheng H, Wu T, Wu J, Robinson BE. 2020. “A review of spatial targeting methods of payment for ecosystem services” Geography & Sustainability. 1(2): 132-140. doi: 10.1016/j.geosus.2020.04.001.

MacDonald GK, Talbot J, Moore T, Arsenault J, McCourt S, Goertzen A, Kessler-Nadeau ME, Manaugh K, Maranger R, Robinson BE. “Geographic versus institutional drivers of nitrogen footprints: A comparison of two urban universities” Environmental Research Letters. 15(4):045008. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab70bf.

Garcia CA, Savilaakso S, Verburg RW, Gutierrez V, Wilson SJ, Krug CB, Sassen M, Robinson BE, Moersberger H, Naimi B, Rhemtulla JM, Dessard H, Gond V, Vermeulen C, Trolliet F, Oszwald J, Quétier F, Pietsch SA, Bastin JF, Dray A, Araújo MB, Ghazoul J, Waeber PO. 2020. “The Global Forest Transition as a Human Affair” One Earth. 2(5):417-428. doi: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.05.002

Masuda YJ, Kelly A, Robinson BE, Holland MB, Bedford C, Childress M, Game ET, Ginsburg C, Hilhorst T, Lawry S, Miteva D, Musengezi J, Naughton-Treves L, Sunderlin WD, Veit P. 2020. “How do practitioners characterize land tenure security?” Conservation Science & Practice. 2(5). doi: 10.1111/csp2.186

Boudet F, MacDonald GK, Robinson BE, Samberg LH. 2020. “Rural-urban connectivity and agricultural land management across the Global South” Global Environmental Change. 60:101982. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.101982

Byrne A^, Hadrich J, Robinson BE, Han GD. “A factor-income approach to estimating grassland protection subsidy payments to livestock herders in Inner Mongolia, China” Land Use Policy. 91:104352. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104352

Carter E, Yan L, Fue Y, Robinson BE, Kelly F, Elliott P, Wu Y, Zhao L, Ezzati M, Yang X, Chan Q, Baumgartner J. 2020. “Who Stops Using Solid Fuel? Household Transitions to Clean Energy in a Multi-Provincial Cohort Study in China” Nature Sustainability. 3(1):42-50. doi: 10.1038/s41893-019-0432-x

2019
Tallis H, Kries K, Olander L, Ringler C, Ameyaw D, … Robinson BE, … Zobrist S. 2019. “Aligning Evidence Generation and Use Across Health, Development, and Environment” Current Opinion on Environmental Sustainability. 39:81-93. doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2019.09.004

​Berry K, Fenichel E, Robinson BE. 2019. “The Ecological Insurance Trap” Journal of Environmental Economics & Management. 98:102251. doi:10.1016/j.jeem.2019.102251

Chaplin-Kramer R, O’Rourke M, Schellhorn N, Zhang W, Robinson BE, Gratton C, Rosenheim J, Tscharntke T, Karp DS. 2019. “Measuring what matters: actionable information for the landscape ecology of conservation biocontrol” Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 3:60.

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Barrington-Leigh C, Baumgartner J, Robinson BE, Carter E, Tao S, Zhang Y. 2019. “An evaluation of air quality, home heating and well-being under Beijing’s programme to eliminate household coal use” Nature Energy. 4: 416-423. 

Wang LJ, Zheng H, Zhi W, Liu L, Robinson BE, Li RL, Li C, Kong LQ. 2019. “Ecosystem service synergies/trade-offs informing the supply-demand match of ecosystem services: framework and application” Ecosystem Services. 37:100939. 

Peng WJ, Robinson BE, Zheng H, Li C , Wang FC , Li RN.  2019. “Telecoupled sustainable livelihoods in an era of rural-urban dynamics: the case of China” Sustainability. 11(9):2716. 

Sohns A^, Ford J, Riva M, Robinson BE, Adamowski J. (2019) “Water vulnerability in remote Arctic households” Arctic.

Sohns A^, Ford J, Robinson BE, Adamowski J. (2019) “What conditions are associated with household water vulnerability in the Arctic?” Environmental Science & Policy. 97: 95-105. 

Zheng H, Wang LJ, Peng WJ, Zhang CP, Li C, Robinson BE, Wu XC, Kong LQ, Li RN, Xiao Y, Xu WH, Ouyang ZY, Daily G. (2019) “Realizing the Values of Natural Capital for Inclusive, Sustainable Development: Informing China’s New Ecological Development Strategy” Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. 116(17):8623-8628. 
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Robinson BE, Zheng H, Peng WJ. 2019. “Disaggregating livelihood dependence on ecosystem services to inform land management” Ecosystem Services. 36:100902.

Ramirez-Reyes C, Chaplin-Kramer R, Galford GL, Adamo SB, Anderson CB, Anderson C, Allington GR, Bagstad KJ, Coe MT, Cord AF, Dee LE, Gould RK, Jain M, Kowal VA, Muller-Karger F, Norriss J, Potapov P, Qiu J, Rieb JT, Robinson BE, Samberg LH, Singh N, Szeto SH, Voigt B, Watson K, Wright TM, Brauman K. 2019, “Reimagining the Potential of Earth Observations for Ecosystem Services Assessment” Science of the Total Environment. 665:1053-1063.

Word ML^, Hall SJ; Robinson BE, Manneh B, Beye A, Cease A. 2019. “Soil-targeted interventions could alleviate locust and grasshopper pest pressure in West Africa” Science of the Total Environment. 663:632-643.
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Sai M^, Smailes M^, Zheng H, Robinson BE. 2019. “Who is vulnerable to ecosystem service change? Reconciling locally disaggregated ecosystem service supply and demand” Ecological Economics. 157:312-320.

2018
Rahman HMT^, Mia EM, Ford J, Robinson BE, Hickey G. 2018. “Livelihood exposure to climatic stresses in the north-eastern floodplains of Bangladesh” Land Use Policy. 79:199-214.
Rahman HMT^, Robinson BE, Ford J, Hickey G. “How do capital asset interactions affect livelihood sensitivity to climatic stresses? Insights from the northeastern floodplains of Bangladesh” Ecological Economics. 150:165-176. 

Li P, Hadrich J, Robinson BE, Hou YL, Dai YT, Hou XY. 2018. "How do herders do well?  Livestock grazing profitability potential in Inner Mongolia China across ecosystem types" The Rangeland Journal. 40(1):77-90. 

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. 11(2):e12383. 

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. 68(3):167-168.  

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. 

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. 67(9): 820-833. 

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. 

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. (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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

​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. 

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. 

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. 

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). 

Robinson BE*, Baumgartner J*. 2011. “Cultivating a demand for clean cookstoves” Science. 334(6063): 1636. (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. 

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.
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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.    
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