Principal Investigators
Senior Personnel
gRADUATE STUDENTS
- Ren Cao (Ph.D. student)
- My Thu Tran (Ph.D. student)
Latest News
- 05-19-2023 – First project summit to be held at SDSU
- 05-09-2023 – Ph.D. Student My Thu visits Chitwan
- 03-01-2023 – New social survey pre-testing in Nepal
- 01-09-2023 – Three investigators’ field trip to Nepal
- 08-19-2022 – Ph.D. student Ren’s trip to Penn State
Postdoctoral fellows
- Eve Bohnett
(NSF Website)
Brief Introduction
This project (NSF website) seeks to advance the understanding of the impact of payments for ecosystem services (PES), a global conservation approach that incentivizes users of essential natural resources to protect the related ecosystems. In recent decades these programs have increased in popularity, and an increasing number of parallel PES programs have been deployed to mitigate environmental degradation and the over-exploitation of natural resources. PES programs are often implemented concurrently in the same temporal and spatial context, yet little understanding exists about the mechanisms, pathways, and social and ecological effects of such interacting, parallel PES programs.