Category: Publications
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Holl pens two articles on global forest restoration with University of Sao Paulo collaborator
In winter 2025, Professor Karen Holl published two articles with collaborator Pedro Brancalion (University of Sao Paulo) on scaling up forest restoration globally. The article “Upscaling ecological restoration by integrating with agriculture” in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment highlights the steps necessary to use common small-scale ecological restoration approaches to restore large areas of land.…
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Fairbairn co-authors two articles on digital agriculture
In winter 2025, Associate Professor Madeleine Fairbairn co-authored “Digital agriculture will perpetuate injustice unless led from the grassroots” with Professor Maywa Montenegro for Nature Food, critiquing the corporate-controlled digital agriculture. Instead, the authors argue for innovation processes that center on the needs, knowledge, and priorities of communities who live and work in close relationship to the land. …
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Lu publishes three papers on conservation and stewardship in the Amazon
Professor Flora Lu was a senior author of a paper entitled “Amazonian conservation across archipelagos of Indigenous territories,” published in Conservation Biology. In this paper, the authors describe a new concept to describe Native Amazonian Lands in South America: archipelagos of Indigenous territories (AITs), or clusters of Indigenous territories that span geographies but are connected through shared…
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Jinnah authors two papers on climate interventions and report on atmospheric methane removal technologies
In fall 2024, Professor and Associate Director of the Center for Reimagining Leadership, Sikina Jinnah co-authored “Early Engagement Will Be Necessary for Atmospheric Methane Removal Field Trials” Environmental Research Letters” with Stanford Ph.D. student Celina Scott-Buechler for Environmental Research Letters. This paper draws lessons from Jinnah’s work on the governance of solar geoengineering, another highly controversial climate…
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Building more epistemically inclusive and environmentally equitable universities
Professor Flora Lu co-authored this 2024 article with ENVS lecturer Emily Murai, Associate Professor of Sociology Hillary Angelo, and UCSC alumna Serena Campbell (UCSC alum) in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. This paper was based on the project Critical Environmentalisms, which surveyed and interviewed almost 60 UCSC faculty and staff. In order to support critical environmental work…
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Press, pulse, and squeeze: Is climatic equilibrium ever possible on mountains?
Professor Michael E. Loik published this 2024 article in Biological Conservation. This paper discusses how climate change is causing many plant and animal species to move towards higher elevations as temperatures warm. It also describes ways that changing precipitation patterns and topography can limit species’ ability to keep up with their preferred climate.
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Characterizing pathways of seafood access in small island developing states
Assistant Professor Katherine Seto led a team of researchers who published the study, “Characterizing pathways of seafood access in small island developing states” exploring how fishery-dependent households access seafood resources in Kiribati. Using a random forest model & cluster analysis of nationally representative data, they applied access theory to trace the flows of consumptive benefit in a fisheries-based…