Publications

Delacote P, L’Horty T, Kontoleon A, West TAP, Creti A, Filewod B, Le Velly G, Guizar-Coutiño A, Groom B, Elias M (2024) Strong transparency required for carbon credit mechanisms. Nature Sustainability 

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West TAP (2024) Formal designation of Brazilian indigenous lands linked to small but consistent reductions in deforestation. Ecological Economics  218, 108093

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Sheehan D, Mullan K, West TAP, Semmens EO (2024) Protecting life and lung: Protected areas affect fine particulate matter and respiratory hospitalizations in the Brazilian Amazon biome. Environmental and Resource Economics, 1-43

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Neidermeier AN, Zagaria C, Pampanoni V, West TAP, Verburg P (2023) Mapping opportunities for the use of land management strategies to address fire risk in Europe. Journal of Environmental Management 346, 118941

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★ West TAP, Wunder S, Sills EO, Börner J, Rifai SW, Neidermeier AN, Frey GP, Kontoleon A (2023) Action needed to make carbon offsets from forest conservation work for climate change mitigation. Science  381, 873–877

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Caballero CB, Biggs T, Vergopolan N, West TAP, Ruhoff A (2023) Transformation of Brazil's biomes: The dynamics and fate of agriculture and pasture expansion into native vegetation. Science of The Total Environment  166323

Balmford A, Brancalion PHS, Coomes D, Filewod B, Groom B, Guizar-Coutiño A, Jones JPG, Keshav S, Kontoleon A, Madhavapeddy A, Malhi Y, Sills EO, Strassburg BBN, Venmans F, West TAP, Wheeler C, Swinfield T (2023) Credit credibility threatens forests. Science  380, 466–467

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West TAP, Rausch L, Munger J, Holly KG (2022) Protected areas still used to produce Brazil’s cattle. Conservation Letters  e12916

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Singh T, Arpanaei A, Elustondo D, Wang Y, Stocchero A, West TAP, Fu Q (2022) Emerging technologies for the development of wood products towards extended carbon storage and CO2 capture. Carbon Capture Science & Technology  4, 100057

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★West TAP, Caviglia-Harris JL, Martins FRV, Silva DE, Börner J (2022) Potential conservation gains from improved protected area management in the Brazilian Amazon. Biological Conservation  269, 109526

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West TAP, Salekin S, Melia N, Wakelin SJ, Yao RT, Meason D (2021) Diversification of forestry portfolios for climate change and market risk mitigation. Journal of Environmental Management  289, 112482

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★ West TAP, Fearnside PM (2021) Brazil’s conservation reform and the reduction of deforestation in Amazonia. Land Use Policy  100, 105072

West TAP, Monge JJ, Dowling LJ, Wakelin SJ, Gibbs HK (2020) Promotion of afforestation in New Zealand’s marginal agricultural lands through payments for environmental services. Ecosystem Services  46, 101212

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★West TAP, Börner J, Sills EO, Kontoleon A (2020) Overstated carbon emission reductions from voluntary REDD+ projects in the Brazilian Amazon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)  107, 24188-24194

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West TAP, Monge JJ, Dowling LJ, Wakelin SJ, Yao RT, Dunningham AG, Payn T (2020) Comparison of spatial modelling frameworks for the identification of future afforestation in New Zealand. Landscape and Urban Planning  198, 103780

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Nascimento N, West TAP, Biber-Freudenberger L, de Sousa-Neto ER, Ometto J, Börner J (2020) A Bayesian Network approach for land-use decision modelling under alternative policy scenarios for the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Land Use Science  15, 127-141

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Piponiot C, Rutishauser E, Derroire G, Putz FE, Sist P, West TAP, Descroix L, Guedes MC, Coronado ENH, Kanashiro K, Mazzei L, d'Oliveira MVN, Peña-Claros M, Rodney K, Ruschel AR, de Souza CR, Vidal E, Wortel V, Hérault B (2019) Optimal strategies of ecosystem services provision for Amazonian production forests. Environmental Research Letters  14, 124090

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Schepaschenko D [...] West TAP et al. (2019) The Forest Observation System, building a global reference dataset for remote sensing of forest biomass. Scientific Data  6, 198

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West TAP, Börner J, Fearnside PM (2019) Climatic benefits from the 2006-2017 avoided deforestation in Amazonian Brazil. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change  2, 52

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Piponiot C, Rodig E, Putz FE, Rutishauser E, Sist P, Ascarrunz N, Blanc L, Derroire G, Descroix L, Guedes MC, Coronado ENH, Huth A, Kanashiro M, Licona JC, Mazzei L, d'Oliveira MVN, Peña-Claros M, Rodney K, Shenkin A, de Souza CR, Vidal E, West TAP, Wortel V, Herault B (2019) Can timber provision from Amazonian natural forests be sustainable? Environmental Research Letters  14, 064014

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Nascimento N, West TAP, Börner J, Ometto J (2019) What drives intensification of land use at agricultural frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from a Decision Game. Forests  10, 464

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West TAP, Wilson C, Vrachioli M, Grogan KA (2019) Carbon payments for extended rotation in forest plantations: Conflicting insights from a theoretical model. Ecological Economics 163, 70-76​

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Hertel TW, West TAP, Börner J, Villora NB (2019) A review of global-local-global linkages in economic land-use/cover change models. Environmental Research Letters  14, 053003

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Frey GP, West TAP, Hickler T, Rausch L, Gibbs HK, Börner J (2018) Simulated impacts of soy and infrastructure expansion in the Brazilian Amazon: A maximum entropy approach. Forests  9, 600

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★ West TAP, Grogan KA, Swisher ME, Caviglia-Harris JL, Sills EO, Harris D, Roberts DA, Putz FE (2018) Impacts of REDD+ payments on a coupled human-natural system in Amazonia. Ecosystem Services  33, 68-76

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West TAP, Grogan KA, Swisher ME, Caviglia-Harris JL, Sills EO, Harris D, Roberts DA, Putz FE (2018) A hybrid optimization-agent-based model of REDD+ payments to small farmers on an old deforestation frontier in the Brazilian Amazon. Environmental Modelling & Software  100, 159-174

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Piponiot C, Plinio Sist, Lucas Mazzei, Peña-Claros M, Putz FE,  Rutishauser E, Shenkin A, Ascarrunz N, de Azevedo CP, Baraloto C, França M, Guedes M, Coronado ENH, d'Oliveira MVN, Ruschel AR, da Silva K, Sotta DS,  de Souza CR, Vidal E, West TAP, Hérault B (2016) Carbon recovery dynamics following disturbance by selective logging in Amazonian forests. eLife

​Vidal E, West TAP, Putz FE (2016) Recovery of biomass and merchantable timber volumes twenty years after conventional and reduced-impact logging in Amazonian Brazil. Forest Ecology and Management  376, 1-8 

West TAP (2016) Indigenous community benefits from a de-centralized approach to REDD+ in Brazil. Climate Policy  16, 924-939

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Rifai SW, West TAP, Putz FE (2015) "Carbon Cowboys" could inflate REDD+ payments through positive measurement bias. Carbon Management  6, 151-158

Rutishauser E, Hérault B, Baraloto C, Blanc L, Descroix L, Sotta ED, Ferreira J, Kanashiro M, Mazzei L, D'Oliveira MVN, De Oliveira LC, Peña-Claros M, Putz FE, Ruschel AR, Rodney K, Roopsind A, Shenkin A, Da Silva KE, De Souza CR, Toledo M, Vidal E, West TAP, Wortel V, Sist P (2015) Rapid tree carbon stock recovery in managed Amazonian forests. Current Biology  25, R787-R788

Sist P, Rutishauser E, Peña-Claros M, Shenkin A, Hérault B, Blanc L, Baraloto C, Baya F, Benedet F, da Silva KE, Descroix L, Ferreira JN, Gourlet-Fleury S, Guedes MC, Harun IB, Jalonen R, Kanashiro M, Krisnawati H, Kshatriya M, Lincoln P, Mazzei L, Medjibé V, Nasi R, d'Oliveira MVN, de Oliveira LC, Picard N, Pietsch S, Pinard M, Priyadi H, Putz FE, Rodney K, Rossi V, Roopsind A, Ruschel AR, Shari NHZ, de Souza CR, Susanty FH, Sotta ED, Toledo M, Vidal E, West TAP, Wortel V, Yamada T (2015) The Tropical managed Forests Observatory: a research network addressing the future of tropical logged forests. Applied Vegetation Science 18, 171-174

West TAP, Vidal E, Putz, FE (2014) Forest biomass recovery after conventional and reduced-impact logging in Amazonian Brazil. Forest Ecology and Management  314, 59-63