We work within five broad themes

ESG & Financial Performance
Includes:
  • Collaboration with the ESG Analytics Lab at the Wharton School of Business (UPenn)
  • Quantifying pathways through which environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors impact corporate financial performance
  • Examining impacts of ESG events on financial outcomes
Environmental Conservation
Sustainable Development
Includes:
  • Identifying factors shaping success or failure of protected areas in Peru, Mexico,  and globally
  • Understanding drivers and potential policy responses to non-compliance with regulations, including in fisheries in New Zealand and U.S., and in protected areas in Africa, Latin America, and U.S.
  • Supporting Indigenous knowledge systems in U.S., Peru, Amazonia, and globally
  • Environmental behavior change in New Zealand
Includes:
  • Forest valuation methods in Peru
  • Sustainability of hunting in the Amazon
  • Impacts of government policies in Inner Mongolia, China
  • Sustainability of cattle ranching in Argentina
  • Social-ecological impacts of shrimp-farming in Bangladesh
  • REDD+ and forest governance and management in Indonesia
  • Sustainable water management in Mexico
  • Models of urban food production in New Zealand
 

Diversity, Inclusion, & Governance

Michael Gavin led an international working group in the development of principles for just and effective biocultural conservation linked to the Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature

Related projects include:
  • Measuring the importance of participatory governance in shaping social and ecological impacts of protected areas in Peru and Mexico
  • Identifying pathways for the integration of cultural ecosystem services into federal environmental decision-making in the U.S.
  • Designing frameworks for ethical research practices with Indigenous and local communities
  • Supporting school education models that encourage transmission of Indigenous knowledge in Vanuatu

Understanding Origins of Diversity

Includes: