Gretchen C. Daily

About

Gretchen C. Daily is the Bing Professor of Environmental Science and a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. She is also affiliated, by courtesy, with the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Her research interests include land use, biodiversity dynamics, and ecosystem services, with a focus on understanding and promoting sustainable interactions between human activities and natural ecosystems. As a prominent figure in ecology and environmental science, she contributes to advancing knowledge in these fields through her academic and research activities at Stanford.

Research topics

• Geography
• Ecology
• Sociology
• Economics
• Environmental resource management
• Political Science
• Environmental planning
• Business
• Computer Science
• Biology

Selected publications

• Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere

  AMBIO · 2021 · 660 citations

  The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an interconnected and tightly coupled globalized world in rapid change. This article sets the scientific stage for understanding and responding to such change for global sustainability and resilient societies. We provide a systemic overview of the current situation where people and nature are dynamically intertwined and embedded in the biosphere, placing shocks and extreme events as part of this dynamic; humanity has become the major force in shaping the future…

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• Using gross ecosystem product (GEP) to value nature in decision making

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020 · 490 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Gross domestic product (GDP) summarizes a vast amount of economic information in a single monetary metric that is widely used by decision makers around the world. However, GDP fails to capture fully the contributions of nature to economic activity and human well-being. To address this critical omission, we develop a measure of gross ecosystem product (GEP) that summarizes the value of ecosystem services in a single monetary metric. We illustrate the measurement of GEP through an application to t…

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• Increasing decision relevance of ecosystem service science

  Nature Sustainability · 2020 · 260 citations

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• An ecosystem service perspective on urban nature, physical activity, and health

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2021 · 239 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Nature underpins human well-being in critical ways, especially in health. Nature provides pollination of nutritious crops, purification of drinking water, protection from floods, and climate security, among other well-studied health benefits. A crucial, yet challenging, research frontier is clarifying how nature promotes physical activity for its many mental and physical health benefits, particularly in densely populated cities with scarce and dwindling access to nature. Here we frame this front…

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• Urbanization in and for the Anthropocene

  npj Urban Sustainability · 2021 · 192 citations

  Key insights on needs in urban regional governance - Global urbanization (the increasing concentration in urban settlements of the increasing world population), is a driver and accelerator of shifts in diversity, new cross-scale interactions, decoupling from ecological processes, increasing risk and exposure to shocks. Responding to the challenges of urbanization demands fresh commitments to a city–regional perspective in ways that are explictly embedded in the Anthopocene bio- techno- and noosp…

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Recent grants

• DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Modeling Bird and Bat Mediated Pest Control Services Across Costa Rican Countryside

  NSF · $15k · 2012–2014

Frequent coauthors

• Paul R. Ehrlich

  126 shared

• Taylor H. Ricketts

  University of Vermont

  66 shared

• Stephen Polasky

  University of Minnesota

  61 shared

• Hua Zheng

  Chinese Academy of Sciences

  53 shared

• Zhiyun Ouyang

  Chinese Academy of Sciences

  51 shared

• Carl Folke

  Stockholm University

  51 shared

• Rebecca Chaplin‐Kramer

  Stanford University

  42 shared

• Jeffrey R. Smith

  Princeton University

  42 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Environmental Earth System Science

  Stanford University

  1992

• M.S., Environmental Earth System Science

  Stanford University

  1988

• B.A., Environmental Science and Public Policy

  Harvard University

  1983

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