Jeffrey R. Vincent

About

Jeffrey R. Vincent is the Korstian Distinguished Professor in Forest Economics and Management in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University. He also holds positions as a Professor in the Division of Environmental Social Systems and as a Professor of Public Policy Studies. Additionally, he is an affiliate of the Duke Center for International Development. Based at Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy, his work involves addressing complex environmental and social issues through an interdisciplinary approach, contributing to the fields of forest economics, environmental management, and public policy.

Research topics

• Ecology
• Biology
• Economics
• Environmental science
• Computer Science
• Agroforestry
• Geography
• Environmental resource management
• Political Science
• Finance

Selected publications

• Response diversity as a sustainability strategy

  Nature Sustainability · 2023 · 69 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
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• Cost-effectiveness of natural forest regeneration and plantations for climate mitigation

  Nature Climate Change · 2024-07-24 · 66 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  Abstract Mitigating climate change cost-effectively requires identifying least-cost-per-ton GHG abatement methods. Here, we estimate and map GHG abatement cost (US$ per tCO 2 ) for two common reforestation methods: natural regeneration and plantations. We do so by producing and integrating new maps of implementation costs and opportunity costs of reforestation, likely plantation genus and carbon accumulation by means of natural regeneration and plantations, accounting for storage in harvested wo…

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• Scaling smallholder tree cover restoration across the tropics

  Global Environmental Change · 2022 · 42 citations

  Restoring tree cover in tropical countries has the potential to benefit millions of smallholders through improvements in income and environmental services. However, despite their dominant landholding shares in many countries, smallholders’ role in restoration has not been addressed in prior global or pan-tropical restoration studies. We fill this lacuna by using global spatial data on trees and people, national indicators of enabling conditions, and micro-level expert information. We find that b…

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• Forest Restoration in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

  Annual Review of Environment and Resources · 2021 · 37 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  A series of international initiatives have set ambitious goals for restoring global forests. This review synthesizes natural and social science research on forest restoration (FR), with a focus on restoration on cleared land in low- and middle-income countries. We define restoration more broadly than reestablishing native forests, given that landholders might prefer other forest types. We organize the review loosely around ideas in the forest transition literature. We begin by examining recent t…

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• Redefining “abandoned” agricultural land in the context of reforestation

  Frontiers in Forests and Global Change · 2022-08-22 · 21 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  Global mapping efforts to date have relied on vague and oversimplified definitions of "abandoned" agricultural land which results in overestimates of the land area that is likely to support persistent increases in forest cover and associated carbon sequestration. We propose a new conceptualization of abandoned agricultural land that incorporates changes in landholding status over time into determining whether land should be considered as abandoned. In order to develop more realistic estimates of…

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Frequent coauthors

• Richard T. Carson

  Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

  13 shared

• Karl-Göran Mäler

  Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

  12 shared

• John G. Meara

  Harvard University

  11 shared

• Blake C. Alkire

  Harvard University

  11 shared

• Jon Strand

  World Bank

  10 shared

• Matthew D. Potts

  State Street (United States)

  10 shared

• Susana Ferreira

  University of Georgia

  9 shared

• Lloyd C. Irland

  9 shared

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