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44
Citations
7503
World Ranking
4171
National Ranking
246

Overview

Brent Swallow is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their publications primarily focus on complex interactions between natural resource management, economic development, and policy frameworks.

The scientist's work spans several key fields of study, including:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Subfields of particular emphasis in Brent Swallow's research include:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Insect Science
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

The scholar's main topics of work encompass:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Housing Market and Economics
  • Urban Green Space and Health

Among recent academic publications are:

  • "Coupling coordination analysis of China's water resources utilization efficiency and economic development level," 2022, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • "Governance of forests and governance of forest information: Interlinkages in the age of open and digital data," 2020, Forest Policy and Economics
  • "Identifying the effects of a land-use policy on willingness to pay for open space using an endogenous switching regression model," 2021, Land Use Policy
  • "Co-management for sustainable development and conservation in Sanjiangyuan National Park and the surrounding Tibetan nomadic pastoralist areas," 2023, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • "An insight into the drag effect of water, land, and energy on economic growth across space and time: the application of improved Solow growth model," 2021, Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Frequent co-authors who collaborate with Brent Swallow include:

  • Salla Rantala
  • Riikka Paloniemi
  • Feng Qiu
  • Ting Ma
  • Linsheng Zhong

Publication venues where Brent Swallow's research has appeared include:

  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Forest Policy and Economics
  • Land Use Policy
  • Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie

Best Publications

  • Fractal Poverty Traps

    Christopher B. Barrett;Brent M. Swallow

  • MEASURING THE COSTS OF AFRICAN ANIMAL TRYPANOSOMOSIS, THE POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF CONTROL AND RETURNS TO RESEARCH

    Patricia M. Kristjanson;B.M. Swallow;G.J. Rowlands;R.L. Kruska

  • Forestry-based carbon sequestration projects in Africa: Potential benefits and challenges

    Rohit Jindal;Brent Swallow;John Kerr

  • Impacts of trypanosomiasis on African agriculture.

    B.M. Swallow

  • Compensation and Rewards for Environmental Services in the Developing World: Framing Pan-Tropical Analysis and Comparison

    Brent M. Swallow;Mikkel F. Kallesoe;Usman A. Iftikhar;Meine van Noordwijk

  • Locating REDD: A global survey and analysis of REDD readiness and demonstration activities

    Gillian A. Cerbu;Brent M. Swallow;Dara Y. Thompson

  • Tradeoffs, synergies and traps among ecosystem services in the Lake Victoria basin of East Africa

    Brent M. Swallow;Joseph K. Sang;Joseph K. Sang;Meshack Nyabenge;Daniel K. Bundotich

  • Invasion of prosopis juliflora and local livelihoods: case study from the Lake Baringo area of Kenya

    Emmanuel Mwangi;Brent Swallow

  • The effects of scales, flows and filters on property rights and collective action in watershed management

    Brent M. Swallow;Dennis P. Garrity;Meine van Noordwijk

  • Using conjoint analysis to estimate farmer's preferences for cattle traits in West Africa

    Kouadio Tano;Mulumba Kamuanga;Merle D. Faminow;Brent Swallow

  • Prosopis juliflora Invasion and Rural Livelihoods in the Lake Baringo Area of Kenya

    Esther Mwangi;Brent Swallow

  • Designing a payments for ecosystem services (PES) program to reduce deforestation in Tanzania: : An assessment of payment approaches

    David Kaczan;Brent M. Swallow;W.L. (Vic) Adamowicz

  • Managing mobility in African rangelands.

    M. Niamir-Fuller;N. McCarthy;B. Swallow;M. Kirk

  • Innovation in natural resource management: The role of property rights and collective action in developing countries

    Ruth Meinzen-Dick;Anna Knox;Frank Place;Brent Swallow

  • Institutions, governance and incentives in common property regimes for African rangelands

    Brent M. Swallow;Daniel W. Bromley

  • Can community gardens and farmers' markets relieve food desert problems? A study of Edmonton, Canada

    Haoluan Wang;Feng Qiu;Brent Swallow

  • The Policy Terrain in Protected Area Landscapes: Challenges for Agroforestry in Integrated Landscape Conservation

    Rebecca Ashley;Diane Russell;Brent Swallow

  • Evaluating willingness to contribute to a local public good: Application of contingent valuation to tsetse control in Ethiopia

    B.M. Swallow;M. Woudyalew

  • Property rights, risk, and livestock development in Africa

    N. McCarthy;B. Swallow;M. Kirk;P. Hazell

  • Property Rights, Collective Action, and Poverty: The Role of Institutions for Poverty Reduction

    Monica di Gregorio;Konrad Hagedorn;Michael Kirk;Benedikt Korf

  • A conjoint analysis of farmer preferences for community forestry contracts in the Sumber Jaya Watershed, Indonesia.

    Bustanul Arifin;Brent M. Swallow;S. Suyanto;Richard D. Coe

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruth Meinzen-Dick
Ruth Meinzen-Dick International Food Policy Research Institute
M. van Noordwijk
M. van Noordwijk World Agroforestry Centre
Louis V. Verchot
Louis V. Verchot Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical
Robin Matthews
Robin Matthews James Hutton Institute
Mark Giordano
Mark Giordano Georgetown University
David Molden
David Molden World Bank
Eric F. Lambin
Eric F. Lambin Stanford University
Pierre Hiernaux
Pierre Hiernaux Goddard Space Flight Center
Edzo Veldkamp
Edzo Veldkamp University of Göttingen
Keith D. Shepherd
Keith D. Shepherd World Agroforestry Centre

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