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Krister Andersson is affiliated with the University of Notre Dame in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with significant contributions to global and planetary change, safety research, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, and political science and international relations.

The scientist's work covers a variety of research topics, notably in conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, experimental behavioral economics studies, water resources management and optimization, local government finance and decentralization, economic and environmental valuation, land use and ecosystem services, and global maternal and child health.

Krister Andersson has contributed to several publications in recognized venues. Frequent publication venues include Harvard Dataverse, where they have 15 publications, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene with 3 publications, Health Policy and Planning with 2 publications, PLoS ONE with 2 publications, and Conservation Letters with 2 publications.

Recent articles authored or co-authored by Andersson include the following:

  • "Making place-based sustainability initiatives visible in the Brazilian Amazon," 2021, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • "Voluntary leadership and the emergence of institutions for self-governance," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Organizations matter in local governance: evidence from health sector decentralization in Honduras," 2020, Health Policy and Planning
  • "More robust local governance suggests positive effects of long-term community conservation," 2020, Conservation Science and Practice
  • "Place-based solutions for global social-ecological dilemmas: An analysis of locally grounded, diversified, and cross-scalar initiatives in the Amazon," 2023, Global Environmental Change

Krister Andersson frequently collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Tara Grillos
  • Alan Zarychta
  • A. Molina-Garzon
  • Elisabeth Dowling Root
  • Jane Menken

Best Publications

  • Analyzing decentralized resource regimes from a polycentric perspective

    Krister P. Andersson;Elinor Ostrom

  • The Samaritan's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid

    Clark C. Gibson;Krister Andersson;Elinor Ostrom;Sujai Shivakumar

  • From LTER to LTSER: Conceptualizing the Socioeconomic Dimension of Long-term Socioecological Research

    Helmut Haberl;Verena Winiwarter;Krister Andersson;Robert U. Ayres

  • The Samaritan's Dilemma

    Clark C. Gibson;Krister Andersson;Elinor Ostrom;Sujai Shivakumar

  • Who talks with whom? The role of repeated interactions in decentralized forest governance

    Krister P Andersson

  • From management to stewardship: Viewing forests as complex adaptive systems in an uncertain world

    C. Messier;K.J. Puettmann;R.L. Chazdon;K.P. Andersson

  • Inequalities, institutions, and forest commons

    Krister Andersson;Arun Agrawal

  • Municipal Politics and Forest Governance: Comparative Analysis of Decentralization in Bolivia and Guatemala

    Krister P. Andersson;Clark C. Gibson;Fabrice Lehoucq

  • Elite capture risk and mitigation in decentralized forest governance regimes

    Lauren M Persha;Krister Andersson

  • Understanding decentralized forest governance: an application of the institutional analysis and development framework

    Krister P. Andersson

  • Decentralized governance and environmental change: Local institutional moderation of deforestation in Bolivia

    Krister Andersson;Clark C. Gibson

  • From Local Strongman to Facilitator Institutional Incentives for Participatory Municipal Governance in Latin America

    Krister Andersson;Frank van Laerhoven

  • Pursuing Sustainability: A Guide to the Science and Practice

    Krister Andersson;Pamela Matson;William C. Clark

  • What Motivates Municipal Governments? Uncovering the Institutional Incentives for Municipal Governance of Forest Resources in Bolivia

    Krister Andersson

  • More Trees, More Poverty? The Socioeconomic Effects of Tree Plantations in Chile, 2001–2011

    Krister Andersson;Duncan Lawrence;Jennifer Zavaleta;Manuel R. Guariguata

  • Decentralization can help reduce deforestation when user groups engage with local government

    Glenn D. Wright;Krister P. Andersson;Clark C. Gibson;Tom P. Evans

  • The Samaritan's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid

    Clark C. Gibson;Krister Andersson;Sujai Shivakumar

  • The Contribution of Institutional Theories to Explaining Decentralization of Natural Resource Governance

    Tim Bartley;Krister Andersson;Pamela Jagger;Frank Van Laerhoven

  • Institutional diversity and local forest governance

    Krister Andersson;Jean Paul Benavides;Rosario León

  • The leaky sink: persistent obstacles to a forest carbon sequestration program based on individual projects

    Kenneth Richards;Krister Andersson

  • The Politics of Decentralized Natural Resource Governance

    Krister P. Andersson;Clark C. Gibson;Fabrice Lehoucq

  • National forest carbon inventories: policy needs and assessment capacity

    Krister Andersson;Tom P. Evans;Kenneth R. Richards

  • Payment for Environmental Services: Hypotheses and Evidence

    Lee J. Alston;Krister Andersson;Steven M. Smith

  • Local Politics of Forest Governance: Why NGO Support Can Reduce Local Government Responsiveness

    Nathan J. Cook;Glenn D. Wright;Krister P. Andersson

Frequent Co-Authors

Clark C. Gibson
Clark C. Gibson University of California, San Diego
Lee J. Alston
Lee J. Alston Indiana University
Tom Evans
Tom Evans University of Arizona
Elinor Ostrom
Elinor Ostrom Indiana University
Fabrice Lehoucq
Fabrice Lehoucq University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Jane Menken
Jane Menken University of Colorado Boulder
Anne M. Larson
Anne M. Larson Center for International Forestry Research, Peru
Harald G. Zechmeister
Harald G. Zechmeister University of Vienna
Fridolin Krausmann
Fridolin Krausmann BOKU University
Christian Messier
Christian Messier University of Quebec at Montreal

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