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Pamela Jagger is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States and works within the field of Environmental Science. Their research emphasizes the intersection of energy use, environmental impacts, and poverty dynamics, with a significant focus on issues relevant to low- and middle-income countries.

Their recent publications demonstrate a range of topics related to energy and environmental policy. Key papers include:

  • Is energy the golden thread? A systematic review of the impacts of modern and traditional energy use in low- and middle-income countries (2020), Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • The Role of Forests and Trees in Poverty Dynamics (2022), Forest Policy and Economics
  • Forests, trees and poverty alleviation: Policy implications of current knowledge (2021), Forest Policy and Economics
  • Systems Science Approaches for Global Environmental Health Research: Enhancing Intervention Design and Implementation for Household Air Pollution (HAP) and Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Programs (2020), Environmental Health Perspectives
  • City living but still energy poor: Household energy transitions under rapid urbanization in Myanmar (2021), Energy Research & Social Science

Frequent co-authors include Charles Jumbe, Erin O. Sills, Ther W. Aung, Rob Bailis, and Thabbie Chilongo, reflecting collaborative work on topics related to energy, forest policy, and environmental health.

The main venues for Pamela Jagger's publications are varied and include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Forest Policy and Economics
  • Energy Research & Social Science
  • Energy Sustainable Development/Energy for sustainable development
  • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Their work spans several subfields within Environmental Science, particularly:

  • Pollution
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Research topics covered in their publications prominently include:

  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

Best Publications

  • Environmental income and rural livelihoods: a global-comparative analysis.

    Arild Angelsen;Pamela Jagger;Ronnie Babigumira;Brian Belcher

  • The role of trees for sustainable management of less-favored lands: the case of eucalyptus in Ethiopia

    Pamela Jagger;John L. Pender

  • STRATEGIES TO INCREASE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY AND REDUCE LAND DEGRADATION: EVIDENCE FROM UGANDA

    John L. Pender;Ephraim M. Nkonya;Pamela Jagger;Dick Sserunkuuma

  • Strategies For Sustainable Land Management And Poverty Reduction In Uganda

    Ephraim M. Nkonya;John L. Pender;Pamela Jagger;Dick Sserunkuuma

  • Development Pathways and Land Management in Uganda

    John Pender;Pamela Jagger;Ephraim M. Nkonya;Dick Sserunkuuma

  • Development Pathways and Land Management in Uganda: Causes and Implications

    John L. Pender;Pamela Jagger;Ephraim M. Nkonya;Dick Sserunkuuma

  • Is energy the golden thread? A systematic review of the impacts of modern and traditional energy use in low- and middle-income countries

    Marc Jeuland;Marc Jeuland;T. Robert Fetter;Yating Li;Subhrendu K. Pattanayak

  • Supply Considerations for Scaling Up Clean Cooking Fuels for Household Energy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

    E. Puzzolo;H. Zerriffi;E. Carter;H. Clemens

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

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

  • Trading Off Environmental Sustainability for Empowerment and Income: Woodlot Devolution in Northern Ethiopia

    Pamela Jagger;John Pender;Berhanu Gebremedhin

  • Income, poverty and charcoal production in Uganda.

    Fydess Khundi;Pamela Jagger;Gerald Shively;Gerald Shively;Dick Sserunkuuma

  • Land Use Change, Fuel Use and Respiratory Health in Uganda.

    Pamela Jagger;Gerald Shively

  • Rural Household Energy Use and Its Determinants in China: How Important Are Influences of Payment for Ecosystem Services vs. Other Factors?

    Conghe Song;Richard E Bilsborrow;Pamela Jagger;Qi Zhang

  • Tenure and Forest Income: Observations from a Global Study on Forests and Poverty

    Pamela Jagger;Pamela Jagger;Martin Marty K. Luckert;Amy E. Duchelle;Jens Friis Lund

  • Sustainability of Forests Created by China's Sloping Land Conversion Program: A comparison among three sites in Anhui, Hubei and Shanxi

    Conghe Song;Conghe Song;Yulong Zhang;Ying Mei;Hua Liu

  • A guide to learning about livelihood impacts of REDD plus projects

    Pamela Jagger;Erin O. Sills;Kathleen Lawlor;William D. Sunderlin

  • Profits and Margins along Uganda's Charcoal Value Chain

    G. Shively;G. Shively;P. Jagger;P. Jagger;D. Sserunkuuma;D. Sserunkuuma;A. Arinaitwe;A. Arinaitwe

  • Balancing carrots and sticks in REDD+: implications for social safeguards

    Amy E. Duchelle;Claudio de Sassi;Pamela Jagger;Marina Cromberg

  • Building the evidence base for REDD+: Study design and methods for evaluating the impacts of conservation interventions on local well-being.

    Erin O. Sills;Erin O. Sills;Claudio de Sassi;Pamela Jagger;Pamela Jagger;Kathleen Lawlor

  • Bundles, Duties, and Rights: A Revised Framework for Analysis of Natural Resource Property Rights Regimes

    Christopher S. Galik;Christopher S. Galik;Christopher S. Galik;Pamela Jagger

  • Implementation and scale-up of a biomass pellet and improved cookstove enterprise in Rwanda.

    Pamela Jagger;Ipsita Das

  • Impacts of programs and organizations on the adoption of sustainable land management technologies in Uganda

    Pamela Jagger;John L. Pender

  • Governing Africa's forests in a globalized world

    Laura A German;Alain Karsenty;Anne-Marie Tiani;Carol Colfer

  • STRATEGIES TO INCREASE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY AND REDUCE LAND DEGRADATION: EVIDENCE FROM UGANDA

    John Pender;Ephraim Nkonya;Pamela Jagger;Dick Sserunkuuma

Frequent Co-Authors

John Pender
John Pender United States Department of Agriculture
William D. Sunderlin
William D. Sunderlin Center for International Forestry Research
Ephraim Nkonya
Ephraim Nkonya International Food Policy Research Institute
Maria Brockhaus
Maria Brockhaus University of Helsinki
Gerald Shively
Gerald Shively Purdue University West Lafayette
Erin O. Sills
Erin O. Sills North Carolina State University
Anne M. Larson
Anne M. Larson Center for International Forestry Research, Peru
Richard E. Bilsborrow
Richard E. Bilsborrow University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Joseph N. S. Eisenberg
Joseph N. S. Eisenberg University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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