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Richard E. Bilsborrow is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and social sciences, with significant contributions to the subfields of global and planetary change, sociology and political science, management, monitoring, policy and law, general agricultural and biological sciences, and soil science.

The main topics covered in Richard E. Bilsborrow's work include:

  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Land Rights and Reforms
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development

Richard E. Bilsborrow has published in various academic venues, most notably UNC Libraries where they have 19 publications. Other frequent publication venues include:

  • Land Use Policy
  • Journal of Rural Studies
  • Ecosystem Services
  • Global Environmental Change

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Richard E. Bilsborrow include:

  • Role of social networks in building household livelihood resilience under payments for ecosystem services programs in a poor rural community in China, 2021, Journal of Rural Studies
  • Divergent socioeconomic-ecological outcomes of China's conversion of cropland to forest program in the subtropical mountainous area and the semi-arid Loess Plateau, 2020, Ecosystem Services
  • Effects of payments for ecosystem services programs in China on rural household labor allocation and land use: Identifying complex pathways, 2020, Land Use Policy
  • Stability and change within indigenous land use in the Ecuadorian Amazon, 2020, Global Environmental Change
  • Understanding the Effects of China's Agro-Environmental Policies on Rural Households' Labor and Land Allocation with a Spatially Explicit Agent-Based Model, 2021, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation

Richard E. Bilsborrow has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Conghe Song
  • Qi Zhang
  • Clark Gray
  • Shiqi Tao
  • Srikanta Sannigrahi

Best Publications

  • International Migration Statistics: Guidelines for Improving Data Collection Systems

    Bilsborrow Re;Hugo G;Oberai As;Zlotnik H

  • Population pressures and agricultural development in developing countries: A conceptual framework and recent evidence

    Richard E. Bilsborrow

  • Population-driven changes in land use in developing countries

    R. E. Bilsborrow;H. W.O.O. Ogendo

  • Migration Surveys in Low-Income Countries: Guidelines for Survey and Questionnaire Design

    Michael P. Todaro;Richard E. Bilsborrow;A. S. Oberai;Guy Standing

  • THE IMPACT OF ORIGIN COMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS ON RURAL-URBAN OUT-MIGRATION IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY

    Richard E. Bilsborrow;Thomas M. McDevitt;Sherrie Kossoudji;Richard Fuller

  • Environmental Influences on Human Migration in Rural Ecuador

    Clark Gray;Richard Bilsborrow

  • Farm-level models of spatial patterns of land use and land cover dynamics in the Ecuadorian Amazon

    William K.Y Pan;Stephen J Walsh;Richard E Bilsborrow;Brian G Frizzelle

  • Changes in Population and Land Use Over Time in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

    Richard E. Bilsborrow;Alisson F. Barbieri;William Pan

  • Land use migration and natural resource deterioration: the experience of Guatemala and the Sudan.

    Richard E. Bilsborrow;Pamela F. DeLargy

  • The use of a multilevel statistical model to analyze factors influencing land use: a study of the Ecuadorian Amazon

    William K.Y. Pan;Richard E. Bilsborrow

  • Socioeconomic Drivers of Deforestation in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon

    Carlos F. Mena;Richard E. Bilsborrow;Michael E. McClain

  • Consequences of out-migration for land use in rural Ecuador

    Clark L. Gray;Richard E. Bilsborrow

  • Indigenous Land Use in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Cross-cultural and Multilevel Analysis

    Clark L. Gray;Richard E. Bilsborrow;Jason L. Bremner;Flora Lu

  • Migration, urbanization, and development : new directions and issues

    Mary M. Kritz;Richard E. Bilsborrow

  • Population growth, internal migration, and environmental degradation in rural areas of developing countries.

    Richard E. Bilsborrow

  • Rural poverty, migration, and the environment in developing countries : three case studies

    Richard E. Bilsborrow

  • Farm Household Lifecycles and Land Use in the Ecuadorian Amazon

    Alisson F. Barbieri;Richard E. Bilsborrow;William K. Pan

  • Community-level determinants of contraceptive use in the Philippines: a structural analysis.

    Deborah S. Degraff;Richard E. Bilsborrow;David K. Guilkey

  • Migration Within the Frontier: The Second Generation Colonization in the Ecuadorian Amazon

    Alisson Flávio Barbieri;David L. Carr;Richard E. Bilsborrow

  • The population, agriculture, and environment nexus in Latin America: country-level evidence from the latter half of the twentieth century

    David L. Carr;Anna Carla Lopez;Richard E. Bilsborrow

Frequent Co-Authors

John S. Akin
John S. Akin University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David K. Guilkey
David K. Guilkey University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Carlos Mena
Carlos Mena Portland State University
Chirayath M. Suchindran
Chirayath M. Suchindran University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Guy Standing
Guy Standing School of Oriental and African Studies
Emilio F. Moran
Emilio F. Moran Michigan State University
Michael E. McClain
Michael E. McClain IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Quanfa Zhang
Quanfa Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mateus Batistella
Mateus Batistella Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Heileen Hsu-Kim
Heileen Hsu-Kim Duke University

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