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194

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Robin Naidoo is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada, focusing primarily on environmental science with a significant emphasis on ecology. Their research spans a range of subfields including ecology, global and planetary change, management, monitoring, policy and law, economics and econometrics, and social psychology.

The main topics of their work cover wildlife ecology and conservation, wildlife-road interactions and conservation, economic and environmental valuation, conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, land use and ecosystem services, diverse aspects of tourism research, and rangeland management and livestock ecology.

Naidoo's frequent co-authors include Angela Brennan, Kai M. A. Chan, Piet Beytell, Zia Mehrabi, and Russell Taylor, indicating collaborative work across various aspects of environmental and conservation science.

Their publications often appear in prominent venues, with the most frequent being Conservation Science and Practice, Nature, People and Nature, Science, and the Journal of Applied Ecology.

  • Reset Sustainable Development Goals for a pandemic world, 2020, Nature
  • Levers and leverage points for pathways to sustainability, 2020, People and Nature
  • Functional connectivity of the world's protected areas, 2022, Science
  • Tourism in protected and conserved areas amid the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021, PARKS
  • Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations, 2021, Science

Best Publications

  • Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales

    Erik Nelson;Guillermo Mendoza;James Regetz;Stephen Polasky

  • Global mapping of ecosystem services and conservation priorities

    R. Naidoo;A. Balmford;Robert Costanza;B. Fisher

  • Integrating economic costs into conservation planning.

    Robin Naidoo;Andrew Balmford;Paul J. Ferraro;Stephen Polasky

  • Walk on the Wild Side: Estimating the Global Magnitude of Visits to Protected Areas

    Andrew Balmford;Jonathan M. H. Green;Michael Anderson;James Beresford

  • A global perspective on trends in nature-based tourism.

    Andrew Balmford;James Beresford;Jonathan Green;Robin Naidoo

  • Ecosystem services and economic theory: integration for policy-relevant research.

    Brendan Fisher;Kerry Turner;Matthew Zylstra;Roy Brouwer

  • Pinpointing and preventing imminent extinctions

    Taylor H. Ricketts;Eric Dinerstein;Tim Boucher;Thomas M. Brooks

  • Mapping the Economic Costs and Benefits of Conservation

    Robin Naidoo;Taylor H Ricketts

  • Impacts of Marine Protected Areas on Fishing Communities

    Michael B. Mascia;C. Anne Claus;Robin Naidoo

  • Reset Sustainable Development Goals for a pandemic world.

    Robin Naidoo;Brendan Fisher

  • Evaluating the impacts of protected areas on human well-being across the developing world

    R. Naidoo;D. Gerkey;D. Hole;A. Pfaff

  • Complementary benefits of tourism and hunting to communal conservancies in Namibia

    Robin Naidoo;L. Chris Weaver;Richard W. Diggle;Greenwell Matongo

  • Cultural services and non-use values

    Kai M. A. Chan;Joshua Goldstein;Terre Satterfield;Neil Hannahs

  • The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

    Lawrence N. Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L.L. Hill;Samantha L.L. Hill

  • The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts

    Lawrence N Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L L Hill;Samantha L L Hill

  • Global-scale mapping of economic benefits from agricultural lands: Implications for conservation priorities

    Robin Naidoo;Takuya Iwamura

  • Levers and leverage points for pathways to sustainability

    Kai M. A. Chan;David R. Boyd;Rachelle K. Gould;Jens Jetzkowitz

  • Opportunity costs: Who really pays for conservation?

    Vanessa M. Adams;Robert L. Pressey;Robin Naidoo

  • Biodiversity and nature-based tourism at forest reserves in Uganda

    Robin Naidoo;Wiktor L. Adamowicz

  • Bringing Ecosystem Services into the Real World: An Operational Framework for Assessing the Economic Consequences of Losing Wild Nature

    Andrew Balmford;Brendan Fisher;Brendan Fisher;Rhys E. Green;Rhys E. Green;Robin Naidoo

Frequent Co-Authors

Brendan Fisher
Brendan Fisher University of Vermont
Taylor H. Ricketts
Taylor H. Ricketts University of Vermont
Kai M. A. Chan
Kai M. A. Chan University of British Columbia
Tom M. Fayle
Tom M. Fayle Queen Mary University of London
Andrew Balmford
Andrew Balmford University of Cambridge
Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University
Alain Dejean
Alain Dejean Paul Sabatier University
Andy Purvis
Andy Purvis Natural History Museum
Tony R. Walker
Tony R. Walker Dalhousie University
Jérémy Bouyer
Jérémy Bouyer INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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