William D. Sunderlin

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management(67), Forest Management and Policy(31), Land Rights and Reforms(18), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development(13), Economic and Environmental Valuation(12)

Publications130 total

Tenure and Forest Income: Observations from a Global Study on Forests and Poverty
UNC Libraries·2025Open Access
Building the evidence base for REDD+: Study design and methods for evaluating the impacts of conservation interventions on local well-being
UNC Libraries·2025Open Access
From promises to practice: Persistent challenges in safeguarding local rights in forest carbon market initiatives
CABI Reviews·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Can REDD+ succeed? Occurrence and influence of various combinations of interventions in subnational initiatives
Global Environmental Change·2023· 7 cited
A Historical Perspective on Land Tenure Security
2022· 3 citedOpen Access
Tenure Issues in REDD+ Pilot Project Sites in Tanzania
UNC Libraries·2021Open Access
Multi-Level Policy Dialogues, Processes, and Actions: Challenges and Opportunities for National REDD+ Safeguards Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV)
UNC Libraries·2021Open Access
22. Land Tenure and REDD+
New York University Press eBooks·2020
Influence of land tenure interventions on human well-being and environmental outcomes
Nature Sustainability·2020· 120 cited
Balancing carrots and sticks in REDD+: implications for social safeguards
UNC Libraries·2020Open Access
REDD+ in Theory and Practice: How Lessons From Local Projects Can Inform Jurisdictional Approaches
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change·2020· 81 citedOpen Access
How do practitioners characterize land tenure security?
Conservation Science and Practice·2020· 18 citedOpen Access
Land and carbon tenure: Some – but insufficient – progress
CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research)·2018· 2 citedOpen Access
What is REDD+ achieving on the ground?
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics·2018· 3 citedOpen Access
What is REDD+ achieving on the ground?
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability·2018· 153 citedOpen Access
Creating an appropriate tenure foundation for REDD+: The record to date and prospects for the future
World Development·2018· 89 citedOpen Access
Wealth and the distribution of benefits from tropical forests: Implications for REDD+
Land Use Policy·2018· 61 citedOpen Access
Incorporating Land Tenure Security into Conservation
Conservation Letters·2017· 199 citedOpen Access
Learning from REDD+: a response to Fletcher et al.
Conservation Biology·2017· 91 citedOpen Access
Comparing methods for assessing the effectiveness of subnational REDD+ initiatives
Environmental Research Letters·2017· 72 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Amy E. Duchelle(16), Erin O. Sills(12), Anne Larson(10), Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo(10), Arild Angelsen(8), Claudio de Sassi(8), Sven Wunder(7), Maria Brockhaus(6), Pamela Jagger(5), Therese Dokken(4), A. Awono(4), S. Atmadja(4), Galia Selaya(3), Maria Fernanda Gebara(3), Marina Cromberg(3), P. Cronkleton(3), Louis Verchot(3), Christy Desta Pratama(3), O. Ndoye(3), Andini Desita Ekaputri(3)