Peer-reviewed journal articles (unless noted), grouped by research theme:

1. Effectiveness of conservation interventions
2. Cost estimation for conservation planning
3. Valuing environmental amenities and climate risks

Lab members and advisees in bold, student researchers underlined.

Effectiveness of conservation interventions

• Armsworth P, Dilkina B, Fargione J, Fisher M, Fovargue R, Harris J, Jackson H, Le Bouille D, Nolte C (2024) Optimal conservation outcomes consider donor geography and their willingness to support more distant projects. Biological Conservation
• den Braber B, Oldekop J, Devenish K, Godar J, Nolte C, Schmoeller M, Evans K (2024) Socio-economic and environmental trade-offs in Amazonian protected areas and Indigenous territories revealed by assessing competing land uses. Nature Ecology & Evolution
• Hagen S, Nolte C, Morgan S, Chang Y, Boccaletti G, Reddy S. (2024) Understanding variation in impacts from private protected areas across regions and protection mechanisms to inform organizational practices. Conservation Biology
• Malakoff K, Nolte C (2023) Estimating the parcel-level impacts of agricultural conservation easements on farmland loss using satellite data in New England. Land Use Policy
• Reboredo Segovia A, Matallana C, Amaya Torres D, Meza Chavez D, Gómez Candamil J, López-Gamboa V, Nolte C (2022) Implementing land acquisitions for watershed services in the tropical Colombian Andes produces marginal progress for advancing area‐based conservation objectives. Conservation Letters
• Bullock E, Nolte C, Reboredo Segovia A, Woodcock C (2020) Ongoing forest disturbance in Guatemala’s protected areas. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
• Nolte C, Meyer S, Sims K, Thompson J (2019) Voluntary, permanent land protection reduces forest loss and development in a rural-urban landscape. Conservation Letters
• Nolte C, De Vos A, Schöttker O (2019) Cost-effectiveness of public policy for the long-term conservation of private lands: what is the deal? Conservation Letters
• Sims K, Thompson J, Meyer S, Nolte C, Plisinski J (2019) Assessing the local economic impacts of land protection. Conservation Biology
• le Polain de Waroux Y, Garrett R, Graesser J, Nolte C, White C, Lambin E (2019) The restructuring of South American soy and beef production and trade under changing environmental regulations. World Development
• Nolte C (2018) Buying forests for conservation: contours of a global trend. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
• Nolte C, Gobbi B, le Polain de Waroux Y, Piquer-Rodríguez M, Butsic V, Lambin E. (2018) Challenges in attributing avoided deforestation to policies and actors: lessons from provincial forest zoning in the Argentine Dry Chaco. Ecological Economics
• Lambin E, Gibbs H, Heilmayr R, Carlson K, Fleck L, Garrett R, le Polain de Waroux Y, McDermott C, McLaughlin D, Newton P, Nolte C, Pacheco P, Rausch L, Streck C, Thorlakson T, Walker N (2018) The role of supply-chain initiatives in reducing deforestation. Nature Climate Change
• Brandt J, Nolte C, Agrawal A (2018) Deforestation and timber production in Congo after implementation of sustainable management policy: a response to Karsenty et al (2017). Land Use Policy
• Nolte C, Gobbi B, le Polain de Waroux Y, Piquer-Rodríguez M, Butsic V, Lambin E (2017) Decentralized land use zoning reduces large-scale deforestation in a major agricultural frontier. Ecological Economics
• Nolte C, le Polain de Waroux Y, Munger J, Reis T, Lambin E (2017) Conditions influencing the adoption of effective anti-deforestation policies in South America’s commodity frontiers. Global Environmental Change
• Robinson B, Masuda Y, Kelly A, Holland M, Bedford C, Childress M, Fletschner D, Game E, Ginsburg C, Hilhorst T, Lawry S, Miteva D, Musengezi J, Naugthon-Treves L, Nolte C, Sunderlin W, Veit P (2017) Incorporating land tenure security into conservation. Conservation Letters
• Nolte C (2016) Identifying challenges to enforcement in protected areas: empirical insights from 15 Colombian parks. Oryx
• Brandt J, Nolte C, Agrawal A (2016) Deforestation and timber production in Congo after the implementation of sustainable forest management policy. Land Use Policy
• Ferraro P, Hanauer M, Miteva D, Nelson J, Pattanayak S, Nolte C, Sims K (2015) Estimating the impacts of conservation on ecosystem services by integrating modeling and evaluation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Coad L, Leverington F, Knights K, Geldmann J, Eassom A, Kapos V, Zamora C, Cuardros I, Nolte C, Burgess N, Hockings M. (2015) Measuring impact of protected area management interventions: current and future use of the global database of protected area management effectiveness. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
• Brandt J, Nolte C, Steinberg J, Agrawal A (2014) Foreign capital, forest change and regulatory compliance in Congo Basin forests. Environmental Research Letters
• Nolte C, Agrawal A, Soares-Filho B, Silvius K (2013) Governance regime and location influence avoided deforestation success of protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Nolte C, Agrawal A, Barreto P (2013) Setting priorities to avoid deforestation in Amazon protected areas: are we choosing the right indicators? Environmental Research Letters
• Nolte C, Agrawal A (2013) Linking management effectiveness indicators to observed effects of protected areas on fire occurrence in the Amazon rainforest. Conservation Biology
• Coad L, Leverington F, Burgess N, Cuadros I, Geldmann J, Marthews T, Mee J, Nolte C, Stoll-Kleemann S, Vansteelant N, Zamora C, Zimsky M, Hockings M (2013) Progress towards the CBD protected area management effectiveness targets. Parks
• Stoll-Kleemann S, Kettner A, Leverington F, Nolte C, Nielsen G, Bomhard B, Stolton S, Marr M, Hockings M (2012) Erfassung der Managementeffektivität in Europas Schutzgebieten. Naturschutz und Landschaftsplanung

Reports

• Nolte C, Leverington F, Kettner A, Marr M, Nielsen G, Bomhard B, Stolton S, Stoll-Kleemann S, Hockings M (2010) Protected area management effectiveness assessments in Europe. A review of application, methods and results. BfN Skripten 271a. German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation: Bonn, Germany
• Leverington F, Costas K, Courrau J, Pavese H, Nolte C, Marr M, Coad L, Burgess N, Bomhard B, Hockings M (2010) Management effectiveness evaluation in protected areas – a global study. Second edition 2010. University of Queensland: Brisbane, Australia
• Nolte C (2006) The Biosphere Tour: A 12000km bicycle trip to Biosphere Reserves. Observations and recommendations. Discussion Paper.

Thesis research

• Nolte C (2008) Property rights and payments for watershed services from forests in China: an exploratory case study of Beijing’s Miyun reservoir. MSc thesis. Humboldt University Berlin: Germany
• Nolte C (2005) Awareness of the “Man and the Biosphere” program and its impact on visitors’ attitudes towards tourism services: a case study from Dana Biosphere Reserve, Jordan. BSc thesis. Brandenburg Institute of Technology: Cottbus, Germany

Cost estimates for conservation planning

• Mamun S, Nelson E, Nolte C (2024) Estimating the impact of Critical Habitat designation on the values of developed and undeveloped parcels. Land Economics
• Nolte C, Reboredo Segovia A, Ochoa Quintero JM, Burbano-Girón J (2023) Improving estimates of land protection cost in a tropical biodiversity hotspot. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
• Albers H, Chang C, Dissanayake S, Helmstedt K, Kroetz K, Dilkina B, Zapata-Moran I, Nolte C, Ochoa-Ochoa L, Spencer G. (2023) Anticipating anthropogenic threats in acquiring new protected areas. Conservation Biology
• Armsworth P, Benefield A, Dilkina B, Fovargue R, Jackson H, Le Bouille D, Nolte C (2023) Multiplying the impact of biodiversity conservation funding using spatial exchange rates. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
• Kemink K, Pressey R, Adams V, Nolte C, Olimb S, Healey A, Liu B, Frerichs T, Renner R. (2023) Assessing prioritization measures for a private land conservation program in the U.S. Prairie Pothole Region. Conservation Science and Practice
• Simmons B, Nolte C, McGowan J (2021) Tough questions for the “30 x 30” conservation agenda. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
• Nolte C (2020) High-resolution land value maps reveal underestimation of conservation costs in the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A.
• Armsworth P, Benefield A, Dilkina B, Fovargue R, Jackson H, Le Bouille D, Nolte C (2020) Allocating resources for land protection using continuous optimization: biodiversity conservation in the United States. Ecological Applications

Valuing environmental amenities and climate risks

• Nolte C, Boyle K, Chaudhry A, Clapp C, Guignet D, Hennighausen H, Kushner I, Liao Y, Mamun S, Pollack A, Richardson J, Sundquist S, Swedberg K, Uhl J (2024) Data practices for studying the impacts of environmental amenities and hazards with nationwide property data. Land Economics
• Chaudhry A, Nolte C, Fairbanks D (2024) Water market participation and agricultural land values. Land Economics
• Guignet D, Jenkins R, Nolte C, Belke J (2023) The external costs of industrial chemical accidents: a nationwide property value study. Journal of Housing Economics
• Guignet D, Nolte C (2024) Hazardous waste and home values: an analysis of treatment and disposal sites in the US. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
• Swedberg K, Castillo Castillo A, Cardoso D, Mamun S, Zhang J, Boyle K, Nolte C, Papenfus M, Phaneuf D, Polasky S (2024) Spatial heterogeneity in hedonic price effects for lake water quality. Land Economics
• Zabel J, Nolte C, Paterson R (2024) Measuring the value of U.S. National Parks using hedonic property value models. Land Economics
• Anderegg W, Collins T, Grineski S, Nicholls S, Nolte C. (2023) Climate change greatly escalates forest disturbance risks to US property values. Environmental Research Letters
• Gourevitch J, Kousky C, Liao Y, Nolte C, Pollack A, Porter J, Weill J (2023) Unpriced climate risk and potential consequences of overvaluation in U.S. housing markets. Nature Climate Change
• Hennighausen H, Liao Y, Pollack A, Nolte C (2023) Flood insurance reform and housing market dynamics. Journal of Housing Economics
• Johnson K, Parton L, Nolte C, Williamson M, Nogeire-McRae T, Paudel J, Brandt J. (2023) Moving to the country: understanding the effects of COVID-19 on property values and farmland loss. Journal of Housing Economics
• Mamun S, Castillo-Castillo A, Swedberg K, Zhang J, Boyle K, Cardoso D, Kling CL, Nolte C, Papenfus, M, Phaneuf D, Polasky S (2023) Valuing water quality in the US using a national data set on property values. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA
• Pollack A, Wrenn D, Sue Wing I, Nolte C (2023) Potential benefits in remapping the Special Flood Hazard Area: evidence from the U.S. housing market. Journal of Housing Economics
• Pollack A, Sue Wing I, Nolte C (2022) Aggregation bias and its drivers in large-scale flood loss estimation. Journal of Flood Risk Management

Global conservation

• Magliocca N, de Bremond A, Ellicott E, Seghezzo L, Venencia C, Mosciaro MJ, Nolte C (2022) Two of a kind? Large-scale land acquisitions and commodity frontier expansion in Argentina’s Dry Chaco. Ecology & Society
• Yang H, Simmons B, Ray R, Nolte C, Gopal S, Ma Y, Ma X, Gallagher K (2021) Risk to global biodiversity and Indigenous lands from China’s overseas development finance. Nature Ecology and Evolution
• Stoll-Kleemann S, Schliep R, Nolte C. (2009) The Global Research Centre for Biosphere Reserve Advancement. A New Emphasis on Social Dynamics and Exchange in UNESCO’s World Network. GAiA