LACIS
Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program

Holly Gibbs

  1. Moffette, Fanny, Skidmore, M*., andK. Gibbs. 2021. Environmental policies that shape productivity:  Evidence from cattle production in the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
  2. Rausch, L.K. Gibbs. 2021. The low opportunity costs of the Amazon Soy Moratorium. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 4, 21.
  3. Skidmore, M.*, Moffette, F.,K. Gibbs. 2021. Cattle Ranchers and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Production, Location, and Policies. Global Environmental Change.  (Policy report published with Meridian Institute)
  4. Schelly, I., L. Rausch, and K. Gibbs.  2021. The role of Brazil’s cattle sector in the 2020 fire season. Gibbs Land Use and Environment Report Series
  5. Xie, Y.,K. Gibbs, T. J. Lark. 2021.  Landsat-based Irrigation Dataset (LANID): 30-m resolution maps of irrigation distribution, frequency, and change for the U.S., 1997-2017.  Earth System Science Data.
  6. Spawn-Lee, S.A*., T.J. Lark, K. Gibbs, R.A Houghton, C.J. Kucharik, C. Malins et al. 2021. Comment on the ‘Carbon intensity of corn ethanol in the United States: state of the science’.  Environmental Research Letters.
  7. Heilmayr, R., Rausch, L., Munger, J., & Gibbs, H. K.. (Forthcoming). Avoided deforestation from the Soy Moratorium. Nature Sustainability.
  8. Vale, P., Gibbs, H. K., Vale, R., Christie, M., Florence, E., Munger, J., & Sabaini, D. (2019). The expansion of intensive beef farming to the Brazilian Amazon. Global Environmental Change, 57, 101922.
  9. Gibbs, H.K., Moffette, F., Munger, J., Vale, P., Rausch, L., L’Roe, J., Barreto, P., Amaral, T., Hall, S., & Walker, N. (2019). Strategic Response to Zero-Deforestation Cattle Agreements Limits Impacts Across the Brazilian Amazon. Environmental Research Letters.
  10. Rausch, L.L., Gibbs, H.K., Schelly, I., Brandão, A.,Morton, D. C., Filho, A. C., Strassburg, B., Walker, N., Noojipady, P., Barreto, P., & Meyer, D. (2019). Soy expansion in Brazil’s Cerrado. Conservation Letters. DOI: 10.1111/conl.12671
  11. Vale, P., Gibbs, H. K., Vale, R., Munger, J., Brandão, A., Christie, M., & Florence, E. (2019). Mapping the cattle industry in Brazil’s most dynamic cattle ranching state: Slaughterhouses in Mato Grosso, 1967-2016. PloSOne, 14(4), e0215286.
  12. Lima, M., Silva Junior, C. A. d., Rausch, L., Gibbs, H. K., & Johann, J. A. (2019). Demystifying sustainable soy in Brazil. Land Use Policy, 82, 349-352
  13. Frey, G. P., West, T. A. P., Hickler, T., Rausch, L., Gibbs, H. K., & Börner, J. (2018). Simulated impacts of soy and infrastructure expansion in the Brazilian Amazon: A maximum entropy approach. Forests, 9(10), 600. 
  14. Alix-Garcia, J., & Gibbs, H. K. (2017). Forest conservation effects of Brazil’s zero deforestation agreements undermined by leakage. Global Environmental Change, 47,  201-217.
  15. Noojipady, P., Morton, D. C., Macedo, M. N., Victoria, D. C., Huang, C., Gibbs, H. K., & Bolfe, E. L. (2017). Forest carbon emissions from cropland expansion in the Brazilian Cerrado biome. Environmental Research Letters, 12(2), 025004.
  16. Alix-Garcia, J., Rausch, L., L’Roe, J., Gibbs, H. K., & Munger, J. (2017). Avoided deforestation linked to environmental registration in the Brazilian Amazon. Conservation Letters.