For more on a 2016 World Development paper that summarizes many of the takeaways to date, see the link below:
RESEARCH
I am currently involved in the National Science Foundation Project "Land-Climate-Water Feedbacks and Farmer Decision-Making in an Agricultural System" (CNH-L Award #1825046) led by Katrina Mullan, University of Montana. This project investigates whether and which farmers adapt their production systems when they experience water variability, what adaptations they make, and whether these adaptations reduce income losses when droughts occur. In particular, we are interested in the impacts of "green water" (soil moisture) and "blue water" (surface water) on farmer production and land-use. Improved understanding of these feedbacks will inform efforts by government agencies and civil society to help farmers respond to water scarcity and build more resilient livelihoods. This project builds on previous work and a spatially referenced four-period panel (collected in 1996, 2000, 2005, and 2009) that is available for download at the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).
RECENT ARTICLES
Biggs, Trent, Thais Muniz Ottoni Santiago, Erin Sills, and Jill Caviglia-Harris (forthcoming) “The Brazilian Forest Code and Riparian Preservation Areas: Spatiotemporal Analysis and Implications for Hydrological Ecosystem Services,” Regional Environmental Change.
Caviglia-Harris, Jill L, (2018) “Agricultural Innovation and Climate Change Policy in the Brazilian Amazon: Intensification Practices and the Derived Demand for Pasture” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 30: 232-248.
West, Thales A.P. Kelly A. Grogan, Marilyn E. Swisher, Jill L. Caviglia-Harris, Erin O. Sills, Dar A. Roberts, Daniel Harris, Francis E. Putz (2018) “Impacts of REDD+ Payments on a Coupled Human-Natural system in Amazonia” Ecosystem Services 33A: 68-76.
Santiago, Thaís Muniz Ottoni, Jill Caviglia-Harris, and José Luiz Pereira de Rezende (2018) “Carrots, Sticks and the Brazilian Forest Code: The Promising Response of Small Landowners in the Amazon,” Journal of Forest Economics 30: 38-51.