Research Interests
Environmental Economics and Policy, Political Economy, Agricultural Economics, Development Economics, and Conflict Economics.
Research Projects
PlanetHealth: From human to planetary health: Global land-use impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic
Published papers
Seufert, J. D.,
A. Python,
C. Weisser,
E. Cisneros,
K. Kis-Katos, and
T. Kneib
(2022):
Mapping ex-ante spatial risks of COVID-19 in Indonesia using a Bayesian geostatistical model on airport network data,
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society), forthcoming.
Cisneros, E., J. Börner, S. Pagiola, and S. Wunder (2022): Impacts of Conservation Incentives in Protected Areas: The case of Bolsa Floresta, Brazil, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 111: 102,572, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2021.102572. Earlier version at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3676708 .
Cisneros, E., K. Kis-Katos, and N. Nuryartono (2021): Palm oil and the politics of deforestation in Indonesia, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 108: 102,453, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2021.102453. Earlier version at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3547436.
Correa, J., E. Cisneros, J. Börner, A. Pfaff, M. Costa, and R. Rajão (2020): Evaluating REDD+ at subnational level: Amazon Fund impacts in Alta Floresta, Brazil, Forest Policy and Economics, 116: 102178, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2020.102178.
Giudice, R., Börner B., and Wunder S., E. Cisneros (2019): Selection biases and spillovers from collective conservation incentives in the Peruvian Amazon, Environmental Research Letters, 14(4): 045,004, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aafc83.
Rodríguez L. O., E. Cisneros, T. Pequeño, M. T. Fuentes, and Y. Zinngrebe (2018): Building Adaptive Capacity in Changing Social-Ecological Systems: Integrating Knowledge in Communal Land-Use Planning in the Peruvian Amazon, Sustainability, 10(2): 511, https://doi.org/10.3390/su10020511.
Cisneros, E., S. L. Zhou, and J. Börner (2015): Naming and Shaming for Conservation: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon, PLoS ONE, 10(9): 1-24, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136402
Working papers
Cisneros E., and K. Kis-Katos: Unintended consequences of anti-corruption strategies, SSRN, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3899498.
Work in progress
Cisneros, E., T. West, B. Soares-Filho, and J. Börner: Brazil’s conservation policy cocktail gone stale.
Seesing J., and E. Cisneros: The political rebound effect of law enforcement: The effect of environmental fines on voting behaviour in Brazil.
Weber R., and E. Cisneros: Assessing Monitoring and Early Warning Systems for Food Security Risks.
Cisneros, E.: Protected area leakage, environmental enforcement, and land claims.
Cisneros E., R. Genthner, K. Kis-Katos, L. Reiners, and F. Wang: Environmental degradation and human health.
Dissertation
The Impact of Public Policies on Deforestation
in the Brazilian Amazon, 2017, Dissertation at Center for Development Research, University of Bonn.