Thales A. P. West

Assistant Professor

University of Amsterdam

Netherlands

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Thales A. P. West is an Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. His research focuses on forest management, carbon offset mechanisms, and the dynamics of land use, with recent articles addressing topics such as biodiversity, wildfire risk, and the evaluation of emission reductions. His work aims to contribute to effective landscape management and the restoration of credibility in carbon offset systems.

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Peter Verburg

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Alex Neidermeier

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Andreas Kontoleon

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Katrina Mullan

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Cecilia Zagaria

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Thales A. P. West

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Articles (22)

Mapping forest management regimes in Europe

Navigating trade-offs in carbon storage, biodiversity, and wildfire risk in European landscape management

Additionality in Theoretical von Thünenian Models of Deforestation and Conservation Payments

Restoring credibility in carbon offsets through systematic ex post evaluation

Exploring spatial dependency and heterogeneity in forest land dynamics in the randstad metropolitan region

Methodological issues with deforestation baselines compromise the integrity of carbon offsets from REDD+

Formal designation of Brazilian indigenous lands linked to small but consistent reductions in deforestation

Strong transparency required for carbon credit mechanisms

Protecting Life and Lung: Protected Areas Affect Fine Particulate Matter and Respiratory Hospitalizations in the Brazilian Amazon Biome

Systematic assessment of the achieved emission reductions of carbon crediting projects

Forest biomass recovery twenty-four years after conventional and reduced-impact logging in Eastern Amazon

Transformation of Brazil's biomes: The dynamics and fate of agriculture and pasture expansion into native vegetation

Action needed to make carbon offsets from forest conservation work for climate change mitigation

Credit credibility threatens forests

Mapping opportunities for the use of land management strategies to address fire risk in Europe

Protected areas still used to produce Brazil's cattle

Emerging technologies for the development of wood products towards extended carbon storage and CO2 capture

Potential conservation gains from improved protected area management in the Brazilian Amazon

Diversification of forestry portfolios for climate change and market risk mitigation

Promotion of afforestation in New Zealand’s marginal agricultural lands through payments for environmental services

Brazil’s conservation reform and the reduction of deforestation in Amazonia

Overstated carbon emission reductions from voluntary REDD+ projects in the Brazilian Amazon

Collaborators (9)

Noemi Vergopolan

Erin Sills

Jill Caviglia-Harris

Peter Verburg

Alex Neidermeier

Trent Biggs

Andreas Kontoleon

Katrina Mullan

Cecilia Zagaria

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