Sills, Erin

Erin is a professor of forest economics and head of the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University, research associate of CIFOR (Center for International Forestry Research) and Imazon (Amazon Institute of People and the Environment), also she is a WinEED co-founder.

During the 2014 – 2015 academic year, she was on sabbatical with the Environment for Development Program, spending half of the year at the University of Gothenburg and half at CATIE.  Erin’s research focuses on the economics of multiple-use forest management, including quantifying the value of non-timber benefits from forests, modeling the behavior of households who own and use forests, and evaluating the causal impacts of conservation policies on forests and on human welfare.  In Costa Rica, she has collaborated on impact evaluations of the national PES program (PSA), and she is currently working with Francisco Alpizar to analyze the distributional and cost implications of changes in the design of that program.

Erin participated in a conference on Poverty Reduction and Climate Resilience that involved policy-makers from southern Africa presenting: 

Richardson, Logan, P. Shrestha, C. Milliken, E. Sills, S. Lloyd, L. Nareau, S. Scott, and P. Jagger. 2025. “Money Matters: does access to financial services foster household energy transitions in Africa?” presented at the Conference on Poverty Reduction and Climate Resilience, Lusaka, Zambia, May.