Recent Scholarly Papers by CONS students are available for download here.

Publications by CONS alumni (some published while they were students)

Adams, Jonathan, and T. O. McShane. 1992. The Myth of Wild Africa: Conservation Without Illusion. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.

Adams, Jonathan. 2000. Precious Heritage: The Status of Biodiversity in the United States. Edited by Bruce A. Stein, Lynn S. Kutner, and Jonathan S. Adams. Oxford University Press.

Adams, Jonathan. 2006. The Future of the Wild: Radical Conservation for a Crowded World. Boston: Beacon Press.

Atkinson, Jennifer, and Tracy Hart. 2001. Conservation Coast to Coast: Comparing state action on marine protected areas in California, Washington and the U. S. Gulf of Maine. http://www.clf.org/pubs/conservation_coast_to_coast.htm

Bales, K., French, J.A., McWilliams, J. Lake, R . and Dietz, J.M.  2006.  Effects of social status, age, and season on androgen and cortisol levels in wild male golden lion tamarins ( Leontopithecus rosalia ).  Hormones and Behavior 49(1):88-95.

Bales, K., O'Herron, M ., Baker, A., and  Dietz, J.M.  2001. Sources of variability in number of live births in wild golden lion tamarins, Leontopithecus rosalia .  American Journal of Primatology 54:211-221.

Balint, Peter J. "Marine Biotechnology: A Proposal for Regulatory Reform." Politics and the Life Sciences 18, 1 (March, 1999): 25-30.

Balint, Peter J. 1999. Drinking water and sanitation in the developing world: The Miskito Coast of Honduras and Nicaragua as a case study. Journal of Public and International Affairs 10(1): 99-117.

Balint, Peter J., R.R. Colwell, J.J. Gutrich, D. Hite, M. Levin, S. Stenquist, H. Whiteman, and R.A. Zilinskas. 1998. Risks and Benefits of Marine Biotechnology: Conclusions and Recommendations. In R.A. Zilinskas and P.J. Balint, editors. Genetically Engineered Marine Organisms: Environmental and Economic Risks and Benefits. Boston: Kluwer.

Balint, Peter J., and Jennifer A. Steinberg. 2003. Conservation Case Study of the Gobi Bear.
In D. Badarch, R.A. Zilinskas, and P.J. Balint, editors. Mongolia Today: Science, Culture, Environment, and Development. London: Routledge Curzon.

Bogart, Roxanne. Roxanne is editor of the All-Bird Bulletin (Bird conservation news and information from the North American Bird Conservation Initiative). www.nabci-us.org/news.html

Buntaine, Mark, R. B. Mullen, and J. P. Lassoie. 2006. Human use and conservation planning in Alpine areas of Northwestern Yunnan, China. Environment, Development and Sustainability, in press.

Burke, L., Y. Kura, K. Kassem, Carmen Revenga, M. Spalding, and D. McAllister. 2001. The Pilot Analysis of Global Ecosystems: Coastal Ecosystems. Washington, D.C: World Resources Institute.

Destler, I.M., and Peter J. Balint. 2000. The New Politics of American Trade: Trade, Labor, and the Environment. Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics.

Doering, D. S., A. Cassara, C. Layke, J. Ranganathan, Carmen Revenga, D. Tunstall, W. Vanasselt. 2002. Tomorrow’s Markets: Global Trends and Their Implications for Business. Washington, D.C: World Resources Institute.

Jones, B.P., D.A. Mortensen, R. Humston, D. Keech, and E. Raesly. 2003. Inventory and associated site attributes of invasive weed species in the ridge and valley physiographic region. poster at Northeastern Weed Science Society annual meeting, January 6-9, 2003.

Langholz, Jeffrey, and K. Turner. 2003. You can prevent global warming (and save money!). Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing.

Lill, Diane O'Reilly. 2000. America's Vanishing Flora: Stories of Endangered Plants from the Fifty States and Efforts to Save Them. St. Louis: The Center for Plant Conservation.

López-Selva Q., María Mercedes. 2002. Nature Guide Training Programs: Their Structure and Role in Conserving Mesoamerica's Biodiversity. National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Published in both Spanish and English.

Price, William and Stephanie Kavanaugh. 2003. "Strengthening the Science
behind Certification: The Role of University Research and School Forests."
Journal of Forestry 101 (7): 28-33.

Raesly, E.J. 2001. Progress and status of river otter reintroductions in the United States. Wildlife Society Bulletin. 29(3): 856-862.

Revenga, Carmen, S. Murray, J. Abramovitz, and A. Hammond. 1998. Watersheds of the World: Ecological Value and Vulnerability. Washington, D.C: World Resources Institute.

Revenga, Carmen, J. Brunner, N. Henninger, R. Payne, and K. Kassem. 2000. The Pilot Analysis of Global Ecosystems: Freshwater Systems. Washington, D.C: World Resources Institute.

Schultz, Courtney. 2008. Responding to scientific uncertainty in U.S. forest policy. Environmental Science & Policy 11:253-271.

Scherr, S.J. and Sajal Sthapit. 2009. Farming and land use to cool the planet. In: State of the World: Into a Warming World. (Starke, L., ed.). W.W. Norton and Company, NY, pp. 30-49. : http://ecoagriculture.org/publication_details.php?publicationID=183

Wilkie, David S, Gilda A Morelli, Josefien Demmer, Malcolm Starkey, Paul Telfer and Matthew Steil. 2006. Parks and people: assessing the human welfare effects of establishing protected areas for biodiversity conservation. Conservation Biology 20(1): 247-249. Click here for the PDF.

Turner, Woody, S. Spector, N. Gardiner, M. Fladeland, E. Sterling, and M. Steininger. 2003. Remote sensing for biodiversity science and conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 18:306-314.

Turner, Woody, with several other co-authors. 2005. One Planet, Many People: Atlas of Our Changing Environment. UN Environment Programme.

Uimonen, Peter, and J. Kostyack. 2004. Unsound economics. The Bush Administration's new strategy for undermining the Endangered Species Act. A white paper for the National Wildlife Federation.

Varettoni, William. 2005. Success overdue at the Quincy Library: Pitfalls in Public Participation. PERC Reports. Bozeman: Volume 23, No. 2.  Available at: http://www.perc.org/pdf/june05.pdf

Weir, Linda. 2005. North American Amphibian Monitoring Program (NAAMP). Chapter 45 in: Amphibian Declines : The Conservation Status of United States Species. Michael Lannoo (Editor)

Wilcove, D. S., Rothstein, D., Dubow, Jason, Phillips, A., and Losos, E. 1998. Quantifying threats to imperiled species in the United States - Assessing the relative importance of habitat destruction, alien species, pollution, overexploitation, and disease. BioScience 48(8):607-615.

Wilkie, D.S., G.A. Morelli, J. Demmer, M. Starkey, P. Telfer and Matthew Steil. 2006. Parks and people: assessing the human welfare effects of establishing protected areas for biodiversity conservation. Conservation Biology 20:247-249.

Zilinskas, R.A., and Peter J. Balint. 2001. The HGP and Minority Communities: The Importance of Dialogue and Access to Information. In R.A. Zilinskas and P.J. Balint, editors. The Human Genome Project and Minority Communities: Ethical, Social, and Political Dilemmas. Westport, CT: Praeger.