Making the Hidden Visible: Accelerated Land-Use Change and Degradation Caused by Narco-Trafficking In and Around Central America’s Protected Areas

Start Date: 
01/01/2021
End Date: 
12/31/2024
Grant Number: 
80NSSC21K0297
Solicitation: 

Project Documents

Year Authors Type Title
2024 Publications Magliocca, N. R., Carter, N. H., Devine, J. A., Nielsen, E. A., & Sesnie, S. E. (2024). Jaguar conservation is caught in the crossfire of America's' War on Drugs'. Biological Conservation, 296, 110687. doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110687
2024 Publications Rodewald, A. D., Lello-Smith, A., Magliocca, N. R., McSweeney, K., Strimas-Mackey, M., Sesnie, S. E., & Nielsen, E. A. (2024). Intersection of narco-trafficking, enforcement and bird conservation in the Americas. Nature Sustainability, 1-5. doi.org/10.1038/s41893-024-01365-z
2024 Publications Murillo-Sandoval, P. J., Sesnie, S. E., Armas, M. E. O., Magliocca, N., Tellman, B., Devine, J. A., Nielsen, E., & McSweeney, K. (2024). Central America’s agro-ecological suitability for cultivating coca, Erythroxylum spp. Environmental Research Letters, 19(10), 104068. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad7276
2023 Publications Magliocca, N.R. (2023). Intersecting security, equity, and sustainability for transformation in the Anthropocene. Anthropocene, 43, 100396: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2023.100396.
2023 Publications Magliocca, N.R., Dhungana, P.*, Sink, C.D.* (2023). Review of counterfactual land change modeling for causal inference in land system science. Journal of Land Use Science, 18(1): DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1747423X.2023.2173325.
2022 Publications Magliocca, N.R., Dolliver, D.S., Curtin, K.M., McSweeney, K., Price*, A.N. (2022). Shifting landscape suitability for cocaine trafficking through Central America in response to counterdrug interdiction. Landscape & Urban Planning, 221: 104359. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2022.104359.
2022 Publications Fagan, M.E., Kim, DH., Settle, W. et al. The expansion of tree plantations across tropical biomes. Nat Sustain 5, 681–688 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00904-w
2021 Publications Magliocca, N.R., Torres, A., Margulies, J.D., Carter, N.H., Gore, M., Arroyo-Quiroz, I., Curtin, K.M., Easter*, T.S., Hübschle, A., Massé, F., McSweeney, K., Rege, A., Tellman, E. (2021). Comparative Analysis of Illicit Supply Network Structure and Operations: Cocaine, Wildlife, and Sand. Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 3(1): pp. 50–73. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31389/jied.76.
2021 Publications Tellman, B., McSweeney, K., Manak, L., Devine, J.A., Sesnie, S., Nielsen, E. and Dávila, A. (2021). Narcotrafficking and Land Control in Guatemala and Honduras. Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 3(1), pp.132–159. DOI: http://doi.org/10.31389/jied.83.