Education
1999: Ph.D., Conservation Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
1991: B.A., Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests
I am interested in the human dimensions of biodiversity and conservation, including the relationship between local residents and protected areas in developing countries, community-based conservation, and biodiversity values and attitudes. I am currently working on projects relating to integrating park-people relationships into understandings of protected area effectiveness; Tibetan village sacred forests in Yunnan, China; tiger conservation in buffer zones around Chitwan National Park, Nepal.
Personal Interests
Spending as much time in Asia as I can and surviving long periods without sunshine during the Wisconsin winter as well as I can.
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Publications
| Brandt, J., T. Allendorf, V. C. Radeloff, and J. Brooks. Effects of national-level forest management regimes on deforestation in the Himalaya. Conservation Biology, in press. |
| Allendorf, T. D., J. S. Brandt, and J. M. Yang. 2014. Local perceptions of Tibetan village sacred forests in northwest Yunnan. Biological Conservation 169 : 303-310. |