Matthew Potts
Title
Associate Professor
Department
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
Research Group
Email
Phone
(510) 642-5580
Research Expertise and Interest
forest management, nature based climate solutions, biofuels, plantation agriculture, land use planning, land use policy, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, tropical ecology, environmental economics
Research Description
Matthew Potts has a broad interdisciplinary background with training in mathematics, ecology and economics with a BS from the University of Michigan and a PhD from Harvard University. He has extensive international experience conducting field research in tropical forests throughout the world. His varied research interests include spatial aspects of forest management and land-use planning as well as how human actions, values, and ethics affect biodiversity conservation.
In the News
March 29, 2018
Land degradation pushing planet towards sixth mass extinction
More than 100 experts from 45 countries have published a three-year study of the Earth’s land degradation, calling the problem “critical”.
January 10, 2013
Persistent methodological flaw undermines biodiversity conservation in tropical forests
What is the role of logging in tropical forests? How is biodiversity affected by this logging? The answers differ and are controversial among ecologists, environmentalists, and policymakers, and these disagreements have implications for the conservation of biodiversity.