Jonah Busch

4.5k citations

49 papers · 2.3k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 25

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 1%
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Forest Management and Policy
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
Ecological Modeling top 5%

Papers in ⓘ

Global and Planetary Change 36
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management 31
- Forest Management and Policy 17
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 6
Economics and Econometrics 27
- Economic and Environmental Valuation 25
- Climate Change Policy and Economics 8

Co-authors: Kalifi Ferretti-Gallon (4 shared papers)Jens Engelmann (6 shared papers)Frances Seymour (2 shared papers)Matthew C. Hansen (3 shared papers)Armida Alisjahbana (1 shared paper)Patrick R. Roehrdanz (3 shared papers)Lee Hannah (3 shared papers)Katarzyna Nowak (2 shared papers)
Journals: Environmental Research Letters (6 papers)Conservation Letters (3 papers)Ecological Economics (2 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2 papers)Nature Climate Change (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom China

In The Last Decade

Jonah Busch

45 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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The costs and benefits of primary prevention of zoonotic pandemics 2022 · 154 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2022 Science Advances
2020 Science
2016 Review of Environmental Economics and Policy

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1	Ecology and economics for pandemic prevention Science ·Andrew P. Dobson, Stuart L. Pimm, Lee Hannah, Les Kaufman, Jorge Ahumada, Amy W. Ando, Aaron Bernstein, Jonah Busch, Peter Daszak, Jens Engelmann, Margaret F. Kinnaird, Binbin V. Li, Ted Temzelides, Thomas Ε. Lovejoy, Katarzyna Nowak, Patrick R. Roehrdanz, Mariana M. Vale Hit paper breakdown →	2020	343
2	What Drives Deforestation and What Stops It? A Meta-Analysis Review of Environmental Economics and Policy ·Jonah Busch, Kalifi Ferretti-Gallon Hit paper breakdown →	2016	280
3	The costs and benefits of primary prevention of zoonotic pandemics Science Advances ·Aaron Bernstein, Amy W. Ando, Ted Temzelides, Mariana M. Vale, Binbin V. Li, Hongying Li, Jonah Busch, Colin A. Chapman, Margaret F. Kinnaird, Katarzyna Nowak, Márcia C. Castro, Carlos Zambrana‐Torrelio, Jorge Ahumada, Lingyun Xiao, Patrick R. Roehrdanz, Les Kaufman, Lee Hannah, Peter Daszak, Stuart L. Pimm, Andrew P. Dobson Hit paper breakdown →	2022	154
4	Potential for low-cost carbon dioxide removal through tropical reforestation Nature Climate Change ·Jonah Busch, Jens Engelmann, Susan C. Cook‐Patton, Bronson W. Griscom, Timm Kroeger, Hugh P. Possingham, Priya Shyamsundar	2019	154
5	Reductions in emissions from deforestation from Indonesia’s moratorium on new oil palm, timber, and logging concessions Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jonah Busch, Kalifi Ferretti-Gallon, Jens Engelmann, Max Wright, Kemen Austin, Fred Stolle, Svetlana Turubanova, Peter Potapov, Belinda Arunarwati Margono, Matthew C. Hansen, Alessandro Baccini	2015	153
6	Measurement and monitoring needs, capabilities and potential for addressing reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation under REDD+ Environmental Research Letters ·S. J. Goetz, Matthew C. Hansen, R. A. Houghton, Wayne Walker, Nadine Laporte, Jonah Busch	2015	119
7	Structuring economic incentives to reduce emissions from deforestation within Indonesia Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jonah Busch, Ruben N. Lubowski, Fabiano Godoy, Marc K. Steininger, Arief Anshory Yusuf, Kemen Austin, Jenny Hewson, Daniel Juhn, Muhammad Farid, Frederick Boltz	2012	97
8	Why Forests? Why Now?: The Science, Economics, and Politics of Tropical Forests and Climate Change Frances Seymour, Jonah Busch	2015	93
9	Comparing climate and cost impacts of reference levels for reducing emissions from deforestation Environmental Research Letters ·Jonah Busch, Bernardo B. N. Strassburg, Andrea Cattaneo, Ruben N. Lubowski, Aaron Bruner, Richard E. Rice, Anna Creed, Ralph Ashton, Frederick Boltz	2009	79
10	What Drives Deforestation and What Stops it? A Meta-Analysis of Spatially Explicit Econometric Studies SSRN Electronic Journal ·Kalifi Ferretti-Gallon, Jonah Busch	2014	66
11	Forestry, Forest Fires, and Climate Change in Indonesia Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies ·Armida Alisjahbana, Jonah Busch	2017	65
12	Biodiversity co‐benefits of reducing emissions from deforestation under alternative reference levels and levels of finance Conservation Letters ·Jonah Busch, Fabiano Godoy, Will R. Turner, Célia A. Harvey	2010	60
13	Gap Analysis of Giant Panda Conservation as an Example for Planning China’s National Park System Current Biology ·Biao Yang, Siyu Qin, Wansu Xu, Jonah Busch, Xuyu Yang, Xiaodong Gu, Zhisong Yang, Bin Wang, Qiang Dai, Yu Xu	2020	51
14	Cross-discipline evidence principles for sustainability policy Nature Sustainability ·Edward T. Game, Heather Tallis, Lydia Olander, Steven M. Alexander, Jonah Busch, Nancy Cartwright, Elizabeth L. Kalies, Yuta J. Masuda, Anne‐Christine Mupepele, Jiangxiao Qiu, Andrew A. Rooney, Erin O. Sills, William J. Sutherland	2018	46
15	Does deforestation increase malaria prevalence? Evidence from satellite data and health surveys World Development ·Sebastian Bauhoff, Jonah Busch	2019	43
16	Cost-effectiveness of reducing emissions from tropical deforestation, 2016–2050 Environmental Research Letters ·Jonah Busch, Jens Engelmann	2017	39
17	On international equity in reducing emissions from deforestation Environmental Science & Policy ·Andrea Cattaneo, Ruben N. Lubowski, Jonah Busch, Anna Creed, Bernardo B. N. Strassburg, Frederick Boltz, Ralph Ashton	2010	37
18	Securing the climate benefits of stable forests Climate Policy ·Jason Funk, Naikoa Aguilar‐Amuchastegui, William Baldwin-Cantello, Jonah Busch, Evgeny Chuvasov, Tom Evans, Bryna Griffin, Nancy L. Harris, Mariana Napolitano Ferreira, Karen Lykkebo Petersen, Oliver L. Phillips, Muri Soares, Richard van der Hoff	2019	37
19	China's Collective Forest Tenure Reform and the Future of the Giant Panda Conservation Letters ·Biao Yang, Jonah Busch, Li Zhang, Jianghong Ran, Xiaodong Gu, Wen Zhang, Beibei Du, Yu Xu, Russell A. Mittermeier	2014	33
20	Effects of demand-side restrictions on high-deforestation palm oil in Europe on deforestation and emissions in Indonesia Environmental Research Letters ·Jonah Busch, Oyut Amarjargal, Farzad Taheripour, Kemen Austin, Rizki Nauli Siregar, Kellee Koenig, Thomas W. Hertel	2021	31

About Jonah Busch

Jonah Busch is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, Ecology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Environmental Engineering, having authored 49 papers that have together received 2.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (31 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (25 papers), Forest Management and Policy (17 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (8 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (6 papers), Oil Palm Production and Sustainability (5 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (4 papers) and Zoonotic diseases and public health (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (1.3k citations), Ecological Modeling (97 citations), Economics and Econometrics (592 citations), Modeling and Simulation (96 citations) and Ecology (517 citations). Jonah Busch has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Frequent co-authors include Kalifi Ferretti-Gallon, Jens Engelmann, Frances Seymour, Matthew C. Hansen, Armida Alisjahbana, Patrick R. Roehrdanz, Lee Hannah, Katarzyna Nowak, Kemen Austin and Les Kaufman. Their work appears in journals such as Environmental Research Letters, Conservation Letters, Ecological Economics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Climate Change.

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