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Pamela Anne Jagger
Professor of Environment and Sustainability, School for Environment and Sustainability, Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy and Professor of Program in the Environment, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and School for Environment and Sustainability
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Dr. Jagger is a global leader in interdisciplinary population and environment research, with a strong record of scholarship. Trained at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, and with an initial focus on natural resources, Professor Jagger’s current research program includes a substantial focus on health consequences of biofuels-based cooking and efficient stoves in East Africa, and she recently initiated work on energy transitions. Her work also focuses on an under-investigated but extremely important research area originated in concerns with land use and forest cover change. Her research has transformed to include concerns with more novel research questions related to the effects of land and forest use on energy transitions and health. This is especially unique in comparison to the focus of many scholars of land use and land cover change who are concerned with the important, but somewhat more conventional, impacts related to human well-being, forest carbon and biodiversity. Dr. Jagger has emerged as one of the leading researcher of energy transitions, the relationship between energy use, and the health and wellbeing outcome associated with such use and with energy transitions in poor countries. Her research is among the first to examine the energy use and health consequences of forest and land use, and changes in terrestrial resource use, a direction that is both important, and that few other research investigators have pursued.
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- Pamela Anne Jagger, Ryan McCord, Anna Gallerani, Irving Hoffman, Charles Jumbe, Joseph Pedit, Sam Phiri, Robert Krysiak, Kenneth Maleta. 2024. Household air pollution exposure and risk of tuberculosis: a case-control study of women in Lilongwe, Malawi. BMJ Public Health 2(1):e000176.
- Qi Zhang, Shiqi Tao, Pamela Anne Jagger, Lawrence E. Band, Richard E. Bilsborrow, Zhiqiang Zhang, Qingfeng Huang, Quanfa Zhang, Aaron Moody, Conghe Song. 2024. Remittance from migrants reinforces forest recovery for China’s reforestation policy. PLOS ONE 19(6):e0296751.
- Jagger,Pamela Anne, Call, Maia , Gray, Clark . 2019. Smallholder responses to climate anomalies in rural Uganda. World Development 115:132-144.
- Jagger,Pamela Anne, Das, Ipsita , Handa, Sudhanshu , Nylander-French, Leena A, Yeatts, Karin B. 2019. Early Adoption of an Improved Household Energy System in Urban Rwanda. EcoHealth 16(1):7-20.
- Jagger,Pamela Anne, Sellers, Samuel , Kittner, Noah , Das, Ipsita , Bush, Glenn K. 2018. Looking for Medium-term Conservation and Development Impacts of Community Management Agreements in Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains National Park. Ecological Economics 152:199-206.
- Jagger,Pamela Anne, Seguin, Ryan , Flax, Valerie L. 2018. Barriers and facilitators to adoption and use of fuel pellets and improved cookstoves in urban Rwanda. PLOS ONE 13(10):e0203775.
- Jagger,Pamela Anne, Das, Ipsita . 2018. Implementation and scale-up of a biomass pellet and improved cookstove enterprise in Rwanda. Energy for Sustainable Development 46:32-41.
- Jagger,Pamela Anne, Treacy, Paul , Song, Conghe , Zhang, Qi , Bilsborrow, Richard E. 2018. Impacts of China's Grain for Green Program on Migration and Household Income. Environmental Management 62(3):489-499.
- Jagger,Pamela Anne, Das, Ipsita , Pedit, Joseph , Handa, Sudhanshu . 2018. Household air pollution (HAP), microenvironment and child health: Strategies for mitigating HAP exposure in urban Rwanda. Environmental Research Letters 13(4):045011.
- Jagger,Pamela Anne, Song, Conghe , Bilsborrow, Richard , Zhang, Qi , Chen, Xiaodong , Huang, Qingfeng . 2018. Rural Household Energy Use and Its Determinants in China: How Important Are Influences of Payment for Ecosystem Services vs. Other Factors?. Ecological Economics 145:148-159.