Research

Up to date publications can be found on my Google Scholar profile. My research has been covered or reported in Science, The Independent, The Guardian, MongaBay, Reuters, The Verge, Le Monde, and other outlets. 

Publications

Journal articles (*denotes project lead or senior author)

1. Masuda, Y.J.*, Parsons, L.A., Spector, J.T., Battisti, D.S., Castro, B., Erbaugh, J.T., Game, E.T., Garg, T., Kalmus, P., Kroeger, T., Mishra, V., Shindell, D., Tigchelaar, M., Wolff., N.H., Vargas Zeppetello, L.R. (2024). Impacts of warming on outdoor worker well-being in the tropics and adaptation options. One Earth.

2. Schollaert, C., Alvarado, E., Baumgartner, J., Busch Isaksen, T., Jung, J., Marlier, M.E., Marshall, J.D., Masuda, Y.J., Tessum, C.W., Wilkins, J., & Spector, J.T. (2024). Estimated impacts of forest restoration scenarios on smoke exposures among outdoor agricultural workers in California. Environmental Research Letters.

3. Erbaugh, J.T., Chang, C., Masuda, Y.J., & Ribot, J. (2024). Citizen communication and deliberation for environmental governance. Annual Review of Environment and Resources.

4. Ellis, P.W., Page, A.M., Wood, S., Fargione, J., Masuda, Y.J., Denney, V.C., Moore, C., Kroeger, T., Griscom, B., Sanderman, J., Atleo, T., Cortze, R., Leavitt, S., Cook-Patton, S.C. (2024). The principles of natural climate solutions. Nature Communications.

5. Jung, J., Wilkins, J.L., Schollaert, C.L., Masuda, Y.J., Flunker, J.C., Connolly, R.E., D'Evelyn, S.M., Bonilia, E., Rappold, A.G., Haugo, R.D., Marlier, M.,E., & Spector, J.T. (2024). Advancing the Community Health Vulnerability Index for Wildland Fire Smoke Exposure. Science of the Total Environment.

6. Guta, D.D., Zerriffi, H., Baumgartner, J., Jain, A., Mani, S., Jack, D., Carter, E., Shen, G., Meyer, J., Rosenthal, J., Dickinson, K., Bailis, R., & Masuda, Y.J. (2024). Moving Beyond Clean Cooking Energy Adoption: Using Indian ACCESS Panel Data to Understand Solid Fuel Suspension. Energy Policy.

7. Schollaert, C., Jung, J., Wilkins, J., Alvarado, E., Baumgartner, J., Brun, J., Isaksen, T.B., Lydersen, J., Marlier, M., Marshall, J., Masuda, Y.J., Maxwell, C., Tessum, C.M., Wilson, K., Wolff, N.H., & Spector, J.T. (2023). Quantifying the smoke-related public health tradeoffs of forest management in the Central Sierra, CA. Nature Sustainability.

8. Fanzo, J., Schneider, K.R., Haddad, L., Herrero, M. Rosero, J., Herforth, A., Remans, R., Guarin, A., Resnick, D., Namukolo, C., Béné, C., Cattaneo, A., Aburto, N., Ambikapathi, R., Barquera, S., Battersby, J., Beal, T., Molina, P.B., Cafiero, C., Campeau, C., Caron, P., Conforti, P., Damerau, K., Di Girolamo, M., DeClerck, F.A.J., Dewi, D., Elouafi, I., Fabi, C., Foley, P., Frazier, T., Gephart, J.A., Golden, C.D., Fischer, C.G., Hendriks, S.L., Honorati, M., Huang, J., Kennedy, G., Laar, A., Lal, R., Lidder, P., Loken, B., Marshall, Q., Masuda, Y.J., McLaren, R., Miachon, L., Munoz, H., Nordhagen, S., Qayyum, N., Saisana, M., Suhardiman, D., Sumaila, U.R., Torero, M., Tubiello, F., Vivero-Pol, J.L., Webb, P., & Wiebe, K. (2023). The state of the food systems worldwide: Counting down to 2030. Nature Food.

9. Chang, C., Kim, H., Armsworth, P.R., & Masuda, Y.J. (2023). US-based and international environmental non-governmental organizations use social media, but few have large audiences online. Conservation Science and Practice. 

10. Mahajan, S., Cheng, S., Ahmadia, G., Becker, H., Cairney, P., DeMello, N., Fariss, B., Fidler, R., Harborn, A., Jagadish, A., Mills, M., Masuda, Y.J., Pabari, M., Tengö, M., & Glew, L. (2023). Accelerating evidence-informed decision-making in conservation implementing agencies through effective monitoring, evaluation, and learning. Biological Conservation.

11. Chang, C., Deshmukh, N.R., Armsworth, P.R., & Masuda, Y.J. (2023). Environmental users abandoned Twitter after Musk takeover. Trends in Ecology and Evolution.

12. D'Evelyn, S., Blancas, M., Haugo, R., Masuda, Y.J., & Spector, J.T. (2023). Mobilizing through dialogue: building interdisciplinary partnerships among forest health, wildland fire, and public health sectors to find solutions to address the impact of wildland fire smoke on communities. Environmental Research Communications.

13. Zhang, W., DeMello, N., ElDidi, H., Meinzen-Dick, R., Ringler, C., Swallow, K., Aldous, A., & Masuda, Y.J.* (2023). Community-based conservation of freshwater resources: learning from a 2 critical review of the literature and case studies. Society and Natural Resources.

14. Karres, N., Kang, S., Aldous, A., Pattison-Williams, J.K., & Masuda, Y.J.* (2022). How effective is community-based management of freshwater resources? A review. Journal of Environmental Management.

15. Chang, C., Armsworth, P., & Masuda, Y.J. (2022). Environmental discourse exhibits consistency and variation across spatial scales on Twitter. Bioscience.

16. Masuda, Y.J.*, Waterfield, G., Castilla, C., Kang, S., & Zhang, W. (2022). Does balancing gender composition lead to more prosocial outcomes? Experimental evidence of equality in public goods and extraction games form rural Kenya. (2022). World Development, 156, 105923.

17. Farris, B., DeMello, N., Powlen, K.A., Latimer, C.E., Masuda, Y.J., & Kennedy, C.M. (2022). Catalyzing success in community-based conservation. Conservation Biology.

18. D’Evelyn, S., Jung, J., Haugo, R., Alvarado, E., Schollaert, C., Kasner, E.J., Smith, E., Mittelstaedt, G., Hagmann, K.R., Lydersen, J., Baumgartner, J., Krenz, J., Stevens, J.T., Wilkins, J.L., Metlen, K., Krawchuk, M., Marlier, M., Hessburg, P., Wolff, N.H., Masuda, Y.J., Spector, J.T. (2022). Wildfire, smoke exposure, human health, and environmental justice need to be integrated into forest restoration and management. Current Environmental Health Reports. 

19. Wardropper, C.B., Esman, L.A., Harden, S.C., Masuda, Y.J., Ranjan, P., Weigel, C., Ferraro, P.J., Prokopy, L.S., & Reddy, S.M.W.  (2022). A “fail-fast” approach to conservation in US agriculture. Conservation Science and Practice, e0619.

20. Vargas Zeppetello, L., Parsons, L.A., Wolff, N.H., Kroger, T., Spector, J.T., Battisti, D., Cook-Patton, S., Balakumar, A., Bettles, J., & Masuda, Y.J.* (2022). Consistent cooling benefits of silvopasture in the tropics. Nature Communications, 13, 708. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28388-4

21. Guta, D., B aumgartner, J., Jack, D., Carter, E., Shen, G., Orgill-Meyer, J., Rosenthal, J., Dickinson, K., Bailis, R., Masuda, Y.J., & Zerriffi, H . (2022). A systematic review of household energy transition in low and middle income countries. Energy Research and Social Science. 

22. Chang, C., Armsworth, P., & Masuda, Y.J. (2022). Twitter data reveal six distinct environmental personas. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2510

23. Parsons, L.A., Masuda, Y.J., Kroeger, T., Shindell, D., Wolff, N.H., Spector, J.T. (2021). Global labor loss due to humid heat exposure underestimated for outdoor workers. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac3dae

24. Parsons, L.A., Jung, J., Masuda, Y.J.*, Zeppetello, L.R., Wolff, N.H., Kroeger, T., Battisti, D.S., & Spector, J.T. (2021). Warming due to tropical deforestation limits safe outdoor working hours. One Earth, 4(12), 1730-1740.

25. Wolff, N.H., Zeppetello, L.R., Parsons, L.A., Aggraeni, I., Battisti, D.S., Game, E.T., Kroeger, T., Masuda, Y.J.*, & Spector, J.T. (2021). The effect of deforestation and climate change on heat exposure, safe work hours, and mortality in Indonesia: a modeling study. Lancet Planetary Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00279-5

26. Fanzo, J., Haddad, L., Schneider, K.R., Béné, C., Covic, N.M., Guarin, A., Herforth, A.W., Herrero, M., Sumaila, U.R., Aburto, N.J., Amuyunzu-Nyamongo, M., Barquera, S., Battersby, J., Beal, T., Molina, P.B., Brusset, E., Cafiero, C., Campeau, C., Caron, P., Cattaneo, A., Conforti, P., Davis, C., DeClerck, F.A.J., Elouafi, I., Fabi, C., Gephart, J.A., Golden, C.D., Hendriks, S.L., Huang, J., Laar, A., Lal, R., Lidder, P., Loken, B., Marshall, Q., Masuda, Y.J., McLaren, R., Neufeld, L.M., Nordhagen, S., Remans, R., Resnick, D., Silverberg, M., Cullen, M.T., Tubiello, F.N., Vivero-Pol, J.L., Wei, S., Moncayo, J.R. (2021). Rigorous monitoring is necessary to meet the food system transformation challenge. Food Policy.

27. Bettles, J., Battisti, D.B., Cook-Patton, S., Kroeger, T., Spector, J.T., Wolff, N.H., & Masuda, Y.J.* (2021). Agroforestry and non-state actors: A review. Forest Policy and Economics.

28. Tallis, H., Fargione, J., Game, E.T., McDonald, R., Baumgarten, L., Bhagabati, N., Cortez, R., Griscom, B., Higgins, J., Kennedy, C., Kiesecker, J., Kroeger, T., Leberer, T., McGowan, J., Mandle, L., Masuda, Y.J., Morrison, S., Palmer, S., Shirer, R., Shyamsundar, P., Wolff, N.H., & Possingham, H. (2021). Prioritizing actions: Spatial action maps for conservation. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

29. Masuda, Y.J.*, Garg, T., Anggraeni, I., Wolff, N.H., Ebi, K., Game, E.T., Krenz, J., & Spector, J. (2021). Warming from tropical deforestation reduces worker productivity in rural communities. Nature Communications.

30. Weigel, C., Harden, S., Masuda, Y.J., Ranjan, P., Wardropper, C.B., Ferraro, P., Reddy, S., & Prokopy, L. (2021). Using a randomized controlled trial to develop conservation strategies on rented farmlands. Conservation Letters.

31. Masuda, Y.J.*, Harden, S., Ranjan, P., Wardropper, C., Weigel, C., Ferraro, P., Prokopy, L., & Reddy, S.M.W. (2021). Rented Farmland: The Missing Piece of the Nutrient Management Puzzle in the Upper Mississippi River Basin? Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. https://doi:10.2489/jswc.2021.1109A.

32. Tseng, J., Robinson, B.E., Bellemare, M.F., Blackman, A., BenYishay, A., Linkow, B., Moustapha, D., Sanjak, J., Naughton-Treves, L., Holland, M.B., Childress, M., Veit, P., Shyamsundar, P., Boucher, T., Kroeger, T., Rudel, T., Sunderlin, W., & Masuda, Y.J.* (2020). Influence of land tenure interventions on human well-being and environmental outcomes. Nature Sustainability.

33. Reddy, S., Wardropper, C., Weigel, C., Masuda, Y.J., Harden. S., Ranjan, P., Getson, J.M., Esman, L., Ferraro, P., & Prokopy, L. (2020). Conservation behavior and effects of economic and environmental message frames. Conservation Letters, e12750.

34. Masuda, Y.J.*, Garg, T., Anggraeni, I., Wolff, N.H., Ebi, K., Game, E.T., Krenz, J., & Spector, J.T. (2020). The effect heat exposure from tropical deforestation on cognitive performance: An experimental study. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abb96c (Reported in Science; The Independent)

35. Masuda, Y.J.*, Williams, J.R., & Tallis, H. (2020). Does life satisfaction vary with time and income? Investigating the relationship among free time, income, and life satisfaction. Journal of Happiness Studies.

36. Zeppetello Vargas, L.R., Parsons, L.A., Spector, J.T., Naylor, R.L., Battisti, D.S., Masuda, Y.J.*, Wolff, N.H. Large Scale Tropical Deforestation Drives Extreme Warming. Environmental Research Letters, 14,(8). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab96d2

37. Mahajan, S.L., Jagadish, A., Glew, L., Ahmadia, G., Becker, H., Cox, C., DeMello, N., Fidler, R.Y., Harborne, A.R., Masuda, Y.J., Jeha, L., McKinnon, M., Mills, M., Painter, M., Wilkie, D., Mascia, M.B. (2020). A theory-based framework for understanding the emergence, impacts, and spread of community-based conservation. Conservation Science & Practice.

38. Masuda, Y.J.*, Fisher, J., Zhang, W., Castilla, C., Boucher, T., & Blundo, G.A. (2020). A respondent‐driven method for mapping small agricultural plots using tablets and high resolution imagery. Journal of International Development. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3475.

39. Cheng, S., McKinnon, M., Masuda, Y.J., Garside, R., Jones, K.W., Miller, D.C., Pullin, A.S., Sutherland, W.J., Bethel, A., Augustin, C., Gill, D.A., Wongbusarakum, S., Wilkie, D. (2020). Strengthen causal models to avoid magical thinking. PLOS ONE, 15(3): e0230495. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0230495.

40. Masuda Y.J.*, Kelly, A.C., Robinson, B.E., Holland, M.B., Bedford, C., Childress, M., Game, E.T., Ginsburg, C., Hillhorst, T., Lawry, S., Miteva, D., Musengezi, J., Naughton, L., Sunderlin, W., & Veit, P. (2020). How do practitioners characterize land tenure security? Conservation Science & Practice. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.186.

41. Tallis, H., …, Masuda, Y.J., et al. (2019). Aligning evidence generation and use across health, development and environment. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 39, 81-93.

42. Spector, J.T., Masuda, Y.J., Calkins, M., Seixas, N., & Wolff, N.H. (2019). Heat-related occupational injuries: Can cross-sectoral partnerships and global perspectives inform prevention? Current Environmental Health Reports. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40572-019-00250-8.

43. Suter, M., Miller, K.A., Angraenni, I., Ebi, K.L., Game, E.T., Krenz, J., Masuda, Y.J.*, Sheppard, L., Wolff, N.H., & Spector, J. (2019). Association between work in deforested, compared to forested, areas and human heat strain: An experimental study in a rural tropical environment. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab2b53.

44. Reddy, S.W., Torphy, K., Liu, Y., Chen, T., Masuda, Y.J., Fisher, J.R.B., Galey, S., Burford, K., Frank, K.A., & Montambault, J. (2019). How different forms of social capital created through project team assignments influence employee adoption of sustainability practices. Organization & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1177/1086026619880343. (Reported in EurekaAlert!)

45. Masuda, Y.J.*, Castro, B., Angraenni, I., Wolff, N.H., Game, E., Garg, T., Krenz, J., Ebi, K., & Spector, J. (2019). How are healthy, working populations affected by increasing temperatures in the tropics? Implications for climate change adaptation policies. Global Environmental Change, 56, 29-40.

46. Seymour, G., Masuda, Y.J., Williams, J.R., & Schneider, K. (2019). Household and child nutrition outcomes among the time and income poor in rural Bangladesh. Global Food Security, 20(March 2019), 82-92.

47. Ranjan, P., Wardropper, C., Eanes, F., Reddy, S.M.W., Harden, S., Masuda, Y.J., Prokopy, L.S, (2019). Understanding barriers and opportunities for adoption of conservation practices on rented farmland. Land Use Policy, 80, 214-223.

48. Schwartz, M., Belhabib, D., Biggs, D., Cook, C., Fitzsimons, J., Giordano, A.J., Glew, L., Gottlieb, S., Kattan, G., Knight, A.T., Lundquist, C., Lynam, A.J., Masuda, Y.J., Mwampamba, T.H., Nuno, A., Plumptre, A.J., Ray, J.C., Reddy, S.M., & Runge, M.C. (2018). A vision for documenting and sharing knowledge in conservation. Conservation Science and Practice, 1(1), e1. https://doi.org/10.1002/csp2.1

49. Game, E.T., Tallis, H., Olander, L., Alexander, S.M., Busch, J., Cartwright, N., Kalies, E.L., Masuda, Y.J., Mupepele, A.C., Qui, J., Rooney, A., Sills, E.O., & Sutherland, W.J. (2018). Cross-disciplinary evidence principles for social-environmental sustainability. Nature Sustainability. DOI: 10.1038/s41893-018-0141-x

50. Wolff, N.H., Masuda, Y.J., Meijaard, E., Wells, J.A., & Game, E.T. (2018). Impacts of tropical deforestation on temperature and human well-being. Global Environmental Change, 52, 181-189.

51. Cheng, S., Augustin, C., Bethel, A., Gill, D., Anzaroot, S., Brun, J., DeWilde, B., Minnich, R.C., Garside, R., Masuda, Y.J., Miller, D.C., Wilkie, D., Wongbusarakum, S., & McKinnon, M.C. (2018). Using machine learning to advance synthesis and use of conservation and environmental evidence. Conservation Biology. 32(4), 762-764. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13117.

52. McLeod, E., Arora-Johnson, S., Masuda, Y.J., Bruton-Adams, M., Dengokl, C.E., Gorong, B., Hudlow, C.J., James, R., Kuhlken, H., Masike-Liri, B., Musrasrik_Carl, E., Otzelberger, A., Relang, K., Reyuw, B.M., Sigrah, B., Stinnett, C., Tellei, J., & Whitford, L. (2018). Raising the voices of Pacific Island women to inform climate adaptation policies. Marine Policy, 93, 178-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.03.011.

53. Fisher, J.R.B., Montambault, J., Burford, K., Gopalakrishna, T., Masuda, Y.J., Reddy, S.M.W., & Salcedo, A.I. (2018). Knowledge diffusion within a large conservation organization and beyond. PLOS ONE, 13(3), e0193716.

54. Masuda, Y.J.*, Liu, Y., Reddy, S.W., Frank, K.A., Burford, K., Fisher, J.R.B., & Montambault, J. (2018). Innovation diffusion within large environmental NGOs through informal network agents. Nature Sustainability. DOI: 10.1038/s41893-018-0045-9. (Reported in Science Daily, Phys.org, Science Newsline)

55. Robinson, B.E., Masuda, Y.J.*, Kelly, A.C., Holland, M.B., Bedford, C., Childress, M., Fletschner, D., Game, E.T., Ginsburg, C., Hillhorst, T., Lawry, S., Miteva, D., Musengezi, J., Naughton, L., Nolte, C., Sunderlin, W., & Veit, P. (2018). Incorporating land tenure security into conservation. Conservation Letters, 11(2), e12383.

56. McKinnon, M.C., Cheng, S.H., Butterfield, R., DuPre, S., Edmond, J., Garside, R., Glew, L., Holland, M.B., Levine, E., Masuda, Y.J., Miller, M., Oliveria, I., Revenaz, J., Roe, D., Shamer, S., Wilkie, D., Wongbusarakum, S., & Woodhouse, E. (2018). What are the effects of nature conservation on human wellbeing? A systematic map. Environmental Evidence, 5(8), DOI: 10.1186/s13750-016-0058-7

57. Reddy, S.W., Montambault, J., Masuda, Y.J., Fisher, J., Gneezy, A., Keenan, E., Butler, W., & Asah, S. (2016). Advancing Conservation by Understanding and Influencing Human Behavior. Conservation Letters, 10(2), 248-256.

58. Scharks, T., & Masuda, Y.J.* (2016). Don’t discount economic valuation for conservation. Conservation Letters, 9(1), 3- 4.

59. McKinnon, M.C., Cheng, S.H., Garside, R., Masuda, Y.J., & Miller, D.C. (2015). Sustainability: Map the evidence. Nature, 528(7581), 185-188.

60. Williams, J.R., Masuda, Y.J., & Tallis, H. (2015). Time poverty: A measure whose time has come. Social Indicators Research. DOI: 10.1007/s11205-015-1029-z

61. Masuda, Y.J., & Scharks, T. (2014). A big leap to slavery. Letter in Science, 346(6211), 819.

62. Tallis, H., …, Masuda, Y.J., et al. (2014). Towards a diverse conservation ethic. Nature, 515(7525), 27-28.

63. Chaudhri, R., Borriello, G., Lieberg, K. Sodt, R., Chilton, J., Masuda, Y.J., & Cook, J.H. (2012). Sensors and smartphones: Tracking water collection in rural Ethiopia. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 11(3), 15-24.

64. Masuda, Y.J.*, Fortmann, L., Gugerty, M.K., Smith-Nilson, M., & Cook, J. (2012). Pictorial approaches for measuring time use in rural Ethiopia. Social Indicators Research, 115(1), 467-482.

65. Cowell, A.J., Brown, J.M., Wedehase, B.J., & Masuda, Y.J. (2010). Costs of using motivational interviewing for problem drinking in the U.S. Air Force. Military Medicine, 175(12), 1007-1013.

66. Luo, Z., Cowell, A.J., Masuda, Y.J., Novak, S.P., & Johnson, E.O. (2010). Course of major depressive disorder and labor market outcome disruption over three to four years. Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 13(3), 135-149.

67.  Cowell, A.J., Luo, Z., & Masuda, Y.J. (2009). Psychiatric disorders and the labor market: An analysis by psychiatric profiles. Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 12(1), 3-17.

Book chapters

68. Olander, L., Mason, S., Tallis, H., Lamb, J., Masuda, Y.J., & Kramer, R. (2021). Ecosystem Services. In Global Climate Change & Human Health: From Science to Practice. J. Lemery, C. Sorensen, and K. Knowlton (Eds). Wiley Jossey-Bass.

69. Masuda, Y.J.*, & Scharks, T. (2017). Science communication is receiving a lot of attention, but we are not getting much better at it In P. Kareiva, B. Silliman, & M. Marvier (Eds.), Effective Conservation Science: Data not Dogma. Oxford University Press. 

Books

70. Holland, M.B., Masuda, Y.J.*, Robinson, B.E. (2022). Land Tenure Security & Sustainable Development. Palgrave-Macmillan, London.