#  Former HEEP Visiting Scholar and Pre-Doctoral Fellow Leads Study on New England Land Conservation and its Impact on Local Economies 

 





April 02, 2019

 

 

 [Kate Sims](/people/katharine-re-sims), former Visiting Scholar and Pre-Doctoral Fellow with the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, is co-lead of a new study describing how land conservation in New England impacts local economies by increasing employment rates. Kate is currently Chair of the Economics Department at Amherst College. [The study, published in *Conservation Biology*](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cobi.13318), is the first of its kind, estimating the local net impacts of both private and public land conservation over 25 years (1990-2015) across 1,500 cities and towns that are home to 99.97% of New England’s population.

 New England Public Radio (Springfield, Massachusetts) reported on the paper; the audio and a write-up are [here](https://www.nepr.net/post/communities-across-new-england-get-economic-boost-protected-land#stream/). Jonathan Thompson, Senior Ecologist at Harvard Forest, is a co-author; the Harvard Forest reports on the paper [here](https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/news/study-land-conservation-boosts-local-economies).



 

 

 



 

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