Ida Djenontin
Assistant Professor of Geography
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315 Walker
University Park, PA 16802 - ind5050@psu.edu
- 814-863-6069
Research Summary
Examines the interactions between people and agro-forest landscapes in a changing climate context, focusing on understanding the policy processes, cross-scale governance and institutional arrangements, and socio-cultural and equity challenges in managing such socio-ecological systems.
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Most Recent Publications
Bridging the gaps between Sustainable Land Management Research and Prcatice
Ida Djenontin, on p. 31pages
Leveraging the power of forests and trees for transformational adaptation
H Djoudi, K Dooley, A Duchelle, A Libert-Amico, B Locatelli, Ida Djenontin, on p. 26pp.
Making forest landscape restoration work for livelihoods and well-being of local communities
H Djoudi, Ida Djenontin, C Colfer, 2024, on p. 199-237
Human Dimensions of Forest Landscape Restoration
Stephanie Mansourian, Mercy Derkyi, Ida Djenontin, Marlene Elias, Johan Oldekop, Pablo Pacheco, Janice Burns, Anita Diederichsen, Michael Kleine, Daniel Vallauri, Bethanie Walder, 2024, on p. 76
The human well-being outcomes of tree plantations in sub-Saharan Africa: A reassessment of evidence using longitudinal subnational-year data
Edouard R. Mensah, Nilesh Shinde, Ange T. Kakpo, Ida N.S. Djenontin, 2024, Forest Policy and Economics
Whose perspective counts? A critical look at definitions of terms used for natural and near-natural forests
Sini Savilaakso, Nik Lausberg, Patrick O. Waeber, Oona Hillgén, Anna Isotalo, Fritz Kleinschroth, Ida N.S. Djenontin, Nastasia Boul Lefeuvre, Claude A. Garcia, 2023, One Earth on p. 1477-1493
Taking stock of knowledge on the causes and solutions for human wildlife conflicts in rural Africa - A systematic map protocol
Sini Savilaakso, E Sabuhoro, Ida Djenontin, Ian Munanura, 2023, PROCEED-23-00162
What impact do trees outside of forests have on human well being outcomes in South Asia?
Pooja Choksi, Shalini Dhyani, Ida Djenontin, Harry Fischer, Megan Kocher, Tobias Plieninger, Vijay Ramprasad, Forrest Fleischman, 2023, PROCEED-23-00155
A story of equity washing, corporates, and forest concessions in Gabon
Petra Holden, Tali Hoffman, Ida Djenontin, 2023, on p. 9-10
An assessment of Participatory Forest Management inspired by adaptive collaborative management in Malawi
Judith F.M. Kamoto, Edward Missanjo, Ida N.S. Djenontin, 2023, on p. 195-215
Most-Cited Papers
The art of co-production of knowledge in environmental sciences and management: lessons from international practice
Ida Nadia S. Djenontin, Alison M. Meadow, 2018, Environmental Management on p. 885-903
Revisiting the factors shaping outcomes for forest and landscape restoration in Sub-Saharan Africa: A way forward for policy, practice and research
Ida Nadia S. Djenontin, Samson Foli, Leo C. Zulu, 2018, Sustainability
Smallholders' tree planting activity in the ziro province, southern burkina faso: Impacts on livelihood and policy implications
Daniel Etongo, Ida Nadia S. Djenontin, Markku Kanninen, Kalame Fobissie, 2015, Forests on p. 2655-2677
Land tenure, asset heterogeneity and deforestation in Southern Burkina Faso
Daniel Etongo, Ida Nadia S. Djenontin, Markku Kanninen, Kalame Fobissie, Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki, Houria Djoudi, 2015, Forest Policy and Economics on p. 51-58
Recognizing the equity implications of restoration priority maps
Bill Schultz, Dan Brockington, Eric A. Coleman, Ida Djenontin, Harry W. Fischer, Forrest Fleischman, Prakash Kashwan, Kristina Marquardt, Marion Pfeifer, Rose Pritchard, Vijay Ramprasad, 2022, Environmental Research Letters
Assessing use-values and relative importance of trees for livelihood values and their potentials for environmental protection in Southern Burkina Faso
Daniel Etongo, Ida Nadia S. Djenontin, Markku Kanninen, Edinam K. Glover, 2017, Environment, Development and Sustainability on p. 1141-1166
Sustainable agricultural intensification and gender-biased land tenure systems: an exploration and conceptualization of interactions
Gundula Fischer, Akosua Darkwah, Judith Kamoto, Jessica Kampanje-Phiri, Philip Grabowski, Ida Djenontin, 2020, International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability on p. 1-20
Improving representation of decision rules in LUCC-ABM: An example with an elicitation of farmers' decision making for landscape restoration in Central Malawi
Ida Nadia S. Djenontin, Leo C. Zulu, Arika Ligmann-Zielinska, 2020, Sustainability
From diagnosis to action: Understanding youth strengths and hurdles and using decision-making tools to foster youth-inclusive sustainable agriculture intensification
Leo C. Zulu, Ida N.S. Djenontin, Phillip Grabowski, 2021, Journal of Rural Studies on p. 196-209
What do we (not) know on forest management institutions in sub-Saharan Africa? A regional comparative review
Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi, Raphael Owusu, Ida N.S. Djenontin, Jürgen Pretzsch, Lukas Giessen, Gertrud Buchenrieder, Mariève Pouliot, Ana Nicole Acosta, 2022, Land Use Policy
News Articles Featuring Ida Djenontin
Oct 31, 2024
$1.3M NSF grant to fund research into restoration of degraded ecosystems
An international team of researchers led by Ida Djenontin, assistant professor of geography at Penn State, was recently awarded a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems program to investigate the socioecological outcomes of restoration in degraded woodlands ecosystems.
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Feb 15, 2024
When planting trees is bad for the planet
When people plant trees where trees are not supposed to grow, environmental harm–not healing–can result
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