Peer Reviewed Publications

Just Adaptation

Mills-Novoa, M. (2023) What happens after climate change adaptation projects end: A community-based approach to ex-post assessment of adaptation projects. Global Environmental Change 80. DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2144252

Johnson, L., Mikulewicz, M., Bigger, P., Chakraborty, R., Cunniff, A., Griffin, P.J., Guermond, V., Lambrou, N., Mills-Novoa, M., Neimark, B., Nelson, S., Rampini, C., Pasang Sherpa, P., and Simon, G. (2023) Intervention: The Invisible Labor of Climate Change Adaptation. Global Environmental Change 83. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102769

Mills-Novoa, M., Boelens, R., Hoogesteger, J., and Vos, J. (2022) Resisting, Leveraging, and Reworking Climate Change Adaptation Projects from Below: Placing Adaptation in Ecuador’s Agrarian Struggles. Journal of Peasant Studies. DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2144252

Eriksen, S., Schipper, L.F., Scoville-Simonds, M., Vincent, K., Lenaerts, L., Nicolai Adam, H., Brooks, N., Harding, B., Khatri, D., Liverman, D., Mills-Novoa, M., Mosberg, M., Muok, B., Nightingale, A., Ojha, H., Sygna, L., Taylor, M., Vogel, C., West, J.J. (2021) Climate change adaptation interventions in developing countries: Help, Hindrance, or Irrelevant? World Development 141: 105383. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13924

Mills-Novoa, M., Boelens, R., Hoogesteger, J., and Vos, J. (2020) Governmentality, Hydrosocial Territories & Recognition Politics: The making of subjects and objects for climate change adaptation in Ecuador. Geoforum 115: 90-101  DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.06.024

Mills-Novoa, M. (July 2020) On the Space between Success and Failure. Terrain.org. https://www.terrain.org/2020/science-stories/space-between/

Mills-Novoa, M. (2019) Making agro-export entrepreneurs out of campesinos: The role of water policy reform, agricultural development initiatives, and the specter of climate change in reshaping agricultural systems in Piura, Peru. Agriculture and Human Values 37: 667-682 DOI: 10.1007/s10460-019-10008-5

Mills-Novoa, M., Borgias, S., Crootof, A., Thapa, B., and Scott, C. (2016) Bringing the Hydro-social Cycle into Climate Change Adaptation Planning: Lessons from the Andean mountain water towers. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 107(2): 393-402 DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2016.1232618

Deforestation Frontiers

Siegel, K., Farah-Pérez, A., Kinnebrew, E., Mills-Novoa, M., Ochoa, J., and Shoffner, E. (2022) Integration of qualitative and quantitative methods for land use change modeling in a protected area in an Amazonian deforestation frontier. Conservation Biology  DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13924

Kinnebrew, E., Ochoa, J., Shoffner, E., Mills-Novoa, M., and Siegel, K. Trends and dissimilarity in land use change patterns detected with generated remote sensing products and Global Forest Change data: a case study of three Amazon protected areas. PLOSOne

Kinnebrew, E., Shoffner, E., Farah, A., Mills-Novoa, M., Ochoa, J., and Siegel, K. (2020) Approaches to interdisciplinary mixed methods research in land change science and environmental management. Conservation Biology  DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13642

Hydropower Development

Anderson, E., Osborne, T., Maldonado-Ocampo, J., Mills-Novoa, M., Castello, L., Montoya, M., and Jenkins, C. (2019) Energy development reveals blind spots for Amazon Conservation. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 17(9): 521-529 DOI: 10.1002/fee.2114

Gerlak, A., Saguier, M., Mills-Novoa, M., Fernside, P. and Albrecht, T.R. (2019) Dams, Conflicts, Chinese Investments, and EIAs: A Race to the Bottom for South America? Ambio 49(1): 156-164 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-018-01145-y

Mills-Novoa, M and Taboada, R. (2017) Coexistence and Conflict: IWRM and Large-Scale Water Infrastructure Development in Piura, Peru. Water Alternatives 10(2): 370-394

Climate Change Governance

Mills-Novoa, M. and Liverman, D. (2019) Nationally Determined Contributions: Material and discursive climate commitments in the NDCs. WIRES Climate Change 10(5), DOI:  10.1002/wcc.589

Gerlak, A., Weston, J., McMahon, B., Murray, R., and Mills-Novoa, M. (2018Climate Risk Management and the Electricity Sector. Climate Risk Management 19: 12-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.crm.2017.12.003

Brice, B., Fullerton, C., Hawkes, K., Mills-Novoa, M., O’Neill, B., and Pawlowski, V.M. (2017A Multi-Region Snapshot and Agency Contrast of US Natural Areas Recreation Regarding the Impacts of Climate Change. Natural Areas Journal 37(1): 86-97 DOI: 10.3375/043.037.0111

de Grenade, R., L. House-Peters, C.A. Scott, B. Thapa, M. Mills-Novoa, A. Gerlak, and K. Verbist. (2016) The Nexus: Reconsidering Environmental Security and Adaptive Capacity. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 21: 15-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2016.10.009