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Tara Grillos

Environmental Science · Purdue University West Lafayette

Mid career · publishing since 2015

Publications

41

Citations

796

Est. group size

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

12

Publishing since 2015

Research summary
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Tara Grillos studies how governance and institutional design affect environmental and natural resource management, particularly in developing countries. Her work often uses field experiments and randomized trials to examine topics like decentralization, community participation, payments for ecosystem services, gender inclusion, and public sector accountability, drawing on cases from Kenya, Honduras, Nepal, Bolivia, Indonesia, Peru, and Tanzania. This research bridges environmental science, political science, and public administration.

Decentralization and governance reformParticipatory and collective decision-making in resource managementPayments for ecosystem services (PES) and conservation incentivesGender and equity in environmental policyPublic sector accountability and bureaucratic behavior

Publication output rose sharply from 2017 to a peak around 2020, then declined and became more variable in recent years, with a modest uptick in 2025-2026.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.2/year recently
2017: 1 publication172018: 3 publications182019: 6 publications192020: 10 publications10202021: 8 publications212022: 2 publications222023: 1 publication232024: 1 publication242025: 3 publications252026: 4 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Harvard Dataverse×12
  • World Development×4
  • Ecological Economics×3
  • Nature Sustainability×3
  • Health Policy and Planning×2
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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