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J. Timmons Roberts
Researcher at Brown University
Publications - 123
Citations - 9829
J. Timmons Roberts is an academic researcher from Brown University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Climate Finance. The author has an hindex of 46, co-authored 118 publications receiving 8220 citations. Previous affiliations of J. Timmons Roberts include College of William & Mary & Johns Hopkins University.
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Climate Change, Deforestation, and the Fate of the Amazon
Yadvinder Malhi,J. Timmons Roberts,Richard Betts,Timothy J. Killeen,Wenhong Li,Carlos A. Nobre +5 more
TL;DR: The forest biome of Amazonia is one of Earth's greatest biological treasures and a major component of the Earth system, and this century, it faces the dual threats of deforestation and stress from climate change.
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A Climate of Injustice: Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Policy
TL;DR: The authors analyzed the role that inequality between rich and poor nations plays in the negotiation of global climate agreements and developed new measures of climate-related inequality, analyzing fatality and homelessness rates from hydrometeorological disasters, patterns of "emissions inequality," and participation in international environmental regimes.
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Targeting global conservation funding to limit immediate biodiversity declines
Anthony Waldron,Anthony Waldron,Arne Ø. Mooers,Daniel C. Miller,Nathan P. Nibbelink,David W. Redding,David W. Redding,Tyler S. Kuhn,J. Timmons Roberts,John L. Gittleman +9 more
TL;DR: A global database of annual conservation spending is assembled and a statistical model is developed that explains 86% of variation in conservation expenditures, and this is used to identify countries where funding is robustly below expected levels.
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More Dollars than Sense: Refining Our Knowledge of Development Finance Using AidData
Michael J. Tierney,Daniel L. Nielson,Darren Hawkins,J. Timmons Roberts,Michael G. Findley,Ryan Powers,Bradley C. Parks,Sven E. Wilson,Robert L. Hicks +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce a new dataset of foreign assistance, AidData, that covers more bilateral and multilateral donors and more types of aid than existing datasets while also improving project-level information about the purposes and activities funded by aid.