Rene Zamora Cristales

Zamora Cristales, Rene

Position Type:
Faculty
Job Title:
Associate Professor and Strachan Chair in Forest Operations Management
Department:
Forest Engineering, Resources & Management
Office Location:
223 Peavy Forest Science Center (PFSC)
CV:
ZamoraReneCV2025_RZ.pdf
Advising:  Graduate Major Advisor
Education
PhD, 2013, Forest Engineering, Oregon State University, USA
MSc, 2006, Economics and Wood Technology, Austral University, Chile
BSc, 2003, Forest Engineering, Del Valle University, Guatemala
Research Areas
Forest Operations Planning and Management
Forest Policy Analysis and Economics
Research Interests
  • Strategic and Tactical Forest Planning
  • Economics, Finance and Policy Optimization in Developing Countries
  • Landscape Restoration in the Tropics
  • Economics and Finance of Carbon Markets
  • International Forestry
Selected Publications:

  1. Zamora-Cristales, R., Sessions, J., Boston, K., & Murphy, G. (2015). Economic optimization of forest biomass processing and transport in the Pacific Northwest USA. Forest Science, 61(2), 220-234.

  2. Zamora-Cristales R., Gonzalez M., Rachmaninoff V., Franco M., Vergara W., De Camino R., Miljanic A., Sanchez M., Hilton L., and Carazo F., 2021. Healing the wounded land:  The role of public economic incentives in scaling up restoration efforts in six Latin American countries. World Resources Institute Issue Brief 32 p.

  3. Gutierrez V., Lear E., Ramos J. Ruiz-Guevara N. Zamora-Cristales R.  Díaz A., 2024.  Towards the Financing High-Quality Landscape Restoration in Latin America and the Caribbean. Policy Brief.  Commonland, Eco agriculture partners and Initiative 20x20 report. 13p.

  4. Firebanks-Quevedo, D., Planas, J., Buckingham, K., Taylor, C., Silva, D., Naydenova, G. and Zamora-Cristales, R., 2022. Using machine learning to identify incentives in forestry policy: Towards a new paradigm in policy analysis. Forest Policy and Economics, 134, p.102624.

  5. Zamora-Cristales, R., Liere, M.A. and Hernández, E.A.S., 2020. Economic Prioritization and optimization of public incentives for riparian forest restoration. Revista Mesoamericana de Biodiversidad y Cambio Climático, 4(1), pp.23-43.

  6. Bustos E., Villalobos R., Delgado D., Zamora-Cristales R.  Carrera F., 2024. Standard for Guiding Restoration Efforts at the Scale of Tropical Landscapes: Proposal Based on the Analysis of Experiences in Four Model Forests in Latin America.  Technical report 462.

  7. César Sabogal, Jürgen Blaser, Kenichi Shono, Yitagesu Tekle Tegegne, Rene Zamora Cristales, Almeida Sitoe, Tania Ammour, Adeline Dontenville, Mélanie Feurer, Jelena Markovic, Christophe Besacier, Silvio Simonit, Benjamin de Ridder, and Orjan Jonsson Regional variation in forest landscape restoration,.  2024    In book: Restoring Forests and Trees for Sustainable Development, Policies, Practices, Impacts, and Ways Forward. Edited by Pia Katila, Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Wil de Jong, Glenn Galloway, Pablo Pacheco, and Georg Winkel- 1. ed. – Santiago.

  8. Zamora-Cristales R., Troppa C., Mujica R., Alvarez D., Villalobos R., Gonzalez M., Rachmaninoff V., Miljanic A. 2024.  Governance of Landscape Restoration and public policy.   In book: Restoration of Forest Ecosystems, Editors: Bannister J., Claramunt V., Ovalle J. Vargas R. -- 1. ed. – Santiago.

  9. Ding H., Faruqi S., Wu A., Anchondo A., Altamirano J., Verdone M., Zamora-Cristales R.  Chazdon R., Vergara W., 2017.  Roots for Prosperity:  the Economics and Finance of restoring degraded lands.  World Resources Institute, Washington DC., 80p.