PUBLICATIONS

2025

Roxburgh, E., Mills, M., Mangubhai, S., Tawake, A., Vakalalabure, M., Govan, H., Jagadish, A. & O’Garra, T. (2025) Partner support and interactions with communities show mixed effects on governance of community-based resources. Conservation Science and Practice.

Mills, M., Touchon, M.V., Denis, E., Milligan, S., Zuffetti, Y., Ahmad, Z., Husain, Z., Shrestha Sangat, S., Gelcich, S., Lendelvo, S., Pathak, B., Tawake, A., Mascia, M.B., Nandrianina Ralaimihoatra, S., Pienkowski, T., Clark, M. & Jagadish, A. (2025) Scaling out community conservation initiatives: Experts identify economic and social benefits, compatibility with needs, and external support as key. Conservation Letters.

Joglekar, A., Jagadish, A., Jardim, C.B., Cullen, L., Souza, A., Pienkowski, T., Chiaravalloti, R.M. & Mills, M. (2025) Landholder’s engagement in restoring Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is linked with livelihood compatibility and legal compliance. International Forestry Review.

Romero-de-Diego, C., Mills, M., Witt, B. & Dean, A. (2025) How community members engage with wildlife – a psychosocial typology with implications for policy making. Wildlife Letters. 

Pienkowski, T., Sterrantino, A.F., Tedesco, A., Clark, M., Brancalion, P. H. S., Jagadish, A., Mendes, A., Pugliese de Siqueira, L. & Mills, M.  (2025) Spatial predictors of landowners’ engagement in the restoration of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. People and Nature. 

2024

Clark, M., Pienkowski, T., Jagadish, A., Archibald, C. L., Gelcich, S., Govan, H., Naidoo, R., Romero-de-Diego, C., Weeks, R. & Mills, M. (2024) Forecasting adoption with epidemiological models can enable adaptively scaling out conservation. One Earth. 

Pienkowski, T., Jagadish, A., Battista, W., Blaise, G. C., Christie, A. P., Clark, M., Emenyu, A., P., Joglekar, A., Nielsen, K. S., Powell, T., White, T. & Mills, M. (2024) Five lessons for avoiding failure when scaling in conservation. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 

Jagadish, A., Freni-Sterrantino, A., He, Y., O’Garra, T., Gecchele, L., Mangubhai S., Govan, H., Tawake, A., Tabunakawai-Vakalalabure, M., Mascia, M. B. & Mills, M. (2024) Scaling Indigenous-led natural resource management. Global Environmental Change. 

2023

O’Garra, T., Mangubhai, S., Jagadish, A., Tabunakawai-Vakalalabure, M., Tawake, A., Govan, H. & Mills, M. (2023) National-level evaluation of a community-based marine management initiative. Nature Sustainability. 

Mahajan, S. L., Tanner, L., Ahmadia, G., Becker, H., DeMello, N., Fidler, R., Harborne, A. R., Jagadish, A., Mills, M., Cairney, P., Cheng, S., Fariss, B., Masuda, Y. J., Pabari, M., Tengö, M., Wyborn, C. & Glew, L. (2023) Accelerating evidence-informed decision-making in conservation implementing agencies through effective monitoring, evaluation, and learning. Biological Conservation. 

2022

Shennan-Farpón, Y., Mills, M., Souza, A. & Homewood, K. (2022) The role of agroforestry in restoring Brazil's Atlantic Forest: Opportunities and challenges for smallholder farmers. People & Nature. 

Lewis-Brown, E., Jennings, N., Mills, M. & Ewers, R. (2022) Comparison of carbon management and emissions of universities that did and did not adopt voluntary carbon offsets. Climate Policy. 

2021

Lewis-Brown, E., Beatty, H., Davis, K., Rabearisoa, A., Ramiaramanana, J., Mascia, M. B. & Mills, M. (2021) The importance of future generations and conflict management in conservation. Conservation, Science and Practice. 

2020

Mahajan, S. L., Jagadish, A., Glew, L., Ahmadia, G., Becker, H., Fidler, R. Y., Jeha, L., Mills, M., Cox, C., DeMellow, N., Harborne, A. R., Masuda, Y. J., McKinnon, M. C., Painter, M., Wilkie, D. & Mascia M. B. (2020) A theory‐based framework for understanding the establishment, persistence, and diffusion of community‐based conservation. Conservation, Science and Practice. 

Romero-de-Diego, C., Dean, A., Jagadish, A., Witt, B., Mascia, M. B. & Mills, M. (2020) Drivers of adoption and spread of wildlife management initiatives in Mexico. Conservation, Science and Practice. 

2019

Mills, M., Bode, M., Mascia, M. B., Weeks, R., Gelcich, S., Dudley, N., Govan, H., Archibald, C. L., Romero-de-Diego, C., Holden, M., Biggs, D., Glew, L., Naidoo, R. & Possingham, H.P. (2019) How conservation initiatives go to scale. Nature Sustainability. 

2018

Mascia, M. B. & Mills, M. (2018) When conservation goes viral: The diffusion of innovative biodiversity conservation policies and practices. Conservation Letters.