Ranaivo A. Rasolofoson

Ranaivo A. Rasolofoson
University of Toronto | U of T · School of the Environment

PhD

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Introduction
Ranaivo Rasolofoson currently works at the School of the Environment, University of Toronto. Ranaivo is interested in investigating the impacts of environmental programs and environmental changes on different environmental and social outcomes (living standards, health, nutrition).

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Publications (23)
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Within many global communities, access to natural resources benefits nutrition through provision of both food and livelihoods. In fishing communities, fish provide a rich source of essential nutrients, and fishing represents a critical income source. While evidence for the beneficial nutrients in fish abounds, fisheries’ integrated influence on nut...
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Drowning is an overlooked public health concern and drowning risk is dependent on environmental risk factors. The preponderance of drowning deaths occurs in low- and middle-income countries. Small-scale fishers face high occupational risk of drowning. Climate change increases the frequency and intensity of storms, thereby exacerbating fishers’ risk...
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Understanding the effectiveness of conservation interventions during times of political instability is important given how much of the world’s biodiversity is concentrated in politically fragile nations. Here, we investigate the effect of a political crisis on the relative performance of community managed forests versus protected areas in terms of...
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Forests are increasingly recognized for their beneficial roles in human health. However, there is a debate on how forest health benefits can be accessed equitably, particularly by vulnerable forest-dependent rural communities in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). Access to forest health benefits is determined by a range of interconnected mean...
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The growing prevalence of marine protected areas (MPAs) to conserve marine biodiversity has been shown to have a considerable impact on resource-dependent coastal communities. Despite the existence of the burgeoning literature studying MPA aggregate effects on human well-being, there is limited evidence related to the equality of marine conservatio...
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Understanding the effectiveness of conservation interventions during times of political instability is important given how much of the world’s biodiversity is concentrated in politically fragile nations. We investigated the effect of a political crisis on the relative performance of community managed forests versus state-managed protected areas in...
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This chapter provides an overview of the empirical evidence regarding the association between green space in general, and forests and trees in particular, and health outcomes. The evidence is organised by life stage, and within the three life stages – early life (Section 3.2.), adulthood (Section 3.3.) and the elderly (Section 3.4.) – by type of he...
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This chapter gives an overview of five categories of response options available to secure health benefits of forests, trees and green spaces: the management of access; spatial dimensions; design, communications and education; and governance and economics. Across these areas, some common solutions emerge, although response options differ between set...
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Background: Access to natural resources is fundamental to human wellbeing. We aimed to disentangle the multiple pathways through which fishery resources benefit early childhood development. Although evidence has linked fish consumption and early childhood development, differences in nutrient content across fish species and the role of fishing incom...
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Clearing forests for swidden agriculture, despite providing food to millions of farmers in the tropics, can be a major driver of deforestation. Payments for ecosystem services schemes can help stop swidden agriculture-induced forest loss by rewarding forest users for maintaining forests. Clear and secure property rights are a key prerequisite for t...
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Environmental degradation has been associated with increased burden of diseases such as malaria, diarrhea, and malnutrition. As a result, some have argued that continuing ecosystem change could undermine successes in global health investments. Here we conduct an empirical study to investigate this concern. Child deaths due to diarrhea have more tha...
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Originating from the wildlife trade and emerging as a global pandemic, COVID-19 has shown how exploitation of natural resources can negatively affect human health. More broadly, there is growing recognition of the diverse ways that environmental degradation (eg, deforestation and climate change) negatively affects human health through myriad pathwa...
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Childhood undernutrition yearly kills 3.1 million children worldwide. For those who survive early life undernutrition, it can cause motor and cognitive development problems that translate into poor educational performance and limited work productivity later in life. It has been suggested that nutrition-specific interventions (e.g., micronutrient su...
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If efforts to tackle biodiversity loss and its impact on human wellbeing are to be successful, conservation must learn from other fields which use predictive methods to foresee shocks and preempt their impacts in the face of uncertainty, such as military studies, public health and finance. Despite a long history of using predictive models to unders...
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Micronutrient deficiency affects about a third of the world’s population. Children in developing countries are particularly vulnerable. Consequences include impaired cognitive and physical development and increased childhood morbidity and mortality. Recent studies suggest that forests help alleviate micronutrient deficiency by increasing dietary di...
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Background Micronutrient malnutrition affects about a third of the world's population, and children in low-income and middle-income countries are particularly vulnerable. Consequences include impaired cognitive and physical development, and increased childhood morbidity and mortality. Previous studies suggest that exposure to forests helps alleviat...
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There is growing interest in the importance of ensuring that biodiversity conservation is not achieved at the expense of local people's well-being. It has been suggested that when evaluating the impact of an intervention, the affected population should be allowed to define well-being (requiring a subjective measure), and impacts (requiring a partic...
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Community Forest Management (CFM) devolves forest management to local communities to achieve conservation and human well-being goals. Yet, the evidence for CFM's impacts is mixed and difficult to interpret because of inadequate attention to rival explanations for the observed empirical patterns. In a national-scale analysis in Madagascar that caref...
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Community Forest Management (CFM) is a widespread conservation approach in the tropics. It is also promoted as a means by which payment for ecosystem services schemes can be implemented. However, evidence on its performance is weak. We investigated the effectiveness of CFM at reducing deforestation from 2000 to 2010 in Madagascar. To control for fa...

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