Yifan (Flora)
He
PhD student
University of California, Santa Barbara
Yifan (Flora) He is an environmental social scientist and doctoral student at the Bren School, University of California - Santa Barbara. She combines political science and land system science to study dynamics in rural land governance and its environmental and social outcomes, and in particular, how out-migration influences rural land access and use. Previously, she was a social scientist at Conservation International, where she worked towards building a global geodatabase of area-based conservation systems, including protected areas, indigenous and community territories, eco-certifications, privately protected areas, etc. She also led analyses of spatial-temporal diffusion of conservation innovations.