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Romain Pirard's publications

Peer-reviewed journals
  • Pirard, R., 2011, "Market-based instruments for biodiversity and ecosystem services: A lexicon proposal", Environmental Science & Policy, Under review.
  • Pirard, R., 2011, "Payments for Environmental Services (PES) in the public policy landscape: 'Mandatory' spices in the Indonesian recipe", Forest Policy and Economics, Special issue on Global Governance, In press.
  • Chevassus-au-Louis, B. and R. Pirard, 2011, « Les services écosystémiques forestiers : quels sont-ils et comment les rémunérer ? » ("Forest ecosystem services: what are they and how to get them paid for?"), Revue Forestière Française, In press.
  • Pirard, R. and R. Billé, 2011, « Paiements pour Services Environnementaux – De la théorie à la pratique en Indonésie » ("Payments for Ecosystem Services – From theory to practice in Indonesia"), VertigO, 11(1).
  • Pirard, R., 2011, "Cost-benefit analysis of dynamic scenarios: Application to natural resource management in Morocco", Ecological Economics, Under review.
  • Belna, K. and R. Pirard, 2011, "Agriculture and Deforestation: State of Knowledge and the Gap with REDD+ Activities", Forest Policy & Economics, Under review.
  •  Pirard, R., Billé, R. and T. Sembrés, 2010, "Upscaling Payments for Environmental Services (PES): Critical Issues", Tropical Conservation Science, 3(3), pp. 249-61.
  •  Pirard, R., 2010, « Les marchés carbone ne sauveront pas les forêts tropicales » ("Will carbon markets save tropical forests?"), Études Foncières, 146, pp. 24-27.
  • Pirard, R., 2010, "Economic implications of biodiversity conservation for timber producers", ETFRN News, 51 (September), pp. 175-81.
  •  Pirard, R., Combes, J-L., and P. Combes Motel, 2009, "A response to the commentary on ‘Compensated Successful Efforts’", Ecological Economics, 68, pp. 2179-81.
  • Combes, J-L., Pirard, R., and P. Combes Motel, 2009, "A methodology to estimate impacts of domestic policies on deforestation: Compensated Successful Efforts for ‘Avoided Deforestation’", Ecological Economics, 68, pp. 680-91.
  •  Pirard, R. and A. Karsenty, 2009, "Climate Change Mitigation: Should "Avoided Deforestation" Be Rewarded?", Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 28 (3-4).
  • Pirard, R., 2008, "Estimating opportunity costs of Avoided Deforestation (REDD): Application of a stepwise approach to the Indonesia pulp sector", International Forestry Review, 10 (3), pp. 512-22.
  • Pirard, R. and J. Mayer, 2008, "Complementary labor opportunities in Indonesian pulp plantations, and implications for land use", Agroforestry Systems, 76 (2), pp. 499-511.
  • Durand, F. and R. Pirard, 2008, « Quarante ans de politiques forestières en Indonésie, 1967-2007 » ("Forty years of forest policies in Indonesia, 1967-2007"), Cahiers d’Outre-Mer, 244, pp. 407-31.
  • Pirard, R. and L.C. Irland, 2007, "Missing links between timber scarcity and industrial expansion: The lessons from the Indonesian Pulp and Paper sector", Forest Policy and Economics, 9 (8), pp. 1056-70.
  • Karsenty, A. and R. Pirard, 2007, "Tropical Forests: The issue of Global Public Goods and the emergence of multilateral economic instruments", La Revue Forestière Française, 59 (5), pp. 537-45.
  • Karsenty, A. and R. Pirard, 2007, « Changements climatiques : faut-il récompenser la ‘déforestation évitée’ ? », Natures Sciences Sociétés, 74 (4).

Institutional / book chapters / Proceedings
  • Booth, A., Pirard, R., Dermawan, A. and H. Komarudin, 2011, Intensifying agriculture to spare forested land? A review and a case study in Indonesia, Planet for Life, Under review.
  • Broughton, E. and R. Pirard, 2011, What's in a name? Market-based Instruments for Biodiversity, Health and Environment Reports n°8, Ifri, Paris.
  • Pirard, R. and E. Broughton, 2011, « Les instruments de marché pour la biodiversité : la réalité derrière les termes », Analyses 03/11, IDDRI, Paris.
  • Sukhdev, P., Billé, R., Pirard, R. and K. Varma, 2011, "Biodiversity and Poverty: Old Debates and Emerging Controversies", Background Paper for the International Conference "Reconciling poverty eradication and quality of the environment: What are the Innovative Solutions?", 27-28 June, Veolia Environment Institute and AFD.
  • Broughton, E. and R. Pirard, 2011, "Market-based instruments for biodiversity: What’s in a name?", Our World 2.0, United Nations University, http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/market-based-instruments-for-biodiversity-what%E2%80%99s-in-a-name/
  • Pirard, R. and S, Treyer, 2010, "Agriculture and deforestation: What role should REDD+ and public support policies play?", Ideas 10/10, IDDRI, Paris.
  • Pirard, R. and R. Billé, 2010, "Payments for Environmental Services (PES): A reality check (stories from Indonesia)", Analyses 03/10, IDDRI, Paris.
  • Pirard, R., Billé, R., Sembrès, T., 2010, "Questioning the theory of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) in light of emerging experience and plausible developments", Analyses 04/10, IDDRI, Paris.
  • Pirard, R., 2008, "The fight against deforestation (REDD): Economic implications of market-based funding", Ideas 20/08, IDDRI, Paris.
  • Pirard, R., 2008, "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation in non Annex 1 countries, Breaking the Climate Deadlock", The Climate Group, London, 21 p.
  • Loisel, C. and R. Pirard, 2008, "On the links between the European Climate and Energy Package and forests", Synthèses 07/08, IDDRI, Paris.
  • Pirard, R., 2008, « Lutte contre la deforestation : implications d’un financement par le marché », Proceedings of the ICREI Workshop « Pollution de l’air et changement climatique », Aix en Provence, 22-23 Juin, pp. 241-54.
  • Billé, R. and R. Pirard, 2007, "Development Aid for Biodiversity Conservation: a critical synthesis", Analyses 01/07, IDDRI, Paris.
  •  Pirard, R. and R. Rokhim, 2007, "Asia Pulp and Paper: a business rationale based on debt entrenchment and financial expropriation", in Lowery, K.V. (ed.), Corporate Governance in the 21st Century, Nova Publishers, New York.
  • Pirard, R., 2007, "The costs and benefits of conserving biodiversity in production forests", in "Guidelines for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in tropical timber production forests", ITTO, Yokohama.
  • Pirard, R. and C. Cossalter, 2006, "The Revival of Industrial Forest Plantations in Indonesia’s Kalimantan Provinces. Will they help eliminate fiber shortfalls at Sumatran pulp mills or feed the China market?" CIFOR Working Paper 37, Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor.
  • Pirard, R. and R. Rokhim, 2006, "Asia Pulp & Paper Indonesia: the business rationale that led to forest degradation and financial collapse", CIFOR Working Paper No. 33, Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, 29 p.
  • Pirard, R., 2005, "Pulpwood plantations as carbon sinks in Indonesia: methodological challenge and impacts on livelihoods", Proceedings of the CIFOR Workshop "Carbon Sequestration and Sustainable Livelihoods", 16-17 February, Indonesia, pp. 74-91.

Books
  • Pirard, R., 2010, Déforestation tropicale et industrie papetière en Indonésie (Tropical deforestation and pulp and paper industry in Indonesia), Éditions universitaires européennes, 364 p.

Consultancy Reports
  • Pirard, R., 2010, Cost Benefit Analysis of sustainable natural resources management in the Province of Ifrane, Morocco, Agence Française du Développement, Paris, 80 p.
  • Karsenty, A., Lescuyer, G., Pirard, R., Lemaître, S., Demenois, J. et P. Karpe, 2008, Scientific report for the research project "The international regime and the evolution of forest-related public policies", Convention n° 04 2 484, CIRAD, Montpellier, France.
  • Jurgens, E. and R. Pirard, 2007, Strategies to reduce carbon emissions from the Pulp and Paper and Plantation Sectors in Indonesia, Report to the Indonesian government, Jakarta.
  • Pirard, R., 2007, ITTO Guidelines for the conservation of biodiversity in tropical production forests: an economic analysis focused on timber producers, Consultancy report, IUCN, 124 p.
  • Pirard, R., 2006, A Convention for Forests as a Global Public Good?, Report to the French Ministry for Ecology and Sustainable Development (MEDD), Paris, 97 p.
  • Pirard, R., 2006, Report to the French Development Agency on Biodiversity projects' issues, IDDRI, Montpellier, 96 p.
  • Pirard, R., 2005, Brief on plywood groups related to West Papua, Consultancy Report, Greenpeace, 34 p.

Others
  • Pirard, R., 2011, « Forêts : mieux les protéger », Alternatives Internationales, Special issue « L’état de la Terre 2011 ».
  •  Pirard, R., 2011, "Yasuni ITT: An Innovative Environmental Mechanism Faces Reality", Opinion letter to Consiliense, Columbia University.
  • Bakouma, J., Chetaille, A., Frignet, J. and R. Pirard, 2011, « REDD : Une fausse bonne idée ? », Altermondes, 25 (March).
  • Pirard, R., 2010, « Yasuni ITT : un mécanisme novateur soumis au principe de réalité », Newsletter Amérique latine, Sciences Po, Paris.
  • Tubiana, L., Billé, R. and R. Pirard, 2010, "Editorial", The West African Protected Areas Newsletter, 34.
  • Pirard, R., 2009, « Indonésie : comment monnayer sa forêt ? », Courrier de la Planète, 87, pp. 53-55.
  • Pirard, R., 2009, « La lutte contre la déforestation tropicale et son financement », Questions Internationales, 38, pp. 64-66, La Documentation Française, Paris.
  • Pirard, R., 2009, « Négociations sur le financement de la lutte contre la déforestation tropicale : un changement de cap nécessaire », Actu-Environnement.com.
  • Pirard, R., 2008, "Deforestation, a global threat", Environnement & Stratégie, 275 (13 November).
  • Pirard, R., 2006, "The fake paradoxes of the Pulp & Paper expansion in Indonesia", Ph.D dissertation, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, 473 p.
  • Pirard, R., 2000, "Fossil Fuels' Prices: Do they follow Resource Scarcity or Climatic Constraints?", École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris.
  • Pirard, R., 2000, "Analysis of the Definitions for Poverty", Paper presented at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris.
  • Pirard, R., 1999, "A Manual for Integrating Risks in the Land Use Decision Making Process: Case of French Farmers", Institut Technique des Céréales et Fourrages, France.

Medias
  • Many interventions in French medias, including several participations to radio programmes on France Culture.