Marius von Essen
Marius von Essen is a postdoctoral scholar at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California in Los Angeles. With a PhD in Earth System Science from Stanford University, he is interested in how governance approaches at the subnational scale can reduce harmful land use change in the tropics while improving the livelihoods of the people who live in and depend on these ecosystems. Increasingly, he is interested in the role that institutions – and the people that inhabit them – play in affecting these changes, and under what conditions they can be most effective.