Director of Science-Software Integration & Lead Scientist, Stanford

Lisa Mandle

Lisa Mandle (she/her) is Director of Science-Software Integration and a Lead Scientist with the Natural Capital Project. She works to make ecosystem service science accessible and actionable through NatCap’s data and software, overseeing our software team. Her research sheds light on how land management and infrastructure development affect ecosystem services, social equity, and human health. Lisa works with governments, multi-lateral development banks, and non-governmental organizations to incorporate this understanding into policy and finance, particularly in Latin America and Asia. She is also lead editor of the book Green Growth That Works, which provides a practical guide to policy and finance mechanisms from around the world for securing benefits from nature.

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lmandle@stanford.edu

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Publications

Expanding the E in ESG with high-resolution global mapping of ecosystem services and corporate physical assets . (2024). Preprint. https://doi.org/10.22541/au.170967630.06341452/v1
Centring justice in conceptualizing and improving access to urban nature. (2023). People and Nature. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10470
Echeverri, A. ., Furumo, P. ., Moss, S. ., Figot Kuthy, A., García Aguirre, D. ., Mandle, L., Valencia, I. ., Ruckelshaus, M. ., Daily , G. ., & Lambin , E. . (2023). Colombian biodiversity is governed by a rich and diverse policy mix. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-01983-4
Ticktin, T., Mandle, L., Hastings, Z., Hoppe, T., & Trauernicht, C. (2023). Reducing seed predation by introduced rodents helps, but is insufficient, to prevent long-term decline of common forest trees. Biological Conservation, 278, 109874. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109874
Evidence gaps and diversity among potential win–win solutions for conservation and human infectious disease control. (2022). THE LANCET PLANETARY HEALTH. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00148-6
Report on Natural Capital Approaches. (2022). Natural Capital Project.
Demonstrating the Value of the Environment in Achieving Colombia’s Development Goals. (2021). Natural Capital Project.
Increasing decision relevance of ecosystem service science. (2021). Nature Sustainability, 4, 161-169. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-00625-y
Mandle, . L. ., Zhiyun , O., Salzman, . J. ., & Daily, . G. . (2019). Green Growth That Works. Natural Capital Policy and Finance Mechanisms Around the World. Island Press. https://islandpress.org/books/green-growth-works
OPAL: An open-source software tool for integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services into impact assessment and mitigation decisions. (2016). Environmental Modelling & Software, 84, 121-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.06.008
Who loses? Tracking ecosystem service redistribution from road development and mitigation in the Peruvian Amazon. (2015). Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 13(6). https://doi.org/10.1890/140337