Curriculum Vitae

 Tracy Van Holt

NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business

40 West 4th Street

New York, NY 10012

Academic Experience

• Director of Academic Research, NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business. 2017-present.
• Senior Researcher at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in the Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere Programme, Stockholm, Sweden, 2014-201
• Marine Theme Co-Leader, Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm, Sweden. 2014-2017. 
• Assistant Professor in Geography and the Institute for Coastal Science and Policy, 
• East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. 2010-2014.

Education

• Post Doctoral Research Scholar, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 2009
• Ph.D. Interdisciplinary Ecology, University of Florida (UF), Gainesville, FL, Summer, 2009 Co-Chairs: H. Russell Bernard (anthropology); Michael Binford (geography)
• Schmink Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Tropical Conservation and Development
• M.S. Interdisciplinary Ecology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 2001 Chair: Richard Bodmer
• B.S. Biochemistry, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, 1994.

VISITING SCHOLAR

• Senior Research Scholar, New York University, Center for Sustainable Business, July, 2016. 
• Fellow at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden. The Ecological 
• Economics of Global Change Project funded by Family Erling Persson. 2013-2014
• Rotary Scholar, Universidad Austral, Chile, 2003-04
• Fulbright Scholar, Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. 1999-00

Academic Scholarships & Grants

• National Science Foundation, RAPID Collaborative.  2020-2021. Networks and Spatial Dynamics of the US Food Supply Chain amid the COVID-19 Pandemic. ($95,000)  (Van Holt T. (PI), Carter, C., (Co-pi), Johnson, JC (co-pi).
• Prudential, Quality Jobs Initiative. ($150,000), 2019-2020.
• Research Council on Sustainable Development (FORMAS). (Van Holt, T. and B. Crona). Supply chain strategies for transforming fisheries: strategic agency, relationships and incentives for enduring change. $400,000 2016-2020.
• Transformations for sustainable seafood: barriers and opportunities, (Van Holt T., and W. Weisman). International Social Science Council. $30,000, 2014
• NASA Earth System Science Fellowship, $74.000, Ph.D. studies & research, 2003-06
• National Security Education Program, Boren Scholarship, $19,900, Ph.D. research, 2004-05
• Explorer’s Club, 2002, Wildlife Conservation Society 1998, 1999-00, CNPq (Brazilian NSF), 1999-00, Chasman Scholarship, Brookhaven Women in Science, 1999.

WORKING PAPERS

• Van Holt, T., Douglas, E., and Atz, U., and Homogenous sustainability strategies in the auto industry. What strategies may drive financial benefits, and what is left on the table? In draft.
• Van Holt, T., Crona, B., Kall, S., and R. Vergara. Successful Fisheries Improvement Strategies and Emerging Strategic Industry Partnerships. 

PUBLICATIONS

• Van Holt, T., Statler, M., Whelan, T., Atz, U., van Loggerenberg, M., and J. Cebulla. Sustainability and Innovation: signs of an industry transformation. Forthcoming 2020, Business Strategy and the Environment.
• Zeiden, R., Van Holt, T., and T. Whelan. Sustainability and shared value: coordination versus low-value equilibria in commodity supply chains.  2020/Journal of Cleaner Production. 
• Kronthal-Sacco, R.  Van Holt, T, ,Atz, U., and T. Whelan. 2020. Sustainable Purchasing Patterns and Consumer Responsiveness to Sustainability Marketing Messages. Journal of Sustainability Research.  https://sustainability.hapres.com/UpLoad/PdfFile/JSR_1204.pdf 
• Crona, B., Käll, S., and T. Van Holt.  2019. Fishery Improvement Projects as a governance tool for fisheries sustainability: A global comparative analysis.   
• Atz, U., Van Holt, T., and E. Douglas. 2019. Monetizing sustainability actions in global companies to understand their potential financial benefits. Review of Business (Awarded MunichRe Honorairum).  https://www.stjohns.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/Review-of-Business-June-2019.pdf 
• Rudel, T.K., Meyfroidt, P., Chazdon, R., Bongers, F., Sloan, S., Grau, R., Van Holt, T., and L. Schneider. Ambio 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-018-01143-0
• Sousa, P., Cannon, J., Veiga, P., Katara, I., Beveridge, D., Spear, B., and T. Van Holt. 2018. Fishery Improvement Projects: performance over the past decade. Marine Policy.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.06.007 
• Van Holt, T., Weisman, W., Käll, S., and B. Crona. 2018. What does popular media have to tell us about the future of seafood? New York Academy of Sciences Annals.  https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.13613 
• Douglas, E., Van Holt, T., and T. Whelan. 2017. Responsible Investing: Guide to ESG Data Providers and Relevant Trends. Journal of Environmental Investing 8 (1), 91-114  https://cbey.yale.edu/sites/default/files/Responsible%20Investing%20-%20Guide%20to%20ESG%20Data%20Providers%20and%20Relevant%20Trends.pdf 
• Gordon, L, Bignet,V., Crona, B, Henriksson, PJG, Van Holt, T, et al. 2017. Rewiring food systems to enhance human health and biosphere stewardship. Environmental Research Letters 12(10) DOI10.1088/1748-9326/aa81dc
• Van Holt. T., and F.E. Putz. 2017. Technical Response. Perpetuating the myth of the return of native forests? Science Advances. 3(5):e1601768 DOI10.1126/sciadv.1601768
• Caspersen, J., Van Holt. T. and J.C. Johnson. 2017. Measuring agreement in participatory mapping. Field Methods. 29(2).
• Van Holt. T., Crona, B., Johnson, JC. and S. Gelcich. 2017. The consequences of landscape change on fishing strategies. Science of the Total Environment. 59: 930-939. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.10.052
• Van Holt, T., Weisman, W. Johnson, J.C., Käll, S, and J. Whalen. 2016. A Social Wellbeing in Fisheries Tool (SWIFT) to Help Improve Fisheries Performance. Sustainability. 8: 667.  doi:10.3390/su8080667
• Van Holt, T., and W. Weisman. 2016. Global production network mapping for transforming
• socio-ecological systems. 20: 61-66 Current Opinion in Sustainability. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2016.06.003 
• Van Holt, T., Binford, M.W., and K.M. Portier. A stand of trees does not a forest make: tree plantations and forest transitions. Land Use Policy 2016. 147-157. 10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.04.015  

• Van Holt. T.,Johnson, J.C, Moates, S. and K.C. Carley. 2016. Critical Path and Keyword Analysis of Conflict Science. 11(4): e0154148. PLOS ONE. 
• Van Holt. T., Bernard, H.R., Weller, S. Townsend, W., and P. Cronkleton. 2016. The expert effect in cultural models. Human Dimensions of Wildlife Management. 21(2)-169-179. 10.1080/10871209.2015.1110736
• Crona, B., Van Holt, T. Petersson, M. Daw, T.M, and Buchary, E. 2015. Using social-ecological syndromes to understand impacts of international seafood trade on small-scale fisheries. Global Environmental Change. 25:162-175. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.07.006
• Van Holt, T., Johnson, J.C., Brinkley, J., Carley, K., and J. Diesner. 2013. Rapid Ethnographic Assessment for Cultural Mapping. Poetics 4(4): 366–383 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2013.05.004
• Van Holt, T. 2012. Landscape influences on fisher success: adaptation strategies in closed and open access fisheries in southern Chile. Ecology and Society 17(1): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-04608-170128
• Van Holt, T., Moreno, C.A., Binford, M., Portier, K, Mulsow, S, and T. Frazer. 2012. Influence of landscape change nearshore fisheries in southern Chile. Global Change Biology. 18(7): 2147-2160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02674.x
• Van Holt, T., Johnson, J.C., Brinkley, J., Carley, K.M., and J. Caspersen. 2012. Structure of ethnic violence in Sudan: an automated content, meta-network, and geospatial analytical approach. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 18:340-355. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10588-012-9124-z 
• Hall, J.M, Van Holt, T., Daniels, A.E., Balthazar, V., and E.F. Lambin 2012. Trade-offs between carbon storage and floristic biodiversity in reforesting landscape. Landscape Ecology. V 27 (8): 1135-114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10980-012-9755-y 
• Van Holt, T., Townsend, W., and P. Cronkleton. 2010. A cultural consensus approach to assess wildlife abundance and importance in tropical forests, Human Ecology 38(6): 791-801. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10745-010-9354-y 
• Van Holt, T., Murphy, D., and L. Chapman, 2006. Local and landscape predictors of fish assemblages in The Great Swamp, New York, Northeastern Naturalist 13(3) 353-374. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3858306 
• Cumming, G.S. Barnes, G., Perz, S., Schmink, M., Southworth, J., Binford, M., Holt, R.D., Stickler, C., and T. Van Holt. 2005. An exploratory framework for the empirical measurement of resilience, Ecosystems 8: 975-987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10021-005-0129-z 

Book Chapters

• Brondizio, E. and T. Van Holt. 2014 Geospatial analysis in cultural anthropology. In H.R. Bernard, and C. Gravlee, Editors, in Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology. 

INVITED TALKS

• Van Holt. T. Fisher Adaptation to Land-Sea Dynamics. Joint Environmental Earth System Science Seminar and Stanford Woods Environmental Forum, Palo Alto, CA. October 30, 2013.
• Van Holt. T. Quantifying human dimensions of water and related natural resource use. Virginia Tech, May 1, 2013.
• Van Holt, T. Influence of landscape change on nearshore fisheries in southern Chile. Marianne Schmink Award for the Outstanding Dissertation in Tropical Conservation and Development, Gainesville, Florida. April 21, 2011
• Van Holt, T. Fisheries governance in Chile: a GIS approach. Governance and natural resource use and conservation: Different perspectives on involvement from ethnography to GIS case studies from Bolivia, Mexico, Costa Rica and Chile, Pomona, California. (Invited), May 2011.
• Van Holt, T. Influence of landscape change on nearshore fisheries in southern Chile. Duke Marine Lab. Duke University Marine Lab Fall 2010 Seminar Series. November 19, 2010. 

Conference Presentations 

• Zeidan, R., Van Holt, T. Whelan, T, Zappa, B. and G. Fishbein. 2017. Financial and Stakeholder Value of Deforestation-Free Beef. 2017, International Sustainable Development Conference. September 18 – 20, 2017.
• Van Holt, T. Fishing strategies of artisanal fishers in response to landscape changes in southern Chile. 2nd World Small Scale Fisheries Conference. Merida, Mexico. September 21-26, 2014.
• E. Buchary and T. Van Holt. On fish and palm oil: Influence of landscape change brought about by oil palm plantation development on small-scale freshwater fisheries in Kalimantan, Indonesia. 2nd World Small Scale Fisheries Conference. Merida, Mexico. September 21-26, 2014
• Van Holt, T. Meta-network analysis of natural resources, climate, and conflict in Sudan., American Association of Geographers Conference. February 24-28, 2012. 
• Van Holt, T. Social, ecological, and geospatial predictors of fisher success in closed and open access fisheries in southern Chile, International Geographic Union, Santiago, Chile, November 14-18, 2012
• Van Holt, T., Johnson, J.C., and K. Carley. A text and network analysis of natural resource conflict in Sudan.International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, St. Pete, Florida. February, 8-13, 2011
• Van Holt, T.and J.C. Johnson. Understanding response to environmental change using fisher behavioral networks. Society for Applied Anthropology, Seattle, Washington. March 29 -April 2, 2011 
• Van Holt, T., Johnson, J.C., Moates, S., and K. Carley. A network analysis of natural resource conflict.Association of American Geographers, Seattle, Washington, April 12-16, 2011
• Johnson, J.C. and T. Van Holt. Network Analysis of Natural Resource Conflict in Sudan, 29th Annual Sudan Studies Association, West Lafayette, Indianapolis, May 28-20, 2010. 
• Van Holt, T. and J.C. Johnson. A social network approach to understand the social structure of natural resource use and its socio-economic drivers.  Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C., April 14-18, 2010.
• Van Holt, T. and J.C. Johnson. A social network approach to understand the social structure of natural resource use and its socio-economic drivers. The Coastal Society, June 13-16, 2010.
• Van Holt, T., Townsend, W.R., and P. Cronkleton. Un enfoque participativo del método de consenso cultural para medir la abundancia e importancia de la vida silvestre en comunidades rurales. IXCIMFAUNA Congresso Internacional sobre manejo de fana Silvestre en la Amazonia y America Latina, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, May 10-15, 2010.
• Van Holt, T. Adaptive Capacity for Fisher Success. Annual Meeting for the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 22-27, 2009.
• Van Holt, T. Territorial User Rights Fisheries: Building successful partnerships or fostering failure in coastal systems? Society for Applied Anthropology, 69th Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 17-21, 2009.
• Van Holt, T. and P. Cronkleton. The Expert Effect in Cultural Consensus Models. Oral Presentation at 2008 American Anthropological Association 107th Annual Meeting. San Francisco, November 19-23, 2008
• Van Holt, T. Adaptive Capacity for Fisher Success. Oral Presentation at the 2008 SouthEastern Division of the Association of American Geographers. Greensboro, NC. November 22-25, 2008.
• Van Holt, T. Influences of landscape change on loco (Concholepas concholepas) health-related characteristics. Oral Presentation at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, Massachusetts. April 15-19th, 2008.
• Van Holt, T. Twenty Years of Land Use/Land Cover Change Effects on Nearshore Resources in Southern Chile. Poster Presentation at 2006 Joint Workshop on NASA Biodiversity, Terrestrial Ecology, and Related Applied Sciences, Adelphi, Maryland, August 21-28, 2006
• Van Holt, T. Fishing for Success in a Social-Ecological System in Southern Chile. Oral Presentation at Association of American Geographers Conference, Chicago, IL, March 10, 2006
• Van Holt, T. Project Proposal Twenty Years of Land Use/Land Cover Change Effects on Nearshore Resources in Southern Chile. Poster Presentation at NASA Earth System Scholars Network Conference, Adelphi, Maryland, September 26-29, 2004
• Van Holt, T., Murphy, D., and L. Chapman, Local and landscape predictors of fish assemblages in the Great Swamp. Oral Presentation at the Society for Conservation Biology’s 17thAnnual Meeting in Duluth, Minnesota, June 29-July 2, 2003.
• Van Holt, T. Effects of Attalea phalerata on the terrestrial mammalian communities in forest islands of the Brazilian Pantanal. Poster Presentation. Tropical Conservation and Development Conference. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 2001. * Awarded Best Poster

WoRkShOPS

• Building the business case for sustainability, H&M and Accenture Global Change Winners, May 2018.
• Transformation of Marine Social Ecological Systems, February 24-26, 2016, Brest, France.
• Fish Hackathon, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sept-30-Oct 1st, 2015, Stockholm, Sweden. *co-led with Espersen and Another Tomorrow.
• Transformations in Fisheries. January 28-29, 2015, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden. *co-led

ACADEMIC Courses taught 

• Geospatial Analysis for Cultural Anthropologists, DL course, University of Florida (UF) through 
• 2012-2018, Summer (with E. Brondizio)
• Geospatial Analysis, Short Courses in Research Methods (SCRM) in Cultural Anthropology, 
• funded by the NSF, Duke Marine Lab, Summer 2010, 2011 (with E. Brondizio)
• Environmental Resources, East Carolina University, 2012
• People, places, and environments, East Carolina University, 2013
• Agricultural Food Systems, the Mocha Cappuccino, East Carolina University, 2011
• Research Design, East Carolina University 2010, 2011
• Text Analysis, NSF Summer Institute on Research Design in Cultural Anthropology, Duke 
• Marine Lab, Summer, 2009 
• Maps and Graphs, Department of Geography, UF, 2007 (developed course, taught, graded)
• Ethical Markets in Latin America: the mocha cappuccino, Latin American Studies, UF, 2007 
• Introductory Biology Laboratory, Biology Department, UF, 2006 
• See publically available course evaluations: https://evaluations.ufl.edu/results/ (search for Van Holt)

skills

• ArcGIS, Erdas Imagine, ENVI, Anthropac, UCINET, Pajek, ORA, AutoMap, SPSS, Photoshop, Atlas Ti

Languages

• Spanish (Advanced), Portuguese (Intermediate), Swedish (Basic), Mapudungun and Guarayao (Very Basic)

Service

• Panel Reviewer, NASA, Research Council of Norway.
• Reviewer, Current Anthropology, Cultural Dynamics, Ecology and Society, Field Methods, Fish and Fisheries, Global Environmental Change, Human Organization, International Journal of Applied Geospatial, Research, Sustainability, American Anthropologist, Katerva Awards, UNEP Global Environment Outlook 5.