Tracy Van Holt

Academic Experience

• Research Associate Professor, New York University Stern. 2020-present
• Director of Academic Research, NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business. 2017-2020.
• 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).
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Quality Jobs Initiative. ($150,000) 2019-2021. PI
• Prudential, Quality Jobs Initiative. ($150,000), 2019-2021. PI
• 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. Delaroche, M., Atz, U., and K. Ecklerle. 2021. Financial benefits of reimagined, sustainable agrifood supply networks. Journal of International Business Policy. Forthcoming
• Van Holt, T. and T. Whelan. 2021. Research frontiers in the era of embedding sustainability: bringing social and environmental systems at the forefront. Journal of Sustainability Research. Forthcoming
• Altamirano, A., Miranda, A., Aplin, P., Carrasco, J., Catalan, G., Cayuela, L., Fuentes-Castillo, T., Hernandez, A., Martinez-Harms, M.J., Peluso, F., Prado, M., Reyes-Riveros, R., Van Holt, T., Vergara, C., Zamorano-Elgueta, C., and C. Di Bella. 2020. Natural forests loss and tree plantations: large-scale tree cover loss differentiation in a threatened biodiversity hotspot. Environmental Research Letters. 15(12):124005.
• Van Holt, T., Statler, M., Whelan, T., Atz, U., van Loggerenberg, M., and J. Cebulla. 2020. The cultural consensus of sustainabibility-driven innovation: strategies for success. Business Strategy and the Environment.29(8): 3399-3409.
• Zeiden, R., Van Holt, T., and T. Whelan. 2020. Existence inductive theory building to study coordination failures in sustainable beef production. Journal of Cleaner Production 267:122-137.
• 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. 2(2).
• Crona, B., Käll, S., and T. Van Holt. 2019. Fishery Improvement Projects as a governance tool for fisheries sustainability: A global comparative analysis. PNAS 14(10)e0023054.
• 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).
• Rudel, T.K., Meyfroidt, P., Chazdon, R., Bongers, F., Sloan, S., Grau, R., Van Holt, T., and L. Schneider. 2019.Whither the forest transition? Climate change, policy, responses, and redistriibuted forests in teh twenty-first century. Ambio 1-11.
• 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 97:179-187.
• 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 1421 (1): 46-61.
  
• 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
  
• 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):10021.
  
• Van Holt. T., and F.E. Putz. 2017. Technical Response. Perpetuating the myth of the return of native forests? Science Advances. 3(5):e1601768
• 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.
• 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.