Dominique Schmid

Dominique Schmid is a political ecologist and postdoctoral researcher at the Wyss Academy for Nature at the University of Bern. She leads research on how payment-for-ecosystem-services projects in Kenya and Peru affect biodiversity and community well-being, including how those effects can be measured. She earned a PhD in Political and Social Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where her research examined the social consequences of land-based carbon projects. Her published work includes studies of forest conservation and conflict in Colombia.