Faculty
Albie Miles is the Assistant Professor of Sustainable Community Food Systems at the University of Hawai‘i–West O‘ahu. Dr. Miles received his Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy and Management from UC Berkeley in 2013. His research explores the relationship between farming system biodiversity and ecosystem services from agriculture and the structural obstacles to sustainable food and farming systems. He has worked at the UN FAO and the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at UC Santa Cruz.
Publications
Miles, A., K. Enos, K. Maunakea Forth, and G. Maunakea Forth (2019). After the Plantations: Restoring Ancestral Abundance Through Food System Change in Hawaiʻi. In Nourish. Extracurricular Press, San Francisco, CA.
Clinton, N., Stuhlmacher, M., Miles, A., Uludere Aragon, N., Wagner, M., Georgescu, M., … & Gong, P. (2018). A Global Geospatial Ecosystem Services Estimate of Urban Agriculture. Earth’s Future. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2017EF000536
Miles, A., DeLonge, M. S., & Carlisle, L. (2017). Triggering a positive research and policy feedback cycle to support a transition to agroecology and sustainable food systems. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 41(7), 855-879. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21683565.2017.1331179?src=recsys
Wilson, H., Wong, J. S., Thorp, R. W., Miles, A. F., Daane, K. M., & Altieri, M. A. (2017). Summer Flowering Cover Crops Support Wild Bees in Vineyards. Environmental entomology. https://academic.oup.com/ee/article-abstract/47/1/63/4782270?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Wilson, H., Miles, A. F., Daane, K. M., & Altieri, M. A. (2017). Landscape diversity and crop vigor outweigh influence of local diversification on biological control of a vineyard pest. Ecosphere, 8(4). https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecs2.1736
Wilson, H., Miles, A. F., Daane, K. M., & Altieri, M. A. (2016). Host Plant Associations of Anagrus spp.(Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) and Erythroneura elegantula (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) in Northern California. Environmental Entomology, nvw033. https://academic.oup.com/ee/article-abstract/45/3/602/2962263
DeLonge, M. S., Miles, A., & Carlisle, L. (2016). Investing in the transition to sustainable agriculture. Environmental Science & Policy, 55, 266-273. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901115300812
Brown, Martha, Parez, Jan and Miles, Albie (eds.). 2015. Teaching Direct Marketing and Small Farm Viability: Resources for Instructors (3rd Edition). UC Santa Cruz, Ca: Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. https://casfs.ucsc.edu/about/publications/Teaching-Direct-Marketing/index.html
Wilson, H., Miles, A. F., Daane, K. M., & Altieri, M. A. (2015). Landscape Diversity and Crop Vigor Influence Biological Control of the Western Grape Leafhopper (E. elegantula Osborn) in Vineyards. PloS one, 10(11), e0141752. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0141752
Wilson, H., Miles, A. F., Daane, K. M., & Altieri, M. A. (2015). Vineyard proximity to riparian habitat influences Western grape leafhopper (Erythroneura elegantula Osborn) populations. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 211, 43-50. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880915001541
Brown, Martha, Parez, Jan and Miles, Albie (eds.). 2015. Teaching Organic Farming and Gardening: Resources for Instructors (3rd Edition). UC Santa Cruz, Ca: Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. https://casfs.ucsc.edu/about/publications/Teaching-Organic-Farming/
Carlisle, L., and Miles, A. 2013. Closing the knowledge gap: How the USDA could tap the Potential of biologically diversified farming systems. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 3(4), 219-225. http://food.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/JAFSCD_Closing_Knowledge_Gap_Commentary_Sept-2013.pdf
Kremen, C., and A. Miles. 2012. Ecosystem services in biologically diversified versus conventional farming systems: benefits, externalities, and trade-offs Ecology and Society 17(4): 40. https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol17/iss4/art40/
Miles, Albie, Wilson, Houston and Altieri, Miguel, Nicholls, Clara. 2012. Habitat Diversity at the Field and Landscape Level: Conservation Biological Control Research in California Viticulture. Arthropod Management in Vineyards. N.J. Bostanian, R. Isaacs and C. Vincent (eds.). Springer: 159-189. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9789400740310