Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions

Papers
(The median citation count of Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions is 11. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Beyond the binary of trapped populations and voluntary immobility: A people-centered perspective on environmental change and human immobility at Lake Urmia, Iran241
Niches for transformative change within dominant territorial pathways: Practices and perspectives in a Nicaraguan agricultural frontier182
Corrigendum to “Formation and performance of collaborative disaster management networks: Evidence from a Swedish wildfire response” [Global Environ. Change 41 (2016) 183–194]138
Civil society and survival: Indigenous Amazigh climate adaptation in Morocco136
Localized land tenure registration in Burundi and eastern DR Congo: Contributing to sustainable peace?131
Voices of young biosphere stewards on the strengths, weaknesses, and ways forward for 74 UNESCO Biosphere Reserves across 83 countries128
Steel stocks and flows of global merchant fleets as material base of international trade from 1980 to 2050123
Assisted tree migration can reduce but not avert the decline of forest ecosystem services in Europe122
Potential for climate change driven spatial mismatches between apple crops and their wild bee pollinators at a continental scale122
Why are carbon taxes unfair? Disentangling public perceptions of fairness109
Carbon tax salience counteracts price effects through moral licensing108
Enforcement and inequality in collective PES to reduce tropical deforestation: Effectiveness, efficiency and equity implications108
Tackling the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies by making peace with nature 50 years after the Stockholm Conference106
What future for primary aluminium production in a decarbonizing economy?104
COVID-19 to go? The role of disasters and evacuation in the COVID-19 pandemic103
Global energy consumption of the mineral mining industry: Exploring the historical perspective and future pathways to 2060103
OK Boomer: A decade of generational differences in feelings about climate change98
How social movements use religious creativity to address environmental crises in Indonesian local communities96
How seasonal cultures shape adaptation on Aotearoa – New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula95
“Scale and access to the Green climate Fund: Big challenges for small island developing States”88
The value of property rights and environmental policy in Brazil: Evidence from a new database on land prices88
Carbon territoriality at the land-water interface85
Anticipating socio-technical tipping points83
Situated adaptation: Tackling the production of vulnerability through transformative action in Sri Lanka’s Dry Zone83
Corrigendum to “Scaling Indigenous-led natural resource management” [Glob. Environ. Chang. 84 (2024) 102799]82
Diffusion of global climate policy: National depoliticization, local repoliticization in Turkey79
Mining threatens isolated indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon79
Walking with farmers: Floods, agriculture and the social practice of everyday mobility78
Subnational institutions and power of landholders drive illegal deforestation in a major commodity production frontier78
Why are sustainable practices often elusive? The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions75
“Mind the (Policy-Implementation) Gap”: Transport decarbonisation policies and performances of leading global economies (1990–2018)74
National leverage points to reduce global pesticide pollution74
Transformative potential in sustainable development goals engagement: Experience from local governance in Australia73
Climate change and the demand for recreational ecosystem services on public lands in the continental United States72
Spinning in circles? A systematic review on the role of theory in social vulnerability, resilience and adaptation research69
Expert preferences on options for biodiversity conservation under climate change68
Catalyzing sustainability pathways: Navigating urban nature based solutions in Europe66
China’s nature-based solutions in the Global South: Evidence from Asia, Africa, and Latin America65
Religious values and family upbringing as antecedents of food waste avoidance65
Low perception of climate change by farmers and herders on Tibetan Plateau65
Experience is not enough: A dynamic explanation of the limited adaptation to extreme weather events in public organizations65
Anti-corruption and corporate environmental responsibility: Evidence from China’s anti-corruption campaign63
How does the World Bank shape global environmental governance agendas for coasts? 50 years of small-scale fisheries aid reveals paradigm shifts over time60
Designing a virtuous cycle: Quality of governance, effective climate change mitigation, and just outcomes support each other59
Spectrums of Relocation: A typological framework for understanding risk-based relocation through space, time and power58
Knowledge co-production for decision-making in human-natural systems under uncertainty58
Everyday Adaptation: Theorizing climate change adaptation in daily life57
A global multi-indicator assessment of the environmental impact of livestock products57
Pathways for climate resilient development: Human well-being within a safe and just space in the 21st century56
Impact of lifestyle, human diet and nutrient use efficiency in food production on eutrophication of global aquifers and surface waters56
Experience with extreme weather events increases willingness-to-pay for climate mitigation policy55
Socio-economic and climatic changes lead to contrasting global urban vegetation trends54
Does stakeholder participation improve environmental governance? Evidence from a meta-analysis of 305 case studies53
Global Environmental Change: 30 years of interdisciplinary research on the human and policy dimensions of environmental change53
Does Climate Change Exacerbate Gender Inequality in Cognitive Performance?53
Corrigendum to “The future urban heat-wave challenge in Africa: Exploratory analysis” [Global Environ. Change 66 (2021) 102190]52
Climate change messages can promote support for climate action globally51
Conflict and conservation: On the role of protected areas for environmental justice49
Fairness critically conditions the carbon budget allocation across countries49
Using Protection Motivation Theory to examine information-seeking behaviors on climate change49
Strong collaborative governance networks support effective Forest Stewardship Council-certified community-based forest management: Evidence from Southeast Tanzania49
Carbon capability revisited: Theoretical developments and empirical evidence48
Natural disasters and climate change beliefs: The role of distance and prior beliefs48
Drivers of future fluvial flood risk change for residential buildings in Europe46
Greenhouse gas emissions from global cities under SSP/RCP scenarios, 1990 to 210046
Challenges to anticipatory coastal adaptation for transformative nature-based solutions46
The production-protection nexus: How political-economic processes influence prospects for transformative change in human-wildlife interactions46
Editorial Board45
Progress in understanding the social dimensions of desalination and future research directions45
Carbon farming diffusion in Australia45
Corporate concessions: Opportunity or liability for climate advocacy groups?45
Editorial Board45
Deep Transitions: Towards a comprehensive framework for mapping major continuities and ruptures in industrial modernity45
Indigenous women are the “guardians of Pachamama”: Territorial sovereignty is indispensable for just climate change adaptations in Peru44
Environmental change and migration aspirations: Evidence from Bangladesh43
Methods matter: Improved practices for environmental evaluation of dietary patterns43
Willingness-to-pay for carbon dioxide offsets: Field evidence on revealed preferences in the aviation industry41
Exploring global interregional food system's sustainability using the functional regions typology41
Climate change and coastal megacities: Adapting through mobility40
Finding the right partners? Examining inequalities in the global investment landscape of hydropower40
Aligning climate and sustainable development finance through an SDG lens. The role of development assistance in implementing the Paris Agreement40
Are large-scale hydroelectric dams inherently undemocratic?40
How stable are Australian farmers’ climate change risk perceptions? New evidence of the feedback loop between risk perceptions and behaviour39
Climate change mitigation on tropical peatlands: A triple burden for smallholder farmers in Indonesia39
Beyond the boom-bust cycle: An interdisciplinary framework for analysing crop booms38
The impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on a network of 276 international organizations38
Experiences of vulnerable households in low-attention disasters: Marshalltown, Iowa (United States) after the EF3 Tornado38
Corrigendum to “Making sense of the politics in the climate change loss & damage debate” [Glob. Environ. Chang. (2020) 102133]37
Toward health-environment policy: Beyond the Rome Declaration37
From seed to sequence: Dematerialization and the battle to (re)define genetic resources37
How EU policies could reduce nutrient pollution in European inland and coastal waters37
“Sometimes, I just want to scream”: Institutional barriers limiting adaptive capacity and resilience to extreme events37
Six avenues for engendering creative environmentalism37
“Caribou was the reason, and everything else happened after”: Effects of caribou declines on Inuit in Labrador, Canada37
Empirical testing of the visualizations of climate change mitigation scenarios with citizens: A comparison among Germany, Poland, and France36
To be ethical or to be good? The impact of ‘Good Provider’ and moral norms on food waste decisions in two countries36
Cognition of feedback loops in a fire-prone social-ecological system35
Editorial Board35
Constructing the adaptation economy: Climate resilient development and the economization of vulnerability35
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More than a safety net: Ethiopia’s flagship public works program increases tree cover35
Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response34
Framing the just transition: How international trade unions engage with UN climate negotiations34
How qualitative approaches matter in climate and ocean change research: Uncovering contradictions about climate concern33
“Climate-smart agriculture and food security: Cross-country evidence from West Africa”33
Global energy scenarios: A geopolitical reality check33
The emissions responsibility accounting of multinational enterprises for an efficient climate policy33
Can REDD+ succeed? Occurrence and influence of various combinations of interventions in subnational initiatives32
Implementing a knowledge system: Lessons from the global stewardship of climate services31
Colonial contexts and the feasibility of mitigation through transition: A study of the impact of historical processes on the emissions dynamics of nation-states31
Embodied carbon dioxide emissions to provide high access levels to basic infrastructure around the world31
On viability: Climate change and the science of possible futures30
Renewable energy policies and household solid fuel dependence30
Scaling smallholder tree cover restoration across the tropics30
Are managed retreat programs successful and just? A global mapping of success typologies, justice dimensions, and trade-offs30
Climate-smart peatland management and the potential for synergies between food security and climate change objectives in Indonesia30
Editorial Board29
Commentary: Transformative Change in Governance Systems29
Vulnerability locked in. On the need to engage the outside of the adaptation box29
Assessing the social and environmental impacts of critical mineral supply chains for the energy transition in Europe29
Commentary : The Future of Changes in Global Ecosystem Services28
Editorial Board28
Tackling the academic air travel dependency. An analysis of the (in)consistency between academics’ travel behaviour and their attitudes27
Pathways to conventional and radical climate action: The role of temporal orientation, environmental cognitive alternatives, and eco-anxiety27
Resilience to disaster: Evidence from American wellbeing data27
Navigating climate crises in the Great Barrier Reef27
A new dynamic framework is required to assess adaptation limits27
Greenhouse gas mitigation co-benefits across the global agricultural development programs27
Typologies of actionable climate information and its use27
Opening space for equity and justice in resilience: A subjective approach to household resilience assessment26
Compound[ing] disasters in Puerto Rico: Pathways for virtual transdisciplinary collaboration to enhance community resilience26
More than planning: Diversity and drivers of institutional adaptation under climate change in 96 major cities26
Assessing synergies and trade-offs of diverging Paris-compliant mitigation strategies with long-term SDG objectives26
Public policies and global forest conservation: Empirical evidence from national borders26
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Bookkeepers of catastrophes: The overlooked role of reinsurers in climate change debates25
An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands25
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Environmental regulation and innovation: Evidence from China25
Measuring the contribution of nature-based solutions beyond climate adaptation in cities25
Between theory and action: Assessing the transformative character of climate change adaptation in 51 cases in the Netherlands25
Global forest products markets and forest sector carbon impacts of projected sea level rise24
Climate change action as a project of identity: Eight meta-analyses24
Assessing the supply risks of critical metals in China's low-carbon energy transition24
The demographics of energy and mobility poverty: Assessing equity and justice in Ireland, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates24
Weapons of the vulnerable? A review of popular resistance to climate adaptation24
Do we prioritize floodplains for development and farming? Mapping global dependence and exposure to inundation24
Political ideology and climate change-mitigating behaviors: Insights from fixed world beliefs24
Socioeconomic geography of climate change views in Europe24
How the future of the global forest sink depends on timber demand, forest management, and carbon policies24
Protected areas as a double edge sword: An analysis of factors driving urbanisation in their surroundings24
Does funds-based adaptation finance reach the most vulnerable countries?24
Designing effective and equitable zero-deforestation supply chain policies23
The global value of coastal wetlands for storm protection23
Conflicted transitions: Exploring the actors, tactics, and outcomes of social opposition against energy infrastructure22
Testing the reliability of adaptive capacity as a proxy for adaptive and transformative responses to climate change22
Pursuing sustainable nitrogen management following the “5 Ps” principles: Production, People, Planet, Policy and Partnerships22
Systems thinking as a paradigm shift for sustainability transformation22
Drivers and mechanisms of forest change in the Himalayas22
Common property regimes in participatory guarantee systems (PGS): Sharing responsibility in the collective management of organic labels22
Climate beliefs, climate technologies and transformation pathways: Contextualizing public perceptions in 22 countries21
Factors influencing hazard management by municipalities: The case of coastal communities21
Assisted network governance: An inclusive innovation to mitigate extreme water scarcity21
From grey to green? Tipping a coal region incrementally21
Why do cars get a free ride? The social-ecological roots of motonormativity21
Mobility and flexibility enable resilience of human harvesters to environmental perturbation21
Progress and gaps in U.S. Adaptation policy at the local level21
Distributive justice in global climate finance – Recipients’ climate vulnerability and the allocation of climate funds21
Public preferences for policy intervention to protect public health from maritime activities: A 14 European country study21
Adaptation at whose expense? Explicating the maladaptive potential of water storage and climate-resilient growth for Māori women in northern Aotearoa21
Synthesising the diversity of European agri-food networks: A meta-study of actors and power-laden interactions20
Biodiversity mediates relationships between anthropogenic drivers and ecosystem services across global mountain, island and delta systems20
Framing the frontier – Tracing issues related to soybean expansion in transnational public spheres20
The financialization of rivers: Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) subsidized hydropower in the Mekong Region’s basins at risk20
Scenario projections of South Asian migration patterns amidst environmental and socioeconomic change20
Improving the evidence base: A methodological review of the quantitative climate migration literature20
Creating favorable conditions for inter- and transdisciplinary integration – An analytical framework and empirical insights20
A global analysis of urbanization effects on amphibian richness: Patterns and drivers20
Climate change may impair electricity generation and economic viability of future Amazon hydropower20
The environmental and socioeconomic impacts of the Italian National Parks: Time and spillover effects across different geographical contexts19
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Micro-scale transformations in sustainability practices: Insights from new migrant populations in growing urban settlements19
Urban greenspace as a climate change adaptation strategy for subtropical Asian cities: A comparative study across cities in three countries19
Does creation-oriented culture promote ESG activities? Evidence from the Chinese market19
Impacts of air pollution on child growth: Evidence from extensive data in Chinese counties19
Socioeconomics effects on global hotspots of common debris items on land and the seafloor19
Immediate and future challenges of using electric vehicles for promoting energy efficiency in Africa’s clean energy transition19
Politicization of climate change and Central and Eastern European countries’ stance towards the European Green Deal19
The prosocial origin of sustainable behavior: A case study in the ecological domain18
Dialogic data innovations for sustainability transformations and flood resilience: The case for waterproofing data18
China’s rising influence on climate governance: Forging a path for the global South18
Hot dry days increase perceived experience with global warming18
IPCC emission scenarios: How did critiques affect their quality and relevance 1990–2022?18
Battle over the sun: Resistance, tension, and divergence in enabling rooftop solar adoption in Indonesia18
The role of visions in sustainability transformations: Exploring tensions between the Agrarwende vanguard vision and an established sociotechnical imaginary of agriculture in Germany18
Demand vs supply-side approaches to mitigation: What final energy demand assumptions are made to meet 1.5 and 2 °C targets?18
Citizen preferences on private-public co-regulation in environmental governance: Evidence from Switzerland17
Prospects for a sustainable and climate-resilient African economy post-COVID-1917
Mapping a sustainable water future: Private sector opportunities for global water security and resilience17
Commentary: Recent progress and future directions for research related to migration and conflict17
The booming non-food bioeconomy drives large share of global land-use emissions17
The impact of local temperature volatility on attention to climate change: Evidence from Spanish tweets17
Global rainbow distribution under current and future climates17
The drivers of individual climate actions in Europe17
From mountains to megaregions: A powershed analysis of the Third Pole hydropower boom17
Trade-offs between physical risk and economic reward affect fishers’ vulnerability to changing storminess17
Does hostility affect public support for the provision of global public goods among competing neighboring countries? A survey experiment in Northeast Asia17
Public concern about, and desire for research into, the human health effects of marine plastic pollution: Results from a 15-country survey across Europe and Australia17
Accelerated contraction of future climate comfort zones in the southern subtropics: Insights from analysis and simulation of hiking big data16
Air pollutions and loan decision bias16
Effectively communicating the removal of fossil energy subsidies: Evidence from Latin America16
Place-based solutions for global social-ecological dilemmas: An analysis of locally grounded, diversified, and cross-scalar initiatives in the Amazon16
What role do climate considerations play in consumption of red meat in Norway?16
Disruptive data: How access and benefit-sharing discourses structured ideas and decisions during the Convention on Biological Diversity negotiations over digital sequence information from 2016 to 202216
Values shift in response to social learning through deliberation about protected areas16
Explaining radical policy change: Norwegian climate policy and the ban on cultivating peatlands16
Explaining the stickiness of supply chain relations in the Brazilian soybean trade16
The impact of agricultural trade approaches on global economic modeling16
Quantifying community resilience to riverine hazards in Bangladesh16
Methodological issues with deforestation baselines compromise the integrity of carbon offsets from REDD+15
Adaptive capacities of inland fisheries facing anthropogenic pressures15
Emergent network patterns of internal displacement in Somalia driven by natural disasters and conflicts15
Addressing climate inaction as our greatest threat to sustainable development15
Evaluating behavioral responses to climate change in terms of coping and adaptation: An index approach15
The lifeways of small-scale gold miners: Addressing sustainability transformations15
Knowledge integration in sustainability governance through science-based actor networks15
Context matters: The drivers of environmental concern in European regions14
Commentary: Policy challenges for global land use14
Rethinking Net-Zero systems, spaces, and societies: “Hard” versus “soft” alternatives for nature-based and engineered carbon removal14
Low-carbon transition risks for India’s financial system14
Climate change in Africa: Impacts, adaptation, and policy responses14
Air conditioning and global inequality14
Co-dynamics of climate policy stringency and public support14
Editorial Board14
What drives public engagement by scientists? An Australian perspective14
Local temperature anomalies increase climate policy interest and support: Analysis of internet searches and US congressional vote shares14
Socio-economic conditions for satisfying human needs at low energy use: An international analysis of social provisioning14
Editorial Board14
Complicating “community” engagement: Reckoning with an elusive concept in climate-related planned relocation14
Incorporating blue carbon sequestration benefits into sub-national climate policies14
Reducing coal use is key to curbing toxic trace elements emissions in China driven by carbon neutrality policy13
Surge in global metal mining threatens vulnerable ecosystems13
The Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale: Development and validation of a multidimensional scale13
Drivers and dimensions of flood risk perceptions: Revealing an implicit selection bias and lessons for communication policies13
Commentary : Resilience and Social-Ecological Systems: A Handful of Frontiers13
Necessity-driven circular economy in low-income contexts: How informal sector practices retain value for circularity13
Fifteen years of research on payments for ecosystem services (PES): Piercing the bubble of success as defined by a Northern-driven agenda13
Many roads to Paris: Explaining urban climate action in 885 European cities13
The Greta effect: Visualising climate protest in UK media and the Getty images collections13
Institutional analysis of actors involved in the governance of innovative contracts for agri-environmental and climate schemes13
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