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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Editorial Board213
Global energy consumption of the mineral mining industry: Exploring the historical perspective and future pathways to 2060184
Advancing national Shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs): A novel procedure applied to develop current Swiss SSPs145
Localized land tenure registration in Burundi and eastern DR Congo: Contributing to sustainable peace?140
Potential for climate change driven spatial mismatches between apple crops and their wild bee pollinators at a continental scale135
Assisted tree migration can reduce but not avert the decline of forest ecosystem services in Europe126
Carbon tax salience counteracts price effects through moral licensing124
Beyond the binary of trapped populations and voluntary immobility: A people-centered perspective on environmental change and human immobility at Lake Urmia, Iran121
The multifaceted spectra of power − A participatory network analysis on power structures in diverse dryland regions119
Niches for transformative change within dominant territorial pathways: Practices and perspectives in a Nicaraguan agricultural frontier91
Enforcement and inequality in collective PES to reduce tropical deforestation: Effectiveness, efficiency and equity implications89
Civil society and survival: Indigenous Amazigh climate adaptation in Morocco89
Resource use and resource efficiency in the Asia–Pacific region revisited87
Participatory storyworld building for unlocking climate adaptation85
“Scale and access to the Green climate Fund: Big challenges for small island developing States”84
Agency, social networks, and adaptation to environmental change81
Corrigendum to “Scaling Indigenous-led natural resource management” [Glob. Environ. Chang. 84 (2024) 102799]75
Anticipating socio-technical tipping points72
Carbon territoriality at the land-water interface72
Transformative potential in sustainable development goals engagement: Experience from local governance in Australia72
Subnational institutions and power of landholders drive illegal deforestation in a major commodity production frontier71
The value of property rights and environmental policy in Brazil: Evidence from a new database on land prices70
Diffusion of global climate policy: National depoliticization, local repoliticization in Turkey68
National leverage points to reduce global pesticide pollution64
Beyond projects: Relational durability and the measurement of climate adaptation success in practice64
How seasonal cultures shape adaptation on Aotearoa – New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula63
Spinning in circles? A systematic review on the role of theory in social vulnerability, resilience and adaptation research61
Guns or Green? A social-ecological systems analysis of defense expenditure, clean energy, and financial inclusivity in India and Pakistan58
Why are sustainable practices often elusive? The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions56
How social movements use religious creativity to address environmental crises in Indonesian local communities54
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Designing a virtuous cycle: Quality of governance, effective climate change mitigation, and just outcomes support each other53
Expert preferences on options for biodiversity conservation under climate change53
Low perception of climate change by farmers and herders on Tibetan Plateau53
Religious values and family upbringing as antecedents of food waste avoidance50
Just social-ecological tipping scales: A mid-range social theory of change in coal and carbon intensive regions49
Coercive environmentalism and political legitimacy in the age of climate change: the case of fisheries in Uganda48
Spectrums of Relocation: A typological framework for understanding risk-based relocation through space, time and power48
Catalyzing sustainability pathways: Navigating urban nature based solutions in Europe48
China’s nature-based solutions in the Global South: Evidence from Asia, Africa, and Latin America48
Impact of lifestyle, human diet and nutrient use efficiency in food production on eutrophication of global aquifers and surface waters46
Knowledge co-production for decision-making in human-natural systems under uncertainty45
Experience with extreme weather events increases willingness-to-pay for climate mitigation policy44
Trade of crop products contribute to the alleviation of global nitrate leaching risks43
Does stakeholder participation improve environmental governance? Evidence from a meta-analysis of 305 case studies42
A global multi-indicator assessment of the environmental impact of livestock products42
Everyday Adaptation: Theorizing climate change adaptation in daily life41
Heatwaves and violence against women: a spatial analysis of female homicides in Brazil40
Conflict and conservation: On the role of protected areas for environmental justice38
Strong collaborative governance networks support effective Forest Stewardship Council-certified community-based forest management: Evidence from Southeast Tanzania38
Does Climate Change Exacerbate Gender Inequality in Cognitive Performance?38
Using Protection Motivation Theory to examine information-seeking behaviors on climate change38
Carbon capability revisited: Theoretical developments and empirical evidence37
Fairness critically conditions the carbon budget allocation across countries37
Technological breakthroughs can reverse the unintended negative impacts of carbon tariffs on China’s steel sector and global economy36
Heatwave adaptation conditioned by everyday life: Analysing interacting changes to daily activities during Pacific Northwest summers36
The production-protection nexus: How political-economic processes influence prospects for transformative change in human-wildlife interactions36
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Drivers of future fluvial flood risk change for residential buildings in Europe36
Climate change messages can promote support for climate action globally36
Natural disasters and climate change beliefs: The role of distance and prior beliefs36
Progress in understanding the social dimensions of desalination and future research directions34
Attributing deforestation-driven biodiversity decline in the Gran Chaco to agricultural commodity supply chains34
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Challenges to anticipatory coastal adaptation for transformative nature-based solutions33
Finding the right partners? Examining inequalities in the global investment landscape of hydropower33
Beyond the boom-bust cycle: An interdisciplinary framework for analysing crop booms33
The impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on a network of 276 international organizations33
Perceived plasticity of climate-relevant behaviors and policy support among high- and lower-income individuals33
Corporate concessions: Opportunity or liability for climate advocacy groups?33
Aligning climate and sustainable development finance through an SDG lens. The role of development assistance in implementing the Paris Agreement32
Experiences of vulnerable households in low-attention disasters: Marshalltown, Iowa (United States) after the EF3 Tornado32
Air pollution in Gaza during the post-october 7 era: a satellite and machine learning assessment32
Carbon farming diffusion in Australia32
Climate change and coastal megacities: Adapting through mobility32
Environmental change and migration aspirations: Evidence from Bangladesh31
Indigenous women are the “guardians of Pachamama”: Territorial sovereignty is indispensable for just climate change adaptations in Peru31
Corrigendum to “Making sense of the politics in the climate change loss & damage debate” [Glob. Environ. Chang. (2020) 102133]30
Sharing the road: Political ideologies and political party preference as drivers of public transport infrastructure support30
“Sometimes, I just want to scream”: Institutional barriers limiting adaptive capacity and resilience to extreme events30
Supporting climate resilient development planning − a dynamic adaptive pathways based approach and an illustrative case from Cork City, Ireland30
A review of everyday urban adaptations: What they are and how they can advance progress in adaptation29
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Bridging extreme climate risks, financial precarity, and adaptation gaps: Advancing inclusive adaptation in rainfed agricultural systems29
Can REDD+ succeed? Occurrence and influence of various combinations of interventions in subnational initiatives29
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The emissions responsibility accounting of multinational enterprises for an efficient climate policy28
Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response28
Beyond property rights: all roads lead to sustainable grassland management28
Constructing the adaptation economy: Climate resilient development and the economization of vulnerability28
Cognition of feedback loops in a fire-prone social-ecological system28
More than a safety net: Ethiopia’s flagship public works program increases tree cover28
Pyro-socioecological zoning: A proposal for fire management in the tropical dry forest28
“Climate-smart agriculture and food security: Cross-country evidence from West Africa”28
Global energy scenarios: A geopolitical reality check28
Are managed retreat programs successful and just? A global mapping of success typologies, justice dimensions, and trade-offs27
Who do we trust on climate change, and why?27
Implementing a knowledge system: Lessons from the global stewardship of climate services27
Assessing the social and environmental impacts of critical mineral supply chains for the energy transition in Europe27
Vulnerability locked in. On the need to engage the outside of the adaptation box27
Scaling smallholder tree cover restoration across the tropics27
Why has the Brazilian Cerrado been left behind by voluntary environmental policies?27
Land-use spillovers from environmental policy interventions27
Tackling the academic air travel dependency. An analysis of the (in)consistency between academics’ travel behaviour and their attitudes26
Climate-smart peatland management and the potential for synergies between food security and climate change objectives in Indonesia26
A taste of tomorrow: Predicting food demand elasticities under different Shared Socioeconomic Pathways26
Typologies of actionable climate information and its use26
Assessing synergies and trade-offs of diverging Paris-compliant mitigation strategies with long-term SDG objectives26
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Navigating climate crises in the Great Barrier Reef26
Compound[ing] disasters in Puerto Rico: Pathways for virtual transdisciplinary collaboration to enhance community resilience26
Colonial contexts and the feasibility of mitigation through transition: A study of the impact of historical processes on the emissions dynamics of nation-states26
Greenhouse gas mitigation co-benefits across the global agricultural development programs26
An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands26
Public policies and global forest conservation: Empirical evidence from national borders25
Resilience to disaster: Evidence from American wellbeing data25
Environmental regulation and innovation: Evidence from China25
Citizen science data can significantly improve predictions of potential ranges of non-charismatic species: a study on two freshwater sponges25
Pathways to conventional and radical climate action: The role of temporal orientation, environmental cognitive alternatives, and eco-anxiety25
Protected areas as a double edge sword: An analysis of factors driving urbanisation in their surroundings24
How the future of the global forest sink depends on timber demand, forest management, and carbon policies24
Implications of demographic policies on China’s food-related environmental footprints amid population ageing24
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A new dynamic framework is required to assess adaptation limits24
Global forest products markets and forest sector carbon impacts of projected sea level rise24
Bookkeepers of catastrophes: The overlooked role of reinsurers in climate change debates24
Weapons of the vulnerable? A review of popular resistance to climate adaptation24
The demographics of energy and mobility poverty: Assessing equity and justice in Ireland, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates24
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Testing the reliability of adaptive capacity as a proxy for adaptive and transformative responses to climate change23
Between theory and action: Assessing the transformative character of climate change adaptation in 51 cases in the Netherlands23
Common property regimes in participatory guarantee systems (PGS): Sharing responsibility in the collective management of organic labels23
Measuring the contribution of nature-based solutions beyond climate adaptation in cities23
Transformations to sustainability: Processes, practices, and pathways23
Scenario projections of South Asian migration patterns amidst environmental and socioeconomic change23
Synthesising the diversity of European agri-food networks: A meta-study of actors and power-laden interactions23
Systems thinking as a paradigm shift for sustainability transformation23
Assessing the supply risks of critical metals in China's low-carbon energy transition23
Assisted network governance: An inclusive innovation to mitigate extreme water scarcity22
The financialization of rivers: Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) subsidized hydropower in the Mekong Region’s basins at risk22
Biodiversity mediates relationships between anthropogenic drivers and ecosystem services across global mountain, island and delta systems22
From grey to green? Tipping a coal region incrementally22
Progress and gaps in U.S. Adaptation policy at the local level21
Adaptation at whose expense? Explicating the maladaptive potential of water storage and climate-resilient growth for Māori women in northern Aotearoa21
Mobility and flexibility enable resilience of human harvesters to environmental perturbation21
Climate beliefs, climate technologies and transformation pathways: Contextualizing public perceptions in 22 countries21
Impacts of air pollution on child growth: Evidence from extensive data in Chinese counties21
Creating favorable conditions for inter- and transdisciplinary integration – An analytical framework and empirical insights21
Why do cars get a free ride? The social-ecological roots of motonormativity21
Doubling of flood-induced bridge asset failure loss in Mozambique under 2050 climate20
Adaptive flood risk management: A decision support system integrating deep learning, digital twins, and economic risk assessment20
The role of visions in sustainability transformations: Exploring tensions between the Agrarwende vanguard vision and an established sociotechnical imaginary of agriculture in Germany20
Status of global accumulation of marine debris20
Governance, the pillar of sustainability practices, accounting and reporting: Insights from state-owned enterprises in an emerging economy20
Does creation-oriented culture promote ESG activities? Evidence from the Chinese market20
Immediate and future challenges of using electric vehicles for promoting energy efficiency in Africa’s clean energy transition20
Micro-scale transformations in sustainability practices: Insights from new migrant populations in growing urban settlements20
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Politicization of climate change and Central and Eastern European countries’ stance towards the European Green Deal20
Synergistic long-range decision support for integrated green-grey flood management20
The environmental and socioeconomic impacts of the Italian National Parks: Time and spillover effects across different geographical contexts20
The booming non-food bioeconomy drives large share of global land-use emissions19
IPCC emission scenarios: How did critiques affect their quality and relevance 1990–2022?19
Global rainbow distribution under current and future climates19
Dialogic data innovations for sustainability transformations and flood resilience: The case for waterproofing data19
Rethinking the science-policy interface for chemicals, waste, and pollution: Challenging core assumptions19
Strategic implication of sustainability practices and corporate performance under competitive landscape; An empirical investigation18
Accelerated contraction of future climate comfort zones in the southern subtropics: Insights from analysis and simulation of hiking big data18
Explaining the stickiness of supply chain relations in the Brazilian soybean trade18
Mapping a sustainable water future: Private sector opportunities for global water security and resilience18
TOWARDS RESILIENT AND INCLUSIVE CLIMATE COMPATIBLE DEVELOPMENT: A PARTICIPATORY, MIXED-METHOD SCENARIOS APPROACH FOR ZAMBIA17
Values shift in response to social learning through deliberation about protected areas17
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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 202217
Evaluating behavioral responses to climate change in terms of coping and adaptation: An index approach17
Explaining radical policy change: Norwegian climate policy and the ban on cultivating peatlands17
Prospects for a sustainable and climate-resilient African economy post-COVID-1917
Effectively communicating the removal of fossil energy subsidies: Evidence from Latin America16
Quantifying community resilience to riverine hazards in Bangladesh16
Adaptive capacities of inland fisheries facing anthropogenic pressures16
Place-based solutions for global social-ecological dilemmas: An analysis of locally grounded, diversified, and cross-scalar initiatives in the Amazon16
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Rethinking Net-Zero systems, spaces, and societies: “Hard” versus “soft” alternatives for nature-based and engineered carbon removal16
Justice washing extractivism: Pacific Island activist perspectives on just transitions and deep-sea mining16
How do developing countries estimate their climate finance needs under the Paris Agreement?16
Complicating “community” engagement: Reckoning with an elusive concept in climate-related planned relocation16
Methodological issues with deforestation baselines compromise the integrity of carbon offsets from REDD+15
Context matters: The drivers of environmental concern in European regions15
Emergent network patterns of internal displacement in Somalia driven by natural disasters and conflicts15
Unity in diversity: The evolution of the grassland social-ecological systems in China and Mongolia15
Co-dynamics of climate policy stringency and public support15
What drives public engagement by scientists? An Australian perspective15
The lifeways of small-scale gold miners: Addressing sustainability transformations15
Local temperature anomalies increase climate policy interest and support: Analysis of internet searches and US congressional vote shares15
Addressing climate inaction as our greatest threat to sustainable development15
Understanding the role of pluralistic ignorance in biodiversity conservation: A research agenda15
Low-carbon transition risks for India’s financial system15
Economic incentives and lifestyle drivers: how they shape consumers' engagement in repairing energy-using consumer goods and their environmental impacts in Japan15
Exploring natural and social drivers of forest degradation in post-Soviet Georgia14
Necessity-driven circular economy in low-income contexts: How informal sector practices retain value for circularity14
Defeating cap-and-trade: How the fossil fuel industry and climate change counter movement obstruct U.S. Climate Change Legislation14
Realising a locally-embedded just transition: Sense of place, lived experience, and social perceptions of industrial decarbonisation in the United Kingdom14
Climate adaptation justice as lived experience: insights from Aotearoa New Zealand14
Fifteen years of research on payments for ecosystem services (PES): Piercing the bubble of success as defined by a Northern-driven agenda14
Low-carbon transition of phosphorus chemical industrial parks: A global systematic review14
Climate change in Africa: Impacts, adaptation, and policy responses14
Institutional analysis of actors involved in the governance of innovative contracts for agri-environmental and climate schemes14
Reducing coal use is key to curbing toxic trace elements emissions in China driven by carbon neutrality policy14
Mapping the solution space for local adaptation under global change: A test of concept for the Vietnamese Mekong delta14
Does air pollution decrease labor share? Evidence from China14
Global socio-economic and climate change mitigation scenarios through the lens of structural change13
Environmental non-migration as adaptation in hazard-prone areas: Evidence from coastal Bangladesh13
Slow justice and other unexpected consequences of litigation in environmental conflicts13
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Amazon communities displaced by hydroelectric dams: Implications for environmental changes and householdś livelihood13
The influence of political ideology on greenhouse gas emissions13
Towards a better future for biodiversity and people: Modelling Nature Futures13
Coping with decarbonisation: An inventory of strategies from resistance to transformation13
Mapping China’s non-grain governance: pathways to global agricultural sustainability13
Governing people on the move in a warming world: Framing climate change migration and the UNFCCC Task Force on Displacement13
Intervention: The invisible labor of climate change adaptation13
Linking production, processing, and consumption of plant-based protein alternatives in Europe12
Exploring the potential of circular economy to mitigate pressures on biodiversity12
Zimbabwe’s roadmap for decarbonisation and resilience: An evaluation of policy (in)consistency12
The potential negative impact of the UNFCCC: An analysis of sectoral, geographical, and temporal problem shifts from climate policies and measures in 25 industrialized countries12
The role of adaptive capacity in incremental and transformative adaptation in three large U.S. Urban water systems12
Territorial inertia versus adaptation to climate change. When local authorities discuss coastal management in a French Mediterranean region12
A flexible framework for cost-effective fire management12
Synergies of interventions to promote pro-environmental behaviors – A meta-analysis of experimental studies12
Are civilizations destined to collapse? Lessons from the Mediterranean Bronze Age12
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Regulatory politics and hybrid governance: the case of Brazil’s Amazon Soy Moratorium11
Policies to bring about social-ecological tipping points in coal and carbon intensive regions11
Status, challenges and pathways to the sustainable use of wild species11
A systematic review of public acceptability and perceived impacts of eleven energy sources and mitigation technologies11
Transformative labor: The hidden (and not-so-hidden) work of transformations to sustainability11
Compound dry-and-hot extremes exacerbate income inequality and poverty in Europe11
Are energy transitions reproducing inequalities? Power, social stigma and distributive (in)justice in Mexico11
Gender dimensions of climate change adaptation in Tigray, Ethiopia11
Scaling mechanisms of energy communities: A comparison of 28 initiatives11
Mapping resilience pathway of smallholder farming community to cyclone-led climate disasters in coastal West Bengal, India11
Plastic pollution and the open burning of plastic wastes11
The rise, fall and rebirth of ocean carbon sequestration as a climate 'solution'11
Bi-decadal changes in selected ecosystem services and their integrated drivers in East Africa11
Direct and mediated impacts of social norms on pro-environmental behavior11
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Beyond borders: Unveiling trade-attributed greenhouse gas inequality under global value chains11
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