Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions

Papers
(The median citation count of Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions is 9. 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 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview210
Providing decent living with minimum energy: A global scenario201
When worry about climate change leads to climate action: How values, worry and personal responsibility relate to various climate actions187
The global scale, distribution and growth of aviation: Implications for climate change167
Country-specific dietary shifts to mitigate climate and water crises136
What makes climate change adaptation effective? A systematic review of the literature118
Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015109
Plural valuation of nature for equity and sustainability: Insights from the Global South99
Multiple cropping systems of the world and the potential for increasing cropping intensity97
Anticipating futures through models: the rise of Integrated Assessment Modelling in the climate science-policy interface since 197091
Growing stocks of buildings, infrastructures and machinery as key challenge for compliance with climate targets88
The climate change mitigation impacts of active travel: Evidence from a longitudinal panel study in seven European cities86
Contextualizing climate justice activism: Knowledge, emotions, motivations, and actions among climate strikers in six cities86
Spatially-explicit footprints of agricultural commodities: Mapping carbon emissions embodied in Brazil's soy exports82
Multi-method evidence for when and how climate-related disasters contribute to armed conflict risk78
Hard or soft flood adaptation? Advantages of a hybrid strategy for Shanghai78
Socio-economic conditions for satisfying human needs at low energy use: An international analysis of social provisioning76
Meeting the food security challenge for nine billion people in 2050: What impact on forests?76
The Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale: Development and validation of a multidimensional scale72
The influence of political ideology on greenhouse gas emissions71
Provisioning systems for a good life within planetary boundaries71
Global inequalities in food consumption, cropland demand and land-use efficiency: A decomposition analysis70
Surge in global metal mining threatens vulnerable ecosystems69
Sustainability transformations: socio-political shocks as opportunities for governance transitions68
A national approach to greenhouse gas abatement through blue carbon management66
The trap of climate change-induced “natural” disasters and inequality66
Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations66
Global-scale impact analysis of mine tailings dam failures: 1915–202065
“Youth is not a political position”: Exploring justice claims-making in the UN Climate Change Negotiations63
Nature-dependent people: Mapping human direct use of nature for basic needs across the tropics63
Exploratory modeling for analyzing coupled human-natural systems under uncertainty63
Knowledge co-production for Indigenous adaptation pathways: Transform post-colonial articulation complexes to empower local decision-making61
Explaining Growing Glyphosate Use: The Political Economy of Herbicide-Dependent Agriculture60
Linking internal and external transformation for sustainability and climate action: Towards a new research and policy agenda58
Economic costs of heat-induced reductions in worker productivity due to global warming58
Use of aviation by climate change researchers: Structural influences, personal attitudes, and information provision58
Climate change in news media across the globe: An automated analysis of issue attention and themes in climate change coverage in 10 countries (2006–2018)57
(Un)making in sustainability transformation beyond capitalism56
Exploring future copper demand, recycling and associated greenhouse gas emissions in the EU-2855
Science with society: Evidence-based guidance for best practices in environmental transdisciplinary work54
Exploring river nitrogen and phosphorus loading and export to global coastal waters in the Shared Socio-economic pathways54
Mapping feasibilities of greenhouse gas removal: Key issues, gaps and opening up assessments52
Toward a climate mobilities research agenda: Intersectionality, immobility, and policy responses52
Improving the evidence base: A methodological review of the quantitative climate migration literature51
Negative-emissions technology portfolios to meet the 1.5 °C target51
Shared Socio-economic Pathways for European agriculture and food systems: The Eur-Agri-SSPs51
Scaling up zero-deforestation initiatives through public-private partnerships: A look inside post-conflict Colombia51
Early warnings and emerging accountability: Total’s responses to global warming, 1971–202151
The economics of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) deployment in a 1.5 °C or 2 °C world50
Income, consumer preferences, and the future of livestock-derived food demand49
Colonial dynamics limit climate adaptation in Oceania: Perspectives from the Marshall Islands48
Quantifying interregional flows of multiple ecosystem services – A case study for Germany48
Challenges and opportunities for re-framing resource use policy with practice theories: The change points approach47
Nature unsettled: How knowledge and power shape ‘nature-based’ approaches to societal challenges47
Prospects for a saturation of humanity’s resource use? An analysis of material stocks and flows in nine world regions from 1900 to 203547
The scale and drivers of carbon footprints in households, cities and regions across India47
Conflicted transitions: Exploring the actors, tactics, and outcomes of social opposition against energy infrastructure46
Air conditioning and global inequality46
How EU policies could reduce nutrient pollution in European inland and coastal waters44
A global assessment of the human pressure on the world's lakes43
Aligning climate and sustainable development finance through an SDG lens. The role of development assistance in implementing the Paris Agreement43
Modelling food security: Bridging the gap between the micro and the macro scale43
Climate change in a changing world: Socio-economic and technological transitions, regulatory frameworks and trends on global greenhouse gas emissions from EDGAR v.5.042
Legume dreams: The contested futures of sustainable plant-based food systems in Europe42
“Reporting on climate change: A computational analysis of U.S. newspapers and sources of bias, 1997–2017”41
Knowing like a global expert organization: Comparative insights from the IPCC and IPBES41
An assessment of the performance of scenarios against historical global emissions for IPCC reports41
Environmental and land defenders: Global patterns and determinants of repression40
Cattle ranchers and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Production, location, and policies40
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 Australia40
Mapping global patterns of land use decision-making39
Policy integration: Do laws or actors integrate issues relevant to flood risk management in Switzerland?39
A scale-based framework to understand the promises, pitfalls and paradoxes of irrigation efficiency to meet major water challenges39
Closing yield gap is crucial to avoid potential surge in global carbon emissions38
The political ecology playbook for ecosystem restoration: Principles for effective, equitable, and transformative landscapes38
The global value of coastal wetlands for storm protection37
Natural variability or climate change? Stakeholder and citizen perceptions of extreme event attribution37
Climate change action as a project of identity: Eight meta-analyses37
A conceptual framework for cross-border impacts of climate change37
Systems thinking as a paradigm shift for sustainability transformation36
Defining and classifying personal and household climate change adaptation behaviors36
Greenhouse gas emissions from global cities under SSP/RCP scenarios, 1990 to 210036
No peace for the forest: Rapid, widespread land changes in the Andes-Amazon region following the Colombian civil war35
The global environmental paw print of pet food35
Making sense of the politics in the climate change loss & damage debate35
Understanding plastic packaging: The co-evolution of materials and society34
Fairness critically conditions the carbon budget allocation across countries34
Spatial targeting of floodplain restoration to equitably mitigate flood risk34
Engagement, involvement and empowerment: Three realms of a coproduction framework for climate services34
Hot dry days increase perceived experience with global warming33
China’s pathway to carbon neutrality for the iron and steel industry33
Incorporating blue carbon sequestration benefits into sub-national climate policies33
Climate variability and child nutrition: Findings from sub-Saharan Africa33
Global sustainability, innovation and governance dynamics of national smart electricity meter transitions32
Mining threatens isolated indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon32
Global long-term mapping of surface temperature shows intensified intra-city urban heat island extremes32
Does smallholder maize intensification reduce deforestation? Evidence from Zambia32
Water borrowing is consistently practiced globally and is associated with water-related system failures across diverse environments32
The quiet opposition: How the pro-economy lobby influences climate policy32
Socio-economic and climatic changes lead to contrasting global urban vegetation trends32
Prioritising resilience policies to reduce welfare losses from natural disasters: A case study for coastal Bangladesh32
Designing effective and equitable zero-deforestation supply chain policies31
Estimating the global potential of water harvesting from successful case studies31
Telecoupled environmental impacts of current and alternative Western diets31
What could go wrong with cooking? Exploring vulnerability at the water, energy and food Nexus in Kampala through a social practices lens.31
Sharing responsibility for trade-related emissions based on economic benefits30
The future urban heat-wave challenge in Africa: Exploratory analysis30
Why are carbon taxes unfair? Disentangling public perceptions of fairness30
Why climate migration is not managed retreat: Six justifications30
Climate-Induced migration and unemployment in middle-income Africa29
Greenhouse gas emissions from Mediterranean agriculture: Evidence of unbalanced research efforts and knowledge gaps29
Harnessing scientific and local knowledge to face climate change in small-scale fisheries28
Trans-Arctic shipping routes expanding faster than the model projections28
How the future of the global forest sink depends on timber demand, forest management, and carbon policies28
The impacts of cocaine-trafficking on conservation governance in Central America28
A framework for nitrogen futures in the shared socioeconomic pathways27
Tackling the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies by making peace with nature 50 years after the Stockholm Conference27
Environmental justice in coastal systems: Perspectives from communities confronting change27
The behavioral response to a corporate carbon offset program: A field experiment on adverse effects and mitigation strategies27
Illicit Drivers of Land Use Change: Narcotrafficking and Forest Loss in Central America26
How stable are Australian farmers’ climate change risk perceptions? New evidence of the feedback loop between risk perceptions and behaviour26
The effect of industrialization and globalization on domestic land-use: A global resource footprint perspective26
Extreme weather and marriage among girls and women in Bangladesh26
Resilient livelihoods in an era of global transformation26
Just another buzzword? A systematic literature review of knowledge-related concepts in sustainability science25
Just adaptation? Generating new vulnerabilities and shaping adaptive capacities through the politics of climate-related resettlement in a Philippine coastal city25
The role and limits of strategic framing for promoting sustainable consumption and policy25
A global comparison of carbon-water-food nexus based on dietary consumption25
A global production network for ecosystem services: The emergent governance of landscape restoration in the Brazilian Amazon25
“Mind the (Policy-Implementation) Gap”: Transport decarbonisation policies and performances of leading global economies (1990–2018)24
The anticipatory governance of sustainability transformations: Hybrid approaches and dominant perspectives24
Pathways for climate resilient development: Human well-being within a safe and just space in the 21st century24
Plastic pollution and the open burning of plastic wastes24
A green-gray path to global water security and sustainable infrastructure24
Environmental regulation and innovation: Evidence from China24
Institutional changes drive land use transitions on rangelands: The case of grazing on public lands in the American West24
Patience, persistence and pre-signals: Policy dynamics of planned relocation in Austria23
Novel insights on intensity and typology of direct human-nature interactions in protected areas through passive crowdsourcing23
After the floods: Differential impacts of rainfall anomalies on child stunting in India23
The Arctic Council: an agent of change?23
Inclusive wealth index measuring sustainable development potentials for Chinese cities23
The impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on a network of 276 international organizations23
Agency shifts in agricultural land governance and their implications for land degradation neutrality23
Impact of a climate network: The role of intermediaries in local level climate action23
Relating root causes to local risk conditions: A comparative study of the institutional pathways to small-scale disasters in three urban flood contexts22
Does funds-based adaptation finance reach the most vulnerable countries?22
The prosocial origin of sustainable behavior: A case study in the ecological domain21
Water, energy and land insecurity in global supply chains21
A global review of the impact of forest property rights interventions on poverty21
Drivers and mechanisms of forest change in the Himalayas21
OK Boomer: A decade of generational differences in feelings about climate change21
Blaming climate change? How Indian mainstream media covered two extreme weather events in 201521
Cultural ecosystem services caught in a ‘coastal squeeze’ between sea level rise and urban expansion21
Deciphering interwoven drivers of environment-related migration – A multisite case study from the Ethiopian highlands21
To be ethical or to be good? The impact of ‘Good Provider’ and moral norms on food waste decisions in two countries20
Reproducing injustice: Why recognition matters in conservation project evaluation20
Explaining risk perception of microplastics: Results from a representative survey in Germany20
Anti-corruption and corporate environmental responsibility: Evidence from China’s anti-corruption campaign20
Urban greenspace as a climate change adaptation strategy for subtropical Asian cities: A comparative study across cities in three countries20
Interannual climate variation, land type and village livelihood effects on fires in Kalimantan, Indonesia20
What makes internationally-financed climate change adaptation projects focus on local communities? A configurational analysis of 30 Adaptation Fund projects20
The geography of megatrends affecting European agriculture19
Socioeconomics effects on global hotspots of common debris items on land and the seafloor19
Drivers and dimensions of flood risk perceptions: Revealing an implicit selection bias and lessons for communication policies19
Disaster experiences of women with disabilities: Barriers and opportunities for disability inclusive disaster risk reduction in Cambodia19
What future for primary aluminium production in a decarbonizing economy?19
Risky responsibilities for rural drinking water institutions: The case of unregulated self-supply in Bangladesh19
China’s rising influence on climate governance: Forging a path for the global South19
Co-dynamics of climate policy stringency and public support19
Risk-opportunity analysis for transformative policy design and appraisal19
The ‘co’ in co-production of climate action: Challenging boundaries within and between science, policy and practice19
Distributive justice in global climate finance – Recipients’ climate vulnerability and the allocation of climate funds19
More than planning: Diversity and drivers of institutional adaptation under climate change in 96 major cities19
Fire risk perpetuates poverty and fire use among Amazonian smallholders18
Willingness-to-pay for carbon dioxide offsets: Field evidence on revealed preferences in the aviation industry18
Catalyzing sustainability pathways: Navigating urban nature based solutions in Europe18
How qualitative approaches matter in climate and ocean change research: Uncovering contradictions about climate concern18
The role of working-class communities and the slow violence of toxic pollution in environmental health conflicts: A global perspective18
Increasing the credibility and salience of valuation through deliberation: Lessons from the Global South18
Equitable resilience in flood prone urban areas in Sri Lanka: A case study in Colombo Divisional Secretariat Division18
Simulation games as a catalyst for social learning: The case of the water-food-energy nexus game18
The strengths and weaknesses of future visioning approaches for climate change adaptation: A review18
IPCC emission scenarios: How did critiques affect their quality and relevance 1990–2022?18
Climate anxiety: Conceptual considerations, and connections with climate hope and action18
One and a half century of avalanche risk to settlements in the upper Maurienne valley inferred from land cover and socio-environmental changes.18
Africa's protected areas are brightening at night: A long-term light pollution monitor based on nighttime light imagery18
Climate variability and irregular migration to the European Union17
Guilty pleasures: Moral licensing in climate-related behavior17
Agroecological measures and circular economy strategies to ensure sufficient nitrogen for sustainable farming17
Climate change may impair electricity generation and economic viability of future Amazon hydropower17
Opening space for equity and justice in resilience: A subjective approach to household resilience assessment17
What users of global risk indicators should know17
Beyond climate, culture and comfort in European preferences for low-carbon heat17
Considering attitudinal uncertainty in the climate change skepticism continuum17
Gender, ethnicity and vulnerability to climate change: The case of matrilineal and patrilineal societies in Bamenda Highlands Region, Cameroon16
Linking model design and application for transdisciplinary approaches in social-ecological systems16
On the move: The role of mobility and migration as a coping strategy for resource users after abrupt environmental disturbance – the empirical example of the Coastal El Niño 201716
Addressing knowledge gaps for transboundary environmental governance16
Global socio-economic and climate change mitigation scenarios through the lens of structural change16
Understanding interlinkages between long-term trajectory of exposure and vulnerability, path dependency and cascading impacts of disasters in Saint-Martin (Caribbean)16
Embodied carbon dioxide emissions to provide high access levels to basic infrastructure around the world16
Contraction and convergence of in-use metal stocks to meet climate goals16
Tinker, tailor or transform: Gender equality amidst social-ecological change16
Who feels the impacts of climate change?16
Seeking a handle on climate change: Examining the comparative effectiveness of energy efficiency improvement and renewable energy production in the United States15
Socioeconomic geography of climate change views in Europe15
Scenario archetypes reveal risks and opportunities for global mountain futures15
The political economy of fisheries co-management: Challenging the potential for success on Lake Victoria15
Good practice policies to bridge the emissions gap in key countries15
The Greta effect: Visualising climate protest in UK media and the Getty images collections15
Influences of international agricultural trade on the global phosphorus cycle and its associated issues15
Commentary : Resilience and Social-Ecological Systems: A Handful of Frontiers14
The social structure of climate change research and practitioner engagement: Evidence from California14
Conceptualizing and achieving industrial system transition for a dematerialized and decarbonized world14
Upscaling the resilience assessment through comparative analysis14
Changing environment and development institutions to enable payments for ecosystem services: The role of institutional work14
When the whole is less than the sum of all parts – Tracking global-level impacts of national sustainability initiatives14
Narratives, narrations and social structure in environmental governance14
Necessity-driven circular economy in low-income contexts: How informal sector practices retain value for circularity14
Experience is not enough: A dynamic explanation of the limited adaptation to extreme weather events in public organizations14
The contribution of energy law to the energy transition and energy research14
Many roads to Paris: Explaining urban climate action in 885 European cities14
Bringing greenhouse gas removal down to earth: Stakeholder supply chain appraisals reveal complex challenges13
Biophysical indicators and Indigenous and Local Knowledge reveal climatic and ecological shifts with implications for Arctic Char fisheries13
Satellite evidence on the trade-offs of the food-water–air quality nexus over the breadbasket of India13
Framing the frontier – Tracing issues related to soybean expansion in transnational public spheres13
Defining and operationalizing path dependency for the development and monitoring of adaptation pathways13
Charting two centuries of transformation in a coastal social-ecological system: A mixed methods approach13
Heat vulnerability and adaptation of low-income households in Germany13
Spinning in circles? A systematic review on the role of theory in social vulnerability, resilience and adaptation research13
Framing the just transition: How international trade unions engage with UN climate negotiations13
Temperature anomalies affect violent conflicts in African and Middle Eastern warm regions12
Testing smarter control and feedback with users: Time, temperature and space in household heating preferences and practices in a Living Laboratory12
Are managed retreat programs successful and just? A global mapping of success typologies, justice dimensions, and trade-offs12
Voices of young biosphere stewards on the strengths, weaknesses, and ways forward for 74 UNESCO Biosphere Reserves across 83 countries12
A “precariously unprepared” Pentagon? Climate security beliefs and decision-making in the U.S. military12
Polarization of climate politics results from partisan sorting: Evidence from Finnish Twittersphere12
Biodiversity mediates relationships between anthropogenic drivers and ecosystem services across global mountain, island and delta systems12
Precipitation anomalies, economic production, and the role of “first-nature” and “second-nature” geographies: A disaggregated analysis in high-income countries12
Building authority and legitimacy in transnational climate change governance: Evidence from the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force12
Comparing public attitudes towards energy technologies in Australia and the UK: The role of political ideology12
Evaluating bundles of interventions to prevent peat-fires in Indonesia12
Stability and change within indigenous land use in the Ecuadorian Amazon12
Pathways to human well-being in the context of land acquisitions in Lao PDR12
Differential disadvantages in the distribution of federal aid across three decades of voluntary buyouts in the United States12
Are scenario projections overly optimistic about future yield progress?11
The effect of Cuban agroecology in mitigating the metabolic rift: A quantitative approach to Latin American food production11
The impact of local temperature volatility on attention to climate change: Evidence from Spanish tweets11
Weather Contracts: Capturing a sense of weather for place-based adaptation to climate change11
Towards a better understanding of gendered power in small scale fisheries of the Western Indian Ocean11
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