Regional Environmental Change

Papers
(The median citation count of Regional Environmental Change is 4. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Correction: Sensitivity of fishery resources to climate change in the warm-temperate Southwest Atlantic Ocean74
Scarce consideration of climate and land use changes impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity in the Apennines Mountain system, Italy58
Post-cyclone resilience of an agroforest-based food system in the Pacific Islands56
Supporting adaptive pathways planning using archetypes for climate adaptation54
Growth resilience of juniper shrubs is higher after wet than after dry spells under contrasting climatic conditions52
Growing pains: identifying enabling conditions for a nature-based coastal climate adaptation project in British Columbia, Canada52
Activities and impacts in wetlands: challenges for Sardinia46
A remote sensing-based classification approach for river mouths of the Amazon-influenced Guianas coast43
Large floodplain river restoration in New Zealand: synthesis and critical evaluation to inform restoration planning and research39
A new framework for rapidly assessing national adaptation policies: an application to small island developing states in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans35
Prediction of mangrove recovery in natural protected areas of the Yucatan Peninsula34
Large differences between observed and expected Ecuadorian deforestation from 2001 to 2009: a counterfactual simulation approach34
Characterization of land cover-specific fire regimes in the Brazilian Amazon33
Reconstructed spatiotemporal changes of cropland in Vietnam from AD 1500 to 195031
“We cannot escape this”: discussing leverage points for sustainability across scales with the example of Ouvéa, Kanaky New Caledonia31
Estimating the effects of climate change on home meal replacement consumption in South Korea31
Reconstructing forest cover changes for the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River over the past millennium31
Leveraging atmospheric moisture recycling in Saudi Arabia and neighboring countries for irrigation and afforestation planning31
Is climate change pushing gymnosperms against the wall in the northwestern Himalayas?30
Evaluating the comprehensiveness of municipal climate change adaptation plans in Ontario, Canada29
Venice and its lagoon fin de siecle29
Rainfall and land use impacts on water quality and communities in the Waimanu River Catchment in the South Pacific: the case of Viti Levu, Fiji28
Rethinking collaborative governance: contested legitimacy of the Melamchi inter-basin water transfer for municipal use in Nepal28
Inferring the impacts of climate extreme in the Kabul River Basin28
Fighting against, and coping with, drought in Brazil: two policy paradigms intertwined27
Himalaya to Hengduan: dynamics of alpine treelines under climate change27
Spatiotemporal characteristics of drought under different vegetation types and responses to climatic factors in Jilin Province, China27
Projected population exposure to precipitation extremes in China by the end of the twenty-first century: trends, change points, and spatial variability25
Assessing the present and future landslide susceptibility in Indian Himalayan Region due to climate variability24
Bridging resilience and sustainability: a reconciled framework for navigating social-ecological systems24
Balancing disturbance risk and ecosystem service provisioning in Swiss mountain forests: an increasing challenge under climate change24
How to quantify the regional effects of ocean temperature rise due to climate change: implications of Octopus maya ecophysiology on food security of the Yucatan shelf artisanal fishermen24
Collateral damages of intensive farming in central Argentina: impacts of livestock intensification on the socio-ecosystem of the Paraná River Delta23
The summer 2022 drought: a taste of future climate for the Po valley (Italy)?23
Assessing the impact of climate change on solar energy production in Italy22
‘Moved, but stuck’: a mixed-method inquiry on the migratory grief and loss and mental health nexus in climate-induced forced migrant farmers from Kuttanad, India21
Multi-level learning in climate change adaptation planning: comparing three experiences from Latin America20
Drivers and implications of land use/cover dynamics in land leased areas, western Ethiopia20
Effects of COVID-19 lockdown on the observed density of coral reef fish along coastal habitats of Moorea, French Polynesia20
Rising allergenic risk in cities: a progressive pollen calendar analysis in response to climate change in Central Europe20
Carbon and nitrogen stocks in cultivation systems of a Quilombola community in the Brazilian Cerrado20
Jellyfish sting web survey: clinical characteristics and management of Rhopilema nomadica envenomation in the Mediterranean Sea19
Through eagle eyes—the potential of satellite-derived LAI time series to estimate masting events and tree-ring width of European beech19
Climate mobility and migrant health in West Africa: past norms, current challenges, and future projections19
Improving result-based schemes for nature conservation in agricultural landscapes—challenges and best practices from selected European countries19
Climate variation effect on Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora) yield in Uganda19
Ecological risk assessment of watershed economic zones on the landscape scale: a case study of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China18
Including the perspective of stakeholders in landscape planning through the Ecosystem Services co-production framework: an empirical exploration in Le Marche, Italy18
Cutting of dry forests in a semiarid region of northeastern Brazil18
Shifting responsibility and denying justice: New Zealand’s contentious approach to Pacific climate mobilities18
The role of the environment within a constellation of interacting causal factors shaping mobility—the example of three oases in Northern Africa18
Building consensus and increasing self-efficacy: participatory scenarios as a tool for developing food security solutions in West Africa18
Typologies of European farmers: approaches, methods and research gaps18
Cross-scale collaboration for adaptation to climate change: a two-mode network analysis of bridging actors in Switzerland18
Impacts of climate change on regional cattle trade in the central corridor of Africa18
Industrial metabolism and territorial development of the Maurienne Valley (France)18
A participatory approach for characterizing the resilience of rural water supply systems in semi-arid areas17
Walking back from the edge: thresholds of change reveal options for adaptation to water scarcity under climate change in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia17
The interactions among landscape pattern, climate change, and ecosystem services: progress and prospects17
Place-based diversification: Pathways to diversified shared landscapes in the Wairau Marlborough region of Aotearoa New Zealand17
Saving soil carbon, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity and the economy: paludiculture as sustainable land use option in German fen peatlands17
Adaptation, flourishing, and the importance of place17
Reconstructing limnological and vegetation changes in the Eastern Carpathians (Ukraine) over the past 200 years inferred from sediments of three contrasting alpine lakes16
Analyzing the vulnerabilities and capabilities of wealth creation activities in the Maurienne valley in the French Alps16
Loss and damage in tropical fisheries: a systematic review of people, climate, and fisheries16
How vulnerable are the nesting sites of loggerhead turtles in Cabo Verde?15
Two decades of accelerated deforestation in Peruvian forests: a national and regional analysis (2000–2020)15
Spatio-temporal variability of avalanche risk in the French Alps15
A transdisciplinary method, knowledge model and management framework for climate change adaptation in mountain areas applied in the Vercors, France15
Heterogeneous impact of adoption intensity of climate-smart agricultural practices on the welfare of livestock farmers in Pakistan15
Governing for local livelihoods in transboundary river systems: insights from the Cubango-Okavango River Basin15
Spatially explicit reconstruction of the population distribution in the Tuojiang River Basin during 1911–2010 using random forest regression15
Tracking local and regional climate im/mobilities through a multidimensional lens15
Looking backwards to move forwards: insights for climate change adaptation from historical Māori relocation due to natural hazards in Aotearoa New Zealand15
How urban sprawl affects local and nearby ecosystem services in China15
The rise and demise of Iran’s Urmia Lake during the Holocene and the Anthropocene: “what’s past is prologue”15
Perceived costs and benefits of different climate change adaptation practices used by smallholder farmers for agricultural production in the Ahafo Ano South District, Ghana14
Can traditional management practices help mountain livestock farms in the Spanish Pyrenees cope with climate change?14
Place Attachment and Climate-Related Hazards in Small Remote Communities in the Nordic Countries14
Sustainability of agricultural practices in Germany: a literature review along multiple environmental domains14
National peatland strategies in Europe: current status, key themes, and challenges14
Exploring the role of high-value crops to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in New Zealand14
Island biocultural diversity in the Mediterranean: the case study of Sardinia14
Cumulative worries in Sápmi—the interplay between climate change and other threats to reindeer herding in Sweden and Norway14
Deforestation dynamics post-payment for ecosystem services in Sierra Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico14
Navigating power imbalances in landscape governance: a network and influence analysis in southern Zambia14
Putting climate-induced migration in context: the case of Honduran migration to the USA14
Years matter: the role of memory and place attachment in remote Nordic areas facing natural hazards14
How path dependency manifests in flood risk management: observations from four decades in the Ennstal and Aist catchments in Austria14
Climate change may alter the availability of wild food plants in the Brazilian semiarid14
Organic inputs in agroforestry systems improve soil organic carbon storage in Itasy, Madagascar14
Land conversion and lack of protection significantly reduce suitable wolf habitat amount and functional connectivity in the Adirondack-to-Laurentians (A2L) transboundary wildlife linkage13
Assessing the inundation risk of cultural heritages along the southwestern coast of Taiwan: present and future13
Calcification and growth of the reef coral Porites panamensis in a shallow hydrothermal field in the Gulf of California, Mexico13
Climate variability impacts on pasture productivity and pastoral livelihoods in northern Tanzania13
Remote sensing the evolution of debris-covered Panchi Nala-A glacier, India (1971-2021) from satellites and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles13
Reconstructing 32 years (1989–2020) of annual glacier surface mass balance in Chandra Basin, Western Himalayas, India13
“This community will grow” — little concern for future wildfires in a dry and increasingly hotter Swedish rural community13
Participatory justice and climate adaptation for water management in Small Island Developing States: a systematic literature review and discussion13
Influence of deforestation inside and outside indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon Biome12
Climate change-related health hazards in daycare centers in Munich, Germany: risk perception and adaptation measures12
Toward the first documented extinction of a marine macroalga in the Mediterranean Sea?12
Correction to: Building capacities for adaptation planning: moving from needs assessment to action with a multilevel approach12
Assessment of climate change impact and adaptation strategy for millet in the Sudano-Sahelian region of Niger12
Correction to: “We cannot escape this”: discussing leverage points for sustainability across scales with the example of Ouvéa, Kanaky New Caledonia12
Differentiated outcomes of climate change-induced internal migration in India12
Drylands becoming drier: evidence from North Patagonia, Argentina12
Coastal livelihood resilience to abrupt environmental change: the role of social capital in a Peruvian bay12
Causes of tea land dynamics in Sri Lanka between 1995 and 203012
Climate change–driven agricultural frontiers and their ecosystem trade-offs in the hills of Nepal12
Long-term reclamation of tidal flats of Chongming Island and ecological security of Yangtze estuary, China12
Climate change impacts on tree crop suitability in Southeast Asia12
How do countries frame climate change? A global comparison of adaptation and mitigation in UNFCCC National Communications12
Possible interaction between exposure to environmental contaminants and nutritional stress in promoting disease occurrence in seabirds from French Guiana: a review12
A modelling-chain linking climate science and decision-makers for future urban flood management in West Africa12
Rainfall changes perceived by farmers and captured by meteorological data: two sides to every story12
Controlling the water: citizens’ place–related adaptation to landslides in mid-Norway12
Exploring the role of smallholder perceptions in shaping land-use decisions in a tropical agro-forest frontier in southern Mexico12
Applying machine learning to social datasets: a study of migration in southwestern Bangladesh using random forests12
Ecosystem services as systemic enablers for transformation in the Hindu Kush Himalaya: an analytical synthesis11
Elevation and local climate variation control changes in Aleppo pine growth responses to hydroclimate and drought in semi-arid Spain11
Brazil’s Amazonian deforestation: the role of landholdings in undesignated public lands11
Biogeochemical plumbing of pioneer mangrove intertidal flats in French Guiana11
A geospatial insight into farmland abandonment in Matopiba: the emerging frontier of Brazilian agriculture11
Climate change conflicts and challenges in Tapajós National Forest, Brazil11
European beewolf (Philanthus triangulum) will expand its geographic range as a result of climate warming11
Hydrological response to the summer 2024 high-elevation heatwave in Central-Western Argentina11
Understanding immobility of a highly vulnerable coastal village in the Indian Sundarban11
Interventions to control forest loss in a swidden cultivation landscape in Nan Province, Thailand11
The presence, maintenance, and adaptation of Indigenous and local knowledge about climate-related hazards in Nordic contexts11
Shifting climate zones and expanding tropical and arid climate regions across Kenya (1980–2020)11
Quantifying drivers of change in social-ecological systems: land management impacts wildfire probability in forests of the western US11
Projected climate in coffee-based farming systems: implications for crop suitability in Uganda11
Can the cropping systems of the Nile basin be adapted to climate change?11
The impact of urban growth boundary on urban sprawl: evidence from China11
Phylogenetic diversity and conservation challenges in Brejos de Altitude: assessing threatened areas of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest11
Economic viability of urban greening as a climate change adaptation measure in cool-climate cities10
Impacts of climate change on semi-natural alpine pastures productivity and floristic composition10
Reflections on land use and land cover change under different socio-economic regimes in the Polish Western Carpathians10
Distribution, drivers, and community perceptions of recent mass mangrove dieback in Maldives10
Community priorities, values, and perceptions associated with ecosystem services provided by the socio-ecological landscapes of Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya10
Adaptation planning in the context of a weakening and possibly collapsing Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)10
Monitoring and assessment of glaciers and glacial lakes: climate change impact on the Mago Chu Basin, Eastern Himalayas10
Compliance with kauri forest protection in New Zealand’s regional parks: the mediating role of trust on local versus visitor populations10
False spring disrupted the life cycles of Pinus cembra and Vaccinium myrtillus at the alpine treeline ecotone in the High Tatras (Western Carpathians)10
Which pathway to address interrelated challenges to farm sustainability in Thailand? Views of local actors10
Attitudes towards climate migrants in Aotearoa New Zealand: the roles of climate change beliefs and immigration attitudes10
Differences in perception and climate change adaptation among migrant and non-migrant maize farmers in Ghana10
Water balance components and climate extremes over Brazil under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C of global warming scenarios10
Marine heatwaves threaten key foraging grounds of sea turtles in Southeast Asian Seas10
Strengthening climate research capacity in Africa: lessons from the ‘Climate impact research capacity leadership enhancement’ project10
Trajectories and drivers signalling the end of agricultural abandonment in Trás-os-Montes, Portugal10
Setting deeper baselines: kelp forest dynamics in California over multiple centuries10
The non-market value of reclaiming natural landscape and biodiversity: a Dutch case study10
Correction: A new framework for rapidly assessing national adaptation policies: an application to small island developing states in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans10
Spatial patterns and determinants of avocado frontier dynamics in Mexico10
The importance of diversity in local food systems: a network analysis of food-related interactions in the Indigenous food system on St. Paul Island, Alaska10
Transforming fire governance in British Columbia, Canada: an emerging vision for coexisting with fire9
Matching the scales of planning and environmental risk: an evaluation of Community Wildfire Protection Plans in the western US9
Woody vegetation cover on cleared areas in the Amazon Basin: temporal mixture mapping suggests a revised conceptual model of deforestation9
Post-aquaculture land use regime succession in coastal Bangladesh9
Assessing sand dams for contributions to local water security and drought resilience in the semi-arid eastern Shashe catchment, Zimbabwe9
Assessing mammal pollinators in the Eastern Amazon and the effects of climate change on endangered species9
Changes in the probability of temporally compound wet and dry events in a warmer world: case study in the Upper Jhelum Basin—South Asia9
Beach erosion aggravates the drastic decline in marine turtle populations in French Guiana9
Community-identified risks to hunting, fishing, and gathering (harvesting) activities from increased marine shipping activity in Inuit Nunangat, Canada9
Formal education as a contested pastoral adaptation pathway: insights from southern Kenya9
Comparing future climatic suitability to shoreline loss for recreational beach use: a case study of five Japanese beaches9
The impact of tourists on the marine environment: a review and managerial implications9
False springs in the Netherlands: climate change impact assessment with the false spring damage indicator model9
From national vision to implementation: governance challenges in sustainable agriculture transitions in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta region9
Contribution of ecological conservation programs and climate change to hydrological regime change in the source region of the Yangtze River in China8
Promise, premise, and reality: the case of voluntary environmental non-migration despite climate risks in coastal Bangladesh8
The impact of climate change on wheat in Turkey8
Media framing of the Cape Town water crisis: perspectives on the food-energy-water nexus8
Socioeconomic and land use drivers of weedy grass infestation in the Peruvian Amazon8
Geographies of rural households’ out-migration in the lower Mekong countries8
Correction to: Agroforestry trade-offs between biomass provision and aboveground carbon sequestration in the alpine Eisenwurzen region, Austria8
Potential distribution of wild edible fruit trees under climate change scenarios: promoting food security in a Neotropical region8
Pathways to achieving nature-positive and carbon–neutral land use and food systems in Wales8
A field and remote sensing assessment of rates and drivers of tree cover loss in island catchments: variation in global model accuracy8
The forgotten bread oven: local bakeries, forests and energy transition in Nigeria8
Climate change adaptation, resilience and mitigation challenges in African agriculture8
Climate change impacts on winter chill in Mediterranean temperate fruit orchards8
Supply chain disruptions would increase agricultural greenhouse gas emissions8
Human ecology of forest in an extraction-shaped landscape: Economic and demographic drivers of land use change in the Ohio Valley over 220 years8
Rapid advance of climatic tree limits in the Eastern Alps explained by on-site temperatures7
Steady decline in food self-sufficiency in Africa from 1961 to 20187
Pyrenean glaciers are disappearing fast: state of the glaciers after the extreme mass losses in 2022 and 20237
Climate impacts on migration in the Arctic North America: existing evidence and research recommendations7
Interdisciplinary insights into a 500-year trajectory of an alpine socio-ecological system in Montaimont, France7
Drought exacerbates the trade-offs and distributional imbalances of regional ecosystem services: a case study in Yunnan Province, China7
A case study on facing climate change: optimizing planting density and date of summer maize for stable grain yield in the North China Plain7
Hydrological impacts of climate and land-use change in Western Ghats, India7
Predicting potential distribution shifts due to climate change and assessing contemporary land cover changes for two endemic bird species of the Mexican karst forests (Hylorchilus sumichrasti and Hylo7
Mapping agricultural vulnerability to impacts of climate events of Punjab, Pakistan7
Evolution of fishing effort and fishing capacity during the last two decades (2000–2019) in Egypt’s marine fisheries: spotting the fleet overcapacity7
Tracking changes in social-ecological entanglements: beekeeping among the Maa-speaking pastoralists of Laikipia, Kenya7
Hydrological extremes in the Mediterranean basin: interactions, impacts, and adaptation in the face of climate change7
Agrochemical lock-in and land tenure insecurity: interacting barriers to agroecological transition in Burkina Faso’s family farming systems7
Plant biodiversity in Mediterranean orchards is related to historical land use: perspectives for biodiversity-friendly olive production7
Institutions and institutional changes: aquatic food production in Central Luzon, Philippines7
Exploring the identification and use of socially defined indicators to monitor local environmental change in the Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona7
Inequality, water accessibility, and health impacts in Chiapas, Mexico7
Increased frequency of extreme rainfall events threatens an emblematic cultural coastal agroecosystem in Southeastern Thailand7
Perceptions on and impacts of environmental changes under multiple stressors: a case study from two communities in northern Fennoscandia7
A review of drivers of environmental non-migration decisions in Africa7
Bayesian network modeling of the water-energy-food nexus: the case of the Peace River Basin, Canada7
Scorched earth tactics of the “Islamic State” after its loss of territory: intentional burning of farmland in Iraq and Syria7
Do government knowledge production and use systems matter for global climate change adaptation tracking? Insights from Eastern Africa7
Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP) of rural freshwater ponds in Bangladesh: An exploration of the impacts of pondscape degradation7
Mangrove soil carbon stocks varied significantly across community compositions and environmental gradients in the largest mangrove wetland reserve, China7
Tackling limitations in biodiversity offsetting? A comparison of the Peruvian and French approaches7
Effects of soil subsidence on plantation agriculture in Indonesian peatlands6
Women in the midst: an intersectionality study of Canadian climate change, poverty and health media reporting6
Adaptation strategies for dealing with global atmospheric change in Mediterranean agriculture: a triple helix approach to the Spanish case study6
Factors affecting small farm resilience to climate change in Hamedan Province, Iran: a structural model analysis6
Unveiling the potential of biomarkers in the context of climate change: analysis of knowledge landscapes, trends, and research priorities6
Sacred groves occluded in the urban matrix: biodiversity and conservation potential of Hangzhou’s Buddhist temples, China6
Searching for synergies for low emission development, the case for dairy subsector in Kenya6
Co-production of sustainability indicators in a vulnerable South American agricultural frontier6
Situating climate change narrative for conceptualizing adaptation strategies: a case study of coffee growers in South India6
Implications of regional agricultural land use dynamics and deforestation associated with sugarcane expansion for soil carbon stocks in Brazil6
Prediction of drought/flood intensities based on a 500-year time series in three different climate provinces of China6
Response of endangered bird species to land-use changes in an agricultural landscape in Germany6
Relative importance of local and regional/global drivers of mangrove degradation and deforestation in Madagascar6
What is the evidence linking financial assistance for drought-affected agriculture and resilience in tropical Asia? A systematic review6
“Here, I will stay until I die”—exploring the relationship between place attachment, risk perception, and coping behavior in two small Norwegian communities6
Nature’s cracks: the destructive force of forest fragmentation in the Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Eastern DR Congo6
Facing up to drought events: Understanding the potentials and challenges within farming systems6
Socio-environmental value of glacier lakes: assessment in the Aosta Valley (Western Italian Alps)6
Large-scale forest protection: the successful case of the Kayapo people in the Brazilian Amazon6
Marine spatial planning and ocean governance in Small Island Developing States6
Future changes in wind energy resources in Egypt under Paris climate agreements’ goals6
Landscape ecological risks assessment of the China-Vietnam border area: the perspective of production-living-ecological spaces6
Water under the bridge: how place meanings shape second homeowners’ engagement in flood risk management in southern Denmark6
Substantial warming of Central European mountain rivers under climate change6
Transformative adaptation through nature-based solutions: a comparative case study analysis in China, Italy, and Germany6
“Listen to us”: small-scale farmers’ understandings of social-ecological changes and their drivers in Important Agricultural Heritage Systems6
Unpacking opposition to planned relocation: insight from Pedrinhas and Cedovém, Portugal6
Too expensive to keep — bidding farewell to an iconic mountain glacier?6
Evolution of the French Guiana coast from Late Pleistocene to Holocene based on chenier and beach sand dating6
Agricultural resilience and adaptive capacity during severe drought in the Western Cape, South Africa6
Exploring the integration of local and scientific soil knowledge for sustainable management in Ethiopia’s highlands6
Theorizing (im)mobility in the face of environmental change5
Ashes of governance: Brazil’s 2024 wildfire crisis and its implications5
Changes in grassland cover in Europe from 1990 to 2018: trajectories and spatial patterns5
Determinants of farmland abandonment in the urban–rural fringe of Ghana5
Sensitivity of fishery resources to climate change in the warm-temperate Southwest Atlantic Ocean5
The alien and invasive plant species that may be a future conservation threat to the Lesotho Afro-alpine Drakensberg area5
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