Regional Environmental Change

Papers
(The median citation count of Regional Environmental Change is 3. 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
Supporting adaptive pathways planning using archetypes for climate adaptation83
Characterization of land cover-specific fire regimes in the Brazilian Amazon58
Large differences between observed and expected Ecuadorian deforestation from 2001 to 2009: a counterfactual simulation approach58
Correction: Sensitivity of fishery resources to climate change in the warm-temperate Southwest Atlantic Ocean42
A new framework for rapidly assessing national adaptation policies: an application to small island developing states in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans38
“We cannot escape this”: discussing leverage points for sustainability across scales with the example of Ouvéa, Kanaky New Caledonia37
Leveraging atmospheric moisture recycling in Saudi Arabia and neighboring countries for irrigation and afforestation planning37
Growing pains: identifying enabling conditions for a nature-based coastal climate adaptation project in British Columbia, Canada36
Scarce consideration of climate and land use changes impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity in the Apennines Mountain system, Italy36
Prediction of mangrove recovery in natural protected areas of the Yucatan Peninsula35
Large floodplain river restoration in New Zealand: synthesis and critical evaluation to inform restoration planning and research33
Post-cyclone resilience of an agroforest-based food system in the Pacific Islands31
A remote sensing-based classification approach for river mouths of the Amazon-influenced Guianas coast28
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 fishermen28
Inferring the impacts of climate extreme in the Kabul River Basin28
Spatiotemporal characteristics of drought under different vegetation types and responses to climatic factors in Jilin Province, China26
Projected population exposure to precipitation extremes in China by the end of the twenty-first century: trends, change points, and spatial variability26
Collateral damages of intensive farming in central Argentina: impacts of livestock intensification on the socio-ecosystem of the Paraná River Delta26
Reconstructing forest cover changes for the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River over the past millennium25
Reconstructed spatiotemporal changes of cropland in Vietnam from AD 1500 to 195024
Assessing the present and future landslide susceptibility in Indian Himalayan Region due to climate variability24
Is climate change pushing gymnosperms against the wall in the northwestern Himalayas?23
Rainfall and land use impacts on water quality and communities in the Waimanu River Catchment in the South Pacific: the case of Viti Levu, Fiji23
Evaluating the comprehensiveness of municipal climate change adaptation plans in Ontario, Canada23
Venice and its lagoon fin de siecle23
Himalaya to Hengduan: dynamics of alpine treelines under climate change22
Rethinking collaborative governance: contested legitimacy of the Melamchi inter-basin water transfer for municipal use in Nepal22
Multilevel governance in climate change adaptation in Bangladesh: structure, processes, and power dynamics22
Balancing disturbance risk and ecosystem service provisioning in Swiss mountain forests: an increasing challenge under climate change21
Glacier tourism and climate change: effects, adaptations, and perspectives in the Alps21
The summer 2022 drought: a taste of future climate for the Po valley (Italy)?21
Fighting against, and coping with, drought in Brazil: two policy paradigms intertwined21
Climate variation effect on Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora) yield in Uganda20
The interactions among landscape pattern, climate change, and ecosystem services: progress and prospects20
Building consensus and increasing self-efficacy: participatory scenarios as a tool for developing food security solutions in West Africa20
Climate mobility and migrant health in West Africa: past norms, current challenges, and future projections20
Jellyfish sting web survey: clinical characteristics and management of Rhopilema nomadica envenomation in the Mediterranean Sea19
Cutting of dry forests in a semiarid region of northeastern Brazil19
Improving result-based schemes for nature conservation in agricultural landscapes—challenges and best practices from selected European countries19
Typologies of European farmers: approaches, methods and research gaps19
The role of the environment within a constellation of interacting causal factors shaping mobility—the example of three oases in Northern Africa18
Shifting responsibility and denying justice: New Zealand’s contentious approach to Pacific climate mobilities18
Effects of COVID-19 lockdown on the observed density of coral reef fish along coastal habitats of Moorea, French Polynesia18
Drivers and implications of land use/cover dynamics in land leased areas, western Ethiopia18
Through eagle eyes—the potential of satellite-derived LAI time series to estimate masting events and tree-ring width of European beech18
Carbon and nitrogen stocks in cultivation systems of a Quilombola community in the Brazilian Cerrado18
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
Including the perspective of stakeholders in landscape planning through the Ecosystem Services co-production framework: an empirical exploration in Le Marche, Italy17
Ecological risk assessment of watershed economic zones on the landscape scale: a case study of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China17
A participatory approach for characterizing the resilience of rural water supply systems in semi-arid areas17
Managing mixed stands can mitigate severe climate change impacts on French alpine forests17
Governing for local livelihoods in transboundary river systems: insights from the Cubango-Okavango River Basin16
Cross-scale collaboration for adaptation to climate change: a two-mode network analysis of bridging actors in Switzerland16
Place-based diversification: Pathways to diversified shared landscapes in the Wairau Marlborough region of Aotearoa New Zealand16
Saving soil carbon, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity and the economy: paludiculture as sustainable land use option in German fen peatlands16
Loss and damage in tropical fisheries: a systematic review of people, climate, and fisheries16
How path dependency manifests in flood risk management: observations from four decades in the Ennstal and Aist catchments in Austria15
Adaptation, flourishing, and the importance of place15
Tracking local and regional climate im/mobilities through a multidimensional lens15
Two decades of accelerated deforestation in Peruvian forests: a national and regional analysis (2000–2020)15
“Two-Row” cross-cultural learning for collaborative governance of forestland in northwestern Ontario, Canada15
How vulnerable are the nesting sites of loggerhead turtles in Cabo Verde?15
Walking back from the edge: thresholds of change reveal options for adaptation to water scarcity under climate change in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia15
How urban sprawl affects local and nearby ecosystem services in China15
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
Analyzing the vulnerabilities and capabilities of wealth creation activities in the Maurienne valley in the French Alps15
Looking backwards to move forwards: insights for climate change adaptation from historical Māori relocation due to natural hazards in Aotearoa New Zealand15
Can traditional management practices help mountain livestock farms in the Spanish Pyrenees cope with climate change?15
Cumulative worries in Sápmi—the interplay between climate change and other threats to reindeer herding in Sweden and Norway14
Enabling nature-based solutions for climate change on a peri-urban sandspit in Christchurch, New Zealand14
The rise and demise of Iran’s Urmia Lake during the Holocene and the Anthropocene: “what’s past is prologue”14
Island biocultural diversity in the Mediterranean: the case study of Sardinia14
Spatially explicit reconstruction of the population distribution in the Tuojiang River Basin during 1911–2010 using random forest regression14
Climate change may alter the availability of wild food plants in the Brazilian semiarid14
Sustainability of agricultural practices in Germany: a literature review along multiple environmental domains13
Years matter: the role of memory and place attachment in remote Nordic areas facing natural hazards13
Applying machine learning to social datasets: a study of migration in southwestern Bangladesh using random forests13
Navigating power imbalances in landscape governance: a network and influence analysis in southern Zambia13
Organic inputs in agroforestry systems improve soil organic carbon storage in Itasy, Madagascar13
Assessing the inundation risk of cultural heritages along the southwestern coast of Taiwan: present and future13
National peatland strategies in Europe: current status, key themes, and challenges13
Putting climate-induced migration in context: the case of Honduran migration to the USA13
Deforestation dynamics post-payment for ecosystem services in Sierra Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico13
Perceived costs and benefits of different climate change adaptation practices used by smallholder farmers for agricultural production in the Ahafo Ano South District, Ghana13
How do countries frame climate change? A global comparison of adaptation and mitigation in UNFCCC National Communications12
Exploring the role of high-value crops to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in New Zealand12
Calcification and growth of the reef coral Porites panamensis in a shallow hydrothermal field in the Gulf of California, Mexico12
A modelling-chain linking climate science and decision-makers for future urban flood management in West Africa12
Drylands becoming drier: evidence from North Patagonia, Argentina12
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
Possible interaction between exposure to environmental contaminants and nutritional stress in promoting disease occurrence in seabirds from French Guiana: a review12
Climate variability impacts on pasture productivity and pastoral livelihoods in northern Tanzania12
Remote sensing the evolution of debris-covered Panchi Nala-A glacier, India (1971-2021) from satellites and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles12
Land conversion and lack of protection significantly reduce suitable wolf habitat amount and functional connectivity in the Adirondack-to-Laurentians (A2L) transboundary wildlife linkage12
Coastal livelihood resilience to abrupt environmental change: the role of social capital in a Peruvian bay12
Participatory justice and climate adaptation for water management in Small Island Developing States: a systematic literature review and discussion12
Climate change–driven agricultural frontiers and their ecosystem trade-offs in the hills of Nepal11
Elevation and local climate variation control changes in Aleppo pine growth responses to hydroclimate and drought in semi-arid Spain11
El Niño-Southern Oscillation and rainfall characteristics in Northern Thailand: implications for adaptation in rainfed farms11
Climate change impacts on tree crop suitability in Southeast Asia11
Influence of deforestation inside and outside indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon Biome11
Can the cropping systems of the Nile basin be adapted to climate change?11
Long-term reclamation of tidal flats of Chongming Island and ecological security of Yangtze estuary, China11
Drivers and effects of deforestation in Colombia: a systems thinking approach11
Correction to: “We cannot escape this”: discussing leverage points for sustainability across scales with the example of Ouvéa, Kanaky New Caledonia11
Brazil’s Amazonian deforestation: the role of landholdings in undesignated public lands11
Controlling the water: citizens’ place–related adaptation to landslides in mid-Norway11
Correction to: Integrated flood vulnerability assessment of villages in the Waimanu River Catchment in the South Pacific: the case of Viti Levu, Fiji11
Reconstructing 32 years (1989–2020) of annual glacier surface mass balance in Chandra Basin, Western Himalayas, India11
“This community will grow” — little concern for future wildfires in a dry and increasingly hotter Swedish rural community11
Causes of tea land dynamics in Sri Lanka between 1995 and 203011
Exploring the role of smallholder perceptions in shaping land-use decisions in a tropical agro-forest frontier in southern Mexico10
Quantifying drivers of change in social-ecological systems: land management impacts wildfire probability in forests of the western US10
European beewolf (Philanthus triangulum) will expand its geographic range as a result of climate warming10
Understanding immobility of a highly vulnerable coastal village in the Indian Sundarban10
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
Projected climate in coffee-based farming systems: implications for crop suitability in Uganda10
The impact of urban growth boundary on urban sprawl: evidence from China10
Rainfall changes perceived by farmers and captured by meteorological data: two sides to every story10
Interventions to control forest loss in a swidden cultivation landscape in Nan Province, Thailand10
Phylogenetic diversity and conservation challenges in Brejos de Altitude: assessing threatened areas of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest10
Community priorities, values, and perceptions associated with ecosystem services provided by the socio-ecological landscapes of Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya10
Shifting climate zones and expanding tropical and arid climate regions across Kenya (1980–2020)10
Biogeochemical plumbing of pioneer mangrove intertidal flats in French Guiana10
Assessment of climate change impact and adaptation strategy for millet in the Sudano-Sahelian region of Niger10
Estimates of carbon stocks in sandy soils cultivated under local management practices in Senegal’s groundnut basin10
Ecosystem services as systemic enablers for transformation in the Hindu Kush Himalaya: an analytical synthesis10
The presence, maintenance, and adaptation of Indigenous and local knowledge about climate-related hazards in Nordic contexts10
Land in Central America will become less suitable for coffee cultivation under climate change10
Setting deeper baselines: kelp forest dynamics in California over multiple centuries9
The collapse of marine forests: drastic reduction in populations of the family Sargassaceae in Madeira Island (NE Atlantic)9
Water balance components and climate extremes over Brazil under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C of global warming scenarios9
Climate change conflicts and challenges in Tapajós National Forest, Brazil9
Rainfall anomalies and their impacts on Bhutan’s agro-ecological landscape9
Correction: A new framework for rapidly assessing national adaptation policies: an application to small island developing states in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans9
Spatial patterns and determinants of avocado frontier dynamics in Mexico9
Dynamics of soil organic carbon in the steppes of Russia and Kazakhstan under past and future climate and land use9
Impacts of climate change on semi-natural alpine pastures productivity and floristic composition9
Compliance with kauri forest protection in New Zealand’s regional parks: the mediating role of trust on local versus visitor populations9
Differences in perception and climate change adaptation among migrant and non-migrant maize farmers in Ghana9
The importance of diversity in local food systems: a network analysis of food-related interactions in the Indigenous food system on St. Paul Island, Alaska9
Correction to: The impacts of agricultural and urban land-use changes on plant and bird biodiversity in Costa Rica (1986–2014)9
Which pathway to address interrelated challenges to farm sustainability in Thailand? Views of local actors8
Attitudes towards climate migrants in Aotearoa New Zealand: the roles of climate change beliefs and immigration attitudes8
Community-identified risks to hunting, fishing, and gathering (harvesting) activities from increased marine shipping activity in Inuit Nunangat, Canada8
Changes in the probability of temporally compound wet and dry events in a warmer world: case study in the Upper Jhelum Basin—South Asia8
The impact of tourists on the marine environment: a review and managerial implications8
Woody vegetation cover on cleared areas in the Amazon Basin: temporal mixture mapping suggests a revised conceptual model of deforestation8
Media framing of the Cape Town water crisis: perspectives on the food-energy-water nexus8
Comparing future climatic suitability to shoreline loss for recreational beach use: a case study of five Japanese beaches8
Transforming fire governance in British Columbia, Canada: an emerging vision for coexisting with fire8
Distribution, drivers, and community perceptions of recent mass mangrove dieback in Maldives8
Reflections on land use and land cover change under different socio-economic regimes in the Polish Western Carpathians8
Solastalgia, place attachment and disruption: insights from a coastal community on the front line8
Collective capabilities shape the co-production of nature’s contributions to people in the alpine agricultural system of the Maurienne valley, France8
Beach erosion aggravates the drastic decline in marine turtle populations in French Guiana8
False springs in the Netherlands: climate change impact assessment with the false spring damage indicator model8
Assessing sand dams for contributions to local water security and drought resilience in the semi-arid eastern Shashe catchment, Zimbabwe8
Matching the scales of planning and environmental risk: an evaluation of Community Wildfire Protection Plans in the western US8
Monitoring and assessment of glaciers and glacial lakes: climate change impact on the Mago Chu Basin, Eastern Himalayas8
Formal education as a contested pastoral adaptation pathway: insights from southern Kenya8
Trajectories and drivers signalling the end of agricultural abandonment in Trás-os-Montes, Portugal8
Changes in the environment from perspectives of small-scale farmers in remote Vietnam8
Combining regional to local restoration goals in the Brazilian Atlantic forest8
Is vulnerability to climate change gendered? And how? Insights from Egypt8
Global evidence of constraints and limits to human adaptation8
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
Impacts of climate and land use change on hydrodynamics and sediment transport regime of the Ganga River Basin8
Drought exacerbates the trade-offs and distributional imbalances of regional ecosystem services: a case study in Yunnan Province, China7
Climate impacts on migration in the Arctic North America: existing evidence and research recommendations7
Promise, premise, and reality: the case of voluntary environmental non-migration despite climate risks in coastal Bangladesh7
A case study on facing climate change: optimizing planting density and date of summer maize for stable grain yield in the North China Plain7
Scorched earth tactics of the “Islamic State” after its loss of territory: intentional burning of farmland in Iraq and Syria7
Drought-induced productivity and economic losses in grasslands from Inner Mongolia vary across vegetation types7
Climate change impacts on winter chill in Mediterranean temperate fruit orchards7
The forgotten bread oven: local bakeries, forests and energy transition in Nigeria7
A field and remote sensing assessment of rates and drivers of tree cover loss in island catchments: variation in global model accuracy7
Human ecology of forest in an extraction-shaped landscape: Economic and demographic drivers of land use change in the Ohio Valley over 220 years7
Supply chain disruptions would increase agricultural greenhouse gas emissions7
Perceptions on and impacts of environmental changes under multiple stressors: a case study from two communities in northern Fennoscandia7
Institutions and institutional changes: aquatic food production in Central Luzon, Philippines7
The impact of climate change on wheat in Turkey7
Interdisciplinary insights into a 500-year trajectory of an alpine socio-ecological system in Montaimont, France7
Correction to: Agroforestry trade-offs between biomass provision and aboveground carbon sequestration in the alpine Eisenwurzen region, Austria7
Contribution of ecological conservation programs and climate change to hydrological regime change in the source region of the Yangtze River in China7
Pyrenean glaciers are disappearing fast: state of the glaciers after the extreme mass losses in 2022 and 20237
A review of drivers of environmental non-migration decisions in Africa7
Looking back and looking forward—adapting to extreme weather events in municipalities in western Norway7
From national vision to implementation: governance challenges in sustainable agriculture transitions in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta region7
Do government knowledge production and use systems matter for global climate change adaptation tracking? Insights from Eastern Africa7
Plant biodiversity in Mediterranean orchards is related to historical land use: perspectives for biodiversity-friendly olive production6
Steady decline in food self-sufficiency in Africa from 1961 to 20186
Inequality, water accessibility, and health impacts in Chiapas, Mexico6
Co-production of sustainability indicators in a vulnerable South American agricultural frontier6
Agricultural resilience and adaptive capacity during severe drought in the Western Cape, South Africa6
Searching for synergies for low emission development, the case for dairy subsector in Kenya6
Unveiling the potential of biomarkers in the context of climate change: analysis of knowledge landscapes, trends, and research priorities6
“Listen to us”: small-scale farmers’ understandings of social-ecological changes and their drivers in Important Agricultural Heritage Systems6
Exploring the identification and use of socially defined indicators to monitor local environmental change in the Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona6
Mapping agricultural vulnerability to impacts of climate events of Punjab, Pakistan6
Rapid advance of climatic tree limits in the Eastern Alps explained by on-site temperatures6
Socio-environmental value of glacier lakes: assessment in the Aosta Valley (Western Italian Alps)6
Tracking changes in social-ecological entanglements: beekeeping among the Maa-speaking pastoralists of Laikipia, Kenya6
“Here, I will stay until I die”—exploring the relationship between place attachment, risk perception, and coping behavior in two small Norwegian communities6
Farmers’ action space to adopt sustainable practices: a study of arable farming in Saxony6
Large-scale forest protection: the successful case of the Kayapo people in the Brazilian Amazon6
Facing up to drought events: Understanding the potentials and challenges within farming systems6
Integrated energy-water-land nexus planning in the Colorado River Basin (Argentina)6
Tackling limitations in biodiversity offsetting? A comparison of the Peruvian and French approaches6
Brazil’s planned exploitation of Amazonian indigenous lands for commercial agriculture increases risk of new pandemics6
Evolution of fishing effort and fishing capacity during the last two decades (2000–2019) in Egypt’s marine fisheries: spotting the fleet overcapacity6
Increased frequency of extreme rainfall events threatens an emblematic cultural coastal agroecosystem in Southeastern Thailand6
Mangrove soil carbon stocks varied significantly across community compositions and environmental gradients in the largest mangrove wetland reserve, China6
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
Substantial warming of Central European mountain rivers under climate change6
Too expensive to keep — bidding farewell to an iconic mountain glacier?6
Transformative adaptation through nature-based solutions: a comparative case study analysis in China, Italy, and Germany6
Environmental conservation policy can bend the trend of future forest losses in the oriental Amazon6
Hydrological impacts of climate and land-use change in Western Ghats, India6
Effects of soil subsidence on plantation agriculture in Indonesian peatlands5
The potential for enhancing soil carbon levels through the use of organic soil amendments in Queensland, Australia5
Water under the bridge: how place meanings shape second homeowners’ engagement in flood risk management in southern Denmark5
Resilient Livelihood Styles: An enriched perspective on household livelihood resilience in the sensitive natural environments of Indonesia5
Anthropogenic intensification on plant-pollinator interactions over four decades in Chile: a spatiotemporal assessment5
Long-term trajectories of mountain agro-ecosystems in the North-Western Alps5
Identifying and mitigating risks to completion of small grant climate change adaptation projects: evidence from the Pacific5
Prediction of drought/flood intensities based on a 500-year time series in three different climate provinces of China5
Relative importance of local and regional/global drivers of mangrove degradation and deforestation in Madagascar5
Adaptation strategies for dealing with global atmospheric change in Mediterranean agriculture: a triple helix approach to the Spanish case study5
Evolution of the French Guiana coast from Late Pleistocene to Holocene based on chenier and beach sand dating5
Unveiling invisible climate im/mobilities: mixed-methods case study of a drought-prone rural area of Kersa, Ethiopia5
Societal impacts of historical droughts in a warming world5
The economic and environmental impact of limiting air routes where there is a rail alternative: a case study of Spain5
Integrated flood vulnerability assessment of villages in the Waimanu River Catchment in the South Pacific: the case of Viti Levu, Fiji5
Gender dimensions in the adoption of climate-smart agriculture technologies in response to climate change extremes in Benin5
Rainfed crop yield response to climate change in Iran5
Factors affecting small farm resilience to climate change in Hamedan Province, Iran: a structural model analysis5
Crop diversity effects on temporal agricultural production stability across European regions5
Disrupting climate adaptation lock-ins? Swedish local civil servants’ strategies to enable adaptation5
Landscape ecological risks assessment of the China-Vietnam border area: the perspective of production-living-ecological spaces5
Functional extinction of a genus of canopy-forming macroalgae (Cystophora spp.) across Western Australia5
Determinants, outcomes, and feedbacks associated with microeconomic adaptation to climate change5
Stakeholder visions for trajectories of adaptation to climate change in the Drôme catchment (French Alps)5
Agricultural diversification for crop yield stability: a smallholder adaptation strategy to climate variability in Ethiopia5
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