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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Global evidence of constraints and limits to human adaptation65
Carbon sequestration in hedgerow biomass and soil in the temperate climate zone46
Earth Observation for agricultural drought monitoring in the Pannonian Basin (southeastern Europe): current state and future directions46
The outbreak of illegal gold mining in the Brazilian Amazon boosts deforestation46
The future for Mediterranean wetlands: 50 key issues and 50 important conservation research questions39
The summer 2022 drought: a taste of future climate for the Po valley (Italy)?38
Integrating traditional ecological knowledge into academic research at local and global scales35
Safe from what? Understanding environmental non-migration in Chilean Patagonia through ontological security and risk perceptions34
Possible changes in spatial distribution of walnut (Juglans regia L.) in Europe under warming climate33
Consequences of climate change on airborne pollen in Bavaria, Central Europe33
Water management or megadrought: what caused the Chilean Aculeo Lake drying?31
Predicting the potential distribution of a critically endangered medicinal plant Lilium polyphyllum in Indian Western Himalayan Region31
Saving soil carbon, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity and the economy: paludiculture as sustainable land use option in German fen peatlands30
Solastalgia, place attachment and disruption: insights from a coastal community on the front line29
Theorizing (im)mobility in the face of environmental change28
Shared socioeconomic pathways for climate change research in Finland: co-developing extended SSP narratives for agriculture28
Typologies of European farmers: approaches, methods and research gaps27
Smallholder perceptions of land restoration activities: rewetting tropical peatland oil palm areas in Sumatra, Indonesia26
Agroecology in North African irrigated plains? Mapping promising practices and characterizing farmers’ underlying logics25
How flood risks shape policies: flood exposure and risk perception in Swiss municipalities25
Projected impacts of climate change on tourism in the Canary Islands24
Glacier tourism and climate change: effects, adaptations, and perspectives in the Alps24
The state of agricultural landscapes in the Mediterranean: smallholder agriculture and land abandonment in terraced landscapes of the Ricote Valley, southeast Spain24
Little Ice Age glacier extent and temporal changes in annual mass balance (2016–2019) of Pensilungpa Glacier, Zanskar Himalaya22
What is the evidence linking financial assistance for drought-affected agriculture and resilience in tropical Asia? A systematic review22
Promise, premise, and reality: the case of voluntary environmental non-migration despite climate risks in coastal Bangladesh22
Retreat and geodetic mass changes of Zemu Glacier, Sikkim Himalaya, India, between 1931 and 201822
Comparison of the HYDE cropland data over the past millennium with regional historical evidence from Germany22
Perceptions and vulnerability to climate change among the urban poor in Kampala City, Uganda21
When does risk become residual? A systematic review of research on flood risk management in West Africa20
Climate change and the future of endemic flora in the South Western Alps: relationships between niche properties and extinction risk20
Water scarcity, climate adaptation, and armed conflict: insights from Africa20
Climate change impacts on potential maize yields in Gambella Region, Ethiopia19
The collapse of marine forests: drastic reduction in populations of the family Sargassaceae in Madeira Island (NE Atlantic)18
Multilevel governance in climate change adaptation in Bangladesh: structure, processes, and power dynamics18
Oceanic islands and climate: using a multi-criteria model of drivers of change to select key conservation areas in Galapagos18
Crop diversity effects on temporal agricultural production stability across European regions18
Climate change impacts on winter chill in Mediterranean temperate fruit orchards18
What drives reindeer management in Finland towards social and ecological tipping points?18
Twentieth century temperature and snow cover changes in the French Alps17
Transforming fire governance in British Columbia, Canada: an emerging vision for coexisting with fire17
Mapping agricultural vulnerability to impacts of climate events of Punjab, Pakistan17
Historical reconfigurations of a social–ecological system adapting to economic, policy and climate changes in the French Alps17
Enhancing the provisioning of ecosystem services in South Korea under climate change: The benefits and pitfalls of current forest management strategies17
Brazil’s planned exploitation of Amazonian indigenous lands for commercial agriculture increases risk of new pandemics17
Vulnerability and loss and damage following the COP27 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change17
Rotational pasture management to increase the sustainability of mountain livestock farms in the Alpine region17
The effects of armed conflict on forest cover changes across temporal and spatial scales in the Colombian Amazon16
Confronting climate change and livelihood: smallholder farmers’ perceptions and adaptation strategies in northeastern Burundi16
Near future climate change projections with implications for the agricultural sector of three major Mediterranean islands16
Towards adaptation pathways for atoll islands. Insights from the Maldives16
Sustainability of agricultural practices in Germany: a literature review along multiple environmental domains16
Translating and embedding equity-thinking into climate adaptation: an analysis of US cities16
Diffusion and upscaling of municipal climate mitigation and adaptation strategies in Germany16
Climate change and its impacts in the Balearic Islands: a guide for policy design in Mediterranean regions15
Spatio-temporal variability of avalanche risk in the French Alps15
The Paraguayan Chaco at a crossroads: drivers of an emerging soybean frontier15
The variable paths to sustainable intensification in agriculture15
Time matters: a survival analysis of timing to seasonal food insecurity in semi-arid Ghana15
Farmers’ action space to adopt sustainable practices: a study of arable farming in Saxony15
Climate change awareness, perceived impacts, and adaptation from farmers’ experience and behavior: a triple-loop review14
Applying machine learning to social datasets: a study of migration in southwestern Bangladesh using random forests13
Drought-induced productivity and economic losses in grasslands from Inner Mongolia vary across vegetation types13
A new framework for rapidly assessing national adaptation policies: an application to small island developing states in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans13
Agroforestry trade-offs between biomass provision and aboveground carbon sequestration in the alpine Eisenwurzen region, Austria13
Changes in soil carbon and soil carbon sequestration potential under different types of pasture management in Brazil13
Assessing the resilience of farming systems on the Saïs plain, Morocco13
Climate change impacts on wind power generation for the Italian peninsula13
Cross-sectoral impacts of the 2018–2019 Central European drought and climate resilience in the German part of the Elbe River basin13
Environmental regulation induces technological change and green transformation in Chinese cities13
Contribution of ecological conservation programs and climate change to hydrological regime change in the source region of the Yangtze River in China13
Thirty years of forest-cover change in Western Rwanda during periods of wars and environmental policy shifts13
Climate change risk to southern African wild food plants13
Hydrological impacts of climate and land-use change in Western Ghats, India12
Household perspective on cropland expansion on the Tibetan Plateau12
Rainfed crop yield response to climate change in Iran12
Integrated energy-water-land nexus planning in the Colorado River Basin (Argentina)12
Evolution of national climate adaptation agendas in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia: the role of national leadership and international donors12
Substantial warming of Central European mountain rivers under climate change12
Drivers and effects of deforestation in Colombia: a systems thinking approach12
Impact of fires on an open bamboo forest in years of extreme drought in southwestern Amazonia12
Marine extinctions and their drivers12
Spatial patterns and determinants of avocado frontier dynamics in Mexico12
Consequences of land-use change and the wildfire disaster of 2017 for the central Chilean biodiversity hotspot12
Seaweed farming pressure affects seagrass and benthic macroalgae dynamics in Chwaka Bay (Zanzibar, Tanzania)12
50 years of woody vegetation changes in the Ferlo (Senegal) assessed by high-resolution imagery and field surveys12
Climate change research in southern Africa in recent two decades: progress, needs, and policy implications12
Mangrove recovery in the Nicobar archipelago after the 2004 tsunami and coastal subsidence12
The impacts of agricultural and urban land-use changes on plant and bird biodiversity in Costa Rica (1986–2014)12
Post-cyclone resilience of an agroforest-based food system in the Pacific Islands12
Perceptions and attitudes towards climate change in fishing communities of the Sudd Wetlands, South Sudan12
Towards environmentally sound intensification pathways for dairy development in the Tanga region of Tanzania11
Scale-sensitive governance in forest and landscape restoration: a systematic review11
The effectiveness of climate action and land recovery across ecosystems, climatic zones and scales11
Towards a cultural lens for adaptation pathways to climate change11
Food web modeling indicates the potential impacts of increasing deforestation and fishing pressure in the Tapajós River, Brazilian Amazon11
Sensitivity of fishery resources to climate change in the warm-temperate Southwest Atlantic Ocean11
Learning from the past: common sense, traditional wisdom, and technology for flood risk reduction developed in Japan11
Brazil’s Amazonian deforestation: the role of landholdings in undesignated public lands11
Generational retreat: locally driven adaption to coastal hazard risk in two Indigenous communities in Fiji11
The effects of Amazon deforestation on non-timber forest products11
Dynamics of soil organic carbon in the steppes of Russia and Kazakhstan under past and future climate and land use11
Impacts of urbanization on mangrove forests and brachyuran crabs in Penang, Malaysia11
Projected climate in coffee-based farming systems: implications for crop suitability in Uganda11
Operationalizing and empirically identifying populations trapped in place by climate and environmental stressors in Mexico10
Adaptive capacity of marine comanagement: a comparative analysis of the influence of colonial legacies and integrated traditional governance on outcomes in the Pacific10
Perennial monocropping of khat decreased soil carbon and nitrogen relative to multistrata agroforestry and natural forest in southeastern Ethiopia10
Sea level rise threatens critical nesting sites of charismatic marine turtles in the Mediterranean10
Nitrogen-fixing trees increase organic carbon sequestration in forest and agroforestry ecosystems in the Congo basin10
Shifting climate zones and expanding tropical and arid climate regions across Kenya (1980–2020)10
Climate change, power, and vulnerabilities in the Peruvian Highlands10
Tracking local and regional climate im/mobilities through a multidimensional lens10
Community-identified risks to hunting, fishing, and gathering (harvesting) activities from increased marine shipping activity in Inuit Nunangat, Canada10
Brazilian stingless bees are threatened by habitat conversion and climate change10
Identifying human health risks from precious metal mining in Sierra Leone10
Nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation are not located where they are most needed across the Alps10
Socio-environmental value of glacier lakes: assessment in the Aosta Valley (Western Italian Alps)10
Bioclimatic habitat limitations for argan trees (Argania spinosa (L.) Skeels) in Northern Africa and Spain10
Carbon and nutrient cycling in tree plantations vs. natural forests: implication for an efficient cocoa agroforestry system in West Africa10
The marginal abatement cost curve and optimized abatement trajectory of CO2 emissions from China’s petroleum industry10
Soil organic carbon in Andean high-mountain ecosystems: importance, challenges, and opportunities for carbon sequestration10
Implications of regional agricultural land use dynamics and deforestation associated with sugarcane expansion for soil carbon stocks in Brazil10
Looking back and looking forward—adapting to extreme weather events in municipalities in western Norway9
Assessing potential impacts of sea level rise on mangrove ecosystems in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam9
Putting climate-induced migration in context: the case of Honduran migration to the USA9
National peatland strategies in Europe: current status, key themes, and challenges9
Long-term trajectories of mountain agro-ecosystems in the North-Western Alps9
The interactions among landscape pattern, climate change, and ecosystem services: progress and prospects9
Balancing disturbance risk and ecosystem service provisioning in Swiss mountain forests: an increasing challenge under climate change9
Climate change in action: local elevational shifts on Iberian amphibians and reptiles9
Regional and national changes in soil carbon stocks with land-use change from 1990 to 2016 for New Zealand9
Achieving the Paris Agreement would substantially reduce climate change risks to biodiversity in Central and South America9
Soil organic carbon monitoring to assess agricultural climate change adaptation practices in Navarre, Spain9
Opportunities for an African greenhouse gas observation system9
Determinants, outcomes, and feedbacks associated with microeconomic adaptation to climate change9
The role of multiple stressors in adaptation to climate change in the Canadian Arctic9
Forest regrowth in Tierra del Fuego, southern Patagonia: landscape drivers and effects on forest structure, soil, and understory attributes9
Influence of deforestation inside and outside indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon Biome9
A national-scale assessment of land use change in peatlands between 1989 and 2020 using Landsat data and Google Earth Engine—a case study of Ireland9
Enabling nature-based solutions for climate change on a peri-urban sandspit in Christchurch, New Zealand9
Population status, threats, and conservation options of the orchid Dactylorhiza hatagirea in Indian Western Himalaya9
The interplay between agriculture, greenhouse gases, and climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa9
Response of endangered bird species to land-use changes in an agricultural landscape in Germany9
Adaptive measures for mountain Mediterranean forest ecosystem services under climate and land cover change in the Mont-Ventoux regional nature park, France9
Integrated flood vulnerability assessment of villages in the Waimanu River Catchment in the South Pacific: the case of Viti Levu, Fiji8
Community priorities, values, and perceptions associated with ecosystem services provided by the socio-ecological landscapes of Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya8
Transformative adaptation through nature-based solutions: a comparative case study analysis in China, Italy, and Germany8
Deforestation and land use change mediate soil carbon changes in the eastern Brazilian Amazon8
Is vulnerability to climate change gendered? And how? Insights from Egypt8
Changes in the environment from perspectives of small-scale farmers in remote Vietnam8
Land in Central America will become less suitable for coffee cultivation under climate change8
Understanding immobility of a highly vulnerable coastal village in the Indian Sundarban8
Possible interaction between exposure to environmental contaminants and nutritional stress in promoting disease occurrence in seabirds from French Guiana: a review8
Collective capabilities shape the co-production of nature’s contributions to people in the alpine agricultural system of the Maurienne valley, France8
A 500-year history of forest fires in Sala area, central Sweden, shows the earliest known onset of fire suppression in Scandinavia8
Stakeholder visions for trajectories of adaptation to climate change in the Drôme catchment (French Alps)8
Response of river-lake hydrologic regimes to local climate change in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau region, China8
High genetic diversity and low future habitat suitability: will Cupressus atlantica, endemic to the High Atlas, survive under climate change?8
Navigating power imbalances in landscape governance: a network and influence analysis in southern Zambia8
From national vision to implementation: governance challenges in sustainable agriculture transitions in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta region8
Coastal livelihood resilience to abrupt environmental change: the role of social capital in a Peruvian bay7
Assessing how ecosystem-based adaptations to climate change influence community wellbeing: a Vanuatu case study7
A review of drivers of environmental non-migration decisions in Africa7
Progress in agricultural vulnerability and risk research in India: a systematic review7
Reconstruction of cropland areas for South Asia from AD 640 to 20167
Managing collaborative research: insights from a multi-consortium programme on climate adaptation across Africa and South Asia7
Water balance components and climate extremes over Brazil under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C of global warming scenarios7
Can the cropping systems of the Nile basin be adapted to climate change?7
An extreme climatic event and systemic vulnerabilities in the face of conflict: insights from the Taliban insurgency in Swat, Pakistan7
Narratives of land abandonment in a biocultural landscape of Spain7
Why do people stay put in environmentally stressful regions? Cognitive bias and heuristics in migration decision-making7
Climate change impacts on nomadic herders' livelihoods and pastureland ecosystems: a case study from Northeast Mongolia7
Ecosystem transformation following the mid-nineteenth century cessation of Aboriginal fire management in Cape Pillar, Tasmania7
Do direct-access and indirect-access adaptation projects differ in their focus on local communities? A systematic analysis of 63 Adaptation Fund projects7
Future changes in wind energy resources in Egypt under Paris climate agreements’ goals7
The vegetation cover dynamics and potential drivers of habitat change over 30 years in the Free State National Botanical Garden, South Africa7
Fighting against, and coping with, drought in Brazil: two policy paradigms intertwined7
Forest expansion in abandoned agricultural lands has limited effect to offset carbon emissions from Central-North Spain7
Fast climatic changes place an endemic Canary Island macroalga at extinction risk7
Impacts and economic costs of climate change on Mexican agriculture7
Research priorities for the sustainability of coral-rich western Pacific seascapes7
Climate change and its impacts on glaciers and glacial lakes in Nepal Himalayas7
Local reports of climate change impacts in Sierra Nevada, Spain: sociodemographic and geographical patterns7
Studies from global regions indicate promising avenues for maintaining and increasing soil organic carbon stocks7
Assessment of hydro-climatic trends in a drought-prone region of Maharashtra (India) with reference to rainfed agriculture7
Grassland contribution to soil organic carbon stock under climate change scenarios in Basque Country (Spain)7
Estimates of carbon stocks in sandy soils cultivated under local management practices in Senegal’s groundnut basin6
Exploring the benefits and dis-benefits of climate migration as an adaptive strategy along the rural-peri-urban continuum in Namibia6
Social relationship dynamics mediate climate impacts on income inequality: evidence from the Mexican Humboldt squid fishery6
How path dependency manifests in flood risk management: observations from four decades in the Ennstal and Aist catchments in Austria6
Maladaptive diffusion? The spread of hard protection to adapt to coastal erosion and flooding along island coasts in the Pacific and Indian Ocean6
Societal impacts of historical droughts in a warming world6
Brazilian soybeans as feed for livestock in Europe: an insight into the nitrogen flows6
Future scenarios of land use change in the Gran Chaco: how far is zero-deforestation?6
Roadless areas in Brazil: land cover, land use, and conservation status6
Downscaling population and urban land use for socio-economic scenarios in the UK6
Socio-ecological vulnerability in rural Spain: research gaps and policy implications6
Gendered (im)mobility: emotional decisions of staying in the context of climate risks in Bangladesh6
Evaluating the benefits of weather and climate services in South Asia: a systematic review6
Effect of dairy cattle production systems on sustaining soil organic carbon storage in grasslands of northern Spain6
Balancing the push and pull factors of land-use change: a New Zealand case study6
Small islands and climate change: analysis of adaptation policy in the Cayman Islands6
European beewolf (Philanthus triangulum) will expand its geographic range as a result of climate warming6
Steady decline in food self-sufficiency in Africa from 1961 to 20186
Optimized rice adaptations in response to heat and cold stress under climate change in southern China6
Determinants of farmland abandonment in the urban–rural fringe of Ghana6
Network governance in the use of prescribed fire: roles for bridging organizations and other actors in the Western United States6
Prediction of drought/flood intensities based on a 500-year time series in three different climate provinces of China6
Marine heatwaves threaten key foraging grounds of sea turtles in Southeast Asian Seas6
Climate impact chains for envisaging climate risks, vulnerabilities, and adaptation issues6
Which pathway to address interrelated challenges to farm sustainability in Thailand? Views of local actors5
Climate change impacts on future driving and walking conditions in Finland, Norway and Sweden5
Spatio-temporal dynamics of grassland use intensity in Switzerland5
Land sharing strategies for addressing the trade-off between carbon storage and crop production in France5
Climate change impacts on tree crop suitability in Southeast Asia5
Environmental conservation policy can bend the trend of future forest losses in the oriental Amazon5
“Two-Row” cross-cultural learning for collaborative governance of forestland in northwestern Ontario, Canada5
Organic inputs in agroforestry systems improve soil organic carbon storage in Itasy, Madagascar5
Pathways to achieving nature-positive and carbon–neutral land use and food systems in Wales5
Movement ecology, breeding, diet, and roosting behavior of barn owls (Tyto alba) in a transboundary conflict region5
Dynamics of tropical forest regeneration in the Mexican Mesoamerican Biological Corridor from 2000 to 2020: does forest regeneration maintain continuous forest cover?5
Extreme hydroclimatic events in rural communities of the Brazilian Amazon: local perceptions of change, impacts, and adaptation5
Natural and anthropogenic factors influencing changes in peatland management in Poland5
Effects of soil subsidence on plantation agriculture in Indonesian peatlands5
Linking changes in ejido land tenure to changes in landscape patterns over 30 years across Yucatán, México5
Drylands becoming drier: evidence from North Patagonia, Argentina5
“It depends…”: Inuit-led identification and interpretation of land-based observations for climate change adaptation in Nunatsiavut, Labrador5
How do countries frame climate change? A global comparison of adaptation and mitigation in UNFCCC National Communications5
Household flood risk response in San Francisco Bay: linking risk information, perception, and behavior5
Interdisciplinary insights into a 500-year trajectory of an alpine socio-ecological system in Montaimont, France5
Opportunities for blue carbon restoration projects in degraded agricultural land of the coastal zone in Queensland, Australia5
Changes in coastal farming systems in a changing climate in Bangladesh5
Seasonal temperature and rainfall extremes 1911–2017 for Northern Australian population centres: challenges for human activity5
Shifting responsibility and denying justice: New Zealand’s contentious approach to Pacific climate mobilities5
The potential for enhancing soil carbon levels through the use of organic soil amendments in Queensland, Australia5
Deforestation and trends of change in protected areas of the Usumacinta River basin (2000–2018), Mexico and Guatemala5
Sixteen ways to adapt: a comparison of state-level climate change adaptation strategies in the federal states of Germany5
Institutions and institutional changes: aquatic food production in Central Luzon, Philippines5
Hydrologic response to large-scale land use and cover changes in the Upper Paraná River Basin between 1985 and 20155
Assessing observed and projected flood vulnerability under climate change using multi-modeling statistical approaches in the Ouémé River Basin, Benin (West Africa)5
A transdisciplinary method, knowledge model and management framework for climate change adaptation in mountain areas applied in the Vercors, France5
Natural and Indigenous sciences: reflections on an attempt to collaborate5
Infrastructure development with(out) ecological conservation: the Northern Forests in İstanbul5
Media framing of the Cape Town water crisis: perspectives on the food-energy-water nexus5
Cross-jurisdictional insights from forest practitioners on novel climate-adaptive options for Canada’s forests5
A remote sensing-based classification approach for river mouths of the Amazon-influenced Guianas coast4
Effects of climate change-induced water temperature changes on the distribution of tidal river fish fauna in the Japanese archipelago4
“Here, I will stay until I die”—exploring the relationship between place attachment, risk perception, and coping behavior in two small Norwegian communities4
Wetland changes and their impacts on livelihoods in Chiang Saen Valley, Chiang Rai Province, Thailand4
Co-producing representations of summer rainfall in Bangladesh4
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