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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community219
Climate change vulnerability, water resources and social implications in North Africa181
Defining the solution space to accelerate climate change adaptation51
Escalating environmental summer heat exposure—a future threat for the European workforce45
Global evidence of constraints and limits to human adaptation44
Climate change impacts on water resources in the Mediterranean42
Dynamics and drivers of land use and land cover changes in Bangladesh40
The outbreak of illegal gold mining in the Brazilian Amazon boosts deforestation37
Carbon sequestration in hedgerow biomass and soil in the temperate climate zone37
Earth Observation for agricultural drought monitoring in the Pannonian Basin (southeastern Europe): current state and future directions37
Predicting impacts of climate variability on Banj oak (Quercus leucotrichophora A. Camus) forests: understanding future implications for Central Himalayas31
How warmer and drier will the Mediterranean region be at the end of the twenty-first century?31
The future for Mediterranean wetlands: 50 key issues and 50 important conservation research questions30
Responses of soil nutrients to vegetation restoration in China30
The impact of climate change on a Mediterranean shallow lake: insights based on catchment and lake modelling30
Climate resilience of the top ten wheat producers in the Mediterranean and the Middle East29
Predicting the potential distribution of a critically endangered medicinal plant Lilium polyphyllum in Indian Western Himalayan Region28
Safe from what? Understanding environmental non-migration in Chilean Patagonia through ontological security and risk perceptions27
Machine learning for research on climate change adaptation policy integration: an exploratory UK case study27
Contrasting development trajectories for coastal Bangladesh to the end of century27
Increased human pressures on the alpine ecosystem along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway26
Possible changes in spatial distribution of walnut (Juglans regia L.) in Europe under warming climate26
Water management or megadrought: what caused the Chilean Aculeo Lake drying?25
Solastalgia, place attachment and disruption: insights from a coastal community on the front line25
The summer 2022 drought: a taste of future climate for the Po valley (Italy)?24
Integrating traditional ecological knowledge into academic research at local and global scales24
Large zonal and temporal shifts in crops and cultivars coincide with warmer growing seasons in Finland24
Sustainability of complex social-ecological systems: methods, tools, and approaches24
Consequences of climate change on airborne pollen in Bavaria, Central Europe24
Understanding the economic impact of interacting carbon pricing and renewable energy policy in China22
The state of agricultural landscapes in the Mediterranean: smallholder agriculture and land abandonment in terraced landscapes of the Ricote Valley, southeast Spain22
Glacier tourism and climate change: effects, adaptations, and perspectives in the Alps22
Mediterranean wetland conservation in the context of climate and land cover change21
Accelerated changes of glaciers in the Yulong Snow Mountain, Southeast Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau21
Theorizing (im)mobility in the face of environmental change21
Distribution of rose hip (Rosa canina L.) under current and future climate conditions21
Multi-dimensional well-being associated with economic dependence on ecosystem services in deltaic social-ecological systems of Bangladesh21
Risk screening of the potential invasiveness of non-native freshwater fishes in the River Ob basin (West Siberian Plain, Russia)20
How flood risks shape policies: flood exposure and risk perception in Swiss municipalities20
Potential adaptability of marine turtles to climate change may be hindered by coastal development in the USA19
Shared socioeconomic pathways for climate change research in Finland: co-developing extended SSP narratives for agriculture19
Smallholder perceptions of land restoration activities: rewetting tropical peatland oil palm areas in Sumatra, Indonesia19
Retreat and geodetic mass changes of Zemu Glacier, Sikkim Himalaya, India, between 1931 and 201819
Promise, premise, and reality: the case of voluntary environmental non-migration despite climate risks in coastal Bangladesh19
Impact of cropland displacement on the potential crop production in China: a multi-scale analysis18
Perspectives on the human dimensions of coral restoration18
Projected impacts of climate change on tourism in the Canary Islands17
Climate change and the future of endemic flora in the South Western Alps: relationships between niche properties and extinction risk17
Potential biodiversity change in Central Asian grasslands: scenarios for the impact of climate and land-use change17
“You relied on God and your neighbour to get through it”: social capital and climate change adaptation in the rural Canadian Prairies17
Perceptions and vulnerability to climate change among the urban poor in Kampala City, Uganda17
Who defines “good” climate change adaptation and why it matters: a case study from Abaiang Island, Kiribati16
Little Ice Age glacier extent and temporal changes in annual mass balance (2016–2019) of Pensilungpa Glacier, Zanskar Himalaya16
When does risk become residual? A systematic review of research on flood risk management in West Africa16
What ecologists should know before using land use/cover change projections for biodiversity and ecosystem service assessments16
Historical reconfigurations of a social–ecological system adapting to economic, policy and climate changes in the French Alps16
Agroecology in North African irrigated plains? Mapping promising practices and characterizing farmers’ underlying logics16
Diversity of cattle raising systems and its effects over forest regrowth in a core region of cattle production in the Brazilian Amazon16
Comparison of the HYDE cropland data over the past millennium with regional historical evidence from Germany16
Water scarcity, climate adaptation, and armed conflict: insights from Africa15
What is the evidence linking financial assistance for drought-affected agriculture and resilience in tropical Asia? A systematic review15
Envisioning carbon-free land use futures for Sweden: a scenario study on conflicts and synergies between environmental policy goals15
Multilevel governance in climate change adaptation in Bangladesh: structure, processes, and power dynamics15
Rotational pasture management to increase the sustainability of mountain livestock farms in the Alpine region15
Facing extremes: Cory’s shearwaters adjust their foraging behaviour differently in response to contrasting phases of North Atlantic Oscillation15
What drives reindeer management in Finland towards social and ecological tipping points?15
Climate change impacts on potential maize yields in Gambella Region, Ethiopia15
Oceanic islands and climate: using a multi-criteria model of drivers of change to select key conservation areas in Galapagos15
Climate change impact assessment on grape and wine for Ontario, Canada’s appellations of origin14
Future projections of biodiversity and ecosystem services in Europe with two integrated assessment models14
Brazil’s planned exploitation of Amazonian indigenous lands for commercial agriculture increases risk of new pandemics14
Climate change shifts the distribution of vegetation types in South Brazilian hotspots14
Near future climate change projections with implications for the agricultural sector of three major Mediterranean islands14
Sustaining healthy diets in times of change: linking climate hazards, food systems and nutrition security in rural communities of the Fiji Islands14
The collapse of marine forests: drastic reduction in populations of the family Sargassaceae in Madeira Island (NE Atlantic)14
Building on adaptive capacity to extreme events in Brazil: water reform, participation, and climate information across four river basins13
Local participation in decentralized water governance: insights from north-central Namibia13
Enhancing the provisioning of ecosystem services in South Korea under climate change: The benefits and pitfalls of current forest management strategies13
Impact of fires on an open bamboo forest in years of extreme drought in southwestern Amazonia13
Crop diversity effects on temporal agricultural production stability across European regions13
Towards adaptation pathways for atoll islands. Insights from the Maldives13
Vulnerability and loss and damage following the COP27 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change13
Past human impact in a mountain forest: geoarchaeology of a medieval glass production and charcoal hearth site in the Erzgebirge, Germany13
Saving soil carbon, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity and the economy: paludiculture as sustainable land use option in German fen peatlands12
Revisiting recharge and sustainability of the North-Western Sahara aquifers12
Evolution of national climate adaptation agendas in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia: the role of national leadership and international donors12
Sensitivity of discharge projections to potential evapotranspiration estimation in Northern Tunisia12
Transforming fire governance in British Columbia, Canada: an emerging vision for coexisting with fire12
Aquaculture farmers’ perceptions of climate-related risks in the Mekong Region12
Land use/land cover change dynamics and their effects on land surface temperature in the western region of the state of São Paulo, Brazil12
The variable paths to sustainable intensification in agriculture12
Sustainability measurements in China and Japan: an application of the inclusive wealth concept from a geographical perspective12
A new framework for rapidly assessing national adaptation policies: an application to small island developing states in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans12
Mapping agricultural vulnerability to impacts of climate events of Punjab, Pakistan12
Spatio-temporal variability of avalanche risk in the French Alps11
Assessing the resilience of farming systems on the Saïs plain, Morocco11
Climate change and its impacts in the Balearic Islands: a guide for policy design in Mediterranean regions11
Typologies of European farmers: approaches, methods and research gaps11
Integrated energy-water-land nexus planning in the Colorado River Basin (Argentina)11
The effects of armed conflict on forest cover changes across temporal and spatial scales in the Colombian Amazon11
Rainfed crop yield response to climate change in Iran11
50 years of woody vegetation changes in the Ferlo (Senegal) assessed by high-resolution imagery and field surveys10
Food web modeling indicates the potential impacts of increasing deforestation and fishing pressure in the Tapajós River, Brazilian Amazon10
Drought-induced productivity and economic losses in grasslands from Inner Mongolia vary across vegetation types10
The effects of Amazon deforestation on non-timber forest products10
Tracking local and regional climate im/mobilities through a multidimensional lens10
The marginal abatement cost curve and optimized abatement trajectory of CO2 emissions from China’s petroleum industry10
Assessing the impact of increased legume production in Europe on global agricultural emissions10
The impacts of agricultural and urban land-use changes on plant and bird biodiversity in Costa Rica (1986–2014)10
Time matters: a survival analysis of timing to seasonal food insecurity in semi-arid Ghana10
Hydrological impacts of climate and land-use change in Western Ghats, India10
Changes in soil carbon and soil carbon sequestration potential under different types of pasture management in Brazil10
Contribution of ecological conservation programs and climate change to hydrological regime change in the source region of the Yangtze River in China10
Sustainability of agricultural practices in Germany: a literature review along multiple environmental domains10
Brazilian stingless bees are threatened by habitat conversion and climate change10
Impacts of urbanization on mangrove forests and brachyuran crabs in Penang, Malaysia10
Does mangrove plantation reduce coastal erosion? Assessment from the west coast of India10
Agroforestry trade-offs between biomass provision and aboveground carbon sequestration in the alpine Eisenwurzen region, Austria10
Environmental regulation induces technological change and green transformation in Chinese cities10
The Paraguayan Chaco at a crossroads: drivers of an emerging soybean frontier10
Household perspective on cropland expansion on the Tibetan Plateau10
The effectiveness of setback zones for adapting to sea-level rise in Croatia10
Climate change impacts on winter chill in Mediterranean temperate fruit orchards10
Assessment of coastal risk reduction and adaptation-labelled responses in Mauritius Island (Indian Ocean)10
Towards a cultural lens for adaptation pathways to climate change10
Contextualizing local landscape initiatives in global change: a scenario study for the high forest zone, Ghana10
The effects of climate change variability on rural livelihoods in Madre de Dios, Peru10
Generational retreat: locally driven adaption to coastal hazard risk in two Indigenous communities in Fiji9
Towards environmentally sound intensification pathways for dairy development in the Tanga region of Tanzania9
The effectiveness of climate action and land recovery across ecosystems, climatic zones and scales9
Future distribution of invasive weed species across the major road network in the state of Montana, USA9
Brazil’s Amazonian deforestation: the role of landholdings in undesignated public lands9
Perceptions and attitudes towards climate change in fishing communities of the Sudd Wetlands, South Sudan9
Drivers and effects of deforestation in Colombia: a systems thinking approach9
Climate change research in southern Africa in recent two decades: progress, needs, and policy implications9
Dynamics of soil organic carbon in the steppes of Russia and Kazakhstan under past and future climate and land use9
Impact of climate variability on the surface of Lake Tuz (Turkey), 1985–20169
Seaweed farming pressure affects seagrass and benthic macroalgae dynamics in Chwaka Bay (Zanzibar, Tanzania)9
Cross-sectoral impacts of the 2018–2019 Central European drought and climate resilience in the German part of the Elbe River basin9
The role of the social network structure on the spread of intensive agriculture: an example from Navarre, Spain9
Twentieth century temperature and snow cover changes in the French Alps9
Adaptive measures for mountain Mediterranean forest ecosystem services under climate and land cover change in the Mont-Ventoux regional nature park, France9
Post-cyclone resilience of an agroforest-based food system in the Pacific Islands9
Implications of regional agricultural land use dynamics and deforestation associated with sugarcane expansion for soil carbon stocks in Brazil9
Population status, threats, and conservation options of the orchid Dactylorhiza hatagirea in Indian Western Himalaya8
Determinants, outcomes, and feedbacks associated with microeconomic adaptation to climate change8
Response of endangered bird species to land-use changes in an agricultural landscape in Germany8
Identifying human health risks from precious metal mining in Sierra Leone8
Applying machine learning to social datasets: a study of migration in southwestern Bangladesh using random forests8
Scale-sensitive governance in forest and landscape restoration: a systematic review8
Opportunities for an African greenhouse gas observation system8
Planning for the future? The emergence of shared visions for agriculture in the urban-influenced Ontario’s Greenbelt, Canada, and Toulouse InterSCoT, France8
Diffusion and upscaling of municipal climate mitigation and adaptation strategies in Germany8
The role of Chomo grass (Brachiaria humidicola) and exclosures in restoring soil organic matter, total nitrogen, and associated functions in degraded lands in Ethiopia8
Climate change in action: local elevational shifts on Iberian amphibians and reptiles8
Influence of deforestation inside and outside indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon Biome8
Soil organic carbon monitoring to assess agricultural climate change adaptation practices in Navarre, Spain8
Rewilding of large herbivore communities in high elevation Puna: geographic segregation and no evidence of positive effects on peatland productivity8
Short-term decisions in lake restoration have long-term consequences for water quality8
Sea level rise threatens critical nesting sites of charismatic marine turtles in the Mediterranean8
Cultivating vulnerability: oil palm expansion and the socio-ecological food system in the Lachuá Ecoregion, Guatemala8
High genetic diversity and low future habitat suitability: will Cupressus atlantica, endemic to the High Atlas, survive under climate change?8
Climate change risk to southern African wild food plants8
Enabling nature-based solutions for climate change on a peri-urban sandspit in Christchurch, New Zealand8
Marine extinctions and their drivers8
Community-identified risks to hunting, fishing, and gathering (harvesting) activities from increased marine shipping activity in Inuit Nunangat, Canada7
Forest regrowth in Tierra del Fuego, southern Patagonia: landscape drivers and effects on forest structure, soil, and understory attributes7
Climate change impacts on wind power generation for the Italian peninsula7
A game theory model to explore the role of cooperation and diversity in community food security: the case of Southern Malawi7
Confronting climate change and livelihood: smallholder farmers’ perceptions and adaptation strategies in northeastern Burundi7
Carbon and nutrient cycling in tree plantations vs. natural forests: implication for an efficient cocoa agroforestry system in West Africa7
A 500-year history of forest fires in Sala area, central Sweden, shows the earliest known onset of fire suppression in Scandinavia7
Nitrogen-fixing trees increase organic carbon sequestration in forest and agroforestry ecosystems in the Congo basin7
Farmers’ action space to adopt sustainable practices: a study of arable farming in Saxony7
Climate change, power, and vulnerabilities in the Peruvian Highlands7
From national vision to implementation: governance challenges in sustainable agriculture transitions in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta region7
Adaptive capacity of marine comanagement: a comparative analysis of the influence of colonial legacies and integrated traditional governance on outcomes in the Pacific7
Learning from the past: common sense, traditional wisdom, and technology for flood risk reduction developed in Japan7
An extreme climatic event and systemic vulnerabilities in the face of conflict: insights from the Taliban insurgency in Swat, Pakistan7
Consequences of land-use change and the wildfire disaster of 2017 for the central Chilean biodiversity hotspot7
Using proverbs to study local perceptions of climate change: a case study in Sierra Nevada (Spain)7
Climate change awareness, perceived impacts, and adaptation from farmers’ experience and behavior: a triple-loop review6
Putting climate-induced migration in context: the case of Honduran migration to the USA6
Is vulnerability to climate change gendered? And how? Insights from Egypt6
Isoprene contribution to ozone production under climate change conditions in the French Mediterranean area6
Progress in agricultural vulnerability and risk research in India: a systematic review6
Fighting against, and coping with, drought in Brazil: two policy paradigms intertwined6
Soil organic carbon in Andean high-mountain ecosystems: importance, challenges, and opportunities for carbon sequestration6
Managing collaborative research: insights from a multi-consortium programme on climate adaptation across Africa and South Asia6
Fast climatic changes place an endemic Canary Island macroalga at extinction risk6
Assessing potential impacts of sea level rise on mangrove ecosystems in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam6
Deforestation and land use change mediate soil carbon changes in the eastern Brazilian Amazon6
Perennial monocropping of khat decreased soil carbon and nitrogen relative to multistrata agroforestry and natural forest in southeastern Ethiopia6
Changes in the environment from perspectives of small-scale farmers in remote Vietnam6
Reconstruction of cropland areas for South Asia from AD 640 to 20166
Land in Central America will become less suitable for coffee cultivation under climate change6
Spatial patterns and determinants of avocado frontier dynamics in Mexico6
Nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation are not located where they are most needed across the Alps6
Regional and national changes in soil carbon stocks with land-use change from 1990 to 2016 for New Zealand6
Why do people stay put in environmentally stressful regions? Cognitive bias and heuristics in migration decision-making6
The rapid development of the photovoltaic industry in China and related carbon dioxide abatement costs6
Mangrove recovery in the Nicobar archipelago after the 2004 tsunami and coastal subsidence6
Collective capabilities shape the co-production of nature’s contributions to people in the alpine agricultural system of the Maurienne valley, France6
Stakeholder visions for trajectories of adaptation to climate change in the Drôme catchment (French Alps)6
Long-term trajectories of mountain agro-ecosystems in the North-Western Alps6
Response of river-lake hydrologic regimes to local climate change in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau region, China6
Studies from global regions indicate promising avenues for maintaining and increasing soil organic carbon stocks6
Projected climate in coffee-based farming systems: implications for crop suitability in Uganda6
Looking back and looking forward—adapting to extreme weather events in municipalities in western Norway6
Socio-environmental value of glacier lakes: assessment in the Aosta Valley (Western Italian Alps)5
Reconstruction of snow days based on monthly climate indicators in the Swiss pre-alpine region5
Achieving the Paris Agreement would substantially reduce climate change risks to biodiversity in Central and South America5
Operationalizing and empirically identifying populations trapped in place by climate and environmental stressors in Mexico5
Effect of dairy cattle production systems on sustaining soil organic carbon storage in grasslands of northern Spain5
Integrated flood vulnerability assessment of villages in the Waimanu River Catchment in the South Pacific: the case of Viti Levu, Fiji5
Small islands and climate change: analysis of adaptation policy in the Cayman Islands5
Roadless areas in Brazil: land cover, land use, and conservation status5
Possible interaction between exposure to environmental contaminants and nutritional stress in promoting disease occurrence in seabirds from French Guiana: a review5
Environmental conservation policy can bend the trend of future forest losses in the oriental Amazon5
Institutions and institutional changes: aquatic food production in Central Luzon, Philippines5
Climate change impacts on nomadic herders' livelihoods and pastureland ecosystems: a case study from Northeast Mongolia5
Movement ecology, breeding, diet, and roosting behavior of barn owls (Tyto alba) in a transboundary conflict region5
Seasonal temperature and rainfall extremes 1911–2017 for Northern Australian population centres: challenges for human activity5
Do direct-access and indirect-access adaptation projects differ in their focus on local communities? A systematic analysis of 63 Adaptation Fund projects5
Changes of potential catches for North-East Atlantic small pelagic fisheries under climate change scenarios5
Translating and embedding equity-thinking into climate adaptation: an analysis of US cities5
Downscaling population and urban land use for socio-economic scenarios in the UK5
Bioclimatic habitat limitations for argan trees (Argania spinosa (L.) Skeels) in Northern Africa and Spain5
The 1857–1858 drought in Alsace: from water shortage to a socio-political extreme event5
Changes in coastal farming systems in a changing climate in Bangladesh5
Cross-jurisdictional insights from forest practitioners on novel climate-adaptive options for Canada’s forests5
European beewolf (Philanthus triangulum) will expand its geographic range as a result of climate warming5
Thirty years of forest-cover change in Western Rwanda during periods of wars and environmental policy shifts5
Local residents’ perceptions of climate and ecological changes in the eastern Tibetan Plateau4
The great (1506–)1507 drought and its consequences in Hungary in a (Central) European context4
Future changes in wind energy resources in Egypt under Paris climate agreements’ goals4
Identifying and prioritising adaptation options for a coastal freshwater supply and demand system under climatic and non-climatic changes4
A remote sensing-based classification approach for river mouths of the Amazon-influenced Guianas coast4
Substantial warming of Central European mountain rivers under climate change4
Can the cropping systems of the Nile basin be adapted to climate change?4
Local reports of climate change impacts in Sierra Nevada, Spain: sociodemographic and geographical patterns4
The role of multiple stressors in adaptation to climate change in the Canadian Arctic4
Grassland contribution to soil organic carbon stock under climate change scenarios in Basque Country (Spain)4
Understanding immobility of a highly vulnerable coastal village in the Indian Sundarban4
Linking changes in ejido land tenure to changes in landscape patterns over 30 years across Yucatán, México4
Land sharing strategies for addressing the trade-off between carbon storage and crop production in France4
The vegetation cover dynamics and potential drivers of habitat change over 30 years in the Free State National Botanical Garden, South Africa4
Community priorities, values, and perceptions associated with ecosystem services provided by the socio-ecological landscapes of Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya4
Shifting climate zones and expanding tropical and arid climate regions across Kenya (1980–2020)4
Estimates of carbon stocks in sandy soils cultivated under local management practices in Senegal’s groundnut basin4
0.050503969192505