Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions

Papers
(The median citation count of Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions is 12. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board210
Niches for transformative change within dominant territorial pathways: Practices and perspectives in a Nicaraguan agricultural frontier170
Assisted tree migration can reduce but not avert the decline of forest ecosystem services in Europe167
Civil society and survival: Indigenous Amazigh climate adaptation in Morocco159
The multifaceted spectra of power − A participatory network analysis on power structures in diverse dryland regions139
Resource use and resource efficiency in the Asia–Pacific region revisited129
Advancing national Shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs): A novel procedure applied to develop current Swiss SSPs113
Potential for climate change driven spatial mismatches between apple crops and their wild bee pollinators at a continental scale104
Understanding forest transitions and lock-ins in Latin American agro-forest frontiers: aligning theory to practice for accelerating restoration98
Carbon tax salience counteracts price effects through moral licensing94
Localized land tenure registration in Burundi and eastern DR Congo: Contributing to sustainable peace?91
Beyond the binary of trapped populations and voluntary immobility: A people-centered perspective on environmental change and human immobility at Lake Urmia, Iran90
Global energy consumption of the mineral mining industry: Exploring the historical perspective and future pathways to 206087
National leverage points to reduce global pesticide pollution87
Guns or Green? A social-ecological systems analysis of defense expenditure, clean energy, and financial inclusivity in India and Pakistan78
Corrigendum to “Scaling Indigenous-led natural resource management” [Glob. Environ. Chang. 84 (2024) 102799]77
Farm workers and the structural basis of climate change perceptions75
How seasonal cultures shape adaptation on Aotearoa – New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula70
Anticipating socio-technical tipping points69
“Scale and access to the Green climate Fund: Big challenges for small island developing States”67
Beyond projects: Relational durability and the measurement of climate adaptation success in practice64
Dealing with water extremes: An exploration of conditions for transformative adaptation60
Why are sustainable practices often elusive? The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions59
The value of property rights and environmental policy in Brazil: Evidence from a new database on land prices58
Carbon territoriality at the land-water interface57
Unveiling small-scale tropical forest loss and post-loss recovery in the Congo Basin55
Transformative potential in sustainable development goals engagement: Experience from local governance in Australia53
Diffusion of global climate policy: National depoliticization, local repoliticization in Turkey52
Agency, social networks, and adaptation to environmental change52
How social movements use religious creativity to address environmental crises in Indonesian local communities51
Spinning in circles? A systematic review on the role of theory in social vulnerability, resilience and adaptation research50
Participatory storyworld building for unlocking climate adaptation48
Knowledge co-production for decision-making in human-natural systems under uncertainty47
Experience with extreme weather events increases willingness-to-pay for climate mitigation policy46
Impact of lifestyle, human diet and nutrient use efficiency in food production on eutrophication of global aquifers and surface waters46
Just social-ecological tipping scales: A mid-range social theory of change in coal and carbon intensive regions44
Editorial Board44
Integrating climate adaptation and peacebuilding: capacity development in climate and conflict-affected communities43
Land titles and deforestation: evidence from Peru’s oil palm sector43
Spectrums of Relocation: A typological framework for understanding risk-based relocation through space, time and power42
Designing a virtuous cycle: Quality of governance, effective climate change mitigation, and just outcomes support each other41
Expert preferences on options for biodiversity conservation under climate change41
Coercive environmentalism and political legitimacy in the age of climate change: the case of fisheries in Uganda41
Trade of crop products contribute to the alleviation of global nitrate leaching risks41
A global multi-indicator assessment of the environmental impact of livestock products41
Low perception of climate change by farmers and herders on Tibetan Plateau40
Heatwaves and violence against women: a spatial analysis of female homicides in Brazil40
Does stakeholder participation improve environmental governance? Evidence from a meta-analysis of 305 case studies40
China’s nature-based solutions in the Global South: Evidence from Asia, Africa, and Latin America40
Does Climate Change Exacerbate Gender Inequality in Cognitive Performance?39
Drivers of future fluvial flood risk change for residential buildings in Europe38
Using Protection Motivation Theory to examine information-seeking behaviors on climate change38
Heatwave adaptation conditioned by everyday life: Analysing interacting changes to daily activities during Pacific Northwest summers37
Conflict and conservation: On the role of protected areas for environmental justice37
The production-protection nexus: How political-economic processes influence prospects for transformative change in human-wildlife interactions37
Carbon capability revisited: Theoretical developments and empirical evidence37
Climate change messages can promote support for climate action globally37
Beyond the boom-bust cycle: An interdisciplinary framework for analysing crop booms36
Strong collaborative governance networks support effective Forest Stewardship Council-certified community-based forest management: Evidence from Southeast Tanzania36
Carbon farming diffusion in Australia36
Attributing deforestation-driven biodiversity decline in the Gran Chaco to agricultural commodity supply chains36
Editorial Board36
Corporate concessions: Opportunity or liability for climate advocacy groups?35
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Challenges to anticipatory coastal adaptation for transformative nature-based solutions35
Progress in understanding the social dimensions of desalination and future research directions34
Climate change and coastal megacities: Adapting through mobility34
The impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on a network of 276 international organizations34
Indigenous women are the “guardians of Pachamama”: Territorial sovereignty is indispensable for just climate change adaptations in Peru33
Perceived plasticity of climate-relevant behaviors and policy support among high- and lower-income individuals33
Experiences of vulnerable households in low-attention disasters: Marshalltown, Iowa (United States) after the EF3 Tornado33
Sharing the road: Political ideologies and political party preference as drivers of public transport infrastructure support32
Technological breakthroughs can reverse the unintended negative impacts of carbon tariffs on China’s steel sector and global economy32
Supporting climate resilient development planning − a dynamic adaptive pathways based approach and an illustrative case from Cork City, Ireland32
Corrigendum to “Making sense of the politics in the climate change loss & damage debate” [Glob. Environ. Chang. (2020) 102133]32
Environmental change and migration aspirations: Evidence from Bangladesh32
‘Cattle own this area’; The spatial politics of pastoral intensification, biosecurity and colonial control in northern Australia32
Air pollution in Gaza during the post-october 7 era: a satellite and machine learning assessment32
Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response31
“Sometimes, I just want to scream”: Institutional barriers limiting adaptive capacity and resilience to extreme events31
Pyro-socioecological zoning: A proposal for fire management in the tropical dry forest31
Assessing participatory governance effectiveness and inclusiveness across church forests and exclosures in northwest Ethiopia31
Can REDD+ succeed? Occurrence and influence of various combinations of interventions in subnational initiatives31
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“Climate-smart agriculture and food security: Cross-country evidence from West Africa”30
Beyond property rights: all roads lead to sustainable grassland management30
Global energy scenarios: A geopolitical reality check30
A review of everyday urban adaptations: What they are and how they can advance progress in adaptation30
Bridging extreme climate risks, financial precarity, and adaptation gaps: Advancing inclusive adaptation in rainfed agricultural systems30
Constructing the adaptation economy: Climate resilient development and the economization of vulnerability29
Colonial contexts and the feasibility of mitigation through transition: A study of the impact of historical processes on the emissions dynamics of nation-states29
Who do we trust on climate change, and why?29
Why has the Brazilian Cerrado been left behind by voluntary environmental policies?29
Climate-smart peatland management and the potential for synergies between food security and climate change objectives in Indonesia28
Scaling smallholder tree cover restoration across the tropics28
A new dynamic framework is required to assess adaptation limits28
Are managed retreat programs successful and just? A global mapping of success typologies, justice dimensions, and trade-offs28
Assessing the social and environmental impacts of critical mineral supply chains for the energy transition in Europe28
Editorial Board28
Vulnerability locked in. On the need to engage the outside of the adaptation box28
Land-use spillovers from environmental policy interventions28
Resilience to disaster: Evidence from American wellbeing data27
An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands27
A taste of tomorrow: Predicting food demand elasticities under different Shared Socioeconomic Pathways27
Citizen science data can significantly improve predictions of potential ranges of non-charismatic species: a study on two freshwater sponges26
Greenhouse gas mitigation co-benefits across the global agricultural development programs26
Assessing synergies and trade-offs of diverging Paris-compliant mitigation strategies with long-term SDG objectives26
Pathways to conventional and radical climate action: The role of temporal orientation, environmental cognitive alternatives, and eco-anxiety26
Tackling the academic air travel dependency. An analysis of the (in)consistency between academics’ travel behaviour and their attitudes26
Environmental regulation and innovation: Evidence from China26
Compound[ing] disasters in Puerto Rico: Pathways for virtual transdisciplinary collaboration to enhance community resilience26
Editorial Board25
The demographics of energy and mobility poverty: Assessing equity and justice in Ireland, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates25
Typologies of actionable climate information and its use25
Transformations to sustainability: Processes, practices, and pathways25
Implications of demographic policies on China’s food-related environmental footprints amid population ageing25
Public policies and global forest conservation: Empirical evidence from national borders25
Measuring the contribution of nature-based solutions beyond climate adaptation in cities25
Between theory and action: Assessing the transformative character of climate change adaptation in 51 cases in the Netherlands24
Bookkeepers of catastrophes: The overlooked role of reinsurers in climate change debates24
Global forest products markets and forest sector carbon impacts of projected sea level rise24
From grey to green? Tipping a coal region incrementally22
Mobility and flexibility enable resilience of human harvesters to environmental perturbation22
Weapons of the vulnerable? A review of popular resistance to climate adaptation22
Impacts of air pollution on child growth: Evidence from extensive data in Chinese counties22
The financialization of rivers: Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) subsidized hydropower in the Mekong Region’s basins at risk22
How the future of the global forest sink depends on timber demand, forest management, and carbon policies22
Scenario projections of South Asian migration patterns amidst environmental and socioeconomic change22
Progress and gaps in U.S. Adaptation policy at the local level22
Assessing the supply risks of critical metals in China's low-carbon energy transition22
Assisted network governance: An inclusive innovation to mitigate extreme water scarcity21
Synthesising the diversity of European agri-food networks: A meta-study of actors and power-laden interactions21
Climate beliefs, climate technologies and transformation pathways: Contextualizing public perceptions in 22 countries21
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Biodiversity mediates relationships between anthropogenic drivers and ecosystem services across global mountain, island and delta systems21
Testing the reliability of adaptive capacity as a proxy for adaptive and transformative responses to climate change21
Creating favorable conditions for inter- and transdisciplinary integration – An analytical framework and empirical insights21
Adaptation at whose expense? Explicating the maladaptive potential of water storage and climate-resilient growth for Māori women in northern Aotearoa20
Common property regimes in participatory guarantee systems (PGS): Sharing responsibility in the collective management of organic labels20
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Why do cars get a free ride? The social-ecological roots of motonormativity20
The environmental and socioeconomic impacts of the Italian National Parks: Time and spillover effects across different geographical contexts19
Micro-scale transformations in sustainability practices: Insights from new migrant populations in growing urban settlements19
Governance, the pillar of sustainability practices, accounting and reporting: Insights from state-owned enterprises in an emerging economy19
Politicization of climate change and Central and Eastern European countries’ stance towards the European Green Deal19
Status of global accumulation of marine debris19
Rethinking the science-policy interface for chemicals, waste, and pollution: Challenging core assumptions19
The role of visions in sustainability transformations: Exploring tensions between the Agrarwende vanguard vision and an established sociotechnical imaginary of agriculture in Germany18
Synergistic long-range decision support for integrated green-grey flood management18
Immediate and future challenges of using electric vehicles for promoting energy efficiency in Africa’s clean energy transition18
Does creation-oriented culture promote ESG activities? Evidence from the Chinese market18
Dialogic data innovations for sustainability transformations and flood resilience: The case for waterproofing data18
Adaptive flood risk management: A decision support system integrating deep learning, digital twins, and economic risk assessment18
Doubling of flood-induced bridge asset failure loss in Mozambique under 2050 climate18
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Global rainbow distribution under current and future climates17
Strategic implication of sustainability practices and corporate performance under competitive landscape; An empirical investigation17
Justice washing extractivism: Pacific Island activist perspectives on just transitions and deep-sea mining17
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Accelerated contraction of future climate comfort zones in the southern subtropics: Insights from analysis and simulation of hiking big data17
The booming non-food bioeconomy drives large share of global land-use emissions17
Explaining the stickiness of supply chain relations in the Brazilian soybean trade17
Evaluating decoupling Evidence: Examining Timeframes, geographic Scales, and planetary boundaries17
Prospects for a sustainable and climate-resilient African economy post-COVID-1917
Disruptive data: How access and benefit-sharing discourses structured ideas and decisions during the Convention on Biological Diversity negotiations over digital sequence information from 2016 to 202217
Mapping a sustainable water future: Private sector opportunities for global water security and resilience17
Uncovering the climate vulnerability of China’s poverty alleviation frontiers16
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Complicating “community” engagement: Reckoning with an elusive concept in climate-related planned relocation16
Evaluating behavioral responses to climate change in terms of coping and adaptation: An index approach16
Effectively communicating the removal of fossil energy subsidies: Evidence from Latin America16
Local temperature anomalies increase climate policy interest and support: Analysis of internet searches and US congressional vote shares16
The lifeways of small-scale gold miners: Addressing sustainability transformations16
Values shift in response to social learning through deliberation about protected areas16
Place-based solutions for global social-ecological dilemmas: An analysis of locally grounded, diversified, and cross-scalar initiatives in the Amazon16
What drives public engagement by scientists? An Australian perspective16
Economic incentives and lifestyle drivers: how they shape consumers' engagement in repairing energy-using consumer goods and their environmental impacts in Japan16
TOWARDS RESILIENT AND INCLUSIVE CLIMATE COMPATIBLE DEVELOPMENT: A PARTICIPATORY, MIXED-METHOD SCENARIOS APPROACH FOR ZAMBIA16
Quantifying community resilience to riverine hazards in Bangladesh16
How do developing countries estimate their climate finance needs under the Paris Agreement?15
Understanding the role of pluralistic ignorance in biodiversity conservation: A research agenda15
Methodological issues with deforestation baselines compromise the integrity of carbon offsets from REDD+15
Defeating cap-and-trade: How the fossil fuel industry and climate change counter movement obstruct U.S. Climate Change Legislation15
Adaptive capacities of inland fisheries facing anthropogenic pressures15
Unity in diversity: The evolution of the grassland social-ecological systems in China and Mongolia15
Addressing climate inaction as our greatest threat to sustainable development15
Emergent network patterns of internal displacement in Somalia driven by natural disasters and conflicts15
Context matters: The drivers of environmental concern in European regions15
Low-carbon transition risks for India’s financial system15
Climate adaptation justice as lived experience: insights from Aotearoa New Zealand15
Climate change in Africa: Impacts, adaptation, and policy responses14
Slow justice and other unexpected consequences of litigation in environmental conflicts14
Does air pollution decrease labor share? Evidence from China14
Reducing coal use is key to curbing toxic trace elements emissions in China driven by carbon neutrality policy14
Mapping the solution space for local adaptation under global change: A test of concept for the Vietnamese Mekong delta14
Necessity-driven circular economy in low-income contexts: How informal sector practices retain value for circularity14
Rewriting the climate social contract: adaptation, equity, and indigenous rights in Aotearoa New Zealand14
Low-carbon transition of phosphorus chemical industrial parks: A global systematic review14
Fifteen years of research on payments for ecosystem services (PES): Piercing the bubble of success as defined by a Northern-driven agenda14
Realising a locally-embedded just transition: Sense of place, lived experience, and social perceptions of industrial decarbonisation in the United Kingdom14
Mapping China’s non-grain governance: pathways to global agricultural sustainability14
Climate change litigation and intersectionality in climate justice14
Exploring natural and social drivers of forest degradation in post-Soviet Georgia14
Machine learning reveals insufficient carbon capture storage deployment to meet climate goals14
Institutional analysis of actors involved in the governance of innovative contracts for agri-environmental and climate schemes14
Intervention: The invisible labor of climate change adaptation13
Towards a better future for biodiversity and people: Modelling Nature Futures13
Territorial inertia versus adaptation to climate change. When local authorities discuss coastal management in a French Mediterranean region13
Coping with decarbonisation: An inventory of strategies from resistance to transformation13
Environmental non-migration as adaptation in hazard-prone areas: Evidence from coastal Bangladesh13
Amazon communities displaced by hydroelectric dams: Implications for environmental changes and householdś livelihood13
Governing people on the move in a warming world: Framing climate change migration and the UNFCCC Task Force on Displacement13
Exploring the potential of circular economy to mitigate pressures on biodiversity12
A flexible framework for cost-effective fire management12
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The role of adaptive capacity in incremental and transformative adaptation in three large U.S. Urban water systems12
Are civilizations destined to collapse? Lessons from the Mediterranean Bronze Age12
The potential negative impact of the UNFCCC: An analysis of sectoral, geographical, and temporal problem shifts from climate policies and measures in 25 industrialized countries12
Linking production, processing, and consumption of plant-based protein alternatives in Europe12
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A global perspective: quantifying disturbance and reclamation of surface coal mining through remote sensing innovations12
Are energy transitions reproducing inequalities? Power, social stigma and distributive (in)justice in Mexico12
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