Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions

Papers
(The median citation count of Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions is 10. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Forest 404: Using a BBC drama series to explore the impact of nature’s changing soundscapes on human wellbeing and behavior230
Differential disadvantages in the distribution of federal aid across three decades of voluntary buyouts in the United States172
“Climate-smart agriculture and food security: Cross-country evidence from West Africa”134
Prospects for a sustainable and climate-resilient African economy post-COVID-19133
Applying the Three Horizons approach in local and regional scenarios to support policy coherence in SDG implementation: Insights from arid Spain124
The emissions responsibility accounting of multinational enterprises for an efficient climate policy122
Social and structural vulnerabilities: Associations with disaster readiness118
Tracking the global anthropogenic gallium cycle during 2000–2020: A trade-linked multiregional material flow analysis118
Assessing the state of traditional knowledge at national level117
From mountains to megaregions: A powershed analysis of the Third Pole hydropower boom103
Editorial Board103
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Can REDD+ succeed? Occurrence and influence of various combinations of interventions in subnational initiatives100
Global rainbow distribution under current and future climates98
Localized land tenure registration in Burundi and eastern DR Congo: Contributing to sustainable peace?97
Editorial Board95
Forty-year multi-scale land cover change and political ecology data reveal a dynamic and regenerative process of forests in Peruvian Indigenous Territories94
Potentially harmful World Bank projects are proximate to areas of biodiversity conservation importance85
How do natural resource dependent firms gain and lose a social licence?85
Commentary: Food choices and environmental impacts: Achievements and challenges82
Global energy scenarios: A geopolitical reality check81
Commentary: Recent progress and future directions for research related to migration and conflict81
China’s pathway to carbon neutrality for the iron and steel industry80
Scenario archetypes reveal risks and opportunities for global mountain futures78
Exploring river nitrogen and phosphorus loading and export to global coastal waters in the Shared Socio-economic pathways77
Framing the just transition: How international trade unions engage with UN climate negotiations76
Explaining the stickiness of supply chain relations in the Brazilian soybean trade76
More than a safety net: Ethiopia’s flagship public works program increases tree cover73
What role do climate considerations play in consumption of red meat in Norway?72
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon could be halved by scaling up the implementation of zero-deforestation cattle commitments71
Scaling patterns of human diseases and population size in Colombia70
Collaboration and individual performance during disaster response69
Status, challenges and pathways to the sustainable use of wild species69
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Pathways to human well-being in the context of land acquisitions in Lao PDR67
Voices of young biosphere stewards on the strengths, weaknesses, and ways forward for 74 UNESCO Biosphere Reserves across 83 countries65
Why common interests and collective action are not enough for environmental cooperation – Lessons from the China-EU cooperation discourse on circular economy63
Forest carbon trajectories: Consequences of alternative land-use scenarios in New England62
The impact of local temperature volatility on attention to climate change: Evidence from Spanish tweets62
Commentary : Progress in understanding and overcoming barriers to public engagement with climate change61
In government we trust? Micro-business adaptation to climate change in four post-colonial and transitional economies of China59
Air pollutions and loan decision bias58
Enforcement and inequality in collective PES to reduce tropical deforestation: Effectiveness, efficiency and equity implications56
Mapping public appraisals of carbon dioxide removal56
Cognition of feedback loops in a fire-prone social-ecological system56
Beyond the binary of trapped populations and voluntary immobility: A people-centered perspective on environmental change and human immobility at Lake Urmia, Iran55
Gender dimensions of climate change adaptation in Tigray, Ethiopia55
Adaptive capacity within tropical marine protected areas – Differences between men- and women-headed households55
Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response54
The drivers of individual climate actions in Europe53
Policies to bring about social-ecological tipping points in coal and carbon intensive regions53
Greening to shield: The impacts of extreme rainfall on economic activity in Latin American cities53
Niches for transformative change within dominant territorial pathways: Practices and perspectives in a Nicaraguan agricultural frontier53
Civil society and survival: Indigenous Amazigh climate adaptation in Morocco50
Regulatory politics and hybrid governance: the case of Brazil’s Amazon Soy Moratorium49
Does hostility affect public support for the provision of global public goods among competing neighboring countries? A survey experiment in Northeast Asia48
Effects of ozone air pollution on crop pollinators and pollination47
Mapping a sustainable water future: Private sector opportunities for global water security and resilience47
Crisis and opportunity: Transforming climate governance for SMEs47
Using publicly available remote sensing products to evaluate REDD+ projects i47
Trade-offs between physical risk and economic reward affect fishers’ vulnerability to changing storminess46
The trap of climate change-induced “natural” disasters and inequality45
Agroecological measures and circular economy strategies to ensure sufficient nitrogen for sustainable farming45
Why are carbon taxes unfair? Disentangling public perceptions of fairness45
Corrigendum to “The Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale: Development and validation of a multidimensional scale” [Glob. Environ. Change 71 (2021) 1–10/102391]44
The open veins of Latin America: Long-term physical trade flows (1900–2016)44
The infrastructure cost of permafrost degradation for the Northern Hemisphere43
Potential for climate change driven spatial mismatches between apple crops and their wild bee pollinators at a continental scale43
Corrigendum to “Formation and performance of collaborative disaster management networks: Evidence from a Swedish wildfire response” [Global Environ. Change 41 (2016) 183–194]43
How qualitative approaches matter in climate and ocean change research: Uncovering contradictions about climate concern43
Constructing the adaptation economy: Climate resilient development and the economization of vulnerability42
Women participation in formal decision-making: Empirical evidence from participatory forest management in Ethiopia42
Assessing future vulnerability and risk of humanitarian crises using climate change and population projections within the INFORM framework41
Citizen preferences on private-public co-regulation in environmental governance: Evidence from Switzerland40
Grappling with a sea change: Tensions in expert imaginaries of marine carbon dioxide removal40
Africa's protected areas are brightening at night: A long-term light pollution monitor based on nighttime light imagery39
Scaling mechanisms of energy communities: A comparison of 28 initiatives39
Influences of international agricultural trade on the global phosphorus cycle and its associated issues39
Embodied carbon dioxide emissions to provide high access levels to basic infrastructure around the world38
Accelerated contraction of future climate comfort zones in the southern subtropics: Insights from analysis and simulation of hiking big data38
Assisted tree migration can reduce but not avert the decline of forest ecosystem services in Europe38
Tackling the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies by making peace with nature 50 years after the Stockholm Conference38
Public concern about, and desire for research into, the human health effects of marine plastic pollution: Results from a 15-country survey across Europe and Australia37
Steel stocks and flows of global merchant fleets as material base of international trade from 1980 to 205037
Broadening resilience: An evaluation of policy and planning for drinking water resilience in 100 US cities37
The booming non-food bioeconomy drives large share of global land-use emissions37
The contribution of energy law to the energy transition and energy research37
The economics of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) deployment in a 1.5 °C or 2 °C world37
The impact of agricultural trade approaches on global economic modeling36
Global-scale impact analysis of mine tailings dam failures: 1915–202036
Exposure to extreme climate decreases self-rated health score: Large-scale survey evidence from China36
What future for primary aluminium production in a decarbonizing economy?36
Plastic pollution and the open burning of plastic wastes35
Global energy consumption of the mineral mining industry: Exploring the historical perspective and future pathways to 206035
Quantifying community resilience to riverine hazards in Bangladesh34
Carbon tax salience counteracts price effects through moral licensing34
REDD+ finance in Brazil, Indonesia and Vietnam: Stakeholder perspectives between 2009-201933
Colonial contexts and the feasibility of mitigation through transition: A study of the impact of historical processes on the emissions dynamics of nation-states33
Does stricter sewage treatment targets policy exacerbate the contradiction between effluent water quality improvement and carbon emissions mitigation? An evidence from China33
When the whole is less than the sum of all parts – Tracking global-level impacts of national sustainability initiatives33
Inclusive wealth index measuring sustainable development potentials for Chinese cities33
Understanding drivers of global urban bird diversity32
Climate change, water availability, and the burden of rural women’s triple role in Muyuka, Cameroon31
Why are sustainable practices often elusive? The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions30
When does the energy transition impact household affordability? A mixed-methods comparison of fourteen coal and carbon-intensive regions30
Mining threatens isolated indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon30
Unequally distributed education impacts of ecosystem degradation: Evidence from an invasive species30
Stories from the IPCC: An essay on climate science in fourteen questions30
Developing action competence for sustainability – Do school experiences in influencing society matter?30
Vulnerability locked in. On the need to engage the outside of the adaptation box29
Blinded by sunspots: Revealing the multidimensional and intersectional inequities of solar energy in India29
The organizational structure of global gene drive research28
Values shift in response to social learning through deliberation about protected areas28
Commentary: The Beat Goes On? Print Media Coverage of Anthropogenic Climate Change over the past three decades28
Explaining radical policy change: Norwegian climate policy and the ban on cultivating peatlands28
Editorial Board28
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Knowing like a global expert organization: Comparative insights from the IPCC and IPBES27
Situated adaptation: Tackling the production of vulnerability through transformative action in Sri Lanka’s Dry Zone27
Narratives and water: A bibliometric review27
Renewable energy policies and household solid fuel dependence27
Shared injustice, splintered solidarity: Water governance across urban-rural divides27
“Mind the (Policy-Implementation) Gap”: Transport decarbonisation policies and performances of leading global economies (1990–2018)26
Climate change and the demand for recreational ecosystem services on public lands in the continental United States26
The political ecology playbook for ecosystem restoration: Principles for effective, equitable, and transformative landscapes26
Corrigendum to “Scaling Indigenous-led natural resource management” [Glob. Environ. Chang. 84 (2024) 102799]25
Biological invasions as burdens to primary economic sectors25
Corrigendum to “What future for primary aluminium production in a decarbonizing economy?” [Global Environ. Change 69 (2021) 102316]25
Assessing the social and environmental impacts of critical mineral supply chains for the energy transition in Europe25
COVID-19 to go? The role of disasters and evacuation in the COVID-19 pandemic25
The role of everyday mobility in adaptation to air pollution hazard: A mixed-method approach combining big and traditional data24
Effectively communicating the removal of fossil energy subsidies: Evidence from Latin America24
Conservation science and policy should care about violent extremism24
Place-based solutions for global social-ecological dilemmas: An analysis of locally grounded, diversified, and cross-scalar initiatives in the Amazon23
Regimes of global and national oil palm cultivations from 2001 to 201823
Climate-smart peatland management and the potential for synergies between food security and climate change objectives in Indonesia23
Development and validation of the motivation to avoid food waste scale23
Democracy through technocracy? Reinventing civil society as a state-monitored and unpaid service provider in the EU FLEGT VPA in Laos23
Is anticipatory governance opening up or closing down future possibilities? Findings from diverse contexts in the Global South23
The value of property rights and environmental policy in Brazil: Evidence from a new database on land prices23
Evaluating behavioral responses to climate change in terms of coping and adaptation: An index approach22
How seasonal cultures shape adaptation on Aotearoa – New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula22
The effect of industrialization and globalization on domestic land-use: A global resource footprint perspective22
Transformative labor: The hidden (and not-so-hidden) work of transformations to sustainability22
Variation in under-5 mortality attributable to anomalous precipitation during El Niño–Southern Oscillation cycles: Assessment of the intertemporal inequality in child health22
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 202221
Carbon territoriality at the land-water interface21
“Scale and access to the Green climate Fund: Big challenges for small island developing States”21
The Slippery Slopes of Climate Engineering Research21
The relationship between political ideology and current earthquake and tsunami preparedness21
Anticipating socio-technical tipping points21
Implementing a knowledge system: Lessons from the global stewardship of climate services21
Subnational institutions and power of landholders drive illegal deforestation in a major commodity production frontier20
On viability: Climate change and the science of possible futures20
OK Boomer: A decade of generational differences in feelings about climate change20
Assessing protected area’s carbon stocks and ecological structure at regional-scale using GEDI lidar20
Walking with farmers: Floods, agriculture and the social practice of everyday mobility20
Early warnings and emerging accountability: Total’s responses to global warming, 1971–202120
Transformative potential in sustainable development goals engagement: Experience from local governance in Australia20
Satellite evidence on the trade-offs of the food-water–air quality nexus over the breadbasket of India20
Integrated multi-scalar analysis of vulnerability to environmental hazards: Assessing extreme flooding in western Amazonia20
Climate change, social vulnerability and child nutrition in South Asia20
Considering attitudinal uncertainty in the climate change skepticism continuum20
Commentary: Transformative Change in Governance Systems20
Are managed retreat programs successful and just? A global mapping of success typologies, justice dimensions, and trade-offs19
Coping with scarcity: The construction of the water conservation imperative in newspapers (1999–2018)19
Spinning in circles? A systematic review on the role of theory in social vulnerability, resilience and adaptation research19
How social movements use religious creativity to address environmental crises in Indonesian local communities19
Defining and operationalizing path dependency for the development and monitoring of adaptation pathways19
Diffusion of global climate policy: National depoliticization, local repoliticization in Turkey19
Finance for fossils – The role of public financing in expanding petrochemicals19
What happens after climate change adaptation projects end: A community-based approach to ex-post assessment of adaptation projects18
Methodological issues with deforestation baselines compromise the integrity of carbon offsets from REDD+18
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Localized versus wide-ranging effects of the post-Soviet wars in the Caucasus on agricultural abandonment18
Scaling smallholder tree cover restoration across the tropics18
How does the World Bank shape global environmental governance agendas for coasts? 50 years of small-scale fisheries aid reveals paradigm shifts over time18
Shocks, stocks and ratings: The financial community response to global environmental and health controversies18
Pathways to conventional and radical climate action: The role of temporal orientation, environmental cognitive alternatives, and eco-anxiety18
A new dynamic framework is required to assess adaptation limits18
National leverage points to reduce global pesticide pollution18
A global multi-indicator assessment of the environmental impact of livestock products18
Editorial Board18
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Complicating “community” engagement: Reckoning with an elusive concept in climate-related planned relocation17
Co-dynamics of climate policy stringency and public support17
Incorporating blue carbon sequestration benefits into sub-national climate policies17
Tackling the academic air travel dependency. An analysis of the (in)consistency between academics’ travel behaviour and their attitudes17
Adaptive capacities of inland fisheries facing anthropogenic pressures17
Compound[ing] disasters in Puerto Rico: Pathways for virtual transdisciplinary collaboration to enhance community resilience16
Expert preferences on options for biodiversity conservation under climate change16
Can we learn from the past? Towards better analogies and historical inference in society-environmental change research16
A new typology of climate change risk for European cities and regions: Principles and applications16
Experience is not enough: A dynamic explanation of the limited adaptation to extreme weather events in public organizations16
How is organic farming performing agronomically and economically in sub-Saharan Africa?16
Disparate history of transgressing planetary boundaries for nutrients16
Low-carbon transition risks for India’s financial system16
Context matters: The drivers of environmental concern in European regions16
Knowledge integration in sustainability governance through science-based actor networks16
Biophysical indicators and Indigenous and Local Knowledge reveal climatic and ecological shifts with implications for Arctic Char fisheries16
The carbon cost of agricultural production in the global land rush16
An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands16
The role of rural circular migration in shaping weather risk management for smallholder farmers in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh16
Addressing climate services in SouthAmerican Chaco region through a knowledge coproduction process16
Environmental commitments in different types of democracies: The role of liberal, social-liberal, and deliberative politics16
The lifeways of small-scale gold miners: Addressing sustainability transformations15
Scaling Indigenous-led natural resource management15
Diversity in global environmental scenario sets15
Rethinking Net-Zero systems, spaces, and societies: “Hard” versus “soft” alternatives for nature-based and engineered carbon removal15
China’s nature-based solutions in the Global South: Evidence from Asia, Africa, and Latin America15
Projecting long-term armed conflict risk: An underappreciated field of inquiry?15
Commentary : The Future of Changes in Global Ecosystem Services14
Religious values and family upbringing as antecedents of food waste avoidance14
Local temperature anomalies increase climate policy interest and support: Analysis of internet searches and US congressional vote shares14
Editorial Board14
Floating objects in the open ocean: Unveiling modifications of the pelagic habitat induced by forest cover change and climate variations14
Evaluating the benefits of national adaptation to reduce climate risks and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals14
The role of voluntary commitments in realizing the promise of the Blue Economy14
Designing a virtuous cycle: Quality of governance, effective climate change mitigation, and just outcomes support each other14
Greenhouse gas mitigation co-benefits across the global agricultural development programs14
Resilience to disaster: Evidence from American wellbeing data14
Everyday Adaptation: Theorizing climate change adaptation in daily life13
Typologies of actionable climate information and its use13
Lessons from a decade of adaptive pathways studies for climate adaptation13
Guilty pleasures: Moral licensing in climate-related behavior13
Ambient vulnerability13
Australia’s Black Summer wildfires recovery: A difference-in-differences analysis using nightlights13
Emergent network patterns of internal displacement in Somalia driven by natural disasters and conflicts13
What drives public engagement by scientists? An Australian perspective13
Good practice policies to bridge the emissions gap in key countries13
Social norms and littering – The role of personal responsibility and place attachment at a Pakistani beach13
Anti-corruption and corporate environmental responsibility: Evidence from China’s anti-corruption campaign13
The geography of megatrends affecting European agriculture13
Toward a climate mobilities research agenda: Intersectionality, immobility, and policy responses13
Pathways for climate resilient development: Human well-being within a safe and just space in the 21st century12
Impact of climate and socioeconomic changes on fire carbon emissions in the future: Sustainable economic development might decrease future emissions12
Beyond climate anxiety: Development and validation of the inventory of climate emotions (ICE): A measure of multiple emotions experienced in relation to climate change12
Status quo in transboundary waters: Unpacking non-decision making and non-action12
More than planning: Diversity and drivers of institutional adaptation under climate change in 96 major cities12
Environmental regulation and innovation: Evidence from China12
Experience with extreme weather events increases willingness-to-pay for climate mitigation policy12
Opening space for equity and justice in resilience: A subjective approach to household resilience assessment12
No peace for the forest: Rapid, widespread land changes in the Andes-Amazon region following the Colombian civil war12
Impact of lifestyle, human diet and nutrient use efficiency in food production on eutrophication of global aquifers and surface waters12
Ranking the risk of CO2 emissions from seagrass soil carbon stocks under global change threats12
Examining evidence for the Finite Pool of Worry and Finite Pool of Attention hypotheses12
Landscape adaptation to climate change: Local networks, social learning and co-creation processes for adaptive planning12
Assessing synergies and trade-offs of diverging Paris-compliant mitigation strategies with long-term SDG objectives12
Socio-economic and climatic changes lead to contrasting global urban vegetation trends12
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