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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board224
Niches for transformative change within dominant territorial pathways: Practices and perspectives in a Nicaraguan agricultural frontier192
Assisted tree migration can reduce but not avert the decline of forest ecosystem services in Europe151
Civil society and survival: Indigenous Amazigh climate adaptation in Morocco150
Resource use and resource efficiency in the Asia–Pacific region revisited141
Global energy consumption of the mineral mining industry: Exploring the historical perspective and future pathways to 2060126
Advancing national Shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs): A novel procedure applied to develop current Swiss SSPs121
The multifaceted spectra of power − A participatory network analysis on power structures in diverse dryland regions96
Carbon tax salience counteracts price effects through moral licensing93
Beyond the binary of trapped populations and voluntary immobility: A people-centered perspective on environmental change and human immobility at Lake Urmia, Iran89
Localized land tenure registration in Burundi and eastern DR Congo: Contributing to sustainable peace?88
Potential for climate change driven spatial mismatches between apple crops and their wild bee pollinators at a continental scale87
Beyond projects: Relational durability and the measurement of climate adaptation success in practice85
Carbon territoriality at the land-water interface78
The value of property rights and environmental policy in Brazil: Evidence from a new database on land prices77
Diffusion of global climate policy: National depoliticization, local repoliticization in Turkey75
How seasonal cultures shape adaptation on Aotearoa – New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula74
National leverage points to reduce global pesticide pollution72
Anticipating socio-technical tipping points69
How social movements use religious creativity to address environmental crises in Indonesian local communities66
Spinning in circles? A systematic review on the role of theory in social vulnerability, resilience and adaptation research65
Guns or Green? A social-ecological systems analysis of defense expenditure, clean energy, and financial inclusivity in India and Pakistan65
Transformative potential in sustainable development goals engagement: Experience from local governance in Australia63
Participatory storyworld building for unlocking climate adaptation59
Why are sustainable practices often elusive? The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions58
Corrigendum to “Scaling Indigenous-led natural resource management” [Glob. Environ. Chang. 84 (2024) 102799]56
Agency, social networks, and adaptation to environmental change55
“Scale and access to the Green climate Fund: Big challenges for small island developing States”54
Trade of crop products contribute to the alleviation of global nitrate leaching risks53
Impact of lifestyle, human diet and nutrient use efficiency in food production on eutrophication of global aquifers and surface waters52
A global multi-indicator assessment of the environmental impact of livestock products51
China’s nature-based solutions in the Global South: Evidence from Asia, Africa, and Latin America51
Spectrums of Relocation: A typological framework for understanding risk-based relocation through space, time and power50
Designing a virtuous cycle: Quality of governance, effective climate change mitigation, and just outcomes support each other48
Religious values and family upbringing as antecedents of food waste avoidance48
Low perception of climate change by farmers and herders on Tibetan Plateau46
Editorial Board44
Coercive environmentalism and political legitimacy in the age of climate change: the case of fisheries in Uganda42
Experience with extreme weather events increases willingness-to-pay for climate mitigation policy42
Knowledge co-production for decision-making in human-natural systems under uncertainty42
Expert preferences on options for biodiversity conservation under climate change42
Everyday Adaptation: Theorizing climate change adaptation in daily life39
Heatwaves and violence against women: a spatial analysis of female homicides in Brazil39
Just social-ecological tipping scales: A mid-range social theory of change in coal and carbon intensive regions39
Does stakeholder participation improve environmental governance? Evidence from a meta-analysis of 305 case studies39
The production-protection nexus: How political-economic processes influence prospects for transformative change in human-wildlife interactions38
Heatwave adaptation conditioned by everyday life: Analysing interacting changes to daily activities during Pacific Northwest summers38
Drivers of future fluvial flood risk change for residential buildings in Europe38
Using Protection Motivation Theory to examine information-seeking behaviors on climate change37
Does Climate Change Exacerbate Gender Inequality in Cognitive Performance?37
Climate change messages can promote support for climate action globally37
Strong collaborative governance networks support effective Forest Stewardship Council-certified community-based forest management: Evidence from Southeast Tanzania36
Conflict and conservation: On the role of protected areas for environmental justice36
Carbon capability revisited: Theoretical developments and empirical evidence36
Editorial Board36
Technological breakthroughs can reverse the unintended negative impacts of carbon tariffs on China’s steel sector and global economy35
Carbon farming diffusion in Australia34
Corporate concessions: Opportunity or liability for climate advocacy groups?34
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Progress in understanding the social dimensions of desalination and future research directions33
Environmental change and migration aspirations: Evidence from Bangladesh33
Challenges to anticipatory coastal adaptation for transformative nature-based solutions33
Climate change and coastal megacities: Adapting through mobility32
Beyond the boom-bust cycle: An interdisciplinary framework for analysing crop booms32
Air pollution in Gaza during the post-october 7 era: a satellite and machine learning assessment32
Attributing deforestation-driven biodiversity decline in the Gran Chaco to agricultural commodity supply chains32
Indigenous women are the “guardians of Pachamama”: Territorial sovereignty is indispensable for just climate change adaptations in Peru32
Perceived plasticity of climate-relevant behaviors and policy support among high- and lower-income individuals32
Supporting climate resilient development planning − a dynamic adaptive pathways based approach and an illustrative case from Cork City, Ireland31
Experiences of vulnerable households in low-attention disasters: Marshalltown, Iowa (United States) after the EF3 Tornado31
Corrigendum to “Making sense of the politics in the climate change loss & damage debate” [Glob. Environ. Chang. (2020) 102133]31
The impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on a network of 276 international organizations31
Editorial Board30
“Sometimes, I just want to scream”: Institutional barriers limiting adaptive capacity and resilience to extreme events30
A review of everyday urban adaptations: What they are and how they can advance progress in adaptation30
Sharing the road: Political ideologies and political party preference as drivers of public transport infrastructure support30
Editorial Board29
Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response29
Global energy scenarios: A geopolitical reality check29
Can REDD+ succeed? Occurrence and influence of various combinations of interventions in subnational initiatives29
Beyond property rights: all roads lead to sustainable grassland management28
Bridging extreme climate risks, financial precarity, and adaptation gaps: Advancing inclusive adaptation in rainfed agricultural systems28
The emissions responsibility accounting of multinational enterprises for an efficient climate policy28
Colonial contexts and the feasibility of mitigation through transition: A study of the impact of historical processes on the emissions dynamics of nation-states28
Pyro-socioecological zoning: A proposal for fire management in the tropical dry forest28
Why has the Brazilian Cerrado been left behind by voluntary environmental policies?28
More than a safety net: Ethiopia’s flagship public works program increases tree cover28
“Climate-smart agriculture and food security: Cross-country evidence from West Africa”28
Constructing the adaptation economy: Climate resilient development and the economization of vulnerability28
Who do we trust on climate change, and why?27
Scaling smallholder tree cover restoration across the tropics27
Climate-smart peatland management and the potential for synergies between food security and climate change objectives in Indonesia27
Are managed retreat programs successful and just? A global mapping of success typologies, justice dimensions, and trade-offs27
Assessing the social and environmental impacts of critical mineral supply chains for the energy transition in Europe27
Vulnerability locked in. On the need to engage the outside of the adaptation box27
Land-use spillovers from environmental policy interventions27
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Typologies of actionable climate information and its use26
A taste of tomorrow: Predicting food demand elasticities under different Shared Socioeconomic Pathways26
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
Resilience to disaster: Evidence from American wellbeing data26
A new dynamic framework is required to assess adaptation limits25
Tackling the academic air travel dependency. An analysis of the (in)consistency between academics’ travel behaviour and their attitudes25
Transformations to sustainability: Processes, practices, and pathways25
Environmental regulation and innovation: Evidence from China25
An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands25
Assessing synergies and trade-offs of diverging Paris-compliant mitigation strategies with long-term SDG objectives25
Compound[ing] disasters in Puerto Rico: Pathways for virtual transdisciplinary collaboration to enhance community resilience25
Pathways to conventional and radical climate action: The role of temporal orientation, environmental cognitive alternatives, and eco-anxiety25
Public policies and global forest conservation: Empirical evidence from national borders25
Implications of demographic policies on China’s food-related environmental footprints amid population ageing25
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The demographics of energy and mobility poverty: Assessing equity and justice in Ireland, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates24
Global forest products markets and forest sector carbon impacts of projected sea level rise24
Assessing the supply risks of critical metals in China's low-carbon energy transition24
Weapons of the vulnerable? A review of popular resistance to climate adaptation24
Bookkeepers of catastrophes: The overlooked role of reinsurers in climate change debates24
Between theory and action: Assessing the transformative character of climate change adaptation in 51 cases in the Netherlands23
Systems thinking as a paradigm shift for sustainability transformation23
Adaptation at whose expense? Explicating the maladaptive potential of water storage and climate-resilient growth for Māori women in northern Aotearoa23
Measuring the contribution of nature-based solutions beyond climate adaptation in cities23
Scenario projections of South Asian migration patterns amidst environmental and socioeconomic change23
How the future of the global forest sink depends on timber demand, forest management, and carbon policies23
From grey to green? Tipping a coal region incrementally23
Editorial Board22
Creating favorable conditions for inter- and transdisciplinary integration – An analytical framework and empirical insights22
Assisted network governance: An inclusive innovation to mitigate extreme water scarcity22
Mobility and flexibility enable resilience of human harvesters to environmental perturbation22
Synthesising the diversity of European agri-food networks: A meta-study of actors and power-laden interactions22
The financialization of rivers: Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) subsidized hydropower in the Mekong Region’s basins at risk22
Testing the reliability of adaptive capacity as a proxy for adaptive and transformative responses to climate change21
Biodiversity mediates relationships between anthropogenic drivers and ecosystem services across global mountain, island and delta systems21
Common property regimes in participatory guarantee systems (PGS): Sharing responsibility in the collective management of organic labels21
Climate beliefs, climate technologies and transformation pathways: Contextualizing public perceptions in 22 countries21
Progress and gaps in U.S. Adaptation policy at the local level21
Impacts of air pollution on child growth: Evidence from extensive data in Chinese counties21
Does creation-oriented culture promote ESG activities? Evidence from the Chinese market20
Doubling of flood-induced bridge asset failure loss in Mozambique under 2050 climate20
Dialogic data innovations for sustainability transformations and flood resilience: The case for waterproofing data20
Adaptive flood risk management: A decision support system integrating deep learning, digital twins, and economic risk assessment20
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Status of global accumulation of marine debris20
Synergistic long-range decision support for integrated green-grey flood management20
Why do cars get a free ride? The social-ecological roots of motonormativity20
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
Rethinking the science-policy interface for chemicals, waste, and pollution: Challenging core assumptions19
Politicization of climate change and Central and Eastern European countries’ stance towards the European Green Deal19
Immediate and future challenges of using electric vehicles for promoting energy efficiency in Africa’s clean energy transition19
IPCC emission scenarios: How did critiques affect their quality and relevance 1990–2022?19
Global rainbow distribution under current and future climates18
Editorial Board18
The environmental and socioeconomic impacts of the Italian National Parks: Time and spillover effects across different geographical contexts18
Accelerated contraction of future climate comfort zones in the southern subtropics: Insights from analysis and simulation of hiking big data18
The role of visions in sustainability transformations: Exploring tensions between the Agrarwende vanguard vision and an established sociotechnical imaginary of agriculture in Germany18
Explaining the stickiness of supply chain relations in the Brazilian soybean trade17
The booming non-food bioeconomy drives large share of global land-use emissions17
Mapping a sustainable water future: Private sector opportunities for global water security and resilience17
Strategic implication of sustainability practices and corporate performance under competitive landscape; An empirical investigation17
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
TOWARDS RESILIENT AND INCLUSIVE CLIMATE COMPATIBLE DEVELOPMENT: A PARTICIPATORY, MIXED-METHOD SCENARIOS APPROACH FOR ZAMBIA16
Values shift in response to social learning through deliberation about protected areas16
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Quantifying community resilience to riverine hazards in Bangladesh16
Effectively communicating the removal of fossil energy subsidies: Evidence from Latin America16
Place-based solutions for global social-ecological dilemmas: An analysis of locally grounded, diversified, and cross-scalar initiatives in the Amazon16
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
Justice washing extractivism: Pacific Island activist perspectives on just transitions and deep-sea mining16
How do developing countries estimate their climate finance needs under the Paris Agreement?16
Understanding the role of pluralistic ignorance in biodiversity conservation: A research agenda15
The lifeways of small-scale gold miners: Addressing sustainability transformations15
Local temperature anomalies increase climate policy interest and support: Analysis of internet searches and US congressional vote shares15
Low-carbon transition risks for India’s financial system15
Methodological issues with deforestation baselines compromise the integrity of carbon offsets from REDD+15
What drives public engagement by scientists? An Australian perspective15
Rethinking Net-Zero systems, spaces, and societies: “Hard” versus “soft” alternatives for nature-based and engineered carbon removal15
Unity in diversity: The evolution of the grassland social-ecological systems in China and Mongolia15
Economic incentives and lifestyle drivers: how they shape consumers' engagement in repairing energy-using consumer goods and their environmental impacts in Japan15
Context matters: The drivers of environmental concern in European regions15
Addressing climate inaction as our greatest threat to sustainable development15
Adaptive capacities of inland fisheries facing anthropogenic pressures15
Emergent network patterns of internal displacement in Somalia driven by natural disasters and conflicts15
Defeating cap-and-trade: How the fossil fuel industry and climate change counter movement obstruct U.S. Climate Change Legislation15
Exploring natural and social drivers of forest degradation in post-Soviet Georgia14
Low-carbon transition of phosphorus chemical industrial parks: A global systematic review14
Realising a locally-embedded just transition: Sense of place, lived experience, and social perceptions of industrial decarbonisation in the United Kingdom14
Reducing coal use is key to curbing toxic trace elements emissions in China driven by carbon neutrality policy14
Fifteen years of research on payments for ecosystem services (PES): Piercing the bubble of success as defined by a Northern-driven agenda14
Climate adaptation justice as lived experience: insights from Aotearoa New Zealand14
Necessity-driven circular economy in low-income contexts: How informal sector practices retain value for circularity14
Does air pollution decrease labor share? Evidence from China14
Institutional analysis of actors involved in the governance of innovative contracts for agri-environmental and climate schemes14
Mapping the solution space for local adaptation under global change: A test of concept for the Vietnamese Mekong delta14
Mapping China’s non-grain governance: pathways to global agricultural sustainability13
Climate change in Africa: Impacts, adaptation, and policy responses13
Coping with decarbonisation: An inventory of strategies from resistance to transformation13
Towards a better future for biodiversity and people: Modelling Nature Futures13
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Environmental non-migration as adaptation in hazard-prone areas: Evidence from coastal Bangladesh13
Governing people on the move in a warming world: Framing climate change migration and the UNFCCC Task Force on Displacement13
Slow justice and other unexpected consequences of litigation in environmental conflicts13
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Amazon communities displaced by hydroelectric dams: Implications for environmental changes and householdś livelihood13
Intervention: The invisible labor of climate change adaptation13
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
Territorial inertia versus adaptation to climate change. When local authorities discuss coastal management in a French Mediterranean region12
Scaling mechanisms of energy communities: A comparison of 28 initiatives12
The rise, fall and rebirth of ocean carbon sequestration as a climate 'solution'12
Are civilizations destined to collapse? Lessons from the Mediterranean Bronze Age12
Are energy transitions reproducing inequalities? Power, social stigma and distributive (in)justice in Mexico12
Synergies of interventions to promote pro-environmental behaviors – A meta-analysis of experimental studies12
Direct and mediated impacts of social norms on pro-environmental behavior12
Linking production, processing, and consumption of plant-based protein alternatives in Europe12
Zimbabwe’s roadmap for decarbonisation and resilience: An evaluation of policy (in)consistency12
Exploring the potential of circular economy to mitigate pressures on biodiversity12
A flexible framework for cost-effective fire management12
The role of adaptive capacity in incremental and transformative adaptation in three large U.S. Urban water systems12
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