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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Supporting adaptive pathways planning using archetypes for climate adaptation90
Correction: Sensitivity of fishery resources to climate change in the warm-temperate Southwest Atlantic Ocean65
A remote sensing-based classification approach for river mouths of the Amazon-influenced Guianas coast47
Characterization of land cover-specific fire regimes in the Brazilian Amazon47
Growth resilience of juniper shrubs is higher after wet than after dry spells under contrasting climatic conditions42
A new framework for rapidly assessing national adaptation policies: an application to small island developing states in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans42
“We cannot escape this”: discussing leverage points for sustainability across scales with the example of Ouvéa, Kanaky New Caledonia42
Growing pains: identifying enabling conditions for a nature-based coastal climate adaptation project in British Columbia, Canada41
Scarce consideration of climate and land use changes impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity in the Apennines Mountain system, Italy40
Leveraging atmospheric moisture recycling in Saudi Arabia and neighboring countries for irrigation and afforestation planning35
Prediction of mangrove recovery in natural protected areas of the Yucatan Peninsula33
Large floodplain river restoration in New Zealand: synthesis and critical evaluation to inform restoration planning and research32
Large differences between observed and expected Ecuadorian deforestation from 2001 to 2009: a counterfactual simulation approach31
Post-cyclone resilience of an agroforest-based food system in the Pacific Islands28
Balancing disturbance risk and ecosystem service provisioning in Swiss mountain forests: an increasing challenge under climate change28
How to quantify the regional effects of ocean temperature rise due to climate change: implications of Octopus maya ecophysiology on food security of the Yucatan shelf artisanal fishermen28
Estimating the effects of climate change on home meal replacement consumption in South Korea27
Reconstructed spatiotemporal changes of cropland in Vietnam from AD 1500 to 195027
Spatiotemporal characteristics of drought under different vegetation types and responses to climatic factors in Jilin Province, China26
Reconstructing forest cover changes for the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River over the past millennium25
Is climate change pushing gymnosperms against the wall in the northwestern Himalayas?25
Assessing the present and future landslide susceptibility in Indian Himalayan Region due to climate variability25
Rainfall and land use impacts on water quality and communities in the Waimanu River Catchment in the South Pacific: the case of Viti Levu, Fiji25
Evaluating the comprehensiveness of municipal climate change adaptation plans in Ontario, Canada24
Venice and its lagoon fin de siecle24
Inferring the impacts of climate extreme in the Kabul River Basin24
Collateral damages of intensive farming in central Argentina: impacts of livestock intensification on the socio-ecosystem of the Paraná River Delta23
Rethinking collaborative governance: contested legitimacy of the Melamchi inter-basin water transfer for municipal use in Nepal23
Fighting against, and coping with, drought in Brazil: two policy paradigms intertwined23
Himalaya to Hengduan: dynamics of alpine treelines under climate change23
Projected population exposure to precipitation extremes in China by the end of the twenty-first century: trends, change points, and spatial variability22
Glacier tourism and climate change: effects, adaptations, and perspectives in the Alps22
Cutting of dry forests in a semiarid region of northeastern Brazil21
Through eagle eyes—the potential of satellite-derived LAI time series to estimate masting events and tree-ring width of European beech21
Improving result-based schemes for nature conservation in agricultural landscapes—challenges and best practices from selected European countries21
The summer 2022 drought: a taste of future climate for the Po valley (Italy)?21
Assessing the impact of climate change on solar energy production in Italy21
Drivers and implications of land use/cover dynamics in land leased areas, western Ethiopia20
Building consensus and increasing self-efficacy: participatory scenarios as a tool for developing food security solutions in West Africa20
Impacts of climate change on regional cattle trade in the central corridor of Africa19
Industrial metabolism and territorial development of the Maurienne Valley (France)19
Ecological risk assessment of watershed economic zones on the landscape scale: a case study of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China19
The role of the environment within a constellation of interacting causal factors shaping mobility—the example of three oases in Northern Africa19
Climate variation effect on Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora) yield in Uganda19
Carbon and nitrogen stocks in cultivation systems of a Quilombola community in the Brazilian Cerrado19
Shifting responsibility and denying justice: New Zealand’s contentious approach to Pacific climate mobilities19
Effects of COVID-19 lockdown on the observed density of coral reef fish along coastal habitats of Moorea, French Polynesia18
A participatory approach for characterizing the resilience of rural water supply systems in semi-arid areas18
Cross-scale collaboration for adaptation to climate change: a two-mode network analysis of bridging actors in Switzerland18
Saving soil carbon, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity and the economy: paludiculture as sustainable land use option in German fen peatlands18
Jellyfish sting web survey: clinical characteristics and management of Rhopilema nomadica envenomation in the Mediterranean Sea18
Managing mixed stands can mitigate severe climate change impacts on French alpine forests18
Climate mobility and migrant health in West Africa: past norms, current challenges, and future projections18
The interactions among landscape pattern, climate change, and ecosystem services: progress and prospects17
Including the perspective of stakeholders in landscape planning through the Ecosystem Services co-production framework: an empirical exploration in Le Marche, Italy17
Typologies of European farmers: approaches, methods and research gaps17
Rising allergenic risk in cities: a progressive pollen calendar analysis in response to climate change in Central Europe17
Governing for local livelihoods in transboundary river systems: insights from the Cubango-Okavango River Basin16
Walking back from the edge: thresholds of change reveal options for adaptation to water scarcity under climate change in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia16
Place-based diversification: Pathways to diversified shared landscapes in the Wairau Marlborough region of Aotearoa New Zealand16
Adaptation, flourishing, and the importance of place16
Loss and damage in tropical fisheries: a systematic review of people, climate, and fisheries16
How urban sprawl affects local and nearby ecosystem services in China15
Spatio-temporal variability of avalanche risk in the French Alps15
Island biocultural diversity in the Mediterranean: the case study of Sardinia15
Two decades of accelerated deforestation in Peruvian forests: a national and regional analysis (2000–2020)15
Tracking local and regional climate im/mobilities through a multidimensional lens15
How vulnerable are the nesting sites of loggerhead turtles in Cabo Verde?15
Analyzing the vulnerabilities and capabilities of wealth creation activities in the Maurienne valley in the French Alps15
Looking backwards to move forwards: insights for climate change adaptation from historical Māori relocation due to natural hazards in Aotearoa New Zealand15
A transdisciplinary method, knowledge model and management framework for climate change adaptation in mountain areas applied in the Vercors, France14
The rise and demise of Iran’s Urmia Lake during the Holocene and the Anthropocene: “what’s past is prologue”14
Organic inputs in agroforestry systems improve soil organic carbon storage in Itasy, Madagascar14
Spatially explicit reconstruction of the population distribution in the Tuojiang River Basin during 1911–2010 using random forest regression14
Sustainability of agricultural practices in Germany: a literature review along multiple environmental domains14
How path dependency manifests in flood risk management: observations from four decades in the Ennstal and Aist catchments in Austria14
Putting climate-induced migration in context: the case of Honduran migration to the USA14
Navigating power imbalances in landscape governance: a network and influence analysis in southern Zambia14
Climate change may alter the availability of wild food plants in the Brazilian semiarid14
Years matter: the role of memory and place attachment in remote Nordic areas facing natural hazards14
Cumulative worries in Sápmi—the interplay between climate change and other threats to reindeer herding in Sweden and Norway14
Deforestation dynamics post-payment for ecosystem services in Sierra Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico13
Climate variability impacts on pasture productivity and pastoral livelihoods in northern Tanzania13
Assessing the inundation risk of cultural heritages along the southwestern coast of Taiwan: present and future13
Climate change-related health hazards in daycare centers in Munich, Germany: risk perception and adaptation measures13
Can traditional management practices help mountain livestock farms in the Spanish Pyrenees cope with climate change?13
Perceived costs and benefits of different climate change adaptation practices used by smallholder farmers for agricultural production in the Ahafo Ano South District, Ghana13
Exploring the role of high-value crops to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in New Zealand13
Calcification and growth of the reef coral Porites panamensis in a shallow hydrothermal field in the Gulf of California, Mexico13
National peatland strategies in Europe: current status, key themes, and challenges13
El Niño-Southern Oscillation and rainfall characteristics in Northern Thailand: implications for adaptation in rainfed farms12
Participatory justice and climate adaptation for water management in Small Island Developing States: a systematic literature review and discussion12
A modelling-chain linking climate science and decision-makers for future urban flood management in West Africa12
Drivers and effects of deforestation in Colombia: a systems thinking approach12
Remote sensing the evolution of debris-covered Panchi Nala-A glacier, India (1971-2021) from satellites and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles12
Toward the first documented extinction of a marine macroalga in the Mediterranean Sea?12
Land conversion and lack of protection significantly reduce suitable wolf habitat amount and functional connectivity in the Adirondack-to-Laurentians (A2L) transboundary wildlife linkage12
Applying machine learning to social datasets: a study of migration in southwestern Bangladesh using random forests12
How do countries frame climate change? A global comparison of adaptation and mitigation in UNFCCC National Communications12
Reconstructing 32 years (1989–2020) of annual glacier surface mass balance in Chandra Basin, Western Himalayas, India12
Climate change impacts on tree crop suitability in Southeast Asia12
Influence of deforestation inside and outside indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon Biome12
Coastal livelihood resilience to abrupt environmental change: the role of social capital in a Peruvian bay12
Understanding immobility of a highly vulnerable coastal village in the Indian Sundarban11
Quantifying drivers of change in social-ecological systems: land management impacts wildfire probability in forests of the western US11
Biogeochemical plumbing of pioneer mangrove intertidal flats in French Guiana11
Ecosystem services as systemic enablers for transformation in the Hindu Kush Himalaya: an analytical synthesis11
Possible interaction between exposure to environmental contaminants and nutritional stress in promoting disease occurrence in seabirds from French Guiana: a review11
Correction to: “We cannot escape this”: discussing leverage points for sustainability across scales with the example of Ouvéa, Kanaky New Caledonia11
Controlling the water: citizens’ place–related adaptation to landslides in mid-Norway11
Long-term reclamation of tidal flats of Chongming Island and ecological security of Yangtze estuary, China11
Correction to: Building capacities for adaptation planning: moving from needs assessment to action with a multilevel approach11
Interventions to control forest loss in a swidden cultivation landscape in Nan Province, Thailand11
The impact of urban growth boundary on urban sprawl: evidence from China11
“This community will grow” — little concern for future wildfires in a dry and increasingly hotter Swedish rural community11
Causes of tea land dynamics in Sri Lanka between 1995 and 203011
Exploring the role of smallholder perceptions in shaping land-use decisions in a tropical agro-forest frontier in southern Mexico11
European beewolf (Philanthus triangulum) will expand its geographic range as a result of climate warming11
Can the cropping systems of the Nile basin be adapted to climate change?11
Elevation and local climate variation control changes in Aleppo pine growth responses to hydroclimate and drought in semi-arid Spain11
Rainfall changes perceived by farmers and captured by meteorological data: two sides to every story11
Assessment of climate change impact and adaptation strategy for millet in the Sudano-Sahelian region of Niger11
Drylands becoming drier: evidence from North Patagonia, Argentina11
Correction to: Integrated flood vulnerability assessment of villages in the Waimanu River Catchment in the South Pacific: the case of Viti Levu, Fiji11
Strengthening climate research capacity in Africa: lessons from the ‘Climate impact research capacity leadership enhancement’ project10
Climate change–driven agricultural frontiers and their ecosystem trade-offs in the hills of Nepal10
Shifting climate zones and expanding tropical and arid climate regions across Kenya (1980–2020)10
Land in Central America will become less suitable for coffee cultivation under climate change10
Community priorities, values, and perceptions associated with ecosystem services provided by the socio-ecological landscapes of Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya10
The non-market value of reclaiming natural landscape and biodiversity: a Dutch case study10
Impacts of climate change on semi-natural alpine pastures productivity and floristic composition10
Spatial patterns and determinants of avocado frontier dynamics in Mexico10
A geospatial insight into farmland abandonment in Matopiba: the emerging frontier of Brazilian agriculture10
Phylogenetic diversity and conservation challenges in Brejos de Altitude: assessing threatened areas of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest10
The presence, maintenance, and adaptation of Indigenous and local knowledge about climate-related hazards in Nordic contexts10
Projected climate in coffee-based farming systems: implications for crop suitability in Uganda10
Marine heatwaves threaten key foraging grounds of sea turtles in Southeast Asian Seas10
Monitoring and assessment of glaciers and glacial lakes: climate change impact on the Mago Chu Basin, Eastern Himalayas10
Compliance with kauri forest protection in New Zealand’s regional parks: the mediating role of trust on local versus visitor populations10
Rainfall anomalies and their impacts on Bhutan’s agro-ecological landscape10
Correction: A new framework for rapidly assessing national adaptation policies: an application to small island developing states in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans10
Adaptation planning in the context of a weakening and possibly collapsing Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)10
The importance of diversity in local food systems: a network analysis of food-related interactions in the Indigenous food system on St. Paul Island, Alaska10
Climate change conflicts and challenges in Tapajós National Forest, Brazil10
Brazil’s Amazonian deforestation: the role of landholdings in undesignated public lands10
Water balance components and climate extremes over Brazil under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C of global warming scenarios10
Reflections on land use and land cover change under different socio-economic regimes in the Polish Western Carpathians10
Which pathway to address interrelated challenges to farm sustainability in Thailand? Views of local actors10
Correction to: The impacts of agricultural and urban land-use changes on plant and bird biodiversity in Costa Rica (1986–2014)10
Differences in perception and climate change adaptation among migrant and non-migrant maize farmers in Ghana9
Setting deeper baselines: kelp forest dynamics in California over multiple centuries9
Transforming fire governance in British Columbia, Canada: an emerging vision for coexisting with fire9
Changes in the probability of temporally compound wet and dry events in a warmer world: case study in the Upper Jhelum Basin—South Asia9
Distribution, drivers, and community perceptions of recent mass mangrove dieback in Maldives9
Formal education as a contested pastoral adaptation pathway: insights from southern Kenya9
Changes in the environment from perspectives of small-scale farmers in remote Vietnam9
Community-identified risks to hunting, fishing, and gathering (harvesting) activities from increased marine shipping activity in Inuit Nunangat, Canada9
Trajectories and drivers signalling the end of agricultural abandonment in Trás-os-Montes, Portugal9
Economic viability of urban greening as a climate change adaptation measure in cool-climate cities9
Attitudes towards climate migrants in Aotearoa New Zealand: the roles of climate change beliefs and immigration attitudes9
Impacts of climate and land use change on hydrodynamics and sediment transport regime of the Ganga River Basin9
Comparing future climatic suitability to shoreline loss for recreational beach use: a case study of five Japanese beaches9
Potential distribution of wild edible fruit trees under climate change scenarios: promoting food security in a Neotropical region8
Assessing sand dams for contributions to local water security and drought resilience in the semi-arid eastern Shashe catchment, Zimbabwe8
The impact of climate change on wheat in Turkey8
Beach erosion aggravates the drastic decline in marine turtle populations in French Guiana8
Pathways to achieving nature-positive and carbon–neutral land use and food systems in Wales8
Scorched earth tactics of the “Islamic State” after its loss of territory: intentional burning of farmland in Iraq and Syria8
Supply chain disruptions would increase agricultural greenhouse gas emissions8
Media framing of the Cape Town water crisis: perspectives on the food-energy-water nexus8
The impact of tourists on the marine environment: a review and managerial implications8
Collective capabilities shape the co-production of nature’s contributions to people in the alpine agricultural system of the Maurienne valley, France8
From national vision to implementation: governance challenges in sustainable agriculture transitions in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta region8
Climate change impacts on winter chill in Mediterranean temperate fruit orchards8
Woody vegetation cover on cleared areas in the Amazon Basin: temporal mixture mapping suggests a revised conceptual model of deforestation8
A review of drivers of environmental non-migration decisions in Africa8
A field and remote sensing assessment of rates and drivers of tree cover loss in island catchments: variation in global model accuracy8
Human ecology of forest in an extraction-shaped landscape: Economic and demographic drivers of land use change in the Ohio Valley over 220 years8
Assessing mammal pollinators in the Eastern Amazon and the effects of climate change on endangered species8
Global evidence of constraints and limits to human adaptation8
Matching the scales of planning and environmental risk: an evaluation of Community Wildfire Protection Plans in the western US8
Climate change adaptation, resilience and mitigation challenges in African agriculture8
False springs in the Netherlands: climate change impact assessment with the false spring damage indicator model8
Pyrenean glaciers are disappearing fast: state of the glaciers after the extreme mass losses in 2022 and 20238
Correction to: Agroforestry trade-offs between biomass provision and aboveground carbon sequestration in the alpine Eisenwurzen region, Austria8
Drought exacerbates the trade-offs and distributional imbalances of regional ecosystem services: a case study in Yunnan Province, China7
Do government knowledge production and use systems matter for global climate change adaptation tracking? Insights from Eastern Africa7
Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP) of rural freshwater ponds in Bangladesh: An exploration of the impacts of pondscape degradation7
Inequality, water accessibility, and health impacts in Chiapas, Mexico7
Steady decline in food self-sufficiency in Africa from 1961 to 20187
Exploring the identification and use of socially defined indicators to monitor local environmental change in the Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona7
Institutions and institutional changes: aquatic food production in Central Luzon, Philippines7
Interdisciplinary insights into a 500-year trajectory of an alpine socio-ecological system in Montaimont, France7
Climate impacts on migration in the Arctic North America: existing evidence and research recommendations7
The forgotten bread oven: local bakeries, forests and energy transition in Nigeria7
Co-production of sustainability indicators in a vulnerable South American agricultural frontier7
Mapping agricultural vulnerability to impacts of climate events of Punjab, Pakistan7
Evolution of fishing effort and fishing capacity during the last two decades (2000–2019) in Egypt’s marine fisheries: spotting the fleet overcapacity7
Socio-environmental value of glacier lakes: assessment in the Aosta Valley (Western Italian Alps)7
Perceptions on and impacts of environmental changes under multiple stressors: a case study from two communities in northern Fennoscandia7
Contribution of ecological conservation programs and climate change to hydrological regime change in the source region of the Yangtze River in China7
Promise, premise, and reality: the case of voluntary environmental non-migration despite climate risks in coastal Bangladesh7
Hydrological extremes in the Mediterranean basin: interactions, impacts, and adaptation in the face of climate change7
Tracking changes in social-ecological entanglements: beekeeping among the Maa-speaking pastoralists of Laikipia, Kenya7
Brazil’s planned exploitation of Amazonian indigenous lands for commercial agriculture increases risk of new pandemics7
A case study on facing climate change: optimizing planting density and date of summer maize for stable grain yield in the North China Plain7
Situating climate change narrative for conceptualizing adaptation strategies: a case study of coffee growers in South India6
Agricultural resilience and adaptive capacity during severe drought in the Western Cape, South Africa6
Implications of regional agricultural land use dynamics and deforestation associated with sugarcane expansion for soil carbon stocks in Brazil6
“Listen to us”: small-scale farmers’ understandings of social-ecological changes and their drivers in Important Agricultural Heritage Systems6
Evolution of the French Guiana coast from Late Pleistocene to Holocene based on chenier and beach sand dating6
Mangrove soil carbon stocks varied significantly across community compositions and environmental gradients in the largest mangrove wetland reserve, China6
Looking back and looking forward—adapting to extreme weather events in municipalities in western Norway6
Searching for synergies for low emission development, the case for dairy subsector in Kenya6
Adaptation strategies for dealing with global atmospheric change in Mediterranean agriculture: a triple helix approach to the Spanish case study6
Transformative adaptation through nature-based solutions: a comparative case study analysis in China, Italy, and Germany6
“Here, I will stay until I die”—exploring the relationship between place attachment, risk perception, and coping behavior in two small Norwegian communities6
Farmers’ action space to adopt sustainable practices: a study of arable farming in Saxony6
Increased frequency of extreme rainfall events threatens an emblematic cultural coastal agroecosystem in Southeastern Thailand6
Unpacking opposition to planned relocation: insight from Pedrinhas and Cedovém, Portugal6
Hydrological impacts of climate and land-use change in Western Ghats, India6
Large-scale forest protection: the successful case of the Kayapo people in the Brazilian Amazon6
Rapid advance of climatic tree limits in the Eastern Alps explained by on-site temperatures6
Facing up to drought events: Understanding the potentials and challenges within farming systems6
Unveiling the potential of biomarkers in the context of climate change: analysis of knowledge landscapes, trends, and research priorities6
Marine spatial planning and ocean governance in Small Island Developing States6
Too expensive to keep — bidding farewell to an iconic mountain glacier?6
Substantial warming of Central European mountain rivers under climate change6
Plant biodiversity in Mediterranean orchards is related to historical land use: perspectives for biodiversity-friendly olive production6
Tackling limitations in biodiversity offsetting? A comparison of the Peruvian and French approaches6
Future changes in wind energy resources in Egypt under Paris climate agreements’ goals5
The potential for enhancing soil carbon levels through the use of organic soil amendments in Queensland, Australia5
Social-ecological implications of land use change on the Balsamo Coast of El Salvador5
Gender dimensions in the adoption of climate-smart agriculture technologies in response to climate change extremes in Benin5
Agricultural diversification for crop yield stability: a smallholder adaptation strategy to climate variability in Ethiopia5
Women in the midst: an intersectionality study of Canadian climate change, poverty and health media reporting5
Long-term trajectories of mountain agro-ecosystems in the North-Western Alps5
Water under the bridge: how place meanings shape second homeowners’ engagement in flood risk management in southern Denmark5
Societal impacts of historical droughts in a warming world5
Rainfed crop yield response to climate change in Iran5
Determinants, outcomes, and feedbacks associated with microeconomic adaptation to climate change5
Functional extinction of a genus of canopy-forming macroalgae (Cystophora spp.) across Western Australia5
Exploring the integration of local and scientific soil knowledge for sustainable management in Ethiopia’s highlands5
What is the evidence linking financial assistance for drought-affected agriculture and resilience in tropical Asia? A systematic review5
Prediction of drought/flood intensities based on a 500-year time series in three different climate provinces of China5
Stakeholder visions for trajectories of adaptation to climate change in the Drôme catchment (French Alps)5
The economic and environmental impact of limiting air routes where there is a rail alternative: a case study of Spain5
Integrated flood vulnerability assessment of villages in the Waimanu River Catchment in the South Pacific: the case of Viti Levu, Fiji5
Historically, how much cropland was on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau? Case study of the Tubo Kingdom and the Yuan Dynasty5
Disrupting climate adaptation lock-ins? Swedish local civil servants’ strategies to enable adaptation5
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