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Alex de Sherbinin is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on social sciences and environmental science, with a substantial number of publications in the subfields of sociology and political science, global and planetary change, atmospheric science, transportation, and ecological modeling.

Their work spans several main topics including:

  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Research Data Management Practices
  • Scientific Computing and Data Management

Alex de Sherbinin has contributed to multiple recent papers, which include:

  • "China's poverty alleviation resettlement: Progress, problems and solutions" (2020) in Habitat International
  • "The Critical Importance of Citizen Science Data" (2021) in Frontiers in Climate
  • "Assessing human habitability and migration" (2021) in Science
  • "A Systematic Review of Coastal Vulnerability Mapping" (2020) in Sustainability
  • "Violent conflict exacerbated drought-related food insecurity between 2009 and 2019 in sub-Saharan Africa" (2021) in Nature Food

The scholar frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Susana B. Adamo
  • Kanta Kumari Rigaud
  • Carolynne Hultquist
  • Kees van der Geest
  • Fabien Cottier

Alex de Sherbinin's publications appear often in established venues, such as:

  • Frontiers in Climate
  • Sustainability
  • Citizen Science Theory and Practice
  • Population and Environment
  • Remote Sensing

Additionally, they have a record of book publications with World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks, featuring titles such as:

  • "Groundswell Part 2" (2021)
  • "Groundswell Africa" (2021) in multiple editions

Best Publications

  • The vulnerability of global cities to climate hazards

    Alex De Sherbinin;Andrew Schiller;Alex Pulsipher

  • Groundswell : Preparing for Internal Climate Migration

    Kanta Kumari Rigaud;Alexander M. De Sherbinin;Bryan Jones;Jonas Bergmann

  • Rural household demographics, livelihoods and the environment

    Alex de Sherbinin;Leah K. VanWey;Kendra McSweeney;Rimjhim Aggarwal

  • Temperature and humidity based projections of a rapid rise in global heat stress exposure during the 21st century

    Ethan Coffel;Ethan Coffel;Radley M. Horton;Radley M. Horton;Alexander M. De Sherbinin

  • Preparing for Resettlement Associated with Climate Change

    A. de Sherbinin;M. Castro;F. Gemenne;M. M. Cernea

  • Urban growth and water access in sub-Saharan Africa: Progress, challenges, and emerging research directions

    S. Dos Santos;E.A. Adams;G. Neville;Y. Wada

  • High mountain areas

    Regine Hock;Golam Rasul;Carolina Adler;Bolivar Cáceres

  • A global Water Quality Index and hot-deck imputation of missing data

    Tanja Srebotnjak;Genevieve Carr;Alexander de Sherbinin;Carrie Rickwood

  • Groundswell Part 2: Acting on Internal Climate Migration

    Viviane Clement;Kanta Kumari Rigaud;Alex de Sherbinin;Bryan Jones

  • Climate change hotspots mapping: what have we learned?

    Alexander M. De Sherbinin

  • Mapping global human dependence on marine ecosystems

    Elizabeth R. Selig;Elizabeth R. Selig;Elizabeth R. Selig;David G. Hole;David G. Hole;Edward H. Allison;Edward H. Allison;Katie K. Arkema

  • Battling to Save the World's River Deltas

    Charles J. Vörösmarty;James Syvitski;John Day;Alex de Sherbinin

  • China's Soil Pollution: Farms on the Frontline

    Ruishan Chen;Alex de Sherbinin;Chao Ye;Guoqing Shi

  • China's poverty alleviation resettlement: Progress, problems and solutions

    Yuanyuan Yang;Alex de Sherbinin;Yansui Liu

  • A global indicator of wastewater treatment to inform the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

    Omar A. Malik;Angel Hsu;Laura A. Johnson;Alex de Sherbinin

  • The Critical Importance of Citizen Science Data

    Alexander M. De Sherbinin;Anne Bowser;Tyng-Ruey Chuang;Caren Cooper

  • Policy-relevant indicators for mapping the vulnerability of urban populations to extreme heat events: A case study of Philadelphia

    Stephanie Weber;Natasha Sadoff;Erica Zell;Alex de Sherbinin

  • Assessing human habitability and migration.

    Radley M. Horton;Alex de Sherbinin;David Wrathall;Michael Oppenheimer

  • Climate vulnerability mapping: A systematic review and future prospects

    Alex de Sherbinin;Anamaria Bukvic;Guillaume Thibaut Rohat;Guillaume Thibaut Rohat;Melanie Gall

  • Transition towards a new global change science: Requirements for methodologies, methods, data and knowledge

    Claudia Pahl-Wostl;Carlo Giupponi;Keith Richards;Claudia R. Binder

  • Migration and risk: net migration in marginal ecosystems and hazardous areas

    Alexander M. De Sherbinin;Marc A. Levy;Susana Beatriz Adamo;Kytt MacManus

  • Population and Environment

    Alex de Sherbinin;David Carr;Susan Cassels;Leiwen Jiang

  • Is poverty more acute near parks? An assessment of infant mortality rates around protected areas in developing countries

    Alex de Sherbinin

Frequent Co-Authors

Bryan D. Jones
Bryan D. Jones The University of Texas at Austin
Radley M. Horton
Radley M. Horton Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Andrew J. Tatem
Andrew J. Tatem University of Southampton
Yansui Liu
Yansui Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Andrew Nelson
Andrew Nelson University of Twente
David G. Hole
David G. Hole Conservation International
Richard Seager
Richard Seager Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Michael Oppenheimer
Michael Oppenheimer Princeton University
Cynthia Rosenzweig
Cynthia Rosenzweig Goddard Institute for Space Studies

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