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Environmental Sciences
Germany
2023

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Environmental Sciences

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92
Citations
37835
World Ranking
536
National Ranking
32

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85
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Alexander Popp is affiliated with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a notable focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The research topics addressed in Popp's work include:

  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation

Popp has contributed to multiple recent publications, including:

  • Harmonization of global land use change and management for the period 850-2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6, 2020, published in Geoscientific Model Development
  • Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy, 2020, published in Nature
  • Innovation can accelerate the transition towards a sustainable food system, 2020, published in Nature Food
  • The world's growing municipal solid waste: trends and impacts, 2020, published in Environmental Research Letters
  • Impact of declining renewable energy costs on electrification in low-emission scenarios, 2021, published in Nature Energy

Frequent co-authors in Popp's research include:

  • Florian Humpenöder
  • Hermann Lotze-Campen
  • Benjamin Leon Bodirsky
  • Jan Philipp Dietrich
  • Isabelle Weindl

Popp's work is often published in scientific venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Food
  • Nature Climate Change

Best Publications

  • The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and their energy, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions implications: An overview

    Keywan Riahi;Detlef P. van Vuuren;Elmar Kriegler;Jae Edmonds

  • Scenarios towards limiting global mean temperature increase below 1.5 °C

    Joeri Rogelj;Joeri Rogelj;Alexander Popp;Katherine V. Calvin;Gunnar Luderer

  • Land-use futures in the shared socio-economic pathways

    Alexander Popp;Katherine Calvin;Shinichiro Fujimori;Petr Havlik

  • Global emissions pathways under different socioeconomic scenarios for use in CMIP6: a dataset of harmonized emissions trajectories through the end of the century

    Matthew J. Gidden;Keywan Riahi;Steven J. Smith;Shinichiro Fujimori;Shinichiro Fujimori

  • Harmonization of global land use change and management for the period 850–2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6

    George C. Hurtt;Louise Chini;Ritvik Sahajpal;Steve Frolking

  • Climate change effects on agriculture: Economic responses to biophysical shocks

    Gerald C. Nelson;Hugo Valin;Ronald D. Sands;Petr Havlík

  • Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy

    David Leclère;Michael Obersteiner;Michael Obersteiner;Mike Barrett;Stuart H.M. Butchart;Stuart H.M. Butchart

  • Bioenergy and climate change mitigation: an assessment.

    Felix Creutzig;Nijavalli H. Ravindranath;Göran Berndes;Simon Bolwig

  • Fossil-fueled development (SSP5): An energy and resource intensive scenario for the 21st century

    Elmar Kriegler;Nico Bauer;Alexander Popp;Florian Humpenöder

  • How much land based greenhouse gas mitigation can be achieved without compromising food security and environmental goals

    Pete Smith;Helmut Haberl;Alexander Popp;Karl Heinz Erb

  • Assessing the impacts of 1.5 °C global warming - simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b)

    Katja Frieler;Stefan Lange;Franziska Piontek;Christopher P. O. Reyer

  • Contribution of the land sector to a 1.5 °C world

    Stephanie Roe;Charlotte Streck;Michael Obersteiner;Stefan Frank

  • Reactive nitrogen requirements to feed the world in 2050 and potential to mitigate nitrogen pollution

    Benjamin Leon Bodirsky;Alexander Popp;Hermann Lotze-Campen;Jan Philipp Dietrich

  • Food consumption, diet shifts and associated non-CO2 greenhouse gases from agricultural production

    Alexander Popp;Hermann Lotze-Campen;Benjamin Bodirsky

  • Innovation can accelerate the transition towards a sustainable food system

    Mario Herrero;Philip K. Thornton;Daniel Mason-D’Croz;Jeda Palmer

  • Understanding future emissions from low-carbon power systems by integration of life-cycle assessment and integrated energy modelling

    Michaja Pehl;Anders Arvesen;Florian Humpenöder;Alexander Popp

  • Impact of declining renewable energy costs on electrification in low-emission scenarios

    Gunnar Luderer;Gunnar Luderer;Silvia Madeddu;Leon Merfort;Falko Ueckerdt

  • Challenges for land system science

    Mark D.A. Rounsevell;Bas Pedroli;Karl-Heinz Erb;Marc Gramberger

  • A sustainable development pathway for climate action within the UN 2030 Agenda

    Bjoern Soergel;Elmar Kriegler;Elmar Kriegler;Isabelle Weindl;Sebastian Rauner

  • The world's growing municipal solid waste: trends and impacts

    David Meng-Chuen Chen;David Meng-Chuen Chen;Benjamin Leon Bodirsky;Tobias Krueger;Abhijeet Mishra;Abhijeet Mishra

  • Global food demand, productivity growth, and the scarcity of land and water resources: a spatially explicit mathematical programming approach.

    Hermann Lotze-Campen;Christoph Müller;Alberte Bondeau;Stefanie Rost

  • Climate change impacts on agriculture in 2050 under a range of plausible socioeconomic and emissions scenarios

    Keith Wiebe;H. Lotze-Campen;H. Lotze-Campen;R. Sands;A.A. Tabeau

  • Land-use change trajectories up to 2050: insights from a global agro-economic model comparison

    Christoph Schmitz;Hans van Meijl;G. Page Kyle;Gerald C. Nelson;Gerald C. Nelson

Frequent Co-Authors

Hermann Lotze-Campen
Hermann Lotze-Campen Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Benjamin Leon Bodirsky
Benjamin Leon Bodirsky Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Florian Humpenöder
Florian Humpenöder Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Shinichiro Fujimori
Shinichiro Fujimori Kyoto University
Detlef P. van Vuuren
Detlef P. van Vuuren Utrecht University
Tomoko Hasegawa
Tomoko Hasegawa Ritsumeikan University
Petr Havlik
Petr Havlik International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Elke Stehfest
Elke Stehfest Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
Christoph Müller
Christoph Müller Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Katherine Calvin
Katherine Calvin Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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