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Benjamin L. Preston

Benjamin L. Preston

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
40
Citations
9281
World Ranking
7932
National Ranking
2824

Overview

Benjamin L. Preston is affiliated with the RAND Corporation in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and social sciences, with notable work in subfields including sociology and political science, global and planetary change, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, transportation, and ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics.

The main topics that characterize their work include sustainability and climate change governance, disaster management and resilience, environmental justice and health disparities, flood risk assessment and management, urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies, as well as climate change impacts on agriculture and climate variability and models.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Benjamin L. Preston demonstrate an engagement with multiple dimensions of climate and environmental research. These include:

  • "Achievements and needs for the climate change scenario framework," 2020, published in Nature Climate Change
  • "Infrastructure resilience to navigate increasingly uncertain and complex conditions in the Anthropocene," 2021, in npj Urban Sustainability
  • "The social structure of climate change research and practitioner engagement: Evidence from California," 2020, in Global Environmental Change
  • "The societal benefits of vehicle connectivity," 2021, in Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
  • "Applying the Knowledge Product Evaluation (KnoPE) Framework to two urban resilience cases in the United States," 2020, in Environmental Science & Policy

Frequent coauthors include Jaime Madrigano, Alexandra Huttinger, Sameer M. Siddiqi, Ramya Chari, and Grace Gahlon, indicating established collaborative relationships in their research publications.

Benjamin L. Preston's work has appeared in several journals repeatedly, with multiple publications in Nature Climate Change and contributions to npj Urban Sustainability, Global Environmental Change, Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment, and Environmental Science & Policy.

In addition to journal articles, they have authored several books published by RAND Corporation eBooks, including:

  • "Environmental Racism: A Tool for Exploring the Enduring Legacy of Redlining on Urban Environments," 2022
  • "Beyond Recovery: Transforming Puerto Rico's Water Sector in the Wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria," 2020
  • "Incentivizing Solar: Catalyzing Solar Energy Technology Adoption to Address the Challenge of Climate Change," 2021
  • "Climate Control: International Legal Mechanisms for Managing the Geopolitical Risks of Geoengineering," 2021
  • "Mitigating Risk That Climate Change Poses to the National Critical Functions: Strategies for Supply Chains, Insurance Services, Emergency Management, and Public Safety," 2024

Best Publications

  • Adapting to climate change through local municipal planning: barriers and challenges

    Thomas G. Measham;Benjamin L. Preston;Timothy F. Smith;Cassandra Brooke

  • Putting vulnerability to climate change on the map: a review of approaches, benefits, and risks

    Benjamin L. Preston;Emma J. Yuen;Richard M. Westaway

  • Climate adaptation planning in practice: an evaluation of adaptation plans from three developed nations

    Benjamin L. Preston;Richard M. Westaway;Emma J. Yuen

  • Achievements and needs for the climate change scenario framework.

    Brian C. O'Neill;Brian C. O'Neill;Timothy R. Carter;Kristie L. Ebi;Paula A. Harrison

  • Adaptation Opportunities, Constraints, and Limits

    Richard J.T. Klein;Guy F. Midgley;Benjamin L. Preston;Mozaharul Alam

  • Limits to adaptation

    Kirstin Dow;Frans Berkhout;Benjamin L. Preston;Richard J. T. Klein;Richard J. T. Klein

  • Adaptation Opportunities, Constraints, and Limits

    R J T Klein;G F Midgley;B Preston;Mozaharu Alam

  • Is adaptation a local responsibility

    Johanna Orvokki Nalau;Benjamin L. Preston;Megan C. Maloney

  • IPCC Fifth Assessment Synthesis Report-Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report

    Myles R. Allen;Vicente R. Barros;John Broome;Wolfgang Cramer

  • Adaptation and risk management

    Roger N. Jones;Benjamin L. Preston

  • Climate change impacts on Australia and the benefits of early action to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions

    Benjamin Preston;Roger Jones

  • Adaptation opportunities, constraints and limits. Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

    R Klein;G Midgley;B Preston;M Alam

  • AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE

    Benjamin L. Preston

  • Enhancing the relevance of Shared Socioeconomic Pathways for climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability research

    Bas J. van Ruijven;Marc A. Levy;Arun Agrawal;Frank Biermann

  • Indirect Effects in Aquatic Ecotoxicology: Implications for Ecological Risk Assessment

    Benjamin L. Preston

  • Scenarios for vulnerability: opportunities and constraints in the context of climate change and disaster risk

    Joern Birkmann;Susan L. Cutter;Dale S. Rothman;Torsten Welle

  • Climate adaptation heuristics and the science/policy divide

    Benjamin L. Preston;Johanna Orvokki Mustelin;Megan C. Maloney

  • Extending the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways for sub-national impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability studies

    Syeda Mariya Absar;Benjamin L. Preston

  • Igniting change in local government: lessons learned from a bushfire vulnerability assessment

    B. L. Preston;B. L. Preston;C. Brooke;T. G. Measham;T. F. Smith

  • Use of freshwater rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus in screening assay for potential endocrine disruptors

    Benjamin L. Preston;Terry W. Snell;Tish L. Robertson;Brian J. Dingmann

  • Climate vulnerability mapping: A systematic review and future prospects

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger Jones
Roger Jones Victoria University
Moetasim Ashfaq
Moetasim Ashfaq Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Richard J.T. Klein
Richard J.T. Klein Stockholm Environment Institute
Terry W. Snell
Terry W. Snell Georgia Institute of Technology
Anthony W. King
Anthony W. King Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Kathleen L. McInnes
Kathleen L. McInnes Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Frans Berkhout
Frans Berkhout King's College London
Bas J. van Ruijven
Bas J. van Ruijven International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Brian C. O'Neill
Brian C. O'Neill Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Detlef P. van Vuuren
Detlef P. van Vuuren Utrecht University

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