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Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell

Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
48
Citations
8245
World Ranking
3188
National Ranking
542

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
49
Citations
8376
World Ranking
5277
National Ranking
400

Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 178 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 48 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell is affiliated with Middlesex University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and social sciences, with main contributions in the subfields of global and planetary change, sociology and political science, earth-surface processes, atmospheric science, and ocean engineering.

The scientist has extensively worked on topics related to flood risk assessment and management, disaster management and resilience, coastal and marine dynamics, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, water resources management and optimization, sustainability and climate change governance, and coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics.

Frequent collaborators of Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell include Jon French, Robert J. Nicholls, Sally Brown, Ivan D. Haigh, and Eli D. Lazarus.

Major publication venues for their work are the Journal of Flood Risk Management, The Science of The Total Environment, Disasters, Risk Analysis, and the Geographical Journal.

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Operationalising coastal resilience to flood and erosion hazard: A demonstration for England", 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Academic publishing in disaster risk reduction: past, present, and future", 2020, Disasters
  • "Comparing the scale of modelled and recorded current flood risk: Results from England", 2020, Journal of Flood Risk Management
  • "Advocacy coalitions and flood insurance: Power and policies in the Australian Natural Disaster Insurance Review", 2020, Environment and Planning C Politics and Space
  • "The UK needs an open data portal dedicated to coastal flood and erosion hazard risk and resilience", 2021, Anthropocene Coasts

Best Publications

  • Vulnerability to flooding: health and social dimensions.

    Sue M. Tapsell;Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell;Sylvia M. Tunstall;T. Wilson

  • Flood risk assessments at different spatial scales.

    H. De Moel;B. Jongman;H. Kreibich;B. Merz

  • A restatement of the natural science evidence concerning catchment-based 'natural' flood management in the UK.

    Simon J. Dadson;Jim W. Hall;Anna Murgatroyd;Mike Acreman

  • Human Instability in Flood Flows1

    S. N. Jonkman;Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell

  • The ‘last resort’? Population movement in response to climate-related hazards in Bangladesh

    Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell;Parvin Sultana;Paul M. Thompson

  • Floods as Catalysts for Policy Change: Historical Lessons from England and Wales

    Clare L. Johnson;Sylvia M. Tunstall;Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell

  • Estimating Injury and Loss of Life in Floods: A Deterministic Framework

    Edmund Penning-Rowsell;Peter Floyd;David Ramsbottom;Suresh Surendran

  • ‘Signals’ from pre-crisis discourse: Lessons from UK flooding for global environmental policy change?

    Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell;Clare L. Johnson;Sylvia M. Tunstall

  • Natural and imposed injustices: the challenges in implementing 'fair' flood risk management policy in England

    Clare Johnson;Edmund Penning-Rowsell;Dennis Parker

  • Victim pressure, institutional inertia and climate change adaptation: The case of flood risk

    Tim Harries;Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell

  • Adaptive flood risk management planning based on a comprehensive flood risk conceptualisation

    Frans Klijn;Hiedi Kreibich;Hans De Moel;Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell

  • Explaining differences in flood management approaches in Europe and in the USA – a comparative analysis

    P. Bubeck;H. Kreibich;Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell;W. J. W. Botzen

  • Flood risk management: A strategic approach

    Paul Sayers;Li Yuanyuan;Gerald Galloway;Edmund Penning-Rowsell

  • Future Flooding and Coastal Erosion Risks

    Colin R. Thorne;Edward P. Evans;Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell

  • Land use and flood protection: contrasting approaches and outcomes in France and in England and Wales

    Nathalie Pottier;Edmund Penning-Rowsell;Sylvia Tunstall;Gilles Hubert

  • The Benefits of Flood Alleviation: A Manual of Assessment Techniques

    F. J. T. Kestner;Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell;John B. Chatterton

  • Flood vulnerability, risk and social disadvantage: current and future patterns in the UK

    Paul Sayers;Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell;Matt Horritt

  • Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management: A Manual for Economic Appraisal

    Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell;Sally J. Priest;Dennis J. Parker;Joe Morris

  • The robustness of flood insurance regimes given changing risk resulting from climate change

    Jessica Lamond;Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell

  • Quantified scenarios analysis of drivers and impacts of changing flood risk in England and Wales: 2030–2100

    Jim W Hall;Edward P Evans;Edmund C Penning-Rowsell;Paul B Sayers

  • River Restoration: Public Attitudes and Expectations

    S. M. Tunstall;E. C. Penning-Rowsell;S. M. Tapsell;S. E. Eden

  • Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster

    Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell;Keith Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Jim W. Hall
Jim W. Hall University of Oxford
Robert J. Nicholls
Robert J. Nicholls University of East Anglia
Phoebe Koundouri
Phoebe Koundouri Athens University of Economics and Business
Colin R. Thorne
Colin R. Thorne University of Nottingham
Andrew R. Watkinson
Andrew R. Watkinson University of East Anglia
Emma L. Tompkins
Emma L. Tompkins University of Southampton
Richard C. Thompson
Richard C. Thompson Plymouth University
Ivan D. Haigh
Ivan D. Haigh University of Southampton
Simon Dadson
Simon Dadson University of Oxford
Mick E. Hanley
Mick E. Hanley Plymouth University

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