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Elke Stehfest is affiliated with the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on global and planetary change, ecology, economics and econometrics, environmental engineering, and management, monitoring, policy, and law. The main topics covered in their work include agriculture sustainability and environmental impact, land use and ecosystem services, conservation, biodiversity and resource management, environmental impact and sustainability, climate change policy and economics, water-energy-food nexus studies, and forest management and policy.

Stehfest has contributed to a number of scientific publications, appearing frequently in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Global Environmental Change, Environmental Research Letters, Nature Food, and Nature.

Their recent papers include:

  • Harmonization of global land use change and management for the period 850-2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6, 2020, Geoscientific Model Development
  • Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy, 2020, Nature
  • Innovation can accelerate the transition towards a sustainable food system, 2020, Nature Food
  • Land-based measures to mitigate climate change: Potential and feasibility by country, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Critical adjustment of land mitigation pathways for assessing countries' climate progress, 2021, Nature Climate Change

They have collaborated frequently with co-authors including Jonathan Doelman, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Peter Havlík, Alexander Popp, and Aafke M. Schipper, with collaboration counts ranging from 15 to 39 publications.

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

  • Assessing agricultural risks of climate change in the 21st century in a global gridded crop model intercomparison

    Cynthia Rosenzweig;Joshua Elliott;Joshua Elliott;Delphine Deryng;Alex C. Ruane;Alex C. Ruane

  • Historical (1850–2000) gridded anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions of reactive gases and aerosols: methodology and application

    J.-F. Lamarque;T. C. Bond;V. Eyring;Claire Granier;Claire Granier;Claire Granier

  • Harmonization of land-use scenarios for the period 1500–2100: 600 years of global gridded annual land-use transitions, wood harvest, and resulting secondary lands

    G. C. Hurtt;G. C. Hurtt;L. P. Chini;S. Frolking;R. A. Betts

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

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

  • Climate benefits of changing diet

    Elke Stehfest;Lex Bouwman;Detlef P. van Vuuren;Michel G. J. den Elzen

  • RCP2.6: exploring the possibility to keep global mean temperature increase below 2°C

    Detlef P. van Vuuren;Detlef P. van Vuuren;Elke Stehfest;Michel G. J. den Elzen;Tom Kram

  • Anthropogenic land use estimates for the Holocene – HYDE 3.2

    Kees Klein Goldewijk;Kees Klein Goldewijk;Arthur Beusen;Arthur Beusen;Jonathan Doelman;Elke Stehfest

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

    Alexander Popp;Katherine Calvin;Shinichiro Fujimori;Petr Havlik

  • Greenhouse gas mitigation potentials in the livestock sector

    Mario Herrero;Benjamin Henderson;Petr Havlík;Philip K. Thornton;Philip K. Thornton

  • 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

  • Energy, land-use and greenhouse gas emissions trajectories under a green growth paradigm

    Detlef P. van Vuuren;Detlef P. van Vuuren;Elke Stehfest;David E. H. J. Gernaat;David E. H. J. Gernaat;Jonathan C. Doelman

  • 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

  • Alternative pathways to the 1.5 °C target reduce the need for negative emission technologies

    Detlef P. van Vuuren;Detlef P. van Vuuren;Elke Stehfest;David E. H. J. Gernaat;David E. H. J. Gernaat;Maarten van den Berg

  • The yield gap of global grain production: A spatial analysis

    Kathleen Neumann;Peter H. Verburg;Elke Stehfest;Christoph Müller;Christoph Müller

  • Competition for land

    Pete Smith;Peter J. Gregory;Detlef van Vuuren;Michael Obersteiner

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

    Stephanie Roe;Charlotte Streck;Michael Obersteiner;Stefan Frank

  • Similar estimates of temperature impacts on global wheat yield by three independent methods

    Bing Liu;Bing Liu;Senthold Asseng;Christoph Müller;Frank Ewert

  • Risk of increased food insecurity under stringent global climate change mitigation policy

    Tomoko Hasegawa;Tomoko Hasegawa;Shinichiro Fujimori;Shinichiro Fujimori;Shinichiro Fujimori;Petr Havlík;Hugo Valin

  • Innovation can accelerate the transition towards a sustainable food system

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

  • Future air pollution in the Shared Socio-economic Pathways

    Shilpa Rao;Shilpa Rao;Zbigniew Klimont;Steven J. Smith;Steven J. Smith;Rita Van Dingenen

  • Integrated Assessment of Global Environmental Change with IMAGE 3.0 : Model description and policy applications

    Elke Stehfest;Detlef van Vuuren;L. Bouwman;Tom Kram

Frequent Co-Authors

Detlef P. van Vuuren
Detlef P. van Vuuren Utrecht University
Shinichiro Fujimori
Shinichiro Fujimori Kyoto University
Tomoko Hasegawa
Tomoko Hasegawa Ritsumeikan University
Petr Havlik
Petr Havlik International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Alexander Popp
Alexander Popp Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Florian Humpenöder
Florian Humpenöder Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Keywan Riahi
Keywan Riahi International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Kees Klein Goldewijk
Kees Klein Goldewijk Utrecht University
Hans van Meijl
Hans van Meijl Wageningen University & Research
Hermann Lotze-Campen
Hermann Lotze-Campen Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

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