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Social Sciences and Humanities

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59
Citations
24787
World Ranking
1522
National Ranking
280

Environmental Sciences

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58
Citations
23549
World Ranking
3191
National Ranking
250

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Frans Berkhout is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans across social sciences and environmental science, with a specific focus on sociology and political science, global and planetary change, urban studies, general health professions, and economics and econometrics.

Their work addresses main topics including urban and rural development challenges, sustainability and climate change governance, flood risk assessment and management, climate change adaptation and migration, health disparities and outcomes, HIV/AIDS impact and responses, and innovative approaches in technology and social development.

Recent publications by Frans Berkhout include:

  • "Limits to adaptation: Building an integrated research agenda" (2022), published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • "Delayed, abrupt and unjust: An institutionalist perspective on limits to climate change adaptation" (2024), published in Climate Risk Management

Other notable publications related to their research interests feature collaborations where Frans Berkhout appears as an author or co-author alongside other researchers, contributing to understanding urban health frameworks, climate governance, and flood adaptation studies:

  • "Beyond experiments: Embedding outcomes in climate governance" (2020), Environment and Planning C Politics and Space
  • "Loops and Building Blocks: a Knowledge co-Production Framework for Equitable Urban Health" (2021), Journal of Urban Health
  • "Exploring the limits and gaps of flood adaptation" (2024), Nature Water

Frequent co-authors within their network include Kirstin Dow, Zahidul Quayyum, Samuel Agyei-Mensah, Jill Baumgartner, and Majid Ezzati, each having collaborated in at least three joint publications.

Their research is frequently published in venues such as Wellcome Open Research, Environment and Planning C Politics and Space, Nature Water, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, and the Journal of Urban Health.

Frans Berkhout has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom, reflecting formal acknowledgment within the academic community.

Best Publications

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • The governance of sustainable socio-technical transitions

    Adrian Smith;Andrew Stirling;Frans Berkhout;Frans Berkhout

  • The globalization of socio-ecological systems: An agenda for scientific research

    Oran R. Young;Frans Berkhout;Gilberto C. Gallopin;Marco A. Janssen

  • Socio-Technological Regimes and Transition Contexts

    F.G.H. Berkhout;A. Smith;A. Stirlingh

  • Learning to Adapt: Organisational Adaptation to Climate Change Impacts

    Frans Berkhout;Julia Hertin;David M. Gann

  • Evaluating sustainability transitions pathways: Bridging analytical approaches to address governance challenges

    Bruno Turnheim;Frans Berkhout;Frank W. Geels;Andries Hof;Andries Hof

  • Opening up knowledge systems for better responses to global environmental change

    Sarah Cornell;Frans Berkhout;Willemijn Tuinstra;Willemijn Tuinstra;J. David Tàbara

  • Beyond Cockpit-ism: Four Insights to Enhance the Transformative Potential of the Sustainable Development Goals

    Maarten Hajer;Måns Nilsson;Kate Raworth;Peter Bakker

  • Space and scale in socio-technical transitions

    Rpjm Rob Raven;JW Johan Schot;F Berkhout

  • Socio-economic futures in climate change impact assessment: using scenarios as ‘learning machines’

    Frans Berkhout;Julia Hertin;Andrew Jordan

  • Bridging analytical approaches for low-carbon transitions

    Frank W. Geels;Frans Berkhout;Detlef P. van Vuuren

  • Adaptation Opportunities, Constraints, and Limits

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

  • Technological regimes, path dependency and the environment

    Frans Berkhout

  • Plausible and desirable futures in the Anthropocene: A new research agenda

    Xuemei Bai;Sander van der Leeuw;Karen O’Brien;Frans Berkhout

  • 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

  • De-materialising and re-materialising: digital technologies and the environment

    Frans Berkhout;Julia Hertin

  • Normative expectations in systems innovation

    Frans Berkhout

  • Industry, settlement and society

    T.J. Wilbanks;P. Romero Lankao;M. Bao;F.G.H. Berkhout

  • A proposal for a new scenario framework to support research and assessment in different climate research communities

    Detlef Van Vuuren;Detlef Van Vuuren;Keywan Riahi;Richard H. Moss;James A. Edmonds

Frequent Co-Authors

Dave Huitema
Dave Huitema Wageningen University & Research
Joyeeta Gupta
Joyeeta Gupta University of Amsterdam
Andrew Jordan
Andrew Jordan University of East Anglia
Rob Raven
Rob Raven Monash University
Andries F. Hof
Andries F. Hof Utrecht University
Detlef P. van Vuuren
Detlef P. van Vuuren Utrecht University
Anthony Patt
Anthony Patt ETH Zurich
Reinhard Mechler
Reinhard Mechler International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Laurens M. Bouwer
Laurens M. Bouwer Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Henry Neufeldt
Henry Neufeldt Technical University of Denmark

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