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Galina Churkina is affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science with significant contributions to Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, Agronomy and Crop Science, and Building and Construction.

The scientist has published extensively on topics including Environmental Impact and Sustainability, Wind and Air Flow Studies, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Hygrothermal Properties of Building Materials, Economic and Environmental Valuation, and Climate Change Policy and Economics.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Galina Churkina are:

  • Buildings as a global carbon sink, 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • Land use change and carbon emissions of a transformation to timber cities, 2022, Nature Communications
  • From Low- to Net-Zero Carbon Cities: The Next Global Agenda, 2021, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • Measuring and Monitoring Urban Impacts on Climate Change from Space, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Future buildings as carbon sinks: Comparative analysis of timber-based building typologies regarding their carbon emissions and storage, 2024, Frontiers in Built Environment

Galina Churkina has collaborated frequently with several researchers in the field. Notable co-authors include Christopher Reyer, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Abhijeet Mishra, Florian Humpenöder, and Felicitas Beier.

Their research outputs have appeared in various publication venues, with notable frequency in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Sustainability
  • Nature Communications
  • Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • Remote Sensing

The focus of Galina Churkina's work involves addressing key environmental challenges related to sustainable urban development and the role of buildings in carbon management. Their studies contribute to understanding carbon sinks in global urban environments and explore the dynamics of land use change, urban climate impacts, and carbon emissions associated with the construction sector.

Best Publications

  • Recent patterns and mechanisms of carbon exchange by terrestrial ecosystems

    D. S. Schimel;J. I. House;K. A. Hibbard;P. Bousquet

  • Comparing global models of terrestrial net primary productivity (NPP): overview and key results

    Wolfgang Cramer;D. Kicklighter;Alberte Bondeau;Berrien Moore

  • Comprehensive comparison of gap-filling techniques for eddy covariance net carbon fluxes

    Antje M. Moffat;Dario Papale;Markus Reichstein;David Y. Hollinger

  • Buildings as a global carbon sink

    Galina Churkina;Galina Churkina;Alan Organschi;Christopher P. O. Reyer;Andrew Ruff

  • Land management and land-cover change have impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Mathilde Jammet;Paul C. Stoy;Stephen Estel

  • Exploiting synergies of global land cover products for carbon cycle modeling

    Martin Jung;Kathrin Henkel;Martin Herold;Galina Churkina

  • Contrasting Climatic Controls on the Estimated Productivity of Global Terrestrial Biomes

    Galina Churkina;Steven W Running

  • Spatial analysis of growing season length control over net ecosystem exchange

    Galina Churkina;David Schimel;Bobby H. Braswell;Xiangming Xiao

  • Functional traits of urban trees: air pollution mitigation potential

    Ruediger Grote;Roeland Samson;Rocio Alonso;Jorge Humberto Amorim

  • The European carbon balance. Part 3: forests

    Sebsatiaan Luyssaert;Philippe Ciais;SL Piao;E-D Schulze

  • Land use change and carbon emissions of a transformation to timber cities

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  • Carbon stored in human settlements: the conterminous United States

    Galina Churkina;Daniel G. Brown;Gregory A. Keoleian

  • Modeling the carbon cycle of urban systems

    Galina Churkina

  • Urban trees, air quality, and asthma: an interdisciplinary review

    Theodore S. Eisenman;Galina Churkina;Sunit P. Jariwala;Prashanth Kumar

  • Effect of VOC Emissions from Vegetation on Air Quality in Berlin during a Heatwave

    Galina Churkina;Friderike Kuik;Boris Bonn;Axel Lauer

  • From Low- To Net-Zero Carbon Cities- To Next Global Agenda

    Karen C. Seto;Galina Churkina;Angel Hsu;Meredith Keller

  • Uncertainties of modeling gross primary productivity over Europe: A systematic study on the effects of using different drivers and terrestrial biosphere models

    Martin Jung;Mona Vetter;Martin Herold;Galina Churkina

  • Urbanization impacts on the climate in Europe: Numerical experiments by the PSU-NCAR Mesoscale Model (MM5)

    K. Trusilova;M. Jung;G. Churkina;U. Karstens

  • Statistical properties of random CO2 flux measurement uncertainty inferred from model residuals

    Andrew D. Richardson;Miguel D. Mahecha;Eva Falge;Jens Kattge

  • The Role of Urbanization in the Global Carbon Cycle

    Galina Churkina;Galina Churkina

  • Analyzing the causes and spatial pattern of the European 2003 carbon flux anomaly using seven models

    M. Vetter;Galina Churkina;M. Jung;Markus Reichstein

  • Analyzing the Ecosystem Carbon Dynamics of Four European Coniferous Forests Using a Biogeochemistry Model

    Galina Churkina;John Tenhunen;Peter Thornton;Eva M. Falge

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Jung
Martin Jung International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Martin Heimann
Martin Heimann Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Rüdiger Grote
Rüdiger Grote Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Nicolas Viovy
Nicolas Viovy French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Steven W. Running
Steven W. Running University of Montana
Dario Papale
Dario Papale Tuscia University
Sönke Zaehle
Sönke Zaehle Max Planck Society
Alberte Bondeau
Alberte Bondeau Aix-Marseille University

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