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Social Sciences and Humanities

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59
Citations
35492
World Ranking
1509
National Ranking
721

Environmental Sciences

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58
Citations
35345
World Ranking
3180
National Ranking
1226

Overview

Gary W. Yohe is affiliated with Wesleyan University in the United States. Their research spans several fields primarily focused on environmental science and social sciences, with notable contributions to the understanding of climate change through interdisciplinary approaches.

The scientist has published extensively in topics related to climate change policy and economics, climate variability and models, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, disaster management and resilience, sustainability and climate change governance, and climate change communication and perception.

Major fields of study in their work include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Social Sciences

Subfields of particular interest are:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Modeling and Simulation

Frequent publication venues for this scientist include:

  • Advances in Earth and Environmental Science
  • Climate Change Economics
  • The Energy Journal
  • Eos
  • Open Access Government

Notable recent papers authored by Gary W. Yohe cover a range of climate and environmental science topics:

  • WHAT THE FUTURE MIGHT HOLD: DISTRIBUTIONS OF REGIONAL SECTORAL DAMAGES FOR THE UNITED STATES - ESTIMATES AND MAPS IN AN EXHIBITION, 2020, Climate Change Economics
  • BOOK REVIEWS: Unsettled?: What Climate Science Tells Us, What it Doesn't, and Why it Matters; Shale Gas, The Environment and Energy Security: A New Framework for Energy Regulation, 2022, The Energy Journal
  • Five Science Questions That Ought to Be Asked at the Debates, 2020, Eos
  • A Call for Volunteers to Confront What We Do Not Know About Tipping Points - The Next Biggest Challenge for Climate Science, 2024, Advances in Earth and Environmental Science
  • On using 'Advances in Scientific Knowledge' to Preempt Deliberate Misinformation from Sceptics with a Personal Agenda, 2024, Advances in Earth and Environmental Science

Collaborations have been an important aspect of their research. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Zoe Kerrich
  • Henry D. Jacoby
  • Richard Richels
  • Jacqueline Willwerth
  • James E. Neumann

Best Publications

  • A globally coherent fingerprint of climate change impacts across natural systems

    Camille Parmesan;Gary Yohe

  • 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

  • Adaptation to climate change in the context of sustainable development and equity

    B Smit;O Pilifosova;I Burton;B Challenger

  • Indicators for social and economic coping capacity—moving toward a working definition of adaptive capacity

    Gary Yohe;Richard S.J. Tol

  • Guidance Note for Lead Authors of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on Consistent Treatment of Uncertainties

    Michael D. Mastrandrea;Christopher B. Field;Thomas F. Stocker;Ottmar Edenhofer

  • Impacts of 1.5°C Global Warming on Natural and Human Systems

    O. Hoegh-Guldberg;D. Jacob;M. Bindi;S. Brown

  • Avoiding dangerous climate change

    AJ Challinor;TR Wheeler;TM Osborne;JM Slingo

  • Assessing Dangerous Climate Change Through an Update of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) "Reasons for Concern"

    Joel B. Smith;Stephen H. Schneider;Michael Oppenheimer;Gary W. Yohe

  • IPCC reasons for concern regarding climate change risks

    Brian C. O'Neill;Michael Oppenheimer;Rachel Warren;Stephane Hallegatte

  • Vulnerability to climate change and reasons for concern: a synthesis

    J.B. Smith;H.J. Schellnhuber;M. Monirul Qader Mirza;S. Fankhauser

  • Greenhouse effect and sea level rise: The cost of holding back the sea

    Richard A. Park;Stephen P. Leatherman;J. Richard Weggel;Michael S. Greene

  • Risk Management and Climate Change

    Howard Kunreuther;Geoffrey Heal;Myles Allen;Ottmar Edenhofer

  • Characterizing changes in drought risk for the United States from climate change

    Kenneth Strzepek;Gary Yohe;James Neumann;Brent Boehlert

  • Perspectives on climate change and sustainability

    G. W. Yohe;R. D. Lasco;Q. K. Ahmad;N. W. Arnell

  • Risk aversion, time preference, and the social cost of carbon

    David Anthoff;Richard S. J. Tol;Richard S. J. Tol;Gary W. Yohe

  • Climate Change 2014

    C. B. Field;V. R. Barros;M. D. Mastrandrea;K. J. Mach

  • Developing coastal adaptation to climate change in the New York City infrastructure-shed: process, approach, tools, and strategies

    Cynthia Rosenzweig;William D. Solecki;Reginald Blake;Malcolm Bowman

  • The economic cost of greenhouse-induced sea-level rise for developed property in the United States

    Gary Yohe;James Neumann;Patrick Marshall;Holly Ameden

  • The weakest link hypothesis for adaptive capacity: An empirical test

    Richard S.J. Tol;Richard S.J. Tol;Richard S.J. Tol;Gary W. Yohe

  • Detection and attribution of observed impacts

    W. Cramer;G.W. Yohe;M. Auffhammer;C. Huggel

  • Discounting for Climate Change

    David Anthoff;Richard S. J. Tol;Jennifer Helgeson

  • Risk Aversion, Time Preference, and the Social Cost of Carbon. ESRI WP252. September 2008

    David Anthoff;Richard S.J. Tol;Gary W. Yohe

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard S. J. Tol
Richard S. J. Tol University of Sussex
Michael Oppenheimer
Michael Oppenheimer Princeton University
Wolfgang Cramer
Wolfgang Cramer Aix-Marseille University
Christopher B. Field
Christopher B. Field Stanford University
Michael D. Mastrandrea
Michael D. Mastrandrea Stanford University
Kristie L. Ebi
Kristie L. Ebi University of Washington
Michael E. Schlesinger
Michael E. Schlesinger University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Petra Tschakert
Petra Tschakert Curtin University
Richard G. Richels
Richard G. Richels Electric Power Research Institute

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