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Georgia Destouni

Georgia Destouni

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Earth Science
Sweden
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
69
Citations
15778
World Ranking
1064
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Georgia Destouni is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research primarily spans subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Ecology, Oceanography, and Atmospheric Science.

The main topics of Destouni's work include:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Climate variability and models
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Water resources management and optimization

Frequent collaborators in Destouni's research include Zahra Kalantari, Carla Ferreira, Guillaume Vigouroux, Samaneh Seifollahi-Aghmiuni, and Jerker Jarsjö.

Destouni's work has been published extensively in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Water Resources Research, Earth's Future, The Science of The Total Environment, and Scientific Reports.

Selected recent papers by Georgia Destouni include:

  • "Scientists' warning to humanity on the freshwater biodiversity crisis" (2020) published in AMBIO
  • "Soil degradation in the European Mediterranean region: Processes, status and consequences" (2021) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Managing nitrogen legacies to accelerate water quality improvement" (2022) published in Nature Geoscience
  • "Current Wildland Fire Patterns and Challenges in Europe: A Synthesis of National Perspectives" (2021) published in Air Soil and Water Research
  • "Variability and change in the hydro-climate and water resources of Iran over a recent 30-year period" (2020) published in Scientific Reports

Georgia Destouni was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

    Günter Blöschl;Marc F.P. Bierkens;Antonio Chambel;Christophe Cudennec

  • Scientists' warning to humanity on the freshwater biodiversity crisis.

    James S. Albert;Georgia Destouni;Scott M. Duke-Sylvester;Anne E. Magurran

  • Hypoxia-Related Processes in the Baltic Sea

    Daniel J. Conley;Svante Björck;Erik Bonsdorff;Jacob Carstensen

  • Nutrient loads exported from managed catchments reveal emergent biogeochemical stationarity

    Nandita B. Basu;Georgia Destouni;James W. Jawitz;Sally E. Thompson

  • Soil degradation in the European Mediterranean region: Processes, status and consequences.

    Carla S.S. Ferreira;Samaneh Seifollahi-Aghmiuni;Georgia Destouni;Navid Ghajarnia

  • Managing nitrogen legacies to accelerate water quality improvement

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  • How old is streamwater? Open questions in catchment transit time conceptualization, modelling and analysis

    J. J. McDonnell;J. J. McDonnell;K. McGuire;P. Aggarwal;K. J. Beven

  • Wetlands as large-scale nature-based solutions : Status and challenges for research, engineering and management

    Josefin Thorslund;Jerker Jarsjo;Fernando Jaramillo;James W. Jawitz

  • Local flow regulation and irrigation raise global human water consumption and footprint.

    Fernando Jaramillo;Fernando Jaramillo;Georgia Destouni

  • Hydroclimatic shifts driven by human water use for food and energy production

    Georgia Destouni;Fernando Jaramillo;Carmen Prieto

  • Climatic or regionally induced by humans? Tracing hydro-climatic and land-use changes to better understand the Lake Urmia tragedy

    Bahram Khazaei;Sina Khatami;Seyed Hamed Alemohammad;Lida Rashidi

  • Resolving the scale-dependence of mineral weathering rates.

    Maria E. Malmström;Georgia Destouni;Steven A. Banwart;Bo H. E. Strömberg

  • Thermokarst lake, hydrological flow and water balance indicators of permafrost change in Western Siberia

    Johanna MÃ¥rd Karlsson;Steve W. Lyon;Georgia Destouni

  • Comment on “Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet”

    Fernando Jaramillo;Georgia Destouni

  • Current Wildland Fire Patterns and Challenges in Europe: A Synthesis of National Perspectives

    Nieves Fernandez-Anez;Andrey Krasovskiy;Mortimer Müller;Harald Vacik

  • Nature-based solutions for flood-drought risk mitigation in vulnerable urbanizing parts of East-Africa

    Zahra Kalantari;Carla Sofia Santos Ferreira;Saskia Keesstra;Georgia Destouni

  • Distinction, quantification and mapping of potential and realized supply-demand of flow-dependent ecosystem services

    Romain Goldenberg;Zahra Kalantari;Vladimir Cvetkovic;Ulla Mörtberg

  • Drought reduces blue-water fluxes more strongly than green-water fluxes in Europe.

    René Orth;Georgia Destouni

  • Field Scale Mass Arrival of Sorptive Solute Into the Groundwater

    Georgia Destouni;Vladimir Cvetkovic

  • Economic Analysis of Mine Water Pollution Abatement in a Catchment

    Christian Baresel;Karin Larsén;Georgia Destouni;Ing-Marie Gren

  • Solute transport through preferential pathways in municipal solid waste

    Håkan Rosqvist;Georgia Destouni

  • Hydrological responses to climate change and irrigation in the Aral Sea drainage basin

    Yoshihiro Shibuo;Jerker Jarsjö;Georgia Destouni

Frequent Co-Authors

Jerker Jarsjö
Jerker Jarsjö Stockholm University
Steve W. Lyon
Steve W. Lyon The Ohio State University
Vladimir Cvetkovic
Vladimir Cvetkovic Royal Institute of Technology
Mark Howells
Mark Howells Loughborough University
Ing-Marie Gren
Ing-Marie Gren Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Reiner Giesler
Reiner Giesler Umeå University
Christoph Humborg
Christoph Humborg Stockholm University
Rene Orth
Rene Orth Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Line Gordon
Line Gordon Stockholm Resilience Centre
Scott L. Painter
Scott L. Painter Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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