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40
Citations
12495
World Ranking
5199
National Ranking
2457

Overview

Gerald C. Nelson is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. The primary focus of their research lies within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main topics addressed in Nelson's research include Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture, Climate Variability and Models, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Plant Responses to Elevated CO2, Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations, and Agricultural Risk and Resilience.

Nelson has contributed to various academic journals, frequently publishing in Global Change Biology, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Nature Food, Scientific Data, and PLoS ONE. Their work features a combination of empirical and modeling studies relevant to climate change and agricultural productivity.

Recent publications by Gerald C. Nelson include:

  • Global reductions in manual agricultural work capacity due to climate change, 2024, Global Change Biology
  • Increases in extreme heat stress in domesticated livestock species during the twenty-first century, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Modeling impacts of faster productivity growth to inform the CGIAR initiative on Crops to End Hunger, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • A global dataset for the projected impacts of climate change on four major crops, 2022, Scientific Data
  • Research trends and gaps in climate change impacts and adaptation potentials in major crops, 2023, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Frequent co-authors with whom Nelson has collaborated include Philip K. Thornton, Francisco Meza, Toshihiro Hasegawa, Hitomi Wakatsuki, and Aidan D. Farrell. These collaborations indicate a network of researchers concentrated on climate impacts related to agriculture and sustainability.

The combination of Nelson's research topics and collaborative efforts reflects an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and addressing the effects of climate variability and change on agricultural systems and food security.

Best Publications

  • Climate Change: Impact on Agriculture and Costs of Adaptation

    Gerald C. Nelson;Mark W. Rosegrant;Jawoo Koo;Richard D. Robertson

  • The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP): Protocols and Pilot Studies

    C. Rosenzweig;C. Rosenzweig;J. W. Jones;J. L. Hatfield;A. C. Ruane;A. C. Ruane

  • Climate change effects on agriculture: Economic responses to biophysical shocks

    Gerald C. Nelson;Hugo Valin;Ronald D. Sands;Petr Havlík

  • Food security, farming, and climate change to 2050: Scenarios, results, policy options

    Gerald Nelson;Mark W. Rosegrant;Amanda Palazzo;Ian Gray

  • Options for support to agriculture and food security under climate change

    Sonja J. Vermeulen;Pramod K. Aggarwal;Pramod K. Aggarwal;A. Ainslie;C. Angelone

  • The future of food demand: understanding differences in global economic models

    Hugo Valin;Ronald D. Sands;Dominique van der Mensbrugghe;Gerald C. Nelson;Gerald C. Nelson

  • Do roads cause deforestation? Using satellite images in econometric analysis of land use

    Gerald Nelson;Daniel Hellerstein

  • Farming and the geography of nutrient production for human use: a transdisciplinary analysis

    Mario Herrero;Philip K Thornton;Philip K Thornton;Brendan Power;Jessica R Bogard;Jessica R Bogard

  • What is the irrigation potential for Africa? A Combined Biophysical and Socioeconomic Approach

    Liangzhi You;Claudia Ringler;Ulrike Wood-Sichra;Richard Robertson

  • Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecosystem Change: an Overview

    Gerald C. Nelson;Elena Bennett;Asmeret A. Berhe;Kenneth Cassman

  • Land-use change trajectories up to 2050: insights from a global agro-economic model comparison

    Christoph Schmitz;Hans van Meijl;G. Page Kyle;Gerald C. Nelson;Gerald C. Nelson

  • Agriculture and climate change in global scenarios: why don't the models agree

    Gerald C. Nelson;Gerald C. Nelson;Dominique van der Mensbrugghe;Helal Ahammad;Elodie Blanc

  • Food security, farming, and climate change to 2050: Scenarios, results, policy options

    Gerald C. Nelson

  • Why do global long-term scenarios for agriculture differ? An overview of the AgMIP Global Economic Model Intercomparison

    M von Lampe;D Willenbockel;H Ahammad;E Blanc

  • West African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis

    Abdulai Jalloh;Gerald C. Nelson;Timothy S. Thomas;Robert B. Zougmoré

  • Deforestation, Land Use, and Property Rights: Empirical Evidence from Darién, Panama

    Gerald C. Nelson;Virginia Harris;Steven W. Stone;Edward B. Barbier

  • Income growth and climate change effects on global nutrition security to mid-century

    Gerald Nelson;Jessica Bogard;Keith Lividini;Joanne Arsenault

  • Increases in extreme heat stress in domesticated livestock species during the twenty-first century

    Philip Thornton;Gerald Nelson;Dianne Mayberry;Mario Herrero

  • Deforestation and land use change: sparse data environments

    Gerald C. Nelson;Jacqueline Geoghegan

  • The Costs of Indonesian Sugar Policy: A Policy Analysis Matrix Approach

    Gerald C. Nelson;Martin Panggabean

  • Food security, farming, and climate change to 2050: challenges to 2050 and beyond

    Gerald C. Nelson;Mark W. Rosegrant;Amanda Palazzo;Gray I

Frequent Co-Authors

Claudia Ringler
Claudia Ringler International Food Policy Research Institute
Philip K. Thornton
Philip K. Thornton Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
Pramod K. Aggarwal
Pramod K. Aggarwal Borlaug Institute for South Asia
Hugo Valin
Hugo Valin International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
James Hansen
James Hansen Columbia University
Tomoko Hasegawa
Tomoko Hasegawa Ritsumeikan University
Robert B. Zougmoré
Robert B. Zougmoré International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
Andrew J. Challinor
Andrew J. Challinor University of Leeds
Page Kyle
Page Kyle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Shinichiro Fujimori
Shinichiro Fujimori Kyoto University

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