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Harini Nagendra

Harini Nagendra

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Ecology and Evolution
India
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
69
Citations
23665
World Ranking
1416
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in India Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in India Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in India Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in India Leader Award

Overview

Harini Nagendra is affiliated with Azim Premji University in India. Their research spans the fields of Environmental Science and Social Sciences, with a substantial focus on Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Sociology and Political Science, Ecology, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics including Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Urban Green Space and Health, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Urban Agriculture and Sustainability, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Water Governance and Infrastructure, and Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation.

Notable recent publications by Harini Nagendra include:

  • "Principles for knowledge co-production in sustainability research," 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • "Ten facts about land systems for sustainability," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Integrating solutions to adapt cities for climate change," 2021, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • "Urban change as an untapped opportunity for climate adaptation," 2021, npj Urban Sustainability
  • "Perceptions of park visitors on access to urban parks and benefits of green spaces," 2020, Urban forestry & urban greening

Frequent co-authors in their research include Ruth DeFries, Amrita Sen, Tobías Plieninger, Hita Unnikrishnan, and Timon McPhearson.

Harini Nagendra regularly publishes in several academic venues, with repeated contributions to Ecosystems and People, Landscape and Urban Planning, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), AMBIO, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Best Publications

  • The IPBES Conceptual Framework - connecting nature and people

    Sandra Díaz;Sebsebe Demissew;Julia Carabias;Carlos Joly

  • Principles for knowledge co-production in sustainability research

    Albert V. Norström;Christopher Cvitanovic;Christopher Cvitanovic;Marie F. Löf;Simon West;Simon West;Simon West

  • Insights on linking forests, trees, and people from the air, on the ground, and in the laboratory

    Elinor Ostrom;Harini Nagendra

  • Remote sensing for conservation monitoring: Assessing protected areas, habitat extent, habitat condition, species diversity, and threats

    Harini Nagendra;Richard Lucas;João Pradinho Honrado;Rob H.G. Jongman

  • Human Settlements, Infrastructure and Spatial Planning

    Karen Seto;Shobhakar Dhakal;Anthony Bigio;Hilda Blanco

  • Satellite remote sensing for applied ecologists: opportunities and challenges

    Nathalie Pettorelli;William F. Laurance;Timothy G. O'Brien;Martin Wegmann

  • Using remote sensing to assess biodiversity

    H Nagendra

  • Opposite trends in response for the Shannon and Simpson indices of landscape diversity

    Harini Nagendra;Harini Nagendra

  • From pattern to process: landscape fragmentation and the analysis of land use/land cover change

    Harini Nagendra;Darla K. Munroe;Jane Southworth

  • Land system science and sustainable development of the earth system: A global land project perspective

    Peter H. Verburg;Neville Crossman;Erle C. Ellis;Andreas Heinimann

  • Ecosystem management as a wicked problem

    Ruth DeFries;Harini Nagendra

  • Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

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  • The urban south and the predicament of global sustainability

    Harini Nagendra;Xuemei Bai;Xuemei Bai;Eduardo S. Brondizio;Eduardo S. Brondizio;Shuaib Lwasa

  • Remotely sensed spectral heterogeneity as a proxy of species diversity: Recent advances and open challenges

    Duccio Rocchini;Niko Balkenhol;Gregory A. Carter;Giles M. Foody

  • Polycentric governance of multifunctional forested landscapes

    Harini Nagendra;Elinor Ostrom

  • Linking Urbanization and the Environment: Conceptual and Empirical Advances

    Xuemei Bai;Timon McPhearson;Helen A Cleugh;Harini Nagendra

  • Do parks work? Impact of protected areas on land cover clearing.

    Harini Nagendra

  • Street trees in Bangalore: Density, diversity, composition and distribution

    Harini Nagendra;Divya Gopal

  • Framing the concept of satellite remote sensing essential biodiversity variables: challenges and future directions

    Nathalie Pettorelli;Martin Wegmann;Martin Wegmann;Andrew Skidmore;Sander Mucher

  • Effect of street trees on microclimate and air pollution in a tropical city

    Lionel Sujay Vailshery;Madhumitha Jaganmohan;Harini Nagendra

  • Drivers of reforestation in human-dominated forests

    Harini Nagendra

Frequent Co-Authors

Duccio Rocchini
Duccio Rocchini University of Bologna
Jane Southworth
Jane Southworth University of Florida
Martin Wegmann
Martin Wegmann University of Würzburg
Richard Lucas
Richard Lucas Aberystwyth University
Carlo Ricotta
Carlo Ricotta Sapienza University of Rome
Giles M. Foody
Giles M. Foody University of Nottingham
Nathalie Pettorelli
Nathalie Pettorelli Zoological Society of London
Elinor Ostrom
Elinor Ostrom Indiana University
Karen C. Seto
Karen C. Seto Yale University
Ruth S. DeFries
Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University

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