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Overview

Jonathan A. Foley is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, encompassing several interconnected subfields such as Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, General Health Professions, Global and Planetary Change, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main topics covered in Foley's published work include:

  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics

Jonathan A. Foley has recently published papers addressing the interface between climate change and health. Notably, their 2021 paper titled Climate Solutions Double as Health Interventions appeared in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Another recent publication, A people-first approach to achieving global climate and nature goals, was published in 2025 in the journal One Earth.

Frequent co-authors in Foley's work include Paul West, Nicholas A. Mailloux, Colleen P. Henegan, Dorothy Lsoto, and Kristen P. Patterson. Paul West appears as a collaborator on multiple occasions, indicating an ongoing research partnership.

The publication venues where Foley's research appears most frequently are the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and One Earth.

Best Publications

  • A safe operating space for humanity

    Johan Rockström;Johan Rockström;Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Kevin Noone;Åsa Persson;Åsa Persson

  • Global Consequences of Land Use

    Jonathan A. Foley;Ruth DeFries;Gregory P. Asner;Carol Barford

  • Solutions for a cultivated planet

    Jonathan A. Foley;Navin Ramankutty;Kate A. Brauman;Emily S. Cassidy

  • Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems.

    Marten Scheffer;Steve Carpenter;Jonathan A. Foley;Carl Folke

  • Planetary boundaries: Exploring the safe operating space for humanity

    Johan Rockström;Johan Rockström;Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Kevin Noone;Åsa Persson;Åsa Persson

  • Impact of regional climate change on human health

    Jonathan A. Patz;Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum;Tracey Holloway;Jonathan A. Foley

  • Yield Trends Are Insufficient to Double Global Crop Production by 2050.

    Deepak K. Ray;Nathaniel D. Mueller;Paul C. West;Jonathan A. Foley

  • Closing yield gaps through nutrient and water management

    Nathaniel D. Mueller;James S. Gerber;Matt Johnston;Deepak K. Ray

  • Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture

    Verena Seufert;Navin Ramankutty;Jonathan A. Foley

  • Estimating historical changes in global land cover: Croplands from 1700 to 1992

    Navin Ramankutty;Jonathan A. Foley

  • Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2 and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models

    Wolfgang Cramer;Alberte Bondeau;F. Ian Woodward;I. Colin Prentice

  • Farming the planet: 2. Geographic distribution of crop areas, yields, physiological types, and net primary production in the year 2000

    Chad Monfreda;Navin Ramankutty;Jonathan A. Foley

  • Tropical forests were the primary sources of new agricultural land in the 1980s and 1990s

    Holly Gibbs;A. S. Ruesch;F. Achard;M. K. Clayton

  • Monitoring and estimating tropical forest carbon stocks: making REDD a reality

    Holly K Gibbs;Sandra Brown;John O Niles;Jonathan A Foley

  • Farming the planet: 1. Geographic distribution of global agricultural lands in the year 2000

    Navin Ramankutty;Amato T. Evan;Chad Monfreda;Jonathan A. Foley

  • Beneficial Biofuels—The Food, Energy, and Environment Trilemma

    David Tilman;Robert Socolow;Jonathan A. Foley;Jason Hill

  • Recent patterns of crop yield growth and stagnation

    Deepak K. Ray;Navin Ramankutty;Nathaniel D. Mueller;Paul C. West

  • An integrated biosphere model of land surface processes, terrestrial carbon balance, and vegetation dynamics

    Jonathan A. Foley;I. Colin Prentice;Navin Ramankutty;Samuel Levis

  • Land-use choices: balancing human needs and ecosystem function

    Ruth S. DeFries;Jonathan A. Foley;Gregory P. Asner;Gregory P. Asner

  • Ecological forecasts: an emerging imperative.

    James S. Clark;Steven R. Carpenter;Mary Barber;Scott Collins

Frequent Co-Authors

Navin Ramankutty
Navin Ramankutty University of British Columbia
Christopher J. Kucharik
Christopher J. Kucharik University of Wisconsin–Madison
Michael T. Coe
Michael T. Coe Woods Hole Research Center
Marcos Heil Costa
Marcos Heil Costa Universidade Federal de Viçosa
Samuel Levis
Samuel Levis National Center for Atmospheric Research
Christine Delire
Christine Delire Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Ruth S. DeFries
Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University
David Pollard
David Pollard Pennsylvania State University
Holly K. Gibbs
Holly K. Gibbs University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jonathan A. Patz
Jonathan A. Patz University of Wisconsin–Madison

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