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Jürgen Scheffran

Jürgen Scheffran

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
54
Citations
11957
World Ranking
4007
National Ranking
275

Overview

Jürgen Scheffran is affiliated with Universität Hamburg in Germany and has contributed extensively to environmental science and social sciences. Their research encompasses a broad range of topics related to climate change, water resource management, and sustainable urban development.

Their recent scholarly publications cover several subjects and include the following works:

  • Climate change vulnerability, water resources and social implications in North Africa (2020), published in Regional Environmental Change
  • Perspectives on tipping points in integrated models of the natural and human Earth system: cascading effects and telecoupling (2021), published in Environmental Research Letters
  • Urban flood risks and emerging challenges in a Chinese delta: The case of the Pearl River Delta (2021), published in Environmental Science & Policy
  • Impacts of changing urban land-use structure on sustainable city growth in China: A population-density dynamics perspective (2020), published in Habitat International
  • Interactions of land-use cover and climate change at global level: How to mitigate the environmental risks and warming effects (2023), published in Ecological Indicators

Their frequent co-authors include Hossein Azadi, Juan Miguel Rodríguez López, Liang Emlyn Yang, Dong Jiang, and Xiaoqing Song.

Key venues for their publications where their work appears most frequently include:

  • Sustainability
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Urban Science
  • Environment Development and Sustainability
  • Journal of Environmental Management

The main fields of study for Jürgen Scheffran are Environmental Science and Social Sciences. Subfields where they have contributed extensively include Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The principal topics covered in their research span:

  • Transboundary Water Resource Management
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Agricultural Innovations and Practices
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Best Publications

  • Enhanced chemical weathering as a geoengineering strategy to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide, supply nutrients, and mitigate ocean acidification

    Jens Hartmann;A. Joshua West;Philip Renforth;Peter Köhler

  • Climate change, vulnerability and adaptation in North Africa with focus on Morocco

    Janpeter Schilling;Korbinian P. Freier;Elke Hertig;Jürgen Scheffran

  • Farmers' perceptions of and adaptation strategies to climate change and their determinants: the case of Punjab province, Pakistan

    Mohammad Abid;Jürgen Scheffran;U. A. Schneider;M. Ashfaq

  • Climate as a risk factor for armed conflict

    Katharine J. Mach;Caroline M. Kraan;W. Neil Adger;Halvard Buhaug;Halvard Buhaug

  • Climate change vulnerability, adaptation and risk perceptions at farm level in Punjab, Pakistan.

    Muhammad Abid;Janpeter Schilling;Jürgen Scheffran;Farhad Zulfiqar

  • Climate change vulnerability, water resources and social implications in North Africa

    Janpeter Schilling;Elke Hertig;Yves Tramblay;Jürgen Scheffran

  • One effect to rule them all? A comment on climate and conflict

    H. Buhaug;H. Buhaug;J. Nordkvelle;T. Bernauer;T. Böhmelt

  • Evaluating climate geoengineering proposals in the context of the Paris Agreement temperature goals

    Mark G. Lawrence;Stefan Schãfer;Helene Muri;Helene Muri;Vivian Scott

  • Adaptation to climate change and its impacts on food productivity and crop income: Perspectives of farmers in rural Pakistan

    Muhammad Abid;Uwe A. Schneider;Jürgen Scheffran

  • Raiding pastoral livelihoods: motives and effects of violent conflict in north-western Kenya

    Janpeter Schilling;Francis E. O. Opiyo;Francis E. O. Opiyo;Jürgen Scheffran

  • Vulnerability of informal settlements in the context of rapid urbanization and climate change

    David Samuel Williams;María Máñez Costa;Catherine Sutherland;Louis Celliers

  • Farmer Perceptions of Climate Change, Observed Trends and Adaptation of Agriculture in Pakistan

    Muhammad Abid;Muhammad Abid;Jürgen Scheffran;Uwe A. Schneider;Ehsan Elahi

  • Climate-related flood risks and urban responses in the Pearl River Delta, China

    Liang Yang;Jürgen Scheffran;Huapeng Qin;Qinglong You

  • Disentangling the Climate-conflict Nexus: Empirical and Theoretical Assessment of Vulnerabilities and Pathways

    Jurgen Scheffran;Michael Brzoska;Jasmin Kominek;P. Michael Link

  • Interactions of land-use cover and climate change at global level: How to mitigate the environmental risks and warming effects

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  • Climate change, human security and violent conflict

    Jürgen Scheffran;Michael Brzoska;Hans Günter Brauch;Peter Michael Link

  • Vulnerability to climate change of smallholder farmers in the Hamadan province, Iran

    Omid Jamshidi;Ali Asadi;Khalil Kalantari;Hossein Azadi;Hossein Azadi

  • Agent-Based Computational Modelling

    Francesco C. Billari;Thomas Fent;Alexia Prskawetz;Jürgen Scheffran

  • Urban flood risks and emerging challenges in a Chinese delta: The case of the Pearl River Delta

    Faith Ka Shun Chan;Faith Ka Shun Chan;Liang Emlyn Yang;Jürgen Scheffran;Gordon Mitchell

  • Revealing the role of livelihood assets in livelihood strategies: Towards enhancing conservation and livelihood development in the Hara Biosphere Reserve, Iran

    Milad Dehghani Pour;Ali Akbar Barati;Hossein Azadi;Hossein Azadi;Jürgen Scheffran

  • On exposure, vulnerability and violence: Spatial distribution of risk factors for climate change and violent conflict across Kenya and Uganda

    Tobias Ide;Janpeter Schilling;Jasmin Link;Jürgen Scheffran

  • Viability analysis of management frameworks for fisheries

    Klaus Eisenack;Juergen Scheffran;Juergen Peter Kropp

  • Handbook on Sustainability Transition and Sustainable Peace

    H.G. Brauch;Ú. Oswald Spring;J. Grin;Jürgen Scheffran

  • On climate, conflict and cumulation: suggestions for integrative cumulation of knowledge in the research on climate change and violent conflict

    Tobias Ide;Jürgen Scheffran

Frequent Co-Authors

Hossein Azadi
Hossein Azadi Ghent University
Halvard Buhaug
Halvard Buhaug Peace Research Institute
Uwe A. Schneider
Uwe A. Schneider Universität Hamburg
Madhu Khanna
Madhu Khanna University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jürgen Böhner
Jürgen Böhner Universität Hamburg
Marshall Burke
Marshall Burke Stanford University
Cullen S. Hendrix
Cullen S. Hendrix University of Denver
Richard S. J. Tol
Richard S. J. Tol University of Sussex
Jim Haywood
Jim Haywood University of Exeter

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