What is she best known for?
The fields of study she is best known for:
- Social science
- Climate change
- Sustainability
Karen O'Brien mainly investigates Climate change, Environmental resource management, Political economy of climate change, Environmental change and Context.
Many of her studies on Climate change involve topics that are commonly interrelated, such as Social science.
Her research integrates issues of Social change, Descriptive knowledge, Framing and Environmental planning in her study of Environmental resource management.
Her study in the field of Ecological forecasting also crosses realms of Economic globalization.
Karen O'Brien has included themes like Human security, Development economics, Conceptual framework and Environmental protection in her Environmental change study.
Her Agriculture study incorporates themes from Stressor and Natural resource economics.
Her most cited work include:
- Mapping vulnerability to multiple stressors: climate change and globalization in India (842 citations)
- Double exposure: assessing the impacts of climate change within the context of economic globalization (759 citations)
- Why different interpretations of vulnerability matter in climate change discourses (649 citations)
What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?
Her primary areas of investigation include Climate change, Environmental resource management, Sustainability, Environmental planning and Political economy of climate change.
Her Climate change research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Human security and Sustainable development.
Her work deals with themes such as Stressor and Global change, which intersect with Environmental resource management.
Her Sustainability study combines topics in areas such as Social transformation, Social science, Anthropocene and Earth system science.
Her Environmental planning study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Climate change adaptation and Climate change mitigation.
Her Political economy of climate change research includes elements of Economic growth, Agriculture, Natural resource economics and Social group.
She most often published in these fields:
- Climate change (50.41%)
- Environmental resource management (30.89%)
- Sustainability (19.51%)
What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2015-2021)?
- Sustainability (19.51%)
- Climate change (50.41%)
- Transformative learning (8.13%)
In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:
Karen O'Brien mostly deals with Sustainability, Climate change, Transformative learning, Anthropocene and Social change.
Her Sustainability research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Social science and Action.
Her work carried out in the field of Climate change brings together such families of science as Natural resource economics, Human geography and Environmental resource management.
Her Environmental resource management research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Adaptive capacity, Political economy and Climate policy.
Her studies in Anthropocene integrate themes in fields like Discipline and Earth system science.
Her study on Social transformation is often connected to Leverage, Relation and Transformation as part of broader study in Social change.
Between 2015 and 2021, her most popular works were:
- Plausible and desirable futures in the Anthropocene: A new research agenda (168 citations)
- Re-conceptualizing the Anthropocene: A call for collaboration (128 citations)
- Ten essentials for action-oriented and second order energy transitions, transformations and climate change research (98 citations)
In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Social science
- Sustainability
- Climate change
Sustainability, Climate change, Social science, Social change and Environmental change are her primary areas of study.
Climate change combines with fields such as Youth activism, Dissent, Alliance, Work and Government in her research.
Her research in Social science intersects with topics in Anthropocene and Earth system science.
Her biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Unintended consequences and Discipline.
Karen O'Brien interconnects Transformation processes and Social complexity in the investigation of issues within Social change.
Her Environmental change study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Public administration, Climate policy, Environmental resource management and Political economy.
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