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Lennart Olsson

Lennart Olsson

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
44
Citations
16968
World Ranking
6574
National Ranking
118

Overview

Lennart Olsson is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to environmental science, agricultural and biological sciences, and social sciences. Their research encompasses various interdisciplinary topics and subfields, including global and planetary change, sociology and political science, agronomy and crop science, general agricultural and biological sciences, and atmospheric science.

Their work frequently addresses subjects such as climate change communication and perception, conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, sustainability and climate change governance, bioenergy crop production and management, agronomic practices and intercropping systems, risk perception and management, as well as agriculture, land use, and rural development.

Recent scholarly papers authored or co-authored by Lennart Olsson include:

  • Restoring Degraded Lands, 2021, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • Perennials as Future Grain Crops: Opportunities and Challenges, 2022, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Ethics of Probabilistic Extreme Event Attribution in Climate Change Science: A Critique, 2022, Earth's Future
  • Sociology for sustainability science, 2021, Discover Sustainability
  • The State of the World's Arable Land, 2023, Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Olsson include Murray Scown, Yafei Wang, Yao He, Jie Fan, and David O'Byrne.

Their research is published regularly in several key venues, such as:

  • Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • Earth's Future
  • Climatic Change
  • Fire
  • Nature Climate Change

Best Publications

  • Categorising tools for sustainability assessment

    Barry Ness;Evelin Urbel-Piirsalu;Evelin Urbel-Piirsalu;Stefan Anderberg;Lennart Olsson

  • Proxy global assessment of land degradation

    Z. G. Bai;D. L. Dent;Lennart Olsson;M. E. Schaepman

  • Impacts of 1.5°C Global Warming on Natural and Human Systems

    O. Hoegh-Guldberg;D. Jacob;M. Bindi;S. Brown

  • Greenness in semi-arid areas across the globe 1981–2007 — an Earth Observing Satellite based analysis of trends and drivers

    Rasmus Fensholt;Tobias Langanke;Kjeld Rasmussen;Anette Reenberg

  • Structuring sustainability science

    Anne Jerneck;Lennart Olsson;Barry Ness;Stefan Anderberg

  • A recent greening of the Sahel—trends, patterns and potential causes

    L Olsson;Lars Eklundh;Jonas Ardö

  • Why resilience is unappealing to social science: Theoretical and empirical investigations of the scientific use of resilience

    Lennart Olsson;Anne Jerneck;Henrik Thoren;Johannes Persson

  • Integrated assessment of agricultural systems: a component - based framework for the European Union (Seamless)

    Martin K. van Ittersum;Frank Ewert;Thomas Heckelei;Jacques Wery

  • Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance

    F. Biermann;F. Biermann;K. Abbott;S. Andresen;Karin Bäckstrand

  • The future of sustainability science: a solutions-oriented research agenda

    Thaddeus R. Miller;Arnim Wiek;Daniel Sarewitz;John Robinson

  • Global assessment of land degradation and improvement 1: identification by remote sensing

    Z G Bai;D L Dent;L Olsson;Michael E Schaepman

  • Vegetation index trends for the African Sahel 1982–1999

    Lars Eklundh;Lennart Olsson

  • Establishing sustainability science in higher education institutions: Towards an integration of academic development, institutionalization, and stakeholder collaborations

    Masaru Yarime;Gregory Trencher;Takashi Mino;Roland Scholz

  • Beta 1 integrin-mediated collagen gel contraction is stimulated by PDGF.

    Donald Gullberg;Anders Tingström;Ann Charlotte Thuresson;Lennart Olsson

  • Livelihoods and poverty

    Lennart Olsson;Maggie Opondo;Petra Tschakert;Arun Agrawal

  • Precipitation controls Sahel greening trend

    Thomas Hickler;Lars Eklundh;Jonathan W. Seaquist;Benjamin Smith

  • Climate Change 2014

    C. B. Field;V. R. Barros;M. D. Mastrandrea;K. J. Mach

  • Structuring problems in sustainability science: The multi-level DPSIR framework

    Barry Ness;Stefan Anderberg;Lennart Olsson

  • Transforming governance and institutions for global sustainability: key insights from the Earth System Governance Project

    Frank Biermann;Frank Biermann;Kenneth Abbott;Steinar Andresen;Karin Bäckstrand

  • Is the future of agriculture perennial? Imperatives and opportunities to reinvent agriculture by shifting from annual monocultures to perennial polycultures

    Timothy E. Crews;Wim Carton;Lennart Olsson

  • A remote sensing-based primary production model for grassland biomes

    Jonathan Seaquist;Lennart Olsson;Jonas Ardö

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonas Ardö
Jonas Ardö Lund University
Petra Tschakert
Petra Tschakert Curtin University
Joyeeta Gupta
Joyeeta Gupta University of Amsterdam
Michael Oppenheimer
Michael Oppenheimer Princeton University
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg University of Queensland
Frank Biermann
Frank Biermann Utrecht University
Lars Eklundh
Lars Eklundh Lund University
Diana Liverman
Diana Liverman University of Arizona
Frank Ewert
Frank Ewert University of Bonn
Jacques Wery
Jacques Wery Institut Agro, France

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