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2025

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D-Index
53
Citations
24300
World Ranking
4131
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Thailand Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Thailand Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Thailand Leader Award

Overview

Louis Lebel is a researcher affiliated with Chiang Mai University in Thailand. Their work primarily engages with environmental science and social sciences, focusing on topics at the intersection of ecology, policy, and community management.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Social Sciences

Within these fields, they have contributed notably to several subfields, such as:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Water Science and Technology

Louis Lebel's research topics cover:

  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
  • Water Governance and Infrastructure
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Coastal and Marine Management
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access

Recent publications by Louis Lebel include:

  • "Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic response on aquaculture farmers in five countries in the Mekong Region" (2021), published in Aquaculture Economics & Management
  • "Climate risk management practices of fish and shrimp farmers in the Mekong Region" (2021), published in Aquaculture Economics & Management

Other relevant papers connected to their research interests (authored by other researchers) include:

  • "Scale-related governance challenges in the water-energy-food nexus: toward a diagnostic approach" (2020), Sustainability Science
  • "Access and allocation in earth system governance: lessons learnt in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals" (2020), International Environmental Agreements Politics Law and Economics
  • "Explaining Intentions by Vietnamese Schoolchildren to Adopt Pro-Environmental Behaviors in Response to Climate Change Using Theories of Persuasive Communication" (2020), Environmental Management

Frequent coauthors of Louis Lebel include:

  • Boripat Lebel
  • Navy Hap
  • Phimphakan Lebel
  • Tuantong Jutagate
  • Michael Akester

Louis Lebel's research has appeared multiple times in journals such as:

  • Sustainability Science
  • Aquaculture Economics & Management
  • International Environmental Agreements Politics Law and Economics
  • Environmental Management
  • Revue québécoise de droit international

Best Publications

  • Scale and Cross-Scale Dynamics: Governance and Information in a Multilevel World

    David W. Cash;W. Neil Adger;Fikret Berkes;Po Garden

  • Resilience Management in Social-ecological Systems: a Working Hypothesis for a Participatory Approach

    Brian Walker;Stephen R. Carpenter;John M. Anderies;Nick Abel

  • Governance and the Capacity to Manage Resilience in Regional Social-Ecological Systems

    Louis Lebel;John M. Anderies;Bruce Campbell;Carl Folke

  • Shooting the Rapids: Navigating Transitions to Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems

    Per Olsson;Lance H. Gunderson;Steve R. Carpenter;Paul Ryan

  • Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being: three challenges for designing research for sustainability

    Elena M. Bennett;Wolfgang Cramer;Alpina Begossi;Georgina Cundill

  • Linking Knowledge and Action for Sustainable Development

    Lorrae van Kerkhoff;Louis Lebel

  • Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance

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

  • Crafting usable knowledge for sustainable development

    William C. Clark;Lorrae van Kerkhoff;Louis Lebel;Gilberto C. Gallopin

  • The Politics of Scale, Position, and Place in the Governance of Water Resources in the Mekong Region

    Louis Lebel;Po Garden;Masao Imamura

  • From applying panaceas to mastering complexity: Toward adaptive water governance in river basins

    Claudia Pahl-Wostl;Louis Lebel;Christian Knieper;Elena Nikitina

  • Earth system governance: A research framework

    Frank Biermann;Frank Biermann;Michele M. Betsill;Joyeeta Gupta;Joyeeta Gupta;Norichika Kanie

  • Institutional design propositions for the governance of adaptation to climate change in the water sector

    Patrick Huntjens;Louis Lebel;Claudia Pahl-Wostl;Jeff Camkin

  • Sustainability experiments in Asia: innovations shaping alternative development pathways?

    Frans Berkhout;Geert Verbong;Anna J. Wieczorek;Rob Raven

  • Earth System Governance: People, Places and the Planet. Science and Implementation Plan of the Earth System Governance Project.

    F. Biermann;M. Betsill;J. Gupta;N. Kani

  • Feeding aquaculture growth through globalization: Exploitation of marine ecosystems for fishmeal

    Lisa Deutsch;Sara Gräslund;Carl Folke;Carl Folke;Max Troell

  • Environmental flows and water governance: managing sustainable water uses

    Claudia Pahl-Wostl;Angela Arthington;Janos Bogardi;Stuart E. Bunn

  • Industrial Transformation and Shrimp Aquaculture in Thailand and Vietnam: Pathways to Ecological, Social, and Economic Sustainability?

    Louis Lebel;Nguyen Hoang Tri;Amnuay Saengnoree;Suparb Pasong

  • Earth System Governance: People, Places, and the Planet

    Frank Biermann;Michele M. Betsill;Joyeeta Gupta

  • 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

  • Coproductive capacities: rethinking science-governance relations in a diverse world

    Lorrae E. van Kerkhoff;Louis Lebel

  • The role of social learning in adaptiveness: insights from water management

    Louis Lebel;Torsten Grothmann;Torsten Grothmann;Bernd Siebenhüner

Frequent Co-Authors

Joyeeta Gupta
Joyeeta Gupta University of Amsterdam
Diana Liverman
Diana Liverman University of Arizona
Carl Folke
Carl Folke Stockholm University
Frank Biermann
Frank Biermann Utrecht University
Michele M. Betsill
Michele M. Betsill University of Copenhagen
Heike Schroeder
Heike Schroeder University of East Anglia
Claudia Pahl-Wostl
Claudia Pahl-Wostl Osnabrück University
Oran R. Young
Oran R. Young University of California, Santa Barbara
Jianchu Xu
Jianchu Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Francois Molle
Francois Molle Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

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