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D-Index
44
Citations
13017
World Ranking
4961
National Ranking
536

Overview

Marc J. Metzger is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science with a significant focus on Global and Planetary Change.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics related to landscape management, conservation, and policy. Notable papers include:

  • Inclusive conservation and the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: Tensions and prospects (2022) published in One Earth
  • Maintaining natural and traditional cultural green infrastructures across Europe: learning from historic and current landscape transformations (2020) published in Landscape Ecology
  • Meeting places and social capital supporting rural landscape stewardship: A Pan-European horizon scanning (2021) published in Ecology and Society
  • Regional scale integrated land use planning to meet multiple objectives: Good in theory but challenging in practice (2023) published in Environmental Science & Policy
  • Glocal woodlands - The rescaling of forest governance in Scotland (2022) published in Land Use Policy

Their research topics include:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Rural development and sustainability
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Marc J. Metzger include:

  • Christopher M. Raymond
  • Veronica Lo
  • María D. López-Rodríguez
  • Elisa Oteros-Rozas
  • Isabel Ruíz-Mallén

They regularly publish in several academic venues, with multiple contributions appearing in Environmental Science & Policy, Ecology and Society, and Water. Other venues include Eurasian Economic Review and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Their work integrates environmental, social, and policy dimensions, particularly examining the challenges and opportunities in integrated land use planning, conservation frameworks, and forest governance at regional and European scales.

Best Publications

  • Ecosystem Service Supply and Vulnerability to Global Change in Europe

    Dagmar Schröter;Wolfgang Cramer;Rik Leemans;I. Colin Prentice

  • The vulnerability of ecosystem services to land use change

    M.J. Metzger;M.D.A. Rounsevell;L. Acosta-Michlik;R. Leemans

  • A climatic stratification of the environment of Europe

    Marc J Metzger;R. G. H. Bunce;R. H. G. Jongman;C. A. Mucher

  • Future scenarios of European agricultural land use: I. Estimating changes in crop productivity

    F. Ewert;M.D.A. Rounsevell;I. Reginster;M.J. Metzger

  • A coherent set of future land use change scenarios for Europe

    M.D.A. Rounsevell;I. Reginster;M.B. Araújo;T.R. Carter

  • Challenges for land system science

    Mark D.A. Rounsevell;Bas Pedroli;Karl-Heinz Erb;Marc Gramberger

  • Developing qualitative scenario storylines for environmental change assessment

    Mark D. A. Rounsevell;Marc J. Metzger

  • A high-resolution bioclimate map of the world: a unifying framework for global biodiversity research and monitoring

    Marc J. Metzger;Robert G.H. Bunce;Rob H.G. Jongman;Roger G. Sayre

  • Spatial distribution of grassland productivity and land use in Europe

    H. J. Smit;Marc Metzger;Marc Metzger;F. Ewert;F. Ewert

  • A multidisciplinary multi-scale framework for assessing vulnerabilities to global change

    Marc J. Metzger;Rik Leemans;Dagmar Schröter

  • Archetypical patterns and trajectories of land systems in Europe

    Christian Levers;Daniel Müller;Daniel Müller;Karlheinz Erb;Helmut Haberl;Helmut Haberl

  • Potential impacts of climate change on tourism; a case study for Spain

    Lars Hein;Marc J Metzger;Marc J Metzger;Alvaro Moreno

  • A standardized procedure for surveillance and monitoring European habitats and provision of spatial data

    R.G.H. Bunce;M.J. Metzger;R.H.G. Jongman;Jesper Brandt

  • Objectives and applications of a statistical Environmental stratification of Europe

    R. H. G. Jongman;R. G. H. Bunce;Marc J Metzger;C. A. Mucher

  • A spatially explicit and quantitative vulnerability assessment of ecosystem service change in Europe

    Marc J. Metzger;Marc J. Metzger;Dagmar Schröter;Rik Leemans;Wolfgang Cramer

  • A rural typology for strategic European policies

    M. van Eupen;Marc J Metzger;Marc J Metzger;M. Perez-Soba;P. N. Verburg

  • Estimating least-developed countries’ vulnerability to climate-related extreme events over the next 50 years

    Anthony G. Patt;Mark Tadross;Patrick Nussbaumer;Kwabena Asante

  • Towards a spatially explicit and quantitative vulnerability assessment of environmental change in Europe

    Marc J. Metzger;Dagmar Schröter

  • A New Map of Global Ecological Land Units - An Ecophysiographic Stratification Approach

    Roger Sayre;Jack Dangermond;Charlie Frye;Randy Vaughan

  • Inclusive conservation and the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: Tensions and prospects

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  • Combining qualitative and quantitative understanding for exploring cross-sectoral climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability in Europe

    Paula A. Harrison;Ian P. Holman;George Cojocaru;Kasper Kok

  • Identification and characterisation of environments and landscapes in Europe

    C. A. Mücher;R. G. H. Bunce;R. H. G. Jongman;J. A. Klijn

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Rounsevell
Mark Rounsevell University of Edinburgh
Rob H. G. Jongman
Rob H. G. Jongman Wageningen University & Research
Rik Leemans
Rik Leemans Wageningen University & Research
Frank Ewert
Frank Ewert University of Bonn
Simon F. B. Tett
Simon F. B. Tett University of Edinburgh
Carlos A. Guerra
Carlos A. Guerra German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research
João P. Honrado
João P. Honrado University of Porto
Christopher J.L. Wilson
Christopher J.L. Wilson Monash University
Andrew J. Dugmore
Andrew J. Dugmore University of Edinburgh
Richard J.T. Klein
Richard J.T. Klein Stockholm Environment Institute

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