2026 Maria Brockhaus: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	49	5183	4964	83	83	177	10457

Overview

Maria Brockhaus is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Social Sciences. Their work spans several interconnected subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist's research addresses topics such as Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management; Forest Management and Policy; Sustainability and Climate Change Governance; Policy Transfer and Learning; Agriculture, Land Use, and Rural Development; Cambodian History and Society; and Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development.

Recent publications by Maria Brockhaus cover a range of themes related to forest and environmental policy. These include:

"Social forestry in Southeast Asia: Evolving interests, discourses and the many notions of equity" (2020, Geoforum)
"Reviewing the evidence on the roles of forests and tree-based systems in poverty dynamics" (2021, Forest Policy and Economics)
"The forest frontier in the Global South: Climate change policies and the promise of development and equity" (2021, AMBIO)
"Unearthing the myths of global sustainable forest governance" (2020, Global Sustainability)
"What drives smallholder tree growing? Enabling conditions in a changing policy environment" (2020, Forest Policy and Economics)

Maria Brockhaus frequently collaborates with researchers such as Grace Wong, Niina Pietarinen, Phạm T.T., Mawa Karambiri, and Monica Di Gregorio.

The main publication venues for their work include Forest Policy and Economics, SSRN Electronic Journal, Environmental Science & Policy, AMBIO, and Global Environmental Change. Forest Policy and Economics is the most frequent venue with a total of ten publications.

In addition to articles, Brockhaus has contributed to book publications, including a title published by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) eBooks: "Usual and unusual suspects: What network analysis can tell us about climate policy integration" (2020).

Best Publications

An assessment of deforestation and forest degradation drivers in developing countries

Noriko Hosonuma;Martin Herold;Veronique De Sy;Ruth S De Fries

1630
Citations
Analysing REDD+: challenges and choices.

A. Angelsen;M. Brockhaus;W.D. Sunderlin;L.V. Verchot

587
Citations
Realising Redd+: National strategy and policy options

A. Angelsen;M. Brockhaus;M. Kanninen;E. Sills

560
Citations
Multi-level governance and power in climate change policy networks

Monica Di Gregorio;Monica Di Gregorio;Leandra Fatorelli;Jouni Paavola;Bruno Locatelli;Bruno Locatelli

393
Citations
Beyond dichotomies: Gender and intersecting inequalities in climate change studies.

Houria Djoudi;Bruno Locatelli;Chloe Vaast;Kiran Asher

386
Citations
Land tenure and REDD+: The good, the bad and the ugly

Anne M. Larson;Maria Brockhaus;William D. Sunderlin;Amy Duchelle

331
Citations
Is adaptation to climate change gender neutral? Lessons from communities dependent on livestock and forests in northern Mali

H. Djoudi;H. Djoudi;M. Brockhaus;M. Brockhaus

300
Citations
An overview of forest and land allocation policies in Indonesia: Is the current framework sufficient to meet the needs of REDD+?

Maria Brockhaus;Krystof Obidzinski;Ahmad Dermawan;Yves Laumonier

266
Citations
Climate policy integration in the land use sector: Mitigation, adaptation and sustainable development linkages

Monica Di Gregorio;Monica Di Gregorio;Dodik Ridho Nurrochmat;Jouni Paavola;Intan Maya Sari

243
Citations
Who should benefit from REDD+? Rationales and realities

Cecilia Luttrell;Lasse Loft;Maria Fernanda Gebara;Demetrius Kweka

243
Citations
Governing the design of national REDD+: an analysis of the power of agency

M. Brockhaus;M. Di Gregorio;M. Di Gregorio;S. Mardiah

192
Citations
The political context of REDD+ in Indonesia: constituencies for change

Cecilia Luttrell;Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo;Efrian Muharrom;Maria Brockhaus

158
Citations
Facing an uncertain future: how forest and people can adapt to climate change

Bruno Locatelli;Markku Kanninen;Maria Brockhaus;Carol J. Pierce Colfer

151
Citations
Approaches to benefit sharing: A preliminary comparative analysis of 13 REDD+ countries

T.T. Pham;M. Brockhaus;G.Y. Wong;N.D. Le

137
Citations
Seeing REDD+ through 4Is: A political economy framework

M. Brockhaus;A. Angelsen

135
Citations
Ecosystem services in the National Adaptation Programmes of Action

Emilia Pramova;Bruno Locatelli;Maria Brockhaus;Sandra Fohlmeister

130
Citations
Once there was a lake: Vulnerability to environmental changes in northern Mali

Houria Djoudi;Maria Brockhaus;Bruno Locatelli

129
Citations
Equity and REDD+ in the Media: a Comparative Analysis of Policy Discourses

Monica Di Gregorio;Maria Brockhaus;Tim Cronin;Efrian Muharrom

120
Citations
Social Forestry – why and for whom? A comparison of policies in Vietnam and Indonesia

Moira Moeliono;Thuy Thu Pham;Indah Waty Bong;Grace Yee Wong

117
Citations
Enabling factors for establishing REDD+ in a context of weak governance

K. Korhonen-Kurki;J. Sehring;M. Brockhaus;M. Di Gregorio

111
Citations
Learning from REDD+: a response to Fletcher et al.

Arild Angelsen;Maria Brockhaus;Amy E. Duchelle;Anne M. Larson

109
Citations
How countries link REDD+ interventions to drivers in their readiness plans: implications for monitoring systems

G Salvini;M Herold;V De Sy;G Kissinger

107
Citations
Some lessons learned from the first generation of REDD+ activities

Daniel Murdiyarso;Daniel Murdiyarso;Maria Brockhaus;William D Sunderlin;Lou Verchot

102
Citations
REDD+, transformational change and the promise of performance-based payments: a qualitative comparative analysis

Maria Brockhaus;Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki;Jenniver Sehring;Monica Di Gregorio

94
Citations
Envisioning the future and learning from the past: adapting to a changing environment in northern Mali

Maria Brockhaus;Houria Djoudi;Bruno Locatelli;Bruno Locatelli

94
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Monica Di Gregorio University of Leeds

Bruno Locatelli Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement

William D. Sunderlin Center for International Forestry Research

Arild Angelsen Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Markku Kanninen University of Helsinki

Pamela Jagger University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Louis V. Verchot Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical

Erin O. Sills North Carolina State University

Daniel Murdiyarso IPB University

Christopher Martius Center for International Forestry Research, Germany

External Links

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