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Mark Howden publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mark Howden sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 112 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Mark Howden D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mark Howden sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Mark Howden is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research focuses primarily on environmental and agricultural sciences, with cross-disciplinary work incorporating social sciences.

The main fields of study in Howden's body of work include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Social Sciences

Subfields of study span:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecology

The central topics covered in their research are:

  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Health disparities and outcomes

Howden has contributed to a variety of recent papers in notable publication venues. Examples include:

  • "A framework for complex climate change risk assessment," 2021, One Earth
  • "How necessary and feasible are reductions of methane emissions from livestock to support stringent temperature goals?", 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • "Burning embers: towards more transparent and robust climate-change risk assessments," 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Electricity system resilience in a world of increased climate change and cybersecurity risk," 2020, The Electricity Journal
  • "Climate change shifts agropastoral-pastoral margins in Africa putting food security and livelihoods at risk," 2022, Environmental Research Letters

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Howden include:

  • K. G. H. Baldwin
  • Michael Smith
  • Karen Hussey
  • Peter J. Dawson
  • Brian C. O'Neill

Publications have appeared in several journals consistently, such as:

  • One Earth
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • The Electricity Journal
  • Environmental Research Letters

In addition to journal articles, Howden has published a book through Elsevier BV titled Indicators of Climate Change, scheduled for release in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • Greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture

    Pete Smith;Daniel Martino;Zucong Cai;Daniel Gwary

  • The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report

    Boyd A Swinburn;Boyd A Swinburn;Vivica I Kraak;Steven Allender;Vincent J Atkins

  • Policy and technological constraints to implementation of greenhouse gas mitigation options in agriculture

    Pete Smith;Daniel Martino;Zucong Cai;Daniel Gwary

  • A framework for complex climate change risk assessment

    Nicholas P. Simpson;Katharine J. Mach;Andrew Constable;Jeremy Hess

  • Ten essentials for action-oriented and second order energy transitions, transformations and climate change research

    Ioan Fazey;Niko Schäpke;Guido Caniglia;James Patterson

  • Crop response to elevated CO2 and world food supply A comment on: Food for Thought... by Long et al., Science 312: 1918-1921, 2006

    Francesco N. Tubiello;Francesco N. Tubiello;Jeffrey S. Amthor;Kenneth J. Boote;Marcello Donatelli

  • Climate change: an Australian guide to the science and potential impacts

    Barrie Pittock;Angela Arthington;Trevor Booth;Peter Cowell

  • Agriculture in a changing climate: impacts and adaptation

    J. Reilly;W. Baethgen;F.E. Chege;S.C. van de Geijn

  • Plant adaptation to climate change—opportunities and priorities in breeding

    Scott C. Chapman;Sukumar Chakraborty;M. Fernanda Dreccer;M. Fernanda Dreccer;S. Mark Howden

  • USING ADAPTIVE GOVERNANCE TO RETHINK THE WAY SCIENCE SUPPORTS AUSTRALIAN DROUGHT POLICY

    Rohan Nelson;Mark Howden;Mark Stafford Smith

  • Timescales of transformational climate change adaptation in sub-Saharan African agriculture

    Ulrike Rippke;Ulrike Rippke;Julian Ramirez-Villegas;Julian Ramirez-Villegas;Julian Ramirez-Villegas;Andy Jarvis;Andy Jarvis;Sonja J. Vermeulen;Sonja J. Vermeulen

  • An assessment of the impact of climate change on the nature and frequency of exceptional climatic events

    K. Hennessy;R. Fawcett;D. Kirono;F. Mpelasoka

  • IPCC Fifth Assessment Synthesis Report-Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report

    Myles R. Allen;Vicente R. Barros;John Broome;Wolfgang Cramer

  • Food security and climate change: on the potential to adapt global crop production by active selection to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide

    Lewis H. Ziska;James A. Bunce;Hiroyuki Shimono;David R. Gealy

  • Framing disaster resilience : The implications of the diverse conceptualisations of “bouncing back”

    Paulina Aldunce;Ruth Beilin;John Handmer;Mark Howden

  • Resilience for disaster risk management in a changing climate: Practitioners’ frames and practices

    Paulina Aldunce;Paulina Aldunce;Ruth Beilin;Mark Howden;John Handmer

  • Building adaptive capacity to cope with increasing vulnerability due to climatic change in Africa – A new approach

    Steve Twomlow;Francis T. Mugabe;Moses Mwale;Robert Delve

  • Understanding and managing trust at the climate science-policy interface

    Justine Lacey;Mark Howden;Christopher Cvitanovic;Rebecca Colvin

  • A framework for priority-setting in climate smart agriculture research

    Philip K. Thornton;Anthony Whitbread;Tobias Baedeker;Jill Cairns

  • The role of networks in transforming Australian agriculture

    Anne-Maree Dowd;Nadine Marshall;Aysha Fleming;Emma Jakku

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Smith
Peter Smith University of Aberdeen
Holger Meinke
Holger Meinke University of Tasmania
Lesley Hughes
Lesley Hughes Macquarie University
Neville Nicholls
Neville Nicholls Monash University
Donald S. Gaydon
Donald S. Gaydon Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Cynthia Rosenzweig
Cynthia Rosenzweig Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Julian Ramirez-Villegas
Julian Ramirez-Villegas Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical
John R. Porter
John R. Porter University of Copenhagen
Frank P. O'Mara
Frank P. O'Mara Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority
Tim A. McAllister
Tim A. McAllister Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada

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