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Mark Pelling 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 Pelling sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 181 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mark Pelling 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 Pelling sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Mark Pelling is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily in social sciences and environmental science. Their work spans across several interconnected subfields, including sociology and political science, global and planetary change, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, civil and structural engineering, and urban studies.

The main focus of Pelling's research involves disaster management and resilience, with additional topics covering flood risk assessment and management, infrastructure resilience and vulnerability analysis, climate change and health impacts, climate change adaptation and migration, sustainability, and climate change governance, as well as disaster response and management.

They have published in a variety of venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Edinburgh Research Archive (University of Edinburgh)
  • Climate and Development
  • Cities
  • Nature Cities

Mark Pelling has collaborated extensively with a number of co-authors, including Thaisa Comelli, Max Hope, Rachel Bezner Kerr, Matthias Garschagen, and Ramesh Guragain.

Notable recent publications include:

  • "Understanding human vulnerability to climate change: A global perspective on index validation for adaptation planning" (2021) in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "COVID-19 as a global challenge: towards an inclusive and sustainable future" (2020) in The Lancet Planetary Health
  • "Editorial. Risk-based, Pro-poor Urban Design and Planning for Tomorrow's Cities" (2021) in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • "Messy maps: Qualitative GIS representations of resilience" (2020) in Landscape and Urban Planning
  • "A climate resilience research renewal agenda: learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for urban climate resilience" (2021) in Climate and Development

In addition to journal articles, Pelling has authored books, including a title published by the Institute of Development Studies:

  • "Breaking Cycles of Risk Accumulation in African Cities" (2021)

Best Publications

  • Adaptation to Climate Change: From Resilience to Transformation

    Mark Pelling

  • The Vulnerability of Cities: Natural Disasters and Social Resilience

    Mark Pelling

  • Understanding adaptation: What can social capital offer assessments of adaptive capacity?

    Mark Pelling;Chris High

  • Framing vulnerability, risk and societal responses: the MOVE framework

    J. Birkmann;J. Birkmann;O. D. Cardona;M. L. Carreño;A. H. Barbat

  • Determinants of risk: Exposure and vulnerability

    Omar-Dario Cardona;Maarten K. van Aalst;Jörn Birkmann;Maureen Fordham

  • Disaster risk, climate change and international development: scope for, and challenges to, integration

    Lisa Schipper;Mark Pelling

  • Small island developing states: natural disaster vulnerability and global change

    Mark Pelling;Juha I. Uitto

  • Adaptation and transformation

    Mark Pelling;Karen O’Brien;David Matyas

  • Shadow spaces for social learning: a relational understanding of adaptive capacity to climate change within organisations

    Mark Pelling;Chris High;John Dearing;Denis Smith

  • Disaster politics: tipping points for change in the adaptation of sociopolitical regimes:

    Mark Pelling;Kathleen Dill

  • Associations between elevated atmospheric temperature and human mortality: a critical review of the literature

    Simon N. Gosling;Jason Anthony Lowe;Glenn R. McGregor;Glenn R. McGregor;Mark Pelling

  • From Resilience to Transformation: the Adaptive Cycle in Two Mexican Urban Centers

    Mark Pelling;David Manuel-Navarrete

  • Beyond Technical Fixes: climate solutions and the great derangement

    Andrea Joslyn Nightingale;Siri Eriksen;Marcus Taylor;Timothy Forsyth

  • Reducing Disaster Risk: a challenge for development

    Mark Pelling;Andrew Maskrey;Pablo Ruiz;Lisa Hall

  • Extreme events and disasters: a window of opportunity for change? Analysis of organizational, institutional and political changes, formal and informal responses after mega-disasters

    Joern Birkmann;Philip Buckle;Jill Jaeger;Mark Pelling

  • Natural Disaster and Development in a Globalizing World

    Mark Pelling

  • The political ecology of flood hazard in urban Guyana

    Mark Pelling

  • Positioning resilience for 2015: the role of resistance, incremental adjustment and transformation in disaster risk management policy

    David Matyas;Mark Pelling

  • Inserting rights and justice into urban resilience: a focus on everyday risk

    Gina Ziervogel;Mark Pelling;Anton Cartwright;Eric Chu

  • Understanding human vulnerability to climate change: A global perspective on index validation for adaptation planning.

    Joern Birkmann;Ali Jamshed;Joanna M. McMillan;Daniel Feldmeyer

  • Towards transformative adaptation in cities: the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment:

    Aromar Revi;David Satterthwaite;Fernando Aragón-Durand;Jan Corfee-Morlot

  • Learning from others: the scope and challenges for participatory disaster risk assessment.

    Mark Pelling

Frequent Co-Authors

William Solecki
William Solecki City University of New York
Joern Birkmann
Joern Birkmann University of Stuttgart
David Satterthwaite
David Satterthwaite International Institute for Environment and Development
Susan Parnell
Susan Parnell University of Cape Town
Alex H. Barbat
Alex H. Barbat Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
José A. Marengo
José A. Marengo Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais
Frank E. Muller-Karger
Frank E. Muller-Karger University of South Florida
Bruce D. Malamud
Bruce D. Malamud King's College London
Glenn R. McGregor
Glenn R. McGregor Durham University
Gina Ziervogel
Gina Ziervogel University of Cape Town

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