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Overview

Mark Rounsevell is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research covers a range of topics, focusing particularly on areas such as land use, ecosystem services, and biodiversity.

The scientist's main fields of study include Environmental Science, with significant contributions in Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Key topics addressed in their work are:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Demographic modeling and climate adaptation
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation

Mark Rounsevell has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Calum Brown
  • Peter Alexander
  • Almut Arneth
  • Paula A. Harrison
  • Joanna Raymond

Their publications appear chiefly in venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, Environmental Research Letters, One Earth, Sustainability Science, and Earth System Dynamics.

Recent papers by Mark Rounsevell include:

  • A biodiversity target based on species extinctions, 2020, Science
  • Global land use changes are four times greater than previously estimated, 2021, Nature Communications
  • High energy and fertilizer prices are more damaging than food export curtailment from Ukraine and Russia for food prices, health and the environment, 2022, Nature Food
  • The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation, 2023, Science
  • Europe's Green Deal offshores environmental damage to other nations, 2020, Nature

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

  • EURO-CORDEX : new high-resolution climate change projections for European impact research

    Daniela Jacob;Juliane Petersen;Bastian Eggert;Antoinette Alias

  • Ecosystem Service Supply and Vulnerability to Global Change in Europe

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

  • Carbon sequestration in the agricultural soils of Europe

    Annette Freibauer;Mark D.A Rounsevell;Pete Smith;Jan Verhagen

  • Global land use changes are four times greater than previously estimated

    Karina Winkler;Karina Winkler;Richard Fuchs;Mark Rounsevell;Mark Rounsevell;Martin Herold

  • Are agricultural land-use models able to predict changes in land-use intensity?

    E.F Lambin;M.D.A Rounsevell;H.J Geist

  • The vulnerability of ecosystem services to land use change

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

  • Climate Change 1995: impacts, adaptations and mitigation of climate change: scientific-technical analyses. Contribution of Working Group II to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    M. U. F. Kirschbaum;P. Bullock;Richard Evans;K. Goulding

  • 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

  • Competition for land

    Pete Smith;Peter J. Gregory;Detlef van Vuuren;Michael Obersteiner

  • New Assessment Methods and the Characterisation of Future Conditions

    T. R. Carter;R. N. Jones;X. Lu;S. Bhadwal

  • The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation

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  • Losses, inefficiencies and waste in the global food system.

    Peter Alexander;Peter Alexander;Calum Brown;Almut Arneth;John Finnigan

  • Quantifying the Contribution of Organisms to the Provision of Ecosystem Services

    Gary W. Luck;Richard Harrington;Paula A. Harrison;Claire Kremen

  • Future scenarios of European agricultural land use: II. Projecting changes in cropland and grassland

    M.D.A. Rounsevell;F. Ewert;I. Reginster;R. Leemans

  • Challenges for land system science

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

  • Projected changes in mineral soil carbon of European croplands and grasslands, 1990–2080

    Jo Smith;Pete Smith;Martin Wattenbach;Sönke Zaehle

  • Drivers for global agricultural land use change: The nexus of diet, population, yield and bioenergy

    Peter Alexander;Peter Alexander;Mark D.A. Rounsevell;Claudia Dislich;Claudia Dislich;Jennifer R. Dodson

  • Transitions in European land-management regimes between 1800 and 2010

    Martin Rudbeck Jepsen;Tobias Kuemmerle;Daniel Müller;Daniel Müller;Karlheinz Erb

  • Developing qualitative scenario storylines for environmental change assessment

    Mark D. A. Rounsevell;Marc J. Metzger

  • The response of soil erosion and sediment export to land-use change in four areas of Europe: The importance of landscape pattern

    Martha M. Bakker;Gerard Govers;Anne van Doorn;Fabien Quetier

  • Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    A. Fischlin;J. T. Midgley;R. Price;B. Leemans

Frequent Co-Authors

Paula A. Harrison
Paula A. Harrison Lancaster University
Almut Arneth
Almut Arneth Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Marc J. Metzger
Marc J. Metzger University of Edinburgh
Marnik Vanclooster
Marnik Vanclooster Université Catholique de Louvain
Ian P. Holman
Ian P. Holman Cranfield University
Peter H. Verburg
Peter H. Verburg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Peter Smith
Peter Smith University of Aberdeen
Richard Harrington
Richard Harrington Rothamsted Research
Frank Ewert
Frank Ewert University of Bonn
Robert J. Nicholls
Robert J. Nicholls University of East Anglia

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