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Michael D. Mastrandrea

Michael D. Mastrandrea

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
42
Citations
37877
World Ranking
7231
National Ranking
2569

Overview

Michael D. Mastrandrea is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Energy, with notable work also in subfields such as Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The scientist's publications have addressed a variety of topics including Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Environmental Impact and Sustainability, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Fire effects on ecosystems, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, and Landslides and related hazards.

Frequent co-authors include Danny Cullenward, Michael W. Wara, Mason Inman, Gregory Von Wald, and John P. Weyant.

Michael D. Mastrandrea has published in several academic journals, with recurrent contributions to The Electricity Journal, Science Advances, Environmental Science & Policy, Energy Policy, and Environmental Science & Technology.

Recent papers by the scientist include:

  • Low-intensity fires mitigate the risk of high-intensity wildfires in California's forests (2023, Science Advances)
  • Enhancing the review process in global environmental assessments: The case of the IPCC (2022, Environmental Science & Policy)
  • Assessing California's progress toward its 2020 greenhouse gas emissions limit (2020, Energy Policy)
  • Accounting for the Greenhouse Gas Emission Intensity of Regional Electricity Transfers (2021, Environmental Science & Technology)
  • Analyzing California's framework for estimating greenhouse gas emissions associated with retail electricity sales (2020, The Electricity Journal)

Best Publications

  • Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation. Special report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

    Christopher B. Field;Vicente Barros;Thomas F. Stocker;Qin Dahe

  • Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation. A Special Report of Working Groups I and II of IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Christopher B. Field;Vicente Barros;Thomas F. Stocker;Qin Dahe

  • Prioritizing Climate Change Adaptation Needs for Food Security in 2030

    David B. Lobell;David B. Lobell;Marshall B. Burke;Claudia Tebaldi;Michael D. Mastrandrea

  • Climate Change 2014: Impacts,Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Christopher B. Field;Vicente R. Barros;Michael D. Mastrandrea;Katharine J. Mach

  • 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

  • Net-Zero Emissions Energy Systems

    Steven J Davis;Nathan S. Lewis;Matthew Shaner;Sonia Aggarwal

  • Guidance Note for Lead Authors of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on Consistent Treatment of Uncertainties

    Michael D. Mastrandrea;Christopher B. Field;Thomas F. Stocker;Ottmar Edenhofer

  • Climate change 2014: impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability - Part B: regional aspects - Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    V. R. Barros;C. B. Field;D. J. Dokke;M. D. Mastrandrea

  • Assessing Dangerous Climate Change Through an Update of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) "Reasons for Concern"

    Joel B. Smith;Stephen H. Schneider;Michael Oppenheimer;Gary W. Yohe

  • Adaptation needs and options

    Ian R. Noble;Saleemul Huq;Yuri A. Anokhin;Jo Ann Carmin

  • IPCC reasons for concern regarding climate change risks

    Brian C. O'Neill;Michael Oppenheimer;Rachel Warren;Stephane Hallegatte

  • The IPCC AR5 guidance note on consistent treatment of uncertainties: a common approach across the working groups

    Michael D. Mastrandrea;Katharine J. Mach;Gian-Kasper Plattner;Ottmar Edenhofer;Ottmar Edenhofer

  • Changes in impacts of climate extremes: Human systems and ecosystems

    John Handmer;Yasushi Honda;Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz;Nigel Arnell

  • Probabilistic Integrated Assessment of "Dangerous" Climate Change

    Michael D. Mastrandrea;Stephen H. Schneider

  • Human-modified temperatures induce species changes: Joint attribution

    Terry L. Root;Dena P MacMynowski;Michael D. Mastrandrea;Stephen H. Schneider

  • Climate Change 2014

    C. B. Field;V. R. Barros;M. D. Mastrandrea;K. J. Mach

  • Climate-Resilient Pathways: Adaptation, Mitigation, and Sustainable Development

    Christopher B. Field;Vicente R. Barros;David Jon Dokken;Katharine J. Mach

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

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

  • Coastal Systems and Low-Lying Areas

    Christopher B. Field;Vicente R. Barros;David Jon Dokken;Katharine J. Mach

  • Human Health: Impacts, Adaptation, and Co-Benefits

    Christopher B. Field;Vicente R. Barros;David Jon Dokken;Katharine J. Mach

Frequent Co-Authors

Katharine J. Mach
Katharine J. Mach University of Miami
Christopher B. Field
Christopher B. Field Stanford University
Vicente R. Barros
Vicente R. Barros University of Buenos Aires
Stephen H. Schneider
Stephen H. Schneider Stanford University
Gary W. Yohe
Gary W. Yohe Wesleyan University
Rachel Warren
Rachel Warren University of East Anglia
Michael Oppenheimer
Michael Oppenheimer Princeton University
Thomas F. Stocker
Thomas F. Stocker University of Bern
Kristie L. Ebi
Kristie L. Ebi University of Washington
Bri-Mathias Hodge
Bri-Mathias Hodge University of Colorado Boulder

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