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57
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14045
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2682
National Ranking
313

Overview

Paula A. Harrison is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily lies within the field of Environmental Science, with a notable focus on the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Management Science and Operations Research, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics covered in Harrison's work include:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Demographic Modeling and Climate Adaptation
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies

Notable frequent co-authors in their publications are:

  • Mark Rounsevell
  • R. W. Dunford
  • Simona Pedde
  • Zuzana V. Harmáčková
  • Ian Holman

Harrison has contributed to several publication venues, with the most frequent being:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Sustainability Science
  • Regional Environmental Change
  • Climate Risk Management

Among recent papers, the following titles, years, and venues stand out:

  • Achievements and needs for the climate change scenario framework, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • A biodiversity target based on species extinctions, 2020, Science
  • Bridging the Gap: Exploring the Unique Transition From Home, School or College Into University, 2021, Frontiers in Public Health
  • Enriching the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways to co-create consistent multi-sector scenarios for the UK, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Bringing the Nature Futures Framework to life: creating a set of illustrative narratives of nature futures, 2023, Sustainability Science

Best Publications

  • Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits

    Francesco de Bello;Sandra Lavorel;Sandra Myrna Diaz;Richard Harrington

  • Linkages between biodiversity attributes and ecosystem services: A systematic review

    P.A. Harrison;P.M. Berry;G. Simpson;J.R. Haslett

  • SPECIES: A Spatial Evaluation of Climate Impact on the Envelope of Species

    R.G Pearson;T.P Dawson;P.M Berry;P.A Harrison

  • Functional traits as indicators of biodiversity response to land use changes across ecosystems and organisms

    Marie Vandewalle;Marie Vandewalle;Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Matty P. Berg;Thomas Bolger

  • Achievements and needs for the climate change scenario framework.

    Brian C. O'Neill;Brian C. O'Neill;Timothy R. Carter;Kristie L. Ebi;Paula A. Harrison

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

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

  • Relative impacts of human-induced climate change and natural climate variability

    Mike Hulme;Elaine M. Barrow;Nigel W. Arnell;Paula A. Harrison

  • Modelling potential impacts of climate change on the bioclimatic envelope of species in Britain and Ireland

    P. M. Berry;T. P. Dawson;P. A. Harrison;R. G. Pearson

  • Indicators of biodiversity and ecosystem services: a synthesis across ecosystems and spatial scales

    Christian K. Feld;Pedro Martins da Silva;José Paulo Sousa;Francesco De Bello

  • Assessing the vulnerability of agricultural land use and species to climate change and the role of policy in facilitating adaptation

    P.M. Berry;M.D.A. Rounsevell;P.A. Harrison;E. Audsley

  • A conceptual framework to assess the effects of environmental change on ecosystem services

    Mark Rounsevell;Terry Dawson;P. A. Harrison

  • A regional, multi-sectoral and integrated assessment of the impacts of climate and socio-economic change in the UK. Part I. Methodology

    Ian P. Holman;M. D. A. Rounsevell;S. Shackley;P. A. Harrison

  • Identifying and prioritising services in European terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems

    Paula A. Harrison;Marie Vandewalle;Martin T. Sykes;Pam M. Berry

  • Modelling climate change impacts on species’ distributions at the European scale: implications for conservation policy

    P.A. Harrison;P.M. Berry;N. Butt;M. New

  • Ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation: concepts and a glossary

    Richard Harrington;Christian Anton;Terence P. Dawson;Francesco de Bello

  • Selecting methods for ecosystem service assessment: a decision tree approach

    Paula A. Harrison;Robert Dunford;David Nicholas Barton;Eszter Kelemen

  • The effects of climate variability and change on grape suitability in Europe

    G. J. Kenny;P. A. Harrison

  • Biodiversity’s contributions to sustainable development

    Malgorzata Blicharska;Richard J. Smithers;Grzegorz Mikusiński;Patrik Rönnbäck

  • The means determine the end--Pursuing integrated valuation in practice

    Sander Jacobs;Berta Martín-López;David N. Barton;Robert Dunford

  • Multiscale scenarios for nature futures

    Isabel M. D. Rosa;Isabel M. D. Rosa;Henrique M. Pereira;Henrique M. Pereira;Henrique M. Pereira;Simon Ferrier;Rob Alkemade

  • Climate change impact modelling needs to include cross-sectoral interactions

    Paula A. Harrison;Robert W. Dunford;Ian P. Holman;Mark D. A. Rounsevell

  • A conceptual framework to analyse the effects of environmental change on ecosystem services

    Paula Harrison;M Rounsevell;G Luck;R Harrington

Frequent Co-Authors

Pam Berry
Pam Berry University of Oxford
Mark Rounsevell
Mark Rounsevell University of Edinburgh
Ian P. Holman
Ian P. Holman Cranfield University
Marina García-Llorente
Marina García-Llorente Autonomous University of Madrid
David N. Barton
David N. Barton Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Erik Gómez-Baggethun
Erik Gómez-Baggethun Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Ignacio Palomo
Ignacio Palomo Grenoble Alpes University
Christian K. Feld
Christian K. Feld University of Duisburg-Essen
Mette Termansen
Mette Termansen University of Copenhagen
Sandra Lavorel
Sandra Lavorel Grenoble Alpes University

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