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Petra Tschakert

Petra Tschakert

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
48
Citations
11675
World Ranking
5437
National Ranking
193

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
48
Citations
11633
World Ranking
3095
National Ranking
219

Petra Tschakert publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 98 publications — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Petra Tschakert D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Petra Tschakert sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 48 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Petra Tschakert is affiliated with Curtin University in Australia and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of social sciences and environmental science. Their work primarily focuses on various aspects of climate change, adaptation, sustainability governance, and the intersections between human and non-human entities in environmental contexts.

The main fields of study for this researcher include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Environmental Science

The subfields of study they are engaged in include:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Geography, Planning and Development
  • Cultural Studies
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Key topics covered in their work are:

  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Energy and Environment Impacts

Frequent co-authors collaborating on research projects include:

  • Karen Paiva Henrique
  • Alicea Garcia
  • Krishna Karthikeyan
  • Danielle Celermajer
  • David Schlosberg

Common publication venues for their research are:

  • Regional Environmental Change
  • Environmental Politics
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • World Development

Notable recent publications include:

  • "Multispecies justice: theories, challenges, and a research agenda for environmental politics" (2020), published in Environmental Politics
  • "Multispecies justice: Climate-just futures with, for and beyond humans" (2020), in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • "Loss and Damage and limits to adaptation: recent IPCC insights and implications for climate science and policy" (2020), published in Sustainability Science
  • "More-than-human solidarity and multispecies justice in the climate crisis" (2020), in Environmental Politics
  • "Pathways to urban transformation: From dispossession to climate justice" (2020), published in Progress in Human Geography

In addition to journal articles, there is also a book publication under the United Nations Environment Programme eBooks titled Knowledge Gaps and Policy Needs to Tackle Loss and Damage - Science for Adaptation Policy Brief #8 (2024).

Best Publications

  • Impacts of 1.5°C Global Warming on Natural and Human Systems

    O. Hoegh-Guldberg;D. Jacob;M. Bindi;S. Brown

  • Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being: three challenges for designing research for sustainability

    Elena M. Bennett;Wolfgang Cramer;Alpina Begossi;Georgina Cundill

  • Anticipatory Learning for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience

    Petra Tschakert;Kathleen Ann Dietrich

  • Views from the vulnerable: Understanding climatic and other stressors in the Sahel

    Petra Tschakert

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

    Ioan Fazey;Niko Schäpke;Guido Caniglia;James Patterson

  • Livelihoods and poverty

    Lennart Olsson;Maggie Opondo;Petra Tschakert;Arun Agrawal

  • Why equity is fundamental in climate change policy research

    Sonja Klinsky;J. Timmons Roberts;Saleemul Huq;Chukwumerije Okereke

  • One thousand ways to experience loss: A systematic analysis of climate-related intangible harm from around the world

    P. Tschakert;N.R. Ellis;C. Anderson;A. Kelly

  • Contaminated Identities: Mercury and Marginalization in Ghana's Artisanal Mining Sector

    Petra Tschakert;Kamini Singha

  • Multispecies justice: theories, challenges, and a research agenda for environmental politics

    Danielle Celermajer;David Schlosberg;Lauren Rickards;Makere Stewart-Harawira

  • Climate Change 2014

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

  • Why is socially-just climate change adaptation in sub-Saharan Africa so challenging? A review of barriers identified from empirical cases

    Sheona Shackleton;Gina Ziervogel;Susannah Sallu;Thomas Gill

  • Climate change and loss, as if people mattered: values, places, and experiences

    Petra Tschakert;Jon Barnett;Neville Ellis;Carmen Lawrence

  • Floods in the Sahel: an analysis of anomalies, memory, and anticipatory learning

    Petra Tschakert;Regina Sagoe;Gifty Ofori-Darko;Samuel Nii Codjoe

  • Sustainable development, poverty eradication and reducing inequalities

    J. Roy;P. Tschakert;H. Waisman;S. Abdul Halim

  • Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: visions of future systems and how to get there

    Ioan Fazey;Niko Schäpke;Guido Caniglia;Anthony Hodgson

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

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

  • Inequality and transformation analyses: a complementary lens for addressing vulnerability to climate change

    Petra Tschakert;Bob van Oort;Asuncion Lera St. Clair;Armando LaMadrid

  • The many possible climates from the Paris Agreement’s aim of 1.5 °C warming

    Sonia I. Seneviratne;Joeri Rogelj;Roland Séférian;Richard Wartenburger

  • A science of loss

    Jon Barnett;Petra Tschakert;Lesley Head;W. Neil Adger

  • Digging Deep for Justice: A Radical Re‐imagination of the Artisanal Gold Mining Sector in Ghana

    Petra Tschakert

Frequent Co-Authors

Lennart Olsson
Lennart Olsson Lund University
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg University of Queensland
Rachel Warren
Rachel Warren University of East Anglia
Wolfgang Cramer
Wolfgang Cramer Aix-Marseille University
Reinhard Mechler
Reinhard Mechler International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Gary W. Yohe
Gary W. Yohe Wesleyan University
Michael Oppenheimer
Michael Oppenheimer Princeton University
Karen O'Brien
Karen O'Brien University of Oslo
Taikan Oki
Taikan Oki University of Tokyo
Dave D. Chadee
Dave D. Chadee University of the West Indies

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