2026 Robert J. Lempert: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	52	4391	4204	1633	1508	162	14934

Research.com Recognitions

2003 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For leadership in showing how modern computer technology and insights from the study of complex adaptive systems can be applied to policy problems in science, technology, and environmental policy

Overview

Robert J. Lempert is affiliated with the RAND Corporation in the United States. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields, with a particular focus on environmental science, economics, econometrics, and social sciences. These areas of study are reflected in their extensive publication record and collaboration network.

Key fields of study related to Lempert's work include:

Environmental Science
Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Social Sciences

Within these domains, their research touches several subfields, notably:

Economics and Econometrics
Global and Planetary Change
Transportation
Sociology and Political Science
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

Lempert's main research topics include:

Climate Change Policy and Economics
Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies
Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
Transportation Planning and Optimization
Global Energy and Sustainability Research

Their recent academic papers include:

"A framework for complex climate change risk assessment" (2021), published in One Earth
"Defining the solution space to accelerate climate change adaptation" (2020), published in Regional Environmental Change
"Engaging Multiple Worldviews With Quantitative Decision Support: A Robust Decision-Making Demonstration Using the Lake Model" (2020), published in Risk Analysis
"Climate change: making decisions in the face of deep uncertainty" (2020), published in Nature
"Meeting Climate, Mobility, and Equity Goals in Transportation Planning Under Wide-Ranging Scenarios" (2020), published in Journal of the American Planning Association

Lempert has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including:

Pedro Nascimento de Lima
Jonathan Ozik
Judy Lawrence
Raffaele Vardavas
Sara Turner

Publication venues where Lempert's work appears regularly include:

Frontiers in Climate
Risk Analysis
Environmental Modelling & Software
One Earth
Regional Environmental Change

They have contributed extensively to the RAND Corporation eBooks collection, with nine books published there. Some notable titles include:

"Observed Impacts, Future Risks, and Adaptation Solutions: Highlights from the Recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II Report" (2022)
"Adaptive Engagement for Undergoverned Spaces: Concepts, Challenges, and Prospects for New Approaches" (2022)
"Co-Designing Capabilities for a Robust Pandemic Response: Stakeholder Engagement for Visioning, Backcasting, and Evaluating New Decision-Support Capabilities" (2023)
"Implementing a New Mobility Vision for Rancho Higuera in a Deeply Uncertain, Fast-Changing World: Results from RAND Corporation Participatory Local Planning Workshops" (2020)

Robert J. Lempert received the Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) award in 2003 for leadership in applying modern computer technology and insights from complex adaptive systems to policy problems in science, technology, and environmental policy.

Best Publications

Shaping the Next One Hundred Years: New Methods for Quantitative Long-Term Policy Analysis

Robert J. Lempert;Steven W. Popper;Steven C. Bankes

1682
Citations
A General, Analytic Method for Generating Robust Strategies and Narrative Scenarios

Robert J. Lempert;David G. Groves;Steven W. Popper;Steve C. Bankes

973
Citations
Managing the Risk of Uncertain Threshold Responses: Comparison of Robust, Optimum, and Precautionary Approaches

Robert J. Lempert;Myles T. Collins

630
Citations
The need for and use of socio-economic scenarios for climate change analysis: A new approach based on shared socio-economic pathways

Elmar Kriegler;Brian C. O’Neill;Stephane Hallegatte;Tom Kram

624
Citations
A framework for complex climate change risk assessment

Nicholas P. Simpson;Katharine J. Mach;Andrew Constable;Jeremy Hess

614
Citations
A New Analytic Method for Finding Policy-Relevant Scenarios:

David G. Groves;Robert J. Lempert

599
Citations
Many objective robust decision making for complex environmental systems undergoing change

Joseph R. Kasprzyk;Shanthi Nataraj;Patrick M. Reed;Robert J. Lempert

595
Citations
Climate change: New dimensions in disaster risk, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience

Allan Lavell;Michael Oppenheimer;Cherif Diop;Jeremy Hess

509
Citations
Identifying and evaluating robust adaptive policy responses to climate change for water management agencies in the American west

Robert J. Lempert;David G. Groves

478
Citations
Climate prediction: a limit to adaptation?

Suraje Dessai;Mike Hulme;Robert Lempert;Roger Pielke

466
Citations
A new decision sciences for complex systems

Robert J. Lempert

454
Citations
Improving the contribution of climate model information to decision making: the value and demands of robust decision frameworks

Christopher P. Weaver;Robert J. Lempert;Casey Brown;John A Hall

448
Citations
Investment decision making under deep uncertainty -- application to climate change

Stephane Hallegatte;Ankur Shah;Robert J. Lempert;Robert J. Lempert;Casey Brown

407
Citations
Robust Strategies for Abating Climate Change

Robert J. Lempert;Michael E. Schlesinger

390
Citations
Robust climate policies under uncertainty: a comparison of robust decision making and info-gap methods.

Jim W. Hall;Robert J. Lempert;Klaus Keller;Andrew Hackbarth

362
Citations
Characterizing Climate-Change Uncertainties for Decision-Makers. An Editorial Essay

Robert Lempert;Nebojsa Nakicenovic;Daniel Sarewitz;Michael Schlesinger

348
Citations
Characterizing Climate-Change Uncertainties for Decision-Makers

Robert J. Lempert;Nebojsa Nakicenovic;Daniel R Sarewitz;Michael E. Schlesinger

330
Citations
Do We Need Better Predictions to Adapt to a Changing Climate

Suraje Dessai;Mike Hulme;Mike Hulme;Robert J. Lempert;Roger A. Pielke

293
Citations
Agreeing on robust decisions : new processes for decision making under deep uncertainty

Nidhi Kalra;Stephane Hallegatte;Robert Lempert;Casey Brown

268
Citations
A sequential-decision strategy for abating climate change

James K. Hammitt;Robert J. Lempert;Michael E. Schlesinger

259
Citations
The Need for and Use of Socio-Economic Scenarios for Climate Change Analysis

Elmar Kriegler;Brian C. O'Neill;Stephane Hallegatte;Tom Kram

2
Citations
Improving the Contribution of Climate Model Information to Decision Making

Christopher P. Weaver;Robert J. Lempert;Casey Brown;John A. Hall

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stéphane Hallegatte World Bank

Klaus Keller Dartmouth College

Michael E. Schlesinger University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Casey Brown University of Massachusetts Amherst

Suraje Dessai University of Leeds

James K. Hammitt Harvard University

Nebojsa Nakicenovic International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Kenneth Strzepek MIT

Daniel Sarewitz Arizona State University

Jim W. Hall University of Oxford

External Links

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