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D-Index
46
Citations
12200
World Ranking
3537
National Ranking
31

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Susan Parnell is affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Environmental Science, with specific attention to subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Transportation, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, General Health Professions, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main topics addressed in Parnell's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Global Maternal and Child Health, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy, Urban Transport and Accessibility, and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis.

Parnell has published extensively, with recent papers covering various aspects of urban sustainability and climate adaptation. Key publications include:

  • "Urbanization in and for the Anthropocene" (2021) in npj Urban Sustainability
  • "Integrating solutions to adapt cities for climate change" (2021) in The Lancet Planetary Health
  • "Seeing COVID-19 through an urban lens" (2020) in Nature Sustainability
  • "A new urban narrative for sustainable development" (2022) in Nature Sustainability
  • "The future of the future city? The new urban sciences and a PEAK Urban interdisciplinary disposition" (2020) in Cities

Frequent publication venues for Parnell include npj Urban Sustainability, Nature Sustainability, F1000Research, The Lancet Planetary Health, and Cities.

Collaborative work is a consistent feature of Parnell's research, with frequent coauthors being:

  • James Duminy (6 joint publications)
  • Michael Keith (4 joint publications)
  • Thomas Elmqvist (3 joint publications)
  • Karen C. Seto (3 joint publications)
  • Jessica Espey (3 joint publications)

In terms of book publications, Parnell has contributed to works published by UCT Press eBooks and Springer International Publishing. Key titles include:

  • "Consolidating Developmental Local Government: Lessons from the South African Experience" (2022) with 103 citations
  • "Democratising Local Government: The South African Experiment" (2022) with 99 citations
  • "Localizing the SDGs in African Cities" (2022) with 13 citations

Their research explores intersections between urban development, climate change adaptation, and social governance, with particular emphasis on urban sustainability within the African context and beyond. Susan Parnell is recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities: A Global Assessment

    Thomas Elmqvist;Michail Fragkias;Julie Goodness;Burak Güneralp

  • Re)theorizing Cities from the Global South: Looking Beyond Neoliberalism

    Susan Parnell;Jennifer Robinson

  • Uniting a Divided City: Governance and Social Exclusion in Johannesburg

    Jo Beall;Owen Crankshaw;Susan Parnell

  • The Routledge handbook on cities of the Global South

    Susan Parnell;Sophie Oldfield

  • Defining a Global Urban Development Agenda

    Susan Parnell

  • Urbanization in Africa: challenges and opportunities for conservation

    Burak Güneralp;Shuaib Lwasa;Hillary Masundire;Susan Parnell

  • Building a global urban science

    Michele Acuto;Susan Parnell;Karen C. Seto

  • Defining and advancing a systems approach for sustainable cities

    Xuemei Bai;Alyson Surveyer;Thomas Elmqvist;Franz W. Gatzweiler

  • The ‘Right to the City’: Institutional Imperatives of a Developmental State

    Susan Parnell;Edgar Pieterse

  • Rethinking urban South Africa

    Susan Parnell;Alan Mabin

  • Shaken, shrinking, hot, impoverished and informal: Emerging research agendas in planning

    Hilda Blanco;Marina Alberti;Robert B Olshansky;Stephanie Chang

  • A Global Outlook on Urbanization

    Karen C. Seto;Susan Parnell;Thomas Elmqvist

  • Sub-Saharan African urbanisation and global environmental change

    Susan Parnell;Ruwani Walawege

  • Ideas, implementation and indicators: epistemologies of the post-2015 urban agenda:

    Clive Barnett;Susan Parnell

  • Africa's Urban Revolution

    Sue Parnell;Edgar A. Pieterse

  • Urbanization in and for the Anthropocene

    T. Elmqvist;E. Andersson;E. Andersson;T. McPhearson;T. McPhearson;T. McPhearson;X. Bai

  • Scientists must have a say in the future of cities

    Timon McPhearson;Susan Parnell;David Simon;Owen Gaffney

  • Development and Urban Policy: Johannesburg's City Development Strategy:

    Susan Parnell;Jenny Robinson

  • Integrating solutions to adapt cities for climate change

    Brenda B Lin;Alessandro Ossola;Alessandro Ossola;Alessandro Ossola;Marina Alberti;Erik Andersson;Erik Andersson

  • Global environmental change: conceptualising the growing challenge for cities in poor countries

    Susan Parnell;David Simon;Coleen Vogel

  • Local government, poverty reduction and inequality in Johannesburg:

    Jo Beall;Owen Crankshaw;Susan Parnell

  • Reshaping Cities, Rebuilding Nations: The Role of National Urban Policies

    Ivan Turok;Ivan Turok;Susan Parnell

Frequent Co-Authors

Karen C. Seto
Karen C. Seto Yale University
Mark Pelling
Mark Pelling King's College London
Burak Güneralp
Burak Güneralp Texas A&M University
Xuemei Bai
Xuemei Bai Australian National University
Luuk C. Rietveld
Luuk C. Rietveld Delft University of Technology
Yong-Guan Zhu
Yong-Guan Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Keisuke Hanaki
Keisuke Hanaki University of Tokyo
Marina Alberti
Marina Alberti University of Washington
Gina Ziervogel
Gina Ziervogel University of Cape Town
Dagmar Haase
Dagmar Haase Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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