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2026
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2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
77
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33671
World Ranking
1107
National Ranking
29

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
79
Citations
34063
World Ranking
399
National Ranking
6

Sven Wunder publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sven Wunder sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 231 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sven Wunder 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 Sven Wunder sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 79 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Spain Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Finland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Finland Leader Award

Overview

Sven Wunder is affiliated with the European Forest Institute in Spain. Their research primarily intersects environmental science and economics, with a strong focus on forest conservation and resource management.

The scientist's recent significant papers include:

  • Payments for Environmental Services: Past Performance and Pending Potentials, 2020, Annual Review of Resource Economics
  • Action needed to make carbon offsets from forest conservation work for climate change mitigation, 2023, Science
  • The Effectiveness of Forest Conservation Policies and Programs, 2020, Annual Review of Resource Economics
  • Governing Europe's forests for multiple ecosystem services: Opportunities, challenges, and policy options, 2022, Forest Policy and Economics
  • Focus on leakage and spillovers: informing land-use governance in a tele-coupled world, 2020, Environmental Research Letters

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Jan Börner
  • Georg Winkel
  • Bo Jellesmark Thorsen
  • Marko Lovrić
  • Thomas Lundhede

Common publication venues for their work are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Forest Policy and Economics
  • Environmental Science & Policy
  • Annual Review of Resource Economics

Sven Wunder has contributed to book publications with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) eBooks, including titles such as "Que se passe-t-il après l'arrêt des paiements de conservation? Principales conclusions de la REDD+ au Brésil" and "O que acontece depois que os pagamentos para a conservação são encerrados? Resultados sobre REDD+ no Brasil" both published in 2023.

The scientist's main fields of study encompass:

  • Environmental Science
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

The subfields relevant to their research are:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Sociology and Political Science

Key topics of their work include:

  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Environmental Conservation and Management
  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Best Publications

  • Designing payments for environmental services in theory and practice: An overview of the issues

    Stefanie Engel;Stefano Pagiola;Sven Wunder

  • Payments for environmental services: some nuts and bolts

    Sven Wunder

  • Taking stock: A comparative analysis of payments for environmental services programs in developed and developing countries

    Sven Wunder;Stefanie Engel;Stefano Pagiola

  • Livelihoods, forests, and conservation in developing countries: an overview

    William D. Sunderlin;A. Angelsen;B. Belcher;P. Burgess

  • The Efficiency of Payments for Environmental Services in Tropical Conservation

    Sven Wunder

  • Environmental income and rural livelihoods: a global-comparative analysis.

    Arild Angelsen;Pamela Jagger;Ronnie Babigumira;Brian Belcher

  • Poverty Alleviation and Tropical Forests—What Scope for Synergies?

    Sven Wunder

  • Show Me the Money: Do Payments Supply Environmental Services in Developing Countries?

    Subhrendu K. Pattanayak;Sven Wunder;Paul J. Ferraro

  • Revisiting the concept of payments for environmental services

    Sven Wunder

  • Global cost estimates of reducing carbon emissions through avoided deforestation

    Georg Kindermann;Michael Obersteiner;Brent Sohngen;Jayant Sathaye

  • Exploring the forest–poverty link: key concepts, issues and research implications

    A. Angelsen;Sven Wunder

  • How can market mechanisms for forest environmental services help the poor?: preliminary Lessons from Latin America

    Maryanne Grieg-Gran;Ina Porras;Sven Wunder

  • Ecotourism and economic incentives: an empirical approach.

    Sven Wunder

  • Payments for environmental services and the poor: concepts and preliminary evidence

    Sven Wunder

  • Spatial targeting of payments for environmental services: A tool for boosting conservation benefits

    Tobias Wünscher;Stefanie Engel;Sven Wunder

  • The effectiveness of payments for environmental services

    Jan Börner;Kathy Baylis;Esteve Corbera;Driss Ezzine-de-Blas

  • Effectiveness and synergies of policy instruments for land use governance in tropical regions

    Eric F. Lambin;Eric F. Lambin;Patrick Meyfroidt;Ximena Rueda;Ximena Rueda;Allen Blackman

  • Decentralized payments for environmental services: The cases of Pimampiro and PROFAFOR in Ecuador

    Sven Wunder;Montserrat Albán

  • Mainstreaming Impact Evaluation in Nature Conservation

    Kathy Baylis;Jordi Honey-Rosés;Jan Börner;Esteve Corbera

  • Selling two environmental services: In-kind payments for bird habitat and watershed protection in Los Negros, Bolivia

    Nigel M. Asquith;Maria Teresa Vargas;Sven Wunder

  • Payments for environmental services in theory and practice: an overview of the issues

    S. Engel;S. Pagiola;Sven Wunder

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Börner
Jan Börner University of Bonn
Arild Angelsen
Arild Angelsen Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Stefanie Engel
Stefanie Engel Osnabrück University
William D. Sunderlin
William D. Sunderlin Center for International Forestry Research
Clive W. J. Granger
Clive W. J. Granger University of California, San Diego
Douglas Sheil
Douglas Sheil Wageningen University & Research
Paul J. Ferraro
Paul J. Ferraro Johns Hopkins University
Erin O. Sills
Erin O. Sills North Carolina State University
Martin Herold
Martin Herold Wageningen University & Research
Maria Brockhaus
Maria Brockhaus University of Helsinki

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