Debra Roberts

12.2k citations
68 papers · 4.1k · 4 hit papers · h-index 27

Impact in

    • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
    • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
    • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Urban Studies top 0.5%
    • Urban and Rural Development Challenges

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Debra Roberts

64 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Debra Roberts's Hit Papers

Understanding human vulnerability to climate change: A global perspective on index validation for adaptation planning 2021 · 202 citations
2020+4+8Years since publication100200300400

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Debra Roberts
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  • Global and Planetary Change 1.8k
  • Urban Studies 355
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 653
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 558
  • Transportation 231
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All Works

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Development: Time to leave GDP behind
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2014449
2
Six research priorities for cities and climate change
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2018446
3
Roadmap towards justice in urban climate adaptation research
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2016403
4 2012215
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Understanding human vulnerability to climate change: A global perspective on index validation for adaptation planning
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2021202
6 2008186
7 2017171
8 2014163
9 2011153
10 2010134
11 2016133
12 1995121
13 2021114
14 2014110
15 201695
16 201384
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Global warming of 1.5°C: Summary for policy makers
201878
18 199577
19 201577
20 201869

About Debra Roberts

Debra Roberts is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies, Economics and Econometrics and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, having authored 68 papers that have together received 4.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (15 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (11 papers), Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (10 papers), Urban and Rural Development Challenges (9 papers), Disaster Management and Resilience (6 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (6 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (6 papers) and Urban Planning and Governance (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (1.8k citations), Urban Studies (355 citations), Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (653 citations), Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (558 citations) and Transportation (231 citations). Debra Roberts has collaborated with scholars based in South Africa, United Kingdom and United States. Frequent co-authors include Isabelle Anguelovski, Ronald D. Taylor, Eric Chu, David Dodman, JoAnn Carmin, Sean O’Donoghue, Ida Kubiszewski, Jacqueline McGlade, KV Ragnarsdottir and Kate E. Pickett. Their work appears in journals such as Environment and Urbanization, Nature Climate Change, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Nature and Climate and Development.

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