Thomas E. Downing

9.9k citations
75 papers · 5.9k · 2 hit papers · h-index 31

Impact in

    • Climate variability and models
    • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
    • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
    • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Soil Science top 0.5%
    • Agricultural risk and resilience

Papers in

Thomas E. Downing

71 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Thomas E. Downing's Hit Papers

Global Desertification: Building a Science for Dryland Development 2007 · 2.2k citations
2.2k0+10+21Years since publication50010001.5k2.0k

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Thomas E. Downing
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  • Global and Planetary Change 2.5k
  • Soil Science 1.1k
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1.7k
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 856
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 415
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All Works

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Global Desertification: Building a Science for Dryland Development
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20072171
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Climate change and social vulnerability
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1994582
3 1999250
4
Inter-relationships between adaptation and mitigation
2007243
5 2004182
6 2007159
7 2006153
8 1999138
9 1997129
10 2015124
11 1996109
12 199198
13 201193
14 200589
15 199788
16 199485
17 200481
18 201477
19 199967
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The social cost of carbon: Valuation estimates and their use in UK policy.
200866

About Thomas E. Downing

Thomas E. Downing is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science and Economics and Econometrics, having authored 75 papers that have together received 5.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate change impacts on agriculture (23 papers), Agricultural risk and resilience (10 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (9 papers), Water resources management and optimization (8 papers), Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (5 papers), Climate variability and models (5 papers), Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (5 papers) and Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (2.5k citations), Soil Science (1.1k citations), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (1.7k citations), Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (856 citations) and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences (415 citations). Thomas E. Downing has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Michael Watts, Hans G. Bohle, Michael Mortimore, Éric F. Lambin, Jeffrey E. Herrick, James F. Reynolds, Brian Walker, B. L. Turner, Roberto J. Fernández and Tim Lynam. Their work appears in journals such as Global Environmental Change, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Food Policy, Renewable Energy and Climatic Change.

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