Journal articles
Guillén Bolaños, T., Scheffran, J., and Máñez Costa, M. (2022). Climate Adaptation and Successful Adaptation Definitions: Latin American Perspectives Using the Delphi Method. Sustainability 14, 5350.online
Nadiruzzaman M, Shewly HJ, Esha A. A, (2022): Dhaka sitting on a plastic bomb: Issues and concerns around waste governance, water quality, and public health, Earth 3(1) 18-30. online
Schilling J, Schilling-Vacaflor A, Flemmer R, Froese R, (2021): A Political Ecology Perspective on Resource Extraction and Human Security in Kenya, Bolivia and Peru, The Extractive Industries and Society 8(4). online
Heider K, Rodriguez Lopez JM, Balbo AL, Scheffran J, (2021): The state of agricultural landscapes in the Mediterranean: smallholder agriculture and land abandonment in terraced landscapes of the Ricote Valley, southeast Spain, Regional Environmental Change 21(1), 23. online
Heider K, Quaranta E, García Avilés JM, Rodriguez Lopez JM, Balbo AL, Scheffran J, (2021): Reinventing the wheel - The preservation and potential of traditional water wheels in the terraced irrigated landscapes of the Ricote Valley, southeast Spain, Agricultural Water Management 259, 107240. online
Nadiruzzaman M, Rahman M, Pal U, Croxton S, Rashid MB, Bahadur A, Huq S, (2021): Impact of climate change on cotton production in Bangladesh, Sustainability 13(2) 574. online
Peng Y, Yang L, Scheffran J, (2021): A life cycle assessment framework for quantifying the carbon footprint of rural households based on survey data, MethodsX 101411. online
Peng Y, Yang LE, Scheffran J, Yan J, Li M, Jiang P, Cremades R, (2021): Livelihood transitions transformed households' carbon footprint in the Three Gorges Reservoir area of China, Journal of Cleaner Production 328, 129607 .online _
Rodriguez-Lopez JM, Schickhoff M, Sengupta S, Scheffran J. (2021). Technological and social networks of a pastoralist artificial society: agent-based modeling of mobility patterns. Journal of Computational Social Science 1-27. online-first
Santos AP, Colombo VP, Heider K, Rodriguez Lopez M. (2021). A VGI comparison framework based on citizen participation: comparing volunteered data acquisition methods on informal settlements for two large cities in Latin America (in print). Interdisciplinarity, GIS science, and Socio-Environmental Research in Latin America. Springer International Publishing
Heider K, Rodriguez Lopez JM, Balbo AL, Scheffran J. (2021). The state of agricultural landscapes in the Mediterranean: smallholder agriculture and land abandonment in terraced landscapes of the Ricote Valley, southeast Spain. Regional Environmental Change 21(1), 23. online
Heider K, Quaranta E, García Avilés JM, Rodriguez Lopez JM, Balbo AL, Scheffran J. (2021). Reinventing the wheel - The preservation and potential of traditional water wheels in the terraced irrigated landscapes of the Ricote Valley, southeast Spain. Agricultural Water Management 259, 107240. online
Khan N. A, Gao Q, Abid M, Shah A. A, (2021): Mapping farmers’ vulnerability to climate change and its induced hazards: evidence from the rice-growing zones of Punjab, Pakistan, Environmental Science and Pollution Research 28(4), 4229-4244. online
Hardt J. N, (2021): Research perspectives and boundaries of thought: Security, peace, conflict, and the Anthropocene, Revista de Estudios en Seguridad Internacional 7(1), 11-28. online
Hardt J. N, (2021): The United Nations Security Council at the forefront of (climate) change? Confusion, stalemate, ignorance, Politics and Governance 9(4), 5-15. online
Barati A. A, Azadi H, Scheffran J, (2021): Agricultural land fragmentation in Iran: Application of game theory, Land Use Policy 100, 105049. online
Moghfeli Z, Ghorbani M, Rezvani M, Khorasani M, Azadi A, Scheffran J, (2021): Social capital and farmers' leadership in Iranian rural communities: Application of social network analysis, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management.
Khezri S, Ahmadi Dehrashid A, Bijani M, Valizadeh N, Nasrollahizadeh B, Azadi H, Scheffran J, (2021): Resilience of human settlements against landslide risk: The case of Kurdistan Province, Iran, Land Degradation & Development, 32(18), 5360-5377. online
Haghiyan I, Mofidi-Chelan M, Azadi H, Nejatiyanpour E, Motamedi J, Sheidai Karkaj E, Scheffran J, Evaluating economic and ecological management to determine the economic size of pastoral units for different climatic zones in the northeast of Iran, Journal of Environmental Management, 301, 113766. online
Marie M, Yirga F, Haile M, Ehteshammajd Sh, Azadi H, Scheffran J, (2021): Time-series trend analysis and farmer perceptions of rainfall and temperature in northwestern Ethiopia, Environment, Development and Sustainability, 1-21. online
Hishe H, Giday K, Soromessa T, Van Orshoven J, Muys B, Barati A. A, Azadi H, (2020): Should we leave nature unattended or assist through enrichment to foster climate change mitigation? Exclosure management in the highlands of Ethiopia, Environmental management 1-10. online
Lapin K, Bindewald A, Kraxner F, Marinšek A, La Porta N, Hazarika R, Schüler S, (2020): A transnational cooperation for sustainable use and management of non-native trees in urban, peri-urban and forest ecosystems in the Alpine region (ALPTREES). online
Khan N. A, Gao Q, Ali S, Shahbaz B, Khan P, Abid M, (2020): Analyzing ICT-enabled agricultural advisory services in Pakistan: Evidence from a marginalized region of Punjab province, Electronic Commerce Research 1-23. online
Khan N. A, Gao, Q, Abid, M, (2020): Public institutions’ capacities regarding climate change adaptation and risk management support in agriculture: the case of Punjab Province, Pakistan, Scientific Reports 10(1), 1-12. online
Abid M, Ali A, Raza M, Mehdi M, (2020): Ex-ante and ex-post coping strategies for climatic shocks and adaptation determinants in rural Malawi, Climate Risk Management 27, 100200. online
Maharjan A, Kochhar I, Chitale V. S, Hussain A, Gioli G, (2020): Understanding rural outmigration and agricultural land use change in the Gandaki Basin, Nepal, Applied Geography 124-102278. online
Brooks N, Clarke J, Ngaruiya G. W, Wangui E. E, (2020): African heritage in a changing climate, Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 55(3), 297-328. online
Hokamp S, Rühe S, Scheffran J, (2020): Agent-based modeling of human Exposure to Urban Environmental Stressors–A Docking Study, EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 11820. online
Berger W, Hokamp S, Seibold G, (2020): Dynamic behavioural changes in an agent-based econophysics tax compliance model: bomb crater versus target effects and efficient audit strategies, Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 36(1) 3-24. online
Westmattelmann D, Sprenger M, Hokamp S, Schewe G, (2020): Money matters: The impact of prize money on doping behavior, Sport Management Review 23(4), 688-703. online
Czupryna M, Franzke C, Hokamp S, Scheffran J, (2020): An agent-based approach to integrated assessment modelling of climate change, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 23. online
Li C, Held H, Hokamp S, Marotzke J, (2020): Optimal temperature overshoot profile found by limiting global sea level rise as a lower-cost climate target, Science Advances 6(2). online
Nath S, van Laerhoven F, Driessen P, Nadiruzzaman M, (2020): Capital, rules or conflict? Factors affecting livelihood-strategies, infrastructure-resilience, and livelihood-vulnerability in the polders of Bangladesh, Sustainability Science 15, 1169-1183. online
Rothe D, Fröhlich C, Rodriguez Lopez, JM. (2020). Digital humanitarianism and the visual politics of the refugee camp: (Un)seeing control. International Political Sociology, olaa021. online first
Rodriguez Lopez JM, Tielbörger K, Claus C, Fröhlich C, Gramberger M, Scheffran J. ( 2019). A transdisciplinary approach to identifying transboundary tipping points in a contentious area: experiences from across the Jordan River region. Sustainability 11(4), 1184. online
Soleymani A, Yaghoubi Farani A, Karimi S, Azadi H, Nadiri H, Scheffran J, (2020): Identifying sustainable rural entrepreneurship indicators in the Iranian context, Journal of Cleaner Production, 290, 125186. online
Mirzaei M, Verrelst J, Haghighi M, Zargarnia A.H, Khoshnood Motlagh S, Azadi H, Scheffran J, (2020): Trans-boundary land cover changes and its influences on water crisis: Case study of the Aras River, Applied Geography, 124, 102323. online
Mach KJ, Kraan CM, Adger WN, Buhaug H, Burke M, Fearon JD, Field CB, Hendrix CS, Maystadt JF, O’Loughlin J, Roessler P, Scheffran J, Schultz KA, von Uexkull N (2019). Climate as a risk factor for armed conflict. Nature. online first
Jahanifar K, Amirnejad H, Azadi H, Adenle A.A, Scheffran J, (2019): Economic analysis of land use changes in forests and rangelands: Developing conservation strategies, Land Use Policy, 88, 104003. online
Barati, A.A., Azadi, H., Scheffran, J. (2019). A system dynamics model of smart groundwater governance. Agricultural Water Management, 221: 502-518. online
Scheffran, J., Link, P., & Schilling, J. (2019). Climate and conflict in Africa. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science. Oxford University Press. online
Shaaban M., Scheffran J, Böhner J, Elsobki MS (2019). A dynamic sustainability analysis of energy landscapes in Egypt: A spatial agent-based model combined with multi-criteria decision analysis. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 22(1):4. online
Shaaban M, Scheffran J, Böhner J, Elsobki M, (2019). ELTAP-Egy model (Energy Landscape Transition Analysis and Planning in Egypt) (Version 1.0.0). CoMSES Computational Model Library. online
Abid M, Scheffran J, Schneider UA, Elahi E (2019). Farmer Perceptions of Climate Change, Observed Trends and Adaptation of Agriculture in Pakistan. Environmental Management 63(1): 110–123. online
Williams DS, Máñez Costa M, Sutherland C, Celliers L, Scheffran J. (2019). Vulnerability of informal settlements in the context of rapid urbanization and climate change. Environment and Urbanization. Jan 28:0956247818819694. online
Khedrigharibvand, H., Azadi, H., Teklemariam, D., Houshyar, E., De Maeyer, P., Witlox, F. (2019). Livelihoods alternative model for sustainable rangeland management: a review of multi-criteria decision making techniques. Environment, Development and Sustainability. 21(1), 11–36. online
Lawrence MG, Schäfer S, Muri H, Scott V, Oschlies A, Vaughan NE, Boucher O, Schmidt H, Haywood, Scheffran, J (2018) Evaluating climate geoengineering proposals in the context of the Paris Agreement temperature goals. Nature Communications, 9:3734 (1-19). online
Schilling J, Locham R, Scheffran J (2018) A local to global perspective on oil and wind exploitation, resource governance and conflict in Northern Kenya. Conflict, Security and Development. 18(6): 571-600. DOI:10.1080/14678802.2018.1532642. online
Scheffran J (2018) Klima der Extreme: Die Risiken des Geo-Engineering. Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik 12: 69-77.
Scheffran J (2018) Verification and security of transformation to a nuclear-weapon-free world: the framework of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Global Change, Peace & Security 30(2):1-20. DOI:10.1080/14781158.2018.1472565. online
Jamshidi, O., Asadi, A., Kalantari, K., Azadi, H., Scheffran, J. (2018) Vulnerability to climate change of smallholder farmers in the Hamadan province, Iran. Climate Risk Management (online first). DOI:10.1016/j.crm.2018.06.002
Link PM, Böhner J, Held H, Scheffran J (2018) Energy Landscapes: Modeling of Renewable Energy Resources with an Emphasis on Northern Germany. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 99 (April): ES71-ES73, DOI:10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0295.1. online
Yang L, Hoffmann P, Scheffran J, Rühe S, Fischereit J, Gasser I (2018) An Agent-Based Modeling Framework for Simulating Human Exposure to Environmental Stresses in Urban Areas. Urban Science 2(2):1-21. online
Heider K, Rodriguez Lopez JM, Scheffran J (2018) The potential of volunteered geographic information to investigate peri-urbanization in the conservation zone of Mexico City. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 190(4): 219-235. online
Yang L, Scheffran J, Sweety D, Dawson R, Chen YD (2018) Assessment of Flood Losses with Household Responses: Agent-Based Simulation in an Urban Catchment Area. Environmental Modeling and Assessment. 23 (4): 369-388. online
Solomon N, Birhane E, Gordon C, Haile M, Taheri F, Azadi H, Scheffran J (2018): Environmental impacts and causes of conflict in the Horn of Africa: A review. Earth-Science Reviews, 177: 284-290. online
Abbay, A. G., Rutten, R., Azadi, H., Witlox, F (2018). How Social Status Contributes to Sustainable Livelihoods? An Empirical Analysis in Ethiopia. Sustainability, 11(1), 68. online
Khedrigharibvand, H., Azadi, H., Bahrami, H., Tesfamariam, Z., Aghajani Bazzazi, A., De Maeyer, Ph., Witlox, F. (2018). Sustainable rangeland management in Southwest Iran: Application of the AHP-TOPSIS approach in ranking livelihood alternatives. The Rangeland Journal. 40(6), 603-614. online
Jamshidi, O., Asadi, A., Kalantari, Kh., Azadi, H. (2018). Perception, knowledge and behavior towards climate change: A survey among agricultural professionals in Hamadan Province, Iran. Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology. 20(7), 1369-1382. online
Abbay, A.G., Mulatu, A.T., Azadi, H. (2018). Community Knowledge, Perceived Beliefs and Associated Factors of Mental Distress: A Case Study from Northern Ethiopia. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15(11), 2423. online
Alemu, A.E., Azadi, H. (2018). Fish Value Chain and its Impact on Rural Households’ Income: Lesson Learned from Northern Ethiopia. Sustainability. 10(10), 3759. online
Zeweld, W., Van Huylenbroeck, G., Tesfay, G., Azadi, H., Speelman, S. (2018). Impacts of socio-psychological factors on adoption of sustainable land management practices in dryland and water stressed areas. Sustainability. 10(9), 2963. online
Jafari, A., Sadeghi, H., Azadi, H., Gebrehiwot, K., Aghamir, F., Van Passel, S. (2018). Assessing the sustainability of community forest management: A case study from Iran. Forest Policy and Economics, 96, 1-8. online
Nazari, S., Burkart, S., Mahmoudi, H., Taheri, F., Mahdavi Damghani, A., Yazdanpanah, M., Hosseininia, G., Azadi, H. (2018). More food or better distribution? Reviewing food policy options in developing countries. Food Reviews International, 34 (6), 566-580. online
Mahmoudi, H., Sayahnia, R., Esmaeilzadeh, H., Azadi, H. (2018). Integrating resilience assessment in Environmental Impact Assessment. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management,14 (5), 567-570. online
Dehghani Pour, M., Barati, A.A., Azadi, H., Scheffran, J. (2018). Revealing the Role of Livelihood Assets in Livelihood Strategies: Towards Enhancing Conservation and Livelihood Development in the Hara Biosphere Reserve, Iran. Ecological Indicator, 79 (1), 336-347. online
Bui, T.L., Tran, H.C., Azadi, H, Lebailly, P. (2018). Improving the technical efficiency of Sengcu rice producers through better financial management and sustainable farming practices in Mountainous Areas of Vietnam. Sustainability. 10(7), 2279. online
Maleki, R., Nooripoor, M., Azadi, H., Lebailly, Ph. (2018). Vulnerability assessment of rural households to Urmia Lake drying (the case of Shabestar Region). Sustainability. 10, 1862. online
Yang, X., Cheng, L., Yin, C., Lebailly, Ph., Azadi, H. (2018). Urban residents' willingness to pay for corn straw burning ban in Henan, China: Application of payment card. Journal of Cleaner Production. 20, 471-478. online
Gebremedhin, K.G., Humnesa, B., Muys, B., Taheri, F., Azadi, H. (2018). Effects of livestock grazing on key vegetation attributes of a remnant forest reserve: The case of Desa’a Forest in northern Ethiopia. Global Ecology and Conservation. 14, e00395. online
Petrescu-Mag RM, Petrescub DC, Azadi H, Petrescu-Mage, LV. (2018) Agricultural land use conflict management—Vulnerabilities, law restrictions and negotiation frames. A wake-up call. Land Use Policy. 76, 600-610. online
Azadi, H., Keramati, P., Taheri, F., Rafiaani, P., Teklemariam, D., Gebrehiwot, K., Hosseininia, G., Van Passel, S., Lebailly, P., Witlox, F. (2018). Agricultural land conversion: Reviewing drought impacts and coping strategies. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 31, 184–195. online
Mofidi Chelan, M., Alijanpour, A., Barani, H., Motamedi, J., Azadi, H. (2018). Economic sustainability assessment and analysis of its components in semi-steppe rangelands. Science of the Total Environment, 637–638, 112-119. online
Adenle, A.A., Azadi, H., Manning, L. (2018). The era of sustainable agricultural development in Africa: Understanding the benefits and constraints. Food Reviews International, 34 (5), 411-433. online
Solomon, N., Birhane, E., Gordon, C., Haile, M., Taheri, F., Azadi, H., Scheffran, J. (2018). Environmental impacts and causes of conflict in the Horn of Africa: A review. Earth-Science Reviews, 177, 284–290. online
Al Masud, M., Moni, N.N., Azadi, H., Van Passel, S. (2018). Sustainability impacts of tidal river management: Towards a conceptual framework. Ecological Indicators, 85, 451–467. online
Ghoochani, O.M., Ghanian, M., Alimirzae, E., Baradaran, M., Azadi, H. (2018). Behavioral intentions towards Genetically Modified Crops in southwest Iran: A multi-stakeholder analysis. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 20, 233–253. online
Thanh Nguyen, L., Pham Hoai Nguyen, L., Van Passel, S., Azadi, H., Lebailly, P. (2018). Access to preferential loans for poverty reduction and rural development: Evidence from Viet Nam. Journal of Economic Issues, 52, 246-269. online
Gebrehiwot, N.T., Azadi, H., Taheri, F., Van Passel, S. (2018). How participation in vegetables market affects livelihoods: Empirical evidence from Northern Ethiopia. Journal of International Food & Agribusiness Marketing, 30, 107-131. online
Thu Hang, N.T., Azadi, H., Cuong, T.H., Lebailly. P. (2018). Assessment of household risk management strategies for coastal aquaculture: The case of clam farming in Thaibinh Province, Vietnam. Aquaculture International, 26, 451–468. online
Fatemi, M., Azadi, H., Rafiaani, P., Taheri, F., Dubois, T., Van Passel, S., Witlox, F. (2018). Effects of supply chain management on tomato export in Iran: Application of structural equation modeling. Industrial Marketing Management. Journal of Food Products Marketing, 24, 177-195. online
Rafiaani, P., Kuppens, T., Van Dael, M., Azadi, H., Lebailly, P., Van Passel, S. (2018). Social sustainability assessments in the biobased economy: Towards a systemic approach. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, 82, 1839-1853. online
Ide, T. (2018): The impact of environmental cooperation on peacemaking: Definitions, mechanisms, and empirical evidence. International Studies Review, 0: 1-20. online
Link PM, Borchert LF, Süsser D, von Prondzinski P (2018): Coast to coast: Current research trends in German Coastal and Marine Geography. Special Issue, Journal of Coastal Conservation 22(1). online
Ide T (2018): Does environmental peacemaking between states work? Insights on cooperative environmental agreements and reconciliation in international rivalries. Journal of Peace Research. May;55(3):351-65. online
Schilling J, Nash SL, Ide T, Scheffran J, Froese R, von Prondzinski P (2017): Resilience & environmental security: towards joint application in peacebuilding. Global Change, Peace & Security 29(2): 1-21. online
Heider, K.; Weinzierl, T.; Schwab, N.; Bobrowski, M.; Schickhoff, U. (2018): Future agricultural conditions in the Nepal Himalaya - A fuzzy logic approach using high resolution climate scenarios. In: Die Erde. Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin, 149(4), S.227-240. DOI: 10.12854/erde-2018-382. online
Mark G. Lawrence, Stefan Schäfer, Helene Muri, Vivian Scott, Andreas Oschlies, Naomi E. Vaughan, Olivier Boucher, Hauke Schmidt, Jim Haywood and Jürgen Scheffran (2018). Evaluating climate geoengineering proposals in the context of the Paris Agreement temperature goals. Nature Communications, 9:3734 (1-19). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05938-3. online
Heider, K.; Rodriguez Lopez, J. M.; García Avilés, J. M.; Balbo, A. L. (2018). Land fragmentation index for drip-irrigated field systems in the Mediterranean: A case study from Ricote (Murcia, SE Spain). Agricultural Systems, 166, 48–56. DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2018.07.006. online
Bukari, K.N., Sow, P., Scheffran, J. (2018): Cooperation and co-existence between farmers and herders in the midst of violent farmer-herder conflicts in Ghana. African Studies Review, 1-25. online
Shaaban, M., Scheffran, J., Böhner, J., Elsobki, M.S. (2018). Sustainability assessment of electricity generation technologies in Egypt using multi-criteria decision analysis. Energies, 11(5), 1117. online
Yang, X., Cheng, L., Yin, C., Lebailly, P., Azadi, H. (2018). Urban residents' willingness to pay for corn straw burning ban in Henan, China: Application of payment card. Journal of Cleaner Production, 193, 20, 471-478. online
Adams C, Ide T, Barnett J & Detges A (2018) Sampling bias in climate-conflict research. Nature Climate Change 8, 200-203. online
Vlek, P.L.G., Khamzina, A., Azadi, H., Bhaduri, A., Bharati, L., Braimoh, A., Martius, C., Sunderland, T., Taheri, F. (2017): Trade-offs in multi-purpose land use under land degradation. Sustainability, 9 (2), 2196. online
Ide T (2017): A Climate of Violence? The Debate on Climate Change and Violent Conflicts. In: Ide T (ed.) Peace and Conflict Studies. Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich, 193-226 (in German).
Ide T (ed.) (2017): Peace and Conflict Research. Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich (in German).
Evadzi, P., Scheffran, J., Zorita, E., & Hünicke, B. (2018): Awareness of See-Level Response Under Climate Change on the Coast of Chana. Journal of Coastal Conservation, 22, 183-197. online
Yang, L., Chan, F., & Scheffran, J. (2018): Climate Change, Water Management and Stakeholder Analysis in the Dongjiang River Basin in South China. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 34, 166-191. online
Scheffran, J., Link, P.M., Shaaban, M., Süsser, D., & Yang, J. (2017): Technikfolgenabschätzung in Energielandschaften, TATuP, 26 (3): 44-50. online
Frank, A. M., Froese, R., Hof, B. C., Scheffold, M. I., Schreyer, F., Zeller, M., & Rödder, S. (2017). Riding alone on the elevator. Learning and Teaching, 10(3), 1-19. online
Abid M, Ngaruiya G, Scheffran J, Zulfiqar F (2017): The role of social networks in agricultural adaptation to climate change: Implications for sustainable agriculture in Pakistan. Climate, 5(4). online
Evadzi PIK, Scheffran J, Zorita E, Hünicke B (2017): Awareness of sea-level response under climate change on the coast of Ghana. Journal of Coastal Conservation 3-4 (online first) DOI:10.1007/s11852-017-0569-6 .
Scheffran J (2017): Trump gegen Kim: Raketenpoker im Nordkoreakonflikt. Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik 09: 21-24.
Link PM, Scheffran J (2017) Impacts of the German Energy Transition on Coastal Communities in Schleswig-Holstein. Germany. Regions Magazine, 307:1, 9-12.
Scheffran J (2017): Atomwaffenverbot: Chance für die nukleare Abrüstung. Wissenschaft und Frieden, 03/2017: 47-50.
Yang L, Hoffmann P, Scheffran J (2017) Health impacts of smog pollution: the human dimensions of exposure. The Lancet Planetary Health, 1, e132-e133. online
Shaaban M, Scheffran J (2017) Selection of sustainable development indicators for the assessment of electricity production in Egypt. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments 22: 65–73. online
Scheffran J, Fröhlich C (2017) Klima – Gewalt – Flucht: Das Beispiel Syrien. Wissenschaft und Frieden, 2/2017, S. 7-10.
Shu K, Schneider UA, Scheffran J (2017) Optimizing the bioenergy industry infrastructure: Transportation networks and bioenergy plant locations. Applied Energy 192: 247-261. online
Rodriguez Lopez JM, Heider K, Scheffran J (2017) Human and remote sensing data to investigate the frontiers of urbanization in the south of Mexico City. Data in Brief 11: 5-11.
Selby, Jan/Dahi, Omar/Fröhlich, Christiane/Hulme, Mike. 2017. Climate Change and the Syrian Civil War Revisited. Political Geography, Vol 60, 232-244. online
Selby, Jan/Dahi, Omar/Fröhlich, Christiane/Hulme, Mike. 2017. Climate Change and the Syrian Civil War Revisited: A Rejoinder.
Political Geography 60, 253-255. online
Bank, André/Fröhlich, Christiane/Schneiker, Andrea. 2016. Migration aus der Gewalt, als Gewalt und in die Gewalt. Konzeptionelle Überlegungen zum Zusammenhang von menschlicher Mobilität und politischer Gewalt. Die Friedens-Warte – Journal of International Peace and Organization, Vol 91, issue 1-2.
Fröhlich, Christiane. 2017. A Critical View on Human Mobility in Times of Crisis. Global Policy, Vol 8, Issue Supplement S1, pp 5-11, DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.12417 . [open access]
Rodriguez Lopez, J. M.; Heider, K.; Scheffran, J. (2017): Frontiers of urbanization. Identifying and explaining urbanization hot spots in the south of Mexico City using human and remote sensing. Applied Geography 79, pp. 1–10. DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2016.12.001 . online
Seter, H., Theisen, O. M. & Schilling, J. (2016): All about water and land? Resource-related conflicts in East and West Africa revisited. GeoJournal, pp. 1-19, DOI: 10.1007/s10708-016-9762-7 . online
Bank, André; Fröhlich, Christiane; Schneiker, Andrea (2016): The Political Dynamics of Human Mobility: Migration out of, as and into Violence, Global Policy, DOI 10.1111/1758-5899.12384 . online
Liang Emlyn Yang, Faith Ka Shun Chan, Jürgen Scheffran (2016): Climate change, water management and stakeholder analysis in the Dongjiang River basin in South China. International Journal of Water Resources Development 12/2016; DOI:10.1080/07900627.2016.1264294 . online
Bettini, G., Nash, S. L., & Gioli, G. (2016): One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? The Fading Contours of (in)Justice in Competing Discourses on Climate Migration, The Geographical Journal, doi: 10.1111/geoj.12192 . online
Sow P, Marmer E, Scheffran J (2016) Between the Heat and the Hardships. Climate Change and Mixed Migration Flows in Morocco, Migration and Development 5(2): 293-313.
Abid, M., Schneider, U. A., & Scheffran, J. (2016): Adaptation to Climate Change and Its Impacts on Food Productivity and Crop Income: Perspectives of Farmers in Rural Pakistan, Journal of Rural Studies, 47, Part A, 254-266. online
Ide, T. (2016): Space, Discourse and Environmental Peacebuilding, Third World Quarterly, 37, online.
Balbo, A. L., Gómez-Baggethun, E., Salpeteur, M., Puy, A., Biagetti, S., & Scheffran, J., (I), (2016): Resilience of Small-Scale Societies. A View from Drylands, Ecology and Society, 21(2), 1–23. online
Schilling, J., Weinzierl, T., Lokwang, A. E., & Opiyo, F. (2016): For Better or Worse: Major Developments Affecting Resource and Conflict Dynamics in Northwest Kenya, Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie/ German Journal of Economic Geography, 60(1-2), 57–71. online
Zulfiqar, F., Ullah, R., Abid, M., & Hussain, A. (2016): Cotton Production under Risk: A Simultaneous Adoption of Risk Coping Tools, Natural Hazards, 1-16. online
Song, X., Chang, K.-t., Yang, L., & Scheffran, J. (2016): Change in Environmental Benefits of Urban Land Use and Its Drivers in Chinese Cities, 2000–2010, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 13(6), 1-21. online
Ngaruiya, G. W., & Scheffran, J. (2016): Actors and Networks in Resource Conflict Resolution under Climate Change in Rural Kenya, Earth System Dynamics, 7(2), 441-452. online
Link, P.M. , Scheffran, J. & Ide, T. (2016): Conflict and cooperation in the water-security nexus: a global comparative analysis of river basins under climate change, WIREs Water, online first. online
Gioli, G., Hugo, G., Máñez Costa, M., & Scheffran, J. (eds.) (2016): Human Mobility, Climate Adaptation, and Development, Migration and Development, Special Issue. online
Gioli, G., Hugo, G., Máñez Costa, M., & Scheffran, J. (2016): Human Mobility, Climate Adaptation, and Development, Migration and Development, 5(2), 165-170. online
Abid, M., Schilling, J., Scheffran, J., & Zulfiqar, F. (2016): Climate Change Vulnerability, Adaptation and Risk Perceptions at Farm Level in Punjab, Pakistan, Science of the Total Environment, 547, 447-460. online
Puy, A., Balbo, A. L., & Bubenzer, O. (2016): Radiocarbon Dating of Agrarian Terraces by Means of Buried Soils, Radiocarbon, 58(02), 345-363. online
Markofsky, S., Ninfo, A., Balbo, A., Conesa, F. C., & Madella, M. (2016): An Investigation of Local Scale Human/Landscape Dynamics in the Endorheic Alluvial Fan of the Murghab River, Turkmenistan, Quaternary International. Online first. online
Salpeteur, M., Patel, H. H. R., Molina, J. L., Balbo, A. L., Rubio-Campillo, X., Reyes-García, V., & Madella, M. (2016): Comigrants and Friends: Informal Networks and the Transmission of Traditional Ecological Knowledge among Seminomadic Pastoralists of Gujarat, India, Ecology and Society, 21(2). online
Iqbal, M. A., Ping, Q., Abid, M., Muhammad Muslim Kazmi, S., & Rizwan, M. (2016): Assessing Risk Perceptions and Attitude among Cotton Farmers: A Case of Punjab Province, Pakistan, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2016.01.009 . online
Usman, M., Ali, A., Hassan, S., & Abid, M. (2015): An Efficiency Analysis of Tuberose Cut-Flower: A Case Study, Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences, 25(6), 1699-1706. online
Alamgir, A., Khan, M., Schilling, J., Shaukat, S. S., & Shahab, S. (2016): Assessment of Groundwater Quality in the Coastal Area of Sindh Province, Pakistan, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 188(2), 1-13. online
Alwardt, C., & Scheffran, J. (2016): Mensch und Wasser, Praxis Geographie, 1, 4-9. online
Shu, K., Schneider, U., & Scheffran, J. (2015): Bioenergy and Food Supply: A Spatial-Agent Dynamic Model of Agricultural Land Use for Jiangsu Province in China, Energies, 8(11), 13284–13307. online
Selbmann, K. & Ide, T. (2015): Between Redeemer and Work of the Devil: the Transnational Brazilian Biofuel Discourse. Energy for Sustainable Development, 29 (1), 118-126. online
Schilling, J., Locham, R., Weinzierl, T., Vivekananda, J., & Scheffran, J. (2015): The Nexus of Oil, Conflict, and Climate Change Vulnerability of Pastoral Communities in Northwest Kenya, Earth System Dynamics, 6(2), 703-717. online
Gioli, G., Hugo, G., Manez Costa, M. & Scheffran, J. (2015): Human Mobility, Climate Adaptation, and Development, Migration and Development, 1-6, doi:10.1080/21632324.2015.1096590 . online
Bettini, G., & Gioli, G. (2015): Waltz with Development: Insights on the Developmentalization of Climate-induced Migration, Migration and Development, 1-19, doi:10.1080/21632324.2015.1096143 . online
Ide, T., & Fröhlich, C. (2015): Socio-environmental Cooperation and Conflict? A Discursive Understanding and its Application to the Case of Israel and Palestine, Earth System Dynamics, 6(2), 659-671. online
Schäfer, M. S., Scheffran, J., & Penniket, L. (2015): Securitization of Media Reporting on Climate Change? A Cross-national Analysis in Nine Countries, Security Dialogue, doi:10.1177/0967010615600915 . online
Rodriguez Lopez, M., Rosso, P., Scheffran, J., & Delgado, D. (2015): Remote Sensing of Sustainable Rural-Urban Land Use in Mexico City: A Qualitative Analysis for Reliability and Validity, Journal Interdisciplina, 3(7), 1-20. online
Mustafa, D., Gioli, G., Qazi, S., Waraich, R., Rehman, A., & Zahoor, R. (2015): Gendering Flood Early Warning Systems: The Case of Pakistan, Environmental Hazards, 1-17, doi:10.1080/17477891.2015.1075859 . online
Opiyo, F., Wasonga, O., Nyangito, M., Schilling, J., & Munang, R. (2015): Drought Adaptation and Coping Strategies Among the Turkana Pastoralists of Northern Kenya, International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 1-15. online
Fröhlich, C., & Gioli, G. (2015): Special Issue Gender, Conflict and Global Environmental Change, Peace Review, 27(2). online
Ide, T. (2015): Why Do Conflicts over Scarce Renewable Resources Turn Violent? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Global Environmental Change, 33(1), 61-70. online
Brzoska, M. (2015): Climate Change and Military Planning, International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 7(2), doi:10.1108/IJCCSM-10-2013-0114 . online
Link, P. M., Brücher, T., Claussen, M., Link, J. S. A., & Scheffran, J. (2015): The Nexus Of Climate Change, Land Use, and Conflict: Complex Human-Environment Interactions in Northern Africa, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00037.1 . online
Abid, M., Scheffran, J., Schneider, U. A., & Ashfaq, M. (2015). Farmers' Perceptions of and Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change and Their Determinants; the Case of Punjab Province, Pakistan. Earth System Dynamics, 6(1), 225-243. online
Brzoska, M., & Fröhlich, C. (2015). Climate Change, Migration and Violent Conflict: Vulnerabilities, Pathways and Adaptation Strategies. Migration and Development, 1-21, doi:10.1080/21632324.2015.1022973 . online
Sow, P., Marmer, E., & Scheffran, J. (2015): Between the heat and the hardships. Climate change and mixed migration flows in Morocco. Migration and Development, 1-21, doi:10.1080/21632324.2015.1022968 . online
Scheffran, J. (2015): Technikkonflikte in der vernetzten Welt, Wissenschaft und Frieden, 2, 6-10. online
Myrttinen, H., Naujoks, J. & Schilling, J. (2015): Gender, Natural Resources, and Peacebuilding in Kenya and Nepal. Peace Review, 10.1080/10402659.2015.1037623 . online
Yang, L., Scheffran, J., Qin, H., & You, Q. (2015): Climate-related Flood Risks and Urban Responses in the Pearl River Delta, China. Regional Environmental Change, 15(2), 379-391. online
Elahi, E., Zhang, L., Abid, M., Altangerel, O., Bakhsh, K., Uyanga, B. & Xinru, H. (2015): Impact of Balance Use of Fertilizers on Wheat Efficiency in Cotton Wheat Cropping System of Pakistan, International Journal of Agriculture Innovations and Research, 3(5), 1470-1474. download (PDF)
Abid, M., Scheffran, J., Schneider, U. A., & Ashfaq, M. (2014): Farmers' Perceptions of and Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change and Their Determinants; The Case of Punjab Province, Pakistan, Earth System Dynamic Discussions, 5 (2), 1359-1406. download (PDF)
Claussen, M., Scheffran, J. & Brücher, T. (2014): Climate, Land Use, and Conflict in Northern Africa, Earth & Space Science News, 12 (2014), 95. online
Ide, T., Schilling, J., Link, J.S.A., Scheffran, J., Ngaruiya, G. & Weinzierl, T. (2014): On exposure, vulnerability and violence: Spatial distribution of risk factors for climate change and violent conflict across Kenya and Uganda, Political Geography, 43 (1), 68-81. online
Vivekananda, J., Schilling, J. & Smith, D. (2014): Understanding Resilience in Climate Change and Conflict Affected Regions of Nepal, Geopolitics, 19 (4), 911-936. online
Buhaug, H., Nordkvelle, J., Bernauer, T., Böhmelt, T., Brzoska, M., Busby, J.W., Ciccone, A., Fjelde, H., Gartzke, E., Gleditsch, N.P., Goldstone, J.A., Hegre, H. Holtermann, H., Koubi, V., Link, J.S.A., Link, P.M., Lujala, P., O'Loughlin, J., Raleigh, C., Scheffran, J., Schilling, J., Smith, T.G., Theisen, O.M., Tol, R.S.J., Urdal, H. & von Uexkull, N. (2014): One effect to rule them all? A comment on climate and conflict, Climatic Change, 127 (3-4), 391-397. online
Tobias Ide & Jürgen Scheffran (2014): On Climate, Conflict and Cumulation: Suggestions for Integrative Cumulation of Knowledge in the Research on Climate Change and Violent Conflict. Global Change Peace & Security, 26 (3), 263-279. online
Gioli, G., Khan, T., Bisht, S. & Scheffran, J. (2014): Migration as an Adaptation Strategy and its Gendered Implications: A Case Study From the Upper Indus Basin, Mountain Research and Development, 34 (3), 255-265. online
Vivekananda, J., Schilling, J. & Smith, D. (2014): Climate resilience in fragile and conflict-affected societies: concepts and approaches, Development in Practice, 24 (4), 487-501. online
Ide, T. & Scheffran, J. (2014): On climate, conflict and cumulation: suggestions for integrative cumulation of knowledge in the research on climate change and violent conflict, Global Change, Peace & Security, 25 (3), 263-279. online download
Yang, L., Scheffran, J., Qin, H. & You, Q. (2014): Climate-related flood risks and urban responses in the Pearl River Delta, China, Regional Environmental Change, online first. online
Ngaruiya, G.W. (2014): Does Reactive Adaptation Exist? Using the Ecosystem Service Governanace Approach to Evaluate Post-Drought Rural Food Security in Kenya, Natural Resources, 5, pp. 392-407. online
Scheffran, J., Ide, T. & Schilling, J. (2014): Violent climate or climate of violence? Concepts and relations with focus on Kenya and Sudan, The International Journal of Human Rights, 18 (3), pp. 369-390. online
Zhang, C., Lin, H., Chen, M. & Yang, L. (2014): Scale Matching of Multiscale Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Data and the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model: a Case Study of Meteorological Simulation in Hong Kong, Arabian Journal of Geosciences, online first. online
Chi, S.H., Flint, C., Diehl, P., Vasquez, J. Scheffran, J., Radil, S.M. & Rider, T.J. (2014): The Spatial Diffusion of War: The Case of World War I, Journal of the Korean Geographical Society, 49 (1), pp. 57-76.
Sow, P., Adaawen, S.A. & Scheffran, J. (2014): Migration, Social Demands and Environmental Change amongst the Frafra of Northern Ghana and the Biali in Northern Benin, Sustainability, 6 (1), pp. 375-398. online
Usman, M., Ashfaq, M., Taj, S., & Abid, M. (2014): An Economic Analysis of Cut-rose Flower in Punjab, Pakistan. JAPS, Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences, 24(2), 651-655. online (PDF)
Ngaruiya, G. & Scheffran, J. (2013): Reducing climate adaptation deficits using revolving fund network schemes in rural areas of Kenya, African Journal of Economic & Sustainable Development, 2 (4), pp. 347-362. online
Gioli, G., Khan, T. & Scheffran, J. (2013): Climatic and environmental change in the Karakoram: making sense of community perceptions and adaptation strategies, Regional Environmental Change, online first. online
Brzoska, M. & Scheffran, J. (2013): Climate and war: No clear-cut schism, Nature, 498, 171 (13 June 2013). online
Hartmann, J., West, J., Renforth, P., Köhler, P., de la Rocha, C., Wolf-Gladrow, D., Dürr, H. & Scheffran, J. (2013): Enhanced Chemical Weathering - as a sink for Carbon Dioxide, a Nutrient Source and a Strategy to Mitigate Ocean Acidification, Reviews of Geophysics, 51 (2), pp. 113-149. online
Scheffran, J. (2013): Atomwaffen-Teststopp und die Zukunft von Rüstungskontrolle und Verifikation, Das Blättchen, 16 (16), 5. August. online
Link, P.M., Kominek, J. & Scheffran, J. (2013): Impacts of accelerated sea level rise on the coastal zones of Egypt, Mainzer Geographische Studien, 55, pp. 79-94. download (PDF)
Link, P.M., Brzoska, M., Maas, A., Neuneck, G. & Scheffran, J. (2013): Possible implications of climate engineering for peace and security, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 94 (2), pp. ES13-ES16. online
Weinzierl, T., & Schilling, J. (2013): On Demand, Development and Dependence: A Review of Current and Future Implications of Socioeconomic Changes for Integrated Water Resource Management in the Okavango Catchment of Southern Africa, Land, 2 (1), pp. 60-80. online
Yang, L., Zhang, C. & Ngaruiya, G. (2013): Water supply risks and urban responses under a changing climate: A case study of Hong Kong, Pacific Geographies, 39, pp. 9-15. online (PDF)
Brzoska, M., Link, P.M., Maas, A. & Scheffran, J. (2012): Geoengineering: An Issue for Peace and Security?, Sicherheit und Frieden, 30 (4), pp. IV. online
Brzoska, M., Link, P.M. & Neuneck, G. (2012): Geoengineering - Möglichkeiten und Risiken, Sicherheit und Frieden, 30 (4), pp. 185-193. online
Maas, A. & Scheffran, J. (2012): Climate Conflicts 2.0? Climate Engineering as Challenge for International Peace and Security, Sicherheit und Frieden, 30 (4), pp. 193-200. online
Schilling, J, Opiyo, F.E.O. & Scheffran, J. (2012): Raiding pastoral livelihoods: motives and effects of violent conflict in north-western Kenya, Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice, 2 (25), 16 pp. online
Link, P.M., Piontek, F., Scheffran, J. & Schilling, J. (2012): On Foes and Flows: Vulnerabilities, Adaptive Capacities and Transboundary Relations in the Nile River Basin in Times of Climate Change, L'Europe en Formation, 365, pp 99-138. online
Ide, T., Scheffran, J. & Schilling, J. (2012): Führt der Klimawandel zu mehr Gewaltkonflikten?, Wissenschaft und Frieden, 30 (3), pp. 7-9. online
Scheffran, J., Brzoska, M., Kominek, J., Link, P.M. & Schilling, J. (2012): Disentangling the Climate-conflict Nexus: Empirical and Theoretical Assessment of Vulnerabilities and Pathways, Review of European Studies, 4 (5), pp. 1-13. online
Schilling, J., Freier, K.P., Hertig, E. & Scheffran, J. (2012): Climate change, vulnerability and adaptation in North Africa with focus on Morocco,
Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 156, pp. 12-26. online
Scheffran, J., Brzoska, M., Kominek, J., Link, P.M. & Schilling, J. (2012): Climate change and violent conflict,
Science, 336, pp. 869-871. online
Weil, M., Grassl, H., Hoshyaripour, G., Kloster, S., Kominek, J., Misios, S., Scheffran, J., Starr, S., Stenchikov, G., Sudarchikova, N., Timmreck, C., Zhang, D. & Kalinowski, M. (2012): Pathways, Impacts, and Policies on Severe Aerosol Injections into the Atmosphere, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, online first. online
Scheffran, J., Marmer, E. & Sow, P. (2012): Migration as a contribution to resilience and innovation in climate adaptation: Social networks and co-development in Northwest Africa, Applied Geography, 33, pp. 119-127. online
Freier, K.P., Brüggmann, R., Scheffran, J., Finckh, M. & Schneider, U.A. (2012):
Assessing the Predictability of Future Livelihood Strategies of Pastoralists in Semi-Arid Morocco under Climate Change, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 79, pp. 371-382. online
Meyer, I., Kaniovski, S. & Scheffran, J. (2012): Scenarios for regional passenger car fleets and their CO2 emissions, Energy Policy, 41, pp. 66-74. online related press release
Link, P.M. & Schleupner, C. (2011): How do tourists perceive and accept changes in landscape characteristics on the Eiderstedt peninsula?, Coastline Reports, 17, pp. 133-146. download (PDF)
Link, P.M., Schneider, U.A. & Tol, R.S.J. (2011): Economic impacts of changes in fish population dynamics: the role of the fishermen’s harvesting strategies, Environmental Modeling and Assessment, 16 (4), pp. 413-429. online
Scheffran, J. & Battaglini, A. (2011): Climate and Conflicts - The security risks of global warming, Regional Environmental Change, 11 (Suppl. 1), pp. 27-39. online
McCarter, M., Budescu, D. & Scheffran, J. (2011): The Give-or-Take-Some Dilemma: An Empirical Investigation of a Hybrid Social Dilemma, Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, 116, pp. 83-95. online
Vasquez, J.A., Diehl, P., Flint, C., Scheffran, J., Chi, S., & Rider, T. (2011): The Conflict Space of Cataclysm: The International System and the Spread of War 1914-1917, Foreign Policy Analysis, 7, pp. 143-168. online
Link, P.M. & Tol, R.S.J. (2011): Estimation of the economic impact of temperature changes induced by a shutdown of the thermohaline circulation: an application of FUND, Climatic Change, 104 (2), pp. 287-304. online
Scheffran, J. (2010): Verification and security in a nuclear-weapon-free world: Elements and framework of a Nuclear Weapons Convention, UNIDIR Disarmament Forum, 3-2010, pp. 51-64. online (PDF)
Schilling, J., Scheffran, J. & Link, P.M. (2010): Climate Change and Land Use Conflicts in Northern Africa, Nova Acta Leopoldina NF, 112 (384), pp. 173-182. download (PDF)
Flint, C., Diehl, P., Scheffran, J., Vasquez, J., Chi, S. (2009): Conceptualizing Conflict Space: Towards a geography of relational power and embeddedness in the analysis of interstate conflict, Annals of the Association of American Geographers (Special Issue on “Geographies of Peace and Armed Conflict”), 99 (5), pp. 827-835. online
Scheffran, J. & Schilling, J. (2009): Preventing Climate Conflicts: Cooperative Approaches to Facing the Security Risks of Global Warming, Global Responsibility, 60, pp. 1-5. download (PDF)
Link, P.M. & Tol, R.S.J. (2009): Economic impacts on key Barents Sea fisheries arising from changes in the strength of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation,
Global Environmental Change, 19, pp. 422-433. online
Scheffran, J. & Summerfield, G. (eds.) (2009): Sustainable Biofuels and Human Security, Swords & Ploughshares, 27 (2), pp. 4-10. online
Lempert, R.,Scheffran, J. & Sprinz, D.F. (2009): Methods for Long-Term Environmental Policy Challenges, Global Environmental Politics, 9 (3), pp. 106-133. online
Scheffran, J. & BenDor, T. (2009): Bioenergy and Land Use – A Spatial-Agent Dynamic Model of Energy Crop Production in Illinois, International Journal of Environment & Pollution, 39 (1/2), pp. 4-27. online
BenDor, T., Scheffran, J. & Hannon, B. (2009): Ecological and Economic Sustainability in Fishery Management: A Multi-Agent Model for Understanding Competition and Cooperation, Ecological Economics, 68, pp. 1061 – 1073. online
Scheffran, J. (2009): The Gathering Storm - Is Climate Change a Security Threat?,
Security Index, 87, pp. 21-31. download (PDF)
Scheffran, J. (2008): Ein Klima der Gewalt? Das Konfliktpotenzial der globalen Erwärmung, Wissenschaft & Frieden , 4-2008. online
Scheffran, J. (2008): Climate change and security, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , 64 (2), pp. 19-25. online