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Kathleen Hermans

Dr. Kathleen Hermans

Dr. Kathleen Hermans

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Publications and Presentations

Articles (peer-reviewed)

; ; ; ; (2023) Why smallholders stop engaging in forest activities: The role of in-migration in livelihood transitions in forested landscapes of southwestern Ethiopia. Ecology and Society 28 (1)

; ; ; (2023) What we know and do not know about reciprocal pathways of environmental change and migration: Lessons from Ethiopia. Ecology and Society 15 (3)

; ; ; ; (2023) Land degradation and migration. Nature Sustainability 6 (12): 1503-1505.

; ; ; (2023) Rainfall changes perceived by farmers and captured by meteorological data: Two sides to every story. Regional Environmental Change 23 (2)

; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; (2023) A future agenda for research on climate change and human mobility. International Migration 61 (5): 116-125.

; ; ; (2022) Agricultural livelihoods, adaptation, and environmental migration in sub-Saharan drylands: A meta-analytical review. Environmental Research Letters 17 (8)

; ; ; (2022) It’s all about politics: Migration and Resource Conflicts in the Global South. World Development 157

; (2021) Climate change, drought, land degradation and migration: exploring the linkages. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 50: 236-244.

; ; ; ; ; (2021) Crisis-induced disruptions in place-based social-ecological research - an opportunity for redirection. GAIA 30 (2): 72-76.

; ; ; ; (2021) Investigating environment-related migration processes in Ethiopia–A participatory Bayesian network. Ecosystems and People

; ; ; ; (2020) Deciphering interwoven drivers of environment-related migration – A multisite case study from the Ethiopian highlands. Global Environmental Change 63 No. 102094

; (2019) Droughts, livelihoods and human migration in Northern Ethiopia. Regional Environmental Change 19

; (2019) Advancing Research on Climate Change, Conflict and Migration. Die Erde 150 (1)

; ; ; ; ; (2019) Migration and displacement as features of land system transitions. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 38C: 103-110.

; ; ; ; (2019) How does nature contribute to human mobility? A conceptual framework and qualitative analysis. Ecology and Society No. 4 (24)

; ; ; ; ; (2018) Building Capacities for Transdisciplinary Research. GAIA 27 (4): 379-386.

; ; ; ; ; (2018) Exploring SSP land-use dynamics using the IMAGE model: Regional and gridded scenarios of land-use change and land-based climate change mitigation. Global Environmental Change 48: 119-135.

; ; (2018) Agent-based modeling of environment-migration linkages: A review. Ecology & Society 23 (2)

; ; (2018) Environmental change, adaptation strategies and the relevance of migration in Sub-Saharan drylands. Environmental Research Letters 13 (11)

; ; ; ; ; (2017) Large scale land acquisitions and REDD+: A synthesis of conflicts and opportunities. Environmental Research Letters 12

; ; ; ; ; (2017) Towards systematic analyses of ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies: Main concepts, methods and the road ahead. Ecosystem Services 28 (part c): 264-272.

; ; (2017) Human migration, climate change, and land degradation: hotspots of socio-ecological pressure in Ethiopia. Regional Environmental Change 17: 1479-1492.

; (2017) What drives human migration in Sahelian countries? A meta-analysis. Population, Space and Place 23 (1)

; ; ; ; ; (2016) Why do forest products become less available? A pan-tropical comparison of drivers of forest-resource degradation. Environmental Research Letters 11

; ; ; ; ; (2016) Exploring resource efficiency for energy, land and phosphorus use: Implications for resource scarcity and the global environment. Global Environmental Change 36: 21-34.

; ; ; ; ; (2015) A framework for the cross-sectoral integration of multi-model impact projections: land use decisions under climate impacts uncertainties. Earth System Dynamics 6 : 447-460.

; ; ; ; ; (2015) Mitigation of agriculture-driven deforestation in the tropics: comparing land-sparing options at the national level. Biogeosciences 12: 4809-4825.

; (2015) Opportunities and challenges for investigating the environment-migration nexus. Human Ecology 43: 309-322.

; ; ; ; ; (2015) Environmental drivers of human migration in drylands - A spatial picture. Applied Geography 56: 116-126.

; ; ; ; ; (2014) Multisectoral climate impact hotspots in a warming world. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 111: 3233-3238.

; ; ; ; ; (2014) Assessing agricultural risks of climate change in the 21st century in a global gridded crop model intercomparison. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 111: 3268-3272.

; ; ; ; ; (2011) Explaining the global irrigation pattern: A multilevel modeling approach. Agricultural Systems 104: 703-713.

; ; (2011) Challenges in using land use and land cover data for global change studies. Global Change Biology 17: 974-989.

; ; ; ; (2010) Multi-scale scenarios of spatial-temporal dynamics in the European livestock sector. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 140: 88-101.

; ; ; (2010) The yield gap of global grain production: A spatial analysis. Agricultural Systems 103: 316-326.

; ; ; (2007) Comparative assessment of CORINE2000 and GLC2000: Spatial Analysis of Land Cover data for Europe. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 9: 425-437.

; ; ; ; ; (2005) Global biomass mapping for an improved understanding of the CO2 balance – the Earth observation mission Carbon-3D. Remote Sensing of Environment 94: 94-104.

Articles (non-peer-reviewed)

; (2022) Bleiben oder gehen? Wie uns der Klimawandel in Bewegung setzt. MINT-Zirkel 11 (3)

Contributions to anthologies

; ; ; ; ; (2019) Land Degradation. In: Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems, 345-436.

Presentations

; (2023) Research gaps and priorities to understand the climate-water-migration nexus in Central Asia. CAWAMNET workshop on Climate-Water-Migration Nexus in Central Asia, Halle (Saale), Deutschland.

(2023) Bleiben oder Gehen? Migration in Zeiten des Klimawandels. Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, Halle (Saale), Deutschland.

(2023) Including land degradation in the research agenda for environmental migration. Environmental and Climate Mobilities Network Launch Event, Vienna, Oesterreich.

(2022) Climate change and migration: Insights from the Ethiopian highlands. 25th International Metropolis Conference Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland.

; ; ; (2022) Reciprocal linkages between environmental change and migration: Lessons from Ethiopia. Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2022: population and climate change, Wien, Oesterreich.