Klaus Hubacek

Biographic Data

ID	79977
NAME	Klaus Hubacek
GIVEN NAMES	Klaus
FAMILY NAME	Hubacek
SIGNATURE	HUBACEK K
AFFILIATIONS	University of Maryland, College Park
ORCID	0000-0003-2561-6090
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	117
TOTAL CITATIONS	631
AUTHOR COUNT	117
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	12

Synergistic pathways to mitigate climate and water scarcity risks
Open AccessHouchao Lv, Jizhe Li et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2026
Distributional effects of expanding climate targets beyond CO2
Open AccessYating Kang, Peipei Tian et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2026
Assessing the unequal distribution between social benefits and costs across countries along global supply chains
Open AccessDanyang Zhang, Hui Wang et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2026
Social sustainability is largely challenged by unequal exchange within global supply chains (GSCs). Unequal exchange, commonly understood as the net appropriation of value from the Global South to the Global North, arises from power asymmetries in the world economy. As a consequence of the power asymmetries, the distributions of social costs and benefits across countries along GSCs are largely imbalanced. This intensifies regional disparities and…
Unpacking climate governance and SDG interactions
Open AccessYu-Qi Liu, Chao Feng et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2026References: 5
Impacts of water conservation, wastewater treatment, and reuse on water quantity and quality stress mitigation in China
Open AccessDan Wang, Zhuo Chen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2025
Wastewater treatment plays a crucial role in removing pollutants. Water conservation and reuse of wastewater help to reduce freshwater use and to alleviate water stress. However, the extent to which water conservation, wastewater treatment, and reuse can contribute to water stress mitigation is not clear. This study aims to investigate the impact of water conservation, wastewater treatment, and reuse on both water quantity and quality stress miti…
Medical expenditures under climate change and SSP-informed physiological and socioeconomic scenarios in China
Open AccessDianyu Zhu, Miaomiao Liu et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2025Cited by: 1References: 1
Improving biodiversity resilience requires both public and private finance
Open AccessJesper Beverdam, Klaus Hubacek et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2025References: 2
Urban metabolism and emergy of China's cities
Open AccessMiaohan Tang, Jingke Hong et al.ARTICLEHabitat International2025Cited by: 1References: 56
Decoupling and Decomposition of Emissions and Economic Growth Based on Interprovincial Embodied Carbon Flow in China
Shaojian Wang, Jiabei Zhou et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the American…2025Cited by: 1References: 43
Breaking the strong connection between economic growth and carbon emissions is crucial for China to achieve high-quality, sustainable development. Neglecting the carbon emissions embedded in interregional trade risks inflating the perceived progress in decoupling, however, as emissions are often shifted between regions through trade. This research evaluates the decoupling of carbon emissions from economic growth, considering the embodied carbon f…
Revisiting Copenhagen climate mitigation targets
Open AccessShuping Li, Jing Meng et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2024
Many economies set climate mitigation targets for 2020 at the 2009 15th Conference of the Parties conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen. Yet no retrospective review of the implementation and actual mitigation associated with these targets has materialized. Here we track the national CO 2 emissions from both territory and consumption (trade adjusted) perspectives to assess socioeconomic factors affec…
The landscape of city‐level GHG emission accounts in Africa
Open AccessBinyuan Liu, Yuli Shan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2024
Cities are important actors in the global challenge of tackling climate change. They are not only responsible for the majority of emissions but also highly capable of taking action. An important precondition for effective climate mitigation is a city‐level greenhouse gas emission inventory to guide mitigation action. Yet, most cities in developing countries, in particular African cities, lack that crucial information. This study aims to assess th…
Demand-side insights for steering human appropriation of net primary productivity within planetary boundaries
Open AccessShuanjin Wang, Xiangjie Chen et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2024
Human-altered soil loss dominates nearly half of water erosion in China but surges in agriculture-intensive areas
Open AccessKeke Li, Jingya Yang et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2024
Global spillover effects of the European Green Deal and plausible mitigation options
Open AccessHonglin Zhong, Yanxian Li et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2024References: 3
Achieving European Green Deal (EGD) targets for carbon removal and ecological restoration would reduce agricultural and forestry production within the European Union yet simultaneously extend ecosystem impacts elsewhere. Here we quantify such spillover impacts by coupling an extended multi-regional input–output analysis with an agro-ecological zones model. We find that EGD’s agricultural and forestry targets set for 2030 could result in a 23.9 Mh…
Changes in global trade patterns increase global inequality towards Sustainable Development Goals
Open AccessJiayu Wang, Ke Wang et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2024References: 2
Re-investigating the shared responsibility for trade-embodied carbon emissions
Open AccessJiayu Wang, Chang-Jing Ji et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2024Cited by: 2
Interregional Flows of Embodied Carbon Storage Associated with Land-Use Change in China
Shaojian Wang, Shijie Zhou et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the American…2024Cited by: 6References: 51
With the continuous expansion of regional trade, interregional teleconnections have an increasingly pronounced impact on the changes in carbon storage caused by land use in China. Current research in this area remains remarkably limited, however. This study employs land-use data, carbon density data, and a multiregional input-output model to precisely quantify the embodied flow and spatial patterns of land-use carbon storage in China. We found th…
Burden of the global energy price crisis on households
Open AccessYuru Guan, Yan Jin et al.ARTICLENature Energy2023
Ecologically unequal exchanges driven by EU consumption
Open AccessBenedikt Bruckner, Yuli Shan et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2023Cited by: 4References: 14
Global employment and skill level requirements for ‘Post-Carbon Europe’
Open AccessMartin Černý, Meike Brückner et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2023Cited by: 1References: 5
City-level emission peak and drivers in China
Open AccessYuli Shan, Yuru Guan et al.ARTICLEScience Bulletin2022
Urban and rural carbon footprints in developing countries
Open AccessMairéad Connolly, Yuli Shan et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022
A good understanding of household carbon emissions is an important part of forming climate mitigation strategies to achieve the goals set out in the Paris Agreement. Numerous studies have been carried out on emissions from household consumption and the inequality between urban and rural areas in high-income developed countries, but there is a lack of in-depth analysis of such differences in developing countries. Our research details household car…
Unexpected side effects of the EU Ship Recycling Regulation call for global cooperation on greening the shipbreaking industry
Open AccessLin Lin, K Feng et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022
The recent European Union Ship Recycling Regulation and other existing conventions aimed to reduce harmful environmental and health impacts of ship shipbreaking, may push the shipbreaking industry further to South Asian countries, where ecosystem and public health are threatened due to the lack of monitoring for dirty beaching methods for ship breaking. Such unsustainable patterns may continue to expand due to the mismatch of economic beneficiari…
Impacts of poverty alleviation on national and global carbon emissions
Open AccessBenedikt Bruckner, Klaus Hubacek et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2022Cited by: 15References: 14
Can U.S. multi-state climate mitigation agreements work? A perspective from embedded emission flows
Open AccessKaihui Song, Giovanni Baiocchi et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2022Cited by: 3References: 4

Global patterns of ecologically unequal exchange
Open AccessChristian Dorninger, A Hornborg et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2020Cited by: 131References: 11
Stakeholder Analysis and Social Network Analysis in Natural Resource Management
C Prell, Klaus Hubacek et al.ARTICLESociety & Natural Resources2009Cited by: 126References: 12
The increasing use of stakeholder analysis in natural resource management reflects a growing recognition that stakeholders can and should influence environmental decision making. Stakeholder analysis can be used to avoid inflaming conflicts, ensure that the marginalization of certain groups is not reinforced, and fairly represent diverse interests. We present a case study from the Peak District National Park in the United Kingdom, where we used s…
Tele-connecting local consumption to global land use
Open AccessYang Yu, K Feng et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2013Cited by: 45References: 4
Participatory scenario planning in place-based social-ecological research
Open AccessElisa Oteros-Rozas, Berta Martín-López et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2015Cited by: 29
Oteros-Rozas, E., B. Martín-López, T. Daw, E. L. Bohensky, J. Butler, R. Hill, J. Martin-Ortega, A. Quinlan, F. Ravera, I. Ruiz-Mallén, M. Thyresson, J. Mistry, I. Palomo, G. D. Peterson, T. Plieninger, K. A. Waylen, D. Beach, I. C. Bohnet, M. Hamann, J. Hanspach, K. Hubacek, S. Lavorel and S. Vilardy 2015. Participatory scenario planning in place-based social-ecological research: insights and experiences from 23 case studies. Ecology and Society…
Combining analytical frameworks to assess livelihood vulnerability to climate change and analyse adaptation options
Open AccessMyer S Reed, Guillermo Podestá et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2013Cited by: 24References: 17
Experts working on behalf of international development organisations need better tools to assist land managers in developing countries maintain their livelihoods, as climate change puts pressure on the ecosystem services that they depend upon. However, current understanding of livelihood vulnerability to climate change is based on a fractured and disparate set of theories and methods. This review therefore combines theoretical insights from susta…
Economic development and converging household carbon footprints in China
Open AccessZhifu Mi, Jiali Zheng et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2020Cited by: 22References: 7
If you have a hammer everything looks like a nail
C Prell, Klaus Hubacek et al.ARTICLEInterdisciplinary Science Reviews2007Cited by: 20References: 8
Affairs Department. The research was conducted in close collaboration with staff from the Moors for the Future
The environmental impacts of rapidly changing diets and their nutritional quality in China
Open AccessPan He, Giovanni Baiocchi et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2018Cited by: 18References: 5
The drivers of Chinese CO2 emissions from 1980 to 2030
Open AccessDabo Guan, Klaus Hubacek et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2008Cited by: 17References: 2
Impacts of poverty alleviation on national and global carbon emissions
Open AccessBenedikt Bruckner, Klaus Hubacek et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2022Cited by: 15References: 14
Changing lifestyles and consumption patterns in developing countries
Open AccessKlaus Hubacek, Dabo Guan et al.ARTICLEFutures2007Cited by: 15References: 9
The future of the uplands
Open AccessMyer S Reed, Aletta Bonn et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2009Cited by: 12References: 77
Drivers of Environmental Change in Uplands
Aletta Bonn, Terence Allott et al.BOOKDrivers of environmental change…2009Cited by: 11
Preface, J.A. Lee, Introduction, 1. Drivers of change in upland environments: concepts, threats & opportunities, A. Bonn, T. Allott, K. Hubacek & J. Stewart, I Processes and Policy - the overarching Drivers of Change, 2. Natural changes in upland landscapes, M. Evans, 3. Threats from air pollution and climate change on upland systems: past, present & future, S. Caporn & B. Emmett, 4. Policy change in the uplands, I. Condliffe, II Ecosystem Goods …
The environmental effect of car-free housing
Open AccessMichael Ornetzeder, Edgar G Hertwich et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2007Cited by: 11References: 1
Competing Structure, Competing Views
Open AccessC Prell, Myer S Reed et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2010Cited by: 10
Prell, C., M. Reed, L. Racin, and K. Hubacek. 2010. Competing structure, competing views: the role of formal and informal social structures in shaping stakeholder perceptions. Ecology and Society 15(4): 34. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03652-150434
Comparing apples and oranges
Open AccessKlaus Hubacek, K FengARTICLELand Use Policy2016Cited by: 9References: 41
Future generations
Open AccessKlaus Hubacek, Volker MauerhoferARTICLEFutures2008Cited by: 9References: 47
Global supply-chain effects of Covid-19 control measures
Open AccessDabo Guan, Daoping Wang et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2020Cited by: 8References: 39
Economic vulnerability to Peak Oil
Open AccessChristian Kerschner, C Prell et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2013Cited by: 8References: 5
The Right Connections
Open AccessBeatrice Crona, Klaus HubacekARTICLEConservation Ecology2010Cited by: 8
Crona, B., and K. Hubacek. 2010. The right connections: how do social networks lubricate the machinery of natural resource governance? Ecology and Society 15(4): 18 https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03731-150418
Inclusive wealth index measuring sustainable development potentials for Chinese cities
Open AccessDanyang Cheng, Qianyu Xue et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2021Cited by: 7References: 3
From poverty trap to ecosystem service curse
Open AccessJakub Kronenberg, Klaus HubacekARTICLESustainability Science2016Cited by: 7References: 12
In spite of broad and positive expectations, payments for ecosystem services (PES) can bring about unexpected and negative consequences, especially in terms of their impacts on the well-being of local communities dependent on ecosystems. Based on numerous observations of recurring problems with PES, we put forward an ecosystem service curse hypothesis (Kronenberg and Hubacek in Ecol Soc 18:art.10. doi:10.5751/ES-05240-180110, 2013), that points t…
"Could Payments for Ecosystem Services Create an "Ecosystem Service Curse
Open AccessJakub Kronenberg, Klaus HubacekARTICLEConservation Ecology2013Cited by: 7
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) have received much praise and are increasingly perceived as a promising tool to ensure the protection of global ecosystems as well as being able to help alleviate poverty in areas rich in ecosystem services. Given current trends, the scale of payments is likely to grow, creating new circumstances within which ecosystem services will be managed. In this dynamic context, following a precautionary approach, one …
Interregional Flows of Embodied Carbon Storage Associated with Land-Use Change in China
Shaojian Wang, Shijie Zhou et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the American…2024Cited by: 6References: 51
With the continuous expansion of regional trade, interregional teleconnections have an increasingly pronounced impact on the changes in carbon storage caused by land use in China. Current research in this area remains remarkably limited, however. This study employs land-use data, carbon density data, and a multiregional input-output model to precisely quantify the embodied flow and spatial patterns of land-use carbon storage in China. We found th…
The effect of industrialization and globalization on domestic land-use
Open AccessChristian Dorninger, Henrik Von Wehrden et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2021Cited by: 6References: 10