Steven M Gorelick

Biographic Data

ID1379999
NAMESteven M Gorelick
GIVEN NAMESSteven M
FAMILY NAMEGorelick
SIGNATUREGORELICK S M
AFFILIATIONSStanford University
ORCID0000-0003-2486-1318
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS20
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Societal and environmental interconnections: Future directions for flood inundation models

    Open AccessZhi Li, Steven M GorelickARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Flooding stands as one of the world’s most devastating natural hazards, accounting for lost lives, economic damage, and ecosystem degradation. Over the past five decades, flood inundation models have emerged as essential tools for flood forecasting and risk management. Through an analysis of publications from 1970 to 2023, this review provides a foundational understanding of state-of-the-science flood model developments. The evolution of flood mo…

  • A strategic environmental water rights market for Colorado River reallocation

    Open AccessPhilip Womble, Steven M Gorelick et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2025

    The Colorado River system is among the world’s most overallocated basins, struggling to supply water to the southwestern United States and Mexico. Consequently, 90% of the basin’s native fish species are endangered, threatened or extinct. Driven by a 24-year megadrought, the United States allocated over US$4 billion for drought mitigation, including water market transactions that pay farms, cities and industries to divert less water across the US…

  • Unexpected growth of an illegal water market

    Open AccessChristian Klassert, Jim Yoon et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2023Cited by: 4References: 7

    Scarce and unreliable urban water supply in many countries has caused municipal users to rely on transfers from rural wells via unregulated markets. Assessments of this pervasive water re-allocation institution and its impacts on aquifers, consumer equity and affordability are lacking. We present a rigorous coupled human–natural system analysis of rural-to-urban tanker water market supply and demand in Jordan, a quintessential example of a nation…

  • Increasing nutrient inputs risk a surge of nitrous oxide emissions from global mangrove ecosystems

    Open AccessFeng Mao, Sami Ullah et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2021

  • Water-food-energy challenges in India: Political economy of the sugar industry

    Open AccessJu Young Lee, Rosamond L Naylor et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Sugar is the second largest agro-based industry in India and has a major influence on the country’s water, food, and energy security. In this paper, we use a nexus approach to assess India’s interconnected water-food-energy challenges, with a specific focus on the political economy of the sugar industry in Maharashtra, one of the country’s largest sugar producing states. Our work underscores three points. First, the governmental support of the su…

  • Insights from watershed simulations around the world: Watershed service-based restoration does not significantly enhance streamflow

    Open AccessP James Dennedy‐Frank, Steven M GorelickARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2019References: 2

  • Drying drives decline in muskrat population in the Peace-Athabasca Delta, Canada

    Open AccessE M Ward, Steven M GorelickARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Empirical and anecdotal reports suggest that muskrat are in decline across North America, including in the Peace-Athabasca Delta (‘Delta’), Canada, one of the largest inland deltas in the world and part of a World Heritage Site with ‘in Danger’ status pending. Muskrat are a key ecological indicator in the Delta. We investigate whether the large-scale loss of critical habitat over the past half-century could be driving a decline in muskrat abundan…

  • Assessment of human–natural system characteristics influencing global freshwater supply vulnerability

    Open AccessJ Padowski, Julie C Padowski et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015

    Global freshwater vulnerability is a product of environmental and human dimensions, however, it is rarely assessed as such. Our approach identifies freshwater vulnerability using four broad categories: endowment, demand, infrastructure, and institutions, to capture impacts on natural and managed water systems within the coupled human–hydrologic environment. These categories are represented by 19 different endogenous and exogenous characteristics …

  • Global analysis of urban surface water supply vulnerability

    Open AccessJ Padowski, Julie C Padowski et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2014

    This study presents a global analysis of urban water supply vulnerability in 71 surface-water supplied cities, with populations exceeding 750 000 and lacking source water diversity. Vulnerability represents the failure of an urban supply-basin to simultaneously meet demands from human, environmental and agricultural users. We assess a baseline (2010) condition and a future scenario (2040) that considers increased demand from urban population grow…

  • Groundwater extraction, land subsidence, and sea-level rise in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

    Open AccessLaura Erban, Laura E Erban et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2014

    Groundwater exploitation is a major cause of land subsidence, which in coastal areas poses a flood inundation hazard that is compounded by the threat of sea-level rise (SLR). In the lower Mekong Delta, most of which lies <2 m above sea level, over-exploitation is inducing widespread hydraulic head (i.e., groundwater level) declines. The average rate of head decline is ∼0.3 m yr ^−1 , based on time-series data from 79 nested monitoring wells at 18…

  • The impact of urbanization on water vulnerability: A coupled human–environment system approach for Chennai, India

    Open AccessVeena Srinivasan, Karen C Seto et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2012Cited by: 14References: 5

  • Media and Public Spheres

    Open AccessSteven M GorelickARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2009Cited by: 2