Amy Luers

8.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
36 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Amy Luers is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Amy Luers has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 9 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Amy Luers's work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (9 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (8 papers) and Climate change impacts on agriculture (8 papers). Amy Luers is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Policy and Economics (9 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (8 papers) and Climate change impacts on agriculture (8 papers). Amy Luers collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Amy Luers's co-authors include Hallie Eakin, Pamela A. Matson, Lindsey Christensen, A. Schiller, Marybeth Long Martello, Roger E. Kasperson, B. L. Turner, Robert W. Corell, Colin Polsky and Jeanne X. Kasperson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Amy Luers

35 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science

2003 3.0k citations B. L. Turner, Roger E. Kasperson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Assessing the Vulnerability of Social-Environmental Systems

2006 845 citations Hallie Eakin, Amy Luers Annual Review of Environment and Resources profile →

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Fields of papers citing papers by Amy Luers

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amy Luers

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Amy Luers. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Amy Luers based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Amy Luers. Amy Luers is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The Earth alignment principle for artificial intelligence 2025 ·Nature Sustainability ·Owen Gaffney, Amy Luers, (unknown), (unknown), Felix Creutzig, Virginia Dignum, Victor Galaz, (unknown), Francesca Larosa, Maria Leptin, (unknown)	2
2	Net zero needs AI — five actions to realize its promise 2025 ·Nature ·Amy Luers	0
3	Will AI accelerate or delay the race to net-zero emissions? 2024 ·Nature ·Amy Luers, Jonathan Koomey, Eric Masanet, Owen Gaffney, Felix Creutzig, Juan Lavista Ferres, Eric Horvitz	20
4	Accounting for the climate benefit of temporary carbon storage in nature 2023 ·Nature Communications ·H. Damon Matthews, Kirsten Zickfeld, Alexander Koch, Amy Luers	36
5	Temporary nature-based carbon removal can lower peak warming in a well-below 2 °C scenario 2022 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·H. Damon Matthews, Kirsten Zickfeld, (unknown), (unknown), Sabine Mathesius, (unknown), Amy Luers	64
6	Climate risk assessment needs urgent improvement 2022 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Ross Fairgrieve, (unknown), (unknown), Rosalind Cornforth, Geoff J. Gooley, Chris Hilson, Amy Luers, Theodore G. Shepherd, Roger Street, Nicholas Wood	23
7	Planetary intelligence for sustainability in the digital age: Five priorities 2021 ·One Earth ·Amy Luers	11
8	Too Big to Ignore: Global Risk Perception Gaps Between Scientists and Business Leaders 2020 ·Earth s Future ·Matthias Garschagen, Sylvia Wood, Jennifer Garard, Maria Ivanova, Amy Luers	10
9	Imagining transformative biodiversity futures 2020 ·Nature Sustainability ·Carina Wyborn, Federico Davila, Laura Pereira, Michelle Lim, (unknown), (unknown), Amy Luers, María José Martinez‐Harms, Kristal Maze, Jasper Montana, Melanie Ryan, Chris Sandbrook, Rebecca Shaw, Emma Woods	64
10	Beyond 2020: converging crises demand integrated responses 2020 ·Sustainability Science ·Jim Falk, Rita R. Colwell, A.S. El-Beltagy, Peter H. Gleick, C. F. Kennel, Yuan T. Lee, Amy Luers, Cherry A. Murray, Ismaïl Serageldin, Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Chiho Watanabe, Tetsuzo Yasunari	1
11	The difficult, the dangerous, and the catastrophic: Managing the spectrum of climate risks 2013 ·Earth s Future ·Amy Luers, L. S. Sklar	4
12	Climate change in California: scenarios and approaches for adaptation 2011 ·Climatic Change ·Michael D. Mastrandrea, Amy Luers	35
13	Assessing the Vulnerability of Social-Environmental Systems 2008 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Hallie Eakin, Amy Luers	2
14	Managing climate risks in California: the need to engage resource managers for successful adaptation to change 2008 ·Climatic Change ·Susanne C. Moser, Amy Luers	108
15	Preparing for the Impacts of Climate Change in California: Opportunities and Constraints for Adaptation 2006 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Amy Luers, (unknown)	30
16	Assessing the Vulnerability of Social-Environmental Systems breakdown → 2006 ·Annual Review of Environment and Resources ·Hallie Eakin, Amy Luers	845
17	The surface of vulnerability: An analytical framework for examining environmental change 2005 ·Global Environmental Change ·Amy Luers	257
18	A case study of land reform and coastal land transformation in southern Sonora, Mexico 2005 ·Land Use Policy ·Amy Luers, Rosamond L. Naylor, Pamela A. Matson	26
19	A method for quantifying vulnerability, applied to the agricultural system of the Yaqui Valley, Mexico 2003 ·Global Environmental Change ·Amy Luers, David B. Lobell, L. S. Sklar, (unknown), Pamela A. Matson	444
20	A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science breakdown → 2003 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·B. L. Turner, Roger E. Kasperson, Pamela A. Matson, James J. McCarthy, Robert W. Corell, Lindsey Christensen, Noelle Eckley, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Amy Luers, Marybeth Long Martello, Colin Polsky, (unknown), A. Schiller	3049

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