Elizabeth Holcombe

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 623 citations indexed

About

Elizabeth Holcombe is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. According to data from OpenAlex, Elizabeth Holcombe has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 623 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 11 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. Recurrent topics in Elizabeth Holcombe's work include Landslides and related hazards (24 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (14 papers) and Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis (11 papers). Elizabeth Holcombe is often cited by papers focused on Landslides and related hazards (24 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (14 papers) and Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis (11 papers). Elizabeth Holcombe collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Elizabeth Holcombe's co-authors include Malcolm G. Anderson, Thorsten Wagener, Francesca Pianosi, Roopam Shukla, Uğur Öztürk, Thomas Glade, Stefan Jäger, Susana Almeida, Benni Thiebes and Rainer Bell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Environmental Management.

In The Last Decade

Elizabeth Holcombe

36 papers receiving 611 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. How climate change and unplanned urban sprawl bring more landslides
    2022 123 citations Elizabeth Holcombe, Francesca Pianosi et al. profile →

Peers

Elizabeth Holcombe
Mirianna Budimir United Kingdom
Teruki Fukuzono Japan
Piyoosh Rautela India
Cinzia Bianchi Italy
Roxana Ciurean United Kingdom
Huayong Ni China
Yasin Wahid Rabby United States
Faith E. Taylor United Kingdom
Christos Polykretis Greece
Rodeano Roslee Malaysia
Mirianna Budimir United Kingdom
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All Works

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Smith, Paul J., Keith Beven, Francesca Pianosi, et al.. (2023). Technical note: The CREDIBLE Uncertainty Estimation (CURE) toolbox: facilitating the communication of epistemic uncertainty. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 27(13). 2523–2534. 5 indexed citations
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Luca, Flavia De, et al.. (2023). Geotechnical variability of the soils of Quito, Ecuador: a geodatabase study. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment. 82(11). 1 indexed citations
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Holcombe, Elizabeth, et al.. (2022). A mechanistic approach to include climate change and unplanned urban sprawl in landslide susceptibility maps. The Science of The Total Environment. 858(Pt 1). 159412–159412. 33 indexed citations
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Holcombe, Elizabeth, et al.. (2020). Including informal housing in slope stability analysis – an application to a data-scarce location in the humid tropics. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 20(11). 3161–3177. 14 indexed citations
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Vardanega, Paul J., et al.. (2020). Capturing the views of geoscientists on data sharing: a focus on the geotechnical community. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology. 54(2). 1 indexed citations
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Austin, Ann E., Nancy H. Hensel, Elizabeth Holcombe, et al.. (2019). Envisioning the Faculty for the Twenty-First Century. Rutgers University Press eBooks. 8 indexed citations
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Holcombe, Elizabeth, et al.. (2017). Modelling dynamic drivers and uncertain soil parameters in tropical urban slopes. Explore Bristol Research. 3365–3368. 3 indexed citations
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Holcombe, Elizabeth, et al.. (2016). Urbanisation and landslides: hazard drivers and better practices. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering. 169(3). 137–144. 31 indexed citations
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Anderson, Malcolm G. & Elizabeth Holcombe. (2013). Community-Based Landslide Risk Reduction : Managing Disasters in Small Steps. World Bank Publications. 11 indexed citations
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Anderson, M. G. & Elizabeth Holcombe. (2013). Community-based landslide risk reduction. World Bank eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Holcombe, Elizabeth, et al.. (2012). An integrated approach for evaluating the effectiveness of landslide hazard reduction in vulnerable communities in the Caribbean. Explore Bristol Research. 33 indexed citations
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Anderson, Malcolm G., et al.. (2010). The Efficacy of a Programme of Landslide Risk Reduction in Areas of Unplanned Housing in the Eastern Caribbean. Environmental Management. 45(4). 807–821. 14 indexed citations
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Holcombe, Elizabeth & Malcolm G. Anderson. (2009). Implementation of community‐based landslide hazard mitigation measures: the role of stakeholder engagement in ‘sustainable’ project scale‐up. Sustainable Development. 18(6). 331–349. 14 indexed citations
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Holcombe, Elizabeth & Malcolm G. Anderson. (2009). Tackling landslide risk: Helping land use policy to reflect unplanned housing realities in the Eastern Caribbean. Land Use Policy. 27(3). 798–800. 35 indexed citations
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Anderson, Malcolm G., et al.. (2008). Implementing low-cost landslide risk reduction: a pilot study in unplanned housing areas of the Caribbean. Natural Hazards. 47(3). 297–315. 17 indexed citations
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Anderson, Malcolm G., et al.. (2006). Assessing slope stability in unplanned settlements in developing countries. Journal of Environmental Management. 85(1). 101–111. 15 indexed citations
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Anderson, Malcolm G. & Elizabeth Holcombe. (2005). Purpose-Driven Public Sector Reform: The Need for Within-Government Capacity Build for the Management of Slope Stability in Communities in the Caribbean. Environmental Management. 37(1). 15–29. 6 indexed citations

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