Gina Ziervogel

8.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
104 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Gina Ziervogel is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Gina Ziervogel has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 31 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 25 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Gina Ziervogel's work include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (34 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (30 papers) and Agricultural risk and resilience (15 papers). Gina Ziervogel is often cited by papers focused on Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (34 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (30 papers) and Agricultural risk and resilience (15 papers). Gina Ziervogel collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United Kingdom and United States. Gina Ziervogel's co-authors include Sukaina Bharwani, Thomas E. Downing, Pierre Mukheibir, Johan Enqvist, Lorena Pasquini, Anna Taylor, Tom Downing, Frank Thomalla, Richard M. Cowling and Mark Pelling and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and Journal of Business Ethics.

In The Last Decade

Gina Ziervogel

102 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

Resilience and Vulnerability: Complementary or Conflicting Concepts?

2010 693 citations Sukaina Bharwani, Gina Ziervogel et al. profile →
Addressing the risk of maladaptation to climate change

2016 282 citations Sukaina Bharwani, Gina Ziervogel et al. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change profile →
Inserting rights and justice into urban resilience: a focus on everyday risk

2017 241 citations Gina Ziervogel, Mark Pelling et al. Environment and Urbanization profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gina Ziervogel South Africa	39	2.2k	1.9k	1.7k	637	602	104	5.4k
Jürgen Scheffran Germany	45	2.2k 1.0×	2.4k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	909 1.4×	724 1.2×	222	7.4k
Robin Leichenko United States	26	1.7k 0.8×	2.0k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	600 0.9×	443 0.7×	65	4.8k
Siri Eriksen Norway	31	2.5k 1.1×	3.2k 1.6×	2.4k 1.4×	962 1.5×	724 1.2×	78	6.3k
Amy Luers United States	21	2.7k 1.2×	2.2k 1.1×	1.9k 1.1×	799 1.3×	393 0.7×	36	6.1k
Colin Polsky United States	26	2.9k 1.3×	1.9k 1.0×	1.7k 1.0×	664 1.0×	338 0.6×	48	6.1k
Johanna Wandel Canada	12	1.9k 0.9×	2.6k 1.3×	1.9k 1.1×	678 1.1×	508 0.8×	18	5.5k
Hallie Eakin United States	45	3.3k 1.5×	3.1k 1.6×	2.5k 1.5×	956 1.5×	1.5k 2.5×	139	9.0k
Saleemul Huq United Kingdom	40	3.1k 1.4×	3.2k 1.6×	2.6k 1.5×	959 1.5×	643 1.1×	122	7.5k
Emma L. Tompkins United Kingdom	38	3.7k 1.7×	3.2k 1.6×	2.1k 1.2×	546 0.9×	574 1.0×	95	7.6k
Noelle Eckley United States	11	3.3k 1.5×	2.2k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	470 0.7×	441 0.7×	13	6.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gina Ziervogel

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ziervogel, Gina & Ralph Hamann. (2024). The potential of social innovation to shift the limits to climate adaptation. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 71. 101491–101491. 2 indexed citations

Ziervogel, Gina & Anna Taylor. (2023). A co-produced national climate change risk and vulnerability assessment framework for South Africa. Frontiers in Climate. 5. 1 indexed citations

Tschakert, Petra, Meg Parsons, Ed Atkins, et al.. (2023). Methodological lessons for negotiating power, political capabilities, and resilience in research on climate change responses. World Development. 167. 106247–106247. 25 indexed citations

Ziervogel, Gina, Chris Lennard, Guy F. Midgley, et al.. (2022). Climate change in South Africa: Risks and opportunities for climate-resilient development in the IPCC Sixth Assessment WGII Report. South African Journal of Science. 118(9/10). 15 indexed citations

Gonda, Noémi, Ed Atkins, Naomi Joy Godden, et al.. (2022). Power in resilience and resilience's power in climate change scholarship. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. 13(3). 27 indexed citations

Pelling, Mark, Winston Chow, Eric Chu, et al.. (2021). A climate resilience research renewal agenda: learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for urban climate resilience. Climate and Development. 14(7). 617–624. 38 indexed citations

Cole, Megan J., et al.. (2021). Managing city-scale slow-onset disasters: Learning from Cape Town's 2015–2018 drought disaster planning. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 63. 102459–102459. 21 indexed citations

Ziervogel, Gina, et al.. (2020). Local participation in decentralized water governance: insights from north-central Namibia. Regional Environmental Change. 20(3). 16 indexed citations

Enqvist, Johan, et al.. (2020). Informality and water justice: community perspectives on water issues in Cape Town’s low-income neighbourhoods. International Journal of Water Resources Development. 1–22. 20 indexed citations

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Spear, Dian, et al.. (2019). Avenues of understanding: mapping the intersecting barriers to adaptation in Namibia. Climate and Development. 12(3). 268–280. 16 indexed citations

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Ziervogel, Gina. (2019). Building transformative capacity for adaptation planning and implementation that works for the urban poor: Insights from South Africa. AMBIO. 48(5). 494–506. 79 indexed citations

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Romero‐Lankao, Patricia, Harriet Bulkeley, Mark Pelling, et al.. (2018). Urban transformative potential in a changing climate. Nature Climate Change. 8(9). 754–756. 114 indexed citations

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Ziervogel, Gina, Samuel U. Nussbaumer, Christian Huggel, & Nadine Salzmann. (2016). Climate Change Adaptation Strategies – An Upstream-downstream Perspective. DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven). 34 indexed citations

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Masundire, Hillary, et al.. (2016). Vulnerability and Risk Assessment in Botswana's Bobirwa Sub - District: Fostering People - Centered Adaptation to Climate Change. Open University of Cape Town (University of Cape Town). 3 indexed citations

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Drimie, Scott, J. W. Arntzen, B Dube, et al.. (2011). Global environmental change and food systems in Southern Africa: The dynamic challenges facing regional policy. Journal of Geography and Regional Planning. 4(4). 169–182. 7 indexed citations

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Moser, Caroline, Bruce Frayne, & Gina Ziervogel. (2011). ?Understanding the terrain: The climate change, assets and food security nexus in Southern African cities?. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 1–34. 4 indexed citations

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Ziervogel, Gina, et al.. (2010). Climate change adaptation in a developing country context: The case of urban water supply in Cape Town. Climate and Development. 2(2). 94–110. 61 indexed citations

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Soussan, John, Thomas E. Downing, Sukaina Bharwani, et al.. (2010). Integrating social vulnerability into water management. 25 indexed citations

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Ziervogel, Gina & Fernanda Zermoglio. (2009). Climate change scenarios and the development of adaptation strategies in Africa: challenges and opportunities. Climate Research. 40. 133–146. 49 indexed citations

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Mukheibir, Pierre & Gina Ziervogel. (2007). Developing a Municipal Adaptation Plan (MAP) for climate change: the city of Cape Town. Environment and Urbanization. 19(1). 143–158. 120 indexed citations

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