Graham McDowell

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Graham McDowell is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Atmospheric Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Graham McDowell has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 17 papers in Atmospheric Science and 7 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Graham McDowell's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (15 papers), Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (13 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (8 papers). Graham McDowell is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (15 papers), Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (13 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (8 papers). Graham McDowell collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Graham McDowell's co-authors include James D. Ford, Tristan Pearce, Lea Berrang‐Ford, Nia King, Eranga K. Galappaththi, Sherilee L. Harper, Jesse S. Sayles, Bernhard Lehner, Frank Duerden and William A. Gough and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Nature Climate Change and Global Environmental Change.

In The Last Decade

Graham McDowell

28 papers receiving 981 citations

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The Resilience of Indigenous Peoples to Environmental Change

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#	Title	Journal	Authors	Indexed citations
1	Climate change adaptation in global mountain regions requires a multi-sectoral approach	Communications Earth & Environment	James D. Ford, Jan Petzold et al.	1
2	Climate change vulnerability and adaptation among mountain guides in the Canadian Rockies	Regional Environmental Change	Graham McDowell et al.	0
3	The evolution of “riskscapes”: 100 years of climate change and mountaineering activity in the Lake Louise area of the Canadian Rockies	Climatic Change	Graham McDowell et al.	3
4	The state of glacier hydrology research in Canada	Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques	Shawn J. Marshall, Graham McDowell et al.	2
5	The implications of warmer winters for ice climbing: A case study of the Mount Washington Valley, New Hampshire, USA	SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología	Graham McDowell, Elizabeth A. Burakowski et al.	3
6	Climbing through Climate Change in the Canadian Rockies: Guides’ Experiences of Route Transformation on Mt. Athabasca	SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología	Graham McDowell et al.	5
7	The state of mountain research in Canada	Journal of Mountain Science	Graham McDowell et al.	0
8	A Nationally Coherent Characterization and Quantification of Mountain Systems in Canada	Mountain Research and Development	Graham McDowell et al.	5
9	Adaptation to climate change induced water stress in major glacierized mountain regions	Climate and Development	Holger Frey, Graham McDowell et al.	16
10	Closing the Adaptation Gap in Mountains	Mountain Research and Development	Graham McDowell, Alexandra Lesnikowski et al.	20
11	Progress in climate change adaptation in the Arctic	Environmental Research Letters	Iván Villaverde Canosa, James D. Ford et al.	17
12	The Canadian Mountain Network: Advancing Innovative, Solutions-Based Research to Inform Decision-Making	Mountain Research and Development	Murray M. Humphries, Graham McDowell et al.	3
13	Adaptation action and research in glaciated mountain systems: Are they enough to meet the challenge of climate change?	Global Environmental Change	Graham McDowell, Christian Huggel et al.	48
14	Vulnerability and its discontents: the past, present, and future of climate change vulnerability research	Climatic Change	James D. Ford, Tristan Pearce et al.	134
15	Robust Adaptation Research in High Mountains: Integrating the Scientific, Social, and Ecological Dimensions of Glacio-Hydrological Change	Water	Graham McDowell, Michèle Koppes	15
16	Community-level climate change vulnerability research: trends, progress, and future directions	Environmental Research Letters	Graham McDowell, James D. Ford et al.	98
17	The state of climate change adaptation in the Arctic	Environmental Research Letters	James D. Ford, Graham McDowell et al.	43
18	The socio-ecological dimensions of hydrocarbon development in the Disko Bay region of Greenland: Opportunities, risks, and tradeoffs	Applied Geography	Graham McDowell, James D. Ford	8
19	The Dynamic Multiscale Nature of Climate Change Vulnerability: An Inuit Harvesting Example	Annals of the Association of American Geographers	James D. Ford, Graham McDowell et al.	106
20	Climate-related hydrological change and human vulnerability in remote mountain regions: a case study from Khumbu, Nepal	Regional Environmental Change	Graham McDowell, James D. Ford et al.	77

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