Mark Hirons

1.7k total citations
43 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Mark Hirons is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Hirons has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 13 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Recurrent topics in Mark Hirons's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (14 papers), Mining and Resource Management (11 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (10 papers). Mark Hirons is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (14 papers), Mining and Resource Management (11 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (10 papers). Mark Hirons collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sweden and United States. Mark Hirons's co-authors include R. W. Dunford, Claudia Comberti, Yadvinder Malhi, Constance L. McDermott, Emily Boyd, A. Morel, John Mason, Ken Norris, Elizabeth Robinson and Victoria A. Maguire‐Rajpaul and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Scientific Reports and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

Mark Hirons

42 papers receiving 989 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mark Hirons United Kingdom 19 446 214 209 184 141 43 1.0k
Genesis T. Yengoh Sweden 19 363 0.8× 188 0.9× 71 0.3× 163 0.9× 144 1.0× 36 1.1k
Digby Race Australia 18 605 1.4× 234 1.1× 57 0.3× 229 1.2× 130 0.9× 79 1.1k
Stephen Syampungani Zambia 17 462 1.0× 92 0.4× 91 0.4× 68 0.4× 182 1.3× 50 1.1k
Lalisa Duguma Kenya 26 1.1k 2.5× 228 1.1× 43 0.2× 300 1.6× 281 2.0× 65 2.1k
Melanie McDermott United States 13 538 1.2× 231 1.1× 45 0.2× 140 0.8× 90 0.6× 20 953
Felix Kanungwe Kalaba Zambia 17 502 1.1× 111 0.5× 39 0.2× 136 0.7× 133 0.9× 31 927
Benno Pokorny Germany 22 801 1.8× 139 0.6× 118 0.6× 298 1.6× 116 0.8× 74 1.2k
Sarah K. Jones France 18 604 1.4× 104 0.5× 34 0.2× 146 0.8× 252 1.8× 36 1.4k
Nicholas J. Hogarth Finland 17 1.0k 2.3× 208 1.0× 34 0.2× 316 1.7× 175 1.2× 36 1.6k
Mark Appiah Finland 14 422 0.9× 54 0.3× 67 0.3× 59 0.3× 105 0.7× 37 687

Countries citing papers authored by Mark Hirons

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mark Hirons

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark Hirons

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mark Hirons. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mark Hirons 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 Mark Hirons. Mark Hirons is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hirons, Mark. (2026). Building communities of hope is the central task of climate educators in the 21st century. Oxford Review of Education. 52(2). 281–296.
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Menor, Imma Oliveras, et al.. (2025). Mapping the extent and exploring the drivers of cocoa agroforestry in Nigeria, insights into trends for climate change adaptation. Agroforestry Systems. 99(2). 1 indexed citations
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Hirons, Mark, et al.. (2025). Understanding actors' power through conflict dynamics: Insights from small-scale mining on cocoa farms. Forest Policy and Economics. 173. 103458–103458. 2 indexed citations
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Hirons, Mark, et al.. (2025). Just nature recovery: A framework for centring multispecies and multi-dimensional justice in land management. Environmental Science & Policy. 164. 103992–103992. 5 indexed citations
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Montana, Jasper, A. E. Bennett, Beth Greenhough, et al.. (2025). Ten facts from critical and interpretive social sciences for environmental research. iScience. 28(6). 112736–112736. 1 indexed citations
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Morel, A., Zia Mehrabi, Sami W. Rifai, et al.. (2024). Landscape and management influences on smallholder agroforestry yields show shifts during a climate shock. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 366. 108930–108930. 3 indexed citations
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Maguire‐Rajpaul, Victoria A., Mark Hirons, Vinesh Rajpaul, et al.. (2024). What resilience theory and praxis can learn from multi-dimensional approaches to understanding poverty: A study of Ghanaian cocoa forest landscapes. World Development. 185. 106785–106785. 1 indexed citations
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McDermott, Constance L., et al.. (2024). Unpacking the politics of Nature-based Solutions governance: Making space for transformative change. Environmental Science & Policy. 163. 103979–103979. 6 indexed citations
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Chausson, Alexandre, et al.. (2023). Going beyond market-based mechanisms to finance nature-based solutions and foster sustainable futures. PLOS Climate. 2(4). e0000169–e0000169. 35 indexed citations
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Creedy, Thomas J., R. Asare, A. Morel, et al.. (2022). Climate change alters impacts of extreme climate events on a tropical perennial tree crop. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 19653–19653. 5 indexed citations
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Calow, Roger, Katrina Charles, Sara de Wit, et al.. (2021). Engaging with the politics of climate resilience towards clean water and sanitation for all. npj Clean Water. 4(1). 20 indexed citations
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Hirons, Mark. (2021). Governing natural climate solutions: prospects and pitfalls. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 52. 36–44. 8 indexed citations
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Beauchamp, Emilie, Mark Hirons, Katrina Brown, & E.J. Milner‐Gulland. (2020). Twenty priorities for future social-ecological research on climate resilience. Environmental Research Letters. 15(10). 105006–105006. 14 indexed citations
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Hirons, Mark, Emilie Beauchamp, Stephen Whitfield, et al.. (2020). Resilience to climate shocks in the tropics. Environmental Research Letters. 15(10). 100203–100203. 7 indexed citations
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Beauchamp, Emilie, E.J. Milner‐Gulland, Mark Hirons, et al.. (2019). The role of quantitative cross-case analysis in understanding tropical smallholder farmers’ adaptive capacity to climate shocks. Environmental Research Letters. 14(12). 125013–125013. 9 indexed citations
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Morel, A., Mark Hirons, Zia Mehrabi, et al.. (2019). The structures underpinning vulnerability: examining landscape-society interactions in a smallholder coffee agroforestry system. Environmental Research Letters. 14(7). 75006–75006. 11 indexed citations
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Friedman, Rachel, Mark Hirons, & Emily Boyd. (2018). Vulnerability of Ghanaian women cocoa farmers to climate change: a typology. Climate and Development. 11(5). 446–458. 36 indexed citations
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Hirons, Mark, Elizabeth Robinson, Constance L. McDermott, et al.. (2018). Understanding Poverty in Cash-crop Agro-forestry Systems: Evidence from Ghana and Ethiopia. Ecological Economics. 154. 31–41. 30 indexed citations
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Hirons, Mark. (2013). Mining in Ghana's forests: cross-sectoral linkages and the prospects for REDD. International Development Planning Review. 35(3). 283–302. 14 indexed citations
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Hirons, Mark. (2011). Managing artisanal and small-scale mining in forest areas: perspectives from a poststructural political ecology. Geographical Journal. 177(4). 347–356. 39 indexed citations

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