Scholars
Jürgen Scheffran
Research Group Climate Change and Security, Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg
Based in
Germany
Europe
Dr. Jürgen Scheffran is Professor of Integrative Geography (em.) at the University of Hamburg, and since 2009 Chair of the Research Group Climate Change and Security (CLISEC) in the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability and the Climate Excellence Cluster CLICCS. After the study and doctorate in physics, he worked in interdisciplinary groups in environmental, security and conflict research at the universities of Marburg, Darmstadt, Paris and Illinois, as well as the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). In addition to networking activities and editorial work on science and peace, he has been involved in projects for the United Nations, the Office of Technology Assessment of the German Parliament, and in the Expert Commission on the Causes of Forced Migration of the German government. Main research interests are: Climate security, environmental migration and resource conflicts; water-food-energy nexus and urban-rural-coastal interactions; sustainability, complex systems and models; technology assessment, arms control and international security.
Country(ies) of Specialty
GermanyFocus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics Geoengineering Climate Justice Renewable energyPublications
Articles
Scheffran J, Schürmann E, Weber R, Newfields T (2024) A Viable World in the Anthropocene: Living Together in the Common Home of Planet Earth. Anthropocene Science 3: 131–142. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44177-024-00075-7 Titel anhand dieser DOI in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen
Pereira Santos A, Rodriguez-Lopez JM, Peng, Scheffran J (2024) Integrating Broad and Deep Multiple-Stressors Research: A Framework for Translating Acros Scales and Disciplines. One Earth 7(10):1713-1726.
Eker S, Lenton TM, Powell T, Scheffran J, Smith SR, Swamy D, Zimm C (2024) Cross-system interactions for positive tipping cascades. Earth System Dynamics, 15, 789–800. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-789-2024 Titel anhand dieser DOI in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen.
Petzold J, Scheffran J (2024) Climate change and human security in coastal regions. Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures 2, e5, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1017/cft.2024.2 Titel anhand dieser DOI in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen.
Spaiser V, Juhola S, Constantino SM, Guo W, Watson T, Sillmann J, Craparo
A, Basel A, Bruun JT, Krishnamurthy K, Scheffran J, Pinho P, Okpara UT, Donges
JF, Bhowmik A, Yasseri T, Safra de Campos R, Cumming GS, Chenet H, Krampe F,
Abrams JF, Dyke JG, Rynders S, Aksenov Y, Spears BM (2024) Negative social tipping dynamics resulting from and reinforcing Earth system destabilization. Earth Syst. Dyn. 15, 1179–1206.
https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/15/1179/2024
Kögler M, Paulick K, Scheffran J, Birkholz M (2024) Sustainable use of a smartphone and regulatory needs. Sustainable Development (29. April): 19 pages. DOI: 10.1002/sd.2995
Scheffran J (2023) Limits to the Anthropocene: geopolitical conflict or cooperative governance? Frontiers in Political Science 5:1190610. doi: 10.3389/fpos.2023.1190610 Titel anhand dieser DOI in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen.
Xie X, Hao M, Ding F, Ide T, Helman D, Scheffran J, Wang Q, Qian Y, Chen S, Wu J, Ma T, Ge Q, Jiang D (2023) Exploring the worldwide impact of COVID-19 on conflict risk under climate change. Heliyon 9(6): e17182 (June 9). doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e17182 Titel anhand dieser DOI in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen.
Peng Y, Rodriguez Lopez M, Pereira Santos M, Mobeen M, Scheffran J (2023) Simulating exposure-related human mobility behavior at the neighborhood-level under COVID-19 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Cities 134 (2023) 104161
Xie X, Hao M, Ding F, Helman D, Scheffran J, Wang Q, Ge Q, Jiang D (2022) Exploring the direct and indirect impacts of climate variability on armed conflict in South Asia. iScience, (19 Oct.) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105258 Titel anhand dieser DOI in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen.
Juhola, S., Filatova, T., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Mechler, R., Scheffran, J., Schweizer, P.-J. (2022). Social Tipping Points and Adaptation Limits in the Context of Systemic Risk: Concepts, models and governance. Frontiers in Climate. 4, 1009234. doi: 10.3389/fclim.2022.1009234 Titel anhand dieser DOI in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen.
Ge Q, Hao M, Ding F, Jiang D, Scheffran J, Helman D, Ide T (2022) Modelling armed conflict risk under climate change with machine learning and time-series data. Nature Communications 13: 2839. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30356-x Titel anhand dieser DOI in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen.
Franzke CLE, Ciullo A, Gilmore EA, Matias DM, Nagabhatla N, Orlov A, Paterson SK, Scheffran J, Sillmann J (2022) Perspectives on tipping points in integrated models of the natural and human Earth system: cascading effects and telecoupling. Environmental Research Letters 17 (1): 15004. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac42fd Titel anhand dieser DOI in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen
Mach KJ, Adger WN, Buhaug H, Burke M, Fearon JD, Field CB, Hendrix CS, Kraan CM, Maystadt JF, O’Loughlin J, Roessler P, Scheffran J, Schultz KA, von Uexkull N (2020) Directions for Research on Climate and Conflict. Earth’s Future 8(7): 1-7 (e2020EF001532). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EF001532 Titel anhand dieser DOI in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen
Mach KJ, Kraan CM, Adger WN, Buhaug H, Burke M, Fearon JD, Field CB, Hendrix CS, Maystadt JF, O’Loughlin J, Roessler P, Scheffran J, Schultz KA, von Uexkull N (2019): Climate as a risk factor for armed conflict; Nature, 571(7764).
BenDor TK, Scheffran J (2019) Agent-Based Modeling of Environmental Conflict and Cooperation. Taylor & Francis, CRC Press
Scheffran J (2019) The entwined Cold War roots of missile defense and climate geoengineering. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 75(5):222-228. DOI:10.1080/00963402.2019.1654256