Publications

Publications are one of PIKs most important outputs. On this page you will find our latest work and further information
Lin, Bin, Wang, Xiaoxi, Dalheimer, Bernhard, Brümmer, Bernhard (2026): Farm Size, Technical Efficiency, and Environmental Performance: Evidence From Rice Production in China - Agricultural Economics
Pineda Schwarz, Diegopablo, Didovets, Iulii, Fallah, Bijan H., Hattermann, Fred Fokko, Saddique, Qaisar, Wesch, Stefanie (2026): Climate Country Risk Profile: Kazakhstan
Subedi, Daya Raj, Kandel, Giri Prasad, Liu, Qijing, Bhuju, Dinesh Raj, Shrestha, Rajendra Prasad, Pradhan, Prajal (2026): How locals’ views on ecosystem (dis)services vary: Socio-demographic insights from a Himalayan protected area - Sustainable Horizons
Dorndorf, Tabea, Hagemann, Nikolas, Merfort, Anne, Fuss, Sabine, Strefler, Jessica (2026): Techno-economics and value judgments of modeling biochar production for carbon removal in climate change mitigation scenarios - Energy Research and Social Science
Morales-Rueda, Fernando, Nyasulu, Maganizo Kruger, Fischer, Harry W., Fetzer, Ingo, Tabik, Siham, Alcaraz-Segura, Domingo, Castro, Jorge (2026): AI-driven forest restoration: A governance framework for people and nature - Environmental Science and Policy
Ulpiani, Giulia, Rodriguez Mendez, Quirina, Todeschi, Valeria, Hernandez Moral, Gema, Vetters, Nadja, Pittalis, Marco, Fuss, Sabine, Gevers Deynoot, Christiaan, Creutzig, Felix (2026): Cities need robust carbon dioxide removal strategies to meet net-zero targets [Policy Brief] - Nature Climate Change
Wolff, Erich, Hamel, Perrine, Lechner, Alex M., Irvine, Kim, Frantzeskaki, Niki, Diep, Loan, Tavenisa, Luisa, Welch, Ashley, Cajilig, Pamela Gloria, Sen, Monalisa, Pottinger-Glass, Chloe, Mannetti, Lelani, Tan, Claudia, Bill-Weilandt, Alina, Edros Ahmad Shaikh, Shaikh Fairul, Shaad, Kashif, Oke, Cathy, Mengote-Quah, Dixi, Dzyuban, Yuliya (2026): Monitoring nature-based solutions is key for compliance, co-creation and practice improvement - Nature Sustainability
Du, Ruiying, Wang, Xiaoxi, Dietrich, Jan Philipp, Lin, Bin, Zhuang, Minghao, Chen, David Meng-Chuen, Popp, Alexander, Lotze-Campen, Hermann (2026): Environmental and resource-use implications of agricultural productivity and trade dynamics in China under future socioeconomic pathways - Cell Reports Sustainability
Müller, Christoph, Dentener, Frank, Vanuytrecht, Eline, Robinson, Elizabeth J.Z., van den Berg, Maurits, Toreti, Andrea, Maetens, Willem, Dasgupta, Shouro, Lager, Frida, Catarino, Rui: Climate risks for the European food system and policy preparedness - Global Food Security
Semenchenko, Ekaterina, Lindner, Michael, Prochaska, Paul, Hellmann, Frank: The cost of events in temporally-resolved energy system models: a stochastic programming approach - Energy Systems
Xu, Song, Xiao, Cunde, Jägermeyr, Jonas, Romanovsky, Vladimir E., Zhang, Zhao, Duan, Jianping, Su, Bo, Zhang, Tong (2026): Northern permafrost represents a limit on the northward shift of climatically feasible agricultural frontiers under future warming - Communications Earth and Environment
Rafiezadeh Shahi, Kasra, Caesar, Levke, Persello, Claudio, Rockström, Johan, Sakschewski, Boris (2026): Toward Actionable Planetary Boundary Intelligence [Commentary] - One Earth
Springmann, Marco, Sawyer, Alexia, Westengen, Ola T., Popp, Alexander, Herrero, Mario, Lotze-Campen, Hermann, Minten, Bart, Onyeaka, Helen, Cavatassi, Romina, Rao, Nitya, de Silva, Sanjiv, Smith, Lindsey, Popkin, Barry M., Popkin, Taillie (2026): What will it take? Voices on just and feasible food systems [Voices] - One Earth
Billing, Maik, Forrest, Matthew, Bowring, Simon P. K., Oberhagemann, Luke, Neidermeier, Alex N., Hetzer, Jessica, von Bloh, Werner, Müller, Christoph, Rolinski, Susanne, Hickler, Thomas, Thonicke, Kirsten (2026): Future Projections of Burned Area in Europe Highlight the Importance of Human Action - Global Change Biology
de Jonge-Anderson, Iain, Johnson, Gareth, Merfort, Anne, Strefler, Jessica, Harris, Catrin, Roberts, Jen (2026): Research brief: ensuring feasible CO2 geological storage projections in climate mitigation pathways
Rostami, Masoud, Fallah, Bijan H., Fazel-Rastgar, Farahnaz, Hamidi, Mehdi, Hariri, Saeed, Guo, Junxin, Fu, Li-Yun (2026): Towards a theoretical understanding of Arctic amplification dynamics - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Schaphoff, Sibyll, Hötten, David, Müller, Christoph, Gerten, Dieter, Ostberg, Sebastian, von Bloh, Werner (2026): Implementing methane dynamics into the LPJmL6 model - Geoscientific Model Development
Fazel-Rastgar, Farahnaz, Khansalari, Sakineh, Mthembu, S. H., Rostami, Masoud (2026): Rare snowfall in Southern Namibia: synoptic dynamics of cold-air intrusion and climate hazard processes in arid regions - Theoretical and Applied Climatology
Rimmert, Marlene, Schwarz, Luana, Janssen, Carolin, Alvarado Amaro, Aeon, Donges, Jonathan Friedemann (2026): Accelerating the transition to regenerative agriculture: A participatory modeling framework for analyzing social tipping elements and their interactions in the food and land use system - GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
Reußwig, Fritz, Kahlenborn, Walter, Lass, Wiebke, Walther, Carsten, Peter, Martin, Thiel, Susan, Voss, Maike, Schmid, Nicolas, John, Beatrice (2026): High-end climate change risks for Germany: Adaptive capacity between incrementalism and transformative adaptation - GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
Wen, Qin, Liu, Zhengyu, Wang, Tao, Ji, Chengwei, Liu, Jian, Cheng, Hai, Yan, Mi, Ning, Liang, Jing, Zhaowei, Liu, Heng, Lei, Jing, Lu, Jiuyou, Creutzig, Felix, Yin, Qiuzhen (2026): Contrasting marine and terrestrial responses of South Asian summer monsoon system caused by hemispheric insolation - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
Kart Tokmak, Özge, Caesar, Levke, Ludescher, Josef, Sakschewski, Boris (2026): A domain-adapted retrieval-augmented framework for transparent Earth system assessment - Communications Earth and Environment
Hoppe, Johanna, Ueckerdt, Falko, Plötz, Patrick, Link, Steffen, Speth, Daniel, Weißenburger, Bastian, Zhao, Pei, Pietzcker, Robert C. (2026): Cost competitiveness of alternative heavy-duty truck technologies under real-world utilisation profiles - Nature Communications
Marwan, Norbert, Braun, Tobias, Kurths, Jürgen (2026): A synergetic perspective of analysing phase space dynamics: the crucial role of recurrence - European Physical Journal - Special Topics
Gehrke, Esther, Lenel, Friederike, Schupp, Claudia: Career guidance and investments in education: Experimental evidence from Cambodia - Journal of Development Economics
Strefler, Jessica, Kriegler, Elmar, Bauer, Nicolas, Humpenöder, Florian, Hasse, Robin, Dessens, Olivier, Pye, Steve, Fragkos, Panagiotis, Tsimpoukis, Alexandros, Madianos, Michael, van Heerden, Rik, Tagomori, Isabela, de Boer, Harmen-Sytze, van Ruijven, Bas, Kishimoto, Paul Natsuo, Mastrucci, Alessio, Emmerling, Johannes, Tavoni, Massimo, Guivarch, Céline, Leblanc, Florian, Le Gallic, Thomas, Baptista, Luiz Bernardo, Angelkorte, Gerd, Schaeffer, Roberto (2026): A mix of policies is needed to close the climate ambition gap - Environmental Research Letters
Aglas-Leitner, Philipp, Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Sarah E., Brunner, Lukas, Undorf, Sabine, Aglas-Leitner, Florentina, Fischer, Erich, Stone, Dáithí A.: Recent extreme heatwaves are no match for the future - Nature Communications
Sudakow, Ivan, Myers, Corinne, Spiridonov, Andrej, Stankevic, Robertas, Feulner, Georg, Livina, Valerie (2026): Transitions between persistent climate-carbon regimes coincide with elevated Phanerozoic biosphere vulnerability - Nature Communications
Priesner, Jamir, Hötten, David, Schötz, Christof, Tietjen, Britta, Gelbrecht, Maximilian, Billing, Maik, Stenzel, Fabian, Thonicke, Kirsten: Reducing the computational cost of dynamic global vegetation models with locally weighted hierarchical clustering - European Physical Journal - Special Topics