Michael Obersteiner

Research interests

Publications

• The meaning of net zero and how to get it right

  Nature Climate Change · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01245-w

• Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water

  Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2021 · 10.1038/s41559-021-01528-7

• Innovation can accelerate the transition towards a sustainable food system

  Nature Food · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-020-0074-1

• Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

  Nature · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2784-9

• Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy

  Nature · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2705-y

• Can N 2 O emissions offset the benefits from soil organic carbon storage?

  Global Change Biology · 2020 · 10.1111/gcb.15342

• Contribution of the land sector to a 1.5 °C world

  Nature Climate Change · 2019 · 10.1038/s41558-019-0591-9

• Citizen science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

  Nature Sustainability · 2019 · 10.1038/s41893-019-0390-3

• Global patterns of phosphatase activity in natural soils

  Scientific Reports · 2017 · 10.1038/s41598-017-01418-8

• EU Reference Scenario 2016 - Energy, transport and GHG emissions Trends to 2050.

  IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis) · 2016

• Land-use futures in the shared socio-economic pathways

  Global Environmental Change · 2016 · 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.10.002

• The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and their energy, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions implications: An overview

  Global Environmental Change · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.05.009

• The marker quantification of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 2: A middle-of-the-road scenario for the 21st century

  Global Environmental Change · 2016 · 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.06.004

• What are the limits to oil palm expansion?

  Global Environmental Change · 2016 · 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.06.007

• Mapping global cropland and field size

  Global Change Biology · 2015 · 10.1111/gcb.12838

• Biophysical and economic limits to negative CO2 emissions

  Nature Climate Change · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2870

• Nutrient availability as the key regulator of global forest carbon balance

  Nature Climate Change · 2014 · 10.1038/nclimate2177

• Climate change mitigation through livestock system transitions

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2014 · 10.1073/pnas.1308044111

• Biomass use, production, feed efficiencies, and greenhouse gas emissions from global livestock systems

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1308149110

• Human-induced nitrogen–phosphorus imbalances alter natural and managed ecosystems across the globe

  Nature Communications · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms3934

• A high-resolution assessment on global nitrogen flows in cropland

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010 · 10.1073/pnas.0913658107

• Competition for land

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2010 · 10.1098/rstb.2010.0127

• Fixing a Critical Climate Accounting Error

  Science · 2009 · 10.1126/science.1178797

• Investment under market and climate policy uncertainty

  Applied Energy · 2008 · 10.1016/j.apenergy.2008.01.005

• Global cost estimates of reducing carbon emissions through avoided deforestation

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2008 · 10.1073/pnas.0710616105

Current projects

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