Kate A. Brauman

University of Alabama — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

42h-index24.5kcitations146works8.62yr avg
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Research Topics

Land Use and Ecosystem Services(31), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies(27), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management(25), Water resources management and optimization(22), Economic and Environmental Valuation(14)

Publications146 total

Uncertainty of water footprint estimates caused by harvested area inputs
Environmental Research Water·2026Open Access
Most South American cloud forests are likely to disappear under high-end climate change
Journal for Nature Conservation·2025Open Access
Pathways to instability: A synthetic framework to parse connections between water and conflict
Environment and Security·2025· 1 cited
Yield improvements reduced global crop water footprint (1972–2018), but further action needed for water sustainability
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
‘You were elected to lead the living, not the dead’: a computational analysis of social media discourse about Nigerian farmer-herder conflicts
Environmental Research Water·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
A global open-source dataset of monthly irrigated and rainfed cropped areas (MIRCA-OS) for the 21st century
Scientific Data·2025· 15 citedOpen Access
Addressing water scarcity to support climate resilience and human health
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
The Global Dam Watch database of river barrier and reservoir information for large-scale applications
Scientific Data·2024· 62 citedOpen Access
A global open-source dataset of monthly irrigated and rainfed cropped areas (MIRCA-OS) for the 21st century
HydroShare Resources·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
Indicator metrics and temporal aggregations introduce ambiguities in water scarcity estimates
Scientific Reports·2024· 9 citedOpen Access
A global open-source dataset of monthly irrigated and rainfed cropped areas (MIRCA-OS) for the 21st century
2024Open Access
Telecoupled systems are rewired by risks
Nature Sustainability·2024· 4 cited
Toward more equitable ecosystem investment programs—Adaptation and equity are central to the design and functioning of successful water funds
Conservation Letters·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Publisher Correction: Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and methods for causal inference
Nature Communications·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
New paths for modelling freshwater nature futures
Sustainability Science·2023· 12 citedOpen Access
Ecosystem services produced by groundwater dependent ecosystems: a framework and case study in California
Frontiers in Water·2023· 35 citedOpen Access
Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and methods for causal inference
Nature Communications·2023· 117 citedOpen Access
Quantifying Earth system interactions for sustainable food production via expert elicitation
Nature Sustainability·2022· 41 citedOpen Access
An experiential model of drought risk and future irrigation behaviors among central Minnesota farmers
Climatic Change·2022· 10 cited
High‐Resolution Climate Projections Over Minnesota for the 21st Century
Earth and Space Science·2022· 31 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Stephen Polasky(11), James Gerber(7), Paul West(6), Gretchen C. Daily(6), Kimberly M. Carlson(6), Graham K. MacDonald(6), Stefan Siebert(5), Sandra Dı́az(5), Lucas A. Garibaldi(5), Justin A. Johnson(5), Rebecca Chaplin‐Kramer(5), Perrine Hamel(5), E. S. Cassidy(4), Zsolt Molnár(4), Kai M. A. Chan(4), Patricia Balvanera(4), Andy Purvis(4), Lisa Mandle(4), Bernhard Lehner(4), David L. Freyberg(4)