Michael Obersteiner

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis — Austria

Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences

109h-index47.5kcitations724works8.22yr avg
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Research Topics

Climate Change Policy and Economics(131), Forest Management and Policy(90), Environmental Impact and Sustainability(83), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics(58), Economic and Environmental Valuation(54)

Publications723 total

Stabilizing time-lagged climate impacts requires net-negative emissions for centuries
Environmental Research Letters·2026Open Access
From local landscapes to global: A cross-scale and cross-level framework for a more just food systems transformation
Land Use Policy·2025Open Access
Integrative Sustainable Development Goal policy portfolios to accelerate global progress towards a more sustainable future: a modelling study
The Lancet Planetary Health·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
A climate risk management typology: Integrating approaches to reduce risk
Dialogues on climate change.·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Getting into the doughnut: A framework for assessing systemic resilience in the global food system
One Earth·2025Open Access
Labour requirements for healthy and sustainable diets at global, regional, and national levels: a modelling study
The Lancet Planetary Health·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Strategic land reallocation enhances carbon sequestration and biodiversity protection without compromising agricultural productivity in Great Britain
Communications Earth & Environment·2025Open Access
Temporal complexity of terrestrial ecosystem functioning and its drivers
Nature Communications·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Mapping the option space for carbon sequestration, food and biodiversity in Great Britain
2025Open Access
Short-Term Forecasting Arabica Coffee Cherry Yields by Seq2Seq over LSTM for Smallholder Farmers
Sustainability·2025Open Access
Short-Term Forecasting Arabica Coffee Cherry Yields by Seq2Seq over LSTM for Smallholder Farmers
Preprints.org·2025Open Access
Beef trade enhancement could further reduce GHG emissions
2025Open Access
On the nature and attribution of severe droughts in the Amazon and Orinoco River basins in 2023 and 2024
2025Open Access
DisCoTec: Distributed higher-dimensional HPC simulations with the sparse grid combination technique
The Journal of Open Source Software·2025Open Access
Heterogeneities in landed costs of traded grains and oilseeds contribute to unequal access to food
Nature Food·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
The Green Scorpion: The Macro- Criticality of Nature for Finance Foundations for scenario-based analysis of complex and<br>Cascading Physical Nature-Related Financial Risks
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Temporal complexity of terrestrial ecosystem functioning and its drivers
2024Open Access
Beyond physics: Interdisciplinary pioneers reshaping the future
Nexus·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Bringing it all together: science priorities for improved understanding of Earth system change and to support international climate policy
Earth System Dynamics·2024· 14 citedOpen Access
Safeguarding China’s long-term sustainability against systemic disruptors
Nature Communications·2024· 18 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Peter Havlík(23), Mario Herrero(13), Hugo Valin(12), Philippe Ciais(10), Pete Smith(9), Steffen Fritz(9), Detlef P. van Vuuren(8), Elke Stehfest(7), Florian Kraxner(7), Alexander Popp(6), Josep Peñuelas(6), Jordi Sardans(6), Ivan A. Janssens(6), Philip K. Thornton(6), Mykola Gusti(6), Stefan Frank(6), Keywan Riahi(5), Oliver Fricko(5), Tomoko Hasegawa(5), Aline Mosnier(5)