| Are there social limits to adaptation to climate change? WN Adger, S Dessai, M Goulden, M Hulme, I Lorenzoni, DR Nelson, ... Climatic change 93 (3), 335-354, 2009 | 3802 | 2009 |
| Adaptation to environmental change: Contributions of a resilience framework DR Nelson, WN Adger, K . Brown Annual Review of Environment and Resources 32 (1), 395-419, 2007 | 3206 | 2007 |
| Resilience and vulnerability: complementary or conflicting concepts? F Miller, H Osbahr, E Boyd, F Thomalla, S Bharwani, G Ziervogel, ... Ecology and Society 15 (3), 2010 | 1425 | 2010 |
| Resilience implications of policy responses to climate change WN Adger, K Brown, DR Nelson, F Berkes, H Eakin, C Folke, K Galvin, ... Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 2 (5), 757-766, 2011 | 622 | 2011 |
| Differentiating capacities as a means to sustainable climate change adaptation HC Eakin, MC Lemos, DR Nelson Global environmental change 27, 1-8, 2014 | 518 | 2014 |
| Remote sensing and GIS at farm property level: Demography and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon SD McCracken, ES Brondizio, D Nelson, EF Moran, AD Siqueira, ... PE & RS- Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 65 (11), 1311-1320, 1999 | 321 | 1999 |
| Adaptation and resilience: responding to a changing climate DR Nelson Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 2 (1), 113-120, 2011 | 307 | 2011 |
| The use of seasonal climate forecasting in policymaking: lessons from Northeast Brazil MC Lemos, TJ Finan, RW Fox, DR Nelson, J Tucker Climatic Change 55 (4), 479-507, 2002 | 307 | 2002 |
| Unstable climates: Exploring the statistical and social constructions of ‘normal’climate M Hulme, S Dessai, I Lorenzoni, DR Nelson Geoforum 40 (2), 197-206, 2009 | 250 | 2009 |
| Integrated and adaptive management of water resources: tensions, legacies, and the next best thing NL Engle, OR Johns, MC Lemos, DR Nelson Ecology and society 16 (1), 2011 | 239 | 2011 |
| Building adaptive capacity to climate change in less developed countries MC Lemos, A Agrawal, H Eakin, DR Nelson, NL Engle, O Johns Climate science for serving society: Research, modeling and prediction …, 2013 | 229 | 2013 |
| Challenges to realizing the potential of nature-based solutions DR Nelson, BP Bledsoe, S Ferreira, NP Nibbelink Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 45, 49-55, 2020 | 223 | 2020 |
| Linking development to climate adaptation: Leveraging generic and specific capacities to reduce vulnerability to drought in NE Brazil MC Lemos, YJ Lo, DR Nelson, H Eakin, AM Bedran-Martins Global Environmental Change 39, 170-179, 2016 | 211 | 2016 |
| Praying for drought: persistent vulnerability and the politics of patronage in Ceará, Northeast Brazil DR Nelson, TJ Finan American Anthropologist, 302-316, 2009 | 196 | 2009 |
| The colonist footprint: toward a conceptual framework of land use and deforestation trajectories among small farmers in the Amazonian Frontier. ES Brondizio, SD McCracken, EF Moran, AD Siqueira, DR Nelson, ... | 195 | 2002 |
| Hidden costs and disparate uncertainties: trade-offs in approaches to climate policy H Eakin, EL Tompkins, DR Nelson, JM Anderies Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values, Governance, 212, 2009 | 175 | 2009 |
| Making rain, making roads, making do: public and private adaptations to drought in Ceará, Northeast Brazil TJ Finan, DR Nelson Climate research 19 (2), 97-108, 2001 | 165 | 2001 |
| Unpacking multilevel adaptation to climate change in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia PIJ Fidelman, AM Leitch, DR Nelson Global Environmental Change 23 (4), 800-812, 2013 | 140 | 2013 |
| Introduction to “In focus: Global change and adaptation in local places” DR Nelson, CT West, TJ Finan American Anthropologist 111 (3), 271-274, 2009 | 82 | 2009 |
| Brazil’s Bolsa Escola program: The role of local governance in decentralized implementation A De Janvry, F Finan, E Sadoulet, D Nelson, K Lindert, B de la Brière, ... Washington, DC: World Bank, Social Protection (SP), SP Discussion Paper, 2005 | 81 | 2005 |