Karl Zimmerer

Affiliate Researcher
Titles and Affiliations
Professor, Geography

Research Summary

Current research focuses on agrobiodiversity change and resilience related to water resource use, irrigation and climate change; spatial interactions involving the role of social networks and environmental factors in high-agrobiodiversity farming and organic.

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Recent Publications

Entangled pathways of the Plantationocene: early colonial monocropping, subaltern agrobiodiversity, and aridity in Andalus (Spain) and Coastal Peru

Zimmerer, K. S., Tubbeh, R. M. & Bell, M. G., 2024, In: Journal of Peasant Studies. 51, 3, p. 624-650 27 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debatepeer-review

Correction to: Land-System Changes and Migration Amidst the Opium Poppy Collapse in the Southern Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico (2016–2020) (Human Ecology, (2023), 51, 2, (189-205), 10.1007/s10745-022-00388-4)

Tamariz, G., Zimmerer, K. S. & Hultquist, C., Apr 2023, In: Human Ecology. 51, 2, p. 207 1 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debatepeer-review

Land-System Changes and Migration Amidst the Opium Poppy Collapse in the Southern Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico (2016-2020)

Tamariz, G., Zimmerer, K. S. & Hultquist, C., Apr 2023, In: Human Ecology. 51, 2, p. 189-205 17 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Global modeling of the socioeconomic, political, and environmental relations of farmer seed systems (FSS): Spatial analysis and insights for sustainable Development

Zimmerer, K. S., Vanek, S. J., Baumann, M. D. & van Etten, J., Apr 20 2023, In: Elementa. 11, 1, 11.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Landscape products for sustainable agricultural landscapes

García-Martín, M., Huntsinger, L., Ibarrola-Rivas, M. J., Penker, M., D’Ambrosio, U., Dimopoulos, T., Fernández-Giménez, M. E., Kizos, T., Muñoz-Rojas, J., Saito, O., Zimmerer, K. S., Abson, D. J., Liu, J., Quintas-Soriano, C., Sørensen, I. H., Verburg, P. H. & Plieninger, T., Oct 2022, In: Nature Food. 3, 10, p. 814-821 8 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Useful Plants from the Wild to Home Gardens: An Analysis of Home Garden Ethnobotany in Contexts of Habitat Conversion and Land Use Change in Jeju, South Korea

Hong, Y. & Zimmerer, K. S., Nov 3 2022, In: Journal of Ethnobiology. 42, 3, p. 1-21 21 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

A Systematic Review of EU-Funded Innovative Agri-Food Projects: Potential for Transfer between Territories

Ibáñez-Jiménez, Á., Jiménez-Olivencia, Y., Mesa-Pedrazas, Á., Porcel-Rodríguez, L. & Zimmerer, K., Apr 2022, In: Land. 11, 4, 519.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Assessing social-ecological connectivity of agricultural landscapes in Spain: Resilience implications amid agricultural intensification trends and urbanization

Zimmerer, K. S., Olivencia, Y. J., Rodríguez, L. P., López-Estébanez, N., Álvarez, F. A., Olmo, R. M., Ochoa, C. Y., Pulpón, Á. R. R. & García, Ó. J., Dec 2022, In: Agricultural Systems. 203, 103525.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Entanglements of agrobiodiversity-food amid cascading migration, coca conflicts, and water development (Bolivia, 1990–2013)

Zimmerer, K. S., Rojas Vaca, H. L. & Hosse Sahonero, M. T., Jan 2022, In: Geoforum. 128, p. 223-235 13 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Integrating Social-Ecological and Political-Ecological Models of Agrobiodiversity With Nutrient Management of Keystone Food Spaces to Support SDG 2

Zimmerer, K. S., Jones, A. D., de Haan, S., Creed-Kanashiro, H., Tubbeh, R. M., Hultquist, C., Tello Villavicencio, M. N., Plasencia Amaya, F. & Nguyen, K. T., Mar 31 2022, In: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 6, 734943.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Land use change dynamics in Euro-mediterranean mountain regions: Driving forces and consequences for the landscape

Jiménez-Olivencia, Y., Ibáñez-Jiménez, Á., Porcel-Rodríguez, L. & Zimmerer, K., Oct 2021, In: Land Use Policy. 109, 105721.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Bridging the troubled waters of tourism studies: from social capital and rural community development to livelihood sovereignty

Naylor, R. S., Hunt, C. A. & Zimmerer, K. S., 2021, In: International Journal of Tourism Anthropology. 8, 4, p. 370-390 21 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Emic views of community resilience and coastal tourism development

Naylor, R. S., Hunt, C. A., Zimmerer, K. S. & Taff, B. D., Sep 2021, In: Societies. 11, 3, 94.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Grand Challenges in Urban Agriculture: Ecological and Social Approaches to Transformative Sustainability

Zimmerer, K. S., Bell, M. G., Chirisa, I., Duvall, C. S., Egerer, M., Hung, P. Y., Lerner, A. M., Shackleton, C., Ward, J. D. & Yacamán Ochoa, C., Apr 9 2021, In: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 5, 668561.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Urbanization and agrobiodiversity: Leveraging a key nexus for sustainable development

Zimmerer, K. S., Duvall, C. S., Jaenicke, E. C., Minaker, L. M., Reardon, T. & Seto, K. C., Nov 19 2021, In: One Earth. 4, 11, p. 1557-1568 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalReview articlepeer-review