Publications

Holden P, Ngoma G, Visser M, Amekudzic LK, Amekugbe M, Boahen E, Borurue E, Bostironnois A, Dorda S, Ekaig DE, Forbes C, Gordon C, Humphrey G, Lartey D, Mngumi L, Mugoe JW, New M, Obiero L, Ouma G, van Aardenne L, Walawege R, Wolski P. 2025. submitted. Unlocking innovation in climate services through meaningful co-production for nature-based solutions. PNAS. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-6760437/v1

Stadler L, Benya S, Ziervogel G, Holden P. 2024. under revision. Integrating intersectionality into climate risk assessments: Review of gendered vulnerability in South Africa. WIRES Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.173152347.75935200/v1

Rebelo AJ, Glenday J, Holden PB, Gokool S, Gwapedza D, Metho P, Tanner J. 2025. Structural differences across hydrological models affect certainty of predictions of nature-based solution benefits. Ecological Modelling. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2024.110940

Holden PB, Anderson M, Eckardt F, Ziervogel G, Jack SL, New MG, Smit J, Visser M, Hoffman MT. 2024. Importance of methodological pluralism in deriving counterfactuals for evidence-based conservation. Conservation Biology 38. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14285

Simpson NP, Mach KJ, Tebboth MGL, Gilmore EA, Siders AR, Holden P, Anderson B, Singh C, Sabour S, Stringer LC, Sterly H, Williams PA, Meyer ALS, Cundill G, Rosengaertner S, Nunow A, Amakrane K, Trisos C. 2024. Research priorities for climate mobility. One Earth 7(4):589–607.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.02.002

Holden PB, Rebelo AJ, Wolski P, Odoulami R, Lawal K, Kimutai J, Nkemelang T, New MG. 2022. Nature-based solutions in mountain catchments reduce impact of anthropogenic climate change on drought streamflow. Communications Earth & Environment 3:51. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-022-00379-9  

Rebelo AJ, Holden PB, Hallowes J, Eady B, Cullis J, Esler KJ, New MG. 2022. The hydrological impacts of restoration: a modelling study of alien tree clearing in four mountain catchments in South Africa. Journal of Hydrology 610. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0022169422003468

Holden PB, Rebelo AJ, New MG. 2021. Mapping invasive alien trees in water towers: a combined approach using satellite data fusion, drone technology and expert engagement. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2020.100448

Holden PB, Ziervogel G, Hoffman TM, New MG. 2021. Transition from subsistence grazing to nature-based recreation: A nuanced view of land abandonment in a mountain social-ecological system, southwestern Cape, South Africa. Land Use Policy 105: 105429. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105429

Midgley SJE, Esler KJ, Holden PB, Rebelo AJ, Stuart-Hill SI, Cullis JDS, Methner N. 2021. Typologies of collaborative governance for scalable nature-based solutions in two strategic South African river systems. Ambio 50: 587–609. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-021-01531-z

Rebelo AJ, Gokool S, Holden PB, New MG. 2021. Can Sentinel-2 be used to detect invasive alien trees and shrubs in Savanna and Grassland Biomes? Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2021.100600

Rebelo AJ, Holden PB, Esler KJ, New MG. 2021. Benefits of water-related ecological infrastructure investments to support sustainable land use: a review of evidence from two critically stressed water management areas in South Africa. Royal Society Open Science 8(4): 201402. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201402  

Sellberg MM, Cockburn J, Holden PB, Lam D. 2021. Towards a caring transdisciplinary research practice: navigating science, society and self. Ecosystems and People 17(1): 292–305. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2021.1931452

Holden PB, Smit J. 2019. Accuracy of automatic aerial triangulation with bundle block adjustment on large historical image blocks in mountainous terrain. South African Journal of Geomatics 8(1): 12–29. http://sajg.org.za/index.php/sajg/article/view/617