Alf Hornborg

7.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
146 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Alf Hornborg is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alf Hornborg has authored 146 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 23 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 18 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alf Hornborg's work include Global Energy and Sustainability Research (23 papers), Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis (16 papers) and Geographies of human-animal interactions (12 papers). Alf Hornborg is often cited by papers focused on Global Energy and Sustainability Research (23 papers), Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis (16 papers) and Geographies of human-animal interactions (12 papers). Alf Hornborg collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and United Kingdom. Alf Hornborg's co-authors include Andreas Malm, Joan Martínez Alier, John McNeill, Christian Dorninger, Jonathan D. Hill, Lennart Olsson, Johannes Persson, Robert L. Feller, Klaus Hubacek and Hanspeter Wieland and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Ecological Economics and Sustainability.

In The Last Decade

Alf Hornborg

129 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Peers

Alf Hornborg
Comparison fields: 5 of 132
  • Sociology and Political Science 1.3k
  • Global and Planetary Change 744
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 560
  • Economics and Econometrics 549
  • Environmental Engineering 537
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All Works

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Conceptualizing Ecologically Unequal Exchange: Society and Nature Entwined
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Correlating Landesque Capital and Ethnopolitical Integration in Pre-Columbian South America
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Rethinking the Industrial Revolution and the Rise of the West: Historical Contingencies and the Global Prerequisites of Modern Technology
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Myten om maskinen: Essäer om makt, modernitet och miljö
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Environmental load displacement in world history
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Rethinking environmental history: World-system history and global environmental change
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Perspectives on Diamond's "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed"
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Comment on Gísli Pálsson and Kristín Hardardóttir, "For whom the cell tolls: Debates about biomedicine"
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Comment on Peter Brosius, "Anthropological Engagements with Environmentalism"
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Comment on Nurit Bird-David, "'Animism' Revisited: Personhood, Environment, and Relational Epistemology"
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Encompassing encompassment: Identity, economy, and ecology
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Serial redundancy in Amazonian social structure: Is there a method for poststructuralist comparison?
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Miljöhistoria, humanekologi och ekologisk antropologi: Skillnader och konvergenser
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The Mi´kmaq of Nova Scotia: Environmentalism, ethnicity, and sacred places
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Voices of the land: Identity and ecology in the margins
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Nature and society: A contested interface
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Humanekologi som överlevnadsforskning
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Environmentalism and identity on Cape Breton: On the social and existential conditions for criticism
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