Barbara Cosens

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Barbara Cosens is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Barbara Cosens has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 15 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Barbara Cosens's work include Water resources management and optimization (11 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (11 papers) and Transboundary Water Resource Management (10 papers). Barbara Cosens is often cited by papers focused on Water resources management and optimization (11 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (11 papers) and Transboundary Water Resource Management (10 papers). Barbara Cosens collaborates with scholars based in United States, Finland and Sweden. Barbara Cosens's co-authors include Brian C. Chaffin, Hannah Gosnell, Lance Gunderson, Ahjond S. Garmestani, Melinda Harm Benson, Robin Kundis Craig, Craig R. Allen, J. B. Ruhl, Craig Anthony Arnold and David G. Angeler and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Conservation Biology and Journal of Environmental Management.

In The Last Decade

Barbara Cosens

59 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

A decade of adaptive governance scholarship: synthesis an... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 100 200 300 400

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Barbara Cosens United States 21 997 465 384 305 248 63 2.0k
Po Garden Thailand 12 1.2k 1.2× 619 1.3× 420 1.1× 240 0.8× 254 1.0× 15 2.3k
Brian C. Chaffin United States 25 1.4k 1.4× 687 1.5× 477 1.2× 238 0.8× 322 1.3× 54 2.6k
Bruce Mitchell Canada 25 641 0.6× 491 1.1× 454 1.2× 365 1.2× 251 1.0× 92 2.1k
Marc Craps Belgium 12 893 0.9× 483 1.0× 284 0.7× 384 1.3× 126 0.5× 37 1.8k
Lowell Pritchard Sweden 3 1.2k 1.2× 490 1.1× 465 1.2× 163 0.5× 304 1.2× 4 2.1k
H.F.M.W. van Rijswick Netherlands 28 1.4k 1.4× 868 1.9× 326 0.8× 246 0.8× 125 0.5× 120 2.3k
Sharachchandra Lélé India 23 1.2k 1.2× 291 0.6× 345 0.9× 144 0.5× 324 1.3× 64 2.3k
Nathan L. Engle United States 14 988 1.0× 729 1.6× 254 0.7× 330 1.1× 183 0.7× 32 2.1k
Marcela Brugnach Netherlands 20 1.0k 1.0× 303 0.7× 251 0.7× 421 1.4× 181 0.7× 58 2.0k
Robin Kundis Craig United States 21 750 0.8× 378 0.8× 446 1.2× 125 0.4× 270 1.1× 138 1.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Barbara Cosens

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Barbara Cosens

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Soininen, Niko, J. B. Ruhl, Barbara Cosens, & Lance Gunderson. (2025). Governing complexity: A comparative assessment of four governance models with applications to climate change mitigation and adaptation. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 57. 101020–101020. 1 indexed citations
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Cosens, Barbara, J. B. Ruhl, Niko Soininen, et al.. (2021). Governing complexity: Integrating science, governance, and law to manage accelerating change in the globalized commons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(36). 44 indexed citations
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Cosens, Barbara, et al.. (2020). Designing Law to Enable Adaptive Governance of Modern Wicked Problems. Vanderbilt law review. 73(6). 1687. 18 indexed citations
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Cosens, Barbara, Robin Kundis Craig, Shana Lee Hirsch, et al.. (2017). The role of law in adaptive governance. Ecology and Society. 22(1). 1–30. 87 indexed citations
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Gunderson, Lance, Barbara Cosens, Brian C. Chaffin, et al.. (2017). Regime shifts and panarchies in regional scale social-ecological water systems. Ecology and Society. 22(1). 1–31. 85 indexed citations
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Gunderson, Lance, Barbara Cosens, & Ahjond S. Garmestani. (2016). Adaptive governance of riverine and wetland ecosystem goods and services. Journal of Environmental Management. 183(Pt 2). 353–360. 46 indexed citations
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Kiparsky, Michael, Dave Owen, Holly Doremus, et al.. (2016). Designing Effective Groundwater Sustainability Agencies: Criteria for Evaluation of Local Governance Options. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 16 indexed citations
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Cosens, Barbara, Lance Gunderson, & Brian C. Chaffin. (2015). Introduction: The Adaptive Water Governance Project: Assessing Law, Resilience and Governance in Regional Socio-Ecological Water Systems Facing a Changing Climate. 51(1). 1–27. 12 indexed citations
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Chaffin, Brian C., Hannah Gosnell, & Barbara Cosens. (2014). A decade of adaptive governance scholarship: synthesis and future directions. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Cosens, Barbara & Alexander K. Fremier. (2013). Assessing System Resilience and Ecosystem Services in Large River Basins: A Case Study of the Columbia River Basin. 51(1). 91–125. 18 indexed citations
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Cosens, Barbara, et al.. (2012). Resilience and Water Governance: Adaptive Governance in the Columbia River Basin. Ecology and Society. 17(4). 94 indexed citations
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Cosens, Barbara. (2012). Transboundary river governance in the face of uncertainty : the Columbia River Treaty : a project of the Universities Consortium on Columbia River Governance. 2 indexed citations
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Cosens, Barbara, Jan Boll, & Alexander K. Fremier. (2012). Adaptive Governance and Resilience: the Columbia River Basin. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012. 1 indexed citations
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Cosens, Barbara. (2012). Resilience and Law as a Theoretical Backdrop for Natural Resource Management: Flood Management in the Columbia River Basin. 42(1). 241. 9 indexed citations
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Cosens, Barbara. (2010). TRANSBOUNDARY RIVER GOVERNANCE IN THE FACE OF UNCERTAINTY: RESILIENCE THEORY AND THE COLUMBIA RIVER TREATY. 30(2). 36 indexed citations
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Cosens, Barbara. (2008). Resolving Conflict in Non-Ideal, Complex Systems: Solutions for the Law-Science Breakdown in Environmental and Natural Resource Law. Natural resources journal. 48(2). 257. 5 indexed citations
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Boll, Jan, Barbara Cosens, Fritz Fiedler, et al.. (2006). University of Idaho Water of the West Initiative: Development of a sustainable, interdisciplinary water resources program. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2006. 1 indexed citations
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Cosens, Barbara. (2003). Water Dispute Resolution in the West: Process Elements for the Modern Era in Basin-Wide Problem Solving. 33(4). 949. 3 indexed citations
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Cosens, Barbara. (2003). Farmers, Fish, Tribal Power, and Poker: Reallocating Water in the Truckee River Basin, Nevada and California. eYLS (Yale Law School). 10(1). 1243. 2 indexed citations
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Cosens, Barbara. (2002). The Measure of Indian Water Rights: The Arizona Homeland Standard, Gila River Adjudication. Natural resources journal. 42(4). 835. 1 indexed citations

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