Ben Wisner

7.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
104 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Ben Wisner is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Wisner has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 11 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 8 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Ben Wisner's work include Disaster Management and Resilience (28 papers), Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (11 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (9 papers). Ben Wisner is often cited by papers focused on Disaster Management and Resilience (28 papers), Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (11 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (9 papers). Ben Wisner collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Ben Wisner's co-authors include Phil O’Keefe, Terry Cannon, Piers Blaikie, Ken Westgate, Ian D. Davis, Jon Adams, Joanne Rose, Geoff O’Brien, Joern Birkmann and Thomas A. Smucker and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Social Science & Medicine and Climatic Change.

In The Last Decade

Ben Wisner

100 papers receiving 3.9k citations

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Taking the naturalness out of natural disasters

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Swimming alone? Why linking flood risk perception and behavior requires more than “it's the individual, stupid” 2020 ·Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water ·Samuel Rufat, Alexander Fekete, Iuliana Armaș, Thomas Hartmann, Christian Kuhlicke, Tim Prior, Thomas Thaler, Ben Wisner	42
2	Fishing for a Future: Local Institutions, Aspirations and Agency in a Complex Climate Adaptation System 2020 ·Thomas A. Smucker, Ben Wisner	1
3	Rethinking the interplay between affluence and vulnerability to aid climate change adaptive capacity 2020 ·Climatic Change ·Christine Eriksen, Gregory L. Simon, Florian Roth, (unknown), Ben Wisner, Carolina Adler, Frank Thomalla, Anna Scolobig, (unknown), Michael Bründl, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Tim Prior	37
4	Communication With Children and Families About Disaster: Reviewing Multi-disciplinary Literature 2015–2017 2018 ·Current Psychiatry Reports ·Ben Wisner, Douglas Paton, Eva Alisic, (unknown), Cheney Shreve, Maureen Fordham	30
5	Petites catastrophes et réduction des risques 2014 ·OpenEdition (OpenEdition) ·Jean‐Christophe Gaillard, Ben Wisner, (unknown)	0
6	Are We There Yet? Reflections on Integrated Disaster Risk Management after Ten Years 2011 ·Ben Wisner	0
7	Are We There Yet? Reflections on Integrated Disaster Risk Management after Ten Years 2011 ·Ben Wisner	15
8	Alternatives for Sustained Disaster Risk Reduction 2010 ·Human Geography ·JC Gaillard, Ben Wisner, Djillali Benouar, Terry Cannon, (unknown), Julie Dekens, Maureen Fordham, Claude Gilbert, Kenneth Hewitt, Ilan Kelman, Allan Lavell, Julie Morin, (unknown), Phil O’Keefe, Anthony Oliver‐Smith, (unknown), Sandrine Revet, Karen Sudmeier-Rieux, Pauline Texier, (unknown)	25
9	Water, risk and vulnerability in Bangladesh: Twenty years since the FAP 2010 ·Environmental Hazards ·Brian R. Cook, Ben Wisner	5
10	Changing household responses to drought in Tharaka, Kenya: vulnerability, persistence and challenge 2007 ·Disasters ·Thomas A. Smucker, Ben Wisner	79
11	Climate change and disaster management 2006 ·Disasters ·Geoff O’Brien, Phil O’Keefe, Joanne Rose, Ben Wisner	339
12	Smoke and mirrors: deficiencies in disaster funding 2005 ·BMJ ·Peter Walker, Ben Wisner, Jennifer Leaning, Larry Minear	25
13	Swords, Plowshares, Earthquakes, Floods, and Storms in an Unstable, Globalizing World 2004 ·Journal of Natural Disaster Science ·Ben Wisner	4
14	Social planning and activism for earthquake risk reduction in megacities: the cases of Mexico city and Los Angeles 2003 ·Ben Wisner	1
15	Capitalism and the Shifting Spatial and Social Distribution of Hazard and Vulnerability 2001 ·Australian Journal of Emergency Management ·Ben Wisner	17
16	The Political Economy of Bananas: Contract Farming, Peasants, and Agrarian Change in the Eastern Caribbean 2000 ·Economic Geography ·Ben Wisner, Lawrence S. Grossman	3
17	Gobi versus PHC? Some dangers of selective primary health care 1988 ·Social Science & Medicine ·Ben Wisner	46
18	Child Nutrition in Taita, Kenya: A comment 1986 ·Classical Antiquity ·Ben Wisner	2
19	Famine relief and people's war 1975 ·Review of African Political Economy ·Ben Wisner	1
20	Drought and famine in Kenya 1973 ·(unknown), Ben Wisner	4

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