Leah Temper

4.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
39 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Leah Temper is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Building and Construction and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Leah Temper has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 13 papers in Building and Construction and 10 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Leah Temper's work include Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (13 papers), Mining and Resource Management (13 papers) and Water Governance and Infrastructure (10 papers). Leah Temper is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (13 papers), Mining and Resource Management (13 papers) and Water Governance and Infrastructure (10 papers). Leah Temper collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Canada and United States. Leah Temper's co-authors include Joan Martínez Alier, Arnim Scheidel, Daniela Del Bene, Stanislav Shmelev, Mariana Walter, Federico Demaria, Brototi Roy, Sofía Ávila, Grettel Navas and Giorgos Kallis and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Science Advances.

In The Last Decade

Leah Temper

37 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Mapping the frontiers and front lines of global environmental justice: the EJAtlas

2015 346 citations Leah Temper et al. Journal of Political Ecology profile →
Is there a global environmental justice movement?

2016 326 citations Joan Martínez Alier, Leah Temper et al. profile →
Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview

2020 295 citations Arnim Scheidel, Daniela Del Bene et al. Global Environmental Change profile →
Environmental justice and the SDGs: from synergies to gaps and contradictions

2020 227 citations Mary Menton, Carlos Larrea et al. Sustainability Science profile →
A perspective on radical transformations to sustainability: resistances, movements and alternatives

2018 181 citations Leah Temper, Mariana Walter et al. Sustainability Science profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Leah Temper	1.4k	817	716	548	421	39	3.0k
Arnim Scheidel	999 0.7×	461 0.6×	574 0.8×	363 0.7×	402 1.0×	37	2.2k
Federico Demaria	862 0.6×	370 0.5×	460 0.6×	418 0.8×	237 0.6×	38	2.3k
Philippe Le Billon	2.7k 1.9×	1.6k 2.0×	790 1.1×	933 1.7×	354 0.8×	142	5.8k
Mariana Walter	794 0.6×	619 0.8×	331 0.5×	326 0.6×	161 0.4×	37	1.7k
Yvonne Rydin	1.0k 0.7×	377 0.5×	819 1.1×	416 0.8×	185 0.4×	112	3.5k
Raymond L. Bryant	1.3k 0.9×	316 0.4×	1.1k 1.5×	829 1.5×	545 1.3×	49	3.3k
Susan Owens	1.1k 0.8×	542 0.7×	926 1.3×	275 0.5×	108 0.3×	86	3.3k
Alexander Dunlap	828 0.6×	486 0.6×	279 0.4×	433 0.8×	351 0.8×	62	1.7k
Tor A. Benjaminsen	1.7k 1.2×	300 0.4×	1.7k 2.3×	536 1.0×	1.1k 2.6×	124	4.8k
Karen Bakker	2.0k 1.4×	401 0.5×	1.2k 1.7×	3.1k 5.7×	325 0.8×	80	6.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leah Temper

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Walter, Mariana, et al.. (2026). Social movements are transformative agents for biodiversity conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 123(4). e2513327123–e2513327123.

Scheidel, Arnim, Álvaro Fernández‐Llamazares, Daniela Del Bene, et al.. (2023). Global impacts of extractive and industrial development projects on Indigenous Peoples’ lifeways, lands, and rights. Science Advances. 9(23). eade9557–eade9557. 60 indexed citations

Temper, Leah, et al.. (2021). Resistance as governance: Transformative strategies forged on the frontlines of extractivism in Canada. The Extractive Industries and Society. 9. 100919–100919. 29 indexed citations

Scheidel, Arnim, Daniela Del Bene, Juan Liu, et al.. (2020). Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview. Global Environmental Change. 63. 102104–102104. 295 indexed citations breakdown →

Temper, Leah, Sofía Ávila, Daniela Del Bene, et al.. (2020). Movements shaping climate futures: A systematic mapping of protests against fossil fuel and low-carbon energy projects. Environmental Research Letters. 15(12). 123004–123004. 184 indexed citations

Menton, Mary, Carlos Larrea, Sara Latorre, et al.. (2020). Environmental justice and the SDGs: from synergies to gaps and contradictions. Sustainability Science. 15(6). 1621–1636. 227 indexed citations breakdown →

Temper, Leah, Federico Demaria, Arnim Scheidel, Daniela Del Bene, & Joan Martínez Alier. (2018). The Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas): ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability. Sustainability Science. 13(3). 573–584. 180 indexed citations

Temper, Leah. (2018). Blocking pipelines, unsettling environmental justice: from rights of nature to responsibility to territory. Local Environment. 24(2). 94–112. 100 indexed citations

Scheidel, Arnim, Leah Temper, Federico Demaria, & Joan Martínez Alier. (2017). Ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability: an overview and conceptual framework. Sustainability Science. 13(3). 585–598. 167 indexed citations

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Scheidel, Arnim, Leah Temper, Federico Demaria, & Joan Martínez Alier. (2017). Correction to: Ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability: an overview and conceptual framework. Sustainability Science. 13(4). 1195–1195. 4 indexed citations

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Temper, Leah. (2016). Who gets the HANPP (Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production)? Biomass distribution and the bio-economy in the Tana Delta, Kenya. Journal of Political Ecology. 23(1). 14 indexed citations

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Temper, Leah, et al.. (2014). EJATLAS, mapeo colaborativo como herramienta para el monitoreo de la (in) justicia ambiental. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 10–13. 3 indexed citations

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Temper, Leah. (2014). Environmentalism of the dispossessed: Mapping ecologies of resistance. Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). 5 indexed citations

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Alier, Joan Martínez, Leah Temper, Wagner Lopes Soares, et al.. (2014). The many faces of land grabbing: Cases from Africa and Latin America. 13 indexed citations

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Alier, Joan Martínez, et al.. (2013). Ecological Economics from the Ground Up. Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles). 50 indexed citations

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Temper, Leah, et al.. (2012). A New EJOLT Report: Towards a Post-Oil Civilization. Yasunization and Other Initiatives to Leave Fossil Fuels in the Soil. Estudo Geral (Universidade de Coimbra). 184–193. 4 indexed citations

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Singh, Simron Jit, Fridolin Krausmann, Simone Gingrich, et al.. (2012). India's biophysical economy, 1961–2008. Sustainability in a national and global context. Ecological Economics. 76(100). 60–69. 56 indexed citations

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Alier, Joan Martínez, Leah Temper, Mariana Walter, et al.. (2011). Between science and activism: learning and teaching ecological economics with environmental justice organisations. Local Environment. 16(1). 17–36. 61 indexed citations

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Temper, Leah. (2009). Creating Facts on the Ground: Agriculture in Israel and Palestine (1882-2000). Historia Agraria Revista de agricultura e historia rural. 75–110. 3 indexed citations

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Alier, Joan Martínez & Leah Temper. (2007). Viaje a Orissa. Ecología política. 98–101. 1 indexed citations

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