W. Neil Adger

77.5k total citations · 24 hit papers
246 papers, 42.4k citations indexed

About

W. Neil Adger is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, W. Neil Adger has authored 246 papers receiving a total of 42.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 78 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 51 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in W. Neil Adger's work include Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (74 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (38 papers) and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (32 papers). W. Neil Adger is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (74 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (38 papers) and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (32 papers). W. Neil Adger collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. W. Neil Adger's co-authors include Emma L. Tompkins, PM Kelly, Katrina Brown, Nigel W. Arnell, Jon Barnett, Katrina Brown, Donald R. Nelson, Mike Hulme, Terry P. Hughes and Nick Brooks and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

W. Neil Adger

241 papers receiving 38.6k citations

Hit Papers

Vulnerability 1999 2026 2008 2017 2006 2000 2005 2005 2008 1000 2.0k 3.0k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Vulnerability
    2006 3.7k citations W. Neil Adger Global Environmental Change profile →
  2. Social and ecological resilience: are they related?
    2000 2.9k citations W. Neil Adger profile →
  3. Successful adaptation to climate change across scales
    2005 2.0k citations W. Neil Adger, Nigel W. Arnell et al. Global Environmental Change profile →
  4. Social-Ecological Resilience to Coastal Disasters
    2005 1.8k citations W. Neil Adger, Terry P. Hughes et al. profile →
  5. Are there social limits to adaptation to climate change?
    2008 1.7k citations W. Neil Adger, Donald R. Nelson et al. profile →
  6. Social Capital, Collective Action, and Adaptation to Climate Change
    2003 1.7k citations W. Neil Adger profile →
  7. Scale and Cross-Scale Dynamics: Governance and Information in a Multilevel World
    2006 1.5k citations W. Neil Adger et al. profile →
  8. The determinants of vulnerability and adaptive capacity at the national level and the implications for adaptation
    2005 1.4k citations W. Neil Adger, PM Kelly et al. Global Environmental Change profile →
  9. Adaptation to Environmental Change: Contributions of a Resilience Framework
    2007 1.4k citations Donald R. Nelson, W. Neil Adger et al. profile →
  10. Adaptation to climate change in the developing world
    2003 1.2k citations W. Neil Adger, Katrina Brown et al. profile →
  11. Theory and Practice in Assessing Vulnerability to Climate Change andFacilitating Adaptation
    2000 1.1k citations PM Kelly, W. Neil Adger profile →
  12. Cultural dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation
    2012 926 citations W. Neil Adger, Jon Barnett et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  13. Social Vulnerability to Climate Change and Extremes in Coastal Vietnam
    1999 909 citations W. Neil Adger profile →
  14. Vulnerability of national economies to the impacts of climate change on fisheries
    2009 852 citations W. Neil Adger, Katrina Brown et al. profile →
  15. Does Adaptive Management of Natural Resources Enhance Resilience to Climate Change?
    2004 782 citations Emma L. Tompkins, W. Neil Adger profile →
  16. The effect of environmental change on human migration
    2011 743 citations W. Neil Adger, Nigel W. Arnell et al. Global Environmental Change profile →
  17. Climate change, human security and violent conflict
    2007 629 citations Jon Barnett, W. Neil Adger profile →
  18. Social Vulnerability to Climate Change and the Architecture of Entitlements
    1999 580 citations W. Neil Adger, PM Kelly profile →
  19. Advancing a Political Ecology of Global Environmental Discourses
    2001 553 citations W. Neil Adger, Katrina Brown et al. profile →
  20. Building adaptive capacity to climate change in tropical coastal communities
    2018 485 citations W. Neil Adger, Katrina Brown et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  21. Uncertainty in adaptive capacity
    2005 483 citations W. Neil Adger et al. profile →
  22. Climate as a risk factor for armed conflict
    2019 330 citations Katharine J. Mach, Caroline M. Kraan et al. profile →
  23. The black box of power in polycentric environmental governance
    2019 260 citations Tiffany H. Morrison, W. Neil Adger et al. Global Environmental Change profile →
  24. Empathy, place and identity interactions for sustainability
    2019 171 citations Katrina Brown, W. Neil Adger et al. Global Environmental Change profile →

Peers

W. Neil Adger
Comparison fields: 5 of 185
  • Sociology and Political Science 19.5k
  • Global and Planetary Change 17.1k
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 10.2k
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 6.4k
  • Economics and Econometrics 4.3k
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Gretchen C. Daily United States
Detlef P. van Vuuren Netherlands
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
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Migrants as sustainability actors: Contrasting nation, city and migrant discourses and actions
2024 ·Global Environmental Change ·(unknown), Emily Boyd, (unknown), W. Neil Adger, (unknown), Caroline Zickgraf, Sonja Fransen, (unknown), Anita Fábos, Edward R. Carr
6
2
Micro-scale transformations in sustainability practices: Insights from new migrant populations in growing urban settlements
2023 ·Global Environmental Change ·Mumuni Abu, Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe, W. Neil Adger, Sonja Fransen, (unknown), Ricardo Safra de Campos, (unknown), (unknown), Anita Fábos, Caroline Zickgraf
6
3
COVID-19 responses restricted abilities and aspirations for mobility and migration: insights from diverse cities in four continents
2023 ·Humanities and Social Sciences Communications ·Dominique Jolivet, Sonja Fransen, W. Neil Adger, Anita Fábos, Mumuni Abu, (unknown), Emily Boyd, Edward R. Carr, Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe, (unknown), François Gemenne, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ricardo Safra de Campos, Tasneem Siddiqui, Caroline Zickgraf
5
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Radical interventions for climate-impacted systems
2022 ·Nature Climate Change ·Tiffany H. Morrison, W. Neil Adger, Arun Agrawal, Katrina Brown, Matthew J. Hornsey, Terry P. Hughes, Meha Jain, Maria Carmen Lemos, (unknown), Saffron O’Neill, Derek Van Berkel
63
5
The migration-sustainability paradox: transformations in mobile worlds
2021 ·Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability ·(unknown), W. Neil Adger, Ricardo Safra de Campos, Emily Boyd, Edward R. Carr, Anita Fábos, Sonja Fransen, (unknown), Caroline Zickgraf, (unknown), Mumuni Abu, Tasneem Siddiqui
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6
A Changing Climate: Exploring the Implications of Climate Change for UK Defence and Security
2020 ·RAND Corporation eBooks ·Kate Cox, Anna Knack, Martin Robson, W. Neil Adger, (unknown), Jon Freeman, James R. Black, (unknown)
3
7
Political dynamics and governance of World Heritage ecosystems
2020 ·Nature Sustainability ·Tiffany H. Morrison, W. Neil Adger, Katrina Brown, Missaka Hettiarachchi, Cindy Huchery, Maria Carmen Lemos, Terry P. Hughes
47
8
Directions for Research on Climate and Conflict
2020 ·Earth s Future ·Katharine J. Mach, W. Neil Adger, Halvard Buhaug, Marshall Burke, James D. Fearon, Christopher B. Field, Cullen S. Hendrix, Caroline M. Kraan, Jean-François Maystadt, John Ο’Loughlin, Philip Roessler, Jürgen Scheffran, Kenneth Schultz, Nina von Uexkull
48
9
Advancing Coral Reef Governance into the Anthropocene
2020 ·One Earth ·Tiffany H. Morrison, W. Neil Adger, Jon Barnett, Katrina Brown, Hugh P. Possingham, Terry P. Hughes
94
10
Spatial and temporal dynamics of multidimensional well-being, livelihoods and ecosystem services in coastal Bangladesh
2016 ·Scientific Data ·Helen Adams, W. Neil Adger, Sate Ahmad, Ali Ahmed, (unknown), Attila N. Lázár, Zoë Matthews, Mohammed Mofizur Rahman, Peter Kim Streatfield
24
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Resilience
2011 ·Oxford University Press eBooks ·W. Neil Adger, Katrina Brown, (unknown)
9
12
Adaptation to Environmental Change: Contributions of a Resilience Framework
2007 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Donald R. Nelson, W. Neil Adger, Katrina Brown
38
13
Eliciting information on the likelihood of rapid climate change
2004 ·ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) ·Nigel W. Arnell, Emma L. Tompkins, W. Neil Adger
1
14
Responding to climate change: implications for development
2004 ·ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) ·Emma L. Tompkins, W. Neil Adger
1
15
Justice and equity in adaptation
2004 ·UWE Research Repository (UWE Bristol) ·Jona Razzaque, W. Neil Adger, (unknown), Jouni Paavola
2
16
Re-thinking response capacity to enhance climate change policy development
2003 ·ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) ·Emma L. Tompkins, W. Neil Adger
15
17
Adapting to Climate Change
2001 ·Cambridge University Press eBooks ·W. Neil Adger, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)
337
18
Living with Environmental Change: Social Resilience, Adaptation and Vulnerability in Vietnam
2001 ·UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia) ·W. Neil Adger, PM Kelly, (unknown)
26
19
Hierarchy of institutional pre-conditions for participatory natural resource management
2000 ·ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) ·Emma L. Tompkins, W. Neil Adger, Katrina Brown
3
20
Evaluating options for sustainable coastal resource management: a multi-stakeholder approach
1998 ·ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) ·W. Neil Adger, Kerry Brown, Emma L. Tompkins, (unknown), David Shim, Kathy L. Young
1

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