William M. Adams

17.4k citations
182 papers · 10.7k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 51
Topics
Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (48 papers)Economic and Environmental Valuation (20 papers)Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (20 papers)

In The Last Decade

William M. Adams

178 papers receiving 9.8k citations

Hit Papers

Understanding and managing conservation conflicts200420262011201820122004201020072021250500750

Peers

William M. Adams
Comparison fields: 5 of 177
  • Global and Planetary Change 5.1k
  • Ecology 3.1k
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 2.4k
  • Sociology and Political Science 1.9k
  • Economics and Econometrics 1.5k
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#WorkIndexed citations
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2 23
3 23
4 1
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Biodiversity and the challenge of pluralismbreakdown →
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6 52
7 4
8 22
9 26
10 89
11
The conservation of diversity
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12 73
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Transición a la sostenibilidad : hacia un mundo humanitario y diverso
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People, Parks and Poverty: Political Ecology and Biodiversity Conservationbreakdown →
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15 218
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Genetic monitoring of inbred strains of rats : a manual on colony management, basic monitoring techniques, and genetic variants of the laboratory rat
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17 3
18
Environmental Issues in African Development Planning
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Sites of Special Scientific Interest and habitat protection: implications of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
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20 52

About William M. Adams

William M. Adams is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change and Geography, Planning and Development, having authored 182 papers that have together received 10.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (48 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (20 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (20 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (5.1k citations), Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (2.4k citations) and Ecological Modeling (786 citations). William M. Adams has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Frequent co-authors include Jon Hutton, Bhaskar Vira, Chris Sandbrook, Michael Mortimore, Ian Hodge, Dan Brockington, David Hulme, William J. Sutherland, Elia Apostolopoulou and James Murombedzi. Their work appears in journals such as Science, The Lancet and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

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