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Anthony Bebbington

Anthony Bebbington

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
73
Citations
23917
World Ranking
627
National Ranking
301

Anthony Bebbington publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anthony Bebbington sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 269 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Anthony Bebbington D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anthony Bebbington sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 73 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2009 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Anthony Bebbington is affiliated with Clark University in the United States, focusing on interdisciplinary research spanning engineering and environmental science. Their work integrates multiple subfields, including building and construction, global and planetary change, sociology and political science, political science and international relations, and economics and econometrics. The main topics of their research cover mining and resource management, conservation, biodiversity and resource management, hydropower, displacement and environmental impact, land use and ecosystem services, water governance and infrastructure, and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on air quality and society.

The scholar has contributed extensively to scientific literature, with recent papers covering a range of relevant global development and environmental issues. Notable publications include:

  • COVID-19 and the case for global development (2020, World Development)
  • A pantropical assessment of deforestation caused by industrial mining (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Forest-linked livelihoods in a globalized world (2020, Nature Plants)
  • Political ecologies of the post-mining landscape: Activism, resistance, and legal struggles over Kalimantan's coal mines (2020, Energy Research & Social Science)
  • Political Settlements and the Governance of Covid-19: Mining, Risk, and Territorial Control in Peru (2020, Journal of Latin American geography)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bebbington include Michiel Baud, Edward F. Fischer, Anthony Hall, Bárbara Hogenboom, and Rachel Sieder, each with a significant number of joint publications.

Their research has appeared repeatedly in key academic venues, reflecting consistency in certain scholarly communities. Key publication venues with multiple contributions are World Development, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Latin American geography, along with contributions in Nature Plants and Energy Research & Social Science.

Throughout their career, Anthony Bebbington has been recognized by prominent academic institutions. They have been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, both in 2014. Additionally, they became a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Capitals and Capabilities: A Framework for Analyzing Peasant Viability, Rural Livelihoods and Poverty

    Anthony Bebbington

  • Contention and Ambiguity: Mining and the Possibilities of Development

    Anthony Bebbington;Leonith Hinojosa;Denise Humphreys Bebbington;Maria Luisa Burneo

  • Mining and social movements: struggles over livelihood and rural territorial development in the Andes

    Anthony Bebbington;Denise Humphreys Bebbington;Jeffrey Bury;Jeannet Lingan

  • Reluctant Partners? Non-Governmental Organizations, the State and Sustainable Agricultural Development

    John Farrington;Anthony Bebbington;Kate Wellard;David J. Lewis

  • Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America

    Anthony Bebbington;Jeffrey Bury

  • Conflict translates environmental and social risk into business costs

    Daniel M. Franks;Rachel Davis;Anthony J. Bebbington;Anthony J. Bebbington;Saleem H. Ali

  • Reencountering Development: Livelihood Transitions and Place Transformations in the Andes

    Anthony Bebbington

  • Can NGOs make a difference? The challenge of development alternatives

    Anthony J Bebbington;Samuel Hickey;Diana C Mitlin

  • Reclaiming Development? NGOs and the Challenge of Alternatives

    Diana Mitlin;Sam Hickey;Anthony Bebbington

  • Exploring social capital debates at the World Bank

    Anthony Bebbington;Scott Guggenheim;Elizabeth Olson;Michael Woolcock

  • NGOS AND UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT: GEOGRAPHIES OF DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTION

    Anthony Bebbington

  • Institutional challenges for mining and sustainability in Peru

    Anthony J. Bebbington;Jeffrey T. Bury

  • Social capital and rural intensification: Local organizations and islands of sustainability in the rural Andes

    Anthony Bebbington

  • Social Capital, Development, and Access to Resources in Highland Ecuador

    Anthony Bebbington;Thomas Perreault

  • The New Extraction: Rewriting the Political Ecology of the Andes?

    Anthony Bebbington

  • An Andean Avatar: Post-Neoliberal and Neoliberal Strategies for Securing the Unobtainable

    Anthony Bebbington;Denise Humphreys Bebbington

  • Minería, movimientos sociales y respuestas campesinas : una ecología política de transformaciones territoriales

    Anthony Bebbington

  • Social Conflict, Economic Development and the Extractive Industry: Evidence from South America

    Anthony Bebbington

  • Local Capacity, Village Governance and the Political Economy of Rural Development in Indonesia

    Anthony Bebbington;Leni Dharmawan;Erwin Fahmi;Scott Guggenheim

  • Non-governmental organizations and the state in Latin America : rethinking roles in sustainable agricultural development

    A. J. Bebbington;G. Thiele;P. Davies;M. Prager

  • Mining and Social Movements: Struggles over Livelihood and Rural Territorial Development in the Andes

    Anthony J. Bebbington;Jeffrey Bury;Denise Humphreys Bebbington;Jeannet Lingan

  • Contienda y ambigüedad: minería y posibilidades de desarrollo. [Contention and ambiguity: mining and the possibilities of development]

    A. Bebbington;L. Hinojosa;D. Humphreys Bebbington;M.L. Burneo

Frequent Co-Authors

Diana Mitlin
Diana Mitlin University of Manchester
Sam Hickey
Sam Hickey University of Manchester
David Lewis
David Lewis London School of Economics and Political Science
Armando Barrientos
Armando Barrientos University of Manchester
Richard F. Preziosi
Richard F. Preziosi Plymouth University
Arun Agrawal
Arun Agrawal University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Uma Kothari
Uma Kothari University of Manchester
William J. Sutherland
William J. Sutherland University of Cambridge
Sarah J. Wilson
Sarah J. Wilson University of Melbourne

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