2026 David Schlosberg: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	42	419	375	10	9	121	17823

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Political Science in Australia Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Political Science in Australia Leader Award

Overview

David Schlosberg is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their research spans multiple areas within the social sciences and environmental science, with significant contributions to topics involving human-nature interactions and environmental justice.

Their work covers key topics including:

Geographies of human-animal interactions
Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
Climate Change and Geoengineering
Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
Climate Change and Health Impacts
Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration

David Schlosberg's main fields of study focus on:

Social Sciences
Environmental Science

Within these, their primary subfields of study include:

Sociology and Political Science
Geography, Planning and Development
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Global and Planetary Change
Astronomy and Astrophysics

The researcher has published extensively in various academic journals, with frequent appearances in:

Environmental Politics
Local Environment
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
Contemporary Political Theory

Some recent papers include:

Multispecies justice: theories, challenges, and a research agenda for environmental politics (2020), Environmental Politics
Solar geoengineering: The case for an international non-use agreement (2022), Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
Between environmental and ecological democracy: theory and practice at the democracy-environment nexus (2020), Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
Multispecies justice: Climate-just futures with, for and beyond humans (2020), Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
Justice Through a Multispecies Lens (2020), Contemporary Political Theory

Collaborators frequently working with David Schlosberg include:

Danielle Celermajer
Christine J. Winter
Lauren Rickards
Blanche Verlie
Hannah Della Bosca

In addition to journal articles, David Schlosberg has contributed to academic books. Notably, an upcoming book titled Institutionalising Multispecies Justice is expected to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2025.

Best Publications

Defining environmental justice : theories, movements, and nature

David Schlosberg

2719
Citations
Reconceiving Environmental Justice: Global Movements And Political Theories

David Schlosberg

1503
Citations
Theorising environmental justice: the expanding sphere of a discourse

David Schlosberg

1175
Citations
From environmental to climate justice: climate change and the discourse of environmental justice

David Schlosberg;Lisette B. Collins

927
Citations
Green States and Social Movements: Environmentalism in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Norway

John S. Dryzek;David Downes;Christian Hunold;David Schlosberg

870
Citations
Environmental justice and the new pluralism : the challenge of difference for environmentalism

David Schlosberg

666
Citations
Changing the intellectual climate

Noel Castree;Noel Castree;William M. Adams;John Barry;Daniel Brockington

640
Citations
Indigenous Struggles, Environmental Justice, and Community Capabilities

David Schlosberg;David Carruthers

575
Citations
Trends and Directions in Environmental Justice: From Inequity to Everyday Life, Community, and Just Sustainabilities

Julian Agyeman;David Schlosberg;Luke Craven;Caitlin Matthews

568
Citations
Defining Environmental Justice

David Schlosberg

489
Citations
Climate Justice and Capabilities: A Framework for Adaptation Policy

David Schlosberg

372
Citations
The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society

John S. Dryzek;Richard B. Norgaard;David Schlosberg

329
Citations
Multispecies justice: theories, challenges, and a research agenda for environmental politics

Danielle Celermajer;David Schlosberg;Lauren Rickards;Makere Stewart-Harawira

300
Citations
Debating the Earth: the environmental politics reader.

John S. Dryzek;David Schlosberg

292
Citations
The new environmentalism of everyday life: Sustainability, material flows and movements

David Schlosberg;Romand Coles

239
Citations
Green States and Social Movements

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232
Citations
Oxford handbook of climate change and society

John S. Dryzek;Richard B. Norgaard;David Schlosberg

201
Citations
Adaptation policy and community discourse: risk, vulnerability, and just transformation

David Schlosberg;Lisette B. Collins;Simon Niemeyer

199
Citations
Environmental Transformation of the State: the USA, Norway, Germany and the UK

John S. Dryzek;Christian Hunold;David Schlosberg;David Downes

197
Citations
Climate-Challenged Society

John S. Dryzek;Richard B. Norgaard;David Schlosberg

143
Citations
The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory

Teena Gabrielson;Cheryl Hall;John M. Meyer;David Schlosberg

143
Citations
Environmental Justice and the New Pluralism

David Schlosberg

142
Citations
Ecological modernisation, American style

David Schlosberg;Sara Rinfret

135
Citations
Democracy and the Environment on the Internet: Electronic Citizen Participation in Regulatory Rulemaking

Stephen Zavestoski;Stuart W Shulman;David Schlosberg

119
Citations
Between environmental and ecological democracy: theory and practice at the democracy-environment nexus

Jonathan Pickering;Karin Bäckstrand;David Schlosberg

103
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John S. Dryzek University of Canberra

Richard B. Norgaard University of California, Berkeley

Karin Bäckstrand Stockholm University

Petra Tschakert Curtin University

Noel Castree University of Technology Sydney

Jason Antony Byrne University of Tasmania

Paul Robbins University of Wisconsin–Madison

Brian Wynne Lancaster University

Bram Büscher Wageningen University & Research

Paul D. McGreevy University of Sydney

External Links

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