2026 Esteve Corbera: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	57	1732	1554	14	14	142	18296

Research.com Recognitions

2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Esteve Corbera is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant body of work addressing global and planetary change, economics and econometrics, and general agricultural and biological sciences. Additional subfields include management, monitoring, policy and law, as well as sociology and political science.

The main topics evident in Esteve Corbera's work include:

Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
Economic and Environmental Valuation
Land Use and Ecosystem Services
Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
Environmental Conservation and Management
Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
Mining and Resource Management

Esteve Corbera has published research in several notable venues, frequently contributing to the following journals and series:

Environmental Science & Policy
Ecology and Society
SSRN Electronic Journal
AMBIO
Journal of Land Use Science

Recent papers associated with Esteve Corbera include:

"Academia in the Time of COVID-19: Towards an Ethics of Care," 2020, Planning Theory & Practice
"Ten facts about land systems for sustainability," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (authored by Patrick Meyfroidt)
"Expanding the Boundaries of Justice in Urban Greening Scholarship: Toward an Emancipatory, Antisubordination, Intersectional, and Relational Approach," 2020, Annals of the American Association of Geographers (authored by Isabelle Anguelovski)
"Global patterns of adaptation to climate change by Indigenous Peoples and local communities. A systematic review," 2021, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (authored by Anna Schlingmann)
"Integrating justice in Nature-Based Solutions to avoid nature-enabled dispossession," 2022, AMBIO (authored by Isabelle Anguelovski)

Esteve Corbera has collaborated frequently with several researchers. Notable co-authors include:

Santiago Izquierdo-Tort (9 collaborative works)
Sergio Villamayor-Tomás (6 collaborative works)
Unai Pascual (5 collaborative works)
Dan Brockington (5 collaborative works)
Ole Mertz (4 collaborative works)

Best Publications

Reconciling theory and practice: An alternative conceptual framework for understanding payments for environmental services☆

Roldan Muradian;Esteve Corbera;Unai Pascual;Nicolás Kosoy

1544
Citations
Payments for ecosystem services as commodity fetishism

Nicolás Kosoy;Esteve Corbera

1204
Citations
Bioenergy and climate change mitigation: an assessment.

Felix Creutzig;Nijavalli H. Ravindranath;Göran Berndes;Simon Bolwig

828
Citations
Payments for ecosystem services and the fatal attraction of win-win solutions

R. Muradian;M. Arsel;L. Pellegrini;F. Adaman

669
Citations
Social Equity Matters in Payments for Ecosystem Services

Unai Pascual;Jacob Wesley Phelps;Eneko Garmendia;Katrina Brown

657
Citations
Changing the intellectual climate

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

640
Citations
Governing and implementing REDD

Esteve Corbera;Esteve Corbera;Heike Schroeder

552
Citations
The Equity and Legitimacy of Markets for Ecosystem Services

Esteve Corbera;Katrina Brown;W. Neil Adger

543
Citations
Equity implications of marketing ecosystem services in protected areas and rural communities: Case studies from Meso-America

Esteve Corbera;Nicolas Kosoy;Miguel Martínez Tuna

539
Citations
The effectiveness of payments for environmental services

Jan Börner;Kathy Baylis;Esteve Corbera;Driss Ezzine-de-Blas

526
Citations
Institutional dimensions of Payments for Ecosystem Services: An analysis of Mexico's carbon forestry programme

Esteve Corbera;Carmen González Soberanis;Katrina Brown

512
Citations
Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Global Environmental Change: Research findings and policy implications.

Erik Gómez-Baggethun;Esteve Corbera;Victoria Reyes-García

485
Citations
Mainstreaming Impact Evaluation in Nature Conservation

Kathy Baylis;Jordi Honey-Rosés;Jan Börner;Esteve Corbera

467
Citations
Justice and conservation: The need to incorporate recognition

Adrian Martin;Brendan Coolsaet;Esteve Corbera;Neil Dawson

425
Citations
Socially sustainable degrowth as a social–ecological transformation: repoliticizing sustainability

Viviana Asara;Iago Otero;Federico Demaria;Esteve Corbera

403
Citations
Problematizing REDD+ as an experiment in payments for ecosystem services

Esteve Corbera

361
Citations
Participation in payments for ecosystem services: Case studies from the Lacandon rainforest, Mexico

Nicolas Kosoy;Esteve Corbera;Kate Brown

359
Citations
Reforming the CDM for sustainable development: lessons learned and policy futures.

Emily Boyd;Emily Boyd;Nate Hultman;J. Timmons Roberts;Esteve Corbera

332
Citations
Social-ecological outcomes of agricultural intensification

Laura Vang Rasmussen;Laura Vang Rasmussen;Brendan Coolsaet;Brendan Coolsaet;Adrian Martin;Ole Mertz

328
Citations
Academia in the Time of COVID-19: Towards an Ethics of Care

Esteve Corbera;Isabelle Anguelovski;Jordi Honey-Rosés;Isabel Ruiz-Mallén

318
Citations
Exploring equity and sustainable development in the new carbon economy

Katrina Brown;Esteve Corbera

314
Citations
Powers of exclusion. Land dilemmas in Southeast Asia

Esteve Corbera

114
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Victoria Reyes-García Autonomous University of Barcelona

Felix Creutzig Technical University of Berlin

Adrian P. Martin National Oceanography Centre

Emily Boyd Lund University

Erik Gómez-Baggethun Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Richard B. Norgaard University of California, Berkeley

Göran Berndes Chalmers University of Technology

Diana Liverman University of Arizona

Jan Börner University of Bonn

Alexander Popp Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

External Links

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