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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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79
Citations
34333
World Ranking
398
National Ranking
65

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 1975 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Gordon Walker is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in social sciences and environmental science. Their work spans various subfields, including sociology and political science, global and planetary change, geography, planning and development, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and pollution.

Their research focuses on several key topics:

  • Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Risk Perception and Management
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Muscle metabolism and nutrition

Gordon Walker has published papers in a variety of venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Local Environment
  • Nutrients
  • Hematological Oncology
  • Geographica Helvetica
  • Environment and Planning C Politics and Space

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Gordon Walker include:

  • "Breathing in the polyrhythmic city: A spatiotemporal, rhythmanalytic account of urban air pollution and its inequalities" (2020), published in Environment and Planning C Politics and Space
  • "Epistemic injustice, risk mapping and climatic events: analysing epistemic resistance in the context of favela removal in Rio de Janeiro" (2020), published in Geographica Helvetica
  • "Using the capability approach to evaluate energy vulnerability policies and initiatives in Victoria, Australia" (2021), published in Local Environment
  • "The tenacity of trust in petrochemical communities: Reckoning with risk on the Fawley Waterside (1997-2019)" (2021), published in Environment and Planning E Nature and Space
  • "A critical air quality science perspective on citizen science in action" (2022), published in Local Environment

Collaborations have been an important aspect of their research. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Ralph Horne
  • Anitra Nelson
  • Aimee Ambrose
  • Douglas Booker
  • Elspeth Oppermann

Gordon Walker has also contributed to academic books. One such work is Energy and Rhythm: Rhythmanalysis for a Low Carbon Future, published by Lancaster University in 2021.

Among their recognitions, they were named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1975, recognized by the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • Social Capital, Structural Holes and the Formation of an Industry Network

    Gordon Walker;Bruce Kogut;Weijian Shan

  • A Transaction Cost Approach to Make-or-Buy Decisions

    Gordon Walker;David Weber

  • Interfirm cooperation and startup innovation in the biotechnology industry

    Weijan Shan;Gordon Walker;Bruce Kogut

  • Guest editors' introduction to the special issue: why is there a resource-based view? Toward a theory of competitive heterogeneity

    David G. Hoopes;Tammy L. Madsen;Gordon Walker

  • Caution! Transitions Ahead: Politics, Practice, and Sustainable Transition Management:

    Elizabeth Shove;Gordon Walker

  • Governing transitions in the sustainability of everyday life

    Elizabeth Shove;Gordon Walker

  • Community renewable energy: What should it mean?

    Gordon Walker;Patrick Devine-Wright

  • Environmental Justice: Concepts, Evidence and Politics

    Gordon Walker

  • The dynamics of interorganizational coordination.

    A H van de Ven;G Walker

  • Trust and community: Exploring the meanings, contexts and dynamics of community renewable energy

    Gordon Walker;Patrick Devine-Wright;Sue Hunter;Sue Hunter;Helen High;Helen High

  • What Is Energy For? Social Practice and Energy Demand:

    Elizabeth Shove;Gordon Walker

  • Beyond Distribution and Proximity: Exploring the Multiple Spatialities of Environmental Justice

    Gordon Walker

  • Conceptualising energy use and energy poverty using a capabilities framework

    Rosie Day;Gordon Peter Walker;Neil David Simcock

  • What are the barriers and incentives for community-owned means of energy production and use?

    Gordon P. Walker

  • Fuel poverty as injustice: Integrating distribution, recognition and procedure in the struggle for affordable warmth

    Gordon Walker;Rosie Day

  • PUBLIC UNDERSTANDINGS OF AIR POLLUTION: THE LOCALISATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISK

    Karen Bickerstaff;Gordon Walker

  • THE SMALL WORLD OF GERMANY AND THE DURABILITY OF NATIONAL NETWORKS

    Bruce Kogut;Gordon Walker

  • Supplier Competition, Uncertainty and Make or Buy Decisions

    Gordon. Walker;David Arthur Weber

  • Harnessing Community Energies: explaining and evaluating community-based localism in renewable energy policy in the UK.

    Gordon Walker;Sue Hunter;Patrick Devine-Wright;Bob Evans

  • Carbon reduction, 'the public' and renewable energy: engaging with socio-technical configurations.

    Gordon Walker;Noel Cass

  • INTERFIRM COOPERATION AND STARTUP INNOVATION IN THE BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY.

    Gordon Walker;Bruce Kogut

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Devine-Wright
Patrick Devine-Wright University of Exeter
Linda F. Bisson
Linda F. Bisson University of California, Davis
Elizabeth Shove
Elizabeth Shove Lancaster University
Julie Barnett
Julie Barnett University of Bath
Stefan Bouzarovski
Stefan Bouzarovski University of Manchester
Stewart Barr
Stewart Barr University of Exeter
Gavin Bridge
Gavin Bridge Durham University
Paul Young
Paul Young Lancaster University
Harriet Bulkeley
Harriet Bulkeley Durham University

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