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220

Karen Bakker 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 Karen Bakker sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 118 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Karen Bakker 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 Karen Bakker sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 45 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Karen Bakker is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research spans social sciences and environmental science, with a focus on political science, international relations, and global environmental change.

Their work addresses multiple topics including water governance and infrastructure, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, social acceptance of renewable energy, and coastal and marine management.

Karen Bakker has contributed to various publication venues, with recent papers appearing in:

  • The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • Earth System Governance
  • Geoforum
  • Energy Research & Social Science
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water

Recent publications by Bakker include:

  • "Smart Oceans: Artificial intelligence and marine protected area governance," 2022, Earth System Governance
  • "Conservation acoustics: Animal sounds, audible natures, cheap nature," 2021, Geoforum

Other notable recent papers in their research network include:

  • "Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice," 2022, The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • "Disclosing Influence: Hydraulic fracturing, interest groups, and state policy processes in the United States," 2020, Energy Research & Social Science
  • "Visualizing water-energy nexus landscapes," 2021, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water

Bakker frequently collaborates with researchers such as Rutgerd Boelens, Arturo Escobar, Lena Hommes, E Swyngedouw, and Bárbara Hogenboom.

Their subfields of study cover areas including:

  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Ecology

Their research engages with complex issues at the intersection of environmental governance, social dynamics, and the management of natural resources, particularly water and marine environments.

Best Publications

  • The “Commons” Versus the “Commodity”: Alter‐globalization, Anti‐privatization and the Human Right to Water in the Global South

    Karen Bakker

  • Privatizing Water: Governance Failure and the World's Urban Water Crisis

    Karen J. Bakker

  • An Uncooperative Commodity: Privatizing Water in England and Wales

    Karen J. Bakker

  • Water security: Debating an emerging paradigm

    Christina Cook;Karen Bakker

  • Neoliberalizing Nature? Market Environmentalism in Water Supply in England and Wales

    Karen Bakker

  • Material worlds? Resource geographies and the `matter of nature':

    Karen Bakker;Gavin Bridge

  • Water Security: Research Challenges and Opportunities

    Karen Bakker

  • The limits of 'neoliberal natures': Debating green neoliberalism

    Karen Bakker

  • Archipelagos and networks: urbanization and water privatization in the South

    Karen Bakker

  • Governance Failure: Rethinking the Institutional Dimensions of Urban Water Supply to Poor Households

    Karen Bakker;Michelle Kooy;Nur Endah Shofiani;Ernst-Jan Martijn

  • The politics of hydropower: developing the Mekong

    Karen Bakker

  • A Political Ecology of Water Privatization

    Karen J. Bakker

  • Water: Political, biopolitical, material:

    Karen Bakker

  • From State to Market?: Water Mercantilización in Spain

    Karen Bakker

  • Privatizing Water, Producing Scarcity: The Yorkshire Drought of 1995*

    Karen J. Bakker

  • Technologies of Government: Constituting Subjectivities, Spaces, and Infrastructures in Colonial and Contemporary Jakarta

    Michelle Kooy;Karen Bakker

  • Debating the ‘post-neoliberal turn’ in Latin America

    Julian S. Yates;Karen Bakker

  • Water Governance in Canada: Innovation and Fragmentation

    Karen Bakker;Christina Cook

  • The Ambiguity of Community: Debating Alternatives to Private-Sector Provision of Urban Water Supply

    Karen Bakker

  • Splintered networks: The colonial and contemporary waters of Jakarta

    Michelle Kooy;Karen Bakker

  • Contested Waterscapes in the Mekong Region: Hydropower, Livelihoods and Governance

    Karen Bakker

Frequent Co-Authors

Rebekah Ruth Brown
Rebekah Ruth Brown Monash University
Thomas E. Downing
Thomas E. Downing Stockholm Environment Institute
Gavin Bridge
Gavin Bridge Durham University
Alan K. Mackworth
Alan K. Mackworth University of British Columbia
Raymond T. Ng
Raymond T. Ng University of British Columbia
Erik Swyngedouw
Erik Swyngedouw University of Manchester
Avner Vengosh
Avner Vengosh Duke University
Diana M. Allen
Diana M. Allen Simon Fraser University
Rosemary Knight
Rosemary Knight Stanford University
Giorgos Kallis
Giorgos Kallis Autonomous University of Barcelona

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