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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 44 Citations 12,272 119 World Ranking 2209 National Ranking 379

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Awards & Achievements

2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Law
  • Social science
  • Management

Steve Rayner mainly focuses on Climate change, Public administration, Corporate governance, Environmental resource management and Global warming. Steve Rayner has researched Climate change in several fields, including Policy analysis and Management science. His work deals with themes such as Social relation, Fatalism, Egalitarianism, Expression and Hierarchy, which intersect with Public administration.

The concepts of his Corporate governance study are interwoven with issues in Sustainability, Climate engineering and Ecosystem. His research investigates the link between Environmental resource management and topics such as Greenhouse gas that cross with problems in Solar radiation management, Fossil fuel, Natural resource economics and Political economy of climate change. His studies in Global warming integrate themes in fields like Global change and Data science.

His most cited work include:

  • Geoengineering the Climate: Science, Governance and Uncertainty (594 citations)
  • Power, Action and Belief. A New Sociology of Knowledge? (561 citations)
  • Human choice and climate change (541 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His primary areas of investigation include Climate change, Environmental resource management, Public relations, Environmental planning and Environmental ethics. His work in the fields of Climate change, such as Political economy of climate change and Global warming, intersects with other areas such as Adaptation. His Environmental resource management study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Corporate governance and Sustainability.

His Corporate governance research incorporates themes from Politics and Public administration. As part of his studies on Public relations, he often connects relevant areas like Perception. Natural resource economics connects with themes related to Greenhouse gas in his study.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Climate change (15.79%)
  • Environmental resource management (14.29%)
  • Public relations (9.77%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2014-2019)?

  • Geoengineering (4.51%)
  • Climate change (15.79%)
  • Environmental ethics (8.27%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Steve Rayner focuses on Geoengineering, Climate change, Environmental ethics, Politics and Context. His studies deal with areas such as Corporate governance and Environmental planning as well as Geoengineering. Climate change is frequently linked to Environmental resource management in his study.

His work deals with themes such as Natural resource, Salience and Code of conduct, which intersect with Environmental resource management. His studies in Politics integrate themes in fields like Economic growth, Solar radiation management and Political economy. His research on Water use also deals with topics like

  • Public administration that connect with fields like Water resources and Property rights,
  • Public relations most often made with reference to Management.

Between 2014 and 2019, his most popular works were:

  • City networks: breaking gridlocks or forging (new) lock-ins? (79 citations)
  • Maintaining the status quo: How institutional norms and practices create conservative water organizations (57 citations)
  • A cultural theory of drinking water risks, values and institutional change (25 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Law
  • Social science
  • Management

His primary areas of study are Sunlight, Geoengineering, Natural resource economics, Democracy and Climate engineering. While working on this project, Steve Rayner studies both Sunlight and Climate change.

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Best Publications

Power, Action and Belief. A New Sociology of Knowledge?

J Law;G. J Fyfe;M Callon;B Latour.
Sociological (The) Review Keele (1986)

1005 Citations

Egalitarian Behavior and Reverse Dominance Hierarchy [and Comments and Reply]

Christopher Boehm;Harold B. Barclay;Robert Knox Dentan;Marie-Claude Dupre.
Current Anthropology (1993)

879 Citations

Cultural theory and risk analysis

Steve Rayner.
(1992)

698 Citations

Climate change 2007: Lifting the taboo on adaptation

Roger Pielke;Gwyn Prins;Steve Rayner;Daniel Sarewitz.
Nature (2007)

661 Citations

Geoengineering the Climate: Science, Governance and Uncertainty

John Shepherd;Steve Rayner.
(2009)

594 Citations

Human choice and climate change

Steve Rayner;Elizabeth L. Malone.
Foreign Affairs (1998)

543 Citations

How Fair Is Safe Enough? The Cultural Approach to Societal Technology Choice1

Steve Rayner;Robin Cantor.
Risk Analysis (1987)

537 Citations

Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World. The Case of Climate Change

Marco Verweij;Mary Douglas;Richard Ellis;Christoph Engel.
(2006)

525 Citations

Principles for Sustainable Governance of the Oceans

Robert Costanza;Francisco Andrade;Paula Antunes;Marjan van den Belt.
(1998)

490 Citations

Measuring Culture: A Paradigm for the Analysis of Social Organization

Jonathan L. Gross;Steve Rayner.
(1985)

443 Citations

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