| A decade of adaptive governance scholarship: synthesis and future directions BC Chaffin, H Gosnell, BA Cosens Ecology and society 19 (3), 2014 | 1006 | 2014 |
| Transformative environmental governance BC Chaffin, AS Garmestani, LH Gunderson, MH Benson, DG Angeler, ... Annual Review of Environment and Resources 41 (1), 399-423, 2016 | 444 | 2016 |
| Understanding rivers and their social relations: A critical step to advance environmental water management EP Anderson, S Jackson, RE Tharme, M Douglas, JE Flotemersch, ... Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water 6 (6), e1381, 2019 | 264 | 2019 |
| The role of law in adaptive governance BA Cosens, RK Craig, SL Hirsch, CAT Arnold, MH Benson, DA DeCaro, ... Ecology and society: a journal of integrative science for resilience and …, 2017 | 186 | 2017 |
| Legitimacy, adaptation, and resilience in ecosystem management BA Cosens Ecology and Society 18 (1), 2013 | 184 | 2013 |
| Resilience and water governance: adaptive governance in the Columbia River basin BA Cosens, MK Williams Ecology and society 17 (4), 2012 | 178 | 2012 |
| Transboundary river governance in the face of uncertainty: resilience theory and the Columbia River Treaty B Cosens J. Land Resources & Envtl. L. 30, 229, 2010 | 148 | 2010 |
| A riparian conservation network for ecological resilience AK Fremier, M Kiparsky, S Gmur, J Aycrigg, RK Craig, LK Svancara, ... Biological Conservation 191, 29-37, 2015 | 133 | 2015 |
| The adaptive water governance project: assessing law, resiliance and governance in regional socio-ecological water systems facing a changing climate B Cosens, L Gunderson, B Chaffin Idaho L. Rev. 51, 1, 2014 | 118 | 2014 |
| Sustainable Water Resource Management and Participatory System Dynamics. Case Study: Developing the Palouse Basin Participatory Model A Beall, F Fiedler, J Boll, B Cosens Sustainability 3 (5), 720-742, 2011 | 111 | 2011 |
| Regime shifts and panarchies in regional scale social-ecological water systems L Gunderson, BA Cosens, BC Chaffin, CAT Arnold, AK Fremier, ... Ecology and society: a journal of integrative science for resilience and …, 2017 | 98 | 2017 |
| Indigenous water justice J Robison, B Cosens, S Jackson, K Leonard, D McCool Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 22, 841, 2018 | 94 | 2018 |
| Barriers and bridges to the integration of social–ecological resilience and law OO Green, AS Garmestani, CR Allen, LH Gunderson, JB Ruhl, CA Arnold, ... Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 13 (6), 332-337, 2015 | 90 | 2015 |
| Identifying legal, ecological and governance obstacles, and opportunities for adapting to climate change B Cosens, L Gunderson, C Allen, M Harm Benson Sustainability 6 (4), 2338-2356, 2014 | 83 | 2014 |
| Resilience in transboundary water governance: the Okavango River Basin OO Green, BA Cosens, AS Garmestani Ecology and Society 18 (2), 2013 | 83 | 2013 |
| Introduction to the Special Feature Practicing Panarchy: Assessing legal flexibility, ecological resilience, and adaptive governance in regional water systems experiencing … B Cosens | 80 | 2018 |
| Adaptive governance of riverine and wetland ecosystem goods and services LH Gunderson, B Cosens, AS Garmestani Journal of Environmental Management 183, 353-360, 2016 | 75 | 2016 |
| Designing law to enable adaptive governance of modern wicked problems BA Cosens, JB Ruhl, N Soininen, L Gunderson Vand. L. Rev. 73, 1687, 2020 | 66 | 2020 |
| Development of drinking water standards for perchlorate in the United States KH Kucharzyk, RL Crawford, B Cosens, TF Hess Journal of Environmental Management 91 (2), 303-310, 2009 | 65 | 2009 |
| Governing complexity: Integrating science, governance, and law to manage accelerating change in the globalized commons B Cosens, JB Ruhl, N Soininen, L Gunderson, A Belinskij, T Blenckner, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (36), e2102798118, 2021 | 64 | 2021 |
