| The precautionary principle in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management: an issues paper for policy-makers, researchers and practitioners R Cooney IUCN, 2004 | 318 | 2004 |
| From poachers to protectors: engaging local communities in solutions to illegal wildlife trade R Cooney, D Roe, H Dublin, J Phelps, D Wilkie, A Keane, H Travers, ... Conservation Letters 10 (3), 367-374, 2017 | 247 | 2017 |
| Developing a theory of change for a community‐based response to illegal wildlife trade D Biggs, R Cooney, D Roe, HT Dublin, JR Allan, DWS Challender, ... Conservation Biology 31 (1), 5-12, 2017 | 220 | 2017 |
| Biodiversity and the precautionary principle: risk, uncertainty and practice in conservation and sustainable use R Cooney, B Dickson Earthscan, 2012 | 159 | 2012 |
| Territorial defence is the major function of female song in the superb fairy-wren, Malurus cyaneus R Cooney, A Cockburn Animal Behaviour 49 (6), 1635-1647, 1995 | 153 | 1995 |
| Inbreeding avoidance and reproductive skew in a cooperative mammal R Cooney, NC Bennett Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2000 | 138 | 2000 |
| Taking uncertainty seriously: adaptive governance and international trade R Cooney, ATF Lang European Journal of International Law 18 (3), 523-551, 2007 | 122 | 2007 |
| The international wild bird trade: what's wrong with blanket bans? R Cooney, P Jepson Oryx 40 (1), 18-23, 2006 | 122 | 2006 |
| Trophy hunting bans imperil biodiversity A Dickman, R Cooney, PJ Johnson, MP Louis, D Roe, 128 signatories Science 365 (6456), 874-874, 2019 | 85 | 2019 |
| Breaking the deadlock on ivory D Biggs, MH Holden, A Braczkowski, CN Cook, EJ Milner-Gulland, ... Science 358 (6369), 1378-1381, 2017 | 71 | 2017 |
| Wildlife, wild livelihoods: Involving communities in sustainable wildlife management and combatting the illegal wildlife Trade R Cooney, D Roe, H Dublin, F Booker Combating illegal Wildlife Trade, 2018 | 60 | 2018 |
| The fatal flaws of compassionate conservation M Oommen, R Cooney, M Ramesh, M Archer, D Brockington, B Buscher, ... Conservation Biology, 2019 | 58 | 2019 |
| Building sustainability into the belt and road initiative’s traditional Chinese medicine trade A Hinsley, EJ Milner-Gulland, R Cooney, A Timoshyna, X Ruan, TM Lee Nature Sustainability 3 (2), 96-100, 2020 | 54 | 2020 |
| From promise to practicalities: the precautionary principle in biodiversity conservation and sustainable use R Cooney Biodiversity and the precautionary principle, 3-17, 2012 | 50 | 2012 |
| The trade in wildlife: a framework to improve biodiversity and livelihood outcomes R Cooney, A Kasterine, D MacMillan, S Milledge, K Nossal, D Roe International Trade Centre (ITC), 2015 | 47 | 2015 |
| The baby and the bathwater: Trophy hunting, conservation and rural livelihoods R Cooney, C Freese, H Dublin, D Roe, D Mallon, M Knight, R Emslie, ... Unasylva 68 (249), 3, 2017 | 43 | 2017 |
| Colony defense in Damaraland mole-rats, Cryptomys damarensis R Cooney Behavioral Ecology 13 (2), 160-162, 2002 | 43 | 2002 |
| Think before you act: Improving the conservation outcomes of CITES listing decisions R Cooney, DWS Challender, S Broad, D Roe, DJD Natusch Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9, 631556, 2021 | 40 | 2021 |
| CITES and the CBD: Tensions and Synergies R Cooney Rev. Eur. Comp. & Int'l Envtl. L. 10, 259, 2001 | 32 | 2001 |
| Application of the anthropogenic Allee effect model to trophy hunting as a conservation tool RB Harris, R Cooney, N LEADER‐WILLIAMS Conservation biology 27 (5), 945-951, 2013 | 29 | 2013 |
Dilys RoePrincipal Researcher, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)Verified email at iied.org