I am committed to making sure all of my publications are available to anyone who may want to read them. Below you will find links to the open-access or author accepted versions of all my peer-reviewed publications. Check out my resources page for links to my policy briefs, guides and other more "user-friendly" and applied publications.
Dobbin, K. & Bostic, D. (2025). The Environmental Justice Implications of Retirement Assumptions in Domestic Well Vulnerability Analyses. Environmental Research Communications. DOI: 10.1088/2515-7620/adcde3
Fernandez-Bou, A., Rodriguez-Flores, J. Ortiz-Partida, J., Fencl, A., Classen-Rodriguez, L., Yang, V., Williams, E., Schull, V., Dobbin, K., Penny, G. et al. (2025). Cropland repurposing as a tool for water sustainability and a just socioenvironmental transition in California: Review and Best Practices. Frontiers in Water. DOI: 10.3389/frwa.2025.1510413
Rempel, J.L.* & Dobbin, K.* (2024). When “symbolic” policy is anything but: Policy design and feedbacks from California's human right to water law. Policy Studies Journal. DOI: 10.1111/psj.12564
Dobbin, K., Hernandez, A., Bostic, D., Harrison, G., Singhal, A., Barnett, M., Vasquez-Rodriguez, I., Pierce, G., Sawyer, K. (2024). Making a vicious cycle virtuous: A research and policy agenda for advancing the water security of unregulated users in the Southwestern U.S. WIREs Water. e1731. DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1731
Dobbin, K., McBride, J., & Pierce, G. (2023). Panacea or placebo? The diverse pathways and implications of drinking water system consolidation. Water Resources Research, 59(12). DOI: 10.1029/2023WR035179
Cushing, L., Dobbin, K., Jelks, N.O., Liu, X., Morello-Frosch, R. (2023). Water Insecurity and Population Health: Implications for Policy and Health Equity. Health Affairs. DOI: 10.1377/hpb20230921.68748
Bostic, D., Mendez Barrientos, L.E., Pauloo, R., Dobbin, K., Clements. (2023). Thousands of domestic and public supply wells face failure despite groundwater sustainability reform in California’s Central Valley. Scientific Reports. 13, 14797 (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-41379-9
Dobbin, K., Fencl, A., Pierce, G., Beresford, M., Gonzalez, S. & Jepson, W. (2023). Understanding perceived climate risks to household water supply and their implications for adaptation: Evidence from California. Climatic Change. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-023-03517-0
Pieper, K., Pierce, G., Dobbin, K., Jones, N., Weiss, S., Moloney, K. (2022). Impacts of regulated water service extension on water quality, perception, and affordability in Orleans, NY. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.2c00660
Dobbin, K., Kuo, M., Lubell, M., Bostic, D., Mendoza, J., & Echeveste, E. (2022). Drivers of (in)equity in Collaborative Environmental Governance. Policy Studies Journal. DOI: 10.1111/psj.12483
Cannon, C.* & Dobbin, K.* (2022). Unpacking Sustainability: A feminist political ecological analysis of global overshoot. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. 10:1, 1-15. DOI: 10.1525/elementa.2022.00038
Dobbin, K.* & Fencl, A.* (2021). Institutional Diversity and Safe Drinking Water provision in California. Journal of Utilities Policy. 73, 1-12. DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2021.101306
Dobbin, K. & Smith, D. (2021). Bridging social capital theory and practice: Evidence from community-managed water treatment plants in Honduras. Journal of Rural Studies. 88, 181-191. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.10.002
Dobbin, K. (2021). Environmental justice organizing as commoning practice in groundwater reform: Linking movement and management in the quest for more just and sustainable rural futures. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 9:1, 1-19. DOI: 10.1525/elementa.2020.00173
Fernandez-Bou, A. S.*, Ortiz-Partida, J. P.*, Classen-Rodriguez, L.M., Pells, C., Dobbin, K., Espinoza V., Rodríguez-Florez, J. M., Thao, C., Hammond Wagner, C., Fencl, A., Flores-Landeros, H., Maskey, M. L., Cole, S. A., Azamian, S., Gamiño, E., Guzman, A., Alvarado, A. G., Campos-Martínez, M. S., Weintraub, C., Sandoval, E., Dahlquist-Willard, R., Bernacchi, L. A., Naughton, C. C., DeLugan, R. M., Medellin-Azuara, J. (2021). 3 challenges, 3 errors, and 3 solutions to integrate frontline communities in climate change policy and research: lessons from California. Frontiers in Climate. 104, 1-9. DOI: 10.3389/fclim.2021.717554
Fernandez-Bou, A. S.*, Ortiz-Partida, J. P.*, Dobbin, K., Flores-Landeros, H., Bernacchi, L. A., & Medellín-Azuara, J. (2021). Underrepresented, underserved, understudied: gaps and opportunities for advancing justice in disadvantaged communities. Environmental Science & Policy. 122, 92-100. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci. 2021.04.014
Dobbin, K. (2020). 'Good Luck Fixing the Problem’: Small Low-Income Community Participation in Collaborative Groundwater Governance and Implications for Drinking Water Source Protection. Society & Natural Resources. 33:12, 1468-1485. DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2020.1772925
Dobbin, K. & Lubell, M. (2019). Collaborative Governance and Environmental Justice: Disadvantaged Community Representation in California Sustainable Groundwater Management. Policy Studies Journal. 49:2, 1-29. DOI: 10.1111/psj.12375
Dobbin, K. & Sarathy, B. (2015). Solving Rural Water Exclusion: Challenges and Limits to Co-Management in Costa Rica. Society & Natural Resources. 28:4, 388-404. DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2014.948245