[1] In 2012–13, she served as president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), the primary professional organization for environmental literary critics (over 1800 members in 41 countries around the world).
American ecocritic Lawrence Buell concludes that Adamson's work in American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice and Ecocriticism and The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy (University of Arizona Press, 2002) should be seen as a major critical intervention in early eco-criticism because it raised the “challenge of eco-justice revisionism” and catalyzed a "second wave" in the field that should "not be underestimated".
[2] These books documented the efforts of environmental justice groups around the world to organize, mobilize, and empower themselves to take charge of their own lives, communities, and environments.
[7] Recent publications build on the work of Deborah Bird Rose and Donna Haraway to flesh out the notion of multispecies relationship as it is represented in literature and film.
Her writing on these topics deepens understandings of the meanings of international indigenous-led and written documents such as the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth and Climate Change[citation needed] and revisions to Ecuador's constitution (Title VII) often referred to as the Bien Vivir or "Good Way of Living" chapter (Ecuadoran Constitution 2008).