Ambio

Papers
(The median citation count of Ambio is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The intricate diversity of human–nature relations: Evidence from Finland136
A social-ecological engagement with reef passages in New Caledonia: Connectors between coastal and oceanic spaces and species132
Input data resolution affects the conservation prioritization outcome of spatially sparse biodiversity features97
Who joins voluntary conservation programs? Socioenvironmental predictors of participation in tropical working landscapes93
Protecting peatlands requires understanding stakeholder perceptions and relational values: A case study of peatlands in the Yorkshire Dales92
Social and knowledge diversity in forest education: Vital for the world’s forests88
The decision maker’s lament: If I only had some science!85
Balancing landscape values and tourism choices: Integrating participatory mapping and the IPBES Values Typology76
Network analysis can provide useful insights for building resilience in social-ecological systems72
Toward energy systems within the planetary boundaries70
The entangled Indigenous, rural, and urban realities in Amazônia’s governance68
Discourse developments within the public agenda on Danish nature management 2016–2021: Animal welfare ethics as a barrier to rewilding projects67
Wolves on the phone: Public calls reveal a rise in urban concerns as wolves recolonize human-dominated areas66
Small-scale fisheries in ecologically sensitive areas in Latin America and the Caribbean: Do marine protected areas benefit fisheries governance?57
From climate perceptions to actions: A case study on coffee farms in Ethiopia56
Corporations and financial institutions driving coastal conflicts involving Indigenous Peoples53
A synthesis of mercury research in the Southern Hemisphere, part 1: Natural processes52
Wilder rangelands as a natural climate opportunity: Linking climate action to biodiversity conservation and social transformation46
Protected area designation and management in a world of climate change: A review of recommendations44
The gendered costs of human–wildlife conflict: A global systematic review43
Improving biocultural diversity conservation: Integrating the multiple evidence base (MEB) approach and co-design42
Global change effects on biogeochemical mercury cycling41
Cultivating change: Addressing shifts in knowledge and skills required for landscape-scale nature recovery41
Time for change: Recommendations for action during the proposed EUDR postponement41
Cascading tipping points of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean40
Foresight science in conservation: Tools, barriers, and mainstreaming opportunities39
Publisher Correction: Macro-level determinants of nature connectedness: An exploratory analysis of 61 countries38
Conflicts hinder research into animal movements37
Assessing scaling strategies for nature-based solutions: An indicator-based analysis of policy documents in the Canary Islands37
Towards a more just post-coal future: Engaging local communities in post-mining landscape restoration through participatory mapping methods35
Bridging production and protection: Legislative and technical feasibility of continuous cover forestry around freshwater in Sweden35
Social–ecological transformations towards sustainability in drylands: A conceptual framework with examples from the Karamoja cluster in East Africa33
Beyond life cycle thinking: A perspective33
The forest beyond the trees: A network perspective on governing co-production of nature’s contributions to people31
Stakeholder perceptions of forest disturbance drivers and management responses are aligned in Central Europe29
Citizen eyes on elusive wildlife: Assessing public appreciation for urban wild mammals29
Key underwater habitat types of the northern Baltic Sea: An assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem functions29
Enhancing the transformative potential of sustainability innovations: An application of the values-rules-knowledge framework27
Unveiling urban governance diversity: Clustering cities based on mitigation actions26
Implementing nature-based solutions requires distinguishing place from space26
Cascading climate effects in deep reservoirs: Full assessment of physical and biogeochemical dynamics under ensemble climate projections and ways towards adaptation26
Governance hurdles for expansion of low trophic mariculture production in Sweden25
Recurrent discharges of non-petroleum substances from chemical tankers in Swedish marine Natura 2000 sites are against the aims of EU Directives24
Decarbonising homes and the in-between: Intersections of visible and latent climate-wise housing and mobility24
Beyond the landscape: Social-behavioral factors as the true coexistence parameters in the Chilean carnivore–livestock conflict23
Land sharing complements land sparing in the conservation of disturbance-dependent species23
Living with wolves: A worldwide systematic review of attitudes23
Influence of prescribed burning on reindeer winter pastures at landscape scale in northern Sweden: A modelling approach23
Beyond retreat: Land–seascape legacies of change and continuation23
Institutional network relationships and environmental governance in the Colombian and Peruvian Amazon23
Nature, smells, and human wellbeing23
Epilogue: Immanence, relationality, connectivity23
Empowering Indigenous natural hazards management in northern Australia23
SDGs at the halfway point: How the 17 global goals address risks and wicked problems23
Eco-pilgrimages: Linking humans, heritage, and hydrology23
Understanding ecological civilization in China: From political context to science22
Active afforestation of drained peatlands is not a viable option under the EU Nature Restoration Law22
German fishery’s adaptation to historic events, Western Baltic Sea, 1890–195021
Nature under pressure in New Caledonia: Social crisis in a world key biodiversity hotspot21
Toward a critical theory of social–ecological resilience: Maize and cattle in Southern Province, Zambia21
Managing multi-functional peri-urban landscapes: Impacts of horse-keeping on water quality21
Food security drives local hunting of a boreal ungulate during a global pandemic20
Toxic tides of change: Ocean pollution as a cultural tipping point20
A system for the management of sandy shorelines under climate change: United States Virgin Islands (USVI)20
The best laid plans: How do adopted city sustainability goals influence site-level action in urban forestry?20
Adapting the social practice of beekeeping to a changing climate19
Resilience thinking for human–wildlife coexistence: Bridging dynamic systems, archetypes, and transformations19
Enablers and obstacles for implementing rewilding pathways in socio-ecological systems: Insights from the Oder Delta19
Snow leopards, prey, and pastoralists: Understanding the impacts of climate change on human–wildlife coexistence in Central Asia19
Deciphering the future of electric vehicles amid emissions and adoption drivers19
Macro-level determinants of nature connectedness: An exploratory analysis of 61 countries18
Usual suspects meet mission impossible: Nutrient losses and effects of mitigation measures on a coastal catchment in the Baltic Sea region18
Assuming accuracy, pretending influence? Risks of measuring, monitoring and reporting sustainable development goals18
A conceptual framework of indicators for the suitability of forests for outdoor recreation18
When enough is enough: Introducing sufficiency corridors to put techno-economism in its place18
What drives participation in community-based forest management? Insights from a global review18
Restoring nature, enhancing active mobility: The role of street greenery in the EU’s 2024 restoration law18
Community-based approach to detect and predict conflicts with large carnivores in human-dominated landscape17
A multi-framework analysis of stakeholders’ perceptions in developing a localized blue carbon ecosystems strategy in Eastern Samar, Philippines17
Coastal erosion and climate change: A review on coastal-change process and modeling17
Leverage points for resilience: Introducing the pyramid framework for strategic adaptation planning and assessment17
A relational turn in climate change adaptation: Evidence from urban nature-based solutions17
Diagnosing irreducible uncertainty for adaptive environmental management: A transferable framework from wetland fisheries17
Frozen infrastructures in a changing climate: Transforming human–environment-technology relations in the Anthropocene17
From paradigm blindness to paradigm shift? An integrative review and critical analysis of the regenerative paradigm16
Can dry rivers provide a good quality of life? Integrating beneficial and detrimental nature’s contributions to people over time16
A methodological approach for the analysis of ecosystem services from the local communities’ perspective16
Effect of farm size on vulnerability in beekeeping: Insights from mediterranean Spain16
Redefining urban spaces in stormwater assessment through ecosystem management: A narrative review16
Are European Blue Economy ambitions in conflict with European environmental visions?16
Wildfire smoke and antimicrobial resistance: A hidden link demanding global attention16
Extinction alarm for trees15
Should Swedish sea level planners worry more about mean sea level rise or sea level extremes?15
“In the end, the story of climate change was one of hope and redemption”: ChatGPT’s narrative on global warming15
More than greening: Using a novel index to assess restorative nature and vulnerability relationships15
Regulation, the hybrid market, and species conservation: The case of conservation banking in California15
May a highly touristic tropical island sustain water resources? Navigating troubled waters to berth on a safe shore15
Mammal recovery inside and outside terrestrial protected areas15
Rethinking knowledge systems for agroforestry: Insights from the mental models of cacao farmers in Colombia15
The practice of historical ecology: What, when, where, how and what for15
Virtual landscape-scale restoration of altered channels helps us understand the extent of impacts to guide future ecosystem management15
A transdisciplinary approach to nuclear waste management: Opening research with a Citizens’ Working Group15
Navigating the participatory turn in agricultural and food research: Best practice from citizen science15
The historical trajectory of a coffee agri-food system: A case study in Oaxaca, Mexico14
Global waste, local impact: International debris influx to Cozumel Island beaches14
Evolving pathways towards water security in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: An adaptive management perspective14
Agriculture yield gap reduction: The interplay of capitals, crop diversity and specialization14
Grain fields in sea-landscapes14
A dam or a polder? Stakeholders’ dispute over the “right” flood-protection measure in the Czech Republic14
Historical perspectives on forestry science and monocultures: Ideas of rationality in Sweden during the early twentieth century14
The role of collective grieving in supporting wellbeing and capacity for climate action14
Interventions to increase circularity and reduce environmental impacts in food systems14
Correction to: Quantification of forest carbon flux and stock uncertainties under climate change and their use in regionally explicit decision making: Case study in Finland14
Meeting the challenges of wild boar hunting in a modern society: The case of France13
The development of ecological civilization in China based on the economic–social–natural complex system13
How do stakeholders map ecological connectivity? Discourse analysis of French planning instruments dedicated to biodiversity conservation13
Business for ocean sustainability: Early responses of ocean governance in the private sector13
The environmental impact assessment of China’s ecological migration from a social–ecological perspective13
Global gateways as telecoupled human and natural systems: The emerging case of the Bering Strait13
What does “sustainable seafood” mean to seafood system actors in Japan and Sweden?13
The future of the Black Sea: More pollution in over half of the rivers13
From nature experience to pro-conservation action: How generational amnesia and declining nature-relatedness shape behaviour intentions of adolescents and adults13
General trends in research using impact evaluation methods on the effectiveness of terrestrial protected areas in reducing biodiversity loss13
Assessing the vulnerability of mountain value chains to environmental and social drivers in Europe: A land-use and stakeholder-based approach13
Mining and the sustainable development goals: Prioritizing SDG targets for proper environmental governance13
How is Gaia doing? Trends in global land degradation and improvement13
A global analysis of bioeconomy visions in governmental bioeconomy strategies13
How oxygen deficiency in the Baltic Sea proper has spread and worsened: The role of ammonium and hydrogen sulphide13
Exploring community resilience through Arctic residents’ narratives in the Republic of Sakha (Russia)12
Rethinking desert definitions: Bridging the gap between science, policy, and conservation12
Potential of seagrass habitat restorations as nature-based solutions: Practical and scientific implications in Indonesia12
Online citizen dialogue on biodiversity conservation and citizen participation: A cross-cultural deliberation between Taiwan and Japan12
Reducing mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants in India: Possibilities and challenges12
Navigating risk: A holistic framework for supporting rural livelihoods adaptation in Solomon Islands12
Improving strategic planning for nature: Panacea or pandora’s box for the built and natural environment?12
Economics of rewilding12
Dreaming of wetscapes: Waking to the realities of restoration12
Navigating local relevance in transdisciplinary research: Exploring climate and environmental change in the Tasiilaq region, East Greenland12
Preferences of experts and the general public about wildlife management in Spain12
High salinity in drinking water creating pathways towards chronic poverty: A case study of coastal communities in Tanzania11
Leveraging collective action and environmental literacy to address complex sustainability challenges11
Reviewer Acknowledgements11
A bibliometric review on the Water Framework Directive twenty years after its birth11
How is energy poverty linked with citizen perceptions of financial support for low-carbon housing?11
Assessing alternative lake management actions for climate change adaptation11
Correction: Adapted forest management to improve the potential for reindeer husbandry in Northern Sweden11
Forest fates: Unraveling the peri-urban social–ecological trajectories in Mexico City's conservation land11
Trends and gaps in biodiversity and ecosystem services research: A text mining approach11
Rapid lake ice structure changes across Swedish lakes puts public ice safety at risk11
Placing diverse knowledge systems at the core of transformative climate research11
Exploring a green Swedish model: Coinciding and contradictory interests on a just climate transformation in Sweden11
A 2026 horizon scan for biodiversity conservation in South Africa11
Maximising biodiversity potential in Europe’s mines and quarries: A key role for EU Nature Restoration Regulation targets11
Knowledge and uses of freshwater mussels in Europe10
Temperatures and hypolimnetic oxygen in German lakes: Observations, future trends and adaptation potential10
Politics of delay hinder the implementation of EU Forest Strategy in Finland10
Erosion of traditional ecological knowledge under conditions of hydrosocial rupture: Insights from the Mekong floodplains communities10
Social-ecological system analysis of an invertebrate gleaning fishery on the island of Unguja, Zanzibar10
Rutger Rosenberg: A pioneering marine ecologist10
From COVID-19 to Green Recovery with natural capital accounting10
An assessment of the perceptions, knowledge, and socioeconomic factors associated with illegal orchid trade in Nepal: Implications for conservation10
Empathy for wildlife: The importance of the individual10
Farmer perceptions of the vulnerabilities of traditional livestock farming systems under global change10
Social–ecological system trajectories of peri-urban watersheds based on a spatial analysis of vulnerability components: A case study in Mexico City, 1999–203910
Modelling CO2 budget of mussel farms across the Mediterranean Sea10
Publisher Correction: How advocacy coalitions in Sweden explain the policy gap between Swedish and EU eel fishery policies10
Reforming a pre-existing biodiversity conservation scheme: Promoting climate co-benefits by a carbon payment10
Farm forests, seasonal hunger, and biomass poverty: Evidence of induced intensification from panel data in the Ethiopian Highlands10
Human–nature relationships: An introduction to social–ecological practice theory for human–wildlife interactions10
Lifestyle and language barriers influence community engagement with green infrastructure10
Foraging supply chains: Investigating disaster for improved food provisioning10
Tea for two: India’s commodity agroforests as coexistence landscapes for the endangered Asiatic wild dogs and people9
Navigating towards strengthened climate service processes9
Correction to: Potential of seagrass habitat restorations as nature-based solutions: Practical and scientific implications in Indonesia9
Paradoxical tensions in exploiting data to implement circular economy in the textile industry9
Plastic pollution in the Amazon: The first comprehensive and structured scoping review9
Mapping local knowledge supports science and stewardship9
Gross ecosystem product (GEP): Quantifying nature for environmental and economic policy innovation9
The sustainability of urbanized land: Impacts of the growth of urbanized land in prefecture-level cities in China9
Urban dog densities reveal environmental inequities in Santiago, Chile9
Increasing exposure to global climate change and hopes for the era of climate adaptation: An aquatic perspective9
Rivers in transition: Local perceptions of a Swedish dam removal9
Bridging social and ecological science to create spatially explicit models of human-caused mortality of carnivores9
Sustainable coffee: A review of the diverse initiatives and governance dimensions of global coffee supply chains9
Integrating carbon sequestration and biodiversity impacts in forested ecosystems: Concepts, cases, and policies9
Food diversification as an adaptation strategy to climate change: Habitat suitability for wild and cultivated food plants in the Brazilian Semiarid9
Shifted baselines: Using the adaptive cycle to assess the post-tsunami mangrove social-ecological system recovery in the Nicobar Islands9
Climate change and the Western Himalayan community: Exploring the local perspective through food choices9
Perceptions of coastal vegetated ecosystems: A systematic review across geographical and sectoral dimensions8
Exploring the performance of protected areas in alleviating future human pressure8
New indicator of habitat functionality reveals high risk of underestimating trade-offs among sustainable development goals: The case of wild reindeer and hydropower8
Marine environmental risks from armed conflict in the Persian Gulf: Past warnings, present urgency8
Reconnecting with food: The how and where of human-food resonance for sustainability8
Upsetting offsetting? Nathan the Wise’s Ring Parable and three reasons why not to adopt the carbon offsetting logic to biodiversity8
Mercury and artisanal and small-scale gold mining: Review of global use estimates and considerations for promoting mercury-free alternatives8
Integration matters: Combining socio-cultural and biophysical methods for mapping ecosystem service bundles8
Nonpoint source pollution measures in the Clean Water Act have no detectable impact on decadal trends in nutrient concentrations in U.S. inland waters8
Can river laws deliver ecological outcomes? Evaluating the Yangtze River protection law through a stakeholder lens8
(Un)frozen foundations: A study of permafrost construction practices in Russia, Alaska, and Canada8
Cultural ecosystem services in European grasslands: A systematic review of threats8
Correction: Designing gender-inclusive data systems in small-scale fisheries8
How to integrate youth in regional sustainability transformation processes: Tools, structures, and effects8
Community-based natural resource management in Roatan: Strengths and challenges8
Part of or apart from nature? Characteristics, environmental attitudes, and priorities of the nature (dis)connected8
An environmental justice perspective on ecosystem services8
The role of ecology in speciation: Dolph Schluter Crafoord Laureate 20238
Activities undertaken by Indigenous Australians as “caring for Country”: A systematic review8
Good data relations key to Indigenous research sovereignty: A case study from Nunatsiavut7
A novel governance framework for transformative science–policy–society interfaces: What can sociocracy offer?7
Climate, peace, and conflict—past and present: Bridging insights from historical sciences and contemporary research7
Climate Relief Maps: A methodological framework for exploring everyday experiences of climate change through an intersectional lens7
Warranty for a better world? The politics of environmental knowledge in bioeconomic sustainability certificates7
Visiting mine reclamation: How field experience shapes perceptions of mining7
Understanding transformative capacity to boost urban climate adaptation: A Semi-Systematic Literature Review7
Uncovering the governance and financing mechanisms supporting urban nature-based solutions: Case Stiemer Valley, Genk7
Letting the plants speak: Law, landscape and conservation7
The effect of shifts in fish community structure on PCDD/F temporal variability in common guillemot (Baltic Sea)7
Evidence-based legislation, strong institutions and consensus needed to mitigate the negative impacts of free-ranging dogs7
Values of protected area landscapes shape the behaviors of subsistence users in Interior Alaska7
Navigating social–ecological changes: A mixed-method analysis of extensive livestock systems in southern Patagonian forests, Argentina7
Reaping what we sow: Centering values in food systems transformations research7
Relying on wildlife management: How compensation programs can build trust and perceived control to sustain coexistence with brown bears in Poland7
Bibliometric and literature review of research on nature-based solutions and climate change: Implications for policy and practice7
Determining the transformative potential of circular agriculture initiatives7
Geodiversity and resilience: A scoping review7
Uplifting local ecological knowledge as part of adaptation pathways to wildfire risk reduction: A case study in Montseny, Catalonia (Spain)7
Long-term changes in herbivore community and vegetation impact of wild and domestic herbivores across Iceland7
Modeling fisheries and carbon sequestration ecosystem services under deep uncertainty in the ocean twilight zone7
Wetscapes provide the physical basis to sustainable peatland livelihoods7
From chocolate to palm oil: The future of Indonesia’s cocoa plantations6
Reviewing the science on 50 years of conservation: Knowledge production biases and lessons for practice6
A reflexive artificial intelligence governance for transformative change in sustainability6
An action framework for the participatory assessment of nature-based solutions in cities6
Marine conservation in Vanuatu: Local conceptualisation and ‘assemblage’6
Designing gender-inclusive data systems in small-scale fisheries6
Causes and consequences of tipping points in river delta social–ecological systems6
Farmland biodiversity monitoring through citizen science: A review of existing approaches and future opportunities6
A framework for assessing global health impacts of polar change: An urgent call for interdisciplinary research6
How to square the circle? A conceptual framework synergising strategies for circular agriculture to tackle climate change and enhance overall on-farm sustainability6
Conservation features of the terrestrial Antarctic Peninsula6
Barriers to evidence use for sustainability: Insights from pesticide policy and practice6
Tracing innovation pathways behind fisheries co-management in Vanuatu6
Bioeconomic opportunities in restored tropical forests6
People as solutions to sustainability6
Regenerating the food system: A proposed vision and guiding principles for regenerative, inclusive food systems (RIFS)6
Has the IPCC’s revised vulnerability concept been well adopted?6
Protecting earth from extraterrestrial contamination: The case for a lunar biocontainment facility6
A sea of connections: Reflections on connectivity from/in Oceania6
Correction: Proposed highway in the Peruvian Amazon threatens vulnerable indigenous communities and natural protected areas6
Attaining conservation goals for quinoa: Implications for public policy in Peru and beyond6
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