Environmental Science & Policy

Papers
(The median citation count of Environmental Science & Policy is 6. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Who should measure air quality in modern cities? The example of decentralization of urban air quality monitoring in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia, Russia)176
Can a Science Week empower scientists for conservation advocacy?172
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Enhancing climate change-induced flood co-adaptation in the Johor river basin, Malaysia: A dotmocracy mapping approach with key technical stakeholders125
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Indigenous peoples in carbon pricing policymaking85
Flood risk management along German rivers – A review of multi-criteria analysis methods and decision-support systems84
Are stakeholders ready to transform phosphorus use in food systems? A transdisciplinary study in a livestock intensive system84
Identifying success factors for integrated coastal zone management: Development of a regional coastal plan in Morocco.79
Plastics in a circular economy: Mitigating the ambiguity of widely-used terms from stakeholders consultation79
Twinning green and digital futures in waste management74
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A stakeholder analysis based on project managers’ perceptions: Unlocking transformative potential in Natura 2000 projects72
Local content policies: Knowledge stock and future directions for research and policy making in view of the sustainability agenda69
Institutional barriers to actionable science: Perspectives from decision support tool creators67
Knowledge brokers at the interface of environmental science and policy: A review of knowledge and research needs67
Situating ‘migration as adaptation’ discourse and appraising its relevance to Senegal’s development sector66
Analyzing efficiency and built environment factors for achieving convenient access to public transport: A Europe-wide DEA application66
Participatory study of policy process for wildlife conservation and ecotourism in Eswatini: A multiple streams analysis66
Applying Theory of Change in research program planning: Lessons from CGIAR65
Assessing multi-dimensional complexity through sustainability modeling: A whole community approach65
Redefining co-design for social-ecological research and practice: A systematic literature review65
Investigating the risky dilemma of regional flood planning: The case of the Wolastoq | Saint John River Basin, Canada65
Beyond a garden: Alignment of Sustainable Development Goals with botanic gardens62
Problem framing for Australian coastal management62
“Our burgers eat carbon”: Investigating the discourses of corporate net-zero commitments61
Gender-based climate (in)justice: An overview61
Identifying leverage points for sustainable transitions in urban – rural systems: Application of graph theory to participatory causal loop diagramming61
Expert knowledge and institutional interplay: Exploring the epistemic linkages of the IPCC, IPBES, WCRP, and Future Earth60
Designing successful agri-environmental schemes: A mechanistic analysis of a collective scheme for eco-system services in the Netherlands59
Coal, power and coal-powered politics in Indonesia58
Marine and coastal places: Wellbeing in a blue economy57
Determination of conservation priority areas in Qinghai Tibet Plateau based on ecosystem services56
Integrating traditional and local knowledge into disaster risk reduction policies: Insights from Nepal, India and Bangladesh55
Adaptation pathways to inform policy and practice in the context of development54
Barriers and opportunities to incorporate scientific evidence into air quality management in Mexico: A stakeholders’ perspective54
A digital approach to quantifying political vulnerability of protected areas54
Earthquake recommendations in Europe: Types and diversity53
Indigenous community perspectives on energy governance53
Managing emerging environmental risks when we do not know enough about them: The case of respirable mineral dust53
Just sortition, communitarian deliberation: Two proposals for grounded climate assemblies52
Social perception assessment of hydropower sustainability: A stepwise logistic regression modeling52
Advancing socio-ecological considerations in impact assessment of extractive industries: A realist interview study in the Canadian context50
Tracing the inclusion of health as a component of the food-energy-water nexus in dam management in the Senegal River Basin48
Collaborative valuation of ecosystem services to inform lake remediation48
Fostering uptake of innovations and solutions for water and climate challenges in Africa: Lessons from the AfriAlliance Knowledge Brokerage Events48
How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the climate change debate on Twitter?47
What is the ‘problem’ of gender inequality represented to be in the Swedish forest sector?47
Integrating human rights in the sustainability governance of global supply chains: Exploring the deforestation-land tenure nexus47
Patterns of injustices in water allocation mechanisms in the Brazilian Amazon: Palm oil expansion and the reshaping of hydrosocial territories47
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What motivates urban dwellers to adapt to climate-driven water insecurity? An empirical study from Lima, Peru46
Climate change adaptation in agriculture: Learning from an international labour mobility programme in Australia and the Pacific Islands region46
Unintended consequences: The erosion of traditional collective action and social capital by externally imposed climate adaptation programs46
A water-energy-food security nexus framework based on optimal resource allocation46
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Urban-rural interdependencies from an Earth system’s view – Principles and perspectives leading to new integrative and transformative research46
To dam or not to dam? Actionable socio-hydrology modeling to inform robust adaptation to water scarcity and water extremes45
A review of ES knowledge use in spatial planning44
Conservation or deforestation: Households attitudinal analysis of forest resources for sustainable development of the Tain (II) Forest Reserve, Ghana44
Pathways to transformative adaptation in southern African cities: A criteria-based assessment in Harare and Durban43
Incorporating positive deviance into comprehensive remediation projects: A case study from artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the municipality of Andes, Colombia43
Science in the court: Expert knowledge and forest fires on Indonesia’s plantations43
How to promote the integrative ability of transdisciplinary graduate students42
A new perspective on the work of boundary organisations: Bridging knowledge between marine conservation actors in Pacific Small Island Developing States41
Analyzing the political impact of Real-world laboratories for urban transformation in eight German ‘Cities of the Future’41
A knowledge exchange framework to connect research, policy, and practice, developed through the example of the Chinese island of Hainan40
Assessing the dynamics of urban vulnerability to climate change: Case of Helsinki, Finland39
Building a knowledge infrastructure for Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP). An analytical approach based on the experimental TIP conference 202239
Climate change preparedness across sectors of the built environment – A review of literature38
Measuring and managing for environmental sustainability. An application of the Environmental Sustainability Gap (ESGAP) framework in New Caledonia38
Actions and leverage points for ecosystem-based adaptation pathways in the Alps38
The ClimateHack: How tech entrepreneurship shapes climate action38
A conceptual framework for the assessment of and the transition to liveable, sustainable and equitable cities37
Comparing normative and descriptive methods for multi-criteria decision analysis: A case study evaluating wetland restoration opportunities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, USA37
Integrating adaptation practice in assessments of climate change science: The case of IPCC Working Group II reports37
Weaving scientific and local knowledge on climate change impacts in coastal Kenya, Western Indian Ocean37
Operationalizing the biocultural perspective in conservation practice: A systematic review of the literature37
Artisanal and small-scale mining methods and the Sustainable Development Goal 6: Perceived implications for clean water supply36
Towards a prioritization screening framework for chemicals, wastes, and pollution36
Effects of policy and functional (in)coherence on coordination – A comparative analysis of cross-sectoral water management problems36
The role of iconic places, collective efficacy, and negative emotions in climate change communication36
Does knowledge co-production influence adaptive capacity?: A framework for evaluation36
Beyond green growth: Mapping sustainability pathways for rural transformations in Norway35
Digital technologies and ILK in the Arctic: In search of epistemological pluralism35
Social protection and aquatic food systems35
New times in old forests: How the past matters in European forest science35
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Response on the “Characterising wildfire impacts on ecosystem services: A triangulation of scientific findings, governmental reports, and expert perceptions in Portugal”34
Integrative literature review on co-concepts in connection with nature-based solutions33
Danger is just a click away–A survey on online shopping for glyphosate-based pesticides for gardening/horticulture33
Eleven enablers of science thought leadership to facilitate knowledge exchange in environmental regulation33
Energy-food nexus scarcity risk and the synergic impact of climate policy: A global production network perspective33
Integration of climate change mitigation and sustainable development planning: Lessons from a national planning process in Nigeria33
(Not So) common places: The roles of ecologists in environmental public policy33
Detecting spikes and change points in climate-food system: A case study in France33
Whose knowledge counts in nature-based solutions? Understanding epistemic justice for nature-based solutions through a multi-city comparison across Europe and Asia33
Of heroes and villains – How coalitions shape their narratives and what the public conservation debate is actually about?33
Matching institutionalized expertise with global needs: Boundary organizations and hybrid management at the science-policy interfaces of soil and land governance33
Linking ecosystem accounting to environmental planning and management: Opportunities and barriers using a case study from the Australian Capital Territory33
‘Village’ as verb: Sustaining a transformation in disaster risk reduction from the bottom up32
The reflexive process in sustainability science: A short critical review32
Navigating cascading food-energy-water insecurities: A case of community leadership in Puerto Rico32
Denial and discretion as a governance process: How actor perceptions of risk and responsibility hinder adaptation to climate change32
Competing values, ideologies and lock-in dependencies in sociotechnical pathways for industrial decarbonization32
Do governments track the implementation of national climate change adaptation plans? An evidence-based global stocktake of monitoring and evaluation systems31
From perception to action: Participatory water risk assessment in Nagaon District of Assam, India31
The impacts of agricultural development and trade on CO2 emissions? Evidence from the Non-European Union countries31
A wavelet-based model of world oil shocks interaction with CO2 emissions in the US31
The sociotechnical dynamics of blue carbon management: Testing typologies of ideographs, innovation, and co-impacts for marine carbon removal31
The impact of scientific controversies on standards and methodologies in the voluntary blue carbon market31
Changing bushfire management practices to incorporate diverse values of the public30
The administrator’s dilemma: Closing the gap between climate adaptation justice in theory and practice30
To intervene or not to intervene: Potential for targeted pesticide policy in Uganda30
Political orientations, economic policies, and environmental quality: Multi-valued treatment effects analysis with spatial spillovers in country districts of Poland30
Managing estuaries under a changing climate: A case study of the Humber Estuary, UK30
Identifying barriers to decentralized stormwater infrastructure implementation at different levels of urban flood governance – A case study in Eastern Pennsylvania, US30
The application of analytical hierarchy process to assess adaptation strategies for flood and landslides risks: A case study of a multi-risk area community30
Anthropological grounds of climate equity principles30
A hybrid multi-attribute decision-making and data envelopment analysis model with heterogeneous attributes: The case of sustainable development goals30
Anticipatory stakeholder engagement provides insights for gene drive in invasive species through the case of gene drive grey squirrels30
Futuremaking in a disaster zone: Everyday climate change adaptation amongst Quechua women in the Peruvian Cordillera Blanca30
Water-power scenarios to 2033: A mixed model29
Scientific research in the Himalaya: Current state of knowledge, funding paradigm and policy implications29
Forest owners as political actors29
Public engagement for social transformation: Informing or Empowering?29
Scientific models in legal judgements: The relationship between law and environmental science as problem-feeding29
Determinants of effective participatory multi-actor climate change governance: Insights from Zambia’s environment and climate change actors29
Water courses and discourses: A media content analysis of environmental water reporting in Australia29
Corrigendum to “Can knowledge transfer speed up climate change mitigation in agriculture? A randomized experimental evaluation of participatory workshops” [Environ. Sci. Policy 152 (2024) 103662]28
Citizen science supports national reporting of a Sustainable Development Goal indicator: A case study of plastic debris density on beaches28
Enhancing the review process in global environmental assessments: The case of the IPCC28
Inclusive is not an adjective, it transforms development: A post-growth interpretation of Inclusive Development28
An optimization model-based DEA-MARCOS approach for assessing EU countries towards achieving sustainable development goals28
From experiment to intervention: A case study of scaling up marine eco-engineering from research to application28
Unpacking the politics of Nature-based Solutions governance: Making space for transformative change28
Supporting spatial planning with a novel method based on participatory Bayesian networks: An application in Curaçao28
The technopolitics of agronomic knowledge and tropical(izing) vegetables in Brazil28
The role of nature-based solutions and senses of place in enabling just city transitions27
Legitimising different futures: Swedish forest management as a climate change mitigation measure27
Just cities and nature-based solutions in the Global South: A diagnostic approach to move beyond panaceas in Brazil27
Managing environmental change through inter-agency collaboration: Protective governance in mandated sustainability planning27
Participatory practices and transforming environmental research in the Anthropocene26
Advancing climate resilient development pathways since the IPCC’s fifth assessment report26
Review of the food, water and biodiversity nexus in India26
Achieving social-ecological fit in projectified environmental governance: Exploring vertical and horizontal dimensions26
The role of indigenous knowledge in climate change adaptation in Africa26
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Exploring the solution space for different forestry management structures in New Zealand under climate change26
Augment the SDG indicator framework26
Ecological connectivity in spatial planning: from the EU framework to its territorial implementation in the French context26
Co-production of urban forests as nature-based solutions: Motivations and lessons-learnt from public officials26
Public preferences for options to manage chronic wasting disease in Canada: A paired comparisons study25
Unchecking the box: Overcoming barriers to meaningful consultation25
The multi-player evolutionary game analysis for the protective development of ecotourism25
Vessel risks to marine wildlife in the Tallurutiup Imanga National Marine Conservation Area and the eastern entrance to the Northwest Passage25
Power dynamics in transdisciplinary research for sustainable urban transitions25
Forest owners’ perceptions of machine learning: Insights from swedish forestry25
What change? Assessing the Extinction Rebellion’s support for climate assemblies25
Disseminating land use land cover change scenarios for improving the role of blue and green infrastructure: Evaluation and perspectives25
How can bottom-up citizen science restore public trust in environmental governance and sciences? Recommendations from three case studies25
Deadlock in transition to a net-zero socially robust knowledge25
Weather information, farm-level climate adaptation and farmers' adaptive capacity: Examining the role of information and communication technologies24
Coevolution between science and policy: A systematic analysis on circular economy in China and worldwide24
Trends and purposes of European river monitoring and restoration24
A call for ‘management authorship’ in community forestry24
Influence of hazard-related and cognitive factors of households’ flood risk perceptions in Kampala, Uganda24
The application of collaborative governance in local level climate and disaster resilient development – A global review24
Dialogue and collaboration for sustainable development in Japan and Taiwan: Epistemic foundation of partnership toward Sustainable Development Goals24
Prototyping structured decision making for water resource management in the San Francisco Bay-Delta24
The exploratory assetization of a crop protection app23
Characterizing air pollution risk perceptions among high-educated young generation in China: How does risk experience influence risk perception23
Ecosystem services-based decision-making: A bridge from science to practice23
Farmer pathways to sustainability in the face of water scarcity23
Are we at risk of an uneven low-carbon transition? Assessing evidence from a mixed-method elite study23
Participatory scenario planning: A social learning approach to build systems thinking and trust for sustainable environmental governance23
What do we mean by justice in sustainability pathways? Commitments, dilemmas, and translations from theory to practice in nature-based solutions.23
The listing of new persistent organic pollutants in the stockholm convention: Its burden on developing countries23
Climate change adaptation: How short-term political priorities trample public well-being23
The pollution haven strikes back?–Evidence from air quality daily variation in the Jing-Jin-Ji region of China23
Knowledge governance and learning: Examining challenges and opportunities in the Colorado River basin23
Transformative effectiveness: How EIA can transform stakeholders’ frames of reference23
Indigenous practices of ecosystem management in a changing climate: Prospects for ecosystem-based adaptation23
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Climate change assemblies as spaces for the potential mitigation of climate policy misperceptions: A survey experiment22
Upscaling marine and coastal restoration through legal and governance solutions: Lessons from global bright spots22
A geologist per municipality initiative: Bridging geology and governance for sustainable development in Colombia22
Erratum to “Greenhouse gas emission scenarios in nine key non-G20 countries: An assessment of progress toward 2030 climate targets” [Environ. Sci. Policy 123 (2021) 67–81]22
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Issues of context, capacity and scale: Essential conditions and missing links for a sustainable blue economy22
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Knowledge representation in global environmental assessments - Patterns among authors of the Global Environmental Outlook21
Barriers to plastic monitoring in freshwaters in the Global South21
The Greta Effect: Is there more public support for climate protesters who are young and female?21
Bridging science, policy and practice for sustainability: Towards a conceptual framework21
Land use and environmental impacts: Flood model in a medium-sized Brazilian city as a tool for urban sustainability21
Identifying opportunities to deliver effective and efficient outcomes from business-biodiversity action21
Lessons from a plain language analysis: U.S. Clean Air Act Title V public notices as barriers to environmental justice21
Advancing community disaster resilience: A data-knowledge driven paradigm for integrating environmental science and policy decision-making21
Unlocking effective ice-jam risk management: Insights from agent-based modeling and comparative analysis of social theories in Fort McMurray, Canada21
Knowledge co-production around the cormorant-fishing conflict using a joint fact-finding approach21
Dutch municipalities tackling climate change adaptation to heat stress through mainstreaming across sectors21
A methodological framework for assessing the coherence of Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem nexus policies: Illustration and application at the river basin level21
Navigating the nexus: The role of intermediaries in charting a new frontier of policy integration for agrifood and energy systems transformation21
Primary vs grey: A critical evaluation of literature sources used to assess the impacts of offshore wind farms21
Perception on coastal erosion: An assessment of how national level coastal resilience strategies promote indigenous knowledge and affect local level adaptation in Ghanaian communities21
Co-designing a multi-criteria approach to ranking hazards to and from Australia’s emerging offshore blue economy21
Implementing and evaluating knowledge exchange: Insights from practitioners at the Canadian Forest Service21
An archetype analysis of sustainability innovations in Biosphere Reserves: Insights for assessing transformative potential21
Investigating the intention to participate in environmental governance during urban-rural integrated development process in the Yangtze River Delta Region20
Assessing extreme heat risk perception: Awareness, worry, preparedness and social capital in Texas20
Factual information on the environmental impacts of consumption abroad increases citizens' problem awareness, but not support for mitigating such impacts20
A risk-based method to prioritize cumulative impacts assessment on marine biodiversity and research policy for offshore wind farms in France20
The Ecological Conservation Redline program: A new model for improving China's protected area network20
Risk perception and risk realities in forming legally binding agreements: The governance of plastics20
Water security in native American communities of Nevada20
AI and the governance of sustainable development. An idea analysis of the European Union, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum20
Participatory knowledge integration to promote safe pesticide use in Uganda20
Governing the Murray-Darling Basin: Integrating social and biophysical indicators for better environmental outcomes20
Red wolf science and identity storylines in an online discursive community20
International human rights and climate change (policies): Challenging the concept of vulnerability20
Formulating a 100-year strategy for managing coastal hazard risk in a changing climate: Lessons learned from Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand20
Embedded researchers as transdisciplinary boundary spanners strengthening urban climate resilience20
Valuing the contribution of blue carbon to small island developing states' climate change commitments and Covid-19 recovery20
Mapping a Green Infrastructure Network: a framework for spatial connectivity applied in Northern Italy20
Governance towards coordination for water resources management: The effect of governance modes20
Projections of soil loss by water erosion in Europe by 205020
The pendulum movement: Unstable political settlements for artisanal and small-scale mining in Peru19
How can we promote the responsible innovation of nano-agrifood research?19
The political context of change in transboundary freshwater agreements19
Lessons learnt from previous local sustainability efforts to inform local action for the Sustainable Development Goals19
Policy mixes for mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions: An analysis of six European countries and the European Union19
Flood risk index development at the municipal level in Costa Rica: A methodological framework19
How do household crop and livestock production adapt to extreme climatic events? —Insights from a typical agro-pastoral ecotone on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau19
Leverage points for improving urban biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene: A novel ecosystem lens for social-ecological transformation19
Polycentricity in practice: Marine governance transitions in Southeast Asia19
Experiences of inequality in international collaborative research – Perspectives from environmental and sustainability scholars from Ghana, West Africa19
The endogenous action space in urban biodiversity governance: Socio-political fragmentation, serendipity of agency, and value articulation strategies19
Navigating diverse commercial fisher perspectives for effective knowledge exchange in fisheries research and management19
Setting global deadlines for the elimination of major groups of persistent organic pollutants19
Pathways towards improved water governance: The role of polycentric governance systems and vertical and horizontal coordination19
Defying the gloom: In search of the ‘golden’ practices of small-scale mining operations19
The interrupting capacities of knowledge co-production experiments: A sociology of testing approach19
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Policy coherence assessment of water, energy, and food resources policies in the Tana River Basin, Kenya18
Strategic retreat: Balancing risk and societal goals in land-use planning18
A monitoring, reporting and verification system for low carbon agriculture: A case study from Brazil18
An analytical framework for state level water-energy-food nexus analysis in India: Insight from implemented policies18
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