Environmental Science & Policy

Papers
(The TQCC of Environmental Science & Policy is 15. 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.)
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Editorial Board260
Can a Science Week empower scientists for conservation advocacy?127
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Identifying success factors for integrated coastal zone management: Development of a regional coastal plan in Morocco.95
Who should measure air quality in modern cities? The example of decentralization of urban air quality monitoring in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia, Russia)91
Conditional visibility: Intersectional inequities marginalize local scholarship in conservation science87
Analyzing efficiency and built environment factors for achieving convenient access to public transport: A Europe-wide DEA application87
Applying Theory of Change in research program planning: Lessons from CGIAR83
“Our burgers eat carbon”: Investigating the discourses of corporate net-zero commitments82
Local content policies: Knowledge stock and future directions for research and policy making in view of the sustainability agenda81
Participatory study of policy process for wildlife conservation and ecotourism in Eswatini: A multiple streams analysis80
Plastics in a circular economy: Mitigating the ambiguity of widely-used terms from stakeholders consultation77
Beyond a garden: Alignment of Sustainable Development Goals with botanic gardens77
Adaptation pathways to inform policy and practice in the context of development77
Integrating traditional and local knowledge into disaster risk reduction policies: Insights from Nepal, India and Bangladesh76
Evaluation of global research on agricultural nitrogen pollution between 1990 and 2023: Challenges for more efficacy and equity76
Marine and coastal places: Wellbeing in a blue economy75
Investigating the risky dilemma of regional flood planning: The case of the Wolastoq | Saint John River Basin, Canada72
A stakeholder analysis based on project managers’ perceptions: Unlocking transformative potential in Natura 2000 projects72
Flood risk management along German rivers – A review of multi-criteria analysis methods and decision-support systems72
Assessing multi-dimensional complexity through sustainability modeling: A whole community approach70
Energy sovereignty and climate adaptation: A community model for empowering maya women in Ixil, Yucatan69
Identifying leverage points for sustainable transitions in urban – rural systems: Application of graph theory to participatory causal loop diagramming68
Gender-based climate (in)justice: An overview68
Enhancing climate change-induced flood co-adaptation in the Johor river basin, Malaysia: A dotmocracy mapping approach with key technical stakeholders67
Environmental assessment and regulatory oversight of genetically engineered crops in the United States66
Designing successful agri-environmental schemes: A mechanistic analysis of a collective scheme for eco-system services in the Netherlands65
Twinning green and digital futures in waste management61
Expert knowledge and institutional interplay: Exploring the epistemic linkages of the IPCC, IPBES, WCRP, and Future Earth61
A conceptual framework for knowledge integration in cross-disciplinary collaborations60
Indigenous peoples in carbon pricing policymaking59
Redefining co-design for social-ecological research and practice: A systematic literature review58
Comparing normative and descriptive methods for multi-criteria decision analysis: A case study evaluating wetland restoration opportunities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, USA56
Knowledge brokers at the interface of environmental science and policy: A review of knowledge and research needs56
Conservation or deforestation: Households attitudinal analysis of forest resources for sustainable development of the Tain (II) Forest Reserve, Ghana54
Analyzing the political impact of Real-world laboratories for urban transformation in eight German ‘Cities of the Future’54
Climate change adaptation in agriculture: Learning from an international labour mobility programme in Australia and the Pacific Islands region54
A conceptual framework for the assessment of and the transition to liveable, sustainable and equitable cities53
To dam or not to dam? Actionable socio-hydrology modeling to inform robust adaptation to water scarcity and water extremes53
A review of ES knowledge use in spatial planning53
Editorial Board52
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Just sortition, communitarian deliberation: Two proposals for grounded climate assemblies50
A knowledge exchange framework to connect research, policy, and practice, developed through the example of the Chinese island of Hainan48
Building a knowledge infrastructure for Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP). An analytical approach based on the experimental TIP conference 202247
Integrating adaptation practice in assessments of climate change science: The case of IPCC Working Group II reports47
Weaving scientific and local knowledge on climate change impacts in coastal Kenya, Western Indian Ocean47
What is the ‘problem’ of gender inequality represented to be in the Swedish forest sector?47
A new perspective on the work of boundary organisations: Bridging knowledge between marine conservation actors in Pacific Small Island Developing States46
Earthquake recommendations in Europe: Types and diversity46
Participatory convergence: Four cases for conducting convergent research using community-based approaches46
A multiplicity of tomorrows from ‘giving the world cancer’ to ‘colonizing space’: Imagining 299 climate intervention futures from a foresight exercise across 44 focus groups46
Collaborative valuation of ecosystem services to inform lake remediation46
Advancing socio-ecological considerations in impact assessment of extractive industries: A realist interview study in the Canadian context45
Pathways to transformative adaptation in southern African cities: A criteria-based assessment in Harare and Durban45
What motivates urban dwellers to adapt to climate-driven water insecurity? An empirical study from Lima, Peru45
Science in the court: Expert knowledge and forest fires on Indonesia’s plantations45
Measuring and managing for environmental sustainability. An application of the Environmental Sustainability Gap (ESGAP) framework in New Caledonia45
Indigenous community perspectives on energy governance44
Governing water in multi-functional landscapes: Coordination, collaboration and networks44
Key challenges in forest restoration and adaptation in Spain: Expert-based solutions for a resilient future44
Corrigendum to “Sustainability transition frameworks: Integrating space, scale, nature, power, and justice” [Environ. Sci. Policy 177 (2026) 104327]44
How to promote the integrative ability of transdisciplinary graduate students43
Patterns of injustices in water allocation mechanisms in the Brazilian Amazon: Palm oil expansion and the reshaping of hydrosocial territories42
Social perception assessment of hydropower sustainability: A stepwise logistic regression modeling42
What is there to sustain? Ontological imaginaries and the existence and agency of gods, Tūpuna, and everything else42
Trade-offs in expanding citizen participation in low-carbon transitions: Seven transition arena experiments41
Tracing the inclusion of health as a component of the food-energy-water nexus in dam management in the Senegal River Basin41
Urban-rural interdependencies from an Earth system’s view – Principles and perspectives leading to new integrative and transformative research41
Managing emerging environmental risks when we do not know enough about them: The case of respirable mineral dust41
The ClimateHack: How tech entrepreneurship shapes climate action40
Unintended consequences: The erosion of traditional collective action and social capital by externally imposed climate adaptation programs40
A water-energy-food security nexus framework based on optimal resource allocation39
The role of iconic places, collective efficacy, and negative emotions in climate change communication38
New times in old forests: How the past matters in European forest science38
Operationalizing the biocultural perspective in conservation practice: A systematic review of the literature38
Artisanal and small-scale mining methods and the Sustainable Development Goal 6: Perceived implications for clean water supply38
Integrating human rights in the sustainability governance of global supply chains: Exploring the deforestation-land tenure nexus38
Linking ecosystem accounting to environmental planning and management: Opportunities and barriers using a case study from the Australian Capital Territory37
Managing estuaries under a changing climate: A case study of the Humber Estuary, UK37
Response on the “Characterising wildfire impacts on ecosystem services: A triangulation of scientific findings, governmental reports, and expert perceptions in Portugal”37
Anthropological grounds of climate equity principles37
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Towards a prioritization screening framework for chemicals, wastes, and pollution36
Beyond green growth: Mapping sustainability pathways for rural transformations in Norway36
Danger is just a click away–A survey on online shopping for glyphosate-based pesticides for gardening/horticulture35
From shadows to spotlight: NGO pollution disclosure and the dual transformation of environmental and tourism landscapes35
A hybrid multi-attribute decision-making and data envelopment analysis model with heterogeneous attributes: The case of sustainable development goals35
EU policy on forest carbon sinks revisited35
Energy-food nexus scarcity risk and the synergic impact of climate policy: A global production network perspective35
Denial and discretion as a governance process: How actor perceptions of risk and responsibility hinder adaptation to climate change34
The administrator’s dilemma: Closing the gap between climate adaptation justice in theory and practice34
Navigating cascading food-energy-water insecurities: A case of community leadership in Puerto Rico34
Identifying barriers to decentralized stormwater infrastructure implementation at different levels of urban flood governance – A case study in Eastern Pennsylvania, US34
The impacts of agricultural development and trade on CO2 emissions? Evidence from the Non-European Union countries34
From perception to action: Participatory water risk assessment in Nagaon District of Assam, India34
The reflexive process in sustainability science: A short critical review34
The impact of scientific controversies on standards and methodologies in the voluntary blue carbon market34
Bridging equity and resilience: A Systematic review of social sustainability in climate change mitigation and adaptation34
Does knowledge co-production influence adaptive capacity?: A framework for evaluation33
Digital technologies and ILK in the Arctic: In search of epistemological pluralism33
“Global significant trends and countermeasures pertaining to climate change adaptation: Translating ambition into action post-COP29”33
‘Village’ as verb: Sustaining a transformation in disaster risk reduction from the bottom up33
Integrative literature review on co-concepts in connection with nature-based solutions33
Eleven enablers of science thought leadership to facilitate knowledge exchange in environmental regulation33
Weaving threads of knowledge: Reflecting transdisciplinary approaches and co-production in local climate change adaptation research33
Social protection and aquatic food systems33
Of heroes and villains – How coalitions shape their narratives and what the public conservation debate is actually about?33
Whose knowledge counts in nature-based solutions? Understanding epistemic justice for nature-based solutions through a multi-city comparison across Europe and Asia33
Supporting spatial planning with a novel method based on participatory Bayesian networks: An application in Curaçao32
The sociotechnical dynamics of blue carbon management: Testing typologies of ideographs, innovation, and co-impacts for marine carbon removal32
Enhancing the review process in global environmental assessments: The case of the IPCC32
Competing values, ideologies and lock-in dependencies in sociotechnical pathways for industrial decarbonization32
Determinants of effective participatory multi-actor climate change governance: Insights from Zambia’s environment and climate change actors31
Climate change-induced threats to transhumance pastoral system in Burkina Faso, West Africa31
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]31
Towards operationalising climate resilient development pathways31
Participatory practices and transforming environmental research in the Anthropocene31
Between tradition and transformation: Negotiating land and water resources in Ghana’s Pra River Basin31
Citizen science supports national reporting of a Sustainable Development Goal indicator: A case study of plastic debris density on beaches31
Water-power scenarios to 2033: A mixed model30
Water courses and discourses: A media content analysis of environmental water reporting in Australia30
Scientific research in the Himalaya: Current state of knowledge, funding paradigm and policy implications30
Anticipatory stakeholder engagement provides insights for gene drive in invasive species through the case of gene drive grey squirrels30
Governing groundwater in the Indus Basin: Barriers to effective groundwater management and pathways for reform30
The role of nature-based solutions and senses of place in enabling just city transitions29
Public engagement for social transformation: Informing or Empowering?29
Futuremaking in a disaster zone: Everyday climate change adaptation amongst Quechua women in the Peruvian Cordillera Blanca29
The technopolitics of agronomic knowledge and tropical(izing) vegetables in Brazil29
An optimization model-based DEA-MARCOS approach for assessing EU countries towards achieving sustainable development goals29
Promoting climate resilience through learning-based behavioural change: Insights from an agent-based model of a coastal farming community in Guangxi, China28
The application of analytical hierarchy process to assess adaptation strategies for flood and landslides risks: A case study of a multi-risk area community28
DAPP-MD: A multi-dimensional framework for adaptive planning under deep uncertainty and interacting risks28
Just cities and nature-based solutions in the Global South: A diagnostic approach to move beyond panaceas in Brazil27
From experiment to intervention: A case study of scaling up marine eco-engineering from research to application27
The role of indigenous knowledge in climate change adaptation in Africa27
Climate change adaptation: How short-term political priorities trample public well-being27
Future pathways for the ecological quality of global freshwater ecosystems27
Augment the SDG indicator framework27
Dialogue and collaboration for sustainable development in Japan and Taiwan: Epistemic foundation of partnership toward Sustainable Development Goals27
Legitimising different futures: Swedish forest management as a climate change mitigation measure27
Unpacking the politics of Nature-based Solutions governance: Making space for transformative change27
Bridging waters and power: Hydrosocial territories with socio-natural resilience in China's Great Yangtze River protection programme27
A call for ‘management authorship’ in community forestry27
Achieving social-ecological fit in projectified environmental governance: Exploring vertical and horizontal dimensions26
The unmeasurable mandate: Leveraging arts-based research for navigating environmental ambiguity and policy gridlock26
Review of the food, water and biodiversity nexus in India26
The exploratory assetization of a crop protection app26
Transformative effectiveness: How EIA can transform stakeholders’ frames of reference26
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Environmental justice through epistemic diversification: A critical reflection on One Health for just environmental public health26
Climate change assemblies as spaces for the potential mitigation of climate policy misperceptions: A survey experiment26
Sustainability transition frameworks: Integrating space, scale, nature, power, and justice25
Coevolution between science and policy: A systematic analysis on circular economy in China and worldwide25
Public preferences for options to manage chronic wasting disease in Canada: A paired comparisons study25
Local-global linkages in biodiversity governance: The regime complex of the convention on biological diversity agenda for nature pledges25
Disseminating land use land cover change scenarios for improving the role of blue and green infrastructure: Evaluation and perspectives25
Deadlock in transition to a net-zero socially robust knowledge25
Unchecking the box: Overcoming barriers to meaningful consultation25
Weather information, farm-level climate adaptation and farmers' adaptive capacity: Examining the role of information and communication technologies25
What change? Assessing the Extinction Rebellion’s support for climate assemblies25
The pollution haven strikes back?–Evidence from air quality daily variation in the Jing-Jin-Ji region of China24
Ecosystem services-based decision-making: A bridge from science to practice24
Influence of hazard-related and cognitive factors of households’ flood risk perceptions in Kampala, Uganda24
What do we mean by justice in sustainability pathways? Commitments, dilemmas, and translations from theory to practice in nature-based solutions.24
Forest owners’ perceptions of machine learning: Insights from swedish forestry24
Trends and purposes of European river monitoring and restoration24
Co-production of urban forests as nature-based solutions: Motivations and lessons-learnt from public officials24
Urban heatscapes and environmental injustice: Structural drivers and governance pathways for equitable climate adaptation – A scoping review24
Dutch municipalities tackling climate change adaptation to heat stress through mainstreaming across sectors23
Land use and environmental impacts: Flood model in a medium-sized Brazilian city as a tool for urban sustainability23
Prototyping structured decision making for water resource management in the San Francisco Bay-Delta23
Corrigendum to “Challenges and perceptions of natural resource management among the Awajún and Wampis indigenous communities: A socioeconomic, cultural, political, and environmental analysis” [Environ23
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Knowledge representation in global environmental assessments - Patterns among authors of the Global Environmental Outlook23
Where to start? – The interplay of what, who and where in phase-0 of transdisciplinary research23
Unlearning as resistance and justice: Toward healing and transforming23
The application of collaborative governance in local level climate and disaster resilient development – A global review23
From communities to policy: Transdisciplinary lessons from the Global South23
Co-designing a multi-criteria approach to ranking hazards to and from Australia’s emerging offshore blue economy23
Navigating the nexus: The role of intermediaries in charting a new frontier of policy integration for agrifood and energy systems transformation23
Perception on coastal erosion: An assessment of how national level coastal resilience strategies promote indigenous knowledge and affect local level adaptation in Ghanaian communities23
Participatory scenario planning: A social learning approach to build systems thinking and trust for sustainable environmental governance23
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How can bottom-up citizen science restore public trust in environmental governance and sciences? Recommendations from three case studies23
An archetype analysis of sustainability innovations in Biosphere Reserves: Insights for assessing transformative potential22
The Greta Effect: Is there more public support for climate protesters who are young and female?22
Identifying opportunities to deliver effective and efficient outcomes from business-biodiversity action22
Primary vs grey: A critical evaluation of literature sources used to assess the impacts of offshore wind farms22
A geologist per municipality initiative: Bridging geology and governance for sustainable development in Colombia22
Advancing community disaster resilience: A data-knowledge driven paradigm for integrating environmental science and policy decision-making22
Governance towards coordination for water resources management: The effect of governance modes22
Unlocking effective ice-jam risk management: Insights from agent-based modeling and comparative analysis of social theories in Fort McMurray, Canada22
Lessons from a plain language analysis: U.S. Clean Air Act Title V public notices as barriers to environmental justice22
Bridging science, policy and practice for sustainability: Towards a conceptual framework22
A methodological framework for assessing the coherence of Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem nexus policies: Illustration and application at the river basin level22
Water security in native American communities of Nevada21
Assessing extreme heat risk perception: Awareness, worry, preparedness and social capital in Texas21
Barriers to plastic monitoring in freshwaters in the Global South21
Upscaling marine and coastal restoration through legal and governance solutions: Lessons from global bright spots21
Navigating diverse commercial fisher perspectives for effective knowledge exchange in fisheries research and management21
How can we promote the responsible innovation of nano-agrifood research?21
Polycentricity in practice: Marine governance transitions in Southeast Asia21
The interrupting capacities of knowledge co-production experiments: A sociology of testing approach21
Toward an integrated sustainability transition: Conserving forest by enhancing Indigenous rights21
Collaborating and resisting: Campesino strategies against ontological extractivism in Sumapaz, Colombia21
The pendulum movement: Unstable political settlements for artisanal and small-scale mining in Peru21
International human rights and climate change (policies): Challenging the concept of vulnerability21
Towards a decolonial planning praxis for nature-based solutions: bridging inclusive planning of NBS in cities with decolonial thinking through a systematic literature review21
Knowledge co-production around the cormorant-fishing conflict using a joint fact-finding approach21
Implementing and evaluating knowledge exchange: Insights from practitioners at the Canadian Forest Service21
Setting global deadlines for the elimination of major groups of persistent organic pollutants21
Red wolf science and identity storylines in an online discursive community21
Valuing the contribution of blue carbon to small island developing states' climate change commitments and Covid-19 recovery20
Values, rules, and knowledge: Understanding and enabling land use change decisions as adaptation to climate change20
Bridging the pathways of industrial and urban sustainability: A perspective for mainstreaming Nature-Based Solutions into Industrial Parks20
Risk perception and risk realities in forming legally binding agreements: The governance of plastics20
Experiences of inequality in international collaborative research – Perspectives from environmental and sustainability scholars from Ghana, West Africa20
Evaluating global carbon neutrality commitments: An integrated assessment model approach to the 2°C target20
Policy mixes for mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions: An analysis of six European countries and the European Union20
The political context of change in transboundary freshwater agreements20
Pathways towards improved water governance: The role of polycentric governance systems and vertical and horizontal coordination20
Defying the gloom: In search of the ‘golden’ practices of small-scale mining operations20
How do household crop and livestock production adapt to extreme climatic events? —Insights from a typical agro-pastoral ecotone on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau20
Leverage points for improving urban biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene: A novel ecosystem lens for social-ecological transformation20
Addressing gaps in integrative water-energy-food-forest (WEFF) nexus governance20
Factual information on the environmental impacts of consumption abroad increases citizens' problem awareness, but not support for mitigating such impacts20
Exploring the use of adaptation tipping points: A systematic review of definitions, characteristics and applications19
Fiji’s policy response to COVID-19 and the integration of Indigenous voices19
AI and the governance of sustainable development. An idea analysis of the European Union, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum19
Policy coherence assessment of water, energy, and food resources policies in the Tana River Basin, Kenya19
Beyond imagination? Examining practitioners’ perceptions of the feasibility of transformative governance futures for sustainable land use in the Dutch peatlands19
An overview of modeling efforts of water resources in Mexico: Challenges and opportunities19
Corrigendum to “Citizens’ opinions on (non-)essential uses of persistent chemicals: A survey in seven European countries” [Environ. Sci. Policy 153 (2024) 103666]19
The endogenous action space in urban biodiversity governance: Socio-political fragmentation, serendipity of agency, and value articulation strategies19
Improving cross-cultural knowledge exchange for collaborative forest stewardship19
Balancing research, monitoring, and action to recover Canada’s species at risk19
Strategic retreat: Balancing risk and societal goals in land-use planning19
Connecting gender balance, crisis resistance and innovativeness in the forestry sector: Women in leadership and management18
A monitoring, reporting and verification system for low carbon agriculture: A case study from Brazil18
When the rural is deliberately flooded to protect the urban: Examining the social costs in emergency flood diversion to inform more sustainable spatial flood risk management18
Multi-scenario analysis in the Apulia shoreline: A multi-tiers analytical framework for the combined evaluation and management of coastal erosion and water quality risks18
Governance innovations in the coastal zone: Towards social-ecological resilience18
A robust decision-making approach in climate policy design for possible net zero futures18
An analytical framework for state level water-energy-food nexus analysis in India: Insight from implemented policies18
Paradox of socially just transition governance in the Global South: A comparative review of policy articulation and implementation gaps in South Africa, Ethiopia and Bangladesh18
Challenges and solutions to rural water service sustainability in East African countries: A ‘systems scaffolding’ perspective18
Flood risk index development at the municipal level in Costa Rica: A methodological framework18
Reading rivers from libraries: A participatory initiative to assess and improve urbanised rivers using citizen science18
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