Environmental Science & Policy

Papers
(The TQCC of Environmental Science & Policy is 14. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Co-production in global sustainability: Histories and theories205
The effects of environmental innovations on CO2 emissions: Empirical evidence from Europe197
Impacts of human capital, exports, economic growth and energy consumption on CO2 emissions of a cross-sectionally dependent panel: Evidence from the newly industrialized countries (NICs)171
Decoupling for ecological sustainability: A categorisation and review of research literature136
Projections of soil loss by water erosion in Europe by 2050132
Digital transformation and environmental sustainability in industry: Putting expectations in Asian and African policies into perspective123
Conceptualising transdisciplinary integration as a multidimensional interactive process116
Association between temperature, humidity, and COVID-19 outbreaks in Bangladesh115
Adaptation pathways: A review of approaches and a learning framework104
The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030: Opportunities and challenges on the path towards biodiversity recovery102
Implementation of advanced micropollutants removal technologies in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) - Examples and challenges based on selected EU countries86
Strategies for building and managing ‘trust’ to enable knowledge exchange at the interface of environmental science and policy86
Policy windows for the environment: Tips for improving the uptake of scientific knowledge81
Beyond CO2 equivalence: The impacts of methane on climate, ecosystems, and health78
Identifying principles for the design of robust impact evaluation frameworks for nature-based solutions in cities75
The European Union roadmap for implementing nature-based solutions: A review73
Urban flood risks and emerging challenges in a Chinese delta: The case of the Pearl River Delta71
Plastic packaging goes sustainable: An analysis of consumer preferences for plastic water bottles68
Imagining the corridor of climate mitigation – What is at stake in IPCC’s politics of anticipation?67
Mapping trade-offs and synergies among peri-urban ecosystem services to address spatial policy65
Practical applications of ecosystem services in spatial planning: Lessons learned from a systematic literature review65
Enabling new mindsets and transformative skills for negotiating and activating climate action: Lessons from UNFCCC conferences of the parties64
Planning for environmental justice - reducing well-being inequalities through urban greening63
Prioritising Sustainable Development Goals, characterising interactions, and identifying solutions for local sustainability63
Resource management and sustainable development: A review of the European water policies in accordance with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals61
How the Sustainable Development Goals risk undermining efforts to address environmental and social issues in the small-scale mining sector61
The environmental impacts of globalisation and corruption: Evidence from a set of African countries61
Air quality status and trends over large cities in South America59
Adapting transformation and transforming adaptation to climate change using a pathways approach58
Interplay between urbanization and ecological footprints: Differential roles of indigenous and foreign innovations in ASEAN-456
Stakeholders’ views on natural flood management: Implications for the nature-based solutions paradigm shift?56
Taking science by surprise: The knowledge politics of the IPCC Special Report on 1.5 degrees54
Dynamic common correlated effects of technological innovations and institutional performance on environmental quality: Evidence from East-Asia and Pacific countries54
Measuring economic water scarcity in agriculture: a cross-country empirical investigation54
The role of citizen science in addressing plastic pollution: Challenges and opportunities54
Is this what success looks like? Mismatches between the aims, claims, and evidence used to demonstrate impact from knowledge exchange processes at the interface of environmental science and policy52
Hidden drivers of social injustice: uncovering unequal cultural ecosystem services behind green gentrification52
Strongly sustainable development goals: Overcoming distances constraining responsible action51
Governing plastic pollution in the oceans: Institutional challenges and areas for action51
Competing narratives of nature-based solutions: Leveraging the power of nature or dangerous distraction?51
Incentivising bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) responsibly: Comparing stakeholder policy preferences in the United Kingdom and Sweden50
Central inspection teams and the enforcement of environmental regulations in China50
Navigating the political: An analysis of political calibration of integrated assessment modelling in light of the 1.5 °C goal49
Ecosystem services-based decision-making: A bridge from science to practice49
Advancing the implementation of nature-based solutions in cities: A review of frameworks49
Property price effects of green interventions in cities: A meta-analysis and implications for gentrification48
Equity in environmental governance: perceived fairness of distributional justice principles in marine co-management48
Measuring human wellbeing: A protocol for selecting local indicators47
Addressing the need for improved land cover map products for policy support47
Fire in Paradise: Why the Pantanal is burning47
Flood risk index development at the municipal level in Costa Rica: A methodological framework45
Non-linear effects of environmental regulation and innovation – Spatial interaction evidence from the Yangtze River Delta in China44
A water-energy-food security nexus framework based on optimal resource allocation44
Carbon emission disclosures and financial reporting quality: Does ownership structure and economic development matter?43
The evolving global plastics policy landscape: An inventory and effectiveness review43
The role of indigenous knowledge in climate change adaptation in Africa41
Poverty: A central barrier to the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals41
Advancing climate resilient development pathways since the IPCC’s fifth assessment report40
Connecting climate justice and adaptation planning: An adaptation justice index40
Digital twinning as an act of governance in the wind energy sector40
State-led efforts to reduce environmental impacts of artisanal and small-scale mining in Tanzania: Implications for fulfilment of the sustainable development goals39
Urban geotourism development and geoconservation: Is it possible to find a balance?39
The connection between subjective wellbeing and pro-environmental behaviour: Individual and cross-national characteristics in a seven-country study39
A synthesis of the frameworks available to guide evaluations of research impact at the interface of environmental science, policy and practice39
Does air pollution influence internal migration? An empirical investigation on Italian provinces38
Evaluating the impact of small-scale mining on the achievement of the sustainable development goals in Guyana38
Social impacts of European Protected Areas and policy recommendations38
Nature futures for the urban century: Integrating multiple values into urban management38
A wavelet-based model of world oil shocks interaction with CO2 emissions in the US38
Theorising the role of crisis for transformative adaptation37
The potential of European abandoned agricultural lands to contribute to the Green Deal objectives: Policy perspectives37
Politics of vulnerability: Impacts of COVID-19 and Cyclone Harold on Indo-Fijians engaged in small-scale fisheries37
Assessing human-environment system sustainability based on Regional Safe and Just Operating Space: The case of the Inner Mongolia Grassland37
Coal, power and coal-powered politics in Indonesia37
Does internet public participation slow down environmental pollution?37
Brick by brick, block by block: Building a sustainable formalization strategy for small-scale gold mining in Ghana37
A land degradation interpretation matrix for reporting on UN SDG indicator 15.3.1 and land degradation neutrality37
Artisanal mining policy reforms, informality and challenges to the Sustainable Development Goals in Sierra Leone37
Conceptual framework for balancing society and nature in net-zero energy transitions36
Pathways to urban sustainability through individual behaviors: The role of social capital36
Hydro-energy cooperation in South Asia: Prospects for transboundary energy and water security36
Power asymmetries in social networks of ecosystem services governance36
Food, energy or biomaterials? Policy coherence across agro-food and bioeconomy policy domains in the EU35
Co-benefits of air pollution control and climate change mitigation strategies in Pakistan35
A Bayesian LSTM model to evaluate the effects of air pollution control regulations in Beijing, China35
Mainstreaming sustainable innovation: unlocking the potential of nature-based solutions for climate change and biodiversity34
Transforming research and relationships through collaborative tribal-university partnerships on Manoomin (wild rice)34
Knowledge architecture for the wise governance of sustainability transitions33
Energy transition in Africa: The role of human capital, financial development, economic development, and carbon emissions33
Assessment of the economic and environmental sustainability of Variable Rate Technology (VRT) application in different wheat intensive European agricultural areas. A Water energy food nexus approach33
Are we at risk of an uneven low-carbon transition? Assessing evidence from a mixed-method elite study32
Leading inter- and transdisciplinary research: Lessons from applying theories of change to a strategic research program32
Determinants of livelihood vulnerability to climate change: Two minority ethnic communities in the northwest mountainous region of Vietnam32
Priority knowledge needs for implementing nature-based solutions in the Mediterranean islands32
Digitalization and Sustainability: A Call for a Digital Green Deal31
The water-energy-food nexus research in the Brazilian context: What are we missing?31
Promote pro-environmental behaviour through social media: An empirical study based on Ant Forest31
Unfolding heterogeneity: The different policy drivers of different eco-innovation modes31
Greenhouse gas emission scenarios in nine key non-G20 countries: An assessment of progress toward 2030 climate targets31
Integrating a hydrological model into regional water policies: Co-creation of climate change dynamic adaptive policy pathways for water resources in southern Portugal31
Green space and subjective well-being in the Just City: A scoping review30
Do governments track the implementation of national climate change adaptation plans? An evidence-based global stocktake of monitoring and evaluation systems30
Determination of conservation priority areas in Qinghai Tibet Plateau based on ecosystem services30
The unjust distribution of urban green infrastructure is just the tip of the iceberg: A systematic review of place-based studies30
Making nature-based solutions climate-ready for the 50 °C world30
Developing resilience to climate change impacts in Antarctica: An evaluation of Antarctic Treaty System protected area policy30
Role of monitoring in environmental regulation: An empirical analysis of grazing restrictions in pastoral China30
Social Capital, carbon dependency, and public response to climate change in 22 European countries30
Environmental justice implications of nature-based solutions in urban areas: A systematic review of approaches, indicators, and outcomes29
The aquaculture supply chain in the time of covid-19 pandemic: Vulnerability, resilience, solutions and priorities at the global scale29
Emerging reporting and verification needs under the Paris Agreement: How can the research community effectively contribute?29
Linking biodiversity into national economic accounting29
The multi-player evolutionary game analysis for the protective development of ecotourism29
Assessment of impacts on ecosystem services provided by geodiversity in highly urbanised areas: A case study of the Taubaté Basin, Brazil29
Underrepresented, understudied, underserved: Gaps and opportunities for advancing justice in disadvantaged communities29
Climate policy decision making in contexts of deep uncertainty - from optimisation to robustness29
Social differentiation in climate change adaptation: One community, multiple pathways in transitioning Kenyan pastoralism28
Effects of decarbonization on the energy system and related employment effects in South Africa28
Using environmental justice to inform disaster recovery: Vulnerability and electricity restoration in Puerto Rico28
Horizontal ecological compensation as a tool for sustainable development of urban agglomerations: Exploration of the realization mechanism of Guanzhong Plain urban agglomeration in China28
Social benefits of river restoration from ecosystem services perspective: A systematic review28
Who shapes the environmental policy in the global south? Unpacking the reality of Nepal28
Adapting to climate change in small-scale fisheries: Insights from indigenous communities in the global north and south27
How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the climate change debate on Twitter?27
China is establishing its water quality standards for enhancing protection of aquatic life in freshwater ecosystems27
Understanding knowledge use for sustainability27
Mineral exhaustion and its livelihood implications for artisanal and small-scale miners27
Environmental applications of the Coase Theorem27
Handling a complex agenda: A review and assessment of methods to analyse SDG entity interactions27
A framework for assessing the potential effectiveness of adaptation policies: Coastal risks and sea-level rise in the Maldives26
Towards sustaining watershed management practices in Ethiopia: A synthesis of local perception, community participation, adoption and livelihoods26
Hydrodiplomacy and adaptive governance at the U.S.-Mexico border: 75 years of tradition and innovation in transboundary water management26
Integrating Cultural Ecosystem Services valuation into coastal wetlands restoration: A case study from South Australia26
Understanding attitudes towards the adoption of nature-based solutions and policy priorities shaped by stakeholders’ awareness of climate change26
Climate Change Adaptation by Smallholder Tea Farmers: a Case Study of Nepal26
Exploring alternative pathways toward more sustainable regional food systems by foodshed assessment – City region examples from Vienna and Bristol26
Collaborative water management across England – An overview of the Catchment Based Approach25
Making transdisciplinarity happen: Phase 0, or before the beginning25
Does the scientific knowledge reflect the chemical diversity of environmental pollution? – A twenty-year perspective25
Geodiversity assessment to regional scale: Ecuador as a case study25
What do we mean by justice in sustainability pathways? Commitments, dilemmas, and translations from theory to practice in nature-based solutions.25
Water, conflicts and migration and the role of regional diplomacy: Lake Chad, Congo Basin, and the Mbororo pastoralist25
Transdisciplinary co-creation increases the utilization of knowledge from sustainable development research25
Beyond the rituals of inclusion: The environment for women and resource governance in Africa’s artisanal and small-scale mining sector25
Mapping a Green Infrastructure Network: a framework for spatial connectivity applied in Northern Italy25
A Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Framework for Smart and Personalized Air Pollution Monitoring and Health Management in Hong Kong24
Social vulnerability and climate change adaptation: The critical importance of moving beyond technocratic policy approaches24
The impacts of agricultural development and trade on CO2 emissions? Evidence from the Non-European Union countries24
The UK net-zero target: Insights into procedural justice for greenhouse gas removal24
Enabling the informal recycling sector to prevent plastic pollution and deliver an inclusive circular economy24
Climate change preparedness across sectors of the built environment – A review of literature24
Pattern Discovery for climate and environmental policy indicators24
Gender equality in artisanal and small-scale mining in Ghana: Assessing progress towards SDG 5 using salience and institutional analysis and design24
The law of regression to the tail: How to survive Covid-19, the climate crisis, and other disasters24
Issues of context, capacity and scale: Essential conditions and missing links for a sustainable blue economy23
Governmentality and sociotechnical imaginary within the conservation-development nexus: China’s Great Yangtze River Protection Programme23
Unpacking democracy: The effects of different democratic qualities on climate change performance over time23
Bushmeat, wet markets, and the risks of pandemics: Exploring the nexus through systematic review of scientific disclosures23
Abandoned farmland: Past failures or future opportunities for Europe’s Green Deal? A Baltic case-study23
Informal water diplomacy and power: A case of seeking water security in the Mekong River basin23
Spatial diversification as a mechanism to adapt to environmental changes in small-scale fisheries23
The green economy as counterinsurgency, or the ontological power affirming permanent ecological catastrophe23
Designing synergetic and sustainable policy mixes - a methodology to address conflictive environmental issues23
Achieving private conservation targets in Brazil through restoration and compensation schemes without impairing productive lands23
Heatwaves: An invisible risk in UK policy and research23
Multi-criteria decision making/aid methods for assessing agricultural sustainability: A literature review23
‘Walking along with development’: Climate resilient pathways for political resource curses23
Improvement, not displacement: A framework for urban green gentrification research and practice22
Determinants of household recycling intention: The acceptance of public policy moderated by habits, social influence, and perceived time risk22
Adaptive governance and community resilience to cyclones in coastal Bangladesh: Addressing the problem of fit, social learning, and institutional collaboration22
The science and politics of climate risk assessment in Australia’s Murray Darling Basin22
Drivers of agricultural transformation in the coastal areas of the Vietnamese Mekong delta22
Political orientations, economic policies, and environmental quality: Multi-valued treatment effects analysis with spatial spillovers in country districts of Poland22
Investigating the intention to participate in environmental governance during urban-rural integrated development process in the Yangtze River Delta Region22
Avoiding a new era in biopiracy: Including indigenous and local knowledge in nature-based solutions to climate change22
Climate, Land, Energy and Water systems interactions – From key concepts to model implementation with OSeMOSYS22
Whose knowledge counts in nature-based solutions? Understanding epistemic justice for nature-based solutions through a multi-city comparison across Europe and Asia22
To what extent does the European common agricultural policy affect key landscape determinants of biodiversity?22
Integrated assessment of deforestation drivers and their alignment with subnational climate change mitigation efforts21
Stakeholder perspectives on the importance of water quality and other constraints for sustainable mariculture21
A just urban ecosystem service governance at the neighbourhood level- perspectives from Sofielund, Malmö, Sweden21
Governance Innovations for forest ecosystem service provision – Insights from an EU-wide survey21
Towards biocultural approaches to peatland conservation: The case for fish and livelihoods in Indonesia21
Integrating adaptation practice in assessments of climate change science: The case of IPCC Working Group II reports21
Plastic bans in India – Addressing the socio-economic and environmental complexities21
Impacts of land use on water quality and the viability of bivalve shellfish mariculture in the UK: A case study and review for SW England21
The nexus social-ecological system framework (NexSESF): A conceptual and empirical examination of transdisciplinary food-water-energy nexus21
Socioeconomic groups and their green spaces availability in urban areas of China: A distributional justice perspective21
The message on the bottle: Rethinking plastic labelling to better encourage sustainable use20
Revisiting the role of international climate finance (ICF) towards achieving the nationally determined contribution (NDC) target: A case study of the Indonesian energy sector20
Bridging collaboration gaps in fragmented environmental governance systems20
Small wins enhancing sustainability transformations: Sustainable development policy in Finland20
Cooperation in flood risk management: understanding the role of strategic planning in two Austrian policy instruments20
Impact of the built environment on climate change risk perception and psychological distancing: Empirical evidence from Islamabad, Pakistan20
‘Social stuff’ and all that jazz: Understanding the residual category of social sustainability20
Governing contemporary commons: The Institutional Resource Regime in dialogue with other policy frameworks20
How will land degradation neutrality change future land system patterns? A scenario simulation study20
Why does pesticide pollution in water persist?20
Quo vadis global forest governance? A transdisciplinary delphi study20
Adapting critical infrastructure to climate change: A scoping review20
Allying knowledge integration and co-production for knowledge legitimacy and usability: The Amazonian SISA policy and the Kaxinawá Indigenous people case20
Navigating the science-policy interface: Forest researcher perspectives20
Do conservation covenants consider the delivery of ecosystem services?19
Balancing scales: Enhancing local applications of adaptation pathways19
Essential earth observation variables for high-level multi-scale indicators and policies19
Understanding barriers to collaborative governance for the food-energy-water nexus: The case of Phoenix, Arizona19
Sustainability of eco-environment in semi-arid regions: Lessons from the Chinese Loess Plateau19
Towards a systemic approach to fire risk management19
Managing science-policy interfaces for impact: Interactions within the environmental governance meshwork19
Emerging functions of the wellbeing concept in regional development scholarship: A review19
Climatisation of agricultural issues in the international agenda through three competing epistemic communities: Climate-smart agriculture, agroecology, and nature-based solutions19
A frame of understanding to better link nature-based solutions and urban planning19
Can smart energy information interventions help householders save electricity? A SVR machine learning approach19
Stakeholder analysis: Mapping the river networks for integrated flood risk management19
Delineating participation in conservation governance: Insights from the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park (Spain)19
Dynamics of water innovation in African cities: Insights from Kenya, Ghana and Mozambique18
Pluralising planetary justice beyond the North-South divide: Recentring procedural, epistemic, and recognition-based justice in earth-systems governance18
Assessing the dynamics of urban vulnerability to climate change: Case of Helsinki, Finland18
Opening the black box of water-energy-food nexus system in China: Prospects for sustainable consumption and security18
Why should the EU implement electric vehicles? Viewing the relationship between evidence and dominant policy solutions through the lens of complexity18
Transformation and slippage in co-production ambitions for global technology development: The case of gene drive18
Demonstrating the potential of Picture Pile as a citizen science tool for SDG monitoring18
Global intercomparison of polyurethane foam passive air samplers evaluating sources of variability in SVOC measurements18
Equity in FEMA hazard mitigation assistance programs: The role of state hazard mitigation officers18
China and the global politics of nature-based solutions18
Evaluation of survey and remote sensing data products used to estimate land use change in the United States: Evolving issues and emerging opportunities18
Challenges and opportunities for food systems in a changing climate: A systematic review of climate policy integration18
Interaction between ecosystem services and rural poverty reduction: Evidence from China17
The listing of new persistent organic pollutants in the stockholm convention: Its burden on developing countries17
Optimal regulatory choices in the organization of solid waste management systems: Empirical evidence and policy implications17
A research agenda for the science of actionable knowledge: Drawing from a review of the most misguided to the most enlightened claims in the science-policy interface literature17
Multilevel governance of coastal flood risk reduction: A public finance perspective17
Water innovation in South Africa: Mapping innovation successes and diffusion constraints17
Vessel risks to marine wildlife in the Tallurutiup Imanga National Marine Conservation Area and the eastern entrance to the Northwest Passage17
Effective policy instrument mixes for implementing integrated flood risk management: An analysis of the ‘Room for the River’ program17
The role of nature-based solutions and senses of place in enabling just city transitions17
Green regeneration for more justice? An analysis of the purpose, implementation, and impacts of greening policies from a justice perspective in Łódź Stare Polesie (Poland) and Leipzig’s inner east (Ge17
Alignment of municipal climate change and urban forestry policies: A Canadian perspective17
De-politicising seawater desalination: Environmental Impact Assessments in the Atacama mining Region, Chile17
Plastics in a circular economy: Mitigating the ambiguity of widely-used terms from stakeholders consultation17
Climate change adaptation processes seen through a resilience lens: Norwegian farmers’ handling of the dry summer of 201817
Developing scenarios in the context of the Paris Agreement and application in the integrated assessment model IMAGE: A framework for bridging the policy-modelling divide17
Effectiveness factors and impacts on policymaking of science-policy interfaces in the environmental sustainability context17
How social capital influences community resilience management development17
Trade-offs across the water-energy-food nexus: A triple bottom line sustainability assessment of desalination for agriculture in the San quintín Valley, Mexico17
Environmental vulnerability assessment of Brazilian Amazon Indigenous Lands17
An integrated policy framework and plan of action to prevent and control plant invasions in India17
Policy mixes for mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions: An analysis of six European countries and the European Union16
Assessment of water security in the large watersheds of Iran16
The influence of company sourcing patterns on the adoption and effectiveness of zero-deforestation commitments in Brazil’s soy supply chain16
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