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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board251
Indigenous peoples in carbon pricing policymaking125
Redefining co-design for social-ecological research and practice: A systematic literature review98
Integrating traditional and local knowledge into disaster risk reduction policies: Insights from Nepal, India and Bangladesh98
Marine and coastal places: Wellbeing in a blue economy91
Identifying leverage points for sustainable transitions in urban – rural systems: Application of graph theory to participatory causal loop diagramming89
Who should measure air quality in modern cities? The example of decentralization of urban air quality monitoring in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia, Russia)87
Identifying success factors for integrated coastal zone management: Development of a regional coastal plan in Morocco.86
Enhancing climate change-induced flood co-adaptation in the Johor river basin, Malaysia: A dotmocracy mapping approach with key technical stakeholders82
Evaluation of global research on agricultural nitrogen pollution between 1990 and 2023: Challenges for more efficacy and equity80
Plastics in a circular economy: Mitigating the ambiguity of widely-used terms from stakeholders consultation79
Designing successful agri-environmental schemes: A mechanistic analysis of a collective scheme for eco-system services in the Netherlands78
Investigating the risky dilemma of regional flood planning: The case of the Wolastoq | Saint John River Basin, Canada77
Knowledge brokers at the interface of environmental science and policy: A review of knowledge and research needs75
Participatory study of policy process for wildlife conservation and ecotourism in Eswatini: A multiple streams analysis75
A conceptual framework for knowledge integration in cross-disciplinary collaborations75
Twinning green and digital futures in waste management75
Local content policies: Knowledge stock and future directions for research and policy making in view of the sustainability agenda74
Expert knowledge and institutional interplay: Exploring the epistemic linkages of the IPCC, IPBES, WCRP, and Future Earth73
Beyond a garden: Alignment of Sustainable Development Goals with botanic gardens72
Editorial Board70
Gender-based climate (in)justice: An overview70
Editorial Board69
A stakeholder analysis based on project managers’ perceptions: Unlocking transformative potential in Natura 2000 projects68
Analyzing efficiency and built environment factors for achieving convenient access to public transport: A Europe-wide DEA application67
Can a Science Week empower scientists for conservation advocacy?67
Assessing multi-dimensional complexity through sustainability modeling: A whole community approach65
Environmental assessment and regulatory oversight of genetically engineered crops in the United States64
Energy sovereignty and climate adaptation: A community model for empowering maya women in Ixil, Yucatan62
Flood risk management along German rivers – A review of multi-criteria analysis methods and decision-support systems60
Conditional visibility: Intersectional inequities marginalize local scholarship in conservation science60
Are stakeholders ready to transform phosphorus use in food systems? A transdisciplinary study in a livestock intensive system59
“Our burgers eat carbon”: Investigating the discourses of corporate net-zero commitments57
Applying Theory of Change in research program planning: Lessons from CGIAR56
Adaptation pathways to inform policy and practice in the context of development55
Analyzing the political impact of Real-world laboratories for urban transformation in eight German ‘Cities of the Future’54
A knowledge exchange framework to connect research, policy, and practice, developed through the example of the Chinese island of Hainan54
The ClimateHack: How tech entrepreneurship shapes climate action53
Unintended consequences: The erosion of traditional collective action and social capital by externally imposed climate adaptation programs52
Trade-offs in expanding citizen participation in low-carbon transitions: Seven transition arena experiments52
Conservation or deforestation: Households attitudinal analysis of forest resources for sustainable development of the Tain (II) Forest Reserve, Ghana51
Corrigendum to “Sustainability transition frameworks: Integrating space, scale, nature, power, and justice” [Environ. Sci. Policy 177 (2026) 104327]51
Building a knowledge infrastructure for Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP). An analytical approach based on the experimental TIP conference 202251
Integrating adaptation practice in assessments of climate change science: The case of IPCC Working Group II reports50
Governing water in multi-functional landscapes: Coordination, collaboration and networks50
Comparing normative and descriptive methods for multi-criteria decision analysis: A case study evaluating wetland restoration opportunities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, USA49
How to promote the integrative ability of transdisciplinary graduate students49
Key challenges in forest restoration and adaptation in Spain: Expert-based solutions for a resilient future47
A review of ES knowledge use in spatial planning47
Patterns of injustices in water allocation mechanisms in the Brazilian Amazon: Palm oil expansion and the reshaping of hydrosocial territories46
Social perception assessment of hydropower sustainability: A stepwise logistic regression modeling46
A conceptual framework for the assessment of and the transition to liveable, sustainable and equitable cities46
Editorial Board45
Weaving scientific and local knowledge on climate change impacts in coastal Kenya, Western Indian Ocean45
Collaborative valuation of ecosystem services to inform lake remediation45
Editorial Board45
What is there to sustain? Ontological imaginaries and the existence and agency of gods, Tūpuna, and everything else44
A new perspective on the work of boundary organisations: Bridging knowledge between marine conservation actors in Pacific Small Island Developing States44
Earthquake recommendations in Europe: Types and diversity44
Science in the court: Expert knowledge and forest fires on Indonesia’s plantations44
Urban-rural interdependencies from an Earth system’s view – Principles and perspectives leading to new integrative and transformative research44
Operationalizing the biocultural perspective in conservation practice: A systematic review of the literature44
The role of iconic places, collective efficacy, and negative emotions in climate change communication43
To dam or not to dam? Actionable socio-hydrology modeling to inform robust adaptation to water scarcity and water extremes43
Climate change adaptation in agriculture: Learning from an international labour mobility programme in Australia and the Pacific Islands region43
A multiplicity of tomorrows from ‘giving the world cancer’ to ‘colonizing space’: Imagining 299 climate intervention futures from a foresight exercise across 44 focus groups43
Effects of policy and functional (in)coherence on coordination – A comparative analysis of cross-sectoral water management problems42
What is the ‘problem’ of gender inequality represented to be in the Swedish forest sector?41
A water-energy-food security nexus framework based on optimal resource allocation41
Integrating human rights in the sustainability governance of global supply chains: Exploring the deforestation-land tenure nexus41
Managing emerging environmental risks when we do not know enough about them: The case of respirable mineral dust41
What motivates urban dwellers to adapt to climate-driven water insecurity? An empirical study from Lima, Peru40
Tracing the inclusion of health as a component of the food-energy-water nexus in dam management in the Senegal River Basin40
Just sortition, communitarian deliberation: Two proposals for grounded climate assemblies40
Pathways to transformative adaptation in southern African cities: A criteria-based assessment in Harare and Durban39
Indigenous community perspectives on energy governance39
Advancing socio-ecological considerations in impact assessment of extractive industries: A realist interview study in the Canadian context39
Measuring and managing for environmental sustainability. An application of the Environmental Sustainability Gap (ESGAP) framework in New Caledonia39
Artisanal and small-scale mining methods and the Sustainable Development Goal 6: Perceived implications for clean water supply39
New times in old forests: How the past matters in European forest science38
Linking ecosystem accounting to environmental planning and management: Opportunities and barriers using a case study from the Australian Capital Territory38
Managing estuaries under a changing climate: A case study of the Humber Estuary, UK37
Beyond green growth: Mapping sustainability pathways for rural transformations in Norway37
Editorial Board37
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
Towards a prioritization screening framework for chemicals, wastes, and pollution37
Danger is just a click away–A survey on online shopping for glyphosate-based pesticides for gardening/horticulture36
The sociotechnical dynamics of blue carbon management: Testing typologies of ideographs, innovation, and co-impacts for marine carbon removal36
EU policy on forest carbon sinks revisited36
The impact of scientific controversies on standards and methodologies in the voluntary blue carbon market35
The reflexive process in sustainability science: A short critical review35
From shadows to spotlight: NGO pollution disclosure and the dual transformation of environmental and tourism landscapes35
Navigating cascading food-energy-water insecurities: A case of community leadership in Puerto Rico35
Social protection and aquatic food systems34
Eleven enablers of science thought leadership to facilitate knowledge exchange in environmental regulation34
Digital technologies and ILK in the Arctic: In search of epistemological pluralism34
Integrative literature review on co-concepts in connection with nature-based solutions34
A hybrid multi-attribute decision-making and data envelopment analysis model with heterogeneous attributes: The case of sustainable development goals34
Competing values, ideologies and lock-in dependencies in sociotechnical pathways for industrial decarbonization33
Does knowledge co-production influence adaptive capacity?: A framework for evaluation33
Identifying barriers to decentralized stormwater infrastructure implementation at different levels of urban flood governance – A case study in Eastern Pennsylvania, US33
The impacts of agricultural development and trade on CO2 emissions? Evidence from the Non-European Union countries33
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
‘Village’ as verb: Sustaining a transformation in disaster risk reduction from the bottom up33
Climate change-induced threats to transhumance pastoral system in Burkina Faso, West Africa32
Weaving threads of knowledge: Reflecting transdisciplinary approaches and co-production in local climate change adaptation research32
Energy-food nexus scarcity risk and the synergic impact of climate policy: A global production network perspective32
Bridging equity and resilience: A Systematic review of social sustainability in climate change mitigation and adaptation32
From perception to action: Participatory water risk assessment in Nagaon District of Assam, India32
The administrator’s dilemma: Closing the gap between climate adaptation justice in theory and practice32
Denial and discretion as a governance process: How actor perceptions of risk and responsibility hinder adaptation to climate change32
Anticipatory stakeholder engagement provides insights for gene drive in invasive species through the case of gene drive grey squirrels31
Legitimising different futures: Swedish forest management as a climate change mitigation measure31
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
Citizen science supports national reporting of a Sustainable Development Goal indicator: A case study of plastic debris density on beaches31
Supporting spatial planning with a novel method based on participatory Bayesian networks: An application in Curaçao31
Between tradition and transformation: Negotiating land and water resources in Ghana’s Pra River Basin31
Determinants of effective participatory multi-actor climate change governance: Insights from Zambia’s environment and climate change actors31
Participatory practices and transforming environmental research in the Anthropocene31
Enhancing the review process in global environmental assessments: The case of the IPCC31
Towards operationalising climate resilient development pathways31
DAPP-MD: A multi-dimensional framework for adaptive planning under deep uncertainty and interacting risks30
Governing groundwater in the Indus Basin: Barriers to effective groundwater management and pathways for reform30
Water-power scenarios to 2033: A mixed model30
Bridging waters and power: Hydrosocial territories with socio-natural resilience in China's Great Yangtze River protection programme30
Scientific research in the Himalaya: Current state of knowledge, funding paradigm and policy implications30
Augment the SDG indicator framework30
From experiment to intervention: A case study of scaling up marine eco-engineering from research to application30
Unpacking the politics of Nature-based Solutions governance: Making space for transformative change29
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, China29
The role of indigenous knowledge in climate change adaptation in Africa28
Water courses and discourses: A media content analysis of environmental water reporting in Australia28
Future pathways for the ecological quality of global freshwater ecosystems28
Just cities and nature-based solutions in the Global South: A diagnostic approach to move beyond panaceas in Brazil28
The role of nature-based solutions and senses of place in enabling just city transitions28
Climate change adaptation: How short-term political priorities trample public well-being27
Deadlock in transition to a net-zero socially robust knowledge27
The application of analytical hierarchy process to assess adaptation strategies for flood and landslides risks: A case study of a multi-risk area community27
The technopolitics of agronomic knowledge and tropical(izing) vegetables in Brazil27
Transformative effectiveness: How EIA can transform stakeholders’ frames of reference27
Review of the food, water and biodiversity nexus in India27
Public engagement for social transformation: Informing or Empowering?27
Forest owners’ perceptions of machine learning: Insights from swedish forestry27
Climate change assemblies as spaces for the potential mitigation of climate policy misperceptions: A survey experiment27
Dialogue and collaboration for sustainable development in Japan and Taiwan: Epistemic foundation of partnership toward Sustainable Development Goals27
Futuremaking in a disaster zone: Everyday climate change adaptation amongst Quechua women in the Peruvian Cordillera Blanca27
The unmeasurable mandate: Leveraging arts-based research for navigating environmental ambiguity and policy gridlock26
The application of collaborative governance in local level climate and disaster resilient development – A global review26
Coevolution between science and policy: A systematic analysis on circular economy in China and worldwide26
The exploratory assetization of a crop protection app26
Editorial Board26
Public preferences for options to manage chronic wasting disease in Canada: A paired comparisons study26
Environmental justice through epistemic diversification: A critical reflection on One Health for just environmental public health26
Unchecking the box: Overcoming barriers to meaningful consultation25
A call for ‘management authorship’ in community forestry25
Sustainability transition frameworks: Integrating space, scale, nature, power, and justice25
Co-production of urban forests as nature-based solutions: Motivations and lessons-learnt from public officials25
Local-global linkages in biodiversity governance: The regime complex of the convention on biological diversity agenda for nature pledges25
Ecosystem services-based decision-making: A bridge from science to practice25
Weather information, farm-level climate adaptation and farmers' adaptive capacity: Examining the role of information and communication technologies25
What do we mean by justice in sustainability pathways? Commitments, dilemmas, and translations from theory to practice in nature-based solutions.24
Trends and purposes of European river monitoring and restoration24
How can bottom-up citizen science restore public trust in environmental governance and sciences? Recommendations from three case studies24
Prototyping structured decision making for water resource management in the San Francisco Bay-Delta24
Achieving social-ecological fit in projectified environmental governance: Exploring vertical and horizontal dimensions24
Participatory scenario planning: A social learning approach to build systems thinking and trust for sustainable environmental governance24
Influence of hazard-related and cognitive factors of households’ flood risk perceptions in Kampala, Uganda24
The pollution haven strikes back?–Evidence from air quality daily variation in the Jing-Jin-Ji region of China24
What change? Assessing the Extinction Rebellion’s support for climate assemblies24
Power dynamics in transdisciplinary research for sustainable urban transitions24
Advancing community disaster resilience: A data-knowledge driven paradigm for integrating environmental science and policy decision-making23
Editorial Board23
Knowledge representation in global environmental assessments - Patterns among authors of the Global Environmental Outlook23
Bridging science, policy and practice for sustainability: Towards a conceptual framework23
Dutch municipalities tackling climate change adaptation to heat stress through mainstreaming across sectors23
Implementing and evaluating knowledge exchange: Insights from practitioners at the Canadian Forest Service23
Disseminating land use land cover change scenarios for improving the role of blue and green infrastructure: Evaluation and perspectives23
Land use and environmental impacts: Flood model in a medium-sized Brazilian city as a tool for urban sustainability23
A geologist per municipality initiative: Bridging geology and governance for sustainable development in Colombia23
Barriers to plastic monitoring in freshwaters in the Global South23
Knowledge co-production around the cormorant-fishing conflict using a joint fact-finding approach23
Editorial Board23
Co-designing a multi-criteria approach to ranking hazards to and from Australia’s emerging offshore blue economy23
Where to start? – The interplay of what, who and where in phase-0 of transdisciplinary research23
Unlearning as resistance and justice: Toward healing and transforming22
Unlocking effective ice-jam risk management: Insights from agent-based modeling and comparative analysis of social theories in Fort McMurray, Canada22
The Greta Effect: Is there more public support for climate protesters who are young and female?22
Navigating the nexus: The role of intermediaries in charting a new frontier of policy integration for agrifood and energy systems transformation22
Governance towards coordination for water resources management: The effect of governance modes22
Toward an integrated sustainability transition: Conserving forest by enhancing Indigenous rights22
Identifying opportunities to deliver effective and efficient outcomes from business-biodiversity action22
The Ecological Conservation Redline program: A new model for improving China's protected area network22
Upscaling marine and coastal restoration through legal and governance solutions: Lessons from global bright spots22
Perception on coastal erosion: An assessment of how national level coastal resilience strategies promote indigenous knowledge and affect local level adaptation in Ghanaian communities22
An archetype analysis of sustainability innovations in Biosphere Reserves: Insights for assessing transformative potential22
The interrupting capacities of knowledge co-production experiments: A sociology of testing approach21
Lessons from a plain language analysis: U.S. Clean Air Act Title V public notices as barriers to environmental justice21
The pendulum movement: Unstable political settlements for artisanal and small-scale mining in Peru21
Setting global deadlines for the elimination of major groups of persistent organic pollutants21
Assessing extreme heat risk perception: Awareness, worry, preparedness and social capital in Texas21
Water security in native American communities of Nevada21
Primary vs grey: A critical evaluation of literature sources used to assess the impacts of offshore wind farms21
How can we promote the responsible innovation of nano-agrifood research?21
A methodological framework for assessing the coherence of Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem nexus policies: Illustration and application at the river basin level21
Red wolf science and identity storylines in an online discursive community21
Risk perception and risk realities in forming legally binding agreements: The governance of plastics21
Polycentricity in practice: Marine governance transitions in Southeast Asia21
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
Collaborating and resisting: Campesino strategies against ontological extractivism in Sumapaz, Colombia21
Evaluating global carbon neutrality commitments: An integrated assessment model approach to the 2°C target20
Addressing gaps in integrative water-energy-food-forest (WEFF) nexus governance20
The political context of change in transboundary freshwater agreements20
Leverage points for improving urban biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene: A novel ecosystem lens for social-ecological transformation20
Experiences of inequality in international collaborative research – Perspectives from environmental and sustainability scholars from Ghana, West Africa20
Factual information on the environmental impacts of consumption abroad increases citizens' problem awareness, but not support for mitigating such impacts20
Bridging the pathways of industrial and urban sustainability: A perspective for mainstreaming Nature-Based Solutions into Industrial Parks20
Valuing the contribution of blue carbon to small island developing states' climate change commitments and Covid-19 recovery20
AI and the governance of sustainable development. An idea analysis of the European Union, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum20
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
Navigating diverse commercial fisher perspectives for effective knowledge exchange in fisheries research and management20
How do household crop and livestock production adapt to extreme climatic events? —Insights from a typical agro-pastoral ecotone on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau20
Mapping a Green Infrastructure Network: a framework for spatial connectivity applied in Northern Italy20
Policy mixes for mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions: An analysis of six European countries and the European Union20
Values, rules, and knowledge: Understanding and enabling land use change decisions as adaptation to climate change20
Balancing research, monitoring, and action to recover Canada’s species at risk20
Editorial Board19
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 management19
Flood risk index development at the municipal level in Costa Rica: A methodological framework19
An analytical framework for state level water-energy-food nexus analysis in India: Insight from implemented policies19
Corrigendum to “Citizens’ opinions on (non-)essential uses of persistent chemicals: A survey in seven European countries” [Environ. Sci. Policy 153 (2024) 103666]19
Connecting gender balance, crisis resistance and innovativeness in the forestry sector: Women in leadership and management19
Paradox of socially just transition governance in the Global South: A comparative review of policy articulation and implementation gaps in South Africa, Ethiopia and Bangladesh19
An overview of modeling efforts of water resources in Mexico: Challenges and opportunities19
Fiji’s policy response to COVID-19 and the integration of Indigenous voices19
“It's dry, it has fewer charms!”: Do perceptions and values of intermittent rivers interact with their management?19
The endogenous action space in urban biodiversity governance: Socio-political fragmentation, serendipity of agency, and value articulation strategies19
Exploring the use of adaptation tipping points: A systematic review of definitions, characteristics and applications19
Conceptualizing the state of the art of social license to operate: A visualization-based word frequency analysis18
Assessment of rural livelihoods, health and wellbeing in Vhembe District Municipality, South Africa and Narok County, Kenya: A water-energy-food nexus perspective18
Reading rivers from libraries: A participatory initiative to assess and improve urbanised rivers using citizen science18
The ‘Bolsonaro bridge’: Violence, visibility, and the 2019 Amazon fires18
Climate-related healthy housing risk factors: a scoping review of citizen science approaches18
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
Indigenous women-led climate crisis solutions from decolonial feminist perspectives in Western Canada18
Large-scale sustainability programming is reshaping research excellence: Insights from a meta-ethnographic study of 12 global initiatives18
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