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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Editorial Board283
Can a Science Week empower scientists for conservation advocacy?133
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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)102
Participatory study of policy process for wildlife conservation and ecotourism in Eswatini: A multiple streams analysis97
Evaluation of global research on agricultural nitrogen pollution between 1990 and 2023: Challenges for more efficacy and equity92
A stakeholder analysis based on project managers’ perceptions: Unlocking transformative potential in Natura 2000 projects90
Assessing multi-dimensional complexity through sustainability modeling: A whole community approach88
Energy sovereignty and climate adaptation: A community model for empowering maya women in Ixil, Yucatan87
Identifying leverage points for sustainable transitions in urban – rural systems: Application of graph theory to participatory causal loop diagramming86
Enhancing climate change-induced flood co-adaptation in the Johor river basin, Malaysia: A dotmocracy mapping approach with key technical stakeholders85
Beyond a garden: Alignment of Sustainable Development Goals with botanic gardens83
Marine and coastal places: Wellbeing in a blue economy82
Environmental assessment and regulatory oversight of genetically engineered crops in the United States82
Conditional visibility: Intersectional inequities marginalize local scholarship in conservation science81
Adaptation pathways to inform policy and practice in the context of development76
Gender-based climate (in)justice: An overview72
Investigating the risky dilemma of regional flood planning: The case of the Wolastoq | Saint John River Basin, Canada72
Designing successful agri-environmental schemes: A mechanistic analysis of a collective scheme for eco-system services in the Netherlands71
Flood risk management along German rivers – A review of multi-criteria analysis methods and decision-support systems71
Integrating traditional and local knowledge into disaster risk reduction policies: Insights from Nepal, India and Bangladesh69
Analyzing efficiency and built environment factors for achieving convenient access to public transport: A Europe-wide DEA application67
“Our burgers eat carbon”: Investigating the discourses of corporate net-zero commitments67
Indigenous peoples in carbon pricing policymaking65
Plastics in a circular economy: Mitigating the ambiguity of widely-used terms from stakeholders consultation65
Identifying success factors for integrated coastal zone management: Development of a regional coastal plan in Morocco.65
Applying Theory of Change in research program planning: Lessons from CGIAR63
Redefining co-design for social-ecological research and practice: A systematic literature review62
A conceptual framework for knowledge integration in cross-disciplinary collaborations61
Twinning green and digital futures in waste management60
Expert knowledge and institutional interplay: Exploring the epistemic linkages of the IPCC, IPBES, WCRP, and Future Earth57
Knowledge brokers at the interface of environmental science and policy: A review of knowledge and research needs57
Local content policies: Knowledge stock and future directions for research and policy making in view of the sustainability agenda56
Conservation or deforestation: Households attitudinal analysis of forest resources for sustainable development of the Tain (II) Forest Reserve, Ghana55
Analyzing the political impact of Real-world laboratories for urban transformation in eight German ‘Cities of the Future’55
A review of ES knowledge use in spatial planning53
A knowledge exchange framework to connect research, policy, and practice, developed through the example of the Chinese island of Hainan52
Editorial Board52
Just sortition, communitarian deliberation: Two proposals for grounded climate assemblies52
Building a knowledge infrastructure for Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP). An analytical approach based on the experimental TIP conference 202251
Collaborative valuation of ecosystem services to inform lake remediation51
Earthquake recommendations in Europe: Types and diversity51
Corrigendum to “Sustainability transition frameworks: Integrating space, scale, nature, power, and justice” [Environ. Sci. Policy 177 (2026) 104327]50
Measuring and managing for environmental sustainability. An application of the Environmental Sustainability Gap (ESGAP) framework in New Caledonia50
What motivates urban dwellers to adapt to climate-driven water insecurity? An empirical study from Lima, Peru50
Integrating adaptation practice in assessments of climate change science: The case of IPCC Working Group II reports49
What is there to sustain? Ontological imaginaries and the existence and agency of gods, Tūpuna, and everything else49
Social perception assessment of hydropower sustainability: A stepwise logistic regression modeling49
Advancing socio-ecological considerations in impact assessment of extractive industries: A realist interview study in the Canadian context49
Managing emerging environmental risks when we do not know enough about them: The case of respirable mineral dust48
Pathways to transformative adaptation in southern African cities: A criteria-based assessment in Harare and Durban48
Reimagining environmental science & policy: From emerging themes of plurality, justice, and sense-making to future research directions48
Patterns of injustices in water allocation mechanisms in the Brazilian Amazon: Palm oil expansion and the reshaping of hydrosocial territories48
A new perspective on the work of boundary organisations: Bridging knowledge between marine conservation actors in Pacific Small Island Developing States48
To dam or not to dam? Actionable socio-hydrology modeling to inform robust adaptation to water scarcity and water extremes48
A conceptual framework for the assessment of and the transition to liveable, sustainable and equitable cities47
The ClimateHack: How tech entrepreneurship shapes climate action46
What is the ‘problem’ of gender inequality represented to be in the Swedish forest sector?45
Science in the court: Expert knowledge and forest fires on Indonesia’s plantations45
Operationalizing the biocultural perspective in conservation practice: A systematic review of the literature45
A multiplicity of tomorrows from ‘giving the world cancer’ to ‘colonizing space’: Imagining 299 climate intervention futures from a foresight exercise across 44 focus groups45
Governing water in multi-functional landscapes: Coordination, collaboration and networks45
How to promote the integrative ability of transdisciplinary graduate students44
Climate change adaptation in agriculture: Learning from an international labour mobility programme in Australia and the Pacific Islands region44
Trade-offs in expanding citizen participation in low-carbon transitions: Seven transition arena experiments44
Indigenous community perspectives on energy governance44
Participatory convergence: Four cases for conducting convergent research using community-based approaches43
Integrating human rights in the sustainability governance of global supply chains: Exploring the deforestation-land tenure nexus42
Key challenges in forest restoration and adaptation in Spain: Expert-based solutions for a resilient future42
Artisanal and small-scale mining methods and the Sustainable Development Goal 6: Perceived implications for clean water supply42
Measuring what matters for carbon removal42
Unintended consequences: The erosion of traditional collective action and social capital by externally imposed climate adaptation programs40
New times in old forests: How the past matters in European forest science39
Urban-rural interdependencies from an Earth system’s view – Principles and perspectives leading to new integrative and transformative research39
Weaving scientific and local knowledge on climate change impacts in coastal Kenya, Western Indian Ocean39
The role of iconic places, collective efficacy, and negative emotions in climate change communication39
Social protection and aquatic food systems38
Weaving threads of knowledge: Reflecting transdisciplinary approaches and co-production in local climate change adaptation research38
Managing estuaries under a changing climate: A case study of the Humber Estuary, UK38
“Global significant trends and countermeasures pertaining to climate change adaptation: Translating ambition into action post-COP29”37
The impact of scientific controversies on standards and methodologies in the voluntary blue carbon market37
The reflexive process in sustainability science: A short critical review37
The impacts of agricultural development and trade on CO2 emissions? Evidence from the Non-European Union countries37
Beyond green growth: Mapping sustainability pathways for rural transformations in Norway37
Navigating cascading food-energy-water insecurities: A case of community leadership in Puerto Rico37
Towards a prioritization screening framework for chemicals, wastes, and pollution36
Does knowledge co-production influence adaptive capacity?: A framework for evaluation36
From shadows to spotlight: NGO pollution disclosure and the dual transformation of environmental and tourism landscapes36
Response on the “Characterising wildfire impacts on ecosystem services: A triangulation of scientific findings, governmental reports, and expert perceptions in Portugal”36
Danger is just a click away–A survey on online shopping for glyphosate-based pesticides for gardening/horticulture36
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‘Village’ as verb: Sustaining a transformation in disaster risk reduction from the bottom up35
Linking ecosystem accounting to environmental planning and management: Opportunities and barriers using a case study from the Australian Capital Territory35
Identifying barriers to decentralized stormwater infrastructure implementation at different levels of urban flood governance – A case study in Eastern Pennsylvania, US35
Energy-food nexus scarcity risk and the synergic impact of climate policy: A global production network perspective35
Of heroes and villains – How coalitions shape their narratives and what the public conservation debate is actually about?35
Denial and discretion as a governance process: How actor perceptions of risk and responsibility hinder adaptation to climate change35
Anthropological grounds of climate equity principles35
Eleven enablers of science thought leadership to facilitate knowledge exchange in environmental regulation35
EU policy on forest carbon sinks revisited35
A hybrid multi-attribute decision-making and data envelopment analysis model with heterogeneous attributes: The case of sustainable development goals34
From perception to action: Participatory water risk assessment in Nagaon District of Assam, India34
Bridging equity and resilience: A Systematic review of social sustainability in climate change mitigation and adaptation34
The sociotechnical dynamics of blue carbon management: Testing typologies of ideographs, innovation, and co-impacts for marine carbon removal34
Competing values, ideologies and lock-in dependencies in sociotechnical pathways for industrial decarbonization34
Whose knowledge counts in nature-based solutions? Understanding epistemic justice for nature-based solutions through a multi-city comparison across Europe and Asia33
Determinants of effective participatory multi-actor climate change governance: Insights from Zambia’s environment and climate change actors33
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]33
The administrator’s dilemma: Closing the gap between climate adaptation justice in theory and practice33
Integrative literature review on co-concepts in connection with nature-based solutions33
Towards operationalising climate resilient development pathways33
Enabling policy coherence in a polycentric system: The MonitoraEA platform as an informational meta-governance infrastructure in Brazil33
Enhancing the review process in global environmental assessments: The case of the IPCC33
Participatory practices and transforming environmental research in the Anthropocene33
Climate change-induced threats to transhumance pastoral system in Burkina Faso, West Africa32
Governing groundwater in the Indus Basin: Barriers to effective groundwater management and pathways for reform32
The application of analytical hierarchy process to assess adaptation strategies for flood and landslides risks: A case study of a multi-risk area community31
Anticipatory stakeholder engagement provides insights for gene drive in invasive species through the case of gene drive grey squirrels31
DAPP-MD: A multi-dimensional framework for adaptive planning under deep uncertainty and interacting risks31
Bridging waters and power: Hydrosocial territories with socio-natural resilience in China's Great Yangtze River protection programme31
Future pathways for the ecological quality of global freshwater ecosystems31
From experiment to intervention: A case study of scaling up marine eco-engineering from research to application30
Supporting spatial planning with a novel method based on participatory Bayesian networks: An application in Curaçao30
Just cities and nature-based solutions in the Global South: A diagnostic approach to move beyond panaceas in Brazil30
An optimization model-based DEA-MARCOS approach for assessing EU countries towards achieving sustainable development goals30
Water courses and discourses: A media content analysis of environmental water reporting in Australia30
Promoting climate resilience through learning-based behavioural change: Insights from an agent-based model of a coastal farming community in Guangxi, China30
The technopolitics of agronomic knowledge and tropical(izing) vegetables in Brazil30
Water-power scenarios to 2033: A mixed model29
Citizen science supports national reporting of a Sustainable Development Goal indicator: A case study of plastic debris density on beaches29
Futuremaking in a disaster zone: Everyday climate change adaptation amongst Quechua women in the Peruvian Cordillera Blanca29
Unpacking the politics of Nature-based Solutions governance: Making space for transformative change29
Between tradition and transformation: Negotiating land and water resources in Ghana’s Pra River Basin29
The role of nature-based solutions and senses of place in enabling just city transitions29
Augment the SDG indicator framework29
The unmeasurable mandate: Leveraging arts-based research for navigating environmental ambiguity and policy gridlock28
Legitimising different futures: Swedish forest management as a climate change mitigation measure28
A call for ‘management authorship’ in community forestry28
The exploratory assetization of a crop protection app28
Scientific research in the Himalaya: Current state of knowledge, funding paradigm and policy implications28
Climate change assemblies as spaces for the potential mitigation of climate policy misperceptions: A survey experiment28
Achieving social-ecological fit in projectified environmental governance: Exploring vertical and horizontal dimensions28
The role of indigenous knowledge in climate change adaptation in Africa28
Environmental justice through epistemic diversification: A critical reflection on One Health for just environmental public health28
Unchecking the box: Overcoming barriers to meaningful consultation27
Sustainability transition frameworks: Integrating space, scale, nature, power, and justice27
Dialogue and collaboration for sustainable development in Japan and Taiwan: Epistemic foundation of partnership toward Sustainable Development Goals27
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Prototyping structured decision making for water resource management in the San Francisco Bay-Delta26
Participatory scenario planning: A social learning approach to build systems thinking and trust for sustainable environmental governance26
Trends and purposes of European river monitoring and restoration26
Coevolution between science and policy: A systematic analysis on circular economy in China and worldwide26
Forest owners’ perceptions of machine learning: Insights from swedish forestry26
Local-global linkages in biodiversity governance: The regime complex of the convention on biological diversity agenda for nature pledges26
What change? Assessing the Extinction Rebellion’s support for climate assemblies26
The pollution haven strikes back?–Evidence from air quality daily variation in the Jing-Jin-Ji region of China25
Disseminating land use land cover change scenarios for improving the role of blue and green infrastructure: Evaluation and perspectives25
Influence of hazard-related and cognitive factors of households’ flood risk perceptions in Kampala, Uganda25
Weather information, farm-level climate adaptation and farmers' adaptive capacity: Examining the role of information and communication technologies25
How can bottom-up citizen science restore public trust in environmental governance and sciences? Recommendations from three case studies25
Transformative effectiveness: How EIA can transform stakeholders’ frames of reference25
Co-production of urban forests as nature-based solutions: Motivations and lessons-learnt from public officials25
Urban heatscapes and environmental injustice: Structural drivers and governance pathways for equitable climate adaptation – A scoping review25
Ecosystem services-based decision-making: A bridge from science to practice25
Corrigendum to “Challenges and perceptions of natural resource management among the Awajún and Wampis indigenous communities: A socioeconomic, cultural, political, and environmental analysis” [Environ25
Knowledge representation in global environmental assessments - Patterns among authors of the Global Environmental Outlook24
Deadlock in transition to a net-zero socially robust knowledge24
Land use and environmental impacts: Flood model in a medium-sized Brazilian city as a tool for urban sustainability24
Perception on coastal erosion: An assessment of how national level coastal resilience strategies promote indigenous knowledge and affect local level adaptation in Ghanaian communities24
Review of the food, water and biodiversity nexus in India24
Climate change adaptation: How short-term political priorities trample public well-being24
What do we mean by justice in sustainability pathways? Commitments, dilemmas, and translations from theory to practice in nature-based solutions.24
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From communities to policy: Transdisciplinary lessons from the Global South24
The application of collaborative governance in local level climate and disaster resilient development – A global review24
Dutch municipalities tackling climate change adaptation to heat stress through mainstreaming across sectors23
Upscaling marine and coastal restoration through legal and governance solutions: Lessons from global bright spots23
A geologist per municipality initiative: Bridging geology and governance for sustainable development in Colombia23
Knowledge co-production around the cormorant-fishing conflict using a joint fact-finding approach23
Implementing and evaluating knowledge exchange: Insights from practitioners at the Canadian Forest Service23
Lessons from a plain language analysis: U.S. Clean Air Act Title V public notices as barriers to environmental justice23
An archetype analysis of sustainability innovations in Biosphere Reserves: Insights for assessing transformative potential23
A methodological framework for assessing the coherence of Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem nexus policies: Illustration and application at the river basin level23
Co-designing a multi-criteria approach to ranking hazards to and from Australia’s emerging offshore blue economy23
Unlearning as resistance and justice: Toward healing and transforming23
Navigating the nexus: The role of intermediaries in charting a new frontier of policy integration for agrifood and energy systems transformation23
The Greta Effect: Is there more public support for climate protesters who are young and female?23
Where to start? – The interplay of what, who and where in phase-0 of transdisciplinary research22
Toward an integrated sustainability transition: Conserving forest by enhancing Indigenous rights22
Barriers to plastic monitoring in freshwaters in the Global South22
Making vulnerability comparable: A systematic review and interpretive synthesis of socio-economic climate change assessment methods22
Identifying opportunities to deliver effective and efficient outcomes from business-biodiversity action22
Bridging science, policy and practice for sustainability: Towards a conceptual framework22
Knowing and unknowing transformative change: Epistemic inequities and epistemic justice in the IPBES transformative change assessment22
Reflecting on the politics and power dynamics of contested climate technologies22
Governance towards coordination for water resources management: The effect of governance modes22
Primary vs grey: A critical evaluation of literature sources used to assess the impacts of offshore wind farms22
Unlocking effective ice-jam risk management: Insights from agent-based modeling and comparative analysis of social theories in Fort McMurray, Canada22
Advancing community disaster resilience: A data-knowledge driven paradigm for integrating environmental science and policy decision-making22
Polycentricity in practice: Marine governance transitions in Southeast Asia22
How do household crop and livestock production adapt to extreme climatic events? —Insights from a typical agro-pastoral ecotone on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau21
The interrupting capacities of knowledge co-production experiments: A sociology of testing approach21
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
How can we promote the responsible innovation of nano-agrifood research?21
Evaluating global carbon neutrality commitments: An integrated assessment model approach to the 2°C target21
Factual information on the environmental impacts of consumption abroad increases citizens' problem awareness, but not support for mitigating such impacts21
The political context of change in transboundary freshwater agreements21
Setting global deadlines for the elimination of major groups of persistent organic pollutants21
Defying the gloom: In search of the ‘golden’ practices of small-scale mining operations21
Addressing gaps in integrative water-energy-food-forest (WEFF) nexus governance21
Policy mixes for mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions: An analysis of six European countries and the European Union20
Water security in native American communities of Nevada20
Assessing extreme heat risk perception: Awareness, worry, preparedness and social capital in Texas20
AI and the governance of sustainable development. An idea analysis of the European Union, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum20
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
International human rights and climate change (policies): Challenging the concept of vulnerability20
Values, rules, and knowledge: Understanding and enabling land use change decisions as adaptation to climate change20
Towards a decolonial planning praxis for nature-based solutions: bridging inclusive planning of NBS in cities with decolonial thinking through a systematic literature review20
Navigating diverse commercial fisher perspectives for effective knowledge exchange in fisheries research and management20
Bridging the pathways of industrial and urban sustainability: A perspective for mainstreaming Nature-Based Solutions into Industrial Parks20
Pathways towards improved water governance: The role of polycentric governance systems and vertical and horizontal coordination20
“It's dry, it has fewer charms!”: Do perceptions and values of intermittent rivers interact with their management?19
An analytical framework for state level water-energy-food nexus analysis in India: Insight from implemented policies19
Fiji’s policy response to COVID-19 and the integration of Indigenous voices19
The endogenous action space in urban biodiversity governance: Socio-political fragmentation, serendipity of agency, and value articulation strategies19
An overview of modeling efforts of water resources in Mexico: Challenges and opportunities19
Risk perception and risk realities in forming legally binding agreements: The governance of plastics19
Beyond imagination? Examining practitioners’ perceptions of the feasibility of transformative governance futures for sustainable land use in the Dutch peatlands19
A monitoring, reporting and verification system for low carbon agriculture: A case study from Brazil19
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
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
Insights lost at points of vulnerability in UK policy evidence gathering on carbon dioxide removal19
Corrigendum to “Citizens’ opinions on (non-)essential uses of persistent chemicals: A survey in seven European countries” [Environ. Sci. Policy 153 (2024) 103666]19
Political factors and efficiency in the responsible production of municipal solid waste services: A dynamic DEA with a network structure approach18
Inclusive governance and sustainable value co-creation in circular business models: The case of ‘neighbourhood hubs against food waste’ in Milan18
Mapping energy sustainability: An integrated analysis of research landscapes and policy alignment18
Governance innovations in the coastal zone: Towards social-ecological resilience18
A robust decision-making approach in climate policy design for possible net zero futures18
Reading rivers from libraries: A participatory initiative to assess and improve urbanised rivers using citizen science18
Large-scale sustainability programming is reshaping research excellence: Insights from a meta-ethnographic study of 12 global initiatives18
Indigenous women-led climate crisis solutions from decolonial feminist perspectives in Western Canada18
Policy coherence assessment of water, energy, and food resources policies in the Tana River Basin, Kenya18
Politics of place: Renewable energy expansion and the complexity of wilderness18
Climate-related healthy housing risk factors: a scoping review of citizen science approaches18
Starting points for navigating the maze of SDG interactions18
Strategic retreat: Balancing risk and societal goals in land-use planning18
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