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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Co-production in global sustainability: Histories and theories197
Urban green spaces for the social interaction, health and well-being of older people— An integrated view of urban ecosystem services and socio-environmental justice171
The effects of environmental innovations on CO2 emissions: Empirical evidence from Europe161
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)147
The role of ecosystems in mitigation and management of Covid-19 and other zoonoses134
The role of informal green spaces in reducing inequalities in urban green space availability to children and seniors121
Projections of soil loss by water erosion in Europe by 2050111
Association between temperature, humidity, and COVID-19 outbreaks in Bangladesh109
Weaving notions of justice into urban ecosystem services research and practice105
An integrative analytical model for the water-energy-food nexus: South Africa case study104
Decoupling for ecological sustainability: A categorisation and review of research literature103
Digital transformation and environmental sustainability in industry: Putting expectations in Asian and African policies into perspective102
Conceptualising transdisciplinary integration as a multidimensional interactive process98
A framework for selecting and designing policies to reduce marine plastic pollution in developing countries92
Adaptation pathways: A review of approaches and a learning framework83
From elite folk science to the policy legend of the circular economy81
Policy windows for the environment: Tips for improving the uptake of scientific knowledge80
The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030: Opportunities and challenges on the path towards biodiversity recovery79
Socio-economic and environmental implications of Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM) on agriculture and livelihoods79
Nature-based solutions for urban biodiversity governance76
Marine social sciences: Looking towards a sustainable future74
Identifying principles for the design of robust impact evaluation frameworks for nature-based solutions in cities71
Strategies for building and managing ‘trust’ to enable knowledge exchange at the interface of environmental science and policy71
Implementation of advanced micropollutants removal technologies in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) - Examples and challenges based on selected EU countries71
The technique is never neutral. How methodological choices condition the generation of narratives for sustainability69
Community science: A typology and its implications for governance of social-ecological systems65
Enhancing the capacity of water governance to deal with complex management challenges: A framework of analysis63
Environmental justice and outdoor recreation opportunities: A spatially explicit assessment in Oslo metropolitan area, Norway62
Management opportunities for soil carbon sequestration following agricultural land abandonment61
Climate adaptation pathways for agriculture: Insights from a participatory process60
The European Union roadmap for implementing nature-based solutions: A review57
Enabling new mindsets and transformative skills for negotiating and activating climate action: Lessons from UNFCCC conferences of the parties56
Mapping trade-offs and synergies among peri-urban ecosystem services to address spatial policy55
Urban flood risks and emerging challenges in a Chinese delta: The case of the Pearl River Delta55
The environmental impacts of globalisation and corruption: Evidence from a set of African countries55
Imagining the corridor of climate mitigation – What is at stake in IPCC’s politics of anticipation?55
On replacing single-use plastic with so-called biodegradable ones: The case with straws55
Plastic packaging goes sustainable: An analysis of consumer preferences for plastic water bottles54
Planning for environmental justice - reducing well-being inequalities through urban greening54
Collaboration practices in the fashion industry: Environmentally sustainable innovations in the value chain53
How the Sustainable Development Goals risk undermining efforts to address environmental and social issues in the small-scale mining sector52
Adapting transformation and transforming adaptation to climate change using a pathways approach51
Practical applications of ecosystem services in spatial planning: Lessons learned from a systematic literature review50
Socio-environmental conflicts: An underestimated threat to biodiversity conservation in Chile49
Resource management and sustainable development: A review of the European water policies in accordance with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals47
Stakeholders’ views on natural flood management: Implications for the nature-based solutions paradigm shift?47
Prioritising Sustainable Development Goals, characterising interactions, and identifying solutions for local sustainability47
Air quality status and trends over large cities in South America47
Measuring economic water scarcity in agriculture: a cross-country empirical investigation46
Interplay between urbanization and ecological footprints: Differential roles of indigenous and foreign innovations in ASEAN-446
Central inspection teams and the enforcement of environmental regulations in China45
Dynamic common correlated effects of technological innovations and institutional performance on environmental quality: Evidence from East-Asia and Pacific countries44
Strongly sustainable development goals: Overcoming distances constraining responsible action44
Advancing the implementation of nature-based solutions in cities: A review of frameworks44
Climate change perception: Driving forces and their interactions44
Non-linear effects of environmental regulation and innovation – Spatial interaction evidence from the Yangtze River Delta in China42
Beyond CO2 equivalence: The impacts of methane on climate, ecosystems, and health42
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 policy42
Physical activity patterns in two differently characterised urban parks under conditions of summer heat42
Taking science by surprise: The knowledge politics of the IPCC Special Report on 1.5 degrees42
Hidden drivers of social injustice: uncovering unequal cultural ecosystem services behind green gentrification41
Conceptualising variations in societal transformations towards sustainability41
Incentivising bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) responsibly: Comparing stakeholder policy preferences in the United Kingdom and Sweden40
The role of citizen science in addressing plastic pollution: Challenges and opportunities40
Fire in Paradise: Why the Pantanal is burning40
Addressing the need for improved land cover map products for policy support39
Exploring consumer behavior and policy options in organic food adoption: Insights from the Australian wine sector39
Property price effects of green interventions in cities: A meta-analysis and implications for gentrification39
Equity in environmental governance: perceived fairness of distributional justice principles in marine co-management39
Governing plastic pollution in the oceans: Institutional challenges and areas for action38
Competing narratives of nature-based solutions: Leveraging the power of nature or dangerous distraction?38
Institutionalising reflexivity? Transformative learning and the Intergovernmental science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)36
Flood risk index development at the municipal level in Costa Rica: A methodological framework36
Principles, drivers, and policy tools for just climate change adaptation in legacy cities36
Navigating the political: An analysis of political calibration of integrated assessment modelling in light of the 1.5 °C goal36
Urban geotourism development and geoconservation: Is it possible to find a balance?36
A land degradation interpretation matrix for reporting on UN SDG indicator 15.3.1 and land degradation neutrality36
Integrating scientific and local knowledge to address conservation conflicts: Towards a practical framework based on lessons learned from a Scottish case study35
Measuring human wellbeing: A protocol for selecting local indicators35
A wavelet-based model of world oil shocks interaction with CO2 emissions in the US35
Digital twinning as an act of governance in the wind energy sector35
A novel approach for cumulative impacts assessment for marine spatial planning35
Ecosystem services-based decision-making: A bridge from science to practice34
Challenges in delivering climate change policy through land use targets for afforestation and peatland restoration34
Evaluating the impact of small-scale mining on the achievement of the sustainable development goals in Guyana33
Artisanal mining policy reforms, informality and challenges to the Sustainable Development Goals in Sierra Leone33
Pathways to urban sustainability through individual behaviors: The role of social capital32
Social impacts of European Protected Areas and policy recommendations32
A synthesis of the frameworks available to guide evaluations of research impact at the interface of environmental science, policy and practice32
Theorising the role of crisis for transformative adaptation32
Politics of vulnerability: Impacts of COVID-19 and Cyclone Harold on Indo-Fijians engaged in small-scale fisheries32
The evolving global plastics policy landscape: An inventory and effectiveness review31
Children’s green walk to school: An evaluation of welfare-related disparities in the visibility of greenery among children31
Nature futures for the urban century: Integrating multiple values into urban management31
Are we at risk of an uneven low-carbon transition? Assessing evidence from a mixed-method elite study31
Food, energy or biomaterials? Policy coherence across agro-food and bioeconomy policy domains in the EU31
Does air pollution influence internal migration? An empirical investigation on Italian provinces31
State-led efforts to reduce environmental impacts of artisanal and small-scale mining in Tanzania: Implications for fulfilment of the sustainable development goals31
Hydro-energy cooperation in South Asia: Prospects for transboundary energy and water security31
Public environmental facilities: Hygiene factors for tourists' environmental behaviour30
Carbon emission disclosures and financial reporting quality: Does ownership structure and economic development matter?30
Role of monitoring in environmental regulation: An empirical analysis of grazing restrictions in pastoral China30
A water-energy-food security nexus framework based on optimal resource allocation30
Assessing human-environment system sustainability based on Regional Safe and Just Operating Space: The case of the Inner Mongolia Grassland30
Greenhouse gas emission scenarios in nine key non-G20 countries: An assessment of progress toward 2030 climate targets29
Poverty: A central barrier to the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals29
The role of indigenous knowledge in climate change adaptation in Africa29
Coal, power and coal-powered politics in Indonesia29
A Bayesian LSTM model to evaluate the effects of air pollution control regulations in Beijing, China29
Developing resilience to climate change impacts in Antarctica: An evaluation of Antarctic Treaty System protected area policy29
Priority knowledge needs for implementing nature-based solutions in the Mediterranean islands28
Five pillars for stakeholder analyses in sustainability transformations: The global case of phosphorus28
Unfolding heterogeneity: The different policy drivers of different eco-innovation modes28
Exploring the uptake of nature-based measures in flood risk management: Evidence from German federal states28
Knowledge architecture for the wise governance of sustainability transitions28
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 approach28
Conceptual framework for balancing society and nature in net-zero energy transitions28
Adaptive capacity and coping strategies of small-scale coastal fisheries to declining fish catches: Insights from Tanzanian communities28
Determinants of livelihood vulnerability to climate change: Two minority ethnic communities in the northwest mountainous region of Vietnam28
Transforming research and relationships through collaborative tribal-university partnerships on Manoomin (wild rice)28
Advancing climate resilient development pathways since the IPCC’s fifth assessment report27
Assessment of impacts on ecosystem services provided by geodiversity in highly urbanised areas: A case study of the Taubaté Basin, Brazil27
Determination of conservation priority areas in Qinghai Tibet Plateau based on ecosystem services27
Brick by brick, block by block: Building a sustainable formalization strategy for small-scale gold mining in Ghana27
Making nature-based solutions climate-ready for the 50 °C world27
The multi-player evolutionary game analysis for the protective development of ecotourism27
The potential of European abandoned agricultural lands to contribute to the Green Deal objectives: Policy perspectives27
The water-energy-food nexus research in the Brazilian context: What are we missing?27
Green space and subjective well-being in the Just City: A scoping review26
Power asymmetries in social networks of ecosystem services governance26
Social differentiation in climate change adaptation: One community, multiple pathways in transitioning Kenyan pastoralism25
Who shapes the environmental policy in the global south? Unpacking the reality of Nepal25
Does internet public participation slow down environmental pollution?25
The aquaculture supply chain in the time of covid-19 pandemic: Vulnerability, resilience, solutions and priorities at the global scale25
Linking biodiversity into national economic accounting25
Mineral exhaustion and its livelihood implications for artisanal and small-scale miners25
Mainstreaming sustainable innovation: unlocking the potential of nature-based solutions for climate change and biodiversity25
Nexus thinking in business: Analysing corporate responses to interconnected global sustainability challenges25
Hydrodiplomacy and adaptive governance at the U.S.-Mexico border: 75 years of tradition and innovation in transboundary water management24
Effects of decarbonization on the energy system and related employment effects in South Africa24
The value of existing regulatory frameworks for the environmental risk assessment of agricultural pest control using gene drives24
The connection between subjective wellbeing and pro-environmental behaviour: Individual and cross-national characteristics in a seven-country study24
Leading inter- and transdisciplinary research: Lessons from applying theories of change to a strategic research program24
Exploring alternative pathways toward more sustainable regional food systems by foodshed assessment – City region examples from Vienna and Bristol24
A framework for assessing the potential effectiveness of adaptation policies: Coastal risks and sea-level rise in the Maldives24
Integrating Cultural Ecosystem Services valuation into coastal wetlands restoration: A case study from South Australia24
The role of social capital and collective actions in natural capital conservation and management24
Using environmental justice to inform disaster recovery: Vulnerability and electricity restoration in Puerto Rico23
Emerging reporting and verification needs under the Paris Agreement: How can the research community effectively contribute?23
Integrating a hydrological model into regional water policies: Co-creation of climate change dynamic adaptive policy pathways for water resources in southern Portugal23
The unjust distribution of urban green infrastructure is just the tip of the iceberg: A systematic review of place-based studies23
Spatial diversification as a mechanism to adapt to environmental changes in small-scale fisheries23
Social benefits of river restoration from ecosystem services perspective: A systematic review23
Underrepresented, understudied, underserved: Gaps and opportunities for advancing justice in disadvantaged communities23
Framing agriculture and climate in Kenyan policies: a longitudinal perspective23
Urban water management: Can UN SDG 6 be met within the Planetary Boundaries?23
Climate change adaptation as a development challenge to small Island states: A case study from the Solomon Islands23
Common institutional design, divergent results: A comparative case study of collaborative governance platforms for regional water planning23
Adapting to climate change in small-scale fisheries: Insights from indigenous communities in the global north and south22
The impact of pesticides on local waterways: A scoping review and method for identifying pesticides in local usage22
The law of regression to the tail: How to survive Covid-19, the climate crisis, and other disasters22
Climate Change Adaptation by Smallholder Tea Farmers: a Case Study of Nepal22
What determines regulatory preferences? Insights from micropollutants in surface waters22
Multiscale determinants of social adaptive capacity in small-scale fishing communities22
Achieving private conservation targets in Brazil through restoration and compensation schemes without impairing productive lands22
Environmental applications of the Coase Theorem22
Understanding knowledge use for sustainability22
Co-benefits of air pollution control and climate change mitigation strategies in Pakistan21
Paving the way to coastal adaptation pathways: An interdisciplinary approach based on territorial archetypes21
International river basin organizations, science, and hydrodiplomacy21
Understanding attitudes towards the adoption of nature-based solutions and policy priorities shaped by stakeholders’ awareness of climate change21
‘Walking along with development’: Climate resilient pathways for political resource curses20
Protecting wetlands for people: Strategic policy action can help wetlands mitigate risks and enhance resilience20
Informal water diplomacy and power: A case of seeking water security in the Mekong River basin20
Handling a complex agenda: A review and assessment of methods to analyse SDG entity interactions20
Rationality of using phosphorus primary and secondary sources in circular economy: Game-theory-based analysis20
From science to policy: Development of a climate change adaptation plan for the health and wellbeing sector in Queensland, Australia20
Social Capital, carbon dependency, and public response to climate change in 22 European countries20
Collaborative water management across England – An overview of the Catchment Based Approach20
Bushmeat, wet markets, and the risks of pandemics: Exploring the nexus through systematic review of scientific disclosures20
How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the climate change debate on Twitter?20
Pattern Discovery for climate and environmental policy indicators20
Bridging Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty (DMDU) and Transition Management (TM) to improve strategic planning for sustainable development20
Beyond the rituals of inclusion: The environment for women and resource governance in Africa’s artisanal and small-scale mining sector20
Recognition of historical contribution of indigenous peoples and local communities through benefit sharing plans (BSPs) in REDD+20
Horizontal ecological compensation as a tool for sustainable development of urban agglomerations: Exploration of the realization mechanism of Guanzhong Plain urban agglomeration in China19
Towards sustaining watershed management practices in Ethiopia: A synthesis of local perception, community participation, adoption and livelihoods19
Geodiversity assessment to regional scale: Ecuador as a case study19
A Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Framework for Smart and Personalized Air Pollution Monitoring and Health Management in Hong Kong19
Governance Innovations for forest ecosystem service provision – Insights from an EU-wide survey19
Heatwaves: An invisible risk in UK policy and research19
China is establishing its water quality standards for enhancing protection of aquatic life in freshwater ecosystems19
Do governments track the implementation of national climate change adaptation plans? An evidence-based global stocktake of monitoring and evaluation systems19
Issues of context, capacity and scale: Essential conditions and missing links for a sustainable blue economy19
The UK net-zero target: Insights into procedural justice for greenhouse gas removal19
Stakeholder perspectives on the importance of water quality and other constraints for sustainable mariculture19
Towards biocultural approaches to peatland conservation: The case for fish and livelihoods in Indonesia19
Political orientations, economic policies, and environmental quality: Multi-valued treatment effects analysis with spatial spillovers in country districts of Poland19
Water, conflicts and migration and the role of regional diplomacy: Lake Chad, Congo Basin, and the Mbororo pastoralist19
The science and politics of climate risk assessment in Australia’s Murray Darling Basin19
Impacts of land use on water quality and the viability of bivalve shellfish mariculture in the UK: A case study and review for SW England19
Climate policy decision making in contexts of deep uncertainty - from optimisation to robustness19
Unpacking democracy: The effects of different democratic qualities on climate change performance over time19
From global drivers to local land-use change: understanding the northern Laos rubber boom19
Climate, Land, Energy and Water systems interactions – From key concepts to model implementation with OSeMOSYS18
How will land degradation neutrality change future land system patterns? A scenario simulation study18
Small wins enhancing sustainability transformations: Sustainable development policy in Finland18
Emerging functions of the wellbeing concept in regional development scholarship: A review18
Does the scientific knowledge reflect the chemical diversity of environmental pollution? – A twenty-year perspective18
Incorporating natural habitats into coastal risk assessment frameworks18
Abandoned farmland: Past failures or future opportunities for Europe’s Green Deal? A Baltic case-study18
Cooperation in flood risk management: understanding the role of strategic planning in two Austrian policy instruments18
Climate change preparedness across sectors of the built environment – A review of literature18
Authorization of microbial plant protection products in the Scandinavian countries: A comparative analysis18
Avoiding a new era in biopiracy: Including indigenous and local knowledge in nature-based solutions to climate change18
Locating female ‘Voices’ in the Minamata Convention on Mercury in Sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Ghana18
Allying knowledge integration and co-production for knowledge legitimacy and usability: The Amazonian SISA policy and the Kaxinawá Indigenous people case18
The impacts of agricultural development and trade on CO2 emissions? Evidence from the Non-European Union countries18
‘Social stuff’ and all that jazz: Understanding the residual category of social sustainability18
To what extent does the European common agricultural policy affect key landscape determinants of biodiversity?17
Science-policy interplay on air pollution governance in China17
Do conservation covenants consider the delivery of ecosystem services?17
Can smart energy information interventions help householders save electricity? A SVR machine learning approach17
Determinants of household recycling intention: The acceptance of public policy moderated by habits, social influence, and perceived time risk17
Mapping a Green Infrastructure Network: a framework for spatial connectivity applied in Northern Italy17
Designing synergetic and sustainable policy mixes - a methodology to address conflictive environmental issues17
Using nature-based water storage for smallholder irrigated agriculture in African drylands: Lessons from frugal innovation pilots in Mozambique and Zimbabwe17
Drivers of agricultural transformation in the coastal areas of the Vietnamese Mekong delta17
Quo vadis global forest governance? A transdisciplinary delphi study17
Social vulnerability and climate change adaptation: The critical importance of moving beyond technocratic policy approaches17
Managing science-policy interfaces for impact: Interactions within the environmental governance meshwork17
A just urban ecosystem service governance at the neighbourhood level- perspectives from Sofielund, Malmö, Sweden17
Sustainability of eco-environment in semi-arid regions: Lessons from the Chinese Loess Plateau16
Gender equality in artisanal and small-scale mining in Ghana: Assessing progress towards SDG 5 using salience and institutional analysis and design16
The message on the bottle: Rethinking plastic labelling to better encourage sustainable use16
Transformation and slippage in co-production ambitions for global technology development: The case of gene drive16
Environmental justice implications of nature-based solutions in urban areas: A systematic review of approaches, indicators, and outcomes16
Integrating adaptation practice in assessments of climate change science: The case of IPCC Working Group II reports16
Current advisory interventions for grazing ruminant farming cannot close exceedance of modern background sediment loss – Assessment using an instrumented farm platform and modelled scaling out16
Stakeholder analysis: Mapping the river networks for integrated flood risk management16
Dynamics of water innovation in African cities: Insights from Kenya, Ghana and Mozambique16
Delineating participation in conservation governance: Insights from the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park (Spain)16
Socioeconomic groups and their green spaces availability in urban areas of China: A distributional justice perspective16
Energy transition in Africa: The role of human capital, financial development, economic development, and carbon emissions16
Governing contemporary commons: The Institutional Resource Regime in dialogue with other policy frameworks16
Connecting climate justice and adaptation planning: An adaptation justice index16
Balancing scales: Enhancing local applications of adaptation pathways16
Essential earth observation variables for high-level multi-scale indicators and policies16
Trade-offs across the water-energy-food nexus: A triple bottom line sustainability assessment of desalination for agriculture in the San quintín Valley, Mexico16
Understanding barriers to collaborative governance for the food-energy-water nexus: The case of Phoenix, Arizona16
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