Ecology and Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecology and Society is 3. 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
Individual knowledge acquisition by teachers to promote the ecological value of sacred Kaya forests in southern Kenya46
Emergence of social-psychological barriers to social-ecological resilience: from causes to solutions40
Forgotten forests: expanding potential land use in traditional Hawaiian agroecosystems, and the social-ecological implications36
The role of religion in shaping the values of nature36
The population ecology of sustainable agriculture knowledge networks: insights from California32
Which community network structures can support sustainability programs? The case of the Sustainable Cocoa Production Program in Indonesia32
The species-specific role of wildlife in the Amazonian food system30
Assessing the delivery of ecosystem services and benefits to human well-being of three contrasting MPAs in Spain29
Effects of long-term ecological research and cognitive biases on the evaluation of scientific information by public land managers in Oregon and Washington, USA27
Reflecting on arts-based participatory research: considerations for more equitable transdisciplinary collaborations27
Investigating the coordination between ecological and economic systems in China’s green development process: a place-based interdisciplinary evaluation27
A Chinese database on ecological thresholds and alternative stable states: implications for related research around the world26
Water-related problématiques: five archetypical contexts of water governance24
Visual representations in a choice experiment: valuing preferences for a local dam24
Home range size and space use patterns of African lions ( Panthera leo ) in Chizarira National Park, Zimbabwe24
Climate change, nature degradation, and financial stability: a review of domino-effects between finance, climate, and the biosphere22
Undisclosed transgressions? Lacking acknowledgements of large agrifood firms on their impacts on the planetary boundaries21
Framing the regime shift concept: an epistemological analysis of a central ecological notion in the context of the North Sea cod crisis21
Small-scale fisheries and agricultural trade networks are socially embedded: emerging hypotheses about responses to environmental changes20
The evolution of social-ecological systems (SES) research: a co-authorship and co-citation network analysis19
Social-ecological uncertainty and the (in)capacity to adapt: stakeholders’ perceptions post-red tide/salmon farming crisis in Chiloé Island (Chile)18
How is the governance of circular economy of water organized? A systematic review of the literature18
The Great Stink in the 21st century? Problematizing the sewage scandal in England and envisioning a new infrastructure ideal18
The Great Green Wall in Senegal: questioning the idea of acceleration through the conflicting temporalities of politics and nature among the Sahelian populations18
The role of accountability in the emergence of adaptive water governance17
Harvesting change: unraveling social-ecological impacts of a food hub ( LebensMittelPunkt ) through a living lab approach17
Ganawendan Ginibiiminaan (Take care of our Water!): mobilizing for Watersheds-at-risk with the Bad River Ojibwe17
Integrating a “One Well-being” approach in elephant conservation: evaluating consequences of management interventions17
“Hearing everyone’s perspective makes me want to make a change”: a podcast as a lever for change in an Arctic Indigenous community17
Identifying opportunities and constraints to effective management of invasive Australian wattle (Acacia) species in grassland landscapes, South Africa17
Using machine learning to uncover synergies between forest restoration and livelihood support in the Himalayas16
What comes after crises? Key elements and insights into feedback amplifying community self-organization16
Conflict-related environmental degradation threatens the success of landscape recovery in some areas in Tigray (Ethiopia)16
Shifting baseline syndrome in the fishing community of Barcelona: insights from scientific and local ecological knowledge16
Unleashing eco-conscious travel: exploring the factors influencing green travel behavior in urban communities16
Social identity and place-based dynamics in community resilience building for natural disasters: an integrative framework16
Collective payments for ecosystem services: a counterpart of commodification and privatization trends in nature conservation?16
Eliciting the plurality of causal reasoning in social-ecological systems research16
Biocultural well-being: Indigenous Peoples’ values for conservation and equity16
Power research in adaptive water governance and beyond: a review16
A need for assessing the resiliency of conservation funding16
Tradition and change: celebrating food systems resilience at two Indigenous Māori community events15
Exploring the bioeconomy as discourse: identifying archetypical bioeconomy discourses and the emergence of a transformative bioeconomy15
Coping with conflicts in the co-production of solid waste management services: experience with a real-world lab in India15
Regional variations in the social acceptability of conservation measures for at-risk species: the case of boreal and mountain caribou15
Great expectations for collective management: the mismatch between supply and demand for catchment groups14
Preparing for resilience: adaptation options for young people in small-scale fisheries in Mexico14
Mi'kmaw lessons for realigning land relations in Bay of Fundy dykelands and tidal wetlands14
Social-ecological determinants of contemporary megafauna distributions in Indian tropical dry woodlands13
Operationalizing pathway diversity in a mosaic landscape13
Who has the time? The temporality of tensions in the transboundary Red River basin13
Labrador Inuit resilience and resurgence: embedding Indigenous values in commercial fisheries governance13
Food consumption and nutritional status of sedentarized Baka Pygmies in Southern Cameroon: wild foods are less important for those who farm13
Pathways to healing: Indigenous revitalization through family-based land management in the Klamath Basin13
Unpacking the role of failed land investments in driving tropical deforestation12
Keeping up with the landscapes: promoting resilience in dynamic social-ecological systems12
Equity in resilience: a case study of community resilience to wildfire in southwestern Oregon, United States12
Understanding how governance emerges in social-ecological systems: insights from archetype analysis12
Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework in a protected area: a case study of Qilian Mountain National Park, Northwestern China12
Narrating changes, recalling memory: accumulation by dispossession in food systems of Indigenous communities at the extremes of Latin America12
Integrating public preferences with biophysical production possibilities: an application to ecosystem services from dam removal12
Demystifying food systems transformation: a review of the state of the field12
Resilient niches: how non-financial capitals helped to overcome the COVID-19 crisis in local food systems11
Tracing a pollinator’s path11
Engaging with justice in integrated landscape approaches11
Using public litigation records to identify priority science needs for managing public lands11
Expanding use of space is an opportunity for sustainability but a threat to resilience11
Editorial: High Nature Value farming systems in Europe11
COVID-19 impacts on food systems in fisheries-dependent island communities11
Dangerous environments: environmental peacebuilding’s technomoral imaginary and its power-knowledge effects11
Vertical agriculture’s potential implications for food system resilience: outcomes of focus groups in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia11
Livelihood vulnerability and human-wildlife interactions across protected areas11
The concept of cultural keystone species, revisited through the eyes of Indigenous Peoples on northern Turtle Island10
Enforcement, deterrence, and compliance in co-managed small-scale fisheries10
Navigating ambiguous waters: a relational approach to nested conflicts in the Katari River Basin, Bolivia10
Manning the mangroves: gender, regional identities, and social history shape mangrove forest dependence and governance10
Development of a wetland management plan for Taiqu Saltpan, Taiwan, by stakeholder engagement and water gate operation10
Pathways to transformation: institutionalizing urban agriculture in a Montréal borough10
The value and vanua of soil: bureaucratic practices, social life, and the colonial legacy of soil conservation in Fiji9
Relational values overshadow monetary value in territorial management by the Indigenous Oaxacan community of Capulálpam de Méndez9
Anti-fire statements coexist with millions of anthropogenic fires in Madagascar9
Ecological agriculture and rural revitalization: toward a post-productivist countryside in Nanjing, China9
Biocultural ethics and Earth stewardship: a novel integration to revitalize multiple values of nature9
Assessing holistic agroecological resilience of agroecosystems from a landscape perspective: a systematic review9
Adaptive responses to inter-group competition over natural resources: the case of leakage9
Impacts of algal blooms and microcystins in fish on small-scale fishers in Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria: implications for health and livelihood9
Local understandings and global challenges: exploring sense of place in sustainability transitions9
Assessing social-ecological fit of flood planning governance9
Governing wildfires: toward a systematic analytical framework9
Tales on co-response-ability in times of environmental polarization9
Integration of nature-based solutions (NBS) in local policy and planning toward transformative change. Evidence from Barcelona, Lisbon, and Turin9
Navigating transdisciplinary waters to protect both sharks and bathers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: diverse stakeholders propose potential actions9
Working together to scale ecosystem restoration: collective approaches to community action in Aotearoa New Zealand9
Building resilience in Africa’s smallholder farming systems: contributions from agricultural development interventions—a scoping review9
Dimensions of integration for landscape connectivity planning: a framework for understanding challenges and opportunities9
Negotiating informality and urban resilience: implications for equity8
Understanding human-elephant interactions across time is key to illuminate pathways toward coexistence8
Hydrosocial power and territorial transformation: a case study of the Longaví River sub-basin in south-central Chile8
The dynamics and politics of integrating local knowledge systems in multistakeholder platforms8
The ecological success of river restoration in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada: lessons learned8
Successful water governance pathways across problem contexts: a global qualitative comparative analysis8
Braiding Inuit knowledge and Western science to understand light goose population dynamics under a changing climate8
Paradigms of water governance: a systematic review8
Motivations and sensitivities surrounding the illegal trade of sea turtles in Costa Rica8
Nutrient deficit rather than distance of farming activities from the boundary of protected areas drives crop raids by elephants8
Island and Indigenous systems of circularity: how Hawaiʻi can inform the development of universal circular economy policy goals8
Large-scale land acquisitions and land cover change in Ethiopia8
Disjointed modes of building resilience to socio-environmental crises8
Cree knowledge, fuzzy cognitive maps, and the social-ecology of moose habitat quality under an adapted forestry regime8
Coupled human-natural system impacts of a winter weather whiplash event7
Evaluation-perception of site attributes and plant species selection in the public urban green space of a compact city7
“The future for pastoralists is dark unless something is done”: illuminating the constraints and opportunities for a climate-resilient future for Kenyan pastoralists7
Naming the unnamed: relational values as knowledge and power7
Toward multifunctionality in a fire-prone peat landscape in Indonesia: insights from multistakeholder perspectives7
Form and function in ecologizing spatial planning: learnings from Bogotá, Colombia7
Making sense of territorial changes: affective and moral dimensions of place attachments and meanings7
Stakeholder perceptions of wildfire management strategies as nature-based solutions in two Iberian biosphere reserves7
State role and involvement in determining wetland mitigation performance standards in the United States7
Worldview violence and Non-Human People in (conservation) science7
The good, the bad, and the unseen: wild mammal encounters influence wildlife preferences of residents across socio-demographic gradients7
Threatened or thriving? Q methodology reveals stakeholder discourses of bats in an insular context7
The wild bird pet trade in Guyana7
Assessing the distance effects on motivations of emergency volunteers responding to wildfire events in protected areas7
A scoping review of how the seven principles for building social-ecological resilience have been operationalized7
Recreational angler and stakeholder perceptions of policy changes to recreational fishery management: the case of red snapper devolution in the Gulf of Mexico6
Can we control marine invasive alien species by eating them? The case of Callinectes sapidus6
Novel pathways to value nature: how guided forest bathing promotes new relationships with nature6
Relational values of nature—a global empirical study of environmental students in 37 countries6
The difficult construction of horizontalities: power relations in collaborative multi-actor social-ecological systems management6
Knowledge that affects: an assemblage approach6
Co-creating a festival with and for rural commoning initiatives: a transdisciplinary place-based process6
How social and ecological characteristics shape transaction costs in polycentric wildfire governance: insights from the Sequoia-Kings Canyon Ecosystem, California, USA6
Diverse values of nature and political ontology6
Social-ecological changes in traditional vanilla agroecosystems and their key role in biocultural landscape restoration6
Meaningful transdisciplinary collaborations for sustainability: local, artistic, and scientific knowledge6
A comparative case study of multistakeholder responses following oil spills in Pointe d’Esny, Mauritius, and Huntington Beach, California6
Application of maximum entropy (MaxEnt) to understand the spatial dimension of human–wildlife conflict (HWC) risk in areas adjacent to Gonarezhou National Park of Zimbabwe6
Games for experiential learning: triggering collective changes in commons management6
To burn or not to burn: governance of wildfires in Australia6
Environmental change and resource access in aquatic food systems: a Photovoice case study of Cambodian fisheries6
Teaching the “heads, hearts, and hands” of futures literacy in sustainability education using radical seeds of change6
From Aristotle to Heraclitus6
From habitats to hashtags: examining online discussions about invasive species6
Assessing long-term conservation impacts on adaptive capacity in a flagship community-based natural resources management area in Botswana6
The Chakana : a symbol of the Andean worldview in community water management, and a form of governance of life6
Gender equity and collaborative care in Madagascar’s locally managed marine areas: reflections on the launch of a fisherwomen’s network5
What factors enable social-ecological transformative potential? The role of learning practices, empowerment, and networking5
Indigenous sea gardens within the Pacific Northwest generate partial trophic niche and dietary fatty acid shifts in littleneck clams ( Leukoma staminea )5
Plastic pollution as a canvas for change: fostering collaboration for environmental solutions and actions through art and science5
Perceived changes in social-ecological resilience in fire-prone ecosystems in Colorado5
The importance of geodiversity in understanding and conserving the Western Rift Valley Corridor5
Sustainability and resilience through connection: the economic metacommunities of the Western USA5
How policy interventions influence burning to meet cultural and small-scale livelihood objectives5
Downstream impacts of the Madeira Hydroelectric Complex on várzea traditional agriculture and extractivism5
A review of initiatives to transform the global sand system5
Diverse values regarding nature are related to stable forests: the case of Indigenous lands in Panama5
Collapse of the oyster population in Apalachicola Bay: cascading social impacts from an ecologically and culturally significant species5
Individual and collective political efficacy predict farmer engagement and support for groundwater policies: implications from the California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act5
Exploring linkages between protected-area access and Kenyan pastoralist food security using a new agent-based model5
Visualizing seascapes as a method for engaging stakeholders in discussions about resilience5
Integrating scientific data, local knowledge, and expert knowledge to assess climate vulnerability in fisheries5
Spatial assessment of risks faced by marine protected areas in Chilean Patagonia5
Editorial5
What would attract women to forest-based climate action? Learning from decades of female participation in an infant and maternal health system in Indonesia5
Characterizing the social-ecological system for inland freshwater salinization using fuzzy cognitive maps: implications for collective management5
Resilience principles and a leverage points perspective for sustainable woody vegetation management in a social-ecological system of southwestern Ethiopia5
The evolution of policy interdependency and its impacts on the social-ecological system in Victoria, Australia since the 1860s5
CBNRM, national parks, elites, and ethnography: a comment on (mis)representations5
Data sonification offers a novel approach for communicating Earth’s tipping points5
Social-ecological drought and smallholder vulnerability in the Central American Dry Corridor5
Divide and explain: novel metrics and procedures for archetype analysis in case-based sustainability research5
Changing collaborative networks and transitions in rural sustainable development: qualitative lessons from three villages in China5
Positive social relationships in hunting groups are related to compliance with the higher-level moose management5
Shaping garden landscape with medicinal plants by migrant communities in the Atlantic Forest, Argentina5
Negotiating change in the African Great Lakes: fishers’ knowledge, adaptive strategies, and governance gaps in Lake Victoria’s Muhuru Bay and Migingo Island, Kenya5
Creating a quiet buzz: opportunities and challenges for meaningful participation of boreal forest apiarists in the science-policy interface for biodiversity and ecosystem services5
The potential of collective action in promoting sustainable rangeland management: evidence from pastoral China5
Balancing water needs and well-being: bringing social-cultural values into environmental flows using a DPSIR framework5
Distributional range shift of a marine fish relates to a geographical gradient of emotions among recreational fishers5
Historical political ecology as qualitative social-ecological system analysis in the Maumee River Watershed5
Localizing a just transition: a case study of St. George, Alaska5
Understanding stakeholder perceptions of environmental justice: a study of tourism in the Erhai Lake basin, Yunnan province, China5
Mobile apps increase the visibility of women’s work contributions in Mexican small-scale fisheries5
What is sacred in sacred natural sites? A literature review from a conservation lens4
Maladaptive state reinforcement of greenspace in racially marginalized neighborhoods: lessons from Louisville, Kentucky’s failed cooperative extension partnership4
Remittance income weakens participation in community-based natural resource management4
Living community cookbook: transdisciplinary collaboration for constructing recipes with biocultural value4
Community knowledge as a cornerstone for fisheries management4
Identifying system archetypes in Nigeria’s rice agri-food system using fuzzy cognitive mapping4
Urban African food systems as sites of challenges and opportunities for household food equity and resilience4
Everyday mobility and changing livelihood trajectories: implications for vulnerability and adaptation in dryland regions4
Interdependencies among hydro-saline dynamics, economic activities, ecological processes, and biodiversity in a deltaic social-ecological system: insights from the Rhône delta (southern France)4
Living knowledge: persistence and adaptation of traditional ecological knowledge in East Ujimchin, Inner Mongolia, China4
Theorizing how the Three Horizons approach supports transformative learning: insights from advancing climate action in a Canadian Biosphere Reserve4
Collaboration in a polarized context: lessons from public forest governance in the American West4
Innovation brokers in High Nature Value farming areas: a strategic approach to engage effective socioeconomic and agroecological dynamics4
Transforming the economic landscape for global sustainability4
Leverage points and levers of inclusive conservation in protected areas4
Transboundary flows in the metacoupled Anthropocene: typology, methods, and governance for global sustainability4
Relational sampling fills critical knowledge gaps in benthic ecosystem characteristics in Nunatsiavut, Canada4
Perceptions of governance and access in artisanal marine fisheries in northern Brazil4
Now you see me, now you don’t: the role and relevance of paradigms in water governance4
Managing environmental knowledge networks to navigate complexity4
Linking ecosystem service valuation to environmental policy support: a case study of pollution in the Tennessee River4
Amplifying the transformative impact of landscape-oriented partnerships: understanding conditions for and interactions of amplification processes4
Artistic practice, public awareness, and the ngahere: art–science–Indigenous Māori collaborations for raising awareness of threats to native forests4
Transitioning toward “deep” knowledge co-production in coastal and marine systems: examining the interplay among governance, power, and knowledge4
Responsibility as humans: meaning of traditional small grains cultivation in Japan4
Moving beyond binary metrics of compliance in small-scale fisheries4
When working together goes against common sense: a framework to bridge conservation and agricultural perspectives in participatory working lands research4
Facilitating convergence research on water resource management with a collaborative, adaptive, and multi-scale systems thinking framework4
Water challenges at the U.S.-Mexico border: learning from community and expert voices3
Polycentricity and state reinforced self-governance: the case of the New York City watersheds governing arrangement3
Everyday climate adaptation practices in agriculture contribute to food security in Sub-Saharan Africa3
Regenerative landscape design: an integrative framework to enhance sustainability planning3
The Zoʻé perspective on what scientists call “forest management” and its implications for floristic diversity and biocultural conservation3
The “hidden workers”: livestock farmers’ perceptions of ecosystem services provided by dung beetles3
Cultural and empowerment priorities amid tensions in knowledge systems and resource allocation: insights from the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area3
The nature of peace: trajectories of environmental peacebuilding between dominant narratives and power relations3
Convergence research as transdisciplinary knowledge coproduction within cases of effective collaborative governance of social-ecological systems3
Confronting colonial history: toward healing, just, and equitable Indigenous conservation futures3
Inclusive transdisciplinarity: embracing diverse ways of being and knowing through inner work3
The roles and values of the natural environment in Northern Uganda’s peace process: a conceptual document analysis3
A social-ecological approach to understanding urban food systems3
Seeds and social norms: sorghum seed exchange among smallholder farmers in Northern Ethiopia3
From primary data to formalized decision-making: open challenges and ways forward to inform representations of farmers’ behavior in agent-based models3
Walking in two worlds: insights from implementing a Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in approach to bridging knowledge systems in conservation and land use planning3
Toward adaptive water governance: the role of systemic feedbacks for learning and adaptation in the eastern transboundary rivers of South Africa3
Sustainability-aligned values: exploring the concept, evidence, and practice3
Integrating Indigenous knowledge across homelands and scientific knowledge to support collaborative harvest management for Emperor Goose in Alaska3
From social reproduction to resilience: a Bourdieusian framework to critically approach capital (re)-distribution and power inequity in community resilience processes3
“Men who love the oak trees”: services and care in the cork oak forests of Southern Andalusia3
Influences of ecological change and social networks on conservation professionals’ and producers’ risk assessments of a vegetation transition3
Determinants of small-scale fisheries’ transformative responses under increasing climate change impacts in Nayarit, Mexico3
Fisheries agreements and transformative governance in the Amazon Estuary: between state rules and self-organization3
Evidence of spatial competition, over resource scarcity, as a primary driver of conflicts between small-scale and industrial fishers3
Farmer-centric on-farm experimentation as everyday transformative change for climate adaptation: a systematic review3
Immeasurable sovereignty: Indigenous well-being, fishery science, and sustainable governance3
Approaches to assess land degradation risk: a synthesis3
Shrub encroachment and stakeholder perceptions of rangeland ecosystem services: balancing conservation and management?3
Revisiting the drug crop eradication-violence nexus: a mixed-methods analysis of conflict and cooperation in traditional governance communities in Oaxaca, Mexico3
Restorative practices, marine ecotourism, and restoration economies: revitalizing the environmental agenda?3
Collaborative agri-environmental governance in the Netherlands: a novel institutional arrangement to bridge social-ecological dynamics3
Facilitating evolutionary rescue from a wildlife health threat with cross-sectoral strategies: a case study on white-nose syndrome3
Whither convergence? Co-designing convergent research and wrestling with its emergent tensions3
9 Dimensions for evaluating how art and creative practice stimulate societal transformations3
Post-crisis risk management: water, community, and adaptation in a South Australian irrigation district3
Learning systems and learning paths in sustainability transitions3
Toward transformation in finance: seeds of nature-positive futures3
Testing the greenwashing assessment framework3
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