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 2020-08-01 to 2024-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The role of Indigenous peoples and local communities in effective and equitable conservation400
Historical Indigenous Land-Use Explains Plant Functional Trait Diversity56
A framework for co-production of knowledge in the context of Arctic research50
Nature’s contributions to people: coproducing quality of life from multifunctional landscapes42
What do people value in urban green? Linking characteristics of urban green spaces to users’ perceptions of nature benefits, disturbances, and disservices41
Social learning for building community resilience to cyclones: role of indigenous and local knowledge, power, and institutions in coastal Bangladesh39
Dehesas as high nature value farming systems: a social-ecological synthesis of drivers, pressures, state, impacts, and responses39
Indigenous peoples and salmon stewardship: a critical relationship33
A context-sensitive systems approach for understanding and enabling ecosystem service realization in cities33
The thorny path toward greening: unintended consequences, trade-offs, and constraints in green and blue infrastructure planning, implementation, and management33
Operationalizing water-energy-food nexus research for sustainable development in social-ecological systems: an interdisciplinary learning case in Central Asia28
Participatory planning for local sustainability guided by the Sustainable Development Goals28
Participatory assessment of sustainability and resilience of three specialized farming systems27
Fostering horizontal knowledge co-production with Indigenous people by leveraging researchers' transdisciplinary intentions24
Grasping darkness: the dark ecological network as a social-ecological framework to limit the impacts of light pollution on biodiversity24
Avenues of archetype analysis: roots, achievements, and next steps in sustainability research23
Harnessing the potential of vulnerability assessments for managing social-ecological systems22
Measuring rural community resilience: case studies in New Zealand and Vermont, USA22
Management of high nature value farmland in the Republic of Ireland: 25 years evolving toward locally adapted results-orientated solutions and payments21
Conceptualizing multidimensional barriers: a framework for assessing constraints in realizing recreational benefits of urban green spaces21
Payments for ecosystem services: a review of definitions, the role of spatial scales, and critique21
Not too small to benefit society: insights into perceived cultural ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps21
Exploring evolving spiritual values of forests in Europe and Asia: a transition hypothesis toward re-spiritualizing forests21
Climate change risks and adaptation options for Madagascar20
Dynamics of pastoral traditional ecological knowledge: a global state-of-the-art review20
Assessment of urban resilience based on the transformation of resource-based cities: a case study of Panzhihua, China20
Governance in social-ecological agent-based models: a review19
Meeting places and social capital supporting rural landscape stewardship: A Pan-European horizon scanning18
Situating Indigenous knowledge for resilience in fire-dependent social-ecological systems18
Causes of overgrazing in Inner Mongolian grasslands: Searching for deep leverage points of intervention18
Linking the social, economic, and agroecological: a resilience framework for dairy farming18
Barriers to scaling sustainable land and water management in Uganda: a cross-scale archetype approach18
Linking landscape attributes to salmon and decision-making in the southern Kenai Lowlands, Alaska, USA17
What’s biodiversity got to do with it? Perceptions of biodiversity and restorativeness in urban parks17
Residents' perceptions of the role and management of green spaces to provide cultural ecosystem services in Dhaka, Bangladesh17
Adaptive resilience of and through urban ecosystem services: a transdisciplinary approach to sustainability in Barcelona17
Payments for ecosystem services within the hybrid governance model: evaluating policy alignment and complementarity on California rangelands16
Technology in support of nature-based solutions requires understanding everyday experiences16
The role of incentive-based instruments and social equity in conservation conflict interventions15
The invisible thread: women as tradition keepers and change agents in Spanish pastoral social-ecological systems15
A methodological guide for applying the social-ecological system (SES) framework: a review of quantitative approaches15
Engaging with complexity in resilience practice15
Convergent geographic patterns between grizzly bear population genetic structure and Indigenous language groups in coastal British Columbia, Canada14
Farmer networks and agrobiodiversity interventions: the unintended outcomes of intended change14
Participatory monitoring and evaluation to enable social learning, adoption, and out-scaling of regenerative agriculture14
Semi-natural habitats in boreal Europe: a rise of a social-ecological research agenda14
Parks in context: advancing citywide spatial quality assessments of urban green spaces using fine-scaled indicators14
Participatory futures thinking in the African context of sustainability challenges and socio-environmental change14
Closing integrative gaps in complex environmental governance systems14
Water management, hydrological extremes, and society: modeling interactions and phenomena13
Climate change stressors and social-ecological factors mediating access to subsistence resources in Arctic Alaska13
Wayfinder: a new generation of resilience practice13
The social dynamics of basins of attraction12
Understanding the drivers of subsistence poaching in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area: What matters for community wildlife conservation?12
Resilience and coastal governance: knowledge and navigation between stability and transformation12
Improving attitudes and knowledge in a citizen science project about urban bat ecology12
Hunting as land use: Understanding the spatial associations among hunting, agriculture, and forestry11
A decision support tool for assessing cumulative effects on an Arctic migratory tundra caribou population11
Hydrosocial rupture: causes and consequences for transboundary governance11
Result-based payments as a tool to preserve the High Nature Value of complex silvo-pastoral systems: progress toward farm-based indicators11
Ecological and social outcomes of urbanization on regional farming systems: a global synthesis11
How Mongolian herders perceive ecological change in a “stable” landscape11
Complex human-deer interactions challenge conventional management approaches: the need to consider power, trust, and emotion11
The water-sensitive city meets biodiversity: habitat services of rain water management measures in highly urbanized landscapes11
Stakeholder perceptions of wildfire management strategies as nature-based solutions in two Iberian biosphere reserves10
Beyond social-ecological traps: fostering transformations towards sustainability10
Assessing the learning process in transdisciplinary research through a novel analytical approach10
Why do large-scale agricultural investments induce different socio-economic, food security, and environmental impacts? Evidence from Kenya, Madagascar, and Mozambique10
Uncovering multilayered vulnerability and resilience in rural villages in the Pacific: a case study of Ono Island, Fiji10
Taking fishers’ knowledge and its implications to fisheries policy seriously10
Resilience-performance trade-offs in managing social-ecological systems10
Migration and collective action in the commons: application of social-ecological system framework with evidence from China10
Indigenous stewardship through novel approaches to collaborative management in Hawaiʻi10
Combining biophysical optimization with economic preference analysis for agricultural land-use allocation10
Spiritual values shape taxonomic diversity, vegetation composition, and conservation status in woodlands of the Northern Zagros, Iran9
Unintended consequences of sustainable development initiatives: risks and opportunities in seagrass social-ecological systems9
Conservation with local people: medicinal plants as cultural keystone species in the Southern Alps9
Lessons learned from synthetic research projects based on the Ostrom Workshop frameworks9
How do basin committees deal with water crises? Reflections for adaptive water governance from South America9
Do fodder import and credit loans lead to climate resiliency in the pastoral social-ecological system of Inner Mongolia?9
A new framework for flood adaptation: introducing the Flood Adaptation Hierarchy9
Nature conservation in a digitalized world: echo chambers and filter bubbles9
Leveraging emotion-behavior pathways to support environmental behavior change9
Social-ecological resilience in remote mountain communities: toward a novel framework for an interdisciplinary investigation9
The Kere of Madagascar: a qualitative exploration of community experiences and perspectives9
Impacts of harvested species declines on Indigenous Peoples’ food sovereignty, well-being and ways of life: a case study of Anishinaabe perspectives and moose9
Using dialogue to contextualize culture, ecosystem services, and cultural ecosystem services9
Incorporating place-based values into ecological restoration9
Secondary forests in Peru: differential provision of ecosystem services compared to other post-deforestation forest transitions9
Navigating wicked water governance in the “solutionscape” of science, policy, practice, and participation8
Elucidating social-ecological perceptions of a protected area system in Interior Alaska: a fuzzy cognitive mapping approach8
The six dimensions of collective leadership that advance sustainability objectives: rethinking what it means to be an academic leader8
A comparative case study of multistakeholder responses following oil spills in Pointe d’Esny, Mauritius, and Huntington Beach, California8
Socioeconomic impacts of resource diversification from small-scale fishery development8
Culture and parks: incorporating cultural ecosystem services into conservation in the Tibetan region of Southwest China8
Collective action in the area-wide management of an invasive plant disease8
Studying human-nature relations in aquatic social-ecological systems using the social-ecological action situations framework: how to move from empirical data to conceptual models8
From stories to maps: translating participatory scenario narratives into spatially explicit information8
Archetypal games generate diverse models of power, conflict, and cooperation8
Understanding the local biodiversity and open space strategies in two South African cities8
Urban resilience thinking in practice: ensuring flows of benefit from green and blue infrastructure8
Integrated and innovative scenario approaches for sustainable development planning in The Bahamas8
Iterative scenarios for social-ecological systems8
Shifting beach wrack composition in the SW Baltic Sea and its effect on beach use8
Based on nature, enabled by social-ecological-technological context: deriving benefit from urban green and blue infrastructure8
"People should also look after the people": relational values of wildlife and collectively titled land in Ilkisongo Maasai group ranches in Southern Kenya8
Environmental flows in the Rio Grande - Rio Bravo basin8
Reviewing the relationship between neoliberal societies and nature: implications of the industrialized dominant social paradigm for a sustainable future8
Transitioning toward “deep” knowledge co-production in coastal and marine systems: examining the interplay among governance, power, and knowledge8
Participatory scenario planning and framing of social-ecological systems: an analysis of policy formulation processes in Rwanda and Tanzania8
Operationalizing resilience: co-creating a framework to monitor hard, natural, and nature-based shoreline features in New York State.7
The role of the Yangtze River Protection Law in the emergence of adaptive water governance in China7
Using meaningful places as an indicator for sense of place in the management of social-ecological systems7
Water rights for groundwater environments as an enabling condition for adaptive water governance7
Hidden benefits and risks of partial protection for coral reef fisheries7
Boundary spanners: a critical role for enduring collaborations between Indigenous communities and mainstream scientists7
Limited effectiveness of EU policies to conserve an endangered species in high nature value farmland in Romania7
Multistakeholder platforms for natural resource governance: lessons from eight landscape-level cases7
Challenges to understanding nonmaterial dimensions of human-nature connections, and how to address them7
Evaluating determinants of social trust in water utilities: implications for building resilient water systems7
Indigenous nations at the confluence: water governance networks and system transformation in the Klamath Basin7
Mapping mental barriers that prevent the use of neighborhood green spaces7
Driving factors behind subjective resilience on organic dairy sheep farms7
Bogs, birds, and berries in Belarus: the governance and management dynamics of wetland restoration in a state-centric, top-down context7
Murky waters: divergent ways scientists, practitioners, and landowners evaluate beaver mimicry7
Water quality and forest restoration in the Lake Tahoe basin: impacts of future management options7
Greenery in urban morphology: a comparative analysis of differences in urban green space accessibility for various urban structures across European cities7
Toward an urgent yet deliberate conservation strategy: sustaining social-ecological systems in rangelands of the Northern Great Plains, Montana6
Shade coffee and amphibian conservation, a sustainable way forward? Understanding the perceptions and management strategies of coffee growers in Colombia6
Perceived impacts of woody encroachment on ecosystem services in Hluhluwe, South Africa6
Social learning in conservation and natural resource management: taking a sociocultural perspective6
Systematic learning in water governance: insights from five local adaptive management projects for water quality innovation6
Governing wildfires: toward a systematic analytical framework6
From fAIrplay to climate wars: making climate change scenarios more dynamic, creative, and integrative6
Perception matters: an Indigenous perspective on climate change and its effects on forest-based livelihoods in the Amazon6
Human securities, sustainability, and migration in the ancient U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest6
Gendered vulnerability and inequality: understanding drivers of climate-smart agriculture dis- and nonadoption among smallholder farmers in Malawi and Zambia6
Enacting shared responsibility in biosecurity governance: insights from adaptive governance6
Lessons for human survival in a world without ecological templates: what can we learn from small-scale societies?6
Waves and legacies: the making of an investment frontier in Niassa, Mozambique6
Resilience in the times of COVID: what the response to the COVID pandemic teaches us about resilience principles6
Panarchy and management of lake ecosystems6
Mapping and characterizing social-ecological land systems of South America6
Tightly coupled policies and loosely coupled networks in the governing of flood risk mitigation in municipal administrations6
Woody plant encroachment pervasive across three socially and ecologically diverse ecoregions6
Exploring social-ecological trade-offs in fisheries using a coupled food web and human behavior model6
"Cities in the forest" and "cities of the forest": an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) spatial approach to analyzing the urbanization-deforestation relationship in a Brazilian Amazon state6
Mitigating the impacts of fragmented land tenure through community-based institutional innovations: two case study villages from Guinan County of Qinghai Province, China6
Visualization of causation in social-ecological systems6
An integrated livelihoods and well-being framework to understand northeastern Colorado ranchers' adaptive strategies5
Assessing the potential delivery of ecosystem services by farmlands under contrasting management intensities5
How do Indigenous and local knowledge systems respond to climate change?5
Reviewing relational values for future research: insights from the coast5
Accounting for Yolŋu ranger work in the Dhimurru Indigenous Protected Area, Australia5
Everyday mobility and changing livelihood trajectories: implications for vulnerability and adaptation in dryland regions5
Patriotism, place, and provisioning: assessing cultural ecosystem services through longitudinal and historical studies in Vietnam5
Visions for development and management of urban green and blue infrastructure: a citizen's perspective5
Speaking of nature: Relationships between how people think about, connect with, and act to protect nature5
What factors enable social-ecological transformative potential? The role of learning practices, empowerment, and networking5
Toward a feminist political ecology of household food and water security during drought in northern Nicaragua5
Forest management under uncertainty: the influence of management versus climate change and wildfire in the Lake Tahoe Basin, USA.5
Conservation at a crossroads: governing by global targets, innovative financing, and techno-optimism or radical reform?5
Barriers to incorporating ecosystem services in coastal conservation practice: the case of blue carbon5
The role of socio-demographic characteristics in mediating relationships between people and nature5
Biodiversity conservation through forest certification: key factors shaping national Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standard-development processes in Canada, Sweden, and Russia5
Converting monospecific into mixed forests: stakeholders’ views on ecosystem services in the Black Forest Region5
An integrated climate-biodiversity framework to improve planning and policy: an application to wildlife crossings and landscape connectivity5
In the trap of interacting indirect and direct drivers: the disintegration of extensive, traditional grassland management in Central and Eastern Europe5
Double exposure to capitalist expansion and climatic change: a study of vulnerability on the Ghanaian coastal commodity frontier5
Evidence of spatial competition, over resource scarcity, as a primary driver of conflicts between small-scale and industrial fishers5
How coupled is coupled human-natural systems research?5
The “desire to have it all”: multiple priorities for urban gardens reduces space for native nature5
Social-ecological networks and connectivity within and between two communities of small-scale fishers in Mexico5
What does success look like? An indicative rubric to assess and guide the performance of marine participatory processes5
Collective responsibility and environmental caretaking: toward an ecological care ethic with evidence from Bhutan5
Land-use changes associated with large-scale land transactions in Ethiopia5
Wildfire volunteering and community disaster resilience in New Zealand: institutional change in a dynamic rural social-ecological setting5
Impact of gameplay vs. reading on mental models of social-ecological systems: a fuzzy cognitive mapping approach5
Small-scale fisheries and agricultural trade networks are socially embedded: emerging hypotheses about responses to environmental changes5
Changing collaborative networks and transitions in rural sustainable development: qualitative lessons from three villages in China4
Place attachment and perceptions of land-use change: cultural ecosystem services impacts of eucalyptus plantation expansion in Ubajay, Entre Ríos, Argentina4
Scale, evidence, and community participation matter: lessons in effective and legitimate adaptive governance from decision making for Menindee Lakes in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin4
Food for thought—examining farmers' willingness to engage in conservation stewardship around a protected area in central India4
Assessing social-ecological fit of flood planning governance4
Failing to plan is planning to fail: lessons learned from a small-scale scenario planning process with marginalized fishers from South Africa’s southern Cape4
Quantifying the transient shock response of dynamic agroecosystem variables for improved socio-environmental resilience4
Toward understanding the governance of varietal and genetic diversity4
Eutrophication, water quality, and fisheries: a wicked management problem with insights from a century of change in Lake Erie4
Elk conflict with beef and dairy producers poses wildlife management challenges in northern California4
Social influence shapes adaptive water governance: empirical evidence from northwestern Pakistan4
Expert knowledge, collaborative concepts, and universal nature: naming the place of Indigenous knowledge within a public-sector cultural burning program4
Social-environmental index: combining social and biophysical indicators reveals limits to growth4
A multi-level analysis of links between government institutions and community-based conservation: insights from Iran4
Recognizing the importance of near-home contact with nature for mental well-being based on the COVID-19 lockdown experience4
Opportunities and impediments for use of local data in the management of salmon fisheries4
Sustainability assessment in agriculture: emerging issues in voluntary sustainability standards and their governance4
Integration of nature-based solutions (NBS) in local policy and planning toward transformative change. Evidence from Barcelona, Lisbon, and Turin4
Social and environmental change in the Arctic: emerging opportunities for well-being transformations through stewardship4
Land cover and socioeconomic factors explain avian diversity in a tropical megacity4
Blurring the boundaries: cross-scale analyses of food systems4
Extreme events, loss, and grief—an evaluation of the evolving management of climate change threats on the Great Barrier Reef4
Collapse, reorganization, and regime identity: breaking down past management paradigms in a forest-grassland ecotone4
Addressing the resilience of tomato farmers in Ghana facing a double exposure from climate and market4
Fruit booms and investor mobility along the China-Myanmar and China-Laos borders4
Who’s setting the agenda? Philanthropic donor influence in marine conservation4
Toward spatial fit in the governance of global commodity flows4
Emotionally augmented mental models, connectivity and beaver reintroduction in Southwest England4
Changing trends and perceptions of sea turtle egg consumption in Redang Island, Malaysia4
Soils, landscapes, and cultural concepts of favor and disfavor within complex adaptive systems and ResourceCultures: human-land interactions during the Holocene4
Governance and everyday adaptations? Examining the disconnect between planned and autonomous adaptation through justice outcomes4
Resilience principles and a leverage points perspective for sustainable woody vegetation management in a social-ecological system of southwestern Ethiopia4
Assessing the institutional foundations of adaptive water governance in South India4
Impacts of algal blooms and microcystins in fish on small-scale fishers in Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria: implications for health and livelihood4
How do structural and agent-based factors influence the effectiveness of incentive policies? A spatially explicit agent-based model to optimize woodland-for-water PES policy design at the local level4
Island and Indigenous systems of circularity: how Hawaiʻi can inform the development of universal circular economy policy goals4
Do all roads lead to Sapporo? The role of linking and bridging ties in evacuation decisions4
Social adaptive responses to a harsh and unpredictable environment: insights from a pre-Hispanic andean society4
Retaining multi-functionality in a rapidly changing urban landscape: insights from a participatory, resilience thinking process in Stockholm, Sweden4
Migration in West Africa: a visual analysis of motivation, causes, and routes4
Markets and misfits in adaptive water governance: how agricultural markets shape water conflict and cooperation4
Relational values and empathy are closely connected: A study of residents of Vermont's Winooski River watershed3
Comparing adaptive capacity of Arctic communities responding to environmental change3
Challenges to incorporating social and economic factors into cumulative effects assessments in Canada’s marine conservation areas3
Filmmaking as a source of enhanced knowledge and transformation in conflicts over small-scale fisheries: the case of Colombia3
What is sacred in sacred natural sites? A literature review from a conservation lens3
Constraints to effective comanagement of New Zealand's customary fisheries: experiences of the East Otago Taiāpure3
Ecosystem Connectivity for Livable Cities: a Connectivity Benefits Framework for Urban Planning3
Collective payments for ecosystem services: a counterpart of commodification and privatization trends in nature conservation?3
A call for agile futures practice in service of transformative change: lessons from envisioning positive climate futures emerging from the pandemic3
Drawing on diverse knowledge systems to enhance local climate understanding in the southern Cape, South Africa3
A biocultural approach to navigating conservation trade-offs through participatory methods3
Unravelling cross-scale and cross-level challenges in Ethiopian forest and landscape restoration governance3
Implications of Panarchy for ecosystem service research: the role of system dynamics in service delivery3
Examining abiotic and biotic factors influencing specimen black oaks (Quercus kelloggii) in northern California to reimplement traditional ecological knowledge and promote ecosystem resilience post-wi3
Strategic spatial planning in emerging land-use frontiers: evidence from Mozambique3
Collaboration in a polarized context: lessons from public forest governance in the American West3
Non-governmental organizations improve the social-ecological fit of institutions conserving the Andean bear in Colombia3
Social connectivity and adaptive capacity strategies in large-scale fisheries3
Leverage points and levers of inclusive conservation in protected areas3
The management costs of alternative forest management strategies in the Lake Tahoe Basin3
Biocultural values of groundwater dependent ecosystems in Kona, Hawaiʻi3
Assessing impacts of social-ecological diversity on resilience in a wetland coupled human and natural system3
Comparing smoke emissions and impacts under alternative forest management regimes3
Participation of diverse actors and usage of traditional and local knowledge in local biodiversity strategies and action plans of Japanese municipalities3
Mobile phones and wrong numbers: how Maasai agro-pastoralists form and use accidental social ties in East Africa3
Market integration and cooperative resource harvesting among kin, clan, and neighbors in rural China3
Indigenous food sovereignty through resurgent self-governance: centering Nuu-chah-nulth principles in sea otter management in Canada3
Unraveling the combined effects of sociopolitical and climate change scenarios for an artisanal small-scale fishery in the Western Mediterranean3
How the qualities of actor-issue interdependencies influence collaboration patterns3
Care-based leadership in a core-periphery network: a South African case study in collaborative watershed governance3
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