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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The role of Indigenous peoples and local communities in effective and equitable conservation414
Historical Indigenous Land-Use Explains Plant Functional Trait Diversity57
A framework for co-production of knowledge in the context of Arctic research52
What do people value in urban green? Linking characteristics of urban green spaces to users’ perceptions of nature benefits, disturbances, and disservices50
Nature’s contributions to people: coproducing quality of life from multifunctional landscapes44
Social learning for building community resilience to cyclones: role of indigenous and local knowledge, power, and institutions in coastal Bangladesh40
Dehesas as high nature value farming systems: a social-ecological synthesis of drivers, pressures, state, impacts, and responses40
The thorny path toward greening: unintended consequences, trade-offs, and constraints in green and blue infrastructure planning, implementation, and management35
A context-sensitive systems approach for understanding and enabling ecosystem service realization in cities34
Indigenous peoples and salmon stewardship: a critical relationship33
Participatory planning for local sustainability guided by the Sustainable Development Goals29
Operationalizing water-energy-food nexus research for sustainable development in social-ecological systems: an interdisciplinary learning case in Central Asia29
Participatory assessment of sustainability and resilience of three specialized farming systems27
Grasping darkness: the dark ecological network as a social-ecological framework to limit the impacts of light pollution on biodiversity26
Fostering horizontal knowledge co-production with Indigenous people by leveraging researchers' transdisciplinary intentions25
Avenues of archetype analysis: roots, achievements, and next steps in sustainability research25
Payments for ecosystem services: a review of definitions, the role of spatial scales, and critique23
Measuring rural community resilience: case studies in New Zealand and Vermont, USA23
Exploring evolving spiritual values of forests in Europe and Asia: a transition hypothesis toward re-spiritualizing forests23
Not too small to benefit society: insights into perceived cultural ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps22
Conceptualizing multidimensional barriers: a framework for assessing constraints in realizing recreational benefits of urban green spaces22
Harnessing the potential of vulnerability assessments for managing social-ecological systems22
Management of high nature value farmland in the Republic of Ireland: 25 years evolving toward locally adapted results-orientated solutions and payments21
Assessment of urban resilience based on the transformation of resource-based cities: a case study of Panzhihua, China21
Meeting places and social capital supporting rural landscape stewardship: A Pan-European horizon scanning21
Dynamics of pastoral traditional ecological knowledge: a global state-of-the-art review21
Climate change risks and adaptation options for Madagascar21
Situating Indigenous knowledge for resilience in fire-dependent social-ecological systems20
Linking the social, economic, and agroecological: a resilience framework for dairy farming19
Barriers to scaling sustainable land and water management in Uganda: a cross-scale archetype approach19
What’s biodiversity got to do with it? Perceptions of biodiversity and restorativeness in urban parks19
Governance in social-ecological agent-based models: a review19
Causes of overgrazing in Inner Mongolian grasslands: Searching for deep leverage points of intervention19
Adaptive resilience of and through urban ecosystem services: a transdisciplinary approach to sustainability in Barcelona18
Linking landscape attributes to salmon and decision-making in the southern Kenai Lowlands, Alaska, USA17
Residents' perceptions of the role and management of green spaces to provide cultural ecosystem services in Dhaka, Bangladesh17
The invisible thread: women as tradition keepers and change agents in Spanish pastoral social-ecological systems16
Technology in support of nature-based solutions requires understanding everyday experiences16
Payments for ecosystem services within the hybrid governance model: evaluating policy alignment and complementarity on California rangelands16
A methodological guide for applying the social-ecological system (SES) framework: a review of quantitative approaches16
Engaging with complexity in resilience practice15
The role of incentive-based instruments and social equity in conservation conflict interventions15
Water management, hydrological extremes, and society: modeling interactions and phenomena14
Participatory futures thinking in the African context of sustainability challenges and socio-environmental change14
Closing integrative gaps in complex environmental governance systems14
Parks in context: advancing citywide spatial quality assessments of urban green spaces using fine-scaled indicators14
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
Convergent geographic patterns between grizzly bear population genetic structure and Indigenous language groups in coastal British Columbia, Canada14
Wayfinder: a new generation of resilience practice14
Semi-natural habitats in boreal Europe: a rise of a social-ecological research agenda14
Understanding the drivers of subsistence poaching in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area: What matters for community wildlife conservation?13
Resilience and coastal governance: knowledge and navigation between stability and transformation13
The social dynamics of basins of attraction13
Climate change stressors and social-ecological factors mediating access to subsistence resources in Arctic Alaska13
Taking fishers’ knowledge and its implications to fisheries policy seriously13
Indigenous stewardship through novel approaches to collaborative management in Hawaiʻi12
How Mongolian herders perceive ecological change in a “stable” landscape12
Ecological and social outcomes of urbanization on regional farming systems: a global synthesis12
Improving attitudes and knowledge in a citizen science project about urban bat ecology12
Hydrosocial rupture: causes and consequences for transboundary governance12
A decision support tool for assessing cumulative effects on an Arctic migratory tundra caribou population11
Beyond social-ecological traps: fostering transformations towards sustainability11
Collective action in the area-wide management of an invasive plant disease11
Hunting as land use: Understanding the spatial associations among hunting, agriculture, and forestry11
Complex human-deer interactions challenge conventional management approaches: the need to consider power, trust, and emotion11
Assessing the learning process in transdisciplinary research through a novel analytical approach11
Result-based payments as a tool to preserve the High Nature Value of complex silvo-pastoral systems: progress toward farm-based indicators11
The water-sensitive city meets biodiversity: habitat services of rain water management measures in highly urbanized landscapes11
Social-ecological resilience in remote mountain communities: toward a novel framework for an interdisciplinary investigation11
Leveraging emotion-behavior pathways to support environmental behavior change10
Migration and collective action in the commons: application of social-ecological system framework with evidence from China10
Shifting beach wrack composition in the SW Baltic Sea and its effect on beach use10
"People should also look after the people": relational values of wildlife and collectively titled land in Ilkisongo Maasai group ranches in Southern Kenya10
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
Combining biophysical optimization with economic preference analysis for agricultural land-use allocation10
Using dialogue to contextualize culture, ecosystem services, and cultural ecosystem services10
Incorporating place-based values into ecological restoration10
Stakeholder perceptions of wildfire management strategies as nature-based solutions in two Iberian biosphere reserves10
Resilience-performance trade-offs in managing social-ecological systems10
Conservation with local people: medicinal plants as cultural keystone species in the Southern Alps10
The Kere of Madagascar: a qualitative exploration of community experiences and perspectives9
A new framework for flood adaptation: introducing the Flood Adaptation Hierarchy9
Nature conservation in a digitalized world: echo chambers and filter bubbles9
Socioeconomic impacts of resource diversification from small-scale fishery development9
How do basin committees deal with water crises? Reflections for adaptive water governance from South America9
Governing wildfires: toward a systematic analytical framework9
Do fodder import and credit loans lead to climate resiliency in the pastoral social-ecological system of Inner Mongolia?9
Boundary spanners: a critical role for enduring collaborations between Indigenous communities and mainstream scientists9
Lessons learned from synthetic research projects based on the Ostrom Workshop frameworks9
Iterative scenarios for social-ecological systems9
Secondary forests in Peru: differential provision of ecosystem services compared to other post-deforestation forest transitions9
Participatory scenario planning and framing of social-ecological systems: an analysis of policy formulation processes in Rwanda and Tanzania9
Impacts of harvested species declines on Indigenous Peoples’ food sovereignty, well-being and ways of life: a case study of Anishinaabe perspectives and moose9
Unintended consequences of sustainable development initiatives: risks and opportunities in seagrass social-ecological systems9
Reviewing the relationship between neoliberal societies and nature: implications of the industrialized dominant social paradigm for a sustainable future9
Culture and parks: incorporating cultural ecosystem services into conservation in the Tibetan region of Southwest China9
Spiritual values shape taxonomic diversity, vegetation composition, and conservation status in woodlands of the Northern Zagros, Iran9
Visualization of causation in social-ecological systems9
Hidden benefits and risks of partial protection for coral reef fisheries8
Elucidating social-ecological perceptions of a protected area system in Interior Alaska: a fuzzy cognitive mapping approach8
Indigenous nations at the confluence: water governance networks and system transformation in the Klamath Basin8
Multistakeholder platforms for natural resource governance: lessons from eight landscape-level cases8
The role of the Yangtze River Protection Law in the emergence of adaptive water governance in China8
Evaluating determinants of social trust in water utilities: implications for building resilient water systems8
Integrated and innovative scenario approaches for sustainable development planning in The Bahamas8
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
Archetypal games generate diverse models of power, conflict, and cooperation8
Based on nature, enabled by social-ecological-technological context: deriving benefit from urban green and blue infrastructure8
Environmental flows in the Rio Grande - Rio Bravo basin8
A comparative case study of multistakeholder responses following oil spills in Pointe d’Esny, Mauritius, and Huntington Beach, California8
Transitioning toward “deep” knowledge co-production in coastal and marine systems: examining the interplay among governance, power, and knowledge8
Water rights for groundwater environments as an enabling condition for adaptive water governance8
Navigating wicked water governance in the “solutionscape” of science, policy, practice, and participation8
From stories to maps: translating participatory scenario narratives into spatially explicit information8
The six dimensions of collective leadership that advance sustainability objectives: rethinking what it means to be an academic leader8
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
Murky waters: divergent ways scientists, practitioners, and landowners evaluate beaver mimicry8
Driving factors behind subjective resilience on organic dairy sheep farms7
Operationalizing resilience: co-creating a framework to monitor hard, natural, and nature-based shoreline features in New York State.7
Using meaningful places as an indicator for sense of place in the management of social-ecological systems7
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
Enacting shared responsibility in biosecurity governance: insights from adaptive governance7
Limited effectiveness of EU policies to conserve an endangered species in high nature value farmland in Romania7
Systematic learning in water governance: insights from five local adaptive management projects for water quality innovation7
From fAIrplay to climate wars: making climate change scenarios more dynamic, creative, and integrative7
Gendered vulnerability and inequality: understanding drivers of climate-smart agriculture dis- and nonadoption among smallholder farmers in Malawi and Zambia7
Mapping mental barriers that prevent the use of neighborhood green spaces7
Bogs, birds, and berries in Belarus: the governance and management dynamics of wetland restoration in a state-centric, top-down context7
Challenges to understanding nonmaterial dimensions of human-nature connections, and how to address them7
Perception matters: an Indigenous perspective on climate change and its effects on forest-based livelihoods in the Amazon7
Evidence of spatial competition, over resource scarcity, as a primary driver of conflicts between small-scale and industrial fishers6
The “desire to have it all”: multiple priorities for urban gardens reduces space for native nature6
Shade coffee and amphibian conservation, a sustainable way forward? Understanding the perceptions and management strategies of coffee growers in Colombia6
Mapping and characterizing social-ecological land systems of South America6
Fruit booms and investor mobility along the China-Myanmar and China-Laos borders6
Social learning in conservation and natural resource management: taking a sociocultural perspective6
Waves and legacies: the making of an investment frontier in Niassa, Mozambique6
Visions for development and management of urban green and blue infrastructure: a citizen's perspective6
"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
Toward an urgent yet deliberate conservation strategy: sustaining social-ecological systems in rangelands of the Northern Great Plains, Montana6
Tightly coupled policies and loosely coupled networks in the governing of flood risk mitigation in municipal administrations6
Reviewing relational values for future research: insights from the coast6
Woody plant encroachment pervasive across three socially and ecologically diverse ecoregions6
Who’s setting the agenda? Philanthropic donor influence in marine conservation6
Lessons for human survival in a world without ecological templates: what can we learn from small-scale societies?6
Impact of gameplay vs. reading on mental models of social-ecological systems: a fuzzy cognitive mapping approach6
Resilience in the times of COVID: what the response to the COVID pandemic teaches us about resilience principles6
Eutrophication, water quality, and fisheries: a wicked management problem with insights from a century of change in Lake Erie6
How do Indigenous and local knowledge systems respond to climate change?6
Human securities, sustainability, and migration in the ancient U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest6
Perceived impacts of woody encroachment on ecosystem services in Hluhluwe, South Africa6
Everyday mobility and changing livelihood trajectories: implications for vulnerability and adaptation in dryland regions6
Biodiversity conservation through forest certification: key factors shaping national Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standard-development processes in Canada, Sweden, and Russia6
Expert knowledge, collaborative concepts, and universal nature: naming the place of Indigenous knowledge within a public-sector cultural burning program6
Exploring social-ecological trade-offs in fisheries using a coupled food web and human behavior model6
Double exposure to capitalist expansion and climatic change: a study of vulnerability on the Ghanaian coastal commodity frontier6
Panarchy and management of lake ecosystems6
Toward a feminist political ecology of household food and water security during drought in northern Nicaragua5
Patriotism, place, and provisioning: assessing cultural ecosystem services through longitudinal and historical studies in Vietnam5
How coupled is coupled human-natural systems research?5
Application of maximum entropy (MaxEnt) to understand the spatial dimension of human–wildlife conflict (HWC) risk in areas adjacent to Gonarezhou National Park of Zimbabwe5
Retaining multi-functionality in a rapidly changing urban landscape: insights from a participatory, resilience thinking process in Stockholm, Sweden5
Assessing the institutional foundations of adaptive water governance in South India5
Small-scale fisheries and agricultural trade networks are socially embedded: emerging hypotheses about responses to environmental changes5
What does success look like? An indicative rubric to assess and guide the performance of marine participatory processes5
An integrated climate-biodiversity framework to improve planning and policy: an application to wildlife crossings and landscape connectivity5
The role of socio-demographic characteristics in mediating relationships between people and nature5
Unravelling cross-scale and cross-level challenges in Ethiopian forest and landscape restoration governance5
Social influence shapes adaptive water governance: empirical evidence from northwestern Pakistan5
Assessing the potential delivery of ecosystem services by farmlands under contrasting management intensities5
Converting monospecific into mixed forests: stakeholders’ views on ecosystem services in the Black Forest Region5
An integrated livelihoods and well-being framework to understand northeastern Colorado ranchers' adaptive strategies5
Wildfire volunteering and community disaster resilience in New Zealand: institutional change in a dynamic rural social-ecological setting5
Toward spatial fit in the governance of global commodity flows5
Barriers to incorporating ecosystem services in coastal conservation practice: the case of blue carbon5
Speaking of nature: Relationships between how people think about, connect with, and act to protect nature5
Social-ecological networks and connectivity within and between two communities of small-scale fishers in Mexico5
Integration of nature-based solutions (NBS) in local policy and planning toward transformative change. Evidence from Barcelona, Lisbon, and Turin5
Do all roads lead to Sapporo? The role of linking and bridging ties in evacuation decisions5
Learning systems and learning paths in sustainability transitions5
Land-use changes associated with large-scale land transactions in Ethiopia5
Forest management under uncertainty: the influence of management versus climate change and wildfire in the Lake Tahoe Basin, USA.5
What is sacred in sacred natural sites? A literature review from a conservation lens5
Migration in West Africa: a visual analysis of motivation, causes, and routes5
Changing trends and perceptions of sea turtle egg consumption in Redang Island, Malaysia5
In the trap of interacting indirect and direct drivers: the disintegration of extensive, traditional grassland management in Central and Eastern Europe5
Accounting for Yolŋu ranger work in the Dhimurru Indigenous Protected Area, Australia5
What factors enable social-ecological transformative potential? The role of learning practices, empowerment, and networking5
Conservation at a crossroads: governing by global targets, innovative financing, and techno-optimism or radical reform?5
Resilience principles and a leverage points perspective for sustainable woody vegetation management in a social-ecological system of southwestern Ethiopia5
Collective responsibility and environmental caretaking: toward an ecological care ethic with evidence from Bhutan5
Markets and misfits in adaptive water governance: how agricultural markets shape water conflict and cooperation4
Emotionally augmented mental models, connectivity and beaver reintroduction in Southwest England4
Changing collaborative networks and transitions in rural sustainable development: qualitative lessons from three villages in China4
Implications of Panarchy for ecosystem service research: the role of system dynamics in service delivery4
Social and environmental change in the Arctic: emerging opportunities for well-being transformations through stewardship4
Assessing social-ecological fit of flood planning governance4
Getting back to that point of balance: Indigenous environmental justice and the California Indian Basketweavers’ Association4
Impacts of algal blooms and microcystins in fish on small-scale fishers in Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria: implications for health and livelihood4
Toward adaptive water governance: the role of systemic feedbacks for learning and adaptation in the eastern transboundary rivers of South Africa4
Assessing impacts of social-ecological diversity on resilience in a wetland coupled human and natural system4
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
Social adaptive responses to a harsh and unpredictable environment: insights from a pre-Hispanic andean society4
Elk conflict with beef and dairy producers poses wildlife management challenges in northern California4
Indigenous food sovereignty through resurgent self-governance: centering Nuu-chah-nulth principles in sea otter management in Canada4
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
Place attachment and perceptions of land-use change: cultural ecosystem services impacts of eucalyptus plantation expansion in Ubajay, Entre Ríos, Argentina4
Challenges to incorporating social and economic factors into cumulative effects assessments in Canada’s marine conservation areas4
Food for thought—examining farmers' willingness to engage in conservation stewardship around a protected area in central India4
Comparing smoke emissions and impacts under alternative forest management regimes4
Sustainability assessment in agriculture: emerging issues in voluntary sustainability standards and their governance4
Quantifying the transient shock response of dynamic agroecosystem variables for improved socio-environmental resilience4
Narrating changes, recalling memory: accumulation by dispossession in food systems of Indigenous communities at the extremes of Latin America4
Island and Indigenous systems of circularity: how Hawaiʻi can inform the development of universal circular economy policy goals4
Resilience of social-ecological systems: drastic seasonal change is associated with economic but not social flexibility among fishers in the Brazilian Pantanal4
Street trees and mental health: developing systems thinking-informed hypotheses using causal loop diagraming4
Addressing the resilience of tomato farmers in Ghana facing a double exposure from climate and market4
Social-environmental index: combining social and biophysical indicators reveals limits to growth4
Leverage points and levers of inclusive conservation in protected areas4
Soils, landscapes, and cultural concepts of favor and disfavor within complex adaptive systems and ResourceCultures: human-land interactions during the Holocene4
Opportunities and impediments for use of local data in the management of salmon fisheries4
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
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
Land cover and socioeconomic factors explain avian diversity in a tropical megacity4
Governance and everyday adaptations? Examining the disconnect between planned and autonomous adaptation through justice outcomes4
Extreme events, loss, and grief—an evaluation of the evolving management of climate change threats on the Great Barrier Reef4
Blurring the boundaries: cross-scale analyses of food systems4
Care-based leadership in a core-periphery network: a South African case study in collaborative watershed governance4
Salt in the wound: embodied everyday adaptations to salinity intrusion in the Sundarbans4
Collapse, reorganization, and regime identity: breaking down past management paradigms in a forest-grassland ecotone4
Toward understanding the governance of varietal and genetic diversity4
Commercial fisher perceptions illuminate a need for social justice considerations in navigating climate change impacts on fisheries systems3
How the qualities of actor-issue interdependencies influence collaboration patterns3
Conceptualizing trust and distrust as alternative stable states: lessons from the Flint Water Crisis3
Relational values and empathy are closely connected: A study of residents of Vermont's Winooski River watershed3
Unraveling the combined effects of sociopolitical and climate change scenarios for an artisanal small-scale fishery in the Western Mediterranean3
Panarchy: ripples of a boundary concept3
A biocultural approach to navigating conservation trade-offs through participatory methods3
Comparing adaptive capacity of Arctic communities responding to environmental change3
Social connectivity and adaptive capacity strategies in large-scale fisheries3
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
Biocultural values of groundwater dependent ecosystems in Kona, Hawaiʻi3
The management costs of alternative forest management strategies in the Lake Tahoe Basin3
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