Ecology and Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecology and Society is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
The role of Indigenous peoples and local communities in effective and equitable conservation357
Historical Indigenous Land-Use Explains Plant Functional Trait Diversity48
A framework for co-production of knowledge in the context of Arctic research37
Nature’s contributions to people: coproducing quality of life from multifunctional landscapes35
Social learning for building community resilience to cyclones: role of indigenous and local knowledge, power, and institutions in coastal Bangladesh33
The thorny path toward greening: unintended consequences, trade-offs, and constraints in green and blue infrastructure planning, implementation, and management29
What do people value in urban green? Linking characteristics of urban green spaces to users’ perceptions of nature benefits, disturbances, and disservices29
Dehesas as high nature value farming systems: a social-ecological synthesis of drivers, pressures, state, impacts, and responses29
Indigenous peoples and salmon stewardship: a critical relationship28
A context-sensitive systems approach for understanding and enabling ecosystem service realization in cities28
Operationalizing water-energy-food nexus research for sustainable development in social-ecological systems: an interdisciplinary learning case in Central Asia25
Participatory assessment of sustainability and resilience of three specialized farming systems23
Grasping darkness: the dark ecological network as a social-ecological framework to limit the impacts of light pollution on biodiversity22
Harnessing the potential of vulnerability assessments for managing social-ecological systems21
Payments for ecosystem services: a review of definitions, the role of spatial scales, and critique20
Participatory planning for local sustainability guided by the Sustainable Development Goals20
Linking the social, economic, and agroecological: a resilience framework for dairy farming19
Exploring evolving spiritual values of forests in Europe and Asia: a transition hypothesis toward re-spiritualizing forests19
Management of high nature value farmland in the Republic of Ireland: 25 years evolving toward locally adapted results-orientated solutions and payments18
Fostering horizontal knowledge co-production with Indigenous people by leveraging researchers' transdisciplinary intentions18
Measuring rural community resilience: case studies in New Zealand and Vermont, USA18
Assessment of urban resilience based on the transformation of resource-based cities: a case study of Panzhihua, China17
Barriers to scaling sustainable land and water management in Uganda: a cross-scale archetype approach17
Meeting places and social capital supporting rural landscape stewardship: A Pan-European horizon scanning16
Governance in social-ecological agent-based models: a review16
Not too small to benefit society: insights into perceived cultural ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps16
Conceptualizing multidimensional barriers: a framework for assessing constraints in realizing recreational benefits of urban green spaces16
Avenues of archetype analysis: roots, achievements, and next steps in sustainability research16
Linking landscape attributes to salmon and decision-making in the southern Kenai Lowlands, Alaska, USA16
Engaging with complexity in resilience practice14
Convergent geographic patterns between grizzly bear population genetic structure and Indigenous language groups in coastal British Columbia, Canada14
Causes of overgrazing in Inner Mongolian grasslands: Searching for deep leverage points of intervention14
Payments for ecosystem services within the hybrid governance model: evaluating policy alignment and complementarity on California rangelands14
Dynamics of pastoral traditional ecological knowledge: a global state-of-the-art review14
Technology in support of nature-based solutions requires understanding everyday experiences13
Situating Indigenous knowledge for resilience in fire-dependent social-ecological systems13
Participatory futures thinking in the African context of sustainability challenges and socio-environmental change13
Residents' perceptions of the role and management of green spaces to provide cultural ecosystem services in Dhaka, Bangladesh13
What’s biodiversity got to do with it? Perceptions of biodiversity and restorativeness in urban parks13
Participatory monitoring and evaluation to enable social learning, adoption, and out-scaling of regenerative agriculture12
Semi-natural habitats in boreal Europe: a rise of a social-ecological research agenda12
Climate change risks and adaptation options for Madagascar12
Adaptive resilience of and through urban ecosystem services: a transdisciplinary approach to sustainability in Barcelona12
Ecological and social outcomes of urbanization on regional farming systems: a global synthesis11
How Mongolian herders perceive ecological change in a “stable” landscape11
Wayfinder: a new generation of resilience practice11
Improving attitudes and knowledge in a citizen science project about urban bat ecology10
Resilience and coastal governance: knowledge and navigation between stability and transformation10
Parks in context: advancing citywide spatial quality assessments of urban green spaces using fine-scaled indicators10
Result-based payments as a tool to preserve the High Nature Value of complex silvo-pastoral systems: progress toward farm-based indicators10
Closing integrative gaps in complex environmental governance systems10
Understanding the drivers of subsistence poaching in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area: What matters for community wildlife conservation?10
The role of incentive-based instruments and social equity in conservation conflict interventions10
Hydrosocial rupture: causes and consequences for transboundary governance10
Lessons learned from synthetic research projects based on the Ostrom Workshop frameworks9
Resilience-performance trade-offs in managing social-ecological systems9
Nature conservation in a digitalized world: echo chambers and filter bubbles9
Complex human-deer interactions challenge conventional management approaches: the need to consider power, trust, and emotion9
Social-ecological resilience in remote mountain communities: toward a novel framework for an interdisciplinary investigation9
Using dialogue to contextualize culture, ecosystem services, and cultural ecosystem services9
Water management, hydrological extremes, and society: modeling interactions and phenomena9
The invisible thread: women as tradition keepers and change agents in Spanish pastoral social-ecological systems8
Farmer networks and agrobiodiversity interventions: the unintended outcomes of intended change8
How do basin committees deal with water crises? Reflections for adaptive water governance from South America8
Spiritual values shape taxonomic diversity, vegetation composition, and conservation status in woodlands of the Northern Zagros, Iran8
Elucidating social-ecological perceptions of a protected area system in Interior Alaska: a fuzzy cognitive mapping approach8
"People should also look after the people": relational values of wildlife and collectively titled land in Ilkisongo Maasai group ranches in Southern Kenya8
The social dynamics of basins of attraction8
Beyond social-ecological traps: fostering transformations towards sustainability8
Archetypal games generate diverse models of power, conflict, and cooperation8
A decision support tool for assessing cumulative effects on an Arctic migratory tundra caribou population8
Uncovering multilayered vulnerability and resilience in rural villages in the Pacific: a case study of Ono Island, Fiji8
Combining biophysical optimization with economic preference analysis for agricultural land-use allocation8
The six dimensions of collective leadership that advance sustainability objectives: rethinking what it means to be an academic leader7
Operationalizing resilience: co-creating a framework to monitor hard, natural, and nature-based shoreline features in New York State.7
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
Shifting beach wrack composition in the SW Baltic Sea and its effect on beach use7
The Kere of Madagascar: a qualitative exploration of community experiences and perspectives7
Conservation with local people: medicinal plants as cultural keystone species in the Southern Alps7
Environmental flows in the Rio Grande - Rio Bravo basin7
Bogs, birds, and berries in Belarus: the governance and management dynamics of wetland restoration in a state-centric, top-down context7
The water-sensitive city meets biodiversity: habitat services of rain water management measures in highly urbanized landscapes7
Navigating wicked water governance in the “solutionscape” of science, policy, practice, and participation7
Do fodder import and credit loans lead to climate resiliency in the pastoral social-ecological system of Inner Mongolia?7
A comparative case study of multistakeholder responses following oil spills in Pointe d’Esny, Mauritius, and Huntington Beach, California7
Migration and collective action in the commons: application of social-ecological system framework with evidence from China7
Water quality and forest restoration in the Lake Tahoe basin: impacts of future management options7
Iterative scenarios for social-ecological systems7
Hidden benefits and risks of partial protection for coral reef fisheries7
Secondary forests in Peru: differential provision of ecosystem services compared to other post-deforestation forest transitions6
Collective action in the area-wide management of an invasive plant disease6
Assessing the learning process in transdisciplinary research through a novel analytical approach6
Toward an urgent yet deliberate conservation strategy: sustaining social-ecological systems in rangelands of the Northern Great Plains, Montana6
Hunting as land use: Understanding the spatial associations among hunting, agriculture, and forestry6
Exploring social-ecological trade-offs in fisheries using a coupled food web and human behavior model6
Socioeconomic impacts of resource diversification from small-scale fishery development6
Culture and parks: incorporating cultural ecosystem services into conservation in the Tibetan region of Southwest China6
Panarchy and management of lake ecosystems6
Why do large-scale agricultural investments induce different socio-economic, food security, and environmental impacts? Evidence from Kenya, Madagascar, and Mozambique6
Understanding the local biodiversity and open space strategies in two South African cities6
Stakeholder perceptions of wildfire management strategies as nature-based solutions in two Iberian biosphere reserves6
Reviewing the relationship between neoliberal societies and nature: implications of the industrialized dominant social paradigm for a sustainable future6
A methodological guide for applying the social-ecological system (SES) framework: a review of quantitative approaches6
Climate change stressors and social-ecological factors mediating access to subsistence resources in Arctic Alaska6
Impacts of harvested species declines on Indigenous Peoples’ food sovereignty, well-being and ways of life: a case study of Anishinaabe perspectives and moose6
Unintended consequences of sustainable development initiatives: risks and opportunities in seagrass social-ecological systems6
Indigenous stewardship through novel approaches to collaborative management in Hawaiʻi6
Leveraging emotion-behavior pathways to support environmental behavior change6
Human securities, sustainability, and migration in the ancient U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest5
Land-use changes associated with large-scale land transactions in Ethiopia5
Incorporating place-based values into ecological restoration5
Converting monospecific into mixed forests: stakeholders’ views on ecosystem services in the Black Forest Region5
Visions for development and management of urban green and blue infrastructure: a citizen's perspective5
An integrated livelihoods and well-being framework to understand northeastern Colorado ranchers' adaptive strategies5
Participatory scenario planning and framing of social-ecological systems: an analysis of policy formulation processes in Rwanda and Tanzania5
Tightly coupled policies and loosely coupled networks in the governing of flood risk mitigation in municipal administrations5
Multistakeholder platforms for natural resource governance: lessons from eight landscape-level cases5
Biodiversity conservation through forest certification: key factors shaping national Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standard-development processes in Canada, Sweden, and Russia5
Enacting shared responsibility in biosecurity governance: insights from adaptive governance5
Urban resilience thinking in practice: ensuring flows of benefit from green and blue infrastructure5
"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 state5
Forest management under uncertainty: the influence of management versus climate change and wildfire in the Lake Tahoe Basin, USA.5
Studying human-nature relations in aquatic social-ecological systems using the social-ecological action situations framework: how to move from empirical data to conceptual models5
Barriers to incorporating ecosystem services in coastal conservation practice: the case of blue carbon5
Perceived impacts of woody encroachment on ecosystem services in Hluhluwe, South Africa5
The role of the Yangtze River Protection Law in the emergence of adaptive water governance in China5
Patriotism, place, and provisioning: assessing cultural ecosystem services through longitudinal and historical studies in Vietnam5
Driving factors behind subjective resilience on organic dairy sheep farms5
Lessons for human survival in a world without ecological templates: what can we learn from small-scale societies?5
In the trap of interacting indirect and direct drivers: the disintegration of extensive, traditional grassland management in Central and Eastern Europe5
Assessing the potential delivery of ecosystem services by farmlands under contrasting management intensities5
What does success look like? An indicative rubric to assess and guide the performance of marine participatory processes5
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
Do all roads lead to Sapporo? The role of linking and bridging ties in evacuation decisions4
Toward understanding the governance of varietal and genetic diversity4
Addressing the resilience of tomato farmers in Ghana facing a double exposure from climate and market4
Using meaningful places as an indicator for sense of place in the management of social-ecological systems4
Impact of gameplay vs. reading on mental models of social-ecological systems: a fuzzy cognitive mapping approach4
Changing trends and perceptions of sea turtle egg consumption in Redang Island, Malaysia4
Indigenous nations at the confluence: water governance networks and system transformation in the Klamath Basin4
An integrated climate-biodiversity framework to improve planning and policy: an application to wildlife crossings and landscape connectivity4
Accounting for Yolŋu ranger work in the Dhimurru Indigenous Protected Area, Australia4
From fAIrplay to climate wars: making climate change scenarios more dynamic, creative, and integrative4
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
Evidence of spatial competition, over resource scarcity, as a primary driver of conflicts between small-scale and industrial fishers4
The role of socio-demographic characteristics in mediating relationships between people and nature4
Social-ecological networks and connectivity within and between two communities of small-scale fishers in Mexico4
Woody plant encroachment pervasive across three socially and ecologically diverse ecoregions4
Fruit booms and investor mobility along the China-Myanmar and China-Laos borders4
Social learning in conservation and natural resource management: taking a sociocultural perspective4
Wildfire volunteering and community disaster resilience in New Zealand: institutional change in a dynamic rural social-ecological setting4
What factors enable social-ecological transformative potential? The role of learning practices, empowerment, and networking4
Place attachment and perceptions of land-use change: cultural ecosystem services impacts of eucalyptus plantation expansion in Ubajay, Entre Ríos, Argentina4
How do Indigenous and local knowledge systems respond to climate change?4
Integrated and innovative scenario approaches for sustainable development planning in The Bahamas4
From stories to maps: translating participatory scenario narratives into spatially explicit information4
Resilience in the times of COVID: what the response to the COVID pandemic teaches us about resilience principles4
Food for thought—examining farmers' willingness to engage in conservation stewardship around a protected area in central India4
A new framework for flood adaptation: introducing the Flood Adaptation Hierarchy4
Mapping mental barriers that prevent the use of neighborhood green spaces4
Limited effectiveness of EU policies to conserve an endangered species in high nature value farmland in Romania4
Elk conflict with beef and dairy producers poses wildlife management challenges in northern California4
Waves and legacies: the making of an investment frontier in Niassa, Mozambique4
Taking fishers’ knowledge and its implications to fisheries policy seriously4
Water rights for groundwater environments as an enabling condition for adaptive water governance4
Murky waters: divergent ways scientists, practitioners, and landowners evaluate beaver mimicry4
Social and environmental change in the Arctic: emerging opportunities for well-being transformations through stewardship4
Toward a feminist political ecology of household food and water security during drought in northern Nicaragua4
The “desire to have it all”: multiple priorities for urban gardens reduces space for native nature4
Mitigating the impacts of fragmented land tenure through community-based institutional innovations: two case study villages from Guinan County of Qinghai Province, China4
Based on nature, enabled by social-ecological-technological context: deriving benefit from urban green and blue infrastructure4
Shade coffee and amphibian conservation, a sustainable way forward? Understanding the perceptions and management strategies of coffee growers in Colombia3
Resilience of social-ecological systems: drastic seasonal change is associated with economic but not social flexibility among fishers in the Brazilian Pantanal3
Measures against the abandonment of common property summer pastures: experimental evidence from joint appropriation–provision games3
Collapse, reorganization, and regime identity: breaking down past management paradigms in a forest-grassland ecotone3
Collective responsibility and environmental caretaking: toward an ecological care ethic with evidence from Bhutan3
Non-governmental organizations improve the social-ecological fit of institutions conserving the Andean bear in Colombia3
Collective payments for ecosystem services: a counterpart of commodification and privatization trends in nature conservation?3
Land cover and socioeconomic factors explain avian diversity in a tropical megacity3
Double exposure to capitalist expansion and climatic change: a study of vulnerability on the Ghanaian coastal commodity frontier3
Emotionally augmented mental models, connectivity and beaver reintroduction in Southwest England3
Impacts of algal blooms and microcystins in fish on small-scale fishers in Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria: implications for health and livelihood3
Operationalizing agency in livelihoods research: smallholder farming livelihoods in southwest Ethiopia3
Implications of Panarchy for ecosystem service research: the role of system dynamics in service delivery3
Reviewing relational values for future research: insights from the coast3
Greenery in urban morphology: a comparative analysis of differences in urban green space accessibility for various urban structures across European cities3
A network perspective on multi-scale water governance in the Lake Champlain Basin, Vermont3
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
Expert knowledge, collaborative concepts, and universal nature: naming the place of Indigenous knowledge within a public-sector cultural burning program3
Markets and misfits in adaptive water governance: how agricultural markets shape water conflict and cooperation3
Systematic learning in water governance: insights from five local adaptive management projects for water quality innovation3
Quantifying the transient shock response of dynamic agroecosystem variables for improved socio-environmental resilience3
Opportunities and impediments for use of local data in the management of salmon fisheries3
Drawing on diverse knowledge systems to enhance local climate understanding in the southern Cape, South Africa3
How coupled is coupled human-natural systems research?3
Coproduction mechanisms to weave Indigenous knowledge, artificial intelligence, and technical data to enable Indigenous-led adaptive decision making: lessons from Australia’s joint managed Kakadu Nati3
Narrating changes, recalling memory: accumulation by dispossession in food systems of Indigenous communities at the extremes of Latin America3
Enabling ecosystem services at the neighborhood scale while allowing for urban regrowth: the case of Halle, Germany3
Boundary spanners: a critical role for enduring collaborations between Indigenous communities and mainstream scientists3
Social influence shapes adaptive water governance: empirical evidence from northwestern Pakistan3
Social adaptive responses to a harsh and unpredictable environment: insights from a pre-Hispanic andean society3
Social connectivity and adaptive capacity strategies in large-scale fisheries3
Migration in West Africa: a visual analysis of motivation, causes, and routes3
Perception matters: an Indigenous perspective on climate change and its effects on forest-based livelihoods in the Amazon3
Market integration and cooperative resource harvesting among kin, clan, and neighbors in rural China3
Extreme events, loss, and grief—an evaluation of the evolving management of climate change threats on the Great Barrier Reef3
Soils, landscapes, and cultural concepts of favor and disfavor within complex adaptive systems and ResourceCultures: human-land interactions during the Holocene3
Visualization of causation in social-ecological systems3
Assessing the institutional foundations of adaptive water governance in South India3
Unravelling cross-scale and cross-level challenges in Ethiopian forest and landscape restoration governance3
Indigenous food sovereignty through resurgent self-governance: centering Nuu-chah-nulth principles in sea otter management in Canada2
Changing collaborative networks and transitions in rural sustainable development: qualitative lessons from three villages in China2
Small-scale fisheries and agricultural trade networks are socially embedded: emerging hypotheses about responses to environmental changes2
Applying community-based and Indigenous research methodologies: lessons learned from the Nuxalk Sputc Project2
Challenges to incorporating social and economic factors into cumulative effects assessments in Canada’s marine conservation areas2
Ecosystem services in Sahelian village landscapes 1952–2016: estimating change in a data scarce region2
Comparing adaptive capacity of Arctic communities responding to environmental change2
Restoring human and more-than-human relations in toxic riskscapes: “in perpetuity” within Lake Superior’s Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Sand Point2
Biocultural values of groundwater dependent ecosystems in Kona, Hawaiʻi2
Assessing environmental initiatives through an ecosystem stewardship lens2
Eutrophication, water quality, and fisheries: a wicked management problem with insights from a century of change in Lake Erie2
Social-environmental index: combining social and biophysical indicators reveals limits to growth2
Island and Indigenous systems of circularity: how Hawaiʻi can inform the development of universal circular economy policy goals2
Constraints to effective comanagement of New Zealand's customary fisheries: experiences of the East Otago Taiāpure2
Fourteen propositions for resilience, fourteen years later2
Commercial fisher perceptions illuminate a need for social justice considerations in navigating climate change impacts on fisheries systems2
Responsibility as humans: meaning of traditional small grains cultivation in Japan2
Panarchy: ripples of a boundary concept2
Governing wildfires: toward a systematic analytical framework2
Integration of nature-based solutions (NBS) in local policy and planning toward transformative change. Evidence from Barcelona, Lisbon, and Turin2
Returning ecological wealth to nonhuman species through design: the case for ecosystemas2
State of Alaska's salmon and people: introduction to a special feature2
A biocultural approach to navigating conservation trade-offs through participatory methods2
Power research in adaptive water governance and beyond: a review2
Assessing impacts of social-ecological diversity on resilience in a wetland coupled human and natural system2
Voicing resilience through subjective well-being: community perspectives on responding to water stressors and COVID-192
Climate change, degradation, and land acquisitions: evaluating inequalities among competing interests for suitable cropland in Ethiopia2
Speaking of nature: Relationships between how people think about, connect with, and act to protect nature2
A call for agile futures practice in service of transformative change: lessons from envisioning positive climate futures emerging from the pandemic2
Promises and limits of community-based organizations in bridging mismatches of scale: a case study on collaborative governance on federal lands2
Scale, evidence, and community participation matter: lessons in effective and legitimate adaptive governance from decision making for Menindee Lakes in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin2
Relational values and empathy are closely connected: A study of residents of Vermont's Winooski River watershed2
Care-based leadership in a core-periphery network: a South African case study in collaborative watershed governance2
Immediate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of wildlife as food among indigenous people and local communities in South America2
What does comanagement offer? Exploring users’ knowledge through mental models in the fishery of La Encrucijada Biosphere Reserve, Mexico2
Ecosystems services research in action: reflexively valuing environments in the South Pacific2
Ecosystem Connectivity for Livable Cities: a Connectivity Benefits Framework for Urban Planning2
Challenges and prospects of Local Adaptation Plans of Action (LAPA) initiative in Nepal as everyday adaptation2
Retaining multi-functionality in a rapidly changing urban landscape: insights from a participatory, resilience thinking process in Stockholm, Sweden2
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