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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Which community network structures can support sustainability programs? The case of the Sustainable Cocoa Production Program in Indonesia83
Emergence of social-psychological barriers to social-ecological resilience: from causes to solutions40
Investigating the coordination between ecological and economic systems in China’s green development process: a place-based interdisciplinary evaluation33
Ecosystem services in Sahelian village landscapes 1952–2016: estimating change in a data scarce region29
Immediate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of wildlife as food among indigenous people and local communities in South America29
Biocultural values of groundwater dependent ecosystems in Kona, Hawaiʻi27
Assessing the delivery of ecosystem services and benefits to human well-being of three contrasting MPAs in Spain26
Forgotten forests: expanding potential land use in traditional Hawaiian agroecosystems, and the social-ecological implications26
The population ecology of sustainable agriculture knowledge networks: insights from California21
Collective action in the area-wide management of an invasive plant disease21
Dynamics of pastoral traditional ecological knowledge: a global state-of-the-art review20
The role of religion in shaping the values of nature19
The species-specific role of wildlife in the Amazonian food system17
Reflecting on arts-based participatory research: considerations for more equitable transdisciplinary collaborations17
The Great Green Wall in Senegal: questioning the idea of acceleration through the conflicting temporalities of politics and nature among the Sahelian populations16
Deriving scalable measures for restoration of communal grazing lands16
Effects of long-term ecological research and cognitive biases on the evaluation of scientific information by public land managers in Oregon and Washington, USA16
Operationalizing water-energy-food nexus research for sustainable development in social-ecological systems: an interdisciplinary learning case in Central Asia16
A multiple evidence-based approach to Métis community-based monitoring: a case study from the South Athabasca Oil Sands Area, Alberta, Canada16
A Chinese database on ecological thresholds and alternative stable states: implications for related research around the world16
An integrated climate-biodiversity framework to improve planning and policy: an application to wildlife crossings and landscape connectivity15
The evolution of social-ecological systems (SES) research: a co-authorship and co-citation network analysis15
Speaking of nature: Relationships between how people think about, connect with, and act to protect nature14
Impacts of conservation activities on people who are incarcerated: a case study based on qualitative and quantitative analyses14
Visual representations in a choice experiment: valuing preferences for a local dam14
Water-related problématiques: five archetypical contexts of water governance14
Unraveling the combined effects of sociopolitical and climate change scenarios for an artisanal small-scale fishery in the Western Mediterranean14
Framing the regime shift concept: an epistemological analysis of a central ecological notion in the context of the North Sea cod crisis14
Small-scale fisheries and agricultural trade networks are socially embedded: emerging hypotheses about responses to environmental changes14
Social identity and place-based dynamics in community resilience building for natural disasters: an integrative framework13
Secondary forests in Peru: differential provision of ecosystem services compared to other post-deforestation forest transitions13
Power research in adaptive water governance and beyond: a review13
Causes of overgrazing in Inner Mongolian grasslands: Searching for deep leverage points of intervention13
Collective payments for ecosystem services: a counterpart of commodification and privatization trends in nature conservation?13
The role of accountability in the emergence of adaptive water governance12
Integrating a “One Well-being” approach in elephant conservation: evaluating consequences of management interventions12
Equality and equity in Arctic communities: how household-level social relations support community-level social resilience12
Using meaningful places as an indicator for sense of place in the management of social-ecological systems12
Identifying opportunities and constraints to effective management of invasive Australian wattle (Acacia) species in grassland landscapes, South Africa12
Harvesting change: unraveling social-ecological impacts of a food hub ( LebensMittelPunkt ) through a living lab approach12
Conflict-related environmental degradation threatens the success of landscape recovery in some areas in Tigray (Ethiopia)12
Reviewing the relationship between neoliberal societies and nature: implications of the industrialized dominant social paradigm for a sustainable future12
Ganawendan Ginibiiminaan (Take care of our Water!): mobilizing for Watersheds-at-risk with the Bad River Ojibwe12
Tradition and change: celebrating food systems resilience at two Indigenous Māori community events11
Indigenous caretaking of beargrass and the social and ecological consequences of adaptations to maintain beargrass weaving practices11
What comes after crises? Key elements and insights into feedback amplifying community self-organization11
Everyday adaptation practices by coffee farmers in three mountain regions in Africa11
People think there's no nature in cities, but they want to know more11
Using machine learning to uncover synergies between forest restoration and livelihood support in the Himalayas10
Food consumption and nutritional status of sedentarized Baka Pygmies in Southern Cameroon: wild foods are less important for those who farm10
Keeping up with the landscapes: promoting resilience in dynamic social-ecological systems10
Eliciting the plurality of causal reasoning in social-ecological systems research10
Vertical agriculture’s potential implications for food system resilience: outcomes of focus groups in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia10
Integrating public preferences with biophysical production possibilities: an application to ecosystem services from dam removal10
Great expectations for collective management: the mismatch between supply and demand for catchment groups10
Fruit booms and investor mobility along the China-Myanmar and China-Laos borders10
Narrating changes, recalling memory: accumulation by dispossession in food systems of Indigenous communities at the extremes of Latin America10
Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework in a protected area: a case study of Qilian Mountain National Park, Northwestern China9
Conservation with local people: medicinal plants as cultural keystone species in the Southern Alps9
Demystifying food systems transformation: a review of the state of the field9
“It’s like a connection between all of us”: Inuit social connections and caribou declines in Labrador, Canada9
Equity in resilience: a case study of community resilience to wildfire in southwestern Oregon, United States9
Livelihood vulnerability and human-wildlife interactions across protected areas9
Operationalizing pathway diversity in a mosaic landscape9
Editorial: High Nature Value farming systems in Europe9
Tracing a pollinator’s path8
Dangerous environments: environmental peacebuilding’s technomoral imaginary and its power-knowledge effects8
The invisible thread: women as tradition keepers and change agents in Spanish pastoral social-ecological systems8
Not too small to benefit society: insights into perceived cultural ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps8
Labrador Inuit resilience and resurgence: embedding Indigenous values in commercial fisheries governance8
Two of a kind? Large-scale land acquisitions and commodity frontier expansion in Argentina's Dry Chaco8
Gathering Giizhik in a changing landscape8
Pathways to healing: Indigenous revitalization through family-based land management in the Klamath Basin8
A method for benchmarking two different resilience assessment methods8
A synthesis on active citizenship in European nature conservation: social and environmental impacts, democratic tensions, and governance implications8
Using public litigation records to identify priority science needs for managing public lands8
Development of a wetland management plan for Taiqu Saltpan, Taiwan, by stakeholder engagement and water gate operation8
COVID-19 impacts on food systems in fisheries-dependent island communities8
Understanding how governance emerges in social-ecological systems: insights from archetype analysis8
From stories to maps: translating participatory scenario narratives into spatially explicit information7
Resilient niches: how non-financial capitals helped to overcome the COVID-19 crisis in local food systems7
Hidden benefits and risks of partial protection for coral reef fisheries7
Forest management under uncertainty: the influence of management versus climate change and wildfire in the Lake Tahoe Basin, USA.7
Building resilience in Africa’s smallholder farming systems: contributions from agricultural development interventions—a scoping review7
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 Nati7
Adaptive responses to inter-group competition over natural resources: the case of leakage7
Impacts of algal blooms and microcystins in fish on small-scale fishers in Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria: implications for health and livelihood7
Expanding use of space is an opportunity for sustainability but a threat to resilience7
Enforcement, deterrence, and compliance in co-managed small-scale fisheries7
Manning the mangroves: gender, regional identities, and social history shape mangrove forest dependence and governance7
Understanding human-elephant interactions across time is key to illuminate pathways toward coexistence7
Navigating ambiguous waters: a relational approach to nested conflicts in the Katari River Basin, Bolivia7
Double exposure to capitalist expansion and climatic change: a study of vulnerability on the Ghanaian coastal commodity frontier6
Pau-brasil and string instrument bows telecouple nature, art, and heritage6
Coupled human-natural system impacts of a winter weather whiplash event6
Water quality and forest restoration in the Lake Tahoe basin: impacts of future management options6
Integration of nature-based solutions (NBS) in local policy and planning toward transformative change. Evidence from Barcelona, Lisbon, and Turin6
Challenges and prospects of Local Adaptation Plans of Action (LAPA) initiative in Nepal as everyday adaptation6
Tales on co-response-ability in times of environmental polarization6
The ecological success of river restoration in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada: lessons learned6
Island and Indigenous systems of circularity: how Hawaiʻi can inform the development of universal circular economy policy goals6
Naming the unnamed: relational values as knowledge and power6
Simulating wildlife habitat dynamics over the next century to help inform best management strategies for biodiversity in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California6
Motivations and sensitivities surrounding the illegal trade of sea turtles in Costa Rica6
Disjointed modes of building resilience to socio-environmental crises6
Assessing social-ecological fit of flood planning governance6
Governing wildfires: toward a systematic analytical framework6
The management costs of alternative forest management strategies in the Lake Tahoe Basin6
Ecological agriculture and rural revitalization: toward a post-productivist countryside in Nanjing, China6
The wisdom of hindsight: a comparative analysis of timelines of environmental governance of infrastructure across the Pan-Amazon6
Trade-offs in the implementation of good practice in large carnivore conservation and management6
Murky waters: divergent ways scientists, practitioners, and landowners evaluate beaver mimicry6
Cree knowledge, fuzzy cognitive maps, and the social-ecology of moose habitat quality under an adapted forestry regime6
A methodological guide for applying the social-ecological system (SES) framework: a review of quantitative approaches6
Studying human-nature relations in aquatic social-ecological systems using the social-ecological action situations framework: how to move from empirical data to conceptual models6
Local understandings and global challenges: exploring sense of place in sustainability transitions6
Working together to scale ecosystem restoration: collective approaches to community action in Aotearoa New Zealand6
The good, the bad, and the unseen: wild mammal encounters influence wildlife preferences of residents across socio-demographic gradients6
State role and involvement in determining wetland mitigation performance standards in the United States5
Multistakeholder platforms for natural resource governance: lessons from eight landscape-level cases5
Games for experiential learning: triggering collective changes in commons management5
Diverse values of nature and political ontology5
To burn or not to burn: governance of wildfires in Australia5
The values of wildlife revisited5
Exploring evolving spiritual values of forests in Europe and Asia: a transition hypothesis toward re-spiritualizing forests5
Systemic analysis of a developing plant community on the island of Surtsey5
Making sense of territorial changes: affective and moral dimensions of place attachments and meanings5
Constraints to effective comanagement of New Zealand's customary fisheries: experiences of the East Otago Taiāpure5
Biodiversity conservation through forest certification: key factors shaping national Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standard-development processes in Canada, Sweden, and Russia5
Creating a climate changed future with the sea level rise interactive-fiction game “Lagos2199”5
Uncovering well-being ecosystem services bundles (WEBs) under conditions of social-ecological change in Brazil5
Incorporating place-based values into ecological restoration5
Reviewing relational values for future research: insights from the coast5
Carbon emissions from land acquisitions in Laos5
Stakeholder perceptions of wildfire management strategies as nature-based solutions in two Iberian biosphere reserves5
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
Conceptualizing multidimensional barriers: a framework for assessing constraints in realizing recreational benefits of urban green spaces5
Worldview violence and Non-Human People in (conservation) science5
Geospatial patterns and models of subsistence land use in rural Interior Alaska5
Migration and collective action in the commons: application of social-ecological system framework with evidence from China5
A framework for co-production of knowledge in the context of Arctic research5
Unintended consequences of sustainable development initiatives: risks and opportunities in seagrass social-ecological systems5
Hunting as land use: Understanding the spatial associations among hunting, agriculture, and forestry5
Resistance to change: A case study on framing and policy change of a controversial nature area5
A comparative case study of multistakeholder responses following oil spills in Pointe d’Esny, Mauritius, and Huntington Beach, California5
Evaluation-perception of site attributes and plant species selection in the public urban green space of a compact city5
A scoping review of how the seven principles for building social-ecological resilience have been operationalized5
Form and function in ecologizing spatial planning: learnings from Bogotá, Colombia5
Individual and collective political efficacy predict farmer engagement and support for groundwater policies: implications from the California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act4
Assessing long-term conservation impacts on adaptive capacity in a flagship community-based natural resources management area in Botswana4
Localizing a just transition: a case study of St. George, Alaska4
Effects of the COVID-19 lockdown in Hubei, China: cessation of incense burning reduces regional landscape fire4
Evaluating the effects of alternative landscape management scenarios on three old-forest-associated predators over 100 years in the fire-prone forests of the Sierra Nevada, USA4
Interactive governance of whale ecosystem services: governability assessment of three case studies in the Arctic4
Can we control marine invasive alien species by eating them? The case of Callinectes sapidus4
Diverse values regarding nature are related to stable forests: the case of Indigenous lands in Panama4
Indigenous sea gardens within the Pacific Northwest generate partial trophic niche and dietary fatty acid shifts in littleneck clams ( Leukoma staminea )4
Using Q-methodology to bridge different understandings on community forest management: lessons from the Peruvian Amazon4
Recreational angler and stakeholder perceptions of policy changes to recreational fishery management: the case of red snapper devolution in the Gulf of Mexico4
Distributional range shift of a marine fish relates to a geographical gradient of emotions among recreational fishers4
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
Environmental change and resource access in aquatic food systems: a Photovoice case study of Cambodian fisheries4
Historical political ecology as qualitative social-ecological system analysis in the Maumee River Watershed4
A new framework for flood adaptation: introducing the Flood Adaptation Hierarchy4
Understanding stakeholder perceptions of environmental justice: a study of tourism in the Erhai Lake basin, Yunnan province, China4
Inequalities and solidarities: interactions and impacts of sea-level-rise adaptation policies4
How social and ecological characteristics shape transaction costs in polycentric wildfire governance: insights from the Sequoia-Kings Canyon Ecosystem, California, USA4
Perceived changes in social-ecological resilience in fire-prone ecosystems in Colorado4
Spatial assessment of risks faced by marine protected areas in Chilean Patagonia4
CBNRM, national parks, elites, and ethnography: a comment on (mis)representations4
Sustainability and resilience through connection: the economic metacommunities of the Western USA4
Knowledge that affects: an assemblage approach4
Resilience-performance trade-offs in managing social-ecological systems3
Transitioning toward “deep” knowledge co-production in coastal and marine systems: examining the interplay among governance, power, and knowledge3
Everyday mobility and changing livelihood trajectories: implications for vulnerability and adaptation in dryland regions3
Challenges to incorporating social and economic factors into cumulative effects assessments in Canada’s marine conservation areas3
Managing environmental knowledge networks to navigate complexity3
The benefits of counting butterflies: recommendations for a successful citizen science project3
Convergence research as transdisciplinary knowledge coproduction within cases of effective collaborative governance of social-ecological systems3
Responsibility as humans: meaning of traditional small grains cultivation in Japan3
Everyday adaptation, interrupted agency and beyond: examining the interplay between formal and everyday climate change adaptations3
Care-based leadership in a core-periphery network: a South African case study in collaborative watershed governance3
Moving beyond binary metrics of compliance in small-scale fisheries3
Collapse of the oyster population in Apalachicola Bay: cascading social impacts from an ecologically and culturally significant species3
Identifying system archetypes in Nigeria’s rice agri-food system using fuzzy cognitive mapping3
Theorizing how the Three Horizons approach supports transformative learning: insights from advancing climate action in a Canadian Biosphere Reserve3
Collaboration in a polarized context: lessons from public forest governance in the American West3
Creating a quiet buzz: opportunities and challenges for meaningful participation of boreal forest apiarists in the science-policy interface for biodiversity and ecosystem services3
Evolving adaptive governance: challenging assumptions through an examination of fisheries law in Solomon Islands3
The importance of geodiversity in understanding and conserving the Western Rift Valley Corridor3
Transboundary flows in the metacoupled Anthropocene: typology, methods, and governance for global sustainability3
Leverage points and levers of inclusive conservation in protected areas3
Whither convergence? Co-designing convergent research and wrestling with its emergent tensions3
Implications of Panarchy for ecosystem service research: the role of system dynamics in service delivery3
A comparative approach to quantify the heterarchical structures of complex systems3
Changing collaborative networks and transitions in rural sustainable development: qualitative lessons from three villages in China3
Megabenthic biodiversity in culturally and ecologically important coastal regions of Northern Labrador3
How the qualities of actor-issue interdependencies influence collaboration patterns3
Addressing the resilience of tomato farmers in Ghana facing a double exposure from climate and market3
Plastic pollution as a canvas for change: fostering collaboration for environmental solutions and actions through art and science3
Innovation brokers in High Nature Value farming areas: a strategic approach to engage effective socioeconomic and agroecological dynamics3
Artistic practice, public awareness, and the ngahere: art–science–Indigenous Māori collaborations for raising awareness of threats to native forests3
How policy interventions influence burning to meet cultural and small-scale livelihood objectives3
What factors enable social-ecological transformative potential? The role of learning practices, empowerment, and networking3
Land cover and socioeconomic factors explain avian diversity in a tropical megacity3
What would attract women to forest-based climate action? Learning from decades of female participation in an infant and maternal health system in Indonesia3
Community knowledge as a cornerstone for fisheries management3
Water rights for groundwater environments as an enabling condition for adaptive water governance3
9 Dimensions for evaluating how art and creative practice stimulate societal transformations3
Cultural and empowerment priorities amid tensions in knowledge systems and resource allocation: insights from the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area3
Gender equity and collaborative care in Madagascar’s locally managed marine areas: reflections on the launch of a fisherwomen’s network3
Social influence shapes adaptive water governance: empirical evidence from northwestern Pakistan3
"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 state3
Visions for development and management of urban green and blue infrastructure: a citizen's perspective3
Resilience and coastal governance: knowledge and navigation between stability and transformation3
Living community cookbook: transdisciplinary collaboration for constructing recipes with biocultural value3
Characterizing the social-ecological system for inland freshwater salinization using fuzzy cognitive maps: implications for collective management3
Sedentarization as an adaptation to socio-environmental changes? Everyday herding practices in pastoralist communities in southern Ethiopia3
Drivers of social acceptability for bivalve aquaculture in Atlantic Canadian communities3
Emotionally augmented mental models, connectivity and beaver reintroduction in Southwest England3
Relational values and empathy are closely connected: A study of residents of Vermont's Winooski River watershed3
Exploring linkages between protected-area access and Kenyan pastoralist food security using a new agent-based model3
Shaping garden landscape with medicinal plants by migrant communities in the Atlantic Forest, Argentina3
Strong ethics and flexible actions, the properties of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), as key resources for socioecological resilience to the impacts of climate change: a case study of Baojiatu2
A demographic model to support customary management of a culturally important waterfowl species2
Governance and everyday adaptations? Examining the disconnect between planned and autonomous adaptation through justice outcomes2
Unraveling human drivers behind complex interrelationships among sustainable development goals: a demonstration in a flagship protected area2
The crises inherent in the success of the global food system2
Exploring restoration efforts from a social lens: statistical models reveal relationships between salmon habitat restoration efforts and ecological and social characteristics of the Puget Sound basin,2
“Everyone decided to declare war on the forest”: between territorial peace and pacification in the Colombian Andean-Amazon2
How coupled is coupled human-natural systems research?2
Evidence of spatial competition, over resource scarcity, as a primary driver of conflicts between small-scale and industrial fishers2
Carnivores’ contributions to people in Europe2
Longitudinal assessment of an integrated approach to large-scale common-pool water resource management: a case study of Nebraska’s Platte River basin2
Based on nature, enabled by social-ecological-technological context: deriving benefit from urban green and blue infrastructure2
Toward adaptive water governance: the role of systemic feedbacks for learning and adaptation in the eastern transboundary rivers of South Africa2
A call for agile futures practice in service of transformative change: lessons from envisioning positive climate futures emerging from the pandemic2
Citizens’ attitudes toward the protection of flying squirrels in urban areas2
Understanding local pig hunter values and practices as a means toward co-management of feral pigs ( Sus scrofa ; pua'a) in the Hawaiian Islands2
Water challenges at the U.S.-Mexico border: learning from community and expert voices2
From austericide to recommoning: counter-imaginaries for democratizing water governance2
A biocultural approach to navigating conservation trade-offs through participatory methods2
Impacts of harvested species declines on Indigenous Peoples’ food sovereignty, well-being and ways of life: a case study of Anishinaabe perspectives and moose2
From primary data to formalized decision-making: open challenges and ways forward to inform representations of farmers’ behavior in agent-based models2
The Kere of Madagascar: a qualitative exploration of community experiences and perspectives2
Caring for standing crops in the Himalayas: embedded notion of saving to save2
Price volatility in fish food systems: spatial arbitrage as an adaptive strategy for small-scale fish traders2
Learning systems and learning paths in sustainability transitions2
To split a stone2
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