Ecology and Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecology and Society is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Individual knowledge acquisition by teachers to promote the ecological value of sacred Kaya forests in southern Kenya46
Emergence of social-psychological barriers to social-ecological resilience: from causes to solutions44
The population ecology of sustainable agriculture knowledge networks: insights from California39
Assessing the delivery of ecosystem services and benefits to human well-being of three contrasting MPAs in Spain38
The species-specific role of wildlife in the Amazonian food system34
Forgotten forests: expanding potential land use in traditional Hawaiian agroecosystems, and the social-ecological implications32
From announced newcomers to unexpected guests: attitudes of local communities toward reintroduced Eurasian beavers ( Castor fiber ) across their expansion area in the Western Carpathians32
Reflecting on arts-based participatory research: considerations for more equitable transdisciplinary collaborations30
The role of religion in shaping the values of nature29
Investigating the coordination between ecological and economic systems in China’s green development process: a place-based interdisciplinary evaluation29
Which community network structures can support sustainability programs? The case of the Sustainable Cocoa Production Program in Indonesia28
A Chinese database on ecological thresholds and alternative stable states: implications for related research around the world27
Effects of long-term ecological research and cognitive biases on the evaluation of scientific information by public land managers in Oregon and Washington, USA27
Water-related problématiques: five archetypical contexts of water governance26
Home range size and space use patterns of African lions ( Panthera leo ) in Chizarira National Park, Zimbabwe26
Social-ecological uncertainty and the (in)capacity to adapt: stakeholders’ perceptions post-red tide/salmon farming crisis in Chiloé Island (Chile)23
How is the governance of circular economy of water organized? A systematic review of the literature21
The evolution of social-ecological systems (SES) research: a co-authorship and co-citation network analysis21
Undisclosed transgressions? Lacking acknowledgements of large agrifood firms on their impacts on the planetary boundaries20
Small-scale fisheries and agricultural trade networks are socially embedded: emerging hypotheses about responses to environmental changes20
The Great Green Wall in Senegal: questioning the idea of acceleration through the conflicting temporalities of politics and nature among the Sahelian populations20
Framing the regime shift concept: an epistemological analysis of a central ecological notion in the context of the North Sea cod crisis20
Visual representations in a choice experiment: valuing preferences for a local dam20
Climate change, nature degradation, and financial stability: a review of domino-effects between finance, climate, and the biosphere19
Shifting baseline syndrome in the fishing community of Barcelona: insights from scientific and local ecological knowledge18
Harvesting change: unraveling social-ecological impacts of a food hub ( LebensMittelPunkt ) through a living lab approach18
Identifying opportunities and constraints to effective management of invasive Australian wattle (Acacia) species in grassland landscapes, South Africa18
The Great Stink in the 21st century? Problematizing the sewage scandal in England and envisioning a new infrastructure ideal18
A need for assessing the resiliency of conservation funding18
The role of accountability in the emergence of adaptive water governance18
Ganawendan Ginibiiminaan (Take care of our Water!): mobilizing for Watersheds-at-risk with the Bad River Ojibwe18
Collective payments for ecosystem services: a counterpart of commodification and privatization trends in nature conservation?17
Mi'kmaw lessons for realigning land relations in Bay of Fundy dykelands and tidal wetlands17
“Hearing everyone’s perspective makes me want to make a change”: a podcast as a lever for change in an Arctic Indigenous community17
Conflict-related environmental degradation threatens the success of landscape recovery in some areas in Tigray (Ethiopia)17
Integrating a “One Well-being” approach in elephant conservation: evaluating consequences of management interventions17
Power research in adaptive water governance and beyond: a review17
Social identity and place-based dynamics in community resilience building for natural disasters: an integrative framework17
Preparing for resilience: adaptation options for young people in small-scale fisheries in Mexico16
Great expectations for collective management: the mismatch between supply and demand for catchment groups16
Biocultural well-being: Indigenous Peoples’ values for conservation and equity16
Regional variations in the social acceptability of conservation measures for at-risk species: the case of boreal and mountain caribou16
Eliciting the plurality of causal reasoning in social-ecological systems research16
Exploring the bioeconomy as discourse: identifying archetypical bioeconomy discourses and the emergence of a transformative bioeconomy16
Coping with conflicts in the co-production of solid waste management services: experience with a real-world lab in India16
Using machine learning to uncover synergies between forest restoration and livelihood support in the Himalayas15
Tradition and change: celebrating food systems resilience at two Indigenous Māori community events15
What comes after crises? Key elements and insights into feedback amplifying community self-organization15
Unleashing eco-conscious travel: exploring the factors influencing green travel behavior in urban communities15
Food consumption and nutritional status of sedentarized Baka Pygmies in Southern Cameroon: wild foods are less important for those who farm14
Social-ecological determinants of contemporary megafauna distributions in Indian tropical dry woodlands14
Keeping up with the landscapes: promoting resilience in dynamic social-ecological systems13
Livelihood vulnerability and human-wildlife interactions across protected areas13
Unpacking the role of failed land investments in driving tropical deforestation13
Labrador Inuit resilience and resurgence: embedding Indigenous values in commercial fisheries governance13
Who has the time? The temporality of tensions in the transboundary Red River basin13
COVID-19 impacts on food systems in fisheries-dependent island communities13
Understanding how governance emerges in social-ecological systems: insights from archetype analysis12
Engaging with justice in integrated landscape approaches12
Demystifying food systems transformation: a review of the state of the field12
Tracing a pollinator’s path12
Integrating public preferences with biophysical production possibilities: an application to ecosystem services from dam removal12
Vertical agriculture’s potential implications for food system resilience: outcomes of focus groups in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia12
Editorial: High Nature Value farming systems in Europe12
Pathways to healing: Indigenous revitalization through family-based land management in the Klamath Basin12
Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework in a protected area: a case study of Qilian Mountain National Park, Northwestern China12
Operationalizing pathway diversity in a mosaic landscape12
Narrating changes, recalling memory: accumulation by dispossession in food systems of Indigenous communities at the extremes of Latin America12
Equity in resilience: a case study of community resilience to wildfire in southwestern Oregon, United States12
Expanding use of space is an opportunity for sustainability but a threat to resilience11
Development of a wetland management plan for Taiqu Saltpan, Taiwan, by stakeholder engagement and water gate operation11
The concept of cultural keystone species, revisited through the eyes of Indigenous Peoples on northern Turtle Island11
Resilient niches: how non-financial capitals helped to overcome the COVID-19 crisis in local food systems11
Pathways to transformation: institutionalizing urban agriculture in a Montréal borough11
Manning the mangroves: gender, regional identities, and social history shape mangrove forest dependence and governance11
Using public litigation records to identify priority science needs for managing public lands11
Navigating ambiguous waters: a relational approach to nested conflicts in the Katari River Basin, Bolivia11
Relational values overshadow monetary value in territorial management by the Indigenous Oaxacan community of Capulálpam de Méndez11
Mobilizing Indigenous pastoralists: a multi-scalar approach involving reindeer herding communities and sustainability research10
Local understandings and global challenges: exploring sense of place in sustainability transitions10
Adaptive responses to inter-group competition over natural resources: the case of leakage10
Dangerous environments: environmental peacebuilding’s technomoral imaginary and its power-knowledge effects10
Biocultural ethics and Earth stewardship: a novel integration to revitalize multiple values of nature10
Assessing social-ecological fit of flood planning governance10
Governing wildfires: toward a systematic analytical framework10
Enforcement, deterrence, and compliance in co-managed small-scale fisheries10
Building resilience in Africa’s smallholder farming systems: contributions from agricultural development interventions—a scoping review10
The value and vanua of soil: bureaucratic practices, social life, and the colonial legacy of soil conservation in Fiji10
Navigating transdisciplinary waters to protect both sharks and bathers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: diverse stakeholders propose potential actions10
Working together to scale ecosystem restoration: collective approaches to community action in Aotearoa New Zealand9
Assessing holistic agroecological resilience of agroecosystems from a landscape perspective: a systematic review9
The ecological success of river restoration in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada: lessons learned9
Anti-fire statements coexist with millions of anthropogenic fires in Madagascar9
Ecological agriculture and rural revitalization: toward a post-productivist countryside in Nanjing, China9
Impacts of algal blooms and microcystins in fish on small-scale fishers in Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria: implications for health and livelihood9
Integration of nature-based solutions (NBS) in local policy and planning toward transformative change. Evidence from Barcelona, Lisbon, and Turin9
Braiding Inuit knowledge and Western science to understand light goose population dynamics under a changing climate9
The dynamics and politics of integrating local knowledge systems in multistakeholder platforms9
The good, the bad, and the unseen: wild mammal encounters influence wildlife preferences of residents across socio-demographic gradients9
Dimensions of integration for landscape connectivity planning: a framework for understanding challenges and opportunities9
Tales on co-response-ability in times of environmental polarization9
Understanding human-elephant interactions across time is key to illuminate pathways toward coexistence9
Hydrosocial power and territorial transformation: a case study of the Longaví River sub-basin in south-central Chile9
Disjointed modes of building resilience to socio-environmental crises9
Motivations and sensitivities surrounding the illegal trade of sea turtles in Costa Rica9
Island and Indigenous systems of circularity: how Hawaiʻi can inform the development of universal circular economy policy goals9
Successful water governance pathways across problem contexts: a global qualitative comparative analysis8
Cree knowledge, fuzzy cognitive maps, and the social-ecology of moose habitat quality under an adapted forestry regime8
Threatened or thriving? Q methodology reveals stakeholder discourses of bats in an insular context8
The wild bird pet trade in Guyana8
Negotiating informality and urban resilience: implications for equity8
Nutrient deficit rather than distance of farming activities from the boundary of protected areas drives crop raids by elephants8
Coupled human-natural system impacts of a winter weather whiplash event8
“The future for pastoralists is dark unless something is done”: illuminating the constraints and opportunities for a climate-resilient future for Kenyan pastoralists8
Toward multifunctionality in a fire-prone peat landscape in Indonesia: insights from multistakeholder perspectives8
Large-scale land acquisitions and land cover change in Ethiopia8
Virtual pollination flows as a key element in the typology of transboundary flows: a response to Li et al. (2023)8
Paradigms of water governance: a systematic review8
State role and involvement in determining wetland mitigation performance standards in the United States8
Form and function in ecologizing spatial planning: learnings from Bogotá, Colombia8
Worldview violence and Non-Human People in (conservation) science7
Stakeholder perceptions of wildfire management strategies as nature-based solutions in two Iberian biosphere reserves7
Relational values of nature—a global empirical study of environmental students in 37 countries7
Motivation of agroecology for biodiversity conservation in China: a juxtaposition of traditional knowledge and modern ecology in tea farmers’ practice7
From habitats to hashtags: examining online discussions about invasive species7
Evaluation-perception of site attributes and plant species selection in the public urban green space of a compact city7
Exploring multispecies co-design for social-ecological transformation7
A comparative case study of multistakeholder responses following oil spills in Pointe d’Esny, Mauritius, and Huntington Beach, California7
The difficult construction of horizontalities: power relations in collaborative multi-actor social-ecological systems management7
From Aristotle to Heraclitus7
A scoping review of how the seven principles for building social-ecological resilience have been operationalized7
Making sense of territorial changes: affective and moral dimensions of place attachments and meanings7
Naming the unnamed: relational values as knowledge and power7
Teaching the “heads, hearts, and hands” of futures literacy in sustainability education using radical seeds of change7
Assessing the distance effects on motivations of emergency volunteers responding to wildfire events in protected areas7
Application of maximum entropy (MaxEnt) to understand the spatial dimension of human–wildlife conflict (HWC) risk in areas adjacent to Gonarezhou National Park of Zimbabwe7
Recreational angler and stakeholder perceptions of policy changes to recreational fishery management: the case of red snapper devolution in the Gulf of Mexico6
Assessing long-term conservation impacts on adaptive capacity in a flagship community-based natural resources management area in Botswana6
Co-creating a festival with and for rural commoning initiatives: a transdisciplinary place-based process6
Understanding stakeholder perceptions of environmental justice: a study of tourism in the Erhai Lake basin, Yunnan province, China6
Environmental change and resource access in aquatic food systems: a Photovoice case study of Cambodian fisheries6
The evolution of policy interdependency and its impacts on the social-ecological system in Victoria, Australia since the 1860s6
Individual and collective political efficacy predict farmer engagement and support for groundwater policies: implications from the California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act6
How social and ecological characteristics shape transaction costs in polycentric wildfire governance: insights from the Sequoia-Kings Canyon Ecosystem, California, USA6
CBNRM, national parks, elites, and ethnography: a comment on (mis)representations6
Novel pathways to value nature: how guided forest bathing promotes new relationships with nature6
Knowledge that affects: an assemblage approach6
Social-ecological changes in traditional vanilla agroecosystems and their key role in biocultural landscape restoration6
To burn or not to burn: governance of wildfires in Australia6
Diverse values of nature and political ontology6
Localizing a just transition: a case study of St. George, Alaska6
Sustainability and resilience through connection: the economic metacommunities of the Western USA6
Historical political ecology as qualitative social-ecological system analysis in the Maumee River Watershed6
Diverse values regarding nature are related to stable forests: the case of Indigenous lands in Panama6
Can we control marine invasive alien species by eating them? The case of Callinectes sapidus6
A review of initiatives to transform the global sand system6
Meaningful transdisciplinary collaborations for sustainability: local, artistic, and scientific knowledge6
Games for experiential learning: triggering collective changes in commons management6
The Chakana : a symbol of the Andean worldview in community water management, and a form of governance of life6
Data sonification offers a novel approach for communicating Earth’s tipping points6
What would attract women to forest-based climate action? Learning from decades of female participation in an infant and maternal health system in Indonesia6
Distributional range shift of a marine fish relates to a geographical gradient of emotions among recreational fishers6
Creating a quiet buzz: opportunities and challenges for meaningful participation of boreal forest apiarists in the science-policy interface for biodiversity and ecosystem services6
Indigenous sea gardens within the Pacific Northwest generate partial trophic niche and dietary fatty acid shifts in littleneck clams ( Leukoma staminea )6
Leverage points and levers of inclusive conservation in protected areas5
Negotiating change in the African Great Lakes: fishers’ knowledge, adaptive strategies, and governance gaps in Lake Victoria’s Muhuru Bay and Migingo Island, Kenya5
Perceived changes in social-ecological resilience in fire-prone ecosystems in Colorado5
Divide and explain: novel metrics and procedures for archetype analysis in case-based sustainability research5
Community knowledge as a cornerstone for fisheries management5
Spatial assessment of risks faced by marine protected areas in Chilean Patagonia5
Transforming the economic landscape for global sustainability5
The importance of geodiversity in understanding and conserving the Western Rift Valley Corridor5
Changing collaborative networks and transitions in rural sustainable development: qualitative lessons from three villages in China5
Transboundary flows in the metacoupled Anthropocene: typology, methods, and governance for global sustainability5
Visualizing seascapes as a method for engaging stakeholders in discussions about resilience5
Artistic practice, public awareness, and the ngahere: art–science–Indigenous Māori collaborations for raising awareness of threats to native forests5
Resilience principles and a leverage points perspective for sustainable woody vegetation management in a social-ecological system of southwestern Ethiopia5
Downstream impacts of the Madeira Hydroelectric Complex on várzea traditional agriculture and extractivism5
Shaping garden landscape with medicinal plants by migrant communities in the Atlantic Forest, Argentina5
Transitioning toward “deep” knowledge co-production in coastal and marine systems: examining the interplay among governance, power, and knowledge5
Characterizing the social-ecological system for inland freshwater salinization using fuzzy cognitive maps: implications for collective management5
What factors enable social-ecological transformative potential? The role of learning practices, empowerment, and networking5
Social-ecological drought and smallholder vulnerability in the Central American Dry Corridor5
Gender equity and collaborative care in Madagascar’s locally managed marine areas: reflections on the launch of a fisherwomen’s network5
Mobile apps increase the visibility of women’s work contributions in Mexican small-scale fisheries5
Editorial5
How policy interventions influence burning to meet cultural and small-scale livelihood objectives5
Balancing water needs and well-being: bringing social-cultural values into environmental flows using a DPSIR framework5
Exploring linkages between protected-area access and Kenyan pastoralist food security using a new agent-based model5
Collapse of the oyster population in Apalachicola Bay: cascading social impacts from an ecologically and culturally significant species5
Integrating scientific data, local knowledge, and expert knowledge to assess climate vulnerability in fisheries5
The potential of collective action in promoting sustainable rangeland management: evidence from pastoral China5
Identifying system archetypes in Nigeria’s rice agri-food system using fuzzy cognitive mapping5
Positive social relationships in hunting groups are related to compliance with the higher-level moose management5
Responsibility as humans: meaning of traditional small grains cultivation in Japan5
Plastic pollution as a canvas for change: fostering collaboration for environmental solutions and actions through art and science5
Diagnosing and navigating scale mismatches in a social-ecological system: cross-scale feedbacks and cross-level interactions enable regime shift management in the Great Plains4
Cultural and empowerment priorities amid tensions in knowledge systems and resource allocation: insights from the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area4
What is sacred in sacred natural sites? A literature review from a conservation lens4
Everyday mobility and changing livelihood trajectories: implications for vulnerability and adaptation in dryland regions4
Influences of ecological change and social networks on conservation professionals’ and producers’ risk assessments of a vegetation transition4
Managing environmental knowledge networks to navigate complexity4
Remittance income weakens participation in community-based natural resource management4
Urban African food systems as sites of challenges and opportunities for household food equity and resilience4
Living community cookbook: transdisciplinary collaboration for constructing recipes with biocultural value4
Facilitating convergence research on water resource management with a collaborative, adaptive, and multi-scale systems thinking framework4
Interdependencies among hydro-saline dynamics, economic activities, ecological processes, and biodiversity in a deltaic social-ecological system: insights from the Rhône delta (southern France)4
Shrub encroachment and stakeholder perceptions of rangeland ecosystem services: balancing conservation and management?4
Facilitating evolutionary rescue from a wildlife health threat with cross-sectoral strategies: a case study on white-nose syndrome4
Perceptions of governance and access in artisanal marine fisheries in northern Brazil4
Convergence research as transdisciplinary knowledge coproduction within cases of effective collaborative governance of social-ecological systems4
When working together goes against common sense: a framework to bridge conservation and agricultural perspectives in participatory working lands research4
Maladaptive state reinforcement of greenspace in racially marginalized neighborhoods: lessons from Louisville, Kentucky’s failed cooperative extension partnership4
Relational sampling fills critical knowledge gaps in benthic ecosystem characteristics in Nunatsiavut, Canada4
Collaboration in a polarized context: lessons from public forest governance in the American West4
Now you see me, now you don’t: the role and relevance of paradigms in water governance4
Whither convergence? Co-designing convergent research and wrestling with its emergent tensions4
Determinants of small-scale fisheries’ transformative responses under increasing climate change impacts in Nayarit, Mexico4
From social reproduction to resilience: a Bourdieusian framework to critically approach capital (re)-distribution and power inequity in community resilience processes4
9 Dimensions for evaluating how art and creative practice stimulate societal transformations4
Linking ecosystem service valuation to environmental policy support: a case study of pollution in the Tennessee River4
Living knowledge: persistence and adaptation of traditional ecological knowledge in East Ujimchin, Inner Mongolia, China4
Innovation brokers in High Nature Value farming areas: a strategic approach to engage effective socioeconomic and agroecological dynamics4
Theorizing how the Three Horizons approach supports transformative learning: insights from advancing climate action in a Canadian Biosphere Reserve4
Amplifying the transformative impact of landscape-oriented partnerships: understanding conditions for and interactions of amplification processes4
Moving beyond binary metrics of compliance in small-scale fisheries4
“Men who love the oak trees”: services and care in the cork oak forests of Southern Andalusia4
Testing the greenwashing assessment framework3
Pathways for FEW nexus collaboration in U.S. city resilience planning3
The “hidden workers”: livestock farmers’ perceptions of ecosystem services provided by dung beetles3
Seeds and social norms: sorghum seed exchange among smallholder farmers in Northern Ethiopia3
Approaches to assess land degradation risk: a synthesis3
Learning systems and learning paths in sustainability transitions3
From “power over” to “power with”: resilience of the tomato value chain in the Upper East Region of Ghana3
A social-ecological approach to understanding urban food systems3
Water challenges at the U.S.-Mexico border: learning from community and expert voices3
Toward transformation in finance: seeds of nature-positive futures3
From austericide to recommoning: counter-imaginaries for democratizing water governance3
Farmer-centric on-farm experimentation as everyday transformative change for climate adaptation: a systematic review3
Collaborative agri-environmental governance in the Netherlands: a novel institutional arrangement to bridge social-ecological dynamics3
Understanding local pig hunter values and practices as a means toward co-management of feral pigs ( Sus scrofa ; pua'a) in the Hawaiian Islands3
The collaborative dream: the life cycle of knowledge co-production projects and the survival dilemma3
Immeasurable sovereignty: Indigenous well-being, fishery science, and sustainable governance3
Games for better futures: using the X-curve to seed a more sustainable games industry3
Evidence of spatial competition, over resource scarcity, as a primary driver of conflicts between small-scale and industrial fishers3
Carnivores’ contributions to people in Europe3
Inclusive transdisciplinarity: embracing diverse ways of being and knowing through inner work3
Restorative practices, marine ecotourism, and restoration economies: revitalizing the environmental agenda?3
Citizens’ attitudes toward the protection of flying squirrels in urban areas3
From primary data to formalized decision-making: open challenges and ways forward to inform representations of farmers’ behavior in agent-based models3
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