OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ecology and Society is 5. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of Indigenous peoples and local communities in effective and equitable conservation	362
Historical Indigenous Land-Use Explains Plant Functional Trait Diversity	48
A framework for co-production of knowledge in the context of Arctic research	40
Nature’s contributions to people: coproducing quality of life from multifunctional landscapes	38
Social learning for building community resilience to cyclones: role of indigenous and local knowledge, power, and institutions in coastal Bangladesh	35
What do people value in urban green? Linking characteristics of urban green spaces to users’ perceptions of nature benefits, disturbances, and disservices	34
The thorny path toward greening: unintended consequences, trade-offs, and constraints in green and blue infrastructure planning, implementation, and management	31
Dehesas as high nature value farming systems: a social-ecological synthesis of drivers, pressures, state, impacts, and responses	30
A context-sensitive systems approach for understanding and enabling ecosystem service realization in cities	28
Indigenous peoples and salmon stewardship: a critical relationship	28
Operationalizing water-energy-food nexus research for sustainable development in social-ecological systems: an interdisciplinary learning case in Central Asia	26
Participatory assessment of sustainability and resilience of three specialized farming systems	24
Grasping darkness: the dark ecological network as a social-ecological framework to limit the impacts of light pollution on biodiversity	23
Payments for ecosystem services: a review of definitions, the role of spatial scales, and critique	21
Harnessing the potential of vulnerability assessments for managing social-ecological systems	21
Participatory planning for local sustainability guided by the Sustainable Development Goals	20
Exploring evolving spiritual values of forests in Europe and Asia: a transition hypothesis toward re-spiritualizing forests	19
Linking the social, economic, and agroecological: a resilience framework for dairy farming	19
Meeting places and social capital supporting rural landscape stewardship: A Pan-European horizon scanning	18
Measuring rural community resilience: case studies in New Zealand and Vermont, USA	18
Not too small to benefit society: insights into perceived cultural ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps	18
Management of high nature value farmland in the Republic of Ireland: 25 years evolving toward locally adapted results-orientated solutions and payments	18
Barriers to scaling sustainable land and water management in Uganda: a cross-scale archetype approach	18
Avenues of archetype analysis: roots, achievements, and next steps in sustainability research	18
Fostering horizontal knowledge co-production with Indigenous people by leveraging researchers' transdisciplinary intentions	18

Conceptualizing multidimensional barriers: a framework for assessing constraints in realizing recreational benefits of urban green spaces	17
Assessment of urban resilience based on the transformation of resource-based cities: a case study of Panzhihua, China	17
Linking landscape attributes to salmon and decision-making in the southern Kenai Lowlands, Alaska, USA	16
Governance in social-ecological agent-based models: a review	16
Causes of overgrazing in Inner Mongolian grasslands: Searching for deep leverage points of intervention	16
Dynamics of pastoral traditional ecological knowledge: a global state-of-the-art review	16
Situating Indigenous knowledge for resilience in fire-dependent social-ecological systems	15
Payments for ecosystem services within the hybrid governance model: evaluating policy alignment and complementarity on California rangelands	14
Participatory futures thinking in the African context of sustainability challenges and socio-environmental change	14
Engaging with complexity in resilience practice	14
Convergent geographic patterns between grizzly bear population genetic structure and Indigenous language groups in coastal British Columbia, Canada	14
What’s biodiversity got to do with it? Perceptions of biodiversity and restorativeness in urban parks	14
Technology in support of nature-based solutions requires understanding everyday experiences	13
Residents' perceptions of the role and management of green spaces to provide cultural ecosystem services in Dhaka, Bangladesh	13
Adaptive resilience of and through urban ecosystem services: a transdisciplinary approach to sustainability in Barcelona	12
Parks in context: advancing citywide spatial quality assessments of urban green spaces using fine-scaled indicators	12
Climate change risks and adaptation options for Madagascar	12
Semi-natural habitats in boreal Europe: a rise of a social-ecological research agenda	12
Participatory monitoring and evaluation to enable social learning, adoption, and out-scaling of regenerative agriculture	12
How Mongolian herders perceive ecological change in a “stable” landscape	11
Ecological and social outcomes of urbanization on regional farming systems: a global synthesis	11
Improving attitudes and knowledge in a citizen science project about urban bat ecology	11
Hydrosocial rupture: causes and consequences for transboundary governance	11
Wayfinder: a new generation of resilience practice	11
The role of incentive-based instruments and social equity in conservation conflict interventions	10
Farmer networks and agrobiodiversity interventions: the unintended outcomes of intended change	10
Understanding the drivers of subsistence poaching in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area: What matters for community wildlife conservation?	10
Complex human-deer interactions challenge conventional management approaches: the need to consider power, trust, and emotion	10
Closing integrative gaps in complex environmental governance systems	10
Result-based payments as a tool to preserve the High Nature Value of complex silvo-pastoral systems: progress toward farm-based indicators	10
The social dynamics of basins of attraction	10
Resilience and coastal governance: knowledge and navigation between stability and transformation	10
Why do large-scale agricultural investments induce different socio-economic, food security, and environmental impacts? Evidence from Kenya, Madagascar, and Mozambique	9
Using dialogue to contextualize culture, ecosystem services, and cultural ecosystem services	9
Water management, hydrological extremes, and society: modeling interactions and phenomena	9
Resilience-performance trade-offs in managing social-ecological systems	9
Nature conservation in a digitalized world: echo chambers and filter bubbles	9
Lessons learned from synthetic research projects based on the Ostrom Workshop frameworks	9
Beyond social-ecological traps: fostering transformations towards sustainability	9
A methodological guide for applying the social-ecological system (SES) framework: a review of quantitative approaches	9
The invisible thread: women as tradition keepers and change agents in Spanish pastoral social-ecological systems	9
Uncovering multilayered vulnerability and resilience in rural villages in the Pacific: a case study of Ono Island, Fiji	9
Combining biophysical optimization with economic preference analysis for agricultural land-use allocation	9
Social-ecological resilience in remote mountain communities: toward a novel framework for an interdisciplinary investigation	9
Conservation with local people: medicinal plants as cultural keystone species in the Southern Alps	8
A decision support tool for assessing cumulative effects on an Arctic migratory tundra caribou population	8
Shifting beach wrack composition in the SW Baltic Sea and its effect on beach use	8
Elucidating social-ecological perceptions of a protected area system in Interior Alaska: a fuzzy cognitive mapping approach	8
"People should also look after the people": relational values of wildlife and collectively titled land in Ilkisongo Maasai group ranches in Southern Kenya	8
The water-sensitive city meets biodiversity: habitat services of rain water management measures in highly urbanized landscapes	8

Climate change stressors and social-ecological factors mediating access to subsistence resources in Arctic Alaska	8
Archetypal games generate diverse models of power, conflict, and cooperation	8
Migration and collective action in the commons: application of social-ecological system framework with evidence from China	8
How do basin committees deal with water crises? Reflections for adaptive water governance from South America	8
Spiritual values shape taxonomic diversity, vegetation composition, and conservation status in woodlands of the Northern Zagros, Iran	8
Challenges to understanding nonmaterial dimensions of human-nature connections, and how to address them	7
Evaluating determinants of social trust in water utilities: implications for building resilient water systems	7
Hidden benefits and risks of partial protection for coral reef fisheries	7
Do fodder import and credit loans lead to climate resiliency in the pastoral social-ecological system of Inner Mongolia?	7
The six dimensions of collective leadership that advance sustainability objectives: rethinking what it means to be an academic leader	7
A comparative case study of multistakeholder responses following oil spills in Pointe d’Esny, Mauritius, and Huntington Beach, California	7
Iterative scenarios for social-ecological systems	7
Navigating wicked water governance in the “solutionscape” of science, policy, practice, and participation	7
Unintended consequences of sustainable development initiatives: risks and opportunities in seagrass social-ecological systems	7
Environmental flows in the Rio Grande - Rio Bravo basin	7
Socioeconomic impacts of resource diversification from small-scale fishery development	7
Bogs, birds, and berries in Belarus: the governance and management dynamics of wetland restoration in a state-centric, top-down context	7
Water quality and forest restoration in the Lake Tahoe basin: impacts of future management options	7
Assessing the learning process in transdisciplinary research through a novel analytical approach	7
The Kere of Madagascar: a qualitative exploration of community experiences and perspectives	7
Hunting as land use: Understanding the spatial associations among hunting, agriculture, and forestry	7
Operationalizing resilience: co-creating a framework to monitor hard, natural, and nature-based shoreline features in New York State.	7
Indigenous stewardship through novel approaches to collaborative management in Hawaiʻi	7
Leveraging emotion-behavior pathways to support environmental behavior change	6
Exploring social-ecological trade-offs in fisheries using a coupled food web and human behavior model	6
Secondary forests in Peru: differential provision of ecosystem services compared to other post-deforestation forest transitions	6
Panarchy and management of lake ecosystems	6
Based on nature, enabled by social-ecological-technological context: deriving benefit from urban green and blue infrastructure	6
Human securities, sustainability, and migration in the ancient U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest	6
Stakeholder perceptions of wildfire management strategies as nature-based solutions in two Iberian biosphere reserves	6
Water rights for groundwater environments as an enabling condition for adaptive water governance	6
Studying human-nature relations in aquatic social-ecological systems using the social-ecological action situations framework: how to move from empirical data to conceptual models	6
Participatory scenario planning and framing of social-ecological systems: an analysis of policy formulation processes in Rwanda and Tanzania	6
Toward an urgent yet deliberate conservation strategy: sustaining social-ecological systems in rangelands of the Northern Great Plains, Montana	6
Understanding the local biodiversity and open space strategies in two South African cities	6
Reviewing the relationship between neoliberal societies and nature: implications of the industrialized dominant social paradigm for a sustainable future	6
Culture and parks: incorporating cultural ecosystem services into conservation in the Tibetan region of Southwest China	6
Collective action in the area-wide management of an invasive plant disease	6
Impacts of harvested species declines on Indigenous Peoples’ food sovereignty, well-being and ways of life: a case study of Anishinaabe perspectives and moose	6
Perceived impacts of woody encroachment on ecosystem services in Hluhluwe, South Africa	6
What does success look like? An indicative rubric to assess and guide the performance of marine participatory processes	5
Tightly coupled policies and loosely coupled networks in the governing of flood risk mitigation in municipal administrations	5
Land-use changes associated with large-scale land transactions in Ethiopia	5
The role of the Yangtze River Protection Law in the emergence of adaptive water governance in China	5
Driving factors behind subjective resilience on organic dairy sheep farms	5
Urban resilience thinking in practice: ensuring flows of benefit from green and blue infrastructure	5
In the trap of interacting indirect and direct drivers: the disintegration of extensive, traditional grassland management in Central and Eastern Europe	5
Forest management under uncertainty: the influence of management versus climate change and wildfire in the Lake Tahoe Basin, USA.	5
Barriers to incorporating ecosystem services in coastal conservation practice: the case of blue carbon	5
Shade coffee and amphibian conservation, a sustainable way forward? Understanding the perceptions and management strategies of coffee growers in Colombia	5
Multistakeholder platforms for natural resource governance: lessons from eight landscape-level cases	5
Incorporating place-based values into ecological restoration	5
Biodiversity conservation through forest certification: key factors shaping national Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standard-development processes in Canada, Sweden, and Russia	5
Converting monospecific into mixed forests: stakeholders’ views on ecosystem services in the Black Forest Region	5
Visions for development and management of urban green and blue infrastructure: a citizen's perspective	5
An integrated livelihoods and well-being framework to understand northeastern Colorado ranchers' adaptive strategies	5
Assessing the potential delivery of ecosystem services by farmlands under contrasting management intensities	5
Indigenous nations at the confluence: water governance networks and system transformation in the Klamath Basin	5
The role of socio-demographic characteristics in mediating relationships between people and nature	5
Woody plant encroachment pervasive across three socially and ecologically diverse ecoregions	5
Enacting shared responsibility in biosecurity governance: insights from adaptive governance	5
Patriotism, place, and provisioning: assessing cultural ecosystem services through longitudinal and historical studies in Vietnam	5
Lessons for human survival in a world without ecological templates: what can we learn from small-scale societies?	5
"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 state	5
Mitigating the impacts of fragmented land tenure through community-based institutional innovations: two case study villages from Guinan County of Qinghai Province, China	5