OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ecology and Society is 6. 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 2020-08-01 to 2024-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of Indigenous peoples and local communities in effective and equitable conservation	400
Historical Indigenous Land-Use Explains Plant Functional Trait Diversity	56
A framework for co-production of knowledge in the context of Arctic research	50
Nature’s contributions to people: coproducing quality of life from multifunctional landscapes	42
What do people value in urban green? Linking characteristics of urban green spaces to users’ perceptions of nature benefits, disturbances, and disservices	41
Social learning for building community resilience to cyclones: role of indigenous and local knowledge, power, and institutions in coastal Bangladesh	39
Dehesas as high nature value farming systems: a social-ecological synthesis of drivers, pressures, state, impacts, and responses	39
A context-sensitive systems approach for understanding and enabling ecosystem service realization in cities	33
The thorny path toward greening: unintended consequences, trade-offs, and constraints in green and blue infrastructure planning, implementation, and management	33
Indigenous peoples and salmon stewardship: a critical relationship	33
Participatory planning for local sustainability guided by the Sustainable Development Goals	28
Operationalizing water-energy-food nexus research for sustainable development in social-ecological systems: an interdisciplinary learning case in Central Asia	28
Participatory assessment of sustainability and resilience of three specialized farming systems	27
Fostering horizontal knowledge co-production with Indigenous people by leveraging researchers' transdisciplinary intentions	24
Grasping darkness: the dark ecological network as a social-ecological framework to limit the impacts of light pollution on biodiversity	24
Avenues of archetype analysis: roots, achievements, and next steps in sustainability research	23
Harnessing the potential of vulnerability assessments for managing social-ecological systems	22
Measuring rural community resilience: case studies in New Zealand and Vermont, USA	22
Management of high nature value farmland in the Republic of Ireland: 25 years evolving toward locally adapted results-orientated solutions and payments	21
Conceptualizing multidimensional barriers: a framework for assessing constraints in realizing recreational benefits of urban green spaces	21
Payments for ecosystem services: a review of definitions, the role of spatial scales, and critique	21
Not too small to benefit society: insights into perceived cultural ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps	21
Exploring evolving spiritual values of forests in Europe and Asia: a transition hypothesis toward re-spiritualizing forests	21
Climate change risks and adaptation options for Madagascar	20
Dynamics of pastoral traditional ecological knowledge: a global state-of-the-art review	20

Assessment of urban resilience based on the transformation of resource-based cities: a case study of Panzhihua, China	20
Governance in social-ecological agent-based models: a review	19
Causes of overgrazing in Inner Mongolian grasslands: Searching for deep leverage points of intervention	18
Linking the social, economic, and agroecological: a resilience framework for dairy farming	18
Barriers to scaling sustainable land and water management in Uganda: a cross-scale archetype approach	18
Meeting places and social capital supporting rural landscape stewardship: A Pan-European horizon scanning	18
Situating Indigenous knowledge for resilience in fire-dependent social-ecological systems	18
What’s biodiversity got to do with it? Perceptions of biodiversity and restorativeness in urban parks	17
Residents' perceptions of the role and management of green spaces to provide cultural ecosystem services in Dhaka, Bangladesh	17
Adaptive resilience of and through urban ecosystem services: a transdisciplinary approach to sustainability in Barcelona	17
Linking landscape attributes to salmon and decision-making in the southern Kenai Lowlands, Alaska, USA	17
Technology in support of nature-based solutions requires understanding everyday experiences	16
Payments for ecosystem services within the hybrid governance model: evaluating policy alignment and complementarity on California rangelands	16
The invisible thread: women as tradition keepers and change agents in Spanish pastoral social-ecological systems	15
A methodological guide for applying the social-ecological system (SES) framework: a review of quantitative approaches	15
Engaging with complexity in resilience practice	15
The role of incentive-based instruments and social equity in conservation conflict interventions	15
Farmer networks and agrobiodiversity interventions: the unintended outcomes of intended change	14
Participatory monitoring and evaluation to enable social learning, adoption, and out-scaling of regenerative agriculture	14
Semi-natural habitats in boreal Europe: a rise of a social-ecological research agenda	14
Parks in context: advancing citywide spatial quality assessments of urban green spaces using fine-scaled indicators	14
Participatory futures thinking in the African context of sustainability challenges and socio-environmental change	14
Closing integrative gaps in complex environmental governance systems	14
Convergent geographic patterns between grizzly bear population genetic structure and Indigenous language groups in coastal British Columbia, Canada	14
Water management, hydrological extremes, and society: modeling interactions and phenomena	13
Climate change stressors and social-ecological factors mediating access to subsistence resources in Arctic Alaska	13
Wayfinder: a new generation of resilience practice	13
The social dynamics of basins of attraction	12
Understanding the drivers of subsistence poaching in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area: What matters for community wildlife conservation?	12
Resilience and coastal governance: knowledge and navigation between stability and transformation	12
Improving attitudes and knowledge in a citizen science project about urban bat ecology	12
Hydrosocial rupture: causes and consequences for transboundary governance	11
Result-based payments as a tool to preserve the High Nature Value of complex silvo-pastoral systems: progress toward farm-based indicators	11
Ecological and social outcomes of urbanization on regional farming systems: a global synthesis	11
How Mongolian herders perceive ecological change in a “stable” landscape	11
Complex human-deer interactions challenge conventional management approaches: the need to consider power, trust, and emotion	11
The water-sensitive city meets biodiversity: habitat services of rain water management measures in highly urbanized landscapes	11
Hunting as land use: Understanding the spatial associations among hunting, agriculture, and forestry	11
A decision support tool for assessing cumulative effects on an Arctic migratory tundra caribou population	11
Why do large-scale agricultural investments induce different socio-economic, food security, and environmental impacts? Evidence from Kenya, Madagascar, and Mozambique	10
Uncovering multilayered vulnerability and resilience in rural villages in the Pacific: a case study of Ono Island, Fiji	10
Taking fishers’ knowledge and its implications to fisheries policy seriously	10
Resilience-performance trade-offs in managing social-ecological systems	10
Migration and collective action in the commons: application of social-ecological system framework with evidence from China	10
Indigenous stewardship through novel approaches to collaborative management in Hawaiʻi	10
Combining biophysical optimization with economic preference analysis for agricultural land-use allocation	10
Stakeholder perceptions of wildfire management strategies as nature-based solutions in two Iberian biosphere reserves	10
Beyond social-ecological traps: fostering transformations towards sustainability	10
Assessing the learning process in transdisciplinary research through a novel analytical approach	10
Unintended consequences of sustainable development initiatives: risks and opportunities in seagrass social-ecological systems	9

Conservation with local people: medicinal plants as cultural keystone species in the Southern Alps	9
Lessons learned from synthetic research projects based on the Ostrom Workshop frameworks	9
How do basin committees deal with water crises? Reflections for adaptive water governance from South America	9
The Kere of Madagascar: a qualitative exploration of community experiences and perspectives	9
Do fodder import and credit loans lead to climate resiliency in the pastoral social-ecological system of Inner Mongolia?	9
A new framework for flood adaptation: introducing the Flood Adaptation Hierarchy	9
Nature conservation in a digitalized world: echo chambers and filter bubbles	9
Leveraging emotion-behavior pathways to support environmental behavior change	9
Social-ecological resilience in remote mountain communities: toward a novel framework for an interdisciplinary investigation	9
Impacts of harvested species declines on Indigenous Peoples’ food sovereignty, well-being and ways of life: a case study of Anishinaabe perspectives and moose	9
Using dialogue to contextualize culture, ecosystem services, and cultural ecosystem services	9
Incorporating place-based values into ecological restoration	9
Secondary forests in Peru: differential provision of ecosystem services compared to other post-deforestation forest transitions	9
Spiritual values shape taxonomic diversity, vegetation composition, and conservation status in woodlands of the Northern Zagros, Iran	9
Archetypal games generate diverse models of power, conflict, and cooperation	8
Understanding the local biodiversity and open space strategies in two South African cities	8
Urban resilience thinking in practice: ensuring flows of benefit from green and blue infrastructure	8
Integrated and innovative scenario approaches for sustainable development planning in The Bahamas	8
Iterative scenarios for social-ecological systems	8
Shifting beach wrack composition in the SW Baltic Sea and its effect on beach use	8
Based on nature, enabled by social-ecological-technological context: deriving benefit from urban green and blue infrastructure	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
Environmental flows in the Rio Grande - Rio Bravo basin	8
Reviewing the relationship between neoliberal societies and nature: implications of the industrialized dominant social paradigm for a sustainable future	8
Transitioning toward “deep” knowledge co-production in coastal and marine systems: examining the interplay among governance, power, and knowledge	8
Participatory scenario planning and framing of social-ecological systems: an analysis of policy formulation processes in Rwanda and Tanzania	8
Navigating wicked water governance in the “solutionscape” of science, policy, practice, and participation	8
Elucidating social-ecological perceptions of a protected area system in Interior Alaska: a fuzzy cognitive mapping approach	8
The six dimensions of collective leadership that advance sustainability objectives: rethinking what it means to be an academic leader	8
A comparative case study of multistakeholder responses following oil spills in Pointe d’Esny, Mauritius, and Huntington Beach, California	8
Socioeconomic impacts of resource diversification from small-scale fishery development	8
Culture and parks: incorporating cultural ecosystem services into conservation in the Tibetan region of Southwest China	8
Collective action in the area-wide management of an invasive plant disease	8
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	8
From stories to maps: translating participatory scenario narratives into spatially explicit information	8
Indigenous nations at the confluence: water governance networks and system transformation in the Klamath Basin	7
Mapping mental barriers that prevent the use of neighborhood green spaces	7
Driving factors behind subjective resilience on organic dairy sheep farms	7
Bogs, birds, and berries in Belarus: the governance and management dynamics of wetland restoration in a state-centric, top-down context	7
Murky waters: divergent ways scientists, practitioners, and landowners evaluate beaver mimicry	7
Water quality and forest restoration in the Lake Tahoe basin: impacts of future management options	7
Greenery in urban morphology: a comparative analysis of differences in urban green space accessibility for various urban structures across European cities	7
Operationalizing resilience: co-creating a framework to monitor hard, natural, and nature-based shoreline features in New York State.	7
The role of the Yangtze River Protection Law in the emergence of adaptive water governance in China	7
Using meaningful places as an indicator for sense of place in the management of social-ecological systems	7
Water rights for groundwater environments as an enabling condition for adaptive water governance	7
Hidden benefits and risks of partial protection for coral reef fisheries	7
Boundary spanners: a critical role for enduring collaborations between Indigenous communities and mainstream scientists	7
Limited effectiveness of EU policies to conserve an endangered species in high nature value farmland in Romania	7
Multistakeholder platforms for natural resource governance: lessons from eight landscape-level cases	7
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
Lessons for human survival in a world without ecological templates: what can we learn from small-scale societies?	6
Waves and legacies: the making of an investment frontier in Niassa, Mozambique	6
Resilience in the times of COVID: what the response to the COVID pandemic teaches us about resilience principles	6
Panarchy and management of lake ecosystems	6
Mapping and characterizing social-ecological land systems of South America	6
Tightly coupled policies and loosely coupled networks in the governing of flood risk mitigation in municipal administrations	6
Woody plant encroachment pervasive across three socially and ecologically diverse ecoregions	6
Exploring social-ecological trade-offs in fisheries using a coupled food web and human behavior model	6
"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	6
Mitigating the impacts of fragmented land tenure through community-based institutional innovations: two case study villages from Guinan County of Qinghai Province, China	6
Visualization of causation in social-ecological systems	6
Toward an urgent yet deliberate conservation strategy: sustaining social-ecological systems in rangelands of the Northern Great Plains, Montana	6
Shade coffee and amphibian conservation, a sustainable way forward? Understanding the perceptions and management strategies of coffee growers in Colombia	6
Perceived impacts of woody encroachment on ecosystem services in Hluhluwe, South Africa	6
Social learning in conservation and natural resource management: taking a sociocultural perspective	6
Systematic learning in water governance: insights from five local adaptive management projects for water quality innovation	6
Governing wildfires: toward a systematic analytical framework	6
From fAIrplay to climate wars: making climate change scenarios more dynamic, creative, and integrative	6
Perception matters: an Indigenous perspective on climate change and its effects on forest-based livelihoods in the Amazon	6
Human securities, sustainability, and migration in the ancient U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest	6
Gendered vulnerability and inequality: understanding drivers of climate-smart agriculture dis- and nonadoption among smallholder farmers in Malawi and Zambia	6
Enacting shared responsibility in biosecurity governance: insights from adaptive governance	6