OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ecology and Society is 8. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Individual knowledge acquisition by teachers to promote the ecological value of sacred Kaya forests in southern Kenya	55
Assessing the delivery of ecosystem services and benefits to human well-being of three contrasting MPAs in Spain	51
The species-specific role of wildlife in the Amazonian food system	48
From announced newcomers to unexpected guests: attitudes of local communities toward reintroduced Eurasian beavers ( Castor fiber ) across their expansion area in the Western Carpathians	39
Forgotten forests: expanding potential land use in traditional Hawaiian agroecosystems, and the social-ecological implications	38
Investigating the coordination between ecological and economic systems in China’s green development process: a place-based interdisciplinary evaluation	37
Which community network structures can support sustainability programs? The case of the Sustainable Cocoa Production Program in Indonesia	34
Emergence of social-psychological barriers to social-ecological resilience: from causes to solutions	34
Reflecting on arts-based participatory research: considerations for more equitable transdisciplinary collaborations	33
The role of religion in shaping the values of nature	32
The population ecology of sustainable agriculture knowledge networks: insights from California	32
Undisclosed transgressions? Lacking acknowledgements of large agrifood firms on their impacts on the planetary boundaries	30
A Chinese database on ecological thresholds and alternative stable states: implications for related research around the world	30
Small-scale fisheries and agricultural trade networks are socially embedded: emerging hypotheses about responses to environmental changes	29
Framing the regime shift concept: an epistemological analysis of a central ecological notion in the context of the North Sea cod crisis	29
Climate change, nature degradation, and financial stability: a review of domino-effects between finance, climate, and the biosphere	27
Social-ecological uncertainty and the (in)capacity to adapt: stakeholders’ perceptions post-red tide/salmon farming crisis in Chiloé Island (Chile)	25
Effects of long-term ecological research and cognitive biases on the evaluation of scientific information by public land managers in Oregon and Washington, USA	25
Water-related problématiques: five archetypical contexts of water governance	25
The evolution of social-ecological systems (SES) research: a co-authorship and co-citation network analysis	23
Visual representations in a choice experiment: valuing preferences for a local dam	23
How is the governance of circular economy of water organized? A systematic review of the literature	22
The Great Green Wall in Senegal: questioning the idea of acceleration through the conflicting temporalities of politics and nature among the Sahelian populations	21
Stakeholder expectations for future mountain forests: synergies, trade-offs, limitations, and barriers in ecosystem service supply	21
Ganawendan Ginibiiminaan (Take care of our Water!): mobilizing for Watersheds-at-risk with the Bad River Ojibwe	21

Home range size and space use patterns of African lions ( Panthera leo ) in Chizarira National Park, Zimbabwe	21
The role of accountability in the emergence of adaptive water governance	20
“Hearing everyone’s perspective makes me want to make a change”: a podcast as a lever for change in an Arctic Indigenous community	20
Identifying opportunities and constraints to effective management of invasive Australian wattle (Acacia) species in grassland landscapes, South Africa	20
Conflict-related environmental degradation threatens the success of landscape recovery in some areas in Tigray (Ethiopia)	19
The Great Stink in the 21st century? Problematizing the sewage scandal in England and envisioning a new infrastructure ideal	19
Integrating a “One Well-being” approach in elephant conservation: evaluating consequences of management interventions	19
Social identity and place-based dynamics in community resilience building for natural disasters: an integrative framework	19
Shifting baseline syndrome in the fishing community of Barcelona: insights from scientific and local ecological knowledge	19
Power research in adaptive water governance and beyond: a review	19
Harvesting change: unraveling social-ecological impacts of a food hub ( LebensMittelPunkt ) through a living lab approach	19
A need for assessing the resiliency of conservation funding	19
Collective payments for ecosystem services: a counterpart of commodification and privatization trends in nature conservation?	19
Using machine learning to uncover synergies between forest restoration and livelihood support in the Himalayas	18
Great expectations for collective management: the mismatch between supply and demand for catchment groups	18
Mi'kmaw lessons for realigning land relations in Bay of Fundy dykelands and tidal wetlands	18
What comes after crises? Key elements and insights into feedback amplifying community self-organization	18
Coping with conflicts in the co-production of solid waste management services: experience with a real-world lab in India	18
Unleashing eco-conscious travel: exploring the factors influencing green travel behavior in urban communities	18
Tradition and change: celebrating food systems resilience at two Indigenous Māori community events	17
Regional variations in the social acceptability of conservation measures for at-risk species: the case of boreal and mountain caribou	17
Biocultural well-being: Indigenous Peoples’ values for conservation and equity	17
Exploring the bioeconomy as discourse: identifying archetypical bioeconomy discourses and the emergence of a transformative bioeconomy	17
Eliciting the plurality of causal reasoning in social-ecological systems research	17
Preparing for resilience: adaptation options for young people in small-scale fisheries in Mexico	17
Social-ecological determinants of contemporary megafauna distributions in Indian tropical dry woodlands	16
Narrating changes, recalling memory: accumulation by dispossession in food systems of Indigenous communities at the extremes of Latin America	16
Integrating public preferences with biophysical production possibilities: an application to ecosystem services from dam removal	16
Editorial: High Nature Value farming systems in Europe	16
Operationalizing pathway diversity in a mosaic landscape	16
Unpacking the role of failed land investments in driving tropical deforestation	16
Food consumption and nutritional status of sedentarized Baka Pygmies in Southern Cameroon: wild foods are less important for those who farm	16
Pathways to healing: Indigenous revitalization through family-based land management in the Klamath Basin	15
Keeping up with the landscapes: promoting resilience in dynamic social-ecological systems	15
Demystifying food systems transformation: a review of the state of the field	15
Who has the time? The temporality of tensions in the transboundary Red River basin	15
Vertical agriculture’s potential implications for food system resilience: outcomes of focus groups in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia	15
Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework in a protected area: a case study of Qilian Mountain National Park, Northwestern China	14
Livelihood vulnerability and human-wildlife interactions across protected areas	14
Engaging with justice in integrated landscape approaches	14
COVID-19 impacts on food systems in fisheries-dependent island communities	14
Understanding how governance emerges in social-ecological systems: insights from archetype analysis	14
Equity in resilience: a case study of community resilience to wildfire in southwestern Oregon, United States	14
Expanding use of space is an opportunity for sustainability but a threat to resilience	13
Labrador Inuit resilience and resurgence: embedding Indigenous values in commercial fisheries governance	13
Navigating ambiguous waters: a relational approach to nested conflicts in the Katari River Basin, Bolivia	13
Tracing a pollinator’s path	13
Resilient niches: how non-financial capitals helped to overcome the COVID-19 crisis in local food systems	13
Using public litigation records to identify priority science needs for managing public lands	13
Pathways to transformation: institutionalizing urban agriculture in a Montréal borough	13

Development of a wetland management plan for Taiqu Saltpan, Taiwan, by stakeholder engagement and water gate operation	12
Enforcement, deterrence, and compliance in co-managed small-scale fisheries	12
Relational values overshadow monetary value in territorial management by the Indigenous Oaxacan community of Capulálpam de Méndez	12
Tales on co-response-ability in times of environmental polarization	12
The concept of cultural keystone species, revisited through the eyes of Indigenous Peoples on northern Turtle Island	12
Dangerous environments: environmental peacebuilding’s technomoral imaginary and its power-knowledge effects	12
Navigating transdisciplinary waters to protect both sharks and bathers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: diverse stakeholders propose potential actions	12
Building resilience in Africa’s smallholder farming systems: contributions from agricultural development interventions—a scoping review	12
Adaptive responses to inter-group competition over natural resources: the case of leakage	12
Manning the mangroves: gender, regional identities, and social history shape mangrove forest dependence and governance	12
Understanding human-elephant interactions across time is key to illuminate pathways toward coexistence	12
Anti-fire statements coexist with millions of anthropogenic fires in Madagascar	11
The value and vanua of soil: bureaucratic practices, social life, and the colonial legacy of soil conservation in Fiji	11
Integration of nature-based solutions (NBS) in local policy and planning toward transformative change. Evidence from Barcelona, Lisbon, and Turin	11
Mobilizing Indigenous pastoralists: a multi-scalar approach involving reindeer herding communities and sustainability research	11
Dimensions of integration for landscape connectivity planning: a framework for understanding challenges and opportunities	11
Island and Indigenous systems of circularity: how Hawaiʻi can inform the development of universal circular economy policy goals	11
Biocultural ethics and Earth stewardship: a novel integration to revitalize multiple values of nature	11
Local understandings and global challenges: exploring sense of place in sustainability transitions	11
Assessing social-ecological fit of flood planning governance	11
Impacts of algal blooms and microcystins in fish on small-scale fishers in Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria: implications for health and livelihood	11
Governing wildfires: toward a systematic analytical framework	11
Assessing holistic agroecological resilience of agroecosystems from a landscape perspective: a systematic review	10
Large-scale land acquisitions and land cover change in Ethiopia	10
Virtual pollination flows as a key element in the typology of transboundary flows: a response to Li et al. (2023)	10
Ecological agriculture and rural revitalization: toward a post-productivist countryside in Nanjing, China	10
Hydrosocial power and territorial transformation: a case study of the Longaví River sub-basin in south-central Chile	10
Successful water governance pathways across problem contexts: a global qualitative comparative analysis	10
Cree knowledge, fuzzy cognitive maps, and the social-ecology of moose habitat quality under an adapted forestry regime	10
Working together to scale ecosystem restoration: collective approaches to community action in Aotearoa New Zealand	10
Braiding Inuit knowledge and Western science to understand light goose population dynamics under a changing climate	10
Nutrient deficit rather than distance of farming activities from the boundary of protected areas drives crop raids by elephants	10
The dynamics and politics of integrating local knowledge systems in multistakeholder platforms	9
Adaptive capacity of fishing companies facing spatial competition with offshore wind farms: insights from scallop fishers in Normandy (France)	9
Coupled human-natural system impacts of a winter weather whiplash event	9
The wild bird pet trade in Guyana	9
Exploring multispecies co-design for social-ecological transformation	9
Worldview violence and Non-Human People in (conservation) science	9
The ecological success of river restoration in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada: lessons learned	9
Paradigms of water governance: a systematic review	9
Form and function in ecologizing spatial planning: learnings from Bogotá, Colombia	9
Naming the unnamed: relational values as knowledge and power	9
Making sense of territorial changes: affective and moral dimensions of place attachments and meanings	9
“The future for pastoralists is dark unless something is done”: illuminating the constraints and opportunities for a climate-resilient future for Kenyan pastoralists	9
Disjointed modes of building resilience to socio-environmental crises	9
The good, the bad, and the unseen: wild mammal encounters influence wildlife preferences of residents across socio-demographic gradients	9
Motivations and sensitivities surrounding the illegal trade of sea turtles in Costa Rica	9
Negotiating informality and urban resilience: implications for equity	9
Toward multifunctionality in a fire-prone peat landscape in Indonesia: insights from multistakeholder perspectives	9
Threatened or thriving? Q methodology reveals stakeholder discourses of bats in an insular context	9
Evaluation-perception of site attributes and plant species selection in the public urban green space of a compact city	9
Stakeholder perceptions of wildfire management strategies as nature-based solutions in two Iberian biosphere reserves	8
Relational values of nature—a global empirical study of environmental students in 37 countries	8
Motivation of agroecology for biodiversity conservation in China: a juxtaposition of traditional knowledge and modern ecology in tea farmers’ practice	8
Teaching the “heads, hearts, and hands” of futures literacy in sustainability education using radical seeds of change	8
Assessing the distance effects on motivations of emergency volunteers responding to wildfire events in protected areas	8
A scoping review of how the seven principles for building social-ecological resilience have been operationalized	8
A comparative case study of multistakeholder responses following oil spills in Pointe d’Esny, Mauritius, and Huntington Beach, California	8
From habitats to hashtags: examining online discussions about invasive species	8
Co-creating a festival with and for rural commoning initiatives: a transdisciplinary place-based process	8
State role and involvement in determining wetland mitigation performance standards in the United States	8
From Aristotle to Heraclitus	8
A trajectory of change in the Guiers Lake Basin, Senegal: applying the adaptive systemic approach to establish participatory governance for water security	8
Application of maximum entropy (MaxEnt) to understand the spatial dimension of human–wildlife conflict (HWC) risk in areas adjacent to Gonarezhou National Park of Zimbabwe	8