OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ecology and Society is 7. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Which community network structures can support sustainability programs? The case of the Sustainable Cocoa Production Program in Indonesia	99
Emergence of social-psychological barriers to social-ecological resilience: from causes to solutions	47
Immediate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of wildlife as food among indigenous people and local communities in South America	39
Forgotten forests: expanding potential land use in traditional Hawaiian agroecosystems, and the social-ecological implications	37
The population ecology of sustainable agriculture knowledge networks: insights from California	33
A multiple evidence-based approach to Métis community-based monitoring: a case study from the South Athabasca Oil Sands Area, Alberta, Canada	32
Reflecting on arts-based participatory research: considerations for more equitable transdisciplinary collaborations	31
Assessing the delivery of ecosystem services and benefits to human well-being of three contrasting MPAs in Spain	30
Individual knowledge acquisition by teachers to promote the ecological value of sacred Kaya forests in southern Kenya	25
The species-specific role of wildlife in the Amazonian food system	25
Biocultural values of groundwater dependent ecosystems in Kona, Hawaiʻi	23
Dynamics of pastoral traditional ecological knowledge: a global state-of-the-art review	22
Collective action in the area-wide management of an invasive plant disease	22
Ecosystem services in Sahelian village landscapes 1952–2016: estimating change in a data scarce region	21
Investigating the coordination between ecological and economic systems in China’s green development process: a place-based interdisciplinary evaluation	21
The role of religion in shaping the values of nature	21
The Great Green Wall in Senegal: questioning the idea of acceleration through the conflicting temporalities of politics and nature among the Sahelian populations	20
Effects of long-term ecological research and cognitive biases on the evaluation of scientific information by public land managers in Oregon and Washington, USA	20
A Chinese database on ecological thresholds and alternative stable states: implications for related research around the world	20
Deriving scalable measures for restoration of communal grazing lands	20
Visual representations in a choice experiment: valuing preferences for a local dam	19
Speaking of nature: Relationships between how people think about, connect with, and act to protect nature	19
Operationalizing water-energy-food nexus research for sustainable development in social-ecological systems: an interdisciplinary learning case in Central Asia	19
Water-related problématiques: five archetypical contexts of water governance	18
Framing the regime shift concept: an epistemological analysis of a central ecological notion in the context of the North Sea cod crisis	18

Home range size and space use patterns of African lions ( Panthera leo ) in Chizarira National Park, Zimbabwe	17
Unraveling the combined effects of sociopolitical and climate change scenarios for an artisanal small-scale fishery in the Western Mediterranean	17
Climate change, nature degradation, and financial stability: a review of domino-effects between finance, climate, and the biosphere	17
Small-scale fisheries and agricultural trade networks are socially embedded: emerging hypotheses about responses to environmental changes	17
Impacts of conservation activities on people who are incarcerated: a case study based on qualitative and quantitative analyses	17
The evolution of social-ecological systems (SES) research: a co-authorship and co-citation network analysis	16
Secondary forests in Peru: differential provision of ecosystem services compared to other post-deforestation forest transitions	16
An integrated climate-biodiversity framework to improve planning and policy: an application to wildlife crossings and landscape connectivity	16
The role of accountability in the emergence of adaptive water governance	15
Shifting baseline syndrome in the fishing community of Barcelona: insights from scientific and local ecological knowledge	15
Conflict-related environmental degradation threatens the success of landscape recovery in some areas in Tigray (Ethiopia)	15
Harvesting change: unraveling social-ecological impacts of a food hub ( LebensMittelPunkt ) through a living lab approach	15
Power research in adaptive water governance and beyond: a review	15
Ganawendan Ginibiiminaan (Take care of our Water!): mobilizing for Watersheds-at-risk with the Bad River Ojibwe	15
Collective payments for ecosystem services: a counterpart of commodification and privatization trends in nature conservation?	15
Reviewing the relationship between neoliberal societies and nature: implications of the industrialized dominant social paradigm for a sustainable future	14
Identifying opportunities and constraints to effective management of invasive Australian wattle (Acacia) species in grassland landscapes, South Africa	14
Integrating a “One Well-being” approach in elephant conservation: evaluating consequences of management interventions	14
Social identity and place-based dynamics in community resilience building for natural disasters: an integrative framework	14
Using meaningful places as an indicator for sense of place in the management of social-ecological systems	14
A need for assessing the resiliency of conservation funding	14
Everyday adaptation practices by coffee farmers in three mountain regions in Africa	13
Equality and equity in Arctic communities: how household-level social relations support community-level social resilience	13
Tradition and change: celebrating food systems resilience at two Indigenous Māori community events	13
Great expectations for collective management: the mismatch between supply and demand for catchment groups	13
Causes of overgrazing in Inner Mongolian grasslands: Searching for deep leverage points of intervention	13
Vertical agriculture’s potential implications for food system resilience: outcomes of focus groups in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia	12
Fruit booms and investor mobility along the China-Myanmar and China-Laos borders	12
What comes after crises? Key elements and insights into feedback amplifying community self-organization	12
People think there's no nature in cities, but they want to know more	12
Narrating changes, recalling memory: accumulation by dispossession in food systems of Indigenous communities at the extremes of Latin America	12
Eliciting the plurality of causal reasoning in social-ecological systems research	12
Using machine learning to uncover synergies between forest restoration and livelihood support in the Himalayas	12
Food consumption and nutritional status of sedentarized Baka Pygmies in Southern Cameroon: wild foods are less important for those who farm	12
Coping with conflicts in the co-production of solid waste management services: experience with a real-world lab in India	12
Indigenous caretaking of beargrass and the social and ecological consequences of adaptations to maintain beargrass weaving practices	12
Keeping up with the landscapes: promoting resilience in dynamic social-ecological systems	11
Equity in resilience: a case study of community resilience to wildfire in southwestern Oregon, United States	11
Editorial: High Nature Value farming systems in Europe	11
Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework in a protected area: a case study of Qilian Mountain National Park, Northwestern China	11
Conservation with local people: medicinal plants as cultural keystone species in the Southern Alps	11
Not too small to benefit society: insights into perceived cultural ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps	11
“It’s like a connection between all of us”: Inuit social connections and caribou declines in Labrador, Canada	11
Labrador Inuit resilience and resurgence: embedding Indigenous values in commercial fisheries governance	11
Integrating public preferences with biophysical production possibilities: an application to ecosystem services from dam removal	11
Tracing a pollinator’s path	10
Pathways to transformation: institutionalizing urban agriculture in a Montréal borough	10
Expanding use of space is an opportunity for sustainability but a threat to resilience	10
COVID-19 impacts on food systems in fisheries-dependent island communities	10
Pathways to healing: Indigenous revitalization through family-based land management in the Klamath Basin	10

Operationalizing pathway diversity in a mosaic landscape	10
The invisible thread: women as tradition keepers and change agents in Spanish pastoral social-ecological systems	10
Resilient niches: how non-financial capitals helped to overcome the COVID-19 crisis in local food systems	10
Gathering Giizhik in a changing landscape	10
Navigating ambiguous waters: a relational approach to nested conflicts in the Katari River Basin, Bolivia	10
Livelihood vulnerability and human-wildlife interactions across protected areas	10
A synthesis on active citizenship in European nature conservation: social and environmental impacts, democratic tensions, and governance implications	10
Demystifying food systems transformation: a review of the state of the field	10
Enforcement, deterrence, and compliance in co-managed small-scale fisheries	10
Adaptive responses to inter-group competition over natural resources: the case of leakage	10
Dangerous environments: environmental peacebuilding’s technomoral imaginary and its power-knowledge effects	10
Understanding how governance emerges in social-ecological systems: insights from archetype analysis	10
Engaging with justice in integrated landscape approaches	10
A method for benchmarking two different resilience assessment methods	10
Building resilience in Africa’s smallholder farming systems: contributions from agricultural development interventions—a scoping review	9
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 Nati	9
Understanding human-elephant interactions across time is key to illuminate pathways toward coexistence	9
Assessing social-ecological fit of flood planning governance	9
Governing wildfires: toward a systematic analytical framework	9
Hidden benefits and risks of partial protection for coral reef fisheries	9
From stories to maps: translating participatory scenario narratives into spatially explicit information	9
Development of a wetland management plan for Taiqu Saltpan, Taiwan, by stakeholder engagement and water gate operation	9
Working together to scale ecosystem restoration: collective approaches to community action in Aotearoa New Zealand	9
Ecological agriculture and rural revitalization: toward a post-productivist countryside in Nanjing, China	9
Assessing holistic agroecological resilience of agroecosystems from a landscape perspective: a systematic review	9
Two of a kind? Large-scale land acquisitions and commodity frontier expansion in Argentina's Dry Chaco	9
Manning the mangroves: gender, regional identities, and social history shape mangrove forest dependence and governance	9
Using public litigation records to identify priority science needs for managing public lands	9
Impacts of algal blooms and microcystins in fish on small-scale fishers in Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria: implications for health and livelihood	9
Challenges and prospects of Local Adaptation Plans of Action (LAPA) initiative in Nepal as everyday adaptation	9
Island and Indigenous systems of circularity: how Hawaiʻi can inform the development of universal circular economy policy goals	9
Water quality and forest restoration in the Lake Tahoe basin: impacts of future management options	8
Braiding Inuit knowledge and Western science to understand light goose population dynamics under a changing climate	8
A methodological guide for applying the social-ecological system (SES) framework: a review of quantitative approaches	8
Dimensions of integration for landscape connectivity planning: a framework for understanding challenges and opportunities	8
The management costs of alternative forest management strategies in the Lake Tahoe Basin	8
Tales on co-response-ability in times of environmental polarization	8
Cree knowledge, fuzzy cognitive maps, and the social-ecology of moose habitat quality under an adapted forestry regime	8
Negotiating informality and urban resilience: implications for equity	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
Navigating transdisciplinary waters to protect both sharks and bathers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: diverse stakeholders propose potential actions	8
The wisdom of hindsight: a comparative analysis of timelines of environmental governance of infrastructure across the Pan-Amazon	8
Motivations and sensitivities surrounding the illegal trade of sea turtles in Costa Rica	8
Disjointed modes of building resilience to socio-environmental crises	8
Local understandings and global challenges: exploring sense of place in sustainability transitions	8
Forest management under uncertainty: the influence of management versus climate change and wildfire in the Lake Tahoe Basin, USA.	8
Integration of nature-based solutions (NBS) in local policy and planning toward transformative change. Evidence from Barcelona, Lisbon, and Turin	8
“The future for pastoralists is dark unless something is done”: illuminating the constraints and opportunities for a climate-resilient future for Kenyan pastoralists	7
Large-scale land acquisitions and land cover change in Ethiopia	7
The ecological success of river restoration in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada: lessons learned	7
Simulating wildlife habitat dynamics over the next century to help inform best management strategies for biodiversity in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California	7
Evaluation-perception of site attributes and plant species selection in the public urban green space of a compact city	7
Stakeholder perceptions of wildfire management strategies as nature-based solutions in two Iberian biosphere reserves	7
Multistakeholder platforms for natural resource governance: lessons from eight landscape-level cases	7
State role and involvement in determining wetland mitigation performance standards in the United States	7
Murky waters: divergent ways scientists, practitioners, and landowners evaluate beaver mimicry	7
The good, the bad, and the unseen: wild mammal encounters influence wildlife preferences of residents across socio-demographic gradients	7
Coupled human-natural system impacts of a winter weather whiplash event	7
Form and function in ecologizing spatial planning: learnings from Bogotá, Colombia	7
Systemic analysis of a developing plant community on the island of Surtsey	7
Migration and collective action in the commons: application of social-ecological system framework with evidence from China	7
Worldview violence and Non-Human People in (conservation) science	7
Conceptualizing multidimensional barriers: a framework for assessing constraints in realizing recreational benefits of urban green spaces	7
Pau-brasil and string instrument bows telecouple nature, art, and heritage	7
Double exposure to capitalist expansion and climatic change: a study of vulnerability on the Ghanaian coastal commodity frontier	7
Trade-offs in the implementation of good practice in large carnivore conservation and management	7
Naming the unnamed: relational values as knowledge and power	7
A scoping review of how the seven principles for building social-ecological resilience have been operationalized	7
Making sense of territorial changes: affective and moral dimensions of place attachments and meanings	7
Constraints to effective comanagement of New Zealand's customary fisheries: experiences of the East Otago Taiāpure	7