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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Individual knowledge acquisition by teachers to promote the ecological value of sacred Kaya forests in southern Kenya	46
Emergence of social-psychological barriers to social-ecological resilience: from causes to solutions	40
Forgotten forests: expanding potential land use in traditional Hawaiian agroecosystems, and the social-ecological implications	36
The role of religion in shaping the values of nature	36
The population ecology of sustainable agriculture knowledge networks: insights from California	32
Which community network structures can support sustainability programs? The case of the Sustainable Cocoa Production Program in Indonesia	32
The species-specific role of wildlife in the Amazonian food system	30
Assessing the delivery of ecosystem services and benefits to human well-being of three contrasting MPAs in Spain	29
Effects of long-term ecological research and cognitive biases on the evaluation of scientific information by public land managers in Oregon and Washington, USA	27
Reflecting on arts-based participatory research: considerations for more equitable transdisciplinary collaborations	27
Investigating the coordination between ecological and economic systems in China’s green development process: a place-based interdisciplinary evaluation	27
A Chinese database on ecological thresholds and alternative stable states: implications for related research around the world	26
Water-related problématiques: five archetypical contexts of water governance	24
Visual representations in a choice experiment: valuing preferences for a local dam	24
Home range size and space use patterns of African lions ( Panthera leo ) in Chizarira National Park, Zimbabwe	24
Climate change, nature degradation, and financial stability: a review of domino-effects between finance, climate, and the biosphere	22
Undisclosed transgressions? Lacking acknowledgements of large agrifood firms on their impacts on the planetary boundaries	21
Framing the regime shift concept: an epistemological analysis of a central ecological notion in the context of the North Sea cod crisis	21
Small-scale fisheries and agricultural trade networks are socially embedded: emerging hypotheses about responses to environmental changes	20
The evolution of social-ecological systems (SES) research: a co-authorship and co-citation network analysis	19
Social-ecological uncertainty and the (in)capacity to adapt: stakeholders’ perceptions post-red tide/salmon farming crisis in Chiloé Island (Chile)	18
How is the governance of circular economy of water organized? A systematic review of the literature	18
The Great Stink in the 21st century? Problematizing the sewage scandal in England and envisioning a new infrastructure ideal	18
The Great Green Wall in Senegal: questioning the idea of acceleration through the conflicting temporalities of politics and nature among the Sahelian populations	18
The role of accountability in the emergence of adaptive water governance	17

Harvesting change: unraveling social-ecological impacts of a food hub ( LebensMittelPunkt ) through a living lab approach	17
Ganawendan Ginibiiminaan (Take care of our Water!): mobilizing for Watersheds-at-risk with the Bad River Ojibwe	17
Integrating a “One Well-being” approach in elephant conservation: evaluating consequences of management interventions	17
“Hearing everyone’s perspective makes me want to make a change”: a podcast as a lever for change in an Arctic Indigenous community	17
Identifying opportunities and constraints to effective management of invasive Australian wattle (Acacia) species in grassland landscapes, South Africa	17
Using machine learning to uncover synergies between forest restoration and livelihood support in the Himalayas	16
What comes after crises? Key elements and insights into feedback amplifying community self-organization	16
Conflict-related environmental degradation threatens the success of landscape recovery in some areas in Tigray (Ethiopia)	16
Shifting baseline syndrome in the fishing community of Barcelona: insights from scientific and local ecological knowledge	16
Unleashing eco-conscious travel: exploring the factors influencing green travel behavior in urban communities	16
Social identity and place-based dynamics in community resilience building for natural disasters: an integrative framework	16
Collective payments for ecosystem services: a counterpart of commodification and privatization trends in nature conservation?	16
Eliciting the plurality of causal reasoning in social-ecological systems research	16
Biocultural well-being: Indigenous Peoples’ values for conservation and equity	16
Power research in adaptive water governance and beyond: a review	16
A need for assessing the resiliency of conservation funding	16
Tradition and change: celebrating food systems resilience at two Indigenous Māori community events	15
Exploring the bioeconomy as discourse: identifying archetypical bioeconomy discourses and the emergence of a transformative bioeconomy	15
Coping with conflicts in the co-production of solid waste management services: experience with a real-world lab in India	15
Regional variations in the social acceptability of conservation measures for at-risk species: the case of boreal and mountain caribou	15
Great expectations for collective management: the mismatch between supply and demand for catchment groups	14
Preparing for resilience: adaptation options for young people in small-scale fisheries in Mexico	14
Mi'kmaw lessons for realigning land relations in Bay of Fundy dykelands and tidal wetlands	14
Social-ecological determinants of contemporary megafauna distributions in Indian tropical dry woodlands	13
Operationalizing pathway diversity in a mosaic landscape	13
Who has the time? The temporality of tensions in the transboundary Red River basin	13
Labrador Inuit resilience and resurgence: embedding Indigenous values in commercial fisheries governance	13
Food consumption and nutritional status of sedentarized Baka Pygmies in Southern Cameroon: wild foods are less important for those who farm	13
Pathways to healing: Indigenous revitalization through family-based land management in the Klamath Basin	13
Unpacking the role of failed land investments in driving tropical deforestation	12
Keeping up with the landscapes: promoting resilience in dynamic social-ecological systems	12
Equity in resilience: a case study of community resilience to wildfire in southwestern Oregon, United States	12
Understanding how governance emerges in social-ecological systems: insights from archetype analysis	12
Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework in a protected area: a case study of Qilian Mountain National Park, Northwestern China	12
Narrating changes, recalling memory: accumulation by dispossession in food systems of Indigenous communities at the extremes of Latin America	12
Integrating public preferences with biophysical production possibilities: an application to ecosystem services from dam removal	12
Demystifying food systems transformation: a review of the state of the field	12
Resilient niches: how non-financial capitals helped to overcome the COVID-19 crisis in local food systems	11
Tracing a pollinator’s path	11
Engaging with justice in integrated landscape approaches	11
Using public litigation records to identify priority science needs for managing public lands	11
Expanding use of space is an opportunity for sustainability but a threat to resilience	11
Editorial: High Nature Value farming systems in Europe	11
COVID-19 impacts on food systems in fisheries-dependent island communities	11
Dangerous environments: environmental peacebuilding’s technomoral imaginary and its power-knowledge effects	11
Vertical agriculture’s potential implications for food system resilience: outcomes of focus groups in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia	11
Livelihood vulnerability and human-wildlife interactions across protected areas	11
The concept of cultural keystone species, revisited through the eyes of Indigenous Peoples on northern Turtle Island	10
Enforcement, deterrence, and compliance in co-managed small-scale fisheries	10
Navigating ambiguous waters: a relational approach to nested conflicts in the Katari River Basin, Bolivia	10

Manning the mangroves: gender, regional identities, and social history shape mangrove forest dependence and governance	10
Development of a wetland management plan for Taiqu Saltpan, Taiwan, by stakeholder engagement and water gate operation	10
Pathways to transformation: institutionalizing urban agriculture in a Montréal borough	10
The value and vanua of soil: bureaucratic practices, social life, and the colonial legacy of soil conservation in Fiji	9
Anti-fire statements coexist with millions of anthropogenic fires in Madagascar	9
Biocultural ethics and Earth stewardship: a novel integration to revitalize multiple values of nature	9
Adaptive responses to inter-group competition over natural resources: the case of leakage	9
Local understandings and global challenges: exploring sense of place in sustainability transitions	9
Assessing holistic agroecological resilience of agroecosystems from a landscape perspective: a systematic review	9
Impacts of algal blooms and microcystins in fish on small-scale fishers in Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria: implications for health and livelihood	9
Assessing social-ecological fit of flood planning governance	9
Tales on co-response-ability in times of environmental polarization	9
Navigating transdisciplinary waters to protect both sharks and bathers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: diverse stakeholders propose potential actions	9
Building resilience in Africa’s smallholder farming systems: contributions from agricultural development interventions—a scoping review	9
Governing wildfires: toward a systematic analytical framework	9
Integration of nature-based solutions (NBS) in local policy and planning toward transformative change. Evidence from Barcelona, Lisbon, and Turin	9
Working together to scale ecosystem restoration: collective approaches to community action in Aotearoa New Zealand	9
Dimensions of integration for landscape connectivity planning: a framework for understanding challenges and opportunities	9
Relational values overshadow monetary value in territorial management by the Indigenous Oaxacan community of Capulálpam de Méndez	9
Ecological agriculture and rural revitalization: toward a post-productivist countryside in Nanjing, China	9
Hydrosocial power and territorial transformation: a case study of the Longaví River sub-basin in south-central Chile	8
The dynamics and politics of integrating local knowledge systems in multistakeholder platforms	8
The ecological success of river restoration in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada: lessons learned	8
Successful water governance pathways across problem contexts: a global qualitative comparative analysis	8
Braiding Inuit knowledge and Western science to understand light goose population dynamics under a changing climate	8
Paradigms of water governance: a systematic review	8
Motivations and sensitivities surrounding the illegal trade of sea turtles in Costa Rica	8
Nutrient deficit rather than distance of farming activities from the boundary of protected areas drives crop raids by elephants	8
Island and Indigenous systems of circularity: how Hawaiʻi can inform the development of universal circular economy policy goals	8
Large-scale land acquisitions and land cover change in Ethiopia	8
Disjointed modes of building resilience to socio-environmental crises	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
Understanding human-elephant interactions across time is key to illuminate pathways toward coexistence	8
Form and function in ecologizing spatial planning: learnings from Bogotá, Colombia	7
Making sense of territorial changes: affective and moral dimensions of place attachments and meanings	7
Stakeholder perceptions of wildfire management strategies as nature-based solutions in two Iberian biosphere reserves	7
State role and involvement in determining wetland mitigation performance standards in the United States	7
Worldview violence and Non-Human People in (conservation) science	7
The good, the bad, and the unseen: wild mammal encounters influence wildlife preferences of residents across socio-demographic gradients	7
Threatened or thriving? Q methodology reveals stakeholder discourses of bats in an insular context	7
The wild bird pet trade in Guyana	7
Assessing the distance effects on motivations of emergency volunteers responding to wildfire events in protected areas	7
A scoping review of how the seven principles for building social-ecological resilience have been operationalized	7
Coupled human-natural system impacts of a winter weather whiplash event	7
Evaluation-perception of site attributes and plant species selection in the public urban green space of a compact city	7
“The future for pastoralists is dark unless something is done”: illuminating the constraints and opportunities for a climate-resilient future for Kenyan pastoralists	7
Naming the unnamed: relational values as knowledge and power	7
Toward multifunctionality in a fire-prone peat landscape in Indonesia: insights from multistakeholder perspectives	7
The difficult construction of horizontalities: power relations in collaborative multi-actor social-ecological systems management	6
Knowledge that affects: an assemblage approach	6
Co-creating a festival with and for rural commoning initiatives: a transdisciplinary place-based process	6
How social and ecological characteristics shape transaction costs in polycentric wildfire governance: insights from the Sequoia-Kings Canyon Ecosystem, California, USA	6
Diverse values of nature and political ontology	6
Social-ecological changes in traditional vanilla agroecosystems and their key role in biocultural landscape restoration	6
Meaningful transdisciplinary collaborations for sustainability: local, artistic, and scientific knowledge	6
A comparative case study of multistakeholder responses following oil spills in Pointe d’Esny, Mauritius, and Huntington Beach, California	6
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	6
Games for experiential learning: triggering collective changes in commons management	6
To burn or not to burn: governance of wildfires in Australia	6
Environmental change and resource access in aquatic food systems: a Photovoice case study of Cambodian fisheries	6
Teaching the “heads, hearts, and hands” of futures literacy in sustainability education using radical seeds of change	6
From Aristotle to Heraclitus	6
From habitats to hashtags: examining online discussions about invasive species	6
Assessing long-term conservation impacts on adaptive capacity in a flagship community-based natural resources management area in Botswana	6
The Chakana : a symbol of the Andean worldview in community water management, and a form of governance of life	6
Recreational angler and stakeholder perceptions of policy changes to recreational fishery management: the case of red snapper devolution in the Gulf of Mexico	6
Can we control marine invasive alien species by eating them? The case of Callinectes sapidus	6
Novel pathways to value nature: how guided forest bathing promotes new relationships with nature	6
Relational values of nature—a global empirical study of environmental students in 37 countries	6