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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of Indigenous peoples and local communities in effective and equitable conservation	392
Historical Indigenous Land-Use Explains Plant Functional Trait Diversity	55
A framework for co-production of knowledge in the context of Arctic research	47
Nature’s contributions to people: coproducing quality of life from multifunctional landscapes	41
What do people value in urban green? Linking characteristics of urban green spaces to users’ perceptions of nature benefits, disturbances, and disservices	39
Social learning for building community resilience to cyclones: role of indigenous and local knowledge, power, and institutions in coastal Bangladesh	37
Dehesas as high nature value farming systems: a social-ecological synthesis of drivers, pressures, state, impacts, and responses	36
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	32
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
Participatory planning for local sustainability guided by the Sustainable Development Goals	26
Grasping darkness: the dark ecological network as a social-ecological framework to limit the impacts of light pollution on biodiversity	24
Harnessing the potential of vulnerability assessments for managing social-ecological systems	22
Fostering horizontal knowledge co-production with Indigenous people by leveraging researchers' transdisciplinary intentions	22
Payments for ecosystem services: a review of definitions, the role of spatial scales, and critique	21
Avenues of archetype analysis: roots, achievements, and next steps in sustainability research	21
Measuring rural community resilience: case studies in New Zealand and Vermont, USA	21
Exploring evolving spiritual values of forests in Europe and Asia: a transition hypothesis toward re-spiritualizing forests	21
Conceptualizing multidimensional barriers: a framework for assessing constraints in realizing recreational benefits of urban green spaces	21
Dynamics of pastoral traditional ecological knowledge: a global state-of-the-art review	20
Management of high nature value farmland in the Republic of Ireland: 25 years evolving toward locally adapted results-orientated solutions and payments	19
Linking the social, economic, and agroecological: a resilience framework for dairy farming	19
Assessment of urban resilience based on the transformation of resource-based cities: a case study of Panzhihua, China	19

Not too small to benefit society: insights into perceived cultural ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps	19
Climate change risks and adaptation options for Madagascar	19
Causes of overgrazing in Inner Mongolian grasslands: Searching for deep leverage points of intervention	18
Governance in social-ecological agent-based models: a review	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
Residents' perceptions of the role and management of green spaces to provide cultural ecosystem services in Dhaka, Bangladesh	17
Linking landscape attributes to salmon and decision-making in the southern Kenai Lowlands, Alaska, USA	17
What’s biodiversity got to do with it? Perceptions of biodiversity and restorativeness in urban parks	16
Payments for ecosystem services within the hybrid governance model: evaluating policy alignment and complementarity on California rangelands	16
Adaptive resilience of and through urban ecosystem services: a transdisciplinary approach to sustainability in Barcelona	16
Technology in support of nature-based solutions requires understanding everyday experiences	16
Engaging with complexity in resilience practice	15
Closing integrative gaps in complex environmental governance systems	14
The role of incentive-based instruments and social equity in conservation conflict interventions	14
Participatory monitoring and evaluation to enable social learning, adoption, and out-scaling of regenerative agriculture	14
Participatory futures thinking in the African context of sustainability challenges and socio-environmental change	14
Convergent geographic patterns between grizzly bear population genetic structure and Indigenous language groups in coastal British Columbia, Canada	14
Parks in context: advancing citywide spatial quality assessments of urban green spaces using fine-scaled indicators	13
Semi-natural habitats in boreal Europe: a rise of a social-ecological research agenda	13
The invisible thread: women as tradition keepers and change agents in Spanish pastoral social-ecological systems	12
Water management, hydrological extremes, and society: modeling interactions and phenomena	12
Understanding the drivers of subsistence poaching in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area: What matters for community wildlife conservation?	12
Wayfinder: a new generation of resilience practice	12
Climate change stressors and social-ecological factors mediating access to subsistence resources in Arctic Alaska	12
Improving attitudes and knowledge in a citizen science project about urban bat ecology	12
Farmer networks and agrobiodiversity interventions: the unintended outcomes of intended change	12
Result-based payments as a tool to preserve the High Nature Value of complex silvo-pastoral systems: progress toward farm-based indicators	11
Resilience and coastal governance: knowledge and navigation between stability and transformation	11
Hydrosocial rupture: causes and consequences for transboundary governance	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
Ecological and social outcomes of urbanization on regional farming systems: a global synthesis	11
Hunting as land use: Understanding the spatial associations among hunting, agriculture, and forestry	11
The social dynamics of basins of attraction	11
The water-sensitive city meets biodiversity: habitat services of rain water management measures in highly urbanized landscapes	11
Resilience-performance trade-offs in managing social-ecological systems	10
A methodological guide for applying the social-ecological system (SES) framework: a review of quantitative approaches	10
Combining biophysical optimization with economic preference analysis for agricultural land-use allocation	10
A decision support tool for assessing cumulative effects on an Arctic migratory tundra caribou population	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
Migration and collective action in the commons: application of social-ecological system framework with evidence from China	9
Taking fishers’ knowledge and its implications to fisheries policy seriously	9
Social-ecological resilience in remote mountain communities: toward a novel framework for an interdisciplinary investigation	9
Do fodder import and credit loans lead to climate resiliency in the pastoral social-ecological system of Inner Mongolia?	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
Indigenous stewardship through novel approaches to collaborative management in Hawaiʻi	9

Beyond social-ecological traps: fostering transformations towards sustainability	9
Spiritual values shape taxonomic diversity, vegetation composition, and conservation status in woodlands of the Northern Zagros, Iran	9
The Kere of Madagascar: a qualitative exploration of community experiences and perspectives	9
Nature conservation in a digitalized world: echo chambers and filter bubbles	9
Uncovering multilayered vulnerability and resilience in rural villages in the Pacific: a case study of Ono Island, Fiji	9
How do basin committees deal with water crises? Reflections for adaptive water governance from South America	9
Assessing the learning process in transdisciplinary research through a novel analytical approach	9
"People should also look after the people": relational values of wildlife and collectively titled land in Ilkisongo Maasai group ranches in Southern Kenya	8
A comparative case study of multistakeholder responses following oil spills in Pointe d’Esny, Mauritius, and Huntington Beach, California	8
Stakeholder perceptions of wildfire management strategies as nature-based solutions in two Iberian biosphere reserves	8
Collective action in the area-wide management of an invasive plant disease	8
Leveraging emotion-behavior pathways to support environmental behavior change	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
Archetypal games generate diverse models of power, conflict, and cooperation	8
The six dimensions of collective leadership that advance sustainability objectives: rethinking what it means to be an academic leader	8
Understanding the local biodiversity and open space strategies in two South African cities	8
Secondary forests in Peru: differential provision of ecosystem services compared to other post-deforestation forest transitions	8
Socioeconomic impacts of resource diversification from small-scale fishery development	8
Shifting beach wrack composition in the SW Baltic Sea and its effect on beach use	8
Culture and parks: incorporating cultural ecosystem services into conservation in the Tibetan region of Southwest China	8
Based on nature, enabled by social-ecological-technological context: deriving benefit from urban green and blue infrastructure	8
Impacts of harvested species declines on Indigenous Peoples’ food sovereignty, well-being and ways of life: a case study of Anishinaabe perspectives and moose	8
Unintended consequences of sustainable development initiatives: risks and opportunities in seagrass social-ecological systems	8
Environmental flows in the Rio Grande - Rio Bravo basin	8
Participatory scenario planning and framing of social-ecological systems: an analysis of policy formulation processes in Rwanda and Tanzania	8
Reviewing the relationship between neoliberal societies and nature: implications of the industrialized dominant social paradigm for a sustainable future	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
Greenery in urban morphology: a comparative analysis of differences in urban green space accessibility for various urban structures across European cities	7
Incorporating place-based values into ecological restoration	7
Operationalizing resilience: co-creating a framework to monitor hard, natural, and nature-based shoreline features in New York State.	7
Urban resilience thinking in practice: ensuring flows of benefit from green and blue infrastructure	7
Iterative scenarios for social-ecological systems	7
Hidden benefits and risks of partial protection for coral reef fisheries	7
Driving factors behind subjective resilience on organic dairy sheep farms	7
The role of the Yangtze River Protection Law in the emergence of adaptive water governance in China	7
Bogs, birds, and berries in Belarus: the governance and management dynamics of wetland restoration in a state-centric, top-down context	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
From stories to maps: translating participatory scenario narratives into spatially explicit information	7
Multistakeholder platforms for natural resource governance: lessons from eight landscape-level cases	7
Limited effectiveness of EU policies to conserve an endangered species in high nature value farmland in Romania	7
Using meaningful places as an indicator for sense of place in the management of social-ecological systems	7
Transitioning toward “deep” knowledge co-production in coastal and marine systems: examining the interplay among governance, power, and knowledge	7
Water quality and forest restoration in the Lake Tahoe basin: impacts of future management options	7
Social learning in conservation and natural resource management: taking a sociocultural perspective	6
Murky waters: divergent ways scientists, practitioners, and landowners evaluate beaver mimicry	6
From fAIrplay to climate wars: making climate change scenarios more dynamic, creative, and integrative	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
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
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
Systematic learning in water governance: insights from five local adaptive management projects for water quality innovation	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
Visualization of causation in social-ecological systems	6
An integrated livelihoods and well-being framework to understand northeastern Colorado ranchers' adaptive strategies	6
Human securities, sustainability, and migration in the ancient U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest	6
A new framework for flood adaptation: introducing the Flood Adaptation Hierarchy	6
Mapping mental barriers that prevent the use of neighborhood green spaces	6
Lessons for human survival in a world without ecological templates: what can we learn from small-scale societies?	6
Water rights for groundwater environments as an enabling condition for adaptive water governance	6
Integrated and innovative scenario approaches for sustainable development planning in The Bahamas	6
Panarchy and management of lake ecosystems	6
Perceived impacts of woody encroachment on ecosystem services in Hluhluwe, South Africa	6
Tightly coupled policies and loosely coupled networks in the governing of flood risk mitigation in municipal administrations	6
Enacting shared responsibility in biosecurity governance: insights from adaptive governance	6