Sustainability Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Sustainability Science is 4. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Recognizing our authors79
Teaching sustainability at the high sea: the “One Ocean Expedition”75
Development of a method for downscaling ecological footprint and biocapacity to a 1-km square resolution73
Harnessing concepts for sustainability: a pledge for a practice70
Sustainability justice: a systematic review of emergent trends and themes60
How individuals make sense of their climate impacts in the capitalocene: mixed methods insights from calculating carbon footprints55
Public perception of carbon dioxide removal in three Asian regions53
Climate justice beyond intergenerational conflict: youth climate activism in South Korea52
Navigating sustainability: key factors in prioritising Sustainable Development Goals52
Heterogeneous energy landscapes and the challenges for spatial planning: the Port of Ravenna and its hinterland52
Environmental, nutritional and social assessment of nuts49
Systemic barriers preventing farmer engagement in the agricultural climate transition: a qualitative study47
Sustainability transitions in agri-food systems through the lens of agent-based modeling: a systematic review46
What qualitative systems mapping is and what it could be: integrating and visualizing diverse knowledge of complex problems46
From shops to bins: a case study of consumer attitudes and behaviours towards plastics in a UK coastal city44
Networks of action situations: a systematic review of empirical research42
Roles of researchers in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research: a reflection tool42
The role of universities in SDGs solution co-creation and implementation: a human-centered design and shared-action learning process42
Working the boundary: science–policy interactions and uneven knowledge politics in IPBES41
A natural language processing model for supporting sustainable development goals: translating semantics, visualizing nexus, and connecting stakeholders40
Cognition and behavior in context: a framework and theories to explain natural resource use decisions in social-ecological systems40
ORF, an operational framework to measure resilience in social–ecological systems: the forest case study39
Agents of change or victims of transition? Media framings on household roles during the energy crisis37
Interplays between relational and instrumental values: insights from research experiences on human–nature relations37
Whose “place” is it? Using corpus-based techniques to sketch place-based sustainability discourses in public and academic forums37
Transformative science–policy interfacing: the case of biodiversity and ecosystem services35
Threatened sustainability: extractivist tendencies in the forest-based bioeconomy in Finland34
Exploring the sustainability narratives of cultured meat34
Conducting sustainability research in the anthropocene: toward a relational approach34
Enabling collective agency for sustainability transformations through reframing in the Xochimilco social–ecological system34
Exploring synergies between the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and involuntary resettlement guidelines: the case of Mozambique’s natural gas project33
The effect of financial crises on deforestation: a global and regional panel data analysis33
A complex transdisciplinary approach to achieve water sustainability: lessons from a case study in Morelia, Mexico32
Spanning the boundaries between policy, politics and science to solve wicked problems: policy pilots, deliberation fora and policy labs32
Correction to: Creative, embodied practices, and the potentialities for sustainability transformations32
Reflexive use of methods: a framework for navigating different types of knowledge and power in transformative research32
Regenerating soil, regenerating soul: an integral approach to understanding agricultural transformation32
Stakeholder perceptions about the drivers, impacts and barriers of certification in the Ghanaian cocoa and oil palm sectors32
Land systems’ asymmetries across transnational ecoregions in South America31
Behavioral adaptation to climate change: new insights on psychosocial frameworks from the context of managed forests30
Limiting money: redesigning the artifact that shapes modern people30
Testing the quality of transformative science methods: the example of the Human Scale Development approach30
The governance of forest carbon in a subnational climate mitigation system: insights from a network of action situations approach29
Integrated modeling to achieve global goals: lessons from the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-use, and Energy (FABLE) initiative29
Futures for invasive alien species management: using bottom-up innovations to envision positive systemic change29
Non-monetary narratives motivate businesses to engage with climate change29
Heterogeneous infrastructure and governance of low-carbon transition in Qingdao, China27
Benefits and co-benefits of urban green infrastructure for sustainable cities: six current and emerging themes27
Tracing the evolution of natural capital in global sustainability metrics: the advance of inclusive wealth26
Correction to: Exploring complementarity among interdependent pastoral institutions in Mongolia26
Correction: Projecting population distribution under depopulation conditions in Japan: scenario analysis for future socio-ecological systems26
Identifying behavior change interventions with deep leverage: a conceptual and qualitative case study with farmers from Germany26
Creative destruction in academia: a time to reimagine practices in alignment with sustainability values26
Does a trade-off exist between economic and environmental impacts of forest carbon payment programs?26
Alternative Food Networks and agri-food regime transitions: evolution of institutional knowledge on local food from the fruits and vegetables sector in France25
Learning about climate change with comics and text: a comparative study25
Orientations toward ‘people’ and ‘things’ are associated with nature connectedness in a representative sample of the French adult population24
Identifying leverage points for shifting Water-Energy-Food nexus cases towards sustainability through the Networks of Action Situations approach combined with systems thinking24
Discourses for deep transformation: perceptions of economic growth in two rural communities in Lower Saxony, Germany24
Transforming environmental governance: critical action intellectuals and their praxis in the field24
Large-scale flood risk assessment under different development strategies: the Luanhe River Basin in China24
A review of scientific advancements in datasets derived from big data for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals23
Involvement matters: navigating the value–action gap in business students’ sustainability transformation expectations—a cross-country Kano study22
Understanding the embeddedness of individuals within the larger system to support the energy transition22
Delivering scientific evidence for global policy and management to ensure ocean sustainability22
Centring Indigenous peoples in knowledge exchange research-practice by resetting assumptions, relationships and institutions22
Stakeholders’ involvement and reflections on preserving sacred swamps in the Western Ghats, India, as revealed by participatory visioning21
Embedding animals within a definition of sustainability21
A stakeholders’ pathway towards a future land use and food system in Germany21
Why is the sky blue? A new question for political science21
Correction to: Transdisciplinary partnerships for sustainability: an evaluation guide21
Development of AIM (Asia–Pacific Integrated Model) and its contribution to policy-making for the realization of decarbonized societies in Asia20
Urban novel ecosystems as affective landscapes20
Are all renewable energy sources the same? A comparative analysis of public perceptions and preferences for renewable energy types in Southeast Asian cities20
Scenario planning tools for mitigating industrial impacts on First Nations subsistence economies in British Columbia, Canada20
Embodying relationality through immersive sustainability solutions with Indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon20
Herding cats: integrative leadership strategies in inter- and transdisciplinary research programs19
‘Being’ and ‘doing’: interconnections between researcher identity and conceptualizations of sustainability research19
Designing real-world laboratories for sustainable urban transformation: addressing ambiguous roles and expectations in transdisciplinary teams19
How the COVID-19 pandemic impacts social scientific research on sustainability: questions of methodology, ethics and justice: comment on Santana et al. 202119
Building ethical awareness to strengthen co-production for transformation19
Decolonising money: learning from collective struggles for self-determination19
Beyond global versus local: illuminating a cosmolocal framework for convivial technology development19
Enablers of transdisciplinary collaboration for researchers working on climate risks in African cities19
Assessment of alternative land resource utilisation towards Net-Zero and regional revitalisation through the circulating and ecological sphere in depopulated city regions in Japan: a case study of Hac19
The different values of nature: a comparison between university students’ perceptions of nature’s instrumental, intrinsic and relational values19
Alternative futures for global biological invasions19
Social dynamics of community resilience building in the face of climate change: the case of three Scottish communities19
Unraveling the politics of ‘doing inclusion’ in transdisciplinarity for sustainable transformation19
Correction to: Ecological footprint of your denim jeans: production knowledge and green consumerism19
Key attributes for effective knowledge brokering at the interface of environmental science and management19
Addressing our planetary crisis18
Local agency vs. political economy in low-income energy transitions in California: the case of the Bassett–Avocado Heights Advanced Energy Community18
Nothing sweet about agrivoltaics? Discussions on the territorial adequacy of agrivoltaics in Reunion Island18
Enabling spaces for bridging scales: scanning solutions for interdisciplinary human-environment research18
Ranking the sustainable development goals: perceived sustainability priorities in small island states18
Correction: Reflexive use of methods: a framework for navigating different types of knowledge and power in transformative research18
Valuation of nature’s contribution in Ladakh, India: an inclusive wealth method18
From uncertainty to environmental impacts: reflection on the threats to water in Chacabuco Province (Chile): a combined approach in social sciences and geochemistry18
Carbon neutrality commitment for China: from vision to action18
Goal frames and sustainability transitions: how cognitive lock-ins can impede crop diversification18
Intertwined renewable and digital transitions: a study on South Australia’s hybridized electricity system17
Climate-friendly healthcare: reducing the impacts of the healthcare sector on the world’s climate17
A scenario- and spatial-downscaling-based land-use modeling framework to improve the projections of plausible futures: a case study of the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, China17
Game of Cruxes: co-designing a game for scientists and stakeholders for identifying joint problems17
Assessment of transdisciplinarity by its participants: the case of Tertúlias do Montado, Alentejo, Portugal17
The land–river interface: a conceptual framework of environmental process interactions to support sustainable development17
How public catering accelerates sustainability: a German case study17
Correction: Multifunctionality benefits of small-scale urban agriculture17
What matters? The role of values in transformations toward sustainability: a case study of coffee production in Burundi17
Diverse types of knowledge on a plate: a multi-perspective and multi-method approach for the transformation of urban food systems towards sustainable diets16
Exploring “big picture” scenarios for resilience in social–ecological systems: transdisciplinary cross-impact balances modeling in the Red River Basin16
The impact of weather changes on the supply and demand of electric power and wholesale prices of electricity in Germany16
Science under pressure: how research is being challenged by the 2030 Agenda16
Broad values as the basis for understanding deliberation about protected area management16
Modeling desirable futures at local scale by combining the nature futures framework and multi-objective optimization16
The role of a nature-based program in fostering multiple connections to nature16
Editorial for the special feature: “Citizens’ attitudes and preferences for climate change policies and technologies in Southeast and East Asia”16
Using the three horizons approach to explore pathways towards positive futures for agricultural landscapes with rich biodiversity16
Climate risks and foreign direct investment in developing countries: the role of national governance16
An urgent need for COP27: confronting converging crises16
Organic agriculture in a low-emission world: exploring combined measures to deliver a sustainable food system in Sweden16
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on environmental values15
Inclusive wealth footprint for cities in Japan: regional clusters for sustainable development15
Towards sustainable school meals: integrating environmental and cost implications for nutritious diets through optimisation modelling15
Institutionalising degrowth regime: a review and analysis of degrowth transition proposals15
The trade-off between natural capital and human capital in Pakistan15
Sustainability of international research: evidence from an H2020 European project15
A co-designed heuristic guide for investigating the peace-sustainability nexus in the context of global change15
Identifying mindsets for urban sustainability transformation: insights from Urban Labs15
Narratives underlying research in African river basin management15
How can relational, decolonial and feminist approaches inform the EU bioeconomy?15
A practical tool to enable Indigenous enterprise planning and development grounded in culture15
Operationalising a large research programme tackling complex urban and planetary health problems: a case study approach to critical reflection14
Correction: Public attitude toward solar radiation modification: results of a two-scenario online survey on perception in four Asia–Pacific countries14
Correction to: Envisioning just transformations in and beyond the EU bioeconomy: inspirations from decolonial environmental justice and degrowth14
Community gardens support high levels of food production, but benefit distribution is uneven across the gardener community14
The social dynamics in establishing complex community climate change initiatives: the case of a community fridge in Scotland14
Learning to collaborate within transdisciplinarity: internal barriers and strengths of an art–science encounter14
Interlinkages between leverage points for strengthening adaptive capacity to climate change14
Legitimating grid-scale solar: shaping Pennsylvania’s farmland as a renewable energy landscape14
Deepening our understanding of which policy advice to expect from prioritizing SDG targets: introducing the Analytic Network Process in a multi-method setting14
Methodological sensitivities for co-producing knowledge through enduring trustful partnerships14
A leverage point perspective on serious games for sustainability transformation: a systematic literature review14
Towards epistemic diversity in sustainability transitions: an exploration of hybrid socio-technical systems14
Opening the human spirit to sustainability transformation: the potential for individual human–nature resonance and integrative rituals14
Breaking the unsustainable paradigm: exploring the relationship between energy consumption, economic development and carbon dioxide emissions in Ecuador14
Exploring the impacts of global change on small-scale fisheries: expanding the use of I-ADApT as a decision support tool14
The bioeconomy and its untenable growth promises: reality checks from research14
Ecological performance standards for regenerative urban design14
Knowledge uptake from lived experience regarding sustainable groundwater management: complementing scientific knowledge in urban policymaking14
Sustainability as transmutation: an alchemical interpretation of a transformation to sustainability14
New intergenerational evidence on reverse socialization of environmental literacy14
An ecosystem service approach to the study of vineyard landscapes in the context of climate change: a review14
Transdisciplinary approaches to local sustainability: aligning local governance and navigating spillovers with global action towards the Sustainable Development Goals14
Correction to: Unlocking and accelerating transformations to the SDGs: a review of existing knowledge13
Cooperating with the future through natural resources restoration13
Nature positive strategy with social and economic policy13
The making of sustainability: ideological strategies, the materiality of nature, and biomass use in the bioeconomy13
Economic inequality expanded after an extreme climate event: a long-term analysis of herders’ household data in Mongolia13
Is Blockchain a game-changer for social currency systems? Some reflections in light of the experience of Moneda PAR in Argentina13
Science as a common language for contribution to sustainability and peace13
Factors affecting relational values of nature: a case of the Nagara River, Japan13
A transdisciplinary model for teaching and learning for sustainability science in a rapidly warming world13
Regional agroecological stewardship: a framework to analyze the (re)territorialization of sustainable food systems13
Memory over matter?—a conceptual framework to integrate social–ecological l legacies in agricultural NCP co-production13
Where limits to growth are tangible: the olive sector in Jaén and its bioeconomic future13
Multifunctionality benefits of small-scale urban agriculture13
Leverage points for tackling unsustainable global value chains: market-based measures versus transformative alternatives12
Central–local governance gaps: the evolving differentiation of climate policies in China12
“Take your responsibility”: the politics of green sacrifice for just low-carbon transitions in rural Portugal12
Emotional attachment and philosophical worldviews explain human connectedness to nature in abandoned rural Spain12
Preparing for a diminished cryosphere12
Correction: Introducing listening as a weak method for advancing sustainability and interdisciplinary scholarship12
Unravelling hidden factors explaining competition for and overuse of groundwater in Azraq, Jordan: digging deeper into a network of action situations12
Solar–water nexus: on local implications of the procurement and deployment of the first floating solar photovoltaics project in Indonesia12
Synergies and trade-offs between sustainable development goals and targets: innovative approaches and new perspectives12
Discursive entrepreneurship: ethical meaning-making as a transformative practice for sustainable futures12
Unravelling stakeholder narratives on nature-based solutions for hydro-meteorological risk reduction12
Correction to: Enhancing the sustainability science agenda through Indigenous methodology12
Knowledge co-production for identifying indicators and prioritising solutions for food and land system sustainability in Australia12
Sustainable lifestyles: towards a relational approach12
Commoning the governance: a review of literature and the integration of power12
Disentangling the entangled in productive ways: modelling social–ecological systems from a process-relational perspective12
Leveraging inner sustainability through cross-cultural learning: evidence from a Quichua field school in Ecuador12
Phasing-out ‘coal tradition’ in favour of ‘renewable colonialism’: how the press contributes to the discursive (de)legitimization of coal and renewables in a coal region in transition12
Sustainability science must challenge common sense: a response to Bodin (2021)12
From Ampesie to French fries: systematising the characteristics, drivers and impacts of diet change in rapidly urbanising Accra12
Mapping Self-Help Groups (SHGs) as alternatives to capitalist development: an ethnographic enquiry from India11
Circular agri-food economies: business models and practices in the potato industry11
Endangering the integrity of science by misusing unvalidated models and untested assumptions as facts: General considerations and the mineral and phosphorus scarcity fallacy11
Participatory modelling and scenario exploration to address the air pollution challenge in Thailand and Laos11
Diverse approaches to nature recovery are needed to meet the varied needs of people and nature11
Key conservation actions for European steppes in the context of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework11
Transformation archetypes in global food systems11
A leverage points perspective on Arctic Indigenous food systems research: a systematic review10
Envisioning just transformations in and beyond the EU bioeconomy: inspirations from decolonial environmental justice and degrowth10
The role of emotions in human–nature connectedness within Mediterranean landscapes in Spain10
Conceptualising sustainability through environmental stewardship and virtuous cycles—a new empirically-grounded model10
Sustainable water tariffs and inequality in post-drought Cape Town: exploring perceptions of fairness10
Correction: Opening the human spirit to sustainability transformation: the potential for individual human–nature resonance and integrative rituals10
The Life Framework of Values and living as nature; towards a full recognition of holistic and relational ontologies10
The sustainability science approach in sub-Saharan Africa: key lessons from five case studies10
Regenerative agriculture: a potentially transformative storyline shared by nine discourses10
Cross-scale trade-off analysis for sustainable development: linking future demand for animal source foods and ecosystem services provision to the SDGs10
Potential side effects of climate change mitigation on poverty and countermeasures10
Development of an SDG interlinkages analysis model at the river basin scale: a case study in the Luanhe River Basin, China10
The human–technical–environmental systems framework for sustainability analysis10
Modelling land system evolution and dynamics of terrestrial carbon stocks in the Luanhe River Basin, China: a scenario analysis of trade-offs and synergies between sustainable development goals10
Accelerating actions for leveraging a climate-neutral sustainable society10
Decolonizing transformations through ‘right relations’10
Correction to: Exploring bioproduction systems in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes in Asia through solution scanning using the Nature Futures Framework10
A transdisciplinary typology of change identifies new categories of adaptations and forms of co-adaptation in coupled human and natural systems10
Assessing resilience, equity, and sustainability of future visions across two urban scales9
Common features of sustainable higher education sector according to an international sustainability ranking data9
Public perceptions on net zero energy houses in Japan9
Mapping the shared socio-economic pathways onto the Nature Futures Framework at the global scale9
The impact of teenagers' emotions on their complexity thinking competence related to climate change and its consequences on their future: looking at complex interconnections and implications in climat9
Sustainability impacts of ecosystem approaches to small-scale aquaculture in Bangladesh9
Developing methods of knowledge co-production across varying contexts to shape Sustainability Science theory and practice9
Correction to: Human–nature connectedness and other relational values are negatively affected by landscape simplification: insights from Lower Saxony, Germany9
Solidarity as a development performance and practice in coffee exchanges9
Achieving sustainability transformations for multi-species justice: assessing the potential of diverse legal pathways and societal struggles9
Understanding the mechanisms of meaning-making for transformations toward sustainability: contributions from Personal Knowledge Theory9
Navigating ecological security research over the last 30 years: a scoping review9
“Fika in the Anthropocene”: leveraging food systems transformations through food cultures9
On which common ground to build? Transferable knowledge across cases in transdisciplinary sustainability research9
Crossing borders, building new ones, or shifting boundaries? Shared narratives and individual paths towards inter/transdisciplinarity in research centres for urban sustainability9
Managing biodiversity in the Anthropocene: discussing the Nature Futures Framework as a tool for adaptive decision-making for nature under climate change9
Learning from knowledge co-production research and practice in the twenty-first century: global lessons and what they mean for collaborative research in Nunatsiavut9
Advancing sustainable development goals: embedding resilience assessment9
Beyond synergies: understanding SDG trade-offs, equity and implementation challenges of sectoral climate change mitigation options8
A systematic review of peer-reviewed gender literature in sustainability science8
Poverty and inequality implications of carbon pricing under the long-term climate target8
Getting to the heart of transformation8
Joint problem framing: a transdisciplinary methodology for a sustainable future in mountain areas8
Understanding leverage points of rural activities on hillsides in Taiwan8
NUS so fast: the social and ecological implications of a rapidly developing indigenous food economy in the Cape Town area8
Flexible institutionalisation in Auroville: a prefigurative alternative to development8
A methodological framework for capturing marine small-scale fisheries' contributions to the sustainable development goals8
Process ownership in science–practice collaborations: the special role of transdisciplinary processes in sustainable transitioning8
Discrepant implicit and explicit attitudes toward climate change: implications for climate change communications8
Navigating or adding to complexity? Exploring the role of catchment partnerships in collaborative governance8
Farming in the shadow of violent organizations: understanding farmers’ relational place-making in socio-ecological crises8
Exploring bioproduction systems in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes in Asia through solution scanning using the Nature Futures Framework8
Thou shalt not take the name of bioeconomy in vain8
Transforming local governance: using system leverage points to conceptualize sustainability transformations8
Just Transition on air quality governance: a case study of heavy-duty diesel truck protests in Taiwan8
Scaling agrivoltaics: planning, legal, and market pathways to readiness7
Bioeconomy as a promise of development? The cases of Argentina and Malaysia7
0.071454048156738