Sustainability Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Sustainability Science is 5. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Navigating sustainability: key factors in prioritising Sustainable Development Goals156
Heterogeneous energy landscapes and the challenges for spatial planning: the Port of Ravenna and its hinterland111
How individuals make sense of their climate impacts in the capitalocene: mixed methods insights from calculating carbon footprints99
Development of a method for downscaling ecological footprint and biocapacity to a 1-km square resolution98
Public perception of carbon dioxide removal in three Asian regions93
Operationalizing vulnerability and resilience interdependencies in drought risk management72
Sustainability transitions in agri-food systems through the lens of agent-based modeling: a systematic review69
The need for a systems approach to better understand the linkages between natural resources and human (im)mobility68
Roles of researchers in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research: a reflection tool65
From shops to bins: a case study of consumer attitudes and behaviours towards plastics in a UK coastal city61
Harnessing concepts for sustainability: a pledge for a practice59
Systemic barriers preventing farmer engagement in the agricultural climate transition: a qualitative study57
Teaching sustainability at the high sea: the “One Ocean Expedition”57
Climate justice beyond intergenerational conflict: youth climate activism in South Korea54
Sustainability justice: a systematic review of emergent trends and themes53
What qualitative systems mapping is and what it could be: integrating and visualizing diverse knowledge of complex problems50
Enabling collective agency for sustainability transformations through reframing in the Xochimilco social–ecological system48
Pathway narratives towards a nature-positive European Union land system: operationalising the Nature Futures Framework for policy objectives47
Whose “place” is it? Using corpus-based techniques to sketch place-based sustainability discourses in public and academic forums46
Working the boundary: science–policy interactions and uneven knowledge politics in IPBES44
Transformative science–policy interfacing: the case of biodiversity and ecosystem services43
Agents of change or victims of transition? Media framings on household roles during the energy crisis41
Interplays between relational and instrumental values: insights from research experiences on human–nature relations41
ORF, an operational framework to measure resilience in social–ecological systems: the forest case study41
Conducting sustainability research in the anthropocene: toward a relational approach41
Threatened sustainability: extractivist tendencies in the forest-based bioeconomy in Finland41
Using a systems thinking approach to assess the complex interplay between sustainable development goals, climate change, and humanitarian operations38
Has research on health co-benefits influenced urban climate and transport planning in the United Kingdom, United States, Japan, and France?37
Spanning the boundaries between policy, politics and science to solve wicked problems: policy pilots, deliberation fora and policy labs36
Can market-based social and environmental due diligence drive development? Examining local development challenges and responsible sourcing among agri-food businesses in low-and-middle-income economies35
The promise and pitfalls of energy commons: the paradox of municipality-led civic solar programs in Taipei35
Integrated modeling to achieve global goals: lessons from the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-use, and Energy (FABLE) initiative34
A complex transdisciplinary approach to achieve water sustainability: lessons from a case study in Morelia, Mexico34
Sunrise at the Salton Sea: environmental justice, land use change, and hydrosocial dynamics of solar energy transitions in the Imperial Valley, California33
Heterogeneous infrastructure and governance of low-carbon transition in Qingdao, China33
Limiting money: redesigning the artifact that shapes modern people33
The governance of forest carbon in a subnational climate mitigation system: insights from a network of action situations approach32
Core design principles for just sustainability transitions: a framework for transformative research32
Futures for invasive alien species management: using bottom-up innovations to envision positive systemic change31
Non-monetary narratives motivate businesses to engage with climate change31
Benefits and co-benefits of urban green infrastructure for sustainable cities: six current and emerging themes30
Exploring the sustainability narratives of cultured meat30
An evolutionary governance framework for the sustainable management of urban wetlands: integrating theoretical perspectives and practical applications30
Reflexive use of methods: a framework for navigating different types of knowledge and power in transformative research30
Alternative Food Networks and agri-food regime transitions: evolution of institutional knowledge on local food from the fruits and vegetables sector in France30
Correction: Projecting population distribution under depopulation conditions in Japan: scenario analysis for future socio-ecological systems29
Localizing visions of desirable futures: applying the Nature Futures Framework to the Baroro Watershed in the Philippines29
Tracing the evolution of natural capital in global sustainability metrics: the advance of inclusive wealth29
Correction to: Exploring complementarity among interdependent pastoral institutions in Mongolia28
Creative destruction in academia: a time to reimagine practices in alignment with sustainability values28
Involvement matters: navigating the value–action gap in business students’ sustainability transformation expectations—a cross-country Kano study27
Understanding the embeddedness of individuals within the larger system to support the energy transition27
From land competition to reactivation: governing agrivoltaics in depopulating Japan27
Interplays between nature’s contributions to people, values of nature, and emotions expressed by smallholder farmers in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania: insights for inclusive conservation26
Fostering sustainability skills in communities: a co-creation-oriented capacity-building workshop on climate services in Posadas, Misiones, Argentina26
Identifying behavior change interventions with deep leverage: a conceptual and qualitative case study with farmers from Germany26
How to achieve impacts with sustainability science? Insights from 20 years of work in five biosphere reserves in Europe26
Transforming dichotomous thinking: a dialectical approach to human–nature connectedness and sustainability conflicts25
Drivers and barriers to energy-saving behaviour formation and retention in response to extreme events: insights from the energy crisis25
Embedding animals within a definition of sustainability25
Delivering scientific evidence for global policy and management to ensure ocean sustainability25
Learning about climate change with comics and text: a comparative study25
Centring Indigenous peoples in knowledge exchange research-practice by resetting assumptions, relationships and institutions24
Why is the sky blue? A new question for political science24
Development of AIM (Asia–Pacific Integrated Model) and its contribution to policy-making for the realization of decarbonized societies in Asia24
Stakeholders’ involvement and reflections on preserving sacred swamps in the Western Ghats, India, as revealed by participatory visioning24
Embodying relationality through immersive sustainability solutions with Indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon24
Integrating social measures into land sector carbon abatement investment decisions23
A stakeholders’ pathway towards a future land use and food system in Germany23
Correction: Participatory modelling and scenario exploration to address the air pollution challenge in Thailand and Laos23
Herding cats: integrative leadership strategies in inter- and transdisciplinary research programs23
Estimating the impact of acclimatization on heat-related illnesses under various representative concentration pathways among three Japanese cities in 2030s and 2050s23
Are all renewable energy sources the same? A comparative analysis of public perceptions and preferences for renewable energy types in Southeast Asian cities22
Coastal encounters with electrical hybridity: Karpowership in Africa’s energy transition22
Accounting for what matters: a review of true cost accounting as a transformative framework22
‘Being’ and ‘doing’: interconnections between researcher identity and conceptualizations of sustainability research22
Navigating four junctions: a framework to design context- and format-sensitive transdisciplinary research22
Beyond global versus local: illuminating a cosmolocal framework for convivial technology development21
Learn to listen and listen to learn: reflections from a co-production process between researchers and composers21
European bioeconomy strategies could better integrate sustainability agendas21
Researchers’ roles in the (dis)empowerment of societal actors: a reflexive framework applied during a transition towards climate neutrality in the Swiss alps21
Creating protected spaces for regenerative development: lessons from the swimmable Birrarung/ Yarra river initiative, Melbourne, Australia21
Urban novel ecosystems as affective landscapes20
The dawn of solar photovoltaics: emergent political economies at the solar–agri–land nexus20
Dietary transitions and sustainability: current patterns and future trajectories20
Enabling spaces for bridging scales: scanning solutions for interdisciplinary human-environment research20
Building ethical awareness to strengthen co-production for transformation20
Navigating the winds of change: strategic foresight and the power of weak signals20
Perception of interconnectedness: a new typology and tools across disciplines20
The different values of nature: a comparison between university students’ perceptions of nature’s instrumental, intrinsic and relational values20
Science-policy integration for ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction: comparative governance frameworks and a pathway for South Asia20
Local agency vs. political economy in low-income energy transitions in California: the case of the Bassett–Avocado Heights Advanced Energy Community20
Nothing sweet about agrivoltaics? Discussions on the territorial adequacy of agrivoltaics in Reunion Island19
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
Enablers of transdisciplinary collaboration for researchers working on climate risks in African cities19
The leverage points framework enhanced by an unconscious perspective18
Key attributes for effective knowledge brokering at the interface of environmental science and management18
Science under pressure: how research is being challenged by the 2030 Agenda18
Assessment of transdisciplinarity by its participants: the case of Tertúlias do Montado, Alentejo, Portugal18
Conflicts and coexistence in rural Europe: pathways to sustainability in transitioning territories18
Natural capital accounting for sustainable cities18
Governing University Living Labs for sustainability transformations: insights from 18 international case studies18
Seven questions on agency in sustainability transformations research: insights from a systematic-narrative review17
How public catering accelerates sustainability: a German case study17
Broad values as the basis for understanding deliberation about protected area management17
Correction: Multifunctionality benefits of small-scale urban agriculture17
Factors influencing public support for individual low-carbon behavior reward system in China: role of climate change perceptions and macroeconomic expectations17
Correction: Reflexive use of methods: a framework for navigating different types of knowledge and power in transformative research17
The need for speed: mapping a conceptual typology for accelerating transitions toward sustainability16
Climate-friendly healthcare: reducing the impacts of the healthcare sector on the world’s climate16
The impact of weather changes on the supply and demand of electric power and wholesale prices of electricity in Germany16
Field robots for weed control? Analyzing socio-technical change by looking at farming practices16
Using the three horizons approach to explore pathways towards positive futures for agricultural landscapes with rich biodiversity16
Modeling desirable futures at local scale by combining the nature futures framework and multi-objective optimization16
Transitions towards the pluriverse: place, difference, alliances and autonomy in two Latin American ecovillages16
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
Effects of short videos on engaging citizens in disaster communications with the government on social media16
Underwater virtual reality for awe, ocean connectedness, and pro-environmental behavior: a randomized controlled trial16
Intertwined renewable and digital transitions: a study on South Australia’s hybridized electricity system16
Climate risks and foreign direct investment in developing countries: the role of national governance16
An urgent need for COP27: confronting converging crises16
Water–energy–food–ecosystem nexus: how to frame and how to govern16
Inclusive wealth footprint for cities in Japan: regional clusters for sustainable development15
Identifying mindsets for urban sustainability transformation: insights from Urban Labs15
Engagement of citizens in energy governance: unravelling participatory capital for energy sufficiency in France and the Netherlands15
Editorial for the special feature: “Citizens’ attitudes and preferences for climate change policies and technologies in Southeast and East Asia”15
How can relational, decolonial and feminist approaches inform the EU bioeconomy?15
Organic agriculture in a low-emission world: exploring combined measures to deliver a sustainable food system in Sweden15
Operationalizing enabling conditions: a social-ecological perspective on marine conservation success15
A practical tool to enable Indigenous enterprise planning and development grounded in culture15
Sustainability of international research: evidence from an H2020 European project15
Towards sustainable school meals: integrating environmental and cost implications for nutritious diets through optimisation modelling14
The CiFoS game: a serious game to redesign food systems for human and planetary health14
Correction: Public attitude toward solar radiation modification: results of a two-scenario online survey on perception in four Asia–Pacific countries14
Exploring the impacts of global change on small-scale fisheries: expanding the use of I-ADApT as a decision support tool14
Regeneration, sufficiency and degrowth: an integrative review of organising in a strong sustainability era14
Injustice flows along Itaya River: capabilities from living with river rhythmicity in Bajo Belén, Iquitos, Peru14
The elusive sustainability paradox: a critical review of transdisciplinary research integration14
Knowledge uptake from lived experience regarding sustainable groundwater management: complementing scientific knowledge in urban policymaking14
Impacts of low-carbon transition on human capital and future sustainability via electricity market: a framework based on inclusive wealth analysis at the regional level in China14
Institutionalising degrowth regime: a review and analysis of degrowth transition proposals14
Green grabbing implications for human rights, equity and the ecological transition14
The governance anticommons in renewable energy: two cases from China’s solar expansion14
Opening the human spirit to sustainability transformation: the potential for individual human–nature resonance and integrative rituals14
Synergizing transition frameworks: advancing a meta-coordinated pathway for sustainability transitions14
Transdisciplinary approaches to local sustainability: aligning local governance and navigating spillovers with global action towards the Sustainable Development Goals13
Interlinkages between leverage points for strengthening adaptive capacity to climate change13
Exploring the migration and development nexus in the Kumaon hills of the Indian Himalayan region: applying the social–ecological systems framework within a challenge-based learning environment13
Breaking the unsustainable paradigm: exploring the relationship between energy consumption, economic development and carbon dioxide emissions in Ecuador13
Community gardens support high levels of food production, but benefit distribution is uneven across the gardener community13
Legitimating grid-scale solar: shaping Pennsylvania’s farmland as a renewable energy landscape13
The bioeconomy and its untenable growth promises: reality checks from research13
Ecological performance standards for regenerative urban design13
A leverage point perspective on serious games for sustainability transformation: a systematic literature review13
An ecosystem service approach to the study of vineyard landscapes in the context of climate change: a review13
Towards epistemic diversity in sustainability transitions: an exploration of hybrid socio-technical systems13
The imperative for a new integrated sustainability index in aquatic food systems: towards a post-SDGs future13
New intergenerational evidence on reverse socialization of environmental literacy13
Learning to collaborate within transdisciplinarity: internal barriers and strengths of an art–science encounter13
Multifunctionality benefits of small-scale urban agriculture12
Correction to: Unlocking and accelerating transformations to the SDGs: a review of existing knowledge12
Operationalising a large research programme tackling complex urban and planetary health problems: a case study approach to critical reflection12
The making of sustainability: ideological strategies, the materiality of nature, and biomass use in the bioeconomy12
Towards stable regenerative systems by acknowledging and navigating degenerative attractors12
Nature positive strategy with social and economic policy12
Solar–water nexus: on local implications of the procurement and deployment of the first floating solar photovoltaics project in Indonesia12
A transdisciplinary model for teaching and learning for sustainability science in a rapidly warming world12
Regional agroecological stewardship: a framework to analyze the (re)territorialization of sustainable food systems12
Where limits to growth are tangible: the olive sector in Jaén and its bioeconomic future12
Leverage points for tackling unsustainable global value chains: market-based measures versus transformative alternatives12
Is Blockchain a game-changer for social currency systems? Some reflections in light of the experience of Moneda PAR in Argentina12
Economic inequality expanded after an extreme climate event: a long-term analysis of herders’ household data in Mongolia12
Toward adaptive climate communication and an expanded frame theory: lessons from environmental organizations11
Factors affecting relational values of nature: a case of the Nagara River, Japan11
A typology of interdisciplinary collaborations: insights from agri-food transformation research11
Sequencing sustainability and climate solutions: a systems view of implementation11
The role of emotions in human–nature connectedness within Mediterranean landscapes in Spain11
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 transition11
Commoning the governance: a review of literature and the integration of power11
“Take your responsibility”: the politics of green sacrifice for just low-carbon transitions in rural Portugal11
Correction: Introducing listening as a weak method for advancing sustainability and interdisciplinary scholarship11
Participatory modelling and scenario exploration to address the air pollution challenge in Thailand and Laos11
Are beach visitors willing to pay for coastal conservation efforts to combat climate change? The case study of Fuengirola (southern Spain)11
Knowledge co-production for identifying indicators and prioritising solutions for food and land system sustainability in Australia11
Advancing key transdisciplinary principles: enabling co-production in integrated assessment modelling for sustainable development11
Emotional attachment and philosophical worldviews explain human connectedness to nature in abandoned rural Spain11
Disentangling the entangled in productive ways: modelling social–ecological systems from a process-relational perspective11
Fostering local sustainability: How higher education institutions advance SDGs through community engagement11
Correction: Three perspectives to integrate animal interests into the global Sustainable Development Agenda11
Diverse approaches to nature recovery are needed to meet the varied needs of people and nature11
The perspective of youth: envisioning transformative pathways and desirable futures for people and nature10
Correction: Opening the human spirit to sustainability transformation: the potential for individual human–nature resonance and integrative rituals10
Key conservation actions for European steppes in the context of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework10
From Ampesie to French fries: systematising the characteristics, drivers and impacts of diet change in rapidly urbanising Accra10
Mental models for transition to conservation agriculture: the case of Mediterranean pioneer farmers10
Potential side effects of climate change mitigation on poverty and countermeasures10
Achieving sustainability transformations for multi-species justice: assessing the potential of diverse legal pathways and societal struggles10
Farming in the shadow of violent organizations: understanding farmers’ relational place-making in socio-ecological crises10
Public perceptions on net zero energy houses in Japan10
Correction to: Exploring bioproduction systems in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes in Asia through solution scanning using the Nature Futures Framework10
The sustainability science approach in sub-Saharan Africa: key lessons from five case studies10
Managing biodiversity in the Anthropocene: discussing the Nature Futures Framework as a tool for adaptive decision-making for nature under climate change10
Energy transitions in peripheral territories: integrating Multi-level Perspective and Three Horizons approaches in Chilean Patagonia10
Accelerating actions for leveraging a climate-neutral sustainable society10
Are religious organizations becoming green? Faith communities’ role in advancing environmental sustainability in Switzerland10
The urgency of the Lancet Planetary Health–Earth Commission’s report and IPBES transformations versus the ongoing Z transformation: the need to soften the human sustainability boundaries10
Sustainable water tariffs and inequality in post-drought Cape Town: exploring perceptions of fairness10
Regenerative agriculture: a potentially transformative storyline shared by nine discourses10
Climate change mitigation policies in agrifood systems: a scoping review of effectiveness, accessibility, adoption, and sustainability among underserved farmers10
Unravelling stakeholder narratives on nature-based solutions for hydro-meteorological risk reduction10
Advancing sustainable development goals: embedding resilience assessment10
Mapping the shared socio-economic pathways onto the Nature Futures Framework at the global scale10
A leverage points perspective on Arctic Indigenous food systems research: a systematic review10
Framing energy cultures: materiality and motivators of household energy transition in Nepal9
Joint problem framing: a transdisciplinary methodology for a sustainable future in mountain areas9
Navigating ecological security research over the last 30 years: a scoping review9
A systematic review of peer-reviewed gender literature in sustainability science9
Editorial: Special-purpose money for sustainability9
Assessing resilience, equity, and sustainability of future visions across two urban scales9
Navigating or adding to complexity? Exploring the role of catchment partnerships in collaborative governance9
A methodological framework for capturing marine small-scale fisheries' contributions to the sustainable development goals9
Process ownership in science–practice collaborations: the special role of transdisciplinary processes in sustainable transitioning9
A method to identify positive tipping points to accelerate low-carbon transitions and actions to trigger them9
Transforming local governance: using system leverage points to conceptualize sustainability transformations9
“Fika in the Anthropocene”: leveraging food systems transformations through food cultures9
NUS so fast: the social and ecological implications of a rapidly developing indigenous food economy in the Cape Town area9
Correction to: Human–nature connectedness and other relational values are negatively affected by landscape simplification: insights from Lower Saxony, Germany9
Exploring bioproduction systems in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes in Asia through solution scanning using the Nature Futures Framework9
Embedding futures studies in an applied water research program9
What role for deliberative minipublics in sustainability transformations? An emerging topic for sustainability science9
Understanding the mechanisms of meaning-making for transformations toward sustainability: contributions from Personal Knowledge Theory9
Crossing borders, building new ones, or shifting boundaries? Shared narratives and individual paths towards inter/transdisciplinarity in research centres for urban sustainability9
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
The questions we ask matter: insights from place-based research on nature’s contributions to people8
Participatory downscaling of global SSP–RCP scenarios to local fisheries social–ecological systems8
Unstable bridges—exploring the possibilities for “in between” spaces amidst divergent narratives in environmental governance8
Discrepant implicit and explicit attitudes toward climate change: implications for climate change communications8
Community-centred scenarios development for water–energy–food security on Zanzibar8
Scaling agrivoltaics: planning, legal, and market pathways to readiness8
Environmental principles for modern sustainable economic frameworks including the circular economy8
Unlocking and accelerating transformations to the SDGs: a review of existing knowledge8
Understanding leverage points of rural activities on hillsides in Taiwan8
Arts-led co-creation in contested coastal futures8
Just Transition on air quality governance: a case study of heavy-duty diesel truck protests in Taiwan8
Designing solidarity cryptocurrency: a path to foster borderless local development8
Bridging the nature–cultural heritage gap: evaluating sustainable entanglements through cemeteries in urban Asia8
IMAGINE sustainability: integrated inner-outer transformation in research, education and practice8
Agriculture (re)-territorialisation: visions, tensions, and transition pathways in European food systems8
Identifying visions on agricultural diversification: a first step toward sustainable agrifood transformations in the Bauges8
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