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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Recognizing our authors92
Teaching sustainability at the high sea: the “One Ocean Expedition”85
Development of a method for downscaling ecological footprint and biocapacity to a 1-km square resolution82
Public perception of carbon dioxide removal in three Asian regions79
Heterogeneous energy landscapes and the challenges for spatial planning: the Port of Ravenna and its hinterland65
Roles of researchers in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research: a reflection tool58
How individuals make sense of their climate impacts in the capitalocene: mixed methods insights from calculating carbon footprints56
Harnessing concepts for sustainability: a pledge for a practice55
Networks of action situations: a systematic review of empirical research52
Climate justice beyond intergenerational conflict: youth climate activism in South Korea52
Sustainability transitions in agri-food systems through the lens of agent-based modeling: a systematic review49
Navigating sustainability: key factors in prioritising Sustainable Development Goals45
The role of universities in SDGs solution co-creation and implementation: a human-centered design and shared-action learning process44
Systemic barriers preventing farmer engagement in the agricultural climate transition: a qualitative study40
Sustainability justice: a systematic review of emergent trends and themes40
From shops to bins: a case study of consumer attitudes and behaviours towards plastics in a UK coastal city39
What qualitative systems mapping is and what it could be: integrating and visualizing diverse knowledge of complex problems39
Environmental, nutritional and social assessment of nuts39
Threatened sustainability: extractivist tendencies in the forest-based bioeconomy in Finland38
Conducting sustainability research in the anthropocene: toward a relational approach38
Agents of change or victims of transition? Media framings on household roles during the energy crisis38
Whose “place” is it? Using corpus-based techniques to sketch place-based sustainability discourses in public and academic forums37
ORF, an operational framework to measure resilience in social–ecological systems: the forest case study37
Working the boundary: science–policy interactions and uneven knowledge politics in IPBES37
A natural language processing model for supporting sustainable development goals: translating semantics, visualizing nexus, and connecting stakeholders37
Interplays between relational and instrumental values: insights from research experiences on human–nature relations36
Enabling collective agency for sustainability transformations through reframing in the Xochimilco social–ecological system35
Transformative science–policy interfacing: the case of biodiversity and ecosystem services35
Integrated modeling to achieve global goals: lessons from the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-use, and Energy (FABLE) initiative34
Exploring synergies between the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and involuntary resettlement guidelines: the case of Mozambique’s natural gas project34
Spanning the boundaries between policy, politics and science to solve wicked problems: policy pilots, deliberation fora and policy labs34
Exploring the sustainability narratives of cultured meat34
Behavioral adaptation to climate change: new insights on psychosocial frameworks from the context of managed forests33
Stakeholder perceptions about the drivers, impacts and barriers of certification in the Ghanaian cocoa and oil palm sectors33
Sunrise at the Salton Sea: environmental justice, land use change, and hydrosocial dynamics of solar energy transitions in the Imperial Valley, California32
Non-monetary narratives motivate businesses to engage with climate change32
Correction to: Creative, embodied practices, and the potentialities for sustainability transformations32
Heterogeneous infrastructure and governance of low-carbon transition in Qingdao, China31
Futures for invasive alien species management: using bottom-up innovations to envision positive systemic change30
A complex transdisciplinary approach to achieve water sustainability: lessons from a case study in Morelia, Mexico29
Benefits and co-benefits of urban green infrastructure for sustainable cities: six current and emerging themes28
The governance of forest carbon in a subnational climate mitigation system: insights from a network of action situations approach28
The effect of financial crises on deforestation: a global and regional panel data analysis28
Reflexive use of methods: a framework for navigating different types of knowledge and power in transformative research28
Correction: Projecting population distribution under depopulation conditions in Japan: scenario analysis for future socio-ecological systems27
Tracing the evolution of natural capital in global sustainability metrics: the advance of inclusive wealth27
Limiting money: redesigning the artifact that shapes modern people27
Identifying behavior change interventions with deep leverage: a conceptual and qualitative case study with farmers from Germany27
Learning about climate change with comics and text: a comparative study26
Does a trade-off exist between economic and environmental impacts of forest carbon payment programs?26
Centring Indigenous peoples in knowledge exchange research-practice by resetting assumptions, relationships and institutions26
Correction to: Exploring complementarity among interdependent pastoral institutions in Mongolia26
Involvement matters: navigating the value–action gap in business students’ sustainability transformation expectations—a cross-country Kano study25
Delivering scientific evidence for global policy and management to ensure ocean sustainability25
Localizing visions of desirable futures: applying the Nature Futures Framework to the Baroro Watershed in the Philippines24
Large-scale flood risk assessment under different development strategies: the Luanhe River Basin in China24
Alternative Food Networks and agri-food regime transitions: evolution of institutional knowledge on local food from the fruits and vegetables sector in France24
Embedding animals within a definition of sustainability24
Transforming environmental governance: critical action intellectuals and their praxis in the field24
Understanding the embeddedness of individuals within the larger system to support the energy transition24
Correction to: Transdisciplinary partnerships for sustainability: an evaluation guide23
Discourses for deep transformation: perceptions of economic growth in two rural communities in Lower Saxony, Germany23
Creative destruction in academia: a time to reimagine practices in alignment with sustainability values23
Stakeholders’ involvement and reflections on preserving sacred swamps in the Western Ghats, India, as revealed by participatory visioning23
Identifying leverage points for shifting Water-Energy-Food nexus cases towards sustainability through the Networks of Action Situations approach combined with systems thinking23
Beyond global versus local: illuminating a cosmolocal framework for convivial technology development22
Why is the sky blue? A new question for political science22
The dawn of solar photovoltaics: emergent political economies at the solar–agri–land nexus22
Are all renewable energy sources the same? A comparative analysis of public perceptions and preferences for renewable energy types in Southeast Asian cities22
Unraveling the politics of ‘doing inclusion’ in transdisciplinarity for sustainable transformation22
Urban novel ecosystems as affective landscapes22
Development of AIM (Asia–Pacific Integrated Model) and its contribution to policy-making for the realization of decarbonized societies in Asia21
Coastal encounters with electrical hybridity: Karpowership in Africa’s energy transition21
‘Being’ and ‘doing’: interconnections between researcher identity and conceptualizations of sustainability research21
Herding cats: integrative leadership strategies in inter- and transdisciplinary research programs21
Correction to: Ecological footprint of your denim jeans: production knowledge and green consumerism20
Decolonising money: learning from collective struggles for self-determination20
Conflicts and coexistence in rural Europe: pathways to sustainability in transitioning territories20
Local agency vs. political economy in low-income energy transitions in California: the case of the Bassett–Avocado Heights Advanced Energy Community20
Embodying relationality through immersive sustainability solutions with Indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon20
A stakeholders’ pathway towards a future land use and food system in Germany20
Addressing our planetary crisis20
Governing University Living Labs for sustainability transformations: insights from 18 international case studies20
Correction: Participatory modelling and scenario exploration to address the air pollution challenge in Thailand and Laos20
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 Hac20
Ranking the sustainable development goals: perceived sustainability priorities in small island states20
Enablers of transdisciplinary collaboration for researchers working on climate risks in African cities20
Nothing sweet about agrivoltaics? Discussions on the territorial adequacy of agrivoltaics in Reunion Island19
Enabling spaces for bridging scales: scanning solutions for interdisciplinary human-environment research19
How the COVID-19 pandemic impacts social scientific research on sustainability: questions of methodology, ethics and justice: comment on Santana et al. 202119
Valuation of nature’s contribution in Ladakh, India: an inclusive wealth method19
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
Key attributes for effective knowledge brokering at the interface of environmental science and management18
Building ethical awareness to strengthen co-production for transformation18
Goal frames and sustainability transitions: how cognitive lock-ins can impede crop diversification18
The different values of nature: a comparison between university students’ perceptions of nature’s instrumental, intrinsic and relational values18
Diverse types of knowledge on a plate: a multi-perspective and multi-method approach for the transformation of urban food systems towards sustainable diets17
Science under pressure: how research is being challenged by the 2030 Agenda17
Assessment of transdisciplinarity by its participants: the case of Tertúlias do Montado, Alentejo, Portugal17
Intertwined renewable and digital transitions: a study on South Australia’s hybridized electricity system17
Modeling desirable futures at local scale by combining the nature futures framework and multi-objective optimization17
The impact of weather changes on the supply and demand of electric power and wholesale prices of electricity in Germany17
Using the three horizons approach to explore pathways towards positive futures for agricultural landscapes with rich biodiversity17
Water–energy–food–ecosystem nexus: how to frame and how to govern17
Factors influencing public support for individual low-carbon behavior reward system in China: role of climate change perceptions and macroeconomic expectations17
How public catering accelerates sustainability: a German case study17
Correction: Reflexive use of methods: a framework for navigating different types of knowledge and power in transformative research17
Broad values as the basis for understanding deliberation about protected area management17
Correction: Multifunctionality benefits of small-scale urban agriculture17
The role of a nature-based program in fostering multiple connections to nature16
The land–river interface: a conceptual framework of environmental process interactions to support sustainable development16
Editorial for the special feature: “Citizens’ attitudes and preferences for climate change policies and technologies in Southeast and East Asia”16
Sustainability of international research: evidence from an H2020 European project16
Inclusive wealth footprint for cities in Japan: regional clusters for sustainable development16
Towards sustainable school meals: integrating environmental and cost implications for nutritious diets through optimisation modelling16
Climate-friendly healthcare: reducing the impacts of the healthcare sector on the world’s climate16
An urgent need for COP27: confronting converging crises16
Narratives underlying research in African river basin management16
A practical tool to enable Indigenous enterprise planning and development grounded in culture16
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on environmental values16
How can relational, decolonial and feminist approaches inform the EU bioeconomy?16
Organic agriculture in a low-emission world: exploring combined measures to deliver a sustainable food system in Sweden16
Climate risks and foreign direct investment in developing countries: the role of national governance16
Exploring “big picture” scenarios for resilience in social–ecological systems: transdisciplinary cross-impact balances modeling in the Red River Basin16
Identifying mindsets for urban sustainability transformation: insights from Urban Labs16
Institutionalising degrowth regime: a review and analysis of degrowth transition proposals16
The trade-off between natural capital and human capital in Pakistan16
Exploring the impacts of global change on small-scale fisheries: expanding the use of I-ADApT as a decision support tool15
Legitimating grid-scale solar: shaping Pennsylvania’s farmland as a renewable energy landscape15
Community gardens support high levels of food production, but benefit distribution is uneven across the gardener community15
Correction to: Envisioning just transformations in and beyond the EU bioeconomy: inspirations from decolonial environmental justice and degrowth15
The social dynamics in establishing complex community climate change initiatives: the case of a community fridge in Scotland15
Correction: Public attitude toward solar radiation modification: results of a two-scenario online survey on perception in four Asia–Pacific countries15
The governance anticommons in renewable energy: two cases from China’s solar expansion15
Knowledge uptake from lived experience regarding sustainable groundwater management: complementing scientific knowledge in urban policymaking15
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
Towards epistemic diversity in sustainability transitions: an exploration of hybrid socio-technical systems14
A transdisciplinary model for teaching and learning for sustainability science in a rapidly warming world14
Learning to collaborate within transdisciplinarity: internal barriers and strengths of an art–science encounter14
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
Interlinkages between leverage points for strengthening adaptive capacity to climate change14
The bioeconomy and its untenable growth promises: reality checks from research14
Breaking the unsustainable paradigm: exploring the relationship between energy consumption, economic development and carbon dioxide emissions in Ecuador14
Opening the human spirit to sustainability transformation: the potential for individual human–nature resonance and integrative rituals14
Ecological performance standards for regenerative urban design14
A leverage point perspective on serious games for sustainability transformation: a systematic literature review14
Methodological sensitivities for co-producing knowledge through enduring trustful partnerships14
Nature positive strategy with social and economic policy13
The making of sustainability: ideological strategies, the materiality of nature, and biomass use in the bioeconomy13
A typology of interdisciplinary collaborations: insights from agri-food transformation research13
“Take your responsibility”: the politics of green sacrifice for just low-carbon transitions in rural Portugal13
Emotional attachment and philosophical worldviews explain human connectedness to nature in abandoned rural Spain13
Disentangling the entangled in productive ways: modelling social–ecological systems from a process-relational perspective13
Synergies and trade-offs between sustainable development goals and targets: innovative approaches and new perspectives13
Sustainable lifestyles: towards a relational approach13
Economic inequality expanded after an extreme climate event: a long-term analysis of herders’ household data in Mongolia13
Regional agroecological stewardship: a framework to analyze the (re)territorialization of sustainable food systems13
Correction to: Unlocking and accelerating transformations to the SDGs: a review of existing knowledge13
Where limits to growth are tangible: the olive sector in Jaén and its bioeconomic future13
Multifunctionality benefits of small-scale urban agriculture13
Operationalising a large research programme tackling complex urban and planetary health problems: a case study approach to critical reflection13
Leverage points for tackling unsustainable global value chains: market-based measures versus transformative alternatives13
Solar–water nexus: on local implications of the procurement and deployment of the first floating solar photovoltaics project in Indonesia13
Memory over matter?—a conceptual framework to integrate social–ecological l legacies in agricultural NCP co-production12
Preparing for a diminished cryosphere12
Central–local governance gaps: the evolving differentiation of climate policies in China12
Key conservation actions for European steppes in the context of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework12
Participatory modelling and scenario exploration to address the air pollution challenge in Thailand and Laos12
Endangering the integrity of science by misusing unvalidated models and untested assumptions as facts: General considerations and the mineral and phosphorus scarcity fallacy12
Correction to: Enhancing the sustainability science agenda through Indigenous methodology12
Factors affecting relational values of nature: a case of the Nagara River, Japan12
Sustainability science must challenge common sense: a response to Bodin (2021)12
Mapping Self-Help Groups (SHGs) as alternatives to capitalist development: an ethnographic enquiry from India12
The human–technical–environmental systems framework for sustainability analysis12
Commoning the governance: a review of literature and the integration of power12
Is Blockchain a game-changer for social currency systems? Some reflections in light of the experience of Moneda PAR in Argentina12
Correction: Introducing listening as a weak method for advancing sustainability and interdisciplinary scholarship12
Circular agri-food economies: business models and practices in the potato industry12
Unravelling hidden factors explaining competition for and overuse of groundwater in Azraq, Jordan: digging deeper into a network of action situations12
Transformation archetypes in global food systems11
Regenerative agriculture: a potentially transformative storyline shared by nine discourses11
From Ampesie to French fries: systematising the characteristics, drivers and impacts of diet change in rapidly urbanising Accra11
Accelerating actions for leveraging a climate-neutral sustainable society11
The role of emotions in human–nature connectedness within Mediterranean landscapes in Spain11
The sustainability science approach in sub-Saharan Africa: key lessons from five case studies11
Diverse approaches to nature recovery are needed to meet the varied needs of people and nature11
Envisioning just transformations in and beyond the EU bioeconomy: inspirations from decolonial environmental justice and degrowth11
Unravelling stakeholder narratives on nature-based solutions for hydro-meteorological risk reduction11
Potential side effects of climate change mitigation on poverty and countermeasures11
Toward adaptive climate communication and an expanded frame theory: lessons from environmental organizations11
Knowledge co-production for identifying indicators and prioritising solutions for food and land system sustainability in Australia11
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
The Life Framework of Values and living as nature; towards a full recognition of holistic and relational ontologies11
Correction to: Exploring bioproduction systems in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes in Asia through solution scanning using the Nature Futures Framework11
Common features of sustainable higher education sector according to an international sustainability ranking data10
Development of an SDG interlinkages analysis model at the river basin scale: a case study in the Luanhe River Basin, China10
Cross-scale trade-off analysis for sustainable development: linking future demand for animal source foods and ecosystem services provision to the SDGs10
Achieving sustainability transformations for multi-species justice: assessing the potential of diverse legal pathways and societal struggles10
The perspective of youth: envisioning transformative pathways and desirable futures for people and nature10
Mapping the shared socio-economic pathways onto the Nature Futures Framework at the global scale10
Flexible institutionalisation in Auroville: a prefigurative alternative to development10
Correction to: Human–nature connectedness and other relational values are negatively affected by landscape simplification: insights from Lower Saxony, Germany10
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
Managing biodiversity in the Anthropocene: discussing the Nature Futures Framework as a tool for adaptive decision-making for nature under climate change10
A leverage points perspective on Arctic Indigenous food systems research: a systematic review10
Understanding the mechanisms of meaning-making for transformations toward sustainability: contributions from Personal Knowledge Theory10
NUS so fast: the social and ecological implications of a rapidly developing indigenous food economy in the Cape Town area10
Public perceptions on net zero energy houses in Japan10
Solidarity as a development performance and practice in coffee exchanges10
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
Advancing sustainable development goals: embedding resilience assessment10
Thou shalt not take the name of bioeconomy in vain9
Exploring bioproduction systems in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes in Asia through solution scanning using the Nature Futures Framework9
Editorial: Special-purpose money for sustainability9
Navigating ecological security research over the last 30 years: a scoping review9
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
Joint problem framing: a transdisciplinary methodology for a sustainable future in mountain areas9
“Fika in the Anthropocene”: leveraging food systems transformations through food cultures9
A systematic review of peer-reviewed gender literature in sustainability science9
A methodological framework for capturing marine small-scale fisheries' contributions to the sustainable development goals9
Beyond synergies: understanding SDG trade-offs, equity and implementation challenges of sectoral climate change mitigation options9
Getting to the heart of transformation9
Just Transition on air quality governance: a case study of heavy-duty diesel truck protests in Taiwan9
Crossing borders, building new ones, or shifting boundaries? Shared narratives and individual paths towards inter/transdisciplinarity in research centres for urban sustainability9
Transforming local governance: using system leverage points to conceptualize sustainability transformations9
Farming in the shadow of violent organizations: understanding farmers’ relational place-making in socio-ecological crises9
Poverty and inequality implications of carbon pricing under the long-term climate target9
Developing methods of knowledge co-production across varying contexts to shape Sustainability Science theory and practice9
Assessing resilience, equity, and sustainability of future visions across two urban scales9
On which common ground to build? Transferable knowledge across cases in transdisciplinary sustainability research9
Navigating or adding to complexity? Exploring the role of catchment partnerships in collaborative governance9
Process ownership in science–practice collaborations: the special role of transdisciplinary processes in sustainable transitioning9
Regional comparison of the structure of human well-being related to ecosystem services in coastal areas of Japan: possible effect of anxiety unique to the ria coast8
Designing solidarity cryptocurrency: a path to foster borderless local development8
Leveraging the potential of wild food for healthy, sustainable, and equitable local food systems: learning from a transformation lab in the Western Cape region8
Capacity of countries to reduce biological invasions8
Understanding leverage points of rural activities on hillsides in Taiwan8
Bridging the nature–cultural heritage gap: evaluating sustainable entanglements through cemeteries in urban Asia8
The health, environmental, and economic dimensions of future dietary transitions in Argentina8
Identifying visions on agricultural diversification: a first step toward sustainable agrifood transformations in the Bauges8
Unlocking and accelerating transformations to the SDGs: a review of existing knowledge8
Region-income-based prioritisation of Sustainable Development Goals by Gradient Boosting Machine8
Defining human critical determinants for sustainability: asking psychologists could help8
Discrepant implicit and explicit attitudes toward climate change: implications for climate change communications8
Impact of Malaysian palm oil on sustainable development goals: co-benefits and trade-offs across mitigation strategies8
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