Sustainability Science

Papers
(The TQCC of Sustainability Science is 12. 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
A complex transdisciplinary approach to achieve water sustainability: lessons from a case study in Morelia, Mexico34
Integrated modeling to achieve global goals: lessons from the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-use, and Energy (FABLE) initiative34
Limiting money: redesigning the artifact that shapes modern people33
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
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
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
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
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
The dawn of solar photovoltaics: emergent political economies at the solar–agri–land nexus20
Enabling spaces for bridging scales: scanning solutions for interdisciplinary human-environment research20
Dietary transitions and sustainability: current patterns and future trajectories20
Building ethical awareness to strengthen co-production for transformation20
Perception of interconnectedness: a new typology and tools across disciplines20
Navigating the winds of change: strategic foresight and the power of weak signals20
The different values of nature: a comparison between university students’ perceptions of nature’s instrumental, intrinsic and relational values20
Local agency vs. political economy in low-income energy transitions in California: the case of the Bassett–Avocado Heights Advanced Energy Community20
Science-policy integration for ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction: comparative governance frameworks and a pathway for South Asia20
Urban novel ecosystems as affective landscapes20
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
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
Seven questions on agency in sustainability transformations research: insights from a systematic-narrative review17
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Multifunctionality benefits of small-scale urban agriculture12
Correction to: Unlocking and accelerating transformations to the SDGs: a review of existing knowledge12
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