Sustainability Science

Papers
(The TQCC of Sustainability Science is 11. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Key competencies in sustainability in higher education—toward an agreed-upon reference framework257
Mapping citizen science contributions to the UN sustainable development goals195
The Sustainable Development Goals prioritize economic growth over sustainable resource use: a critical reflection on the SDGs from a socio-ecological perspective161
Environmental justice and the SDGs: from synergies to gaps and contradictions155
Towards understanding interactions between Sustainable Development Goals: the role of environment–human linkages115
Transdisciplinary sustainability research in real-world labs: success factors and methods for change88
Inner transformation to sustainability as a deep leverage point: fostering new avenues for change through dialogue and reflection86
Current practice of assessing students’ sustainability competencies: a review of tools84
The costs and benefits of environmental sustainability75
Loss and Damage and limits to adaptation: recent IPCC insights and implications for climate science and policy74
Creating a space for place and multidimensional well-being: lessons learned from localizing the SDGs63
Three decades of research on climate change and peace: a bibliometrics analysis59
Leverage points for sustainability transformations: nine guiding questions for sustainability science and practice54
Agroforestry for sustainable landscape management53
Analysing interactions among the sustainable development goals: findings and emerging issues from local and global studies53
A systems model of SDG target influence on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development47
Environmental sustainable value in agriculture revisited: How does Common Agricultural Policy contribute to eco-efficiency?46
COVID-19: the impact of a global crisis on sustainable development research44
Transformation for sustainability: a deep leverage points approach41
Carbon neutrality commitment for China: from vision to action41
Drivers of sustainability transformations: leverage points, contexts and conjunctures40
The ‘end of the world’ vs. the ‘end of the month’: understanding social resistance to sustainability transition agendas, a lesson from the Yellow Vests in France38
An actionable understanding of societal transitions: the X-curve framework37
Conflicting roles of researchers in sustainability transitions: balancing action and reflection37
Philosophy of science for sustainability science36
Scale-related governance challenges in the water–energy–food nexus: toward a diagnostic approach36
Urban–rural linkages: effective solutions for achieving sustainable development in Ghana from an SDG interlinkage perspective35
Co-creating local socioeconomic pathways for achieving the sustainable development goals35
Agroforestry governance for operationalising the landscape approach: connecting conservation and farming actors34
A path forward for qualitative research on sustainability in the COVID-19 pandemic34
SDGs mainstreaming at the local level: case studies from Japan33
Learning from knowledge co-production research and practice in the twenty-first century: global lessons and what they mean for collaborative research in Nunatsiavut32
Problematic blue growth: a thematic synthesis of social sustainability problems related to growth in the marine and coastal tourism32
Cognition and behavior in context: a framework and theories to explain natural resource use decisions in social-ecological systems31
The evolution of the blue-green revolution of rice-fish cultivation for sustainable food production31
Getting to the heart of transformation31
Social capital and community disaster resilience: post-earthquake tourism recovery on Gili Trawangan, Indonesia31
EMF 35 JMIP study for Japan’s long-term climate and energy policy: scenario designs and key findings31
Beyond “blah blah blah”: exploring the “how” of transformation30
Exploring land-use histories of tree-crop landscapes: a cross-site comparison in the Mediterranean Basin30
Combining participatory games and backcasting to support collective scenario evaluation: an action research approach for sustainable agroforestry landscape management30
Decolonising knowledge co-production: examining the role of positionality and partnerships to support Indigenous-led bush product enterprises in northern Australia30
University teaching staff and sustainable development: an assessment of competences30
A review of scientific advancements in datasets derived from big data for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals29
Merging the arts and sciences for collaborative sustainability action: a methodological framework29
Impact assessment of citizen science: state of the art and guiding principles for a consolidated approach28
Analysing trade-offs and synergies between SDGs for urban development, food security and poverty alleviation in rapidly changing peri-urban areas: a tool to support inclusive urban planning28
Creating leadership collectives for sustainability transformations28
Where to begin? Defining national strategies for implementing the 2030 Agenda: the case of Switzerland27
Alternatives to sustainable development: what can we learn from the pluriverse in practice?26
Labelling in Mediterranean agroforestry landscapes: a Delphi study on relevant sustainability indicators25
Lifestyle carbon footprints and changes in lifestyles to limit global warming to 1.5 °C, and ways forward for related research25
The patterns of curriculum change processes that embed sustainability in higher education institutions25
Talkin’ bout a revolution: an expert interview study exploring barriers and keys to engender change towards societal sufficiency orientation25
Alternative futures for global biological invasions24
Regenerating soil, regenerating soul: an integral approach to understanding agricultural transformation24
The transformation of provisioning systems from an integrated perspective of social metabolism and political economy: a conceptual framework24
The inclusive wealth index and sustainable development goals24
Role of negative emissions technologies (NETs) and innovative technologies in transition of Japan’s energy systems toward net-zero CO2 emissions24
Decolonizing transformations through ‘right relations’24
Transition within a transition: how cooperative platforms want to change the sharing economy24
Discursive dynamics and lock-ins in socio-technical systems: an overview and a way forward23
A global analysis of the drivers of human pressure within protected areas at the national level23
Realising potentials for arts-based sustainability science23
Two degrees and the SDGs: a network analysis of the interlinkages between transnational climate actions and the Sustainable Development Goals23
A longitudinal study of sustainability attitudes, intentions, and behaviors22
A computable general equilibrium analysis of environmental tax reform in Japan with a forward-looking dynamic model22
Grounding global environmental assessments through bottom-up futures based on local practices and perspectives22
Towards coherence on sustainability in education: a systematic review of Whole Institution Approaches22
South American Camelids: their values and contributions to people22
Mass-participant sport events and sustainable development: gender, social bonding, and connectedness to nature as predictors of socially and environmentally responsible behavior intentions20
How do we effectively communicate air pollution to change public attitudes and behaviours? A review20
On the discovery and enactment of positive socio-ecological tipping points: insights from energy systems interventions in Bangladesh and Indonesia20
Challenges and innovations for improving the sustainability of European agroforestry systems of high nature and cultural value: stakeholder perspectives20
Linking multiple values of nature with future impacts: value-based participatory scenario development for sustainable landscape governance19
Using citizen science data to monitor the Sustainable Development Goals: a bottom-up analysis19
Looking inward, outward, and forward: Exploring the process of transformative learning in teacher education for a sustainable future19
Preparing interdisciplinary leadership for a sustainable future19
Capital, rules or conflict? Factors affecting livelihood-strategies, infrastructure-resilience, and livelihood-vulnerability in the polders of Bangladesh19
A natural language processing model for supporting sustainable development goals: translating semantics, visualizing nexus, and connecting stakeholders19
Implementing the urban food–water–energy nexus through urban laboratories: a systematic literature review19
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 goals19
Human–nature connectedness and other relational values are negatively affected by landscape simplification: insights from Lower Saxony, Germany19
A feminist ethos for caring knowledge production in transdisciplinary sustainability science18
Spatial characterization of non-material values across multiple coastal production landscapes in the Indian Sundarban delta18
The coronavirus pandemic as an analogy for future sustainability challenges18
Impact of clean cooking fuel adoption on women’s welfare in India: the mediating role of women’s autonomy18
Reforming China’s fertilizer policies: implications for nitrogen pollution reduction and food security18
Understanding human–nature connections through value networks: the case of ancient wood-pastures of Central Romania18
Decision-making for nature’s contributions to people in the Cape Floristic Region: the role of values, rules and knowledge18
An integrative framework for transformative social change: a case in global wildlife trade17
Volunteer beach cleanups: civic environmental stewardship combating global plastic pollution17
Systems entrepreneurship: a conceptual substantiation of a novel entrepreneurial “species”17
The role of universities in SDGs solution co-creation and implementation: a human-centered design and shared-action learning process17
Envisioning just transformations in and beyond the EU bioeconomy: inspirations from decolonial environmental justice and degrowth17
Ignored and invisible: internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the face of COVID-19 pandemic17
Effects of experiencing the role of imaginary future generations in decision-making: a case study of participatory deliberation in a Japanese town17
Making the COVID-19 crisis a real opportunity for environmental sustainability17
A leverage points perspective on social networks to understand sustainability transformations: evidence from Southern Transylvania16
Creative, embodied practices, and the potentialities for sustainability transformations16
Using integrated landscape management to scale agroforestry: examples from Ecuador16
Participatory multi-modelling as the creation of a boundary object ecology: the case of future energy infrastructures in the Rotterdam Port Industrial Cluster16
Sustainable lifestyles: towards a relational approach16
Four propositions on integrated sustainability: toward a theoretical framework to understand the environment, peace, and sustainability nexus16
Climate risks and foreign direct investment in developing countries: the role of national governance16
The Life Framework of Values and living as nature; towards a full recognition of holistic and relational ontologies16
Large-scale integration of offshore wind into the Japanese power grid16
The role of renewables in the Japanese power sector: implications from the EMF35 JMIP16
Towards climate resilient peace: an intersectional and degrowth approach16
A systems approach to the sustainability–peace nexus15
Market power and food loss at the producer-retailer interface of fruit and vegetable supply chains in Germany15
Breaking monologues in collaborative research: bridging knowledge systems through a listening-based dialogue of wisdom approach15
Learning as a key leverage point for sustainability transformations: a case study of a local government in Perth, Western Australia15
Goal frames and sustainability transitions: how cognitive lock-ins can impede crop diversification15
Circular agri-food economies: business models and practices in the potato industry15
The genetic and cultural evolution of unsustainability15
Teaching the “how” of transformation15
Evaluating transdisciplinary research practices: insights from social network analysis15
How do we know where there is potential to intervene and leverage impact in a changing system? The practitioners perspective15
Industrial decarbonization under Japan’s national mitigation scenarios: a multi-model analysis15
Crisis, transformation, and agency: Why are people going back-to-the-land in Greece?14
Sociological modeling of smart city with the implementation of UN sustainable development goals14
Projecting population distribution under depopulation conditions in Japan: scenario analysis for future socio-ecological systems14
Barriers to institutional social sustainability14
Endangering the integrity of science by misusing unvalidated models and untested assumptions as facts: General considerations and the mineral and phosphorus scarcity fallacy14
Grasping at digitalisation: turning imagination into fact in the sugarcane farming community14
Climate change in rural Pakistan: evidence and experiences from a people-centered perspective14
Networks of action situations: a systematic review of empirical research14
Demand-side decarbonization and electrification: EMF 35 JMIP study14
Re-thinking research impact: voice, context and power at the interface of science, policy and practice14
Social dynamics of community resilience building in the face of climate change: the case of three Scottish communities14
Learning Together for and with the Martuwarra Fitzroy River14
Are we ignoring a black elephant in the Anthropocene? Climate change and global pandemic as the crisis in health and equality14
The role of indigenous knowledge and local knowledge in water sector adaptation to climate change in Africa: a structured assessment14
Evolution of water quality and biota in the Panjiakou Reservoir, China as a consequence of social and economic development: implications for synergies and trade-offs between Sustainable Development Go14
Unraveling the politics of ‘doing inclusion’ in transdisciplinarity for sustainable transformation14
Livelihood resilience in the face of multiple stressors: biocultural resource-based adaptive strategies among the vulnerable communities13
Discursive entrepreneurship: ethical meaning-making as a transformative practice for sustainable futures13
Buen vivir as a territorial practice. Building a more just and sustainable life through interculturality13
Stranded investment associated with rapid energy system changes under the mid-century strategy in Japan13
Co-creating narratives for WEF nexus governance: a Quantitative Story-Telling case study in the Canary Islands13
Non-material nature’s contributions to people from a marine protected area support multiple dimensions of human well-being13
What matters? The role of values in transformations toward sustainability: a case study of coffee production in Burundi13
Expansion of soybean farming into deforested areas in the amazon biome: the role and impact of the soy moratorium12
Synergies and trade-offs between sustainable development goals and targets: innovative approaches and new perspectives12
Exploring mechanisms for systemic thinking in decision-making through three country applications of SDG Synergies12
The effect of financial crises on deforestation: a global and regional panel data analysis12
Urban gardening as a means for fostering embodied urban human–food connection? A case study on urban vegetable gardens in Germany12
Causes and consequences of reduced human intervention in formerly managed forests in Japan and other countries12
Business models for the Anthropocene: accelerating sustainability transformations in the private sector12
The sustainability–peace nexus in crisis contexts: how the Rohingya escaped the ethnic violence in Myanmar, but are trapped into environmental challenges in Bangladesh12
The development of climate security discourse in Japan12
Collective and individual interdisciplinarity in a sustainability research group: A social network analysis12
On which common ground to build? Transferable knowledge across cases in transdisciplinary sustainability research12
How do past global experiences of coal phase-out inform China’s domestic approach to a just transition?12
Living labs in the context of the UN sustainable development goals: state of the art12
Global tourism, climate change and energy sustainability: assessing carbon reduction mitigating measures from the aviation industry12
The bioeconomy and its untenable growth promises: reality checks from research12
Organic agriculture in a low-emission world: exploring combined measures to deliver a sustainable food system in Sweden12
Science in Indigenous homelands: addressing power and justice in sustainability science from/with/in the Penobscot River12
Using a combination of Q-methodology and survey-based approach for assessing forest ecosystem services of Five Finger Mountains in Northern Cyprus11
Scanning the solutions for the sustainable supply of forest ecosystem services in Europe11
Analyzing the effects of institutional capacity on sustainable water governance11
A framework for assessing coupling and de-coupling trajectories in river social-ecological systems11
The land–river interface: a conceptual framework of environmental process interactions to support sustainable development11
The three logics of sustainability-oriented hybrid organisations: a multi-disciplinary review11
Disruptive seeds: a scenario approach to explore power shifts in sustainability transformations11
Finding shared meaning in the Anthropocene: engaging diverse perspectives on climate change11
Impact of Malaysian palm oil on sustainable development goals: co-benefits and trade-offs across mitigation strategies11
How can diverse national food and land-use priorities be reconciled with global sustainability targets? Lessons from the FABLE initiative11
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, China11
Operationalizing the Nature Futures Framework to catalyze the development of nature-future scenarios11
Transformative change in context—stakeholders’ understandings of leverage at the forest–climate nexus11
Evolution of traditional agroforestry landscapes and development of invasive species: lessons from the Pyrenees (France)11
Flexible institutionalisation in Auroville: a prefigurative alternative to development11
Adaptive governance in a complex social-ecological context: emergent responses to a native forest insect outbreak11
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