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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Transdisciplinary sustainability research in real-world labs: success factors and methods for change114
Inner transformation to sustainability as a deep leverage point: fostering new avenues for change through dialogue and reflection108
The costs and benefits of environmental sustainability104
Leverage points for sustainability transformations: nine guiding questions for sustainability science and practice69
A systems model of SDG target influence on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development62
Transformation for sustainability: a deep leverage points approach58
Carbon neutrality commitment for China: from vision to action55
An actionable understanding of societal transitions: the X-curve framework53
Urban–rural linkages: effective solutions for achieving sustainable development in Ghana from an SDG interlinkage perspective50
Drivers of sustainability transformations: leverage points, contexts and conjunctures49
COVID-19: the impact of a global crisis on sustainable development research49
Conflicting roles of researchers in sustainability transitions: balancing action and reflection46
Towards coherence on sustainability in education: a systematic review of Whole Institution Approaches45
Scale-related governance challenges in the water–energy–food nexus: toward a diagnostic approach44
Beyond “blah blah blah”: exploring the “how” of transformation44
The evolution of the blue-green revolution of rice-fish cultivation for sustainable food production44
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 France44
Getting to the heart of transformation43
Impact assessment of citizen science: state of the art and guiding principles for a consolidated approach42
SDGs mainstreaming at the local level: case studies from Japan41
Cognition and behavior in context: a framework and theories to explain natural resource use decisions in social-ecological systems40
Learning from knowledge co-production research and practice in the twenty-first century: global lessons and what they mean for collaborative research in Nunatsiavut39
Alternatives to sustainable development: what can we learn from the pluriverse in practice?39
Co-creating local socioeconomic pathways for achieving the sustainable development goals38
The patterns of curriculum change processes that embed sustainability in higher education institutions37
Reforming China’s fertilizer policies: implications for nitrogen pollution reduction and food security36
A path forward for qualitative research on sustainability in the COVID-19 pandemic36
Decolonising knowledge co-production: examining the role of positionality and partnerships to support Indigenous-led bush product enterprises in northern Australia36
A review of scientific advancements in datasets derived from big data for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals35
Lifestyle carbon footprints and changes in lifestyles to limit global warming to 1.5 °C, and ways forward for related research35
Decolonizing transformations through ‘right relations’34
EMF 35 JMIP study for Japan’s long-term climate and energy policy: scenario designs and key findings34
Realising potentials for arts-based sustainability science33
Two degrees and the SDGs: a network analysis of the interlinkages between transnational climate actions and the Sustainable Development Goals31
Linking multiple values of nature with future impacts: value-based participatory scenario development for sustainable landscape governance30
Creating leadership collectives for sustainability transformations29
How do we effectively communicate air pollution to change public attitudes and behaviours? A review29
The inclusive wealth index and sustainable development goals28
Talkin’ bout a revolution: an expert interview study exploring barriers and keys to engender change towards societal sufficiency orientation28
Discursive dynamics and lock-ins in socio-technical systems: an overview and a way forward28
The transformation of provisioning systems from an integrated perspective of social metabolism and political economy: a conceptual framework28
Regenerating soil, regenerating soul: an integral approach to understanding agricultural transformation28
A longitudinal study of sustainability attitudes, intentions, and behaviors27
Role of negative emissions technologies (NETs) and innovative technologies in transition of Japan’s energy systems toward net-zero CO2 emissions27
Alternative futures for global biological invasions27
Human–nature connectedness and other relational values are negatively affected by landscape simplification: insights from Lower Saxony, Germany26
Grounding global environmental assessments through bottom-up futures based on local practices and perspectives26
Re-thinking research impact: voice, context and power at the interface of science, policy and practice26
A feminist ethos for caring knowledge production in transdisciplinary sustainability science25
Sustainable lifestyles: towards a relational approach25
A computable general equilibrium analysis of environmental tax reform in Japan with a forward-looking dynamic model25
Climate risks and foreign direct investment in developing countries: the role of national governance25
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 goals25
Unraveling the politics of ‘doing inclusion’ in transdisciplinarity for sustainable transformation25
Global tourism, climate change and energy sustainability: assessing carbon reduction mitigating measures from the aviation industry24
Climate change in rural Pakistan: evidence and experiences from a people-centered perspective24
The Life Framework of Values and living as nature; towards a full recognition of holistic and relational ontologies24
On the discovery and enactment of positive socio-ecological tipping points: insights from energy systems interventions in Bangladesh and Indonesia24
A natural language processing model for supporting sustainable development goals: translating semantics, visualizing nexus, and connecting stakeholders24
Envisioning just transformations in and beyond the EU bioeconomy: inspirations from decolonial environmental justice and degrowth24
An integrative framework for transformative social change: a case in global wildlife trade24
Implementing the urban food–water–energy nexus through urban laboratories: a systematic literature review23
Decision-making for nature’s contributions to people in the Cape Floristic Region: the role of values, rules and knowledge23
Sociological modeling of smart city with the implementation of UN sustainable development goals23
Effects of experiencing the role of imaginary future generations in decision-making: a case study of participatory deliberation in a Japanese town22
Large-scale integration of offshore wind into the Japanese power grid22
The role of universities in SDGs solution co-creation and implementation: a human-centered design and shared-action learning process22
Impact of clean cooking fuel adoption on women’s welfare in India: the mediating role of women’s autonomy21
The role of indigenous knowledge and local knowledge in water sector adaptation to climate change in Africa: a structured assessment21
Creative, embodied practices, and the potentialities for sustainability transformations21
Using citizen science data to monitor the Sustainable Development Goals: a bottom-up analysis21
Degrowth and agri-food systems: a research agenda for the critical social sciences21
Breaking monologues in collaborative research: bridging knowledge systems through a listening-based dialogue of wisdom approach20
Evaluating transdisciplinary research practices: insights from social network analysis20
The sustainability–peace nexus in crisis contexts: how the Rohingya escaped the ethnic violence in Myanmar, but are trapped into environmental challenges in Bangladesh19
Impact of Malaysian palm oil on sustainable development goals: co-benefits and trade-offs across mitigation strategies19
Market power and food loss at the producer-retailer interface of fruit and vegetable supply chains in Germany19
A framework to harness effective partnerships for the sustainable development goals19
Four propositions on integrated sustainability: toward a theoretical framework to understand the environment, peace, and sustainability nexus19
Spatial characterization of non-material values across multiple coastal production landscapes in the Indian Sundarban delta19
The bioeconomy and its untenable growth promises: reality checks from research19
Circular agri-food economies: business models and practices in the potato industry18
Discursive entrepreneurship: ethical meaning-making as a transformative practice for sustainable futures18
Agricultural trade and its impacts on cropland use and the global loss of species habitat18
Teaching the “how” of transformation18
Commoning the governance: a review of literature and the integration of power18
Industrial decarbonization under Japan’s national mitigation scenarios: a multi-model analysis18
Goal frames and sustainability transitions: how cognitive lock-ins can impede crop diversification18
Buen vivir as a territorial practice. Building a more just and sustainable life through interculturality18
The more things change, the more they stay the same: promises of bioeconomy and the economy of promises18
Towards climate resilient peace: an intersectional and degrowth approach17
Making the COVID-19 crisis a real opportunity for environmental sustainability17
The role of renewables in the Japanese power sector: implications from the EMF35 JMIP17
Barriers to institutional social sustainability17
Social dynamics of community resilience building in the face of climate change: the case of three Scottish communities17
Networks of action situations: a systematic review of empirical research17
A leverage points perspective on social networks to understand sustainability transformations: evidence from Southern Transylvania17
Disruptive seeds: a scenario approach to explore power shifts in sustainability transformations17
Co-creating narratives for WEF nexus governance: a Quantitative Story-Telling case study in the Canary Islands16
Grasping at digitalisation: turning imagination into fact in the sugarcane farming community16
True cost accounting in agri-food networks: a German case study on informational campaigning and responsible implementation16
A systems approach to the sustainability–peace nexus16
Synergies and trade-offs between sustainable development goals and targets: innovative approaches and new perspectives16
Regenerative agriculture: a potentially transformative storyline shared by nine discourses16
How do we know where there is potential to intervene and leverage impact in a changing system? The practitioners perspective16
Demand-side decarbonization and electrification: EMF 35 JMIP study15
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 Go15
Non-material nature’s contributions to people from a marine protected area support multiple dimensions of human well-being15
Crisis, transformation, and agency: Why are people going back-to-the-land in Greece?15
Are we ignoring a black elephant in the Anthropocene? Climate change and global pandemic as the crisis in health and equality15
Promoting net-zero economy through climate-smart agriculture: transition towards sustainability15
Co-producing theory of change to operationalize integrated landscape approaches15
Endangering the integrity of science by misusing unvalidated models and untested assumptions as facts: General considerations and the mineral and phosphorus scarcity fallacy15
Living labs in the context of the UN sustainable development goals: state of the art15
Deepening our understanding of which policy advice to expect from prioritizing SDG targets: introducing the Analytic Network Process in a multi-method setting15
Urban gardening as a means for fostering embodied urban human–food connection? A case study on urban vegetable gardens in Germany15
Science in Indigenous homelands: addressing power and justice in sustainability science from/with/in the Penobscot River15
How does government expenditure impact sustainable development? Studying the multidimensional link between budgets and development gaps15
Grassroots innovation for the pluriverse: evidence from Zapatismo and autonomous Zapatista education15
Large-scale flood risk assessment under different development strategies: the Luanhe River Basin in China15
Development towards low carbon and sustainable agriculture in Finland is possible with moderate changes in land use and diets15
Flexible institutionalisation in Auroville: a prefigurative alternative to development15
What matters? The role of values in transformations toward sustainability: a case study of coffee production in Burundi14
The three logics of sustainability-oriented hybrid organisations: a multi-disciplinary review14
Learning Together for and with the Martuwarra Fitzroy River14
Organic agriculture in a low-emission world: exploring combined measures to deliver a sustainable food system in Sweden14
How do past global experiences of coal phase-out inform China’s domestic approach to a just transition?14
Considering equity in wildfire protection14
System-level consequences of synergies and trade-offs between SDGs: quantitative analysis of interlinkage networks at country level14
Perceived impacts of the Fridays for Future climate movement on environmental concern and behaviour in Switzerland14
Scanning the solutions for the sustainable supply of forest ecosystem services in Europe14
Finding shared meaning in the Anthropocene: engaging diverse perspectives on climate change14
The missing intangibles: nature’s contributions to human wellbeing through place attachment and social capital13
Business models for the Anthropocene: accelerating sustainability transformations in the private sector13
Transforming universities13
The effect of financial crises on deforestation: a global and regional panel data analysis13
A multi-scale integrated assessment model to support urban sustainability13
Livelihood resilience in the face of multiple stressors: biocultural resource-based adaptive strategies among the vulnerable communities13
Transformative change in context—stakeholders’ understandings of leverage at the forest–climate nexus13
Ecological ceiling and social floor: public support for eco-social policies in Sweden13
Region-income-based prioritisation of Sustainable Development Goals by Gradient Boosting Machine13
Sustainability of urban expansion in Africa: a systematic literature review using the Drivers–Pressures–State–Impact–Responses (DPSIR) framework13
Operationalizing the Nature Futures Framework to catalyze the development of nature-future scenarios13
Transdisciplinary partnerships for sustainability: an evaluation guide13
Emotions and transformative learning for sustainability: a systematic review13
Pluriversality and beyond: consolidating radical alternatives to (mal-)development as a Commonist project13
Attitudes of administrative decision-makers towards nature-based solutions for flood risk management in Germany13
Exploring mechanisms for systemic thinking in decision-making through three country applications of SDG Synergies12
Working the boundary: science–policy interactions and uneven knowledge politics in IPBES12
On which common ground to build? Transferable knowledge across cases in transdisciplinary sustainability research12
Sustainable pathways towards climate and biodiversity goals in the UK: the importance of managing land-use synergies and trade-offs12
Expansion of soybean farming into deforested areas in the amazon biome: the role and impact of the soy moratorium12
Stakeholder perceptions about the drivers, impacts and barriers of certification in the Ghanaian cocoa and oil palm sectors12
A leverage points perspective on institutions for food security in a smallholder-dominated landscape in southwestern Ethiopia12
Sustainability impacts of ecosystem approaches to small-scale aquaculture in Bangladesh12
The role of a nature-based program in fostering multiple connections to nature12
Invisible (bio)economies: a framework to assess the ‘blind spots’ of dominant bioeconomy models12
System LCOE of variable renewable energies: a case study of Japan’s decarbonized power sector in 205012
An ecosystem service approach to the study of vineyard landscapes in the context of climate change: a review12
Transforming to a regenerative U.S. agriculture: the role of policy, process, and education12
How can diverse national food and land-use priorities be reconciled with global sustainability targets? Lessons from the FABLE initiative12
Reflections on the popularity of the circular bioeconomy concept: the ontological crisis of sustainability science12
Jin-jiyan-azadi. Matristic culture and Democratic Confederalism in Rojava12
From hegemony-reinforcing to hegemony-transcending transformations: horizons of possibility and strategies of escape12
Building up an ecologically sustainable and socially desirable post-COVID-19 future11
IMAGINE sustainability: integrated inner-outer transformation in research, education and practice11
Long-term pathways analysis to assess the feasibility of sustainable land-use and food systems in Mexico11
From shops to bins: a case study of consumer attitudes and behaviours towards plastics in a UK coastal city11
Using knowledge to care for country: Indigenous-led evaluations of research to adaptively co-manage Kakadu National Park, Australia11
Carbon, cash, cattle and the climate crisis11
Identifying leverage points for shifting Water-Energy-Food nexus cases towards sustainability through the Networks of Action Situations approach combined with systems thinking11
A comparison of smart city research and practice in Sweden and Japan: trends and opportunities identified from a literature review and co-occurrence network analysis11
Does building development in Dhaka comply with land use zoning? An analysis using nighttime light and digital building heights11
Panarchy theory for convergence11
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
Designing real-world laboratories for sustainable urban transformation: addressing ambiguous roles and expectations in transdisciplinary teams11
The land–river interface: a conceptual framework of environmental process interactions to support sustainable development11
Local collective action for sustainability transformations: emerging narratives from local energy initiatives in The Netherlands11
Key capabilities for frugal innovation in developed economies: insights into the current transition towards sustainability11
Capacity of countries to reduce biological invasions11
A framework for assessing coupling and de-coupling trajectories in river social-ecological systems11
Managing biodiversity in the Anthropocene: discussing the Nature Futures Framework as a tool for adaptive decision-making for nature under climate change11
Sustainable transitions towards a resilient and decentralised future: Japan’s Circulating and Ecological Sphere (CES)11
Environmental flows: issues and gaps—a critical analysis11
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