Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Article	Citations
Working with Indigenous, local and scientific knowledge in assessments of nature and nature’s linkages with people	171
Indigenous environmental justice and sustainability	114
The nature of cities and the Covid-19 pandemic	95
Transformative governance of biodiversity: insights for sustainable development	83
Advancing understanding of natural resource governance: a post-Ostrom research agenda	66
Insect decline, an emerging global environmental risk	66
Circular nutrient solutions for agriculture and wastewater – a review of technologies and practices	61
Drivers of soil salinity and their correlation with climate change	59
Climate change, drought, land degradation and migration: exploring the linkages	57
The rise of green bonds for sustainable finance: global standards and issues with the expanding Chinese market	56
Estimating global terrestrial denitrification from measured N2O:(N2O + N2) product ratios	53
Challenges to realizing the potential of nature-based solutions	52
The Global-DEP conceptual framework — research on dryland ecosystems to promote sustainability	51
Urban resilience and green infrastructure systems: towards a multidimensional evaluation	50
The role of low carbon and high carbon materials in carbon neutrality science and carbon economics	49
The governance of sociotechnical transformations to sustainability	46
Technological advances in biodiversity monitoring: applicability, opportunities and challenges	45
The role of crop diversity in climate change adaptation: insights from local observations to inform decision making in agriculture	44
Equity, inclusion, and justice as criteria for decision-making on climate adaptation in cities	43
Loss and damage implications of sea-level rise on Small Island Developing States	40
Closing maize yield gaps in sub-Saharan Africa will boost soil N2O emissions	39
Transformation beyond conservation: how critical social science can contribute to a radical new agenda in biodiversity conservation	38
Exploring climate-driven non-economic loss and damage in the Pacific Islands	37
An inclusive future: disabled populations in the context of climate and environmental change	36
Introduction: toward more inclusive definitions of sustainability	36

Future of Asian Deltaic Megacities under sea level rise and land subsidence: current adaptation pathways for Tokyo, Jakarta, Manila, and Ho Chi Minh City	35
Food system narratives to end hunger: extractive versus regenerative	35
Global patterns of adaptation to climate change by Indigenous Peoples and local communities. A systematic review	34
Mitigation of nitrous oxide emissions in the context of nitrogen loss reduction from agroecosystems: managing hot spots and hot moments	34
Essential ecosystem service variables for monitoring progress towards sustainability	33
Syntropy and innovation in agriculture	32
Multi-scale analyses on the ecosystem services in the Chinese Loess Plateau and implications for dryland sustainability	31
Measuring denitrification and the N2O:(N2O + N2) emission ratio from terrestrial soils	30
Sustainability transitions in manufacturing: the role of intellectual property	30
Climate change, slow onset events and human mobility: reviewing the evidence	29
Co-production of knowledge and sustainability transformations: a strategic compass for global research networks	28
Toward a sustainable grazing management based on biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality in drylands	28
Establishing intensifying chronic exposure to extreme heat as a slow onset event with implications for health, wellbeing, productivity, society and economy	28
Adoption of conservation practices: what have we learned from two decades of social-psychological approaches?	28
Technology, nature’s appropriation and capital accumulation in modern agriculture	27
Resurgence of relationality: reflections on decolonizing and indigenizing ‘sustainable development’	27
Improving N2O emission estimates with the global N2O database	26
Does public participation lead to more ambitious and transformative local climate change planning?	26
Making place-based sustainability initiatives visible in the Brazilian Amazon	26
Integrating institutional approaches and decision science to address climate change: a multi-level collective action research agenda	25
Multiple knowledge systems and participatory actions in slow-onset effects of climate change: insights and perspectives in Latin America and the Caribbean	25
Emerging options for mitigating N2O emissions from food production by manipulating the soil microbiota	24
Losses and damages associated with slow-onset events: urban drought and water insecurity in Asia	24
Smarter greener cities through a social-ecological-technological systems approach	24
Using case study data to understand SES interactions: a model-centered meta-analysis of SES framework applications	24
Advances in understanding the evolution of institutions in complex social-ecological systems	24
Dryland ecosystem dynamic change and its drivers in Mediterranean region	24
Climate change adaptation through agroforestry: opportunities and gaps	24
Approaches and concepts of modelling denitrification: increased process understanding using observational data can reduce uncertainties	23
Navigating trade-offs in the social-ecological systems	23
Discourse coalitions for sustainability transformations: common ground and conflict beyond neoliberalism	23
Transformations to groundwater sustainability: from individuals and pumps to communities and aquifers	23
Security risks from climate change and environmental degradation: implications for sustainable land use transformation in the Global South	23
Indigenous peoples and transformations in freshwater governance and management	23
The migration-sustainability paradox: transformations in mobile worlds	22
Policy integration and climate change adaptation	22
How politics shapes the outcomes of forest carbon finance	22
Game masters and Amazonian Indigenous views on sustainability	21
Digital Twins in agriculture: challenges and opportunities for environmental sustainability	21
Connecting the dots between climate change, household water insecurity, and migration	21
Transformative potential of managed retreat as climate adaptation	21
Rethinking standards of permanence for terrestrial and coastal carbon: implications for governance and sustainability	19
Gender and Indigenous concepts of climate protection: a critical revision of REDD+ projects	19
From research to policy: optimizing the design of a national monitoring system to mitigate soil nitrous oxide emissions	19
The sustainability impact of a digital circular economy	19
Managing supply and demand of ecosystem services in dryland catchments	19
Soil N intensity as a measure to estimate annual N2O and NO fluxes from natural and managed ecosystems	19
Anticipatory governance of solar geoengineering: conflicting visions of the future and their links to governance proposals	19
Modular, adaptive, and decentralised water infrastructure: promises and perils for water justice	18
Strategic planning of hydropower development: balancing benefits and socioenvironmental costs	18

Transformation as praxis: responding to climate change uncertainties in marginal environments in South Asia	18
The impacts of climate change and urbanization on food retailers in urban sub-Saharan Africa	17
Values as leverage points for sustainability transformation: two pathways for transformation research	17
Rising seas, changing salt lines, and drinking water salinization	17
An inclusive typology of values for navigating transformations towards a just and sustainable future	17
Responses and feedbacks of African dryland ecosystems to environmental changes	16
Achieving a fit between social and ecological systems in drylands for sustainability	16
Entry points for addressing justice and politics in urban flood adaptation decision making	16
Nature’s disvalues: what are they and why do they matter?	16
Critical social science perspectives on transformations to sustainability	16
Nothing goes to waste: sustainable practices of re-use among Indigenous groups in the Russian North	16
A plural climate studies framework for the Himalayas	16
The effects of weather experiences on climate change attitudes and behaviors	16
Poverty and climate change challenges for sustainable intensification of cocoa systems	15
Urban climate resilience through hybrid infrastructure	15
Water, society and pollution in an urbanizing world: recent developments and future challenges	15
Leveraging SETS resilience capabilities for safe-to-fail infrastructure under climate change	15
Rethinking the governance of urban infrastructural transformations: a synthesis of emerging approaches	15
A comprehensive framework for evaluating the impact of land use change and management on soil organic carbon stocks in global drylands	14
Slow-onset events: a review of the evidence from the IPCC Special Reports on Land, Oceans and Cryosphere	14
Balancing efficiency and resilience objectives in pursuit of sustainable infrastructure transformations	14
Building on Paris: integrating nitrous oxide mitigation into future climate policy	14
Why care about theories? Innovative ways of theorizing in sustainability science	14
Finance for Loss and Damage: a comprehensive risk analytical approach	14
Social assistance programs and climate resilience: reducing vulnerability through cash transfers	14
Managing slow onset events related to climate change: the role of public bureaucracy	14
Algorithmic conservation in a changing climate	14
Agroecology as a transformative approach to tackle climatic, food, and ecosystemic crises	13
Oil palm plantations are large sources of nitrous oxide, but where are the data to quantify the impact on global warming?	13
Navigating capitalist expansion and climate change in pastoral social-ecological systems: impacts, vulnerability and decision-making	13
Transforming wasted food will require systemic and sustainable infrastructure innovations	13
Impact of slow-onset events related to Climate Change on food security in Latin America and the Caribbean	13
Nitrous oxide emissions from ruminant urine: science and mitigation for intensively managed perennial pastures	13
Downscaling doughnut economics for sustainability governance	12
The Social Licence to Operate and the legitimacy of resource extraction	12
Planning for urban green infrastructure: addressing tradeoffs and synergies	12
Transforming matters: sustaining gold lifeways in artisanal and small-scale mining	12
Tritrophic defenses as a central pivot of low-emission, pest-suppressive farming systems	12
Indigenous sustainable relations: considering land in language and language in land	12
Melting of Himalayan glaciers and planetary health	11
Prospects for implementing the SDGs	11
Strengthening protected areas to halt biodiversity loss and mitigate pandemic risks	11
From peril to promise? Local mitigation and adaptation policy decisions after extreme weather	11
Expertise and exclusivity in adaptation decision-making	11
Engineering biological diversity: the international governance of synthetic biology, gene drives, and de-extinction for conservation	11
The blockchain technology conundrum: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?	11
Decision-making and scalar biases in solar photovoltaics roll-out	11
Fisheries conflicts as drivers of social transformation	11
Operationalising the leverage points perspective for empirical research	11
Relational versus instrumental perspectives on values of nature and resource management decisions	11
The role of data in transformations to sustainability: a critical research agenda	11
Managing socio-ecological systems: who, what and how much? The case of the Banas river, Rajasthan, India	10
The untapped potential of mining news media events for understanding environmental change	10
Editorial overview: Leveraging the multiple values of nature for transformative change to just and sustainable futures — Insights from the IPBES Values Assessment	10
Deciding how to make climate change adaptation decisions	10
Earth observation for drought risk financing in pastoral systems of sub-Saharan Africa	10
Patch-scale to hillslope-scale geodiversity alleviates susceptibility of dryland ecosystems to climate change: insights from the Israeli Negev	10
Finding the sweet spot in climate policy: balancing stakeholder engagement with bureaucratic autonomy	10
Governing drylands as global environmental commons	10
Social-ecological system management in drylands: experiences from Chinese Ecosystem Research Network	9
Morals and climate decision-making: insights from social and behavioural sciences	9
Research trends and gaps in climate change impacts and adaptation potentials in major crops	9
Justice, sustainability, and the diverse values of nature: why they matter for biodiversity conservation	9
The Sámi reindeer herders’ conceptualizations of sustainability in the permitting of mineral extraction – contradictions related to sustainability criteria	9
Beyond the ‘urban’ and the ‘rural’: conceptualizing a new generation of infrastructure systems to enable rural–urban sustainability	9
Improving rangeland climate services for ranchers and pastoralists with social science	9
Promoting land tenure security for sustainable peace — lessons on the politics of transformation	9
Financing loss and damage from slow onset events in developing countries	9
Editorial overview: Indigenous conceptualizations of ‘sustainability’	9
The influence of indigenous peoples in global climate governance	9
Reaching the poorest and most vulnerable: addressing loss and damage through social protection	9
Navigating slow-onset risks through foresight and flexibility in Fiji: emerging recommendations for the planned relocation of climate-vulnerable communities	8
Environmental degradation of indigenous protected areas of the Amazon as a slow onset event	8
The importance of attention to customary tenure solutions: slow onset risks and the limits of Vanuatu’s climate change and resettlement policy	8
Open Standards for conservation as a tool for linking research and conservation agendas in complex socio-ecological systems	8
Whose values count? A review of the nature valuation studies with a focus on justice	8
The role of technology in inclusive innovation of urban agriculture	8
Monitoring versus modelling of water–energy–food interactions: how place-based observatories can inform research for sustainable development	8
Leveraging shadow networks for procedural justice	8
‘Footbridges’: pedestrian infrastructure or urban barrier?	8

Farmer land-use decision-making from an instrumental and relational perspective	8
Climate urgency: evidence of its effects on decision making in the laboratory and the field	8
Climate change and migration from atolls? No evidence yet	8
Sustainability lessons from appropriate technology	8
The map is not the territory: coevolution of technology and institution for a sustainable future	7
Responsible research and innovation and social licence to operate: aligning concepts for advancing marine innovation and development governance	7
Land resources opportunities for a growing prosperity in the Sahel	7
Old problem, the Millennial solution: using mobile technology to inform decision making for sustainable fertilizer management	7
Rethinking community hubs: community facilities as critical infrastructure	7
Unveiling uncertainties to enhance sustainability transformations in infrastructure decision-making	7
Climate resilient management in response to flash droughts in the US Northern Great Plains	7
Understanding and supporting climate-sensitive decision processes in southern African cities	7
The Mezquital Valley from the perspective of the new Dryland Development Paradigm (DDP): present and future challenges to achieve sustainable development	7
Editorial overview: Dryland social-ecological systems in changing environments	7
Why future nitrogen research needs the social sciences	7
The role of power in leveraging the diverse values of nature for transformative change	7
Clean and sustainable technology innovation	7
Five levels of internalizing environmental externalities: decision-making based on instrumental and relational values of nature	7
The role of value(s) in theories of human behavior	6
Agroforests as the intersection of instrumental and relational values of nature: gendered, culture-dependent perspectives?	6
A time for transdisciplinarity	6
Soil salinisation in Vojvodina - the Republic of Serbia	6
Technology for environmental management in Small Island Developing States: the case of Bahrain	6
Rights-based approaches to climate decision-making	6
Tenure-restoration nexus: a pertinent area of concern for land degradation neutrality	6
The institutional grammar tool in policy analysis and applications to resilience and robustness research	6
Transformational adaptation in drylands	6
Global biodiversity assessments need to consider mixed multifunctional land-use systems	6
Holistic ethnographies of East African customary pastoral commons needed?	6
Artificial intelligence for environmental security: national, international, human and ecological perspectives	6
A framework to assess mining within social-ecological systems	6
Collective adaptation to climate change	6
Embedding local values in Payments for Ecosystem Services for transformative change	6
Protected spring and sacred forest institutions at the instrumental — relational value interface	6
The re-adaptation challenge: limits and opportunities of existing infrastructure and institutions in adaptive water governance	5
Editorial Overview: Slow Onset Events related to Climate Change	5
Vulnerabilities associated with slow-onset events (SoEs) of climate change: multi-level analysis in the context of Pakistan	5
Design principles for climate change decisions	5
Evidence for and projection of multi-breadbasket failure caused by climate change	5
Using games for social learning to promote self-governance	5
Aboriginal conceptions of the forest in the soy era: frontiers of deforestation in the Argentine Chaco	5
The exigencies of transboundary water security: insights on community resilience	5
The pitfalls of plural valuation	5
Signposts on the road toward transformative governance: how a stronger focus on diverse values can enhance environmental policies	5
Fall armyworm invasion in Sub-Saharan Africa and impacts on community sustainability in the wake of Coronavirus Disease 2019: reviewing the evidence	5
Designing a funding framework for the impacts of slow-onset climate change — insights from recent experiences with planned relocation	5
Alternative sources of protein for food and feed	5
Concomitant malaria, dengue and COVID-19: an extraordinary challenge for Colombia’s public health system	5
Mixed farming systems: potentials and barriers for climate change adaptation in food systems	5
Rethinking non-material links between people and drylands from a cultural ecosystem services perspective	5
Indigenous music sustainability during climate change	5
Oil palm production, instrumental and relational values: the public relations battle for hearts, heads, and hands along the value chain	5
The sustainability assessment of Indigenous and local knowledge-based climate adaptation responses in agricultural and aquatic food systems	5
Artistic activism promotes three major forms of sustainability transformation	5
The role of values in future scenarios: what types of values underpin (un)sustainable and (un)just futures?	5
Psychological resilience for climate change transformation: relational, differentiated and situated perspectives	5