Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Papers
(The median citation count of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability is 6. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Governance challenges for sustainable food systems: the return of politics and territories125
The political economy of the social constraints to adaptation125
Some feminist strands and their potential for the performativity of climate regulations: a review100
Patch-scale to hillslope-scale geodiversity alleviates susceptibility of dryland ecosystems to climate change: insights from the Israeli Negev77
Fisheries conflicts as drivers of social transformation76
Research trends and gaps in climate change impacts and adaptation potentials in major crops76
The global-capitalist elephant in the room: how resilient peacebuilding hinders substantive transformation and undermines long-term peace prospects73
Climate-changed development: organizing climate risk and response through an economic growth lens72
Balancing efficiency and resilience objectives in pursuit of sustainable infrastructure transformations72
Disaster resilience in conflict-affected areas: a review of how armed conflicts impact disaster resilience65
Digital Twins in agriculture: challenges and opportunities for environmental sustainability65
Rethinking the drivers of biotechnologies: a paradigm for holistic climate change solutions58
Trends in port decarbonisation research: are we reinventing the wheel?51
Broadening the perspective for sustainable artificial intelligence: sustainability criteria and indicators for Artificial Intelligence systems50
Editorial overview: Leveraging the multiple values of nature for transformative change to just and sustainable futures — Insights from the IPBES Values Assessment49
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Editorial Board47
Values as leverage points for sustainability transformation: two pathways for transformation research46
Five priorities to advance transformative transdisciplinary research46
How serious are ethical considerations in energy system decarbonization?45
Restoring trust in sustainability reporting: the enabling role of the external assurance44
Using games for social learning to promote self-governance42
Editorial Board37
Monitoring, evaluation and learning requirements for climate-resilient development pathways36
Potentials and limitations of complexity research for environmental sciences and modern farming applications35
From peril to promise? Local mitigation and adaptation policy decisions after extreme weather35
The role of infrastructure in societal transformations34
Agroforests as the intersection of instrumental and relational values of nature: gendered, culture-dependent perspectives?34
Editorial Board33
Capturing the moment: a snapshot review of contemporary food environment research featuring participatory photography methods33
Patterns in reported adaptation constraints: insights from peer-reviewed literature on floods and sea-level rise33
Research priorities for seafood-dependent livelihoods under ocean climate change extreme events32
Diversification from field to landscape to adapt Mediterranean rainfed agriculture to water scarcity in climate change context32
The Ocean Decade as an instrument of peace31
Three archetypical governance pathways for transformative change toward sustainability31
The effects of weather experiences on climate change attitudes and behaviors30
Climate change and migration from atolls? No evidence yet30
National environmental regulatory systems for the management of environmental impacts in small island jurisdictions30
Integrating relational and instrumental values of nature in planning land use for multiple ecosystem services (LUMENS): tools and process29
Editorial Board27
Governing natural climate solutions: prospects and pitfalls27
Towards just sustainability through government-led housing: conceptual and practical considerations27
Advancing sustainable port development in the Western Indian Ocean region27
Future-proofing our ports against biological invasion26
What can methods for assessing worldviews and broad values tell us about socio-environmental conflicts?26
Barriers and limits to adaptation in the Arctic24
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Biosphere Reserves as catalysts for sustainability transformations: five strategies to support place-based innovation24
The biodiversity–finance nexus: a future research agenda24
Climate change and biodiversity loss: new territories for financial authorities24
Philosophies of good living and values of nature: power and uncertainties in decision-making to achieve social-environmental justice in the Americas24
Navigating capitalist expansion and climate change in pastoral social-ecological systems: impacts, vulnerability and decision-making24
Greening container terminals through optimization: a systematic review on recent advances22
Deconstructing the Doughnut22
Using the nexus approach to realise sustainable food systems22
Climate stress testing in the financial industry21
Expertise and exclusivity in adaptation decision-making21
Preventing violent extremism with resilience, adaptive peacebuilding, and community-embedded approaches20
Whose values count? A review of the nature valuation studies with a focus on justice20
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Social limits to climate change adaptation: temporalities in behavioural responses to climate risks20
Justice, sustainability, and the diverse values of nature: why they matter for biodiversity conservation20
Navigating slow-onset risks through foresight and flexibility in Fiji: emerging recommendations for the planned relocation of climate-vulnerable communities20
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Adaptation limits as sufficiency entitlements of justice20
The European Union Emission Trading System and its role for green budgeting development — the case of EU member states20
Positive social transformations of coastal communities: what conditions enable the success of territorial use rights for fishing?20
Assessing the role of social networks in women’s access and use of climate services in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from literature20
Editorial Board19
Values and knowledges in decision-making on environmentally disruptive infrastructure projects: insights from large dams and mines18
Climate-resilient development in developing countries18
Editorial overview: Climate finance, risks, and accounting18
Insurance and climate change18
Editorial Board18
Decision-making and scalar biases in solar photovoltaics roll-out18
Editorial overview: Values and decisions: How can development trajectories transform18
A resilience-based transformations approach to peacebuilding and transformative justice17
Artistic activism promotes three major forms of sustainability transformation17
Mapping the automation of Twitter communications on climate change, sustainability, and environmental crises — a review of current research17
Beyond the ‘urban’ and the ‘rural’: conceptualizing a new generation of infrastructure systems to enable rural–urban sustainability16
Editorial overview: Better climate-related decision making16
Drivers of soil salinity and their correlation with climate change16
Designing a funding framework for the impacts of slow-onset climate change — insights from recent experiences with planned relocation16
The rise of green bonds for sustainable finance: global standards and issues with the expanding Chinese market16
Entry points for addressing justice and politics in urban flood adaptation decision making16
Modular, adaptive, and decentralised water infrastructure: promises and perils for water justice15
The role of power in leveraging the diverse values of nature for transformative change15
Editorial Board15
Review of policy action for healthy environmentally sustainable food systems in sub-Saharan Africa15
Design principles for climate change decisions15
A Maritime Sociology for Sustainability Science14
Opportunities for nature-based solutions to contribute to climate-resilient development pathways14
Planning for urban green infrastructure: addressing tradeoffs and synergies14
Climate urgency: evidence of its effects on decision making in the laboratory and the field14
Does public participation lead to more ambitious and transformative local climate change planning?14
Auctions in payments for ecosystem services and the plural values of nature14
The role of value(s) in theories of human behavior13
Editorial Board13
Emerging response options and scenarios of slow onset events related to climate change in Southeast Asia13
How can we stop the slow-burning systemic fuse of loss and damage due to land degradation and drought in Africa?13
Agroecology as a transformative approach to tackle climatic, food, and ecosystemic crises13
Finding the sweet spot in climate policy: balancing stakeholder engagement with bureaucratic autonomy13
Nature’s disvalues: what are they and why do they matter?13
A long road ahead: a review of the state of knowledge of the environmental effects of digitization13
Finance for Loss and Damage: a comprehensive risk analytical approach12
Prospects for implementing the SDGs12
Transformative finance for climate-resilient development12
Deciding how to make climate change adaptation decisions12
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Biodiversity reporting: standardization, materiality, and assurance12
Melting of Himalayan glaciers and planetary health11
Assuring the unknowable: a reflection on the evolving landscape of sustainability assurance for financial auditors11
Reorienting climate decision making research for smallholder farming systems through decision science11
Embodied rationality: a framework of human action in water infrastructure governance11
Greenwashing and sustainable finance: an approach anchored in the philosophy of science10
Governance of emerging pests and pathogens in production landscapes: pesticide resistance and collaborative governance10
Environmental impact bonds: review, challenges, and perspectives10
The finance perspective on fossil fuel divestment10
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The European deforestation-free trade regulation: collateral damage to agroforesters?10
Five levels of internalizing environmental externalities: decision-making based on instrumental and relational values of nature10
Editorial Board10
The role of crop diversity in climate change adaptation: insights from local observations to inform decision making in agriculture10
Editorial Board10
Managing slow onset events related to climate change: the role of public bureaucracy10
Mixed farming systems: potentials and barriers for climate change adaptation in food systems10
Reaching the poorest and most vulnerable: addressing loss and damage through social protection10
Urban growth, resilience, and violence10
Smarter greener cities through a social-ecological-technological systems approach10
How can peacebuilding contribute to climate resilience? Evidence from the drylands of East and West Africa10
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Relational values in locally adaptive farmer-to-farmer extension: how important?9
Tritrophic defenses as a central pivot of low-emission, pest-suppressive farming systems9
Aquaculture governance: five engagement arenas for sustainability transformation9
Five steps towards transformative valuation of nature9
The sustainability impact of a digital circular economy9
Editorial Board9
Is food system research guided by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development?8
Serious games in natural resource management: steps toward assessment of their contextualized impacts8
The impacts of climate change and urbanization on food retailers in urban sub-Saharan Africa8
Rights-based approaches to climate decision-making8
From gender gaps to gender-transformative climate-smart agriculture8
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Leveraging shadow networks for procedural justice8
The importance of attention to customary tenure solutions: slow onset risks and the limits of Vanuatu’s climate change and resettlement policy8
Security risks from climate change and environmental degradation: implications for sustainable land use transformation in the Global South7
Editorial Board7
The pitfalls of plural valuation7
Critical social science perspectives on transformations to sustainability7
‘Tradescapes’ in the forest: framing infrastructure’s relation to territory, commodities, and flows7
The Humanitarian–Development–Peace Nexus in practice: building climate and conflict sensitivity into humanitarian projects7
Slow-onset events: a review of the evidence from the IPCC Special Reports on Land, Oceans and Cryosphere7
Editorial Board7
Editorial Overview: Slow Onset Events related to Climate Change7
Modes of mobilizing values for sustainability transformation7
Transformational adaptation in marine fisheries6
Maladaptation in food systems and ways to avoid it6
Protected spring and sacred forest institutions at the instrumental — relational value interface6
Who or what makes rainfall? Relational and instrumental paradigms for human impacts on atmospheric water cycling6
Relational versus instrumental perspectives on values of nature and resource management decisions6
Rising seas, changing salt lines, and drinking water salinization6
Environmental, social, and governance factor and financial returns: what is the relationship? Investigating environmental, social, and governance factor models6
Editorial Board6
The challenge of solid waste on Small Islands: proposing a Socio-metabolic Research (SMR) framework6
Health system resilience and peacebuilding in fragile and conflict-affected settings6
Building knowledge infrastructure for diverse stakeholders to scale up co-production equitably6
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Integrating institutional approaches and decision science to address climate change: a multi-level collective action research agenda6
Which diversification trajectories make coffee farming more sustainable?6
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