Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Papers
(The median citation count of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability is 7. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Some feminist strands and their potential for the performativity of climate regulations: a review115
Digital Twins in agriculture: challenges and opportunities for environmental sustainability92
Unlocking the potential of biosphere reserves: a review of structural, institutional, and ideational challenges to transformational learning82
The global-capitalist elephant in the room: how resilient peacebuilding hinders substantive transformation and undermines long-term peace prospects81
The political economy of the social constraints to adaptation79
Governance challenges for sustainable food systems: the return of politics and territories76
Climate-changed development: organizing climate risk and response through an economic growth lens72
Research trends and gaps in climate change impacts and adaptation potentials in major crops65
Fisheries conflicts as drivers of social transformation59
Balancing efficiency and resilience objectives in pursuit of sustainable infrastructure transformations55
Rethinking the drivers of biotechnologies: a paradigm for holistic climate change solutions54
Editorial Board53
Values as leverage points for sustainability transformation: two pathways for transformation research53
Disaster resilience in conflict-affected areas: a review of how armed conflicts impact disaster resilience51
Trends in port decarbonisation research: are we reinventing the wheel?46
Editorial overview: Leveraging the multiple values of nature for transformative change to just and sustainable futures — Insights from the IPBES Values Assessment42
Five priorities to advance transformative transdisciplinary research42
Editorial Board39
Broadening the perspective for sustainable artificial intelligence: sustainability criteria and indicators for Artificial Intelligence systems39
Potentials and limitations of complexity research for environmental sciences and modern farming applications38
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Restoring trust in sustainability reporting: the enabling role of the external assurance37
Using games for social learning to promote self-governance36
From peril to promise? Local mitigation and adaptation policy decisions after extreme weather36
How serious are ethical considerations in energy system decarbonization?35
Patterns in reported adaptation constraints: insights from peer-reviewed literature on floods and sea-level rise34
The effects of weather experiences on climate change attitudes and behaviors34
Editorial Board34
Three archetypical governance pathways for transformative change toward sustainability34
Monitoring, evaluation and learning requirements for climate-resilient development pathways34
Research priorities for seafood-dependent livelihoods under ocean climate change extreme events33
Growing through transformation pains: integrating emotional holding and processing into competence frameworks for sustainability transformations32
Agroforests as the intersection of instrumental and relational values of nature: gendered, culture-dependent perspectives?31
The Ocean Decade as an instrument of peace30
The role of infrastructure in societal transformations30
Climate change and migration from atolls? No evidence yet30
Diversification from field to landscape to adapt Mediterranean rainfed agriculture to water scarcity in climate change context29
Advancing sustainable port development in the Western Indian Ocean region28
Towards just sustainability through government-led housing: conceptual and practical considerations28
Integrating relational and instrumental values of nature in planning land use for multiple ecosystem services (LUMENS): tools and process28
Editorial Board28
Capturing the moment: a snapshot review of contemporary food environment research featuring participatory photography methods28
National environmental regulatory systems for the management of environmental impacts in small island jurisdictions27
What can methods for assessing worldviews and broad values tell us about socio-environmental conflicts?27
Governing natural climate solutions: prospects and pitfalls26
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Barriers and limits to adaptation in the Arctic23
The biodiversity–finance nexus: a future research agenda23
Greening container terminals through optimization: a systematic review on recent advances23
Future-proofing our ports against biological invasion23
The paradox of climate resilience and elusive peace in the Lake Chad Basin: a case for an adaptive governance approach22
Using the nexus approach to realise sustainable food systems21
Deconstructing the Doughnut21
Philosophies of good living and values of nature: power and uncertainties in decision-making to achieve social-environmental justice in the Americas21
Navigating capitalist expansion and climate change in pastoral social-ecological systems: impacts, vulnerability and decision-making21
Climate stress testing in the financial industry20
Climate change and biodiversity loss: new territories for financial authorities20
Preventing violent extremism with resilience, adaptive peacebuilding, and community-embedded approaches20
Biosphere Reserves as catalysts for sustainability transformations: five strategies to support place-based innovation20
Adaptation limits as sufficiency entitlements of justice20
Justice, sustainability, and the diverse values of nature: why they matter for biodiversity conservation19
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Expertise and exclusivity in adaptation decision-making19
Social limits to climate change adaptation: temporalities in behavioural responses to climate risks19
Positive social transformations of coastal communities: what conditions enable the success of territorial use rights for fishing?18
Editorial Board18
Assessing the role of social networks in women’s access and use of climate services in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from literature18
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Editorial overview: Climate finance, risks, and accounting18
Editorial Board18
Decision-making and scalar biases in solar photovoltaics roll-out17
Editorial overview: Values and decisions: How can development trajectories transform17
Values and knowledges in decision-making on environmentally disruptive infrastructure projects: insights from large dams and mines17
Climate-resilient development in developing countries17
Whose values count? A review of the nature valuation studies with a focus on justice17
The European Union Emission Trading System and its role for green budgeting development — the case of EU member states17
Insurance and climate change16
Entry points for addressing justice and politics in urban flood adaptation decision making16
A resilience-based transformations approach to peacebuilding and transformative justice16
Artistic activism promotes three major forms of sustainability transformation16
Mapping the automation of Twitter communications on climate change, sustainability, and environmental crises — a review of current research16
Beyond the ‘urban’ and the ‘rural’: conceptualizing a new generation of infrastructure systems to enable rural–urban sustainability15
What do we (not) know about biodiversity finance governance?15
The rise of green bonds for sustainable finance: global standards and issues with the expanding Chinese market14
Modular, adaptive, and decentralised water infrastructure: promises and perils for water justice14
A Maritime Sociology for Sustainability Science14
Editorial overview: Better climate-related decision making14
Editorial Board14
Climate urgency: evidence of its effects on decision making in the laboratory and the field14
Design principles for climate change decisions14
Review of policy action for healthy environmentally sustainable food systems in sub-Saharan Africa14
The role of power in leveraging the diverse values of nature for transformative change14
Leveraging place-based identities and senses of belonging to mobilize for action-oriented research in UNESCO sites13
Does public participation lead to more ambitious and transformative local climate change planning?13
Editorial Board13
Opportunities for nature-based solutions to contribute to climate-resilient development pathways13
The role of value(s) in theories of human behavior13
A long road ahead: a review of the state of knowledge of the environmental effects of digitization13
Auctions in payments for ecosystem services and the plural values of nature13
Planning for urban green infrastructure: addressing tradeoffs and synergies13
Finding the sweet spot in climate policy: balancing stakeholder engagement with bureaucratic autonomy13
Agroecology as a transformative approach to tackle climatic, food, and ecosystemic crises12
Biodiversity reporting: standardization, materiality, and assurance12
Deciding how to make climate change adaptation decisions12
Prospects for implementing the SDGs12
Location, location, location: asset location data sources for nature-related financial risk analysis12
Nature’s disvalues: what are they and why do they matter?12
The need for transnational networks and transdisciplinary education for sustainable development in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves in the Global South12
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Reorienting climate decision making research for smallholder farming systems through decision science11
Transformative finance for climate-resilient development11
Assuring the unknowable: a reflection on the evolving landscape of sustainability assurance for financial auditors11
Mixed farming systems: potentials and barriers for climate change adaptation in food systems11
Embodied rationality: a framework of human action in water infrastructure governance11
How civil society organizations influence environmental governance in the Global South11
The European deforestation-free trade regulation: collateral damage to agroforesters?10
The role of crop diversity in climate change adaptation: insights from local observations to inform decision making in agriculture10
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
Urban growth, resilience, and violence10
The finance perspective on fossil fuel divestment10
Five levels of internalizing environmental externalities: decision-making based on instrumental and relational values of nature10
Smarter greener cities through a social-ecological-technological systems approach10
Environmental impact bonds: review, challenges, and perspectives10
Editorial Board10
Current perspectives on debt-for-nature swaps: moving from exploratory to empirical research10
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Aquaculture governance: five engagement arenas for sustainability transformation9
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Relational values in locally adaptive farmer-to-farmer extension: how important?9
Editorial Board9
How can peacebuilding contribute to climate resilience? Evidence from the drylands of East and West Africa9
The sustainability impact of a digital circular economy8
Rights-based approaches to climate decision-making8
Tritrophic defenses as a central pivot of low-emission, pest-suppressive farming systems8
Serious games in natural resource management: steps toward assessment of their contextualized impacts8
Leveraging shadow networks for procedural justice8
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Five steps towards transformative valuation of nature8
Critical social science perspectives on transformations to sustainability8
From gender gaps to gender-transformative climate-smart agriculture8
Is food system research guided by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development?8
Productivity versus sustainability: paradigms of climate-resilient development in South Asian smallholder agriculture8
The impacts of climate change and urbanization on food retailers in urban sub-Saharan Africa8
Security risks from climate change and environmental degradation: implications for sustainable land use transformation in the Global South8
Editorial Board7
Maladaptation in food systems and ways to avoid it7
Building knowledge infrastructure for diverse stakeholders to scale up co-production equitably7
The pitfalls of plural valuation7
Editorial Board7
The Humanitarian–Development–Peace Nexus in practice: building climate and conflict sensitivity into humanitarian projects7
Health system resilience and peacebuilding in fragile and conflict-affected settings7
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Modes of mobilizing values for sustainability transformation7
‘Tradescapes’ in the forest: framing infrastructure’s relation to territory, commodities, and flows7
Editorial Board7
Transformational adaptation in marine fisheries7
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