People and Nature

Papers
(The median citation count of People and Nature is 3. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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Cover Picture and Issue Information104
More pumas (Puma concolor) does not change perceptions: The mismatched response of ranchers to the presence of a top carnivore91
‘Nature of the year’ in Germany: An effective policy to raise public awareness?82
Describing viewpoints on human‐nature relationships to unveil socio‐environmental conflicts and support community‐based projects74
Performance of habitat offsets for species conservation in dynamic human‐modified landscapes64
Cover Picture and Issue Information50
Compassion and the perceived rarity of plants can increase plant appreciation49
Shifting the paradigm: An Indigenous knowledge‐based stewardship plan to replenish boreal caribou in Athabasca Chipewyan and Mikisew Cree First Nations' homelands47
Pathways to subsistence management in Alaska national parks: Perspectives of harvesters and agency staff47
Bright needs, dark desires: Public preferences and balancing the benefits of artificial light and natural darkness at night in Aotearoa New Zealand47
What factors affect the ‘flocking’ of birdwatchers during bird rarity observations?46
Common approaches to introduced species management face widespread acceptance problems in the United States46
Wilting wildflowers and bummed‐out bees: Climate change threatens US state symbols45
Disentangling the complexity of human–nature interactions44
Enforcing environmental law in the Amazon44
Food for flower‐visiting insects: Appreciating common native wild flowering plants41
The Swedish green infrastructure policy as a policy assemblage: What does it do for biodiversity conservation?41
Caretaking, accomplishment and connection to nature: The ‘gardening triad’ and its role in new community gardeners' engagement, and social and emotional well‐being41
Epistemic opacity in Antarctic science: Unknowing the last frontier40
‘On the mountain, the world is still all right’: Nature connections in context and the Covid journey of young adults in Austria40
Thinking with Amazonian Indigenous Peoples to expand ideas on domestication40
Mechanisms of species–people relationships in place attachment40
Institutional amnesia pushes fish spawning aggregations towards extirpation38
Guiding principles for transdisciplinary sustainability research and practice37
Experienced climate change impacts help explain subjective well‐being—Evidence from 14 nature‐dependent communities36
How can ecosystem services scenarios inform forest planning?—Seven lessons from Leanachan Forest, Scotland35
Walking, jogging or cycling? Exploring the associations between campus greenway environment and physical activity using large‐scale trajectory data35
Delivering resilience for people and nature in Anthropocene landscapes34
The dark web trades wildlife, but mostly for use as drugs34
Genetic diversity is key to a nature‐positive future34
Combined storytelling and mapping approaches for increasing community engagement with woodland creation and expansion projects33
What are landscapes for? Diverging preferences and shared understandings of rural farming landscapes32
Assessing the political vulnerability of National Parks in sub‐Saharan Africa using data on digital trends and engagement32
Denser and greener cities: Green interventions to achieve both urban density and nature31
The Renewing Biodiversity Longitudinal Survey (ReBLS): Protocol for a panel study31
‘Should’ and ‘can’ active restoration be used in biodiversity offsets? Stakeholder perspectives from New South Wales, Australia30
Large‐scale human celebrations increase global light pollution30
Enhancing child–nature interactions through design: An empirical study of the emotions, perspectives and experiences of nature among South Korea's urban Generation Alpha children30
What constitutes sustainable agriculture for different audiences in Germany? A comparative analysis of large‐scale text data29
How to reconcile pasture grazing and wolf recolonisation? Perceptions of management options by livestock farmers in Germany29
Drivers of human attitudes towards wolves Canis lupus in Kazakhstan29
Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour to predict farmers' intention to report livestock depredation and kill hyena29
Individual traits are associated with pro‐environmental behaviour: Environmental sensitivity, nature connectedness and consideration for future consequences27
Impact of biophysical characteristics of urban rivers on public perceptions of water‐related ecosystem services27
Sustaining land and people over time: Relationships with successor landowners on conservation easements27
The comparative performance of land sharing, land sparing type interventions on place‐based human well‐being26
TheCBDPost‐2020 biodiversity framework: People's place within the rest of nature26
Gardening for wildlife: A mixed‐methods exploration of the factors underlying engagement in wildlife‐friendly gardening26
Creating ecologically sound buildings by integrating ecology, architecture and computational design26
If you build it, they will come: Coastal amenities facilitate human engagement in marine protected areas25
Conserved areas: Obligations, challenges, risks and opportunities for successful implementation of other effective area‐based conservation measures (OECMs) in France25
Disentangling global market drivers for cephalopods to foster transformations towards sustainable seafood systems25
How multisensory nature exposure affects well‐being: Visual and auditory influences on affect24
Rewilding—The farmers’ perspective. Perceptions and attitudinal support for rewilding among the English farming community24
Local valuation of ecosystem services from protected areas along a forest–savanna gradient in West Africa23
No aliens allowed: A narrative analysis of the blue crab ( Callinectes sapidus ) in the Lagoon of Venice (Northern Adriatic, Italy)23
Care, conflict, and coexistence: Human–wildlife relations in community forests23
Community attitudes and support for the restoration of a cryptic seabird in a peopled landscape23
Cultivating biodiversity: When conservation in agricultural landscapes embodies farmers' values22
Behavioural responses of Bonelli's eagles to human disturbances: Assessing the effect on reproduction and suggested mitigating measures22
Connecting sea to market: Using network analysis to understand social–ecological dynamics in seafood value chains in Pisco, Southern Peru22
Disconnection from nature: Expanding our understanding of human–nature relations22
Role of science and scientists in public environmental policy debates: The case of EU agrochemical and Nature Restoration Regulations22
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Opinions, attitudes and perceptions of local people towards the conservation of Nigeria‐Cameroon chimpanzees in Mpem‐Djim National Park, central Cameroon21
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Waterfront property owners' shoreline preferences amid salt marsh to mangrove transitions21
The Facilitating Act Framework: A new insight into cultural ecosystem services through investigating women, wild swimming and community21
Fascinating and favourable to most, but also frustrating and fearful to some: A study of Danish citizens' perception of trophic rewilding21
Barriers and opportunities for consumption of invasive lionfish in Belize21
Two lenses for exploring relationships between seabirds and fishers: Unveiling reciprocal contributions21
Disturbance ecology in human societies20
One questionnaire—Two points in time: Has plant species knowledge of laypeople changed over a period of 20 years?20
Characterizing social and ecological values expressed in US Forest Service public comments using a computational approach20
Drawing on local knowledge and attitudes for the conservation of critically endangered rhino rays in Goa, India20
Who must adapt to whom? Contested discourses on human–wolf coexistence and their impact on policy in Spain20
A social license to operate theory for lethal control of crown‐of‐thorns starfish on the Great Barrier Reef20
Global distribution and contexts of interactions between humans and non‐human primates: A systematic review20
Climate‐driven ‘species‐on‐the‐move’ provide tangible anchors to engage the public on climate change19
Nature interactions and their associations with connection to nature and well‐being varies between different types of green spaces19
Wealth and wildlife in cities: How economic and demographic drivers influence global urban environmental injustice19
Wildlife farming: Balancing economic and conservation interests in the face of illegal wildlife trade19
Perceptions, preferences and barriers: A qualitative study of greenspace and under‐representation in Leeds, UK19
Technical wildness: Modernity, romanticism, and the technocratic turn in Scottish rewilding19
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Transdisciplinary pathways for wildlife conservation: A method for navigating socio‐ecological systems on private lands18
Pluralizing environmental values for urban planning: How to uncover the diversity of imaginaries about socio‐natures from Vitoria‐Gasteiz (Basque Country, Spain)18
Correction to: Building better conservation media for primates and people: A case study of orangutan rescue and rehabilitation YouTube videos18
The role of gender and ethnicity in perceived public support and sense of belonging among resource management professionals in Oregon and Washington, USA18
The Elephant Queen: Can a nature documentary help to increase tolerance towards elephants?18
The Noble Chafer and traditional orchards: Evaluating the role of indicator species in the conservation of cultural landscapes18
Forwarding forest restoration: Seven key socio‐ecological issues for advancing forest restoration in a world in flux18
What does coexistence mean? Insight from place‐based trajectories of pastoralists and bears encounters in the Pyrenees18
Outdoor adventure education as a platform for developing environmental leadership18
Will biodiversity actions yield healthy places? A systematic review of human health outcomes associated with biodiversity‐focused urban greening18
Navigating human‐nature interactions by exploring plural values across ecosystem states18
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Unpacking the interface of modernization, development and sustainability in Indigenous Guna communities of Panama18
Ethical considerations for conservation messaging research and practice17
Biophobia: What it is, how it works and why it matters17
Why do people go to nature? Enhancing the recognition and scope of cultural ecosystem services in landscape17
A review of the phenomenology, aetiology and treatment of animal phobia and insights for biophobia17
Exploring perceptions of Italian urban wildlife on TikTok17
How previous experiences shape actors' current perspectives in integrated natural resource management16
Threatening stimuli have differential effects on movement preparation and execution—A study on snake fear16
Exploring the relationship between plural values of nature, human well‐being, and conservation and development intervention: Why it matters and how to do it?16
Addressing fraudulent responses in online surveys: Insights from a web‐based participatory mapping study16
Spatial restrictions hinder avoidance of choke species in an Indigenous rights‐based fishery16
Urban adults' engagement in nature education and its interplay with everyday lived experiences: A case study from Shenzhen, China16
Applying the Cultural Values Model to assess biocultural change in Eastern European wood‐pastures16
Boundary spanners: An Australian First Nations perspective16
The socio‐ecological niche16
Ecological and anthropogenic drivers of leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) attack occurrence on humans in Nepal16
The magnitude and economic replacement value of wild meat obtained from ‘recreational’ big game hunting in the United States16
The role of relational learning in knowledge co‐production15
Reconnecting children to nature: The efficacy of a wildlife intervention depends on local nature and socio‐economic context, but not on urbanisation15
Playground tree diversity: A driver of well‐being in preschool children15
Landscape‐as‐governance: Exploring agency, embodied sensing and decision preferences15
Applying a co‐design approach with key stakeholders to design interventions to reduce illegal wildlife consumption15
From muddy marvels to hidden landscapes: Diverse visitor experiences in Tasmanian wetlands and their implications for enhancing human–nature connections15
The road to integrate climate change projections with regional land‐use–biodiversity models14
Supporting interventions to lessen human–wildlife conflict14
Do you have a tree friend?—Human–tree relationships in Finland14
The demographic collapse of hunting in the Iberian Peninsula14
Living with tigers: Perceptions of risk, equity, and cultural change amidst tiger attacks in a reserve's buffer zone14
Citizen science promotes knowledge, skills and collective action to monitor and protect freshwater streams14
Changing the decision context to enable social learning for climate adaptation14
How social norms are integrated in natural resource co‐management14
The costs of delivering environmental outcomes with land sharing and land sparing14
Nature connection in adulthood: The role of childhood nature experiences14
Practitioner approaches to trade‐off decision‐making in marine conservation development14
Developing a novel instrument to assess human–nature relational values14
The relation between biodiversity in literature and social and spatial situation of authors: Reflections on the nature–culture entanglement14
Not just having fun: Experiential‐learning–based school field trips improved local children's mental models of the mangrove nature reserve in Shenzhen, China13
What informs human–nature connection? An exploration of factors in the context of urban park visitors and wildlife13
Cultural importance, availability and conservation status of Spanish wild medicinal plants: Implications for sustainability13
Cover Picture and Issue Information13
‘Sense of place’ and conservation: Toponym diversity helps to maintain vegetation naturalness13
Eager about beavers? Understanding opposition to species reintroduction, and its implications for conservation13
Community perceptions and management of the fleshy‐fruited invasive alien plant Pyracantha angustifolia : Insights from South Africa's Montane grasslands13
Why do people walk their dog where the wild things are? A qualitative content analysis from an urban nature reserve13
Micronutrient levels of global tropical reef fish communities differ from fisheries capture13
Roots of resilience: Assessing child and adolescent nature connectivity in the Mediterranean Region of Murcia (Spain)13
Human–nature connectedness and sustainability across lifetimes: A comparative cross‐sectional study in France and Colombia13
A mixed‐methods assessment of human‐elephant conflict in the Western Okavango Panhandle, Botswana13
Wildland–urban interface expansion: Towards comprehensive planning processes13
Navigating across individual and deliberative values: A dual Q‐method approach to elicit diverse values in grassland restoration13
Interdisciplinary insights into navigating the maze of landscape multifunctionality13
Cover Picture and Issue Information13
Assessing the epistemic dimension of people–place relationships for inclusive ecosystem governance13
What's there beyond the sun and the sea? Detecting tourists' interest towards nature in a mass tourism destination using social media data13
Joint social‐ecological outcomes of private land conservation: An evidence synthesis with a well‐being perspective13
Using childhood landscape memories to uncover the dynamics of Anthropocene in African Urbanscapes13
Empirical research review on Solastalgia: Place, people and policy pathways for addressing environmental distress12
Relational values of forests: Value‐conflicts between local communities and external programmes in Sulawesi12
The multiple values of nature show the lack of a coherent theory of value—In any context12
Giving space back to nature in cities? A multi‐scenario analysis of the acceptability of urban rewilding among local communities12
Harnessing generative artificial intelligence to support nature‐based solutions12
Evaluating commonly used tools to quantify human activity for protected area management12
Only green time, and not screen time, predicts connectedness to nature among urban middle school students12
Lake‐related ecosystem services facing social–ecological risks12
Cover Picture and Issue Information12
Growing trees on farms: Navigating the goals and values of farmers11
Social mechanics of gifting bear bile in Việt Nam11
Panama Canal expansion and shifts in fishing practices: A social‐ecological network approach11
Effect distances of road traffic noise on wildlife behaviour: A soundscape mapping approach using bird habitat selection11
Making the UN Ocean Decade work? The potential for, and challenges of, transdisciplinary research and real‐world laboratories for building towards ocean solutions11
Cover Picture and Issue Information11
Synergizing scientific and local knowledge for ecosystem services assessments: A case study in northern Portugal11
Noticing nature: The role of environmental awareness in promoting well‐being11
The relational nature of citizen science11
Non‐material contributions of nature expressed by former tourists of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania11
Human–wildlife coexistence on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau: The correlation between Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and avian community composition11
Living with rodent pests: Unifying stakeholder interests to prioritise pest management in rural Madagascar11
Reconnecting people and wild nature in cities: Experienced barriers to using urban wild spaces among non‐users11
The Steller's Sea‐Eagle in North America: An economic assessment of birdwatchers travelling to see a vagrant raptor11
Risky conclusions regarding shrinking rhino horns11
Traditional knowledge promotes the protection of large old trees: A case from China's richest biocultural diversity area11
Co‐production of nature's contributions to people: What evidence is out there?11
Hunting motivations, behaviour and forest access: Characterising wildlife hunting practices in a multi‐ethnic, forested landscape of Brunei Darussalam, Southeast Asia10
Co‐production of agroecological innovations to improve sustainability in South American fruit farms10
Exploring the role of identity, the other and negative attributions in conflict about biodiversity valuation10
Indigenous and Western frameworks reveal bias in the scientific literature on salmon's contributions to social‐ecological systems10
Implementing the European Union Biodiversity Strategy: Interlinked challenges and a potential way forward10
Examining the multi‐disciplinary origins of biophobia towards threatening and non‐threatening wildlife in a highly urbanised city in China10
Hydropower resettlement reshapes human–nature relationships: Insights from Southwestern China10
Interpreting the mammal deposits of Cloggs Cave (SEAustralia),GunaiKurnaiAboriginal Country, through community‐led partnership research10
Empirical examples demonstrate how relational thinking might enrich science and practice10
Weaving for action: Transformative change in biodiversity monitoring10
‘A deep, empathetic, wondrous connection’: Autistic adults' definitions and experiences of nature connection10
Green pathways to mental health: Relationships between treescapes and well‐being and distress10
Using the criminal law to protect the environment: Possibilities and problems10
Behavioural and physiological responses of chacma baboons ( Papio ursinus ) to human‐induced mortality in anthropogenically modified habitat10
Links between deforestation, conservation areas and conservation funding in major deforestation regions of South America10
Urban park soundscapes: Spatial and social factors influencing bird and traffic sound experiences9
From awe to action? An interdisciplinary, systematic review of awe's potential influence on pro‐environmental behaviour9
The relevance of traditional knowledge for modern landscape management: Comparing past and current herding practices in Mongolia9
Communal sustainable development goals, belonging and involvement: Engaging with the SDGs9
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Governance characteristics and feelings of safety are associated with attitudinal success in community‐based natural resource management & conservation organizations in northern Kenya9
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Long‐term interventions by conservation and development projects support successful recovery of tropical peatlands in Amazonia9
Auditory perception and the ecology of human–nature interactions: Effects of hearing loss on listening to birdsong9
Stories of coexistence: A narrative inquiry of leopard attacks on people9
Native seed collector networks in Brazil: Sowing social innovations for transformative change9
How to increase nature connectedness? Effectiveness and mechanisms of a gratitude journal intervention9
The birds and the trees: Avian ecosystem (dis)service perspectives and farmers' willingness to plant native trees in the agricultural landscape of the Galapagos Islands9
Mixed impacts of protected areas and a cash crop boom on human well‐being in North‐Eastern Madagascar9
Linking perceptions of weeds with approaches to weed management9
Exploring a process‐relational approach to qualitative research methods for sustainability science9
Ecosystem restoration job creation potential in Brazil9
Indigenous resurgence in the Blue Economy: Relational values to guide kelp mariculture9
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Principal sensory experiences of forest visitors in four countries, for evidence‐based nature therapy9
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Rapidly declining seagrass meadows in Brazil: Findings from satellite imagery and local knowledge9
Ancient people and living nature: A global perspective on archaeological areas and biodiversity9
An international assessment of the barriers influencing the effectiveness of island ecosystem management8
Key gaps remain in the definition and application of keystone species concepts for fisheries management: A systematic scoping review8
Connecting resonance theory with social‐ecological thinking: Conceptualizing self‐world relationships in the context of sustainability transformations8
Reciprocal contributions in marine Indigenous stewardship: The case of Haida abalone gathering8
Wind erosion in European agricultural landscapes: More than physics8
Using gross ecosystem product to harmonize biodiversity conservation and economic development in Southwestern China8
Gender dynamics of tropical wildmeat systems: A systematic map of women's roles and influence8
Trees and water: A survey of the perception and decisions of landowners in New Zealand8
Unlocking landscape transient dynamics: Integrating traditional ecological knowledge for enhanced analysis of land‐use changes and forest expansion in a Mediterranean ecosystem8
Understanding preferences for nature's contributions to people between and within social actors sheds insights for inclusive conservation8
Nature‐reliant, low‐income households face the highest rates of woody‐plant encroachment in South Africa8
A mixed methods approach for measuring topic sensitivity in conservation8
Worldviews and values of key societal actors influencing decision‐making around nature: The case of wild pollinator conservation in Europe8
Urbanization and food transition in the Brazilian Amazon: From wild to domesticated meat8
Understanding consumers to inform market interventions for Singapore's shark fin trade8
Stress of spatial orientation of floating populations into Tibet on fragile ecosystem—Using geo‐tagged big data8
Stakeholder consensus suggests strategies to promote sustainability in an artisanal fishery with high rates of poaching and marine mammal bycatch8
Cover Picture and Issue Information8
Araucaria bidwillii genomics suggest Indigenous Peoples broadened translocation practices in response to settler colonialism8
Leveraging federalism for flexible and robust management of social‐ecological systems8
Social media videos highlight the impacts of the illegal use of snares on Brazilian biodiversity8
Waterscapes meet socio‐ecological models: A relational framework to examine water insecurity and human health and well‐being8
Human–nature relationships through the lens of reciprocity: Insights from Indigenous and local knowledge systems8
Socio‐demographic and geographical patterns in forest and park use: Insights from 33 European countries8
Research monopolization in the biological sciences: Charismatic species are partly to blame8
Solar parks as livestock enclosures can become key to linking energy, biodiversity and society8
In defence of urban community gardens8
Giant anteaters as bad omens: Determinants and implications of wildlife superstitions8
Citizen science platforms can effectively support early detection of invasive alien species according to species traits8
The roles of humans and apex predators in sustaining ecosystem structure and function: Contrast, complementarity and coexistence8
Allotments for all? Social–environmental values of urban gardens for gardeners and the public in cities: The example of Berlin, Germany7
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