People and Nature

Papers
(The TQCC of People and Nature is 9. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Describing viewpoints on human‐nature relationships to unveil socio‐environmental conflicts and support community‐based projects81
Cover Picture and Issue Information69
Caretaking, accomplishment and connection to nature: The ‘gardening triad’ and its role in new community gardeners' engagement, and social and emotional well‐being53
More pumas (Puma concolor) does not change perceptions: The mismatched response of ranchers to the presence of a top carnivore50
Compassion and the perceived rarity of plants can increase plant appreciation50
‘Nature of the year’ in Germany: An effective policy to raise public awareness?50
Food for flower‐visiting insects: Appreciating common native wild flowering plants45
Pathways to subsistence management in Alaska national parks: Perspectives of harvesters and agency staff40
Disentangling the complexity of human–nature interactions39
The Swedish green infrastructure policy as a policy assemblage: What does it do for biodiversity conservation?38
Common approaches to introduced species management face widespread acceptance problems in the United States38
What factors affect the ‘flocking’ of birdwatchers during bird rarity observations?37
‘On the mountain, the world is still all right’: Nature connections in context and the Covid journey of young adults in Austria36
Performance of habitat offsets for species conservation in dynamic human‐modified landscapes36
Behavioural insights for improved uptake of agricultural sustainability assessment tools35
Institutional amnesia pushes fish spawning aggregations towards extirpation33
Denser and greener cities: Green interventions to achieve both urban density and nature33
Guiding principles for transdisciplinary sustainability research and practice32
Large‐scale human celebrations increase global light pollution32
Assessing the political vulnerability of National Parks in sub‐Saharan Africa using data on digital trends and engagement32
Enhancing child–nature interactions through design: An empirical study of the emotions, perspectives and experiences of nature among South Korea's urban Generation Alpha children31
Effects of COVID‐19 lockdown restrictions on parents' attitudes towards green space and time spent outside by children in Cambridgeshire and North London, United Kingdom31
What are landscapes for? Diverging preferences and shared understandings of rural farming landscapes31
The Renewing Biodiversity Longitudinal Survey (ReBLS): Protocol for a panel study31
Thinking with Amazonian Indigenous Peoples to expand ideas on domestication29
Nature relatedness: A protective factor for snake and spider fears and phobias28
‘Should’ and ‘can’ active restoration be used in biodiversity offsets? Stakeholder perspectives from New South Wales, Australia28
Drivers of human attitudes towards wolves Canis lupus in Kazakhstan28
What constitutes sustainable agriculture for different audiences in Germany? A comparative analysis of large‐scale text data28
Care, conflict, and coexistence: Human–wildlife relations in community forests28
If you build it, they will come: Coastal amenities facilitate human engagement in marine protected areas28
The dark web trades wildlife, but mostly for use as drugs28
River rhythmicity: A conceptual means of understanding and leveraging the relational values of rivers27
Individual traits are associated with pro‐environmental behaviour: Environmental sensitivity, nature connectedness and consideration for future consequences27
Disentangling global market drivers for cephalopods to foster transformations towards sustainable seafood systems27
Social adaptation can reduce the strength of social–ecological feedbacks from ecosystem degradation27
TheCBDPost‐2020 biodiversity framework: People's place within the rest of nature26
Rewilding—The farmers’ perspective. Perceptions and attitudinal support for rewilding among the English farming community26
The role of agroforestry in restoring Brazil's Atlantic Forest: Opportunities and challenges for smallholder farmers25
Gardening for wildlife: A mixed‐methods exploration of the factors underlying engagement in wildlife‐friendly gardening25
Sustaining land and people over time: Relationships with successor landowners on conservation easements24
Behavioural responses of Bonelli's eagles to human disturbances: Assessing the effect on reproduction and suggested mitigating measures24
Conserved areas: Obligations, challenges, risks and opportunities for successful implementation of other effective area‐based conservation measures (OECMs) in France24
Creating ecologically sound buildings by integrating ecology, architecture and computational design24
Characterizing social and ecological values expressed in US Forest Service public comments using a computational approach23
The comparative performance of land sharing, land sparing type interventions on place‐based human well‐being23
Fascinating and favourable to most, but also frustrating and fearful to some: A study of Danish citizens' perception of trophic rewilding23
Disconnection from nature: Expanding our understanding of human–nature relations23
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Role of science and scientists in public environmental policy debates: The case of EU agrochemical and Nature Restoration Regulations23
Redefining climate change maladaptation using a values‐based approach in forests22
UK wildlife recorders cautiously welcome range‐shifting species but incline against intervention to promote or control their establishment22
Two lenses for exploring relationships between seabirds and fishers: Unveiling reciprocal contributions22
Waterfront property owners' shoreline preferences amid salt marsh to mangrove transitions22
Three reasons why expanded use of natural enemy solutions may offer sustainable control of human infections22
Stakeholder perspectives on nature, people and sustainability at Mount Kilimanjaro22
The Facilitating Act Framework: A new insight into cultural ecosystem services through investigating women, wild swimming and community21
Drawing on local knowledge and attitudes for the conservation of critically endangered rhino rays in Goa, India21
Opinions, attitudes and perceptions of local people towards the conservation of Nigeria‐Cameroon chimpanzees in Mpem‐Djim National Park, central Cameroon21
Cultural worldviews consistently explain bundles of ecosystem service prioritisation across rural Germany21
Perceptions, preferences and barriers: A qualitative study of greenspace and under‐representation in Leeds, UK21
Who must adapt to whom? Contested discourses on human–wolf coexistence and their impact on policy in Spain21
Sensing, feeling, thinking: Relating to nature with the body, heart and mind20
Nature interactions and their associations with connection to nature and well‐being varies between different types of green spaces20
A review of the phenomenology, aetiology and treatment of animal phobia and insights for biophobia20
Can we model cultural ecosystem services, and are we measuring the right things?20
Climate‐driven ‘species‐on‐the‐move’ provide tangible anchors to engage the public on climate change20
Correction to: Building better conservation media for primates and people: A case study of orangutan rescue and rehabilitation YouTube videos20
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Wildlife farming: Balancing economic and conservation interests in the face of illegal wildlife trade20
Disturbance ecology in human societies20
What does coexistence mean? Insight from place‐based trajectories of pastoralists and bears encounters in the Pyrenees20
Exploring integrated ArtScience experiences to foster nature connectedness through head, heart and hand19
Outdoor adventure education as a platform for developing environmental leadership19
Biophobia: What it is, how it works and why it matters19
The Elephant Queen: Can a nature documentary help to increase tolerance towards elephants?19
Unpacking the interface of modernization, development and sustainability in Indigenous Guna communities of Panama18
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
Boundary spanners: An Australian First Nations perspective18
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Ethical considerations for conservation messaging research and practice17
Addressing fraudulent responses in online surveys: Insights from a web‐based participatory mapping study17
Navigating human‐nature interactions by exploring plural values across ecosystem states17
The role of gender and ethnicity in perceived public support and sense of belonging among resource management professionals in Oregon and Washington, USA17
How previous experiences shape actors' current perspectives in integrated natural resource management16
Applying a co‐design approach with key stakeholders to design interventions to reduce illegal wildlife consumption16
Threatening stimuli have differential effects on movement preparation and execution—A study on snake fear16
The relation between biodiversity in literature and social and spatial situation of authors: Reflections on the nature–culture entanglement16
Interdisciplinary insights into navigating the maze of landscape multifunctionality16
Micronutrient levels of global tropical reef fish communities differ from fisheries capture16
Landscape‐as‐governance: Exploring agency, embodied sensing and decision preferences16
Spatial restrictions hinder avoidance of choke species in an Indigenous rights‐based fishery16
Ecological and anthropogenic drivers of leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) attack occurrence on humans in Nepal15
Nature connection in adulthood: The role of childhood nature experiences15
Do you have a tree friend?—Human–tree relationships in Finland15
The costs of delivering environmental outcomes with land sharing and land sparing15
What are the links between tree‐based farming and dietary quality for rural households? A review of emerging evidence in low‐ and middle‐income countries15
The role of relational learning in knowledge co‐production15
Why do people walk their dog where the wild things are? A qualitative content analysis from an urban nature reserve15
Reconnecting children to nature: The efficacy of a wildlife intervention depends on local nature and socio‐economic context, but not on urbanisation15
The demographic collapse of hunting in the Iberian Peninsula15
Changing the decision context to enable social learning for climate adaptation15
Mainstreaming the Environment: Exploring pathways and narratives to improve policy and decision‐making15
Citizen science promotes knowledge, skills and collective action to monitor and protect freshwater streams15
The socio‐ecological niche15
Practitioner approaches to trade‐off decision‐making in marine conservation development15
What informs human–nature connection? An exploration of factors in the context of urban park visitors and wildlife14
Cover Picture and Issue Information14
Eager about beavers? Understanding opposition to species reintroduction, and its implications for conservation14
Exploring the relationship between plural values of nature, human well‐being, and conservation and development intervention: Why it matters and how to do it?14
How stable are visions for protected area management? Stakeholder perspectives before and during a pandemic14
Cultural importance, availability and conservation status of Spanish wild medicinal plants: Implications for sustainability14
The road to integrate climate change projections with regional land‐use–biodiversity models14
Not just having fun: Experiential‐learning–based school field trips improved local children's mental models of the mangrove nature reserve in Shenzhen, China14
A mixed‐methods assessment of human‐elephant conflict in the Western Okavango Panhandle, Botswana13
‘Sense of place’ and conservation: Toponym diversity helps to maintain vegetation naturalness13
Words are monuments: Patterns in US national park place names perpetuate settler colonial mythologies including white supremacy13
Lake‐related ecosystem services facing social–ecological risks13
Human–nature connectedness and sustainability across lifetimes: A comparative cross‐sectional study in France and Colombia13
Relational values of forests: Value‐conflicts between local communities and external programmes in Sulawesi13
The multiple values of nature show the lack of a coherent theory of value—In any context13
‘A deep, empathetic, wondrous connection’: Autistic adults' definitions and experiences of nature connection12
Interpreting the mammal deposits of Cloggs Cave (SEAustralia),GunaiKurnaiAboriginal Country, through community‐led partnership research12
Scientific response to a cluster of shark bites12
Living with rodent pests: Unifying stakeholder interests to prioritise pest management in rural Madagascar12
Harnessing generative artificial intelligence to support nature‐based solutions12
Cover Picture and Issue Information12
The relevance of traditional knowledge for modern landscape management: Comparing past and current herding practices in Mongolia11
The Steller's Sea‐Eagle in North America: An economic assessment of birdwatchers travelling to see a vagrant raptor11
Exploring the role of identity, the other and negative attributions in conflict about biodiversity valuation11
Giving space back to nature in cities? A multi‐scenario analysis of the acceptability of urban rewilding among local communities11
Assessing human well‐being constructs with environmental and equity aspects: A review of the landscape11
Empirical examples demonstrate how relational thinking might enrich science and practice11
Making the UN Ocean Decade work? The potential for, and challenges of, transdisciplinary research and real‐world laboratories for building towards ocean solutions11
Empirical research review on Solastalgia: Place, people and policy pathways for addressing environmental distress11
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
Cover Picture and Issue Information11
Noticing nature: The role of environmental awareness in promoting well‐being11
The relational nature of citizen science11
Risky conclusions regarding shrinking rhino horns11
Social mechanics of gifting bear bile in Việt Nam11
Hunting motivations, behaviour and forest access: Characterising wildlife hunting practices in a multi‐ethnic, forested landscape of Brunei Darussalam, Southeast Asia11
Co‐production of agroecological innovations to improve sustainability in South American fruit farms11
Co‐production of nature's contributions to people: What evidence is out there?11
Implementing the European Union Biodiversity Strategy: Interlinked challenges and a potential way forward10
Native seed collector networks in Brazil: Sowing social innovations for transformative change10
Protected areas and the neglected contribution of Indigenous Peoples and local communities: Struggles for environmental justice in the Caatinga dry forest10
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Exploring a process‐relational approach to qualitative research methods for sustainability science10
Behavioural and physiological responses of chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) to human‐induced mortality in anthropogenically modified habitat10
Ecosystem restoration job creation potential in Brazil10
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How to increase nature connectedness? Effectiveness and mechanisms of a gratitude journal intervention10
Long‐term interventions by conservation and development projects support successful recovery of tropical peatlands in Amazonia10
Urban park soundscapes: Spatial and social factors influencing bird and traffic sound experiences10
Links between deforestation, conservation areas and conservation funding in major deforestation regions of South America10
Cover Picture and Issue Information10
Stress of spatial orientation of floating populations into Tibet on fragile ecosystem—Using geo‐tagged big data10
Principal sensory experiences of forest visitors in four countries, for evidence‐based nature therapy9
Performing authenticity: The making‐of documentary in wildlife film's blue‐chip renaissance9
Urbanization and food transition in the Brazilian Amazon: From wild to domesticated meat9
In defence of urban community gardens9
Mixed impacts of protected areas and a cash crop boom on human well‐being in North‐Eastern Madagascar9
Worldviews and values of key societal actors influencing decision‐making around nature: The case of wild pollinator conservation in Europe9
Connecting resonance theory with social‐ecological thinking: Conceptualizing self‐world relationships in the context of sustainability transformations9
Solar parks as livestock enclosures can become key to linking energy, biodiversity and society9
Governance characteristics and feelings of safety are associated with attitudinal success in community‐based natural resource management & conservation organizations in northern Kenya9
Understanding consumers to inform market interventions for Singapore's shark fin trade9
Stakeholder consensus suggests strategies to promote sustainability in an artisanal fishery with high rates of poaching and marine mammal bycatch9
Reciprocal contributions in marine Indigenous stewardship: The case of Haida abalone gathering9
Using gross ecosystem product to harmonize biodiversity conservation and economic development in Southwestern China9
Wind erosion in European agricultural landscapes: More than physics9
Human–nature relationships through the lens of reciprocity: Insights from Indigenous and local knowledge systems9
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