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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Cover Picture and Issue Information115
‘Nature of the year’ in Germany: An effective policy to raise public awareness?97
Cover Picture and Issue Information81
Compassion and the perceived rarity of plants can increase plant appreciation68
Pathways to subsistence management in Alaska national parks: Perspectives of harvesters and agency staff55
Shifting the paradigm: An Indigenous knowledge‐based stewardship plan to replenish boreal caribou in Athabasca Chipewyan and Mikisew Cree First Nations' homelands53
Common approaches to introduced species management face widespread acceptance problems in the United States52
Bright needs, dark desires: Public preferences and balancing the benefits of artificial light and natural darkness at night in Aotearoa New Zealand52
Wilting wildflowers and bummed‐out bees: Climate change threatens US state symbols51
Food for flower‐visiting insects: Appreciating common native wild flowering plants49
Caretaking, accomplishment and connection to nature: The ‘gardening triad’ and its role in new community gardeners' engagement, and social and emotional well‐being48
More pumas ( Puma concolor ) does not change perceptions: The mismatched response of ranchers to the presence of a top carnivore47
Eco‐anxiety in Tampa Bay: Prevalence, risk factors and recommendations for environmental practitioners46
The Swedish green infrastructure policy as a policy assemblage: What does it do for biodiversity conservation?44
Enforcing environmental law in the Amazon44
Water security from Indigenous knowledge perspective: A scoping review42
What factors affect the ‘flocking’ of birdwatchers during bird rarity observations?41
Disentangling the complexity of human–nature interactions41
Performance of habitat offsets for species conservation in dynamic human‐modified landscapes40
Describing viewpoints on human‐nature relationships to unveil socio‐environmental conflicts and support community‐based projects40
Institutional amnesia pushes fish spawning aggregations towards extirpation39
‘On the mountain, the world is still all right’: Nature connections in context and the Covid journey of young adults in Austria39
Mechanisms of species–people relationships in place attachment39
Experienced climate change impacts help explain subjective well‐being—Evidence from 14 nature‐dependent communities36
Delivering resilience for people and nature in Anthropocene landscapes35
Combined storytelling and mapping approaches for increasing community engagement with woodland creation and expansion projects35
What are landscapes for? Diverging preferences and shared understandings of rural farming landscapes34
Assessing the political vulnerability of National Parks in sub‐Saharan Africa using data on digital trends and engagement34
The Renewing Biodiversity Longitudinal Survey (ReBLS): Protocol for a panel study33
Large‐scale human celebrations increase global light pollution33
The Personalised Ecology Index: A novel measure of an individual's direct sensory interactions with nature33
Walking, jogging or cycling? Exploring the associations between campus greenway environment and physical activity using large‐scale trajectory data33
Genetic diversity is key to a nature‐positive future32
The dark web trades wildlife, but mostly for use as drugs31
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
What is ‘relational thinking’, and how does it manifest in research?30
Epistemic opacity in Antarctic science: Unknowing the last frontier30
Relational values, motivations, and benefits drive community commitment to urban predator control for ecological restoration30
How can ecosystem services scenarios inform forest planning?—Seven lessons from Leanachan Forest, Scotland30
Guiding principles for transdisciplinary sustainability research and practice29
Drivers of human attitudes towards wolves Canis lupus in Kazakhstan29
Thinking with Amazonian Indigenous Peoples to expand ideas on domestication29
Denser and greener cities: Green interventions to achieve both urban density and nature29
Gardening for wildlife: A mixed‐methods exploration of the factors underlying engagement in wildlife‐friendly gardening28
Care, conflict, and coexistence: Human–wildlife relations in community forests28
‘Should’ and ‘can’ active restoration be used in biodiversity offsets? Stakeholder perspectives from New South Wales, Australia27
Local valuation of ecosystem services from protected areas along a forest–savanna gradient in West Africa26
No aliens allowed: A narrative analysis of the blue crab ( Callinectes sapidus ) in the Lagoon of Venice (Northern Adriatic, Italy)26
Community attitudes and support for the restoration of a cryptic seabird in a peopled landscape26
Behavioural responses of Bonelli's eagles to human disturbances: Assessing the effect on reproduction and suggested mitigating measures25
Impact of biophysical characteristics of urban rivers on public perceptions of water‐related ecosystem services25
Sustaining land and people over time: Relationships with successor landowners on conservation easements25
Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour to predict farmers' intention to report livestock depredation and kill hyena25
Connecting sea to market: Using network analysis to understand social–ecological dynamics in seafood value chains in Pisco, Southern Peru25
How to reconcile pasture grazing and wolf recolonisation? Perceptions of management options by livestock farmers in Germany25
What constitutes sustainable agriculture for different audiences in Germany? A comparative analysis of large‐scale text data25
Conserved areas: Obligations, challenges, risks and opportunities for successful implementation of other effective area‐based conservation measures (OECMs) in France24
The comparative performance of land sharing, land sparing type interventions on place‐based human well‐being24
If you build it, they will come: Coastal amenities facilitate human engagement in marine protected areas24
Cultivating biodiversity: When conservation in agricultural landscapes embodies farmers' values24
Disentangling global market drivers for cephalopods to foster transformations towards sustainable seafood systems24
How multisensory nature exposure affects well‐being: Visual and auditory influences on affect23
Disconnection from nature: Expanding our understanding of human–nature relations22
Rewilding—The farmers’ perspective. Perceptions and attitudinal support for rewilding among the English farming community22
TheCBDPost‐2020 biodiversity framework: People's place within the rest of nature22
Role of science and scientists in public environmental policy debates: The case of EU agrochemical and Nature Restoration Regulations22
Individual traits are associated with pro‐environmental behaviour: Environmental sensitivity, nature connectedness and consideration for future consequences22
Creating ecologically sound buildings by integrating ecology, architecture and computational design22
Barriers and opportunities for consumption of invasive lionfish in Belize21
Two lenses for exploring relationships between seabirds and fishers: Unveiling reciprocal contributions21
Fascinating and favourable to most, but also frustrating and fearful to some: A study of Danish citizens' perception of trophic rewilding21
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Nature interactions and their associations with connection to nature and well‐being varies between different types of green spaces21
The Facilitating Act Framework: A new insight into cultural ecosystem services through investigating women, wild swimming and community21
Wildlife farming: Balancing economic and conservation interests in the face of illegal wildlife trade20
Technical wildness: Modernity, romanticism, and the technocratic turn in Scottish rewilding20
Characterizing social and ecological values expressed in US Forest Service public comments using a computational approach20
Climate‐driven ‘species‐on‐the‐move’ provide tangible anchors to engage the public on climate change20
Global distribution and contexts of interactions between humans and non‐human primates: A systematic review20
One questionnaire—Two points in time: Has plant species knowledge of laypeople changed over a period of 20 years?20
Disturbance ecology in human societies19
Wealth and wildlife in cities: How economic and demographic drivers influence global urban environmental injustice19
Waterfront property owners' shoreline preferences amid salt marsh to mangrove transitions19
A social license to operate theory for lethal control of crown‐of‐thorns starfish on the Great Barrier Reef19
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Who must adapt to whom? Contested discourses on human–wolf coexistence and their impact on policy in Spain19
Perceptions, preferences and barriers: A qualitative study of greenspace and under‐representation in Leeds, UK19
Drawing on local knowledge and attitudes for the conservation of critically endangered rhino rays in Goa, India19
Opinions, attitudes and perceptions of local people towards the conservation of Nigeria‐Cameroon chimpanzees in Mpem‐Djim National Park, central Cameroon19
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Correction to: Building better conservation media for primates and people: A case study of orangutan rescue and rehabilitation YouTube videos18
Boundary spanners: An Australian First Nations perspective18
A review of the phenomenology, aetiology and treatment of animal phobia and insights for biophobia18
Unpacking the interface of modernization, development and sustainability in Indigenous Guna communities of Panama18
Exploring perceptions of Italian urban wildlife on TikTok17
Pluralizing environmental values for urban planning: How to uncover the diversity of imaginaries about socio‐natures from Vitoria‐Gasteiz (Basque Country, Spain)17
Outdoor adventure education as a platform for developing environmental leadership17
Why do people go to nature? Enhancing the recognition and scope of cultural ecosystem services in landscape17
The Elephant Queen: Can a nature documentary help to increase tolerance towards elephants?17
The role of gender and ethnicity in perceived public support and sense of belonging among resource management professionals in Oregon and Washington, USA17
The Noble Chafer and traditional orchards: Evaluating the role of indicator species in the conservation of cultural landscapes17
Navigating human‐nature interactions by exploring plural values across ecosystem states17
Biophobia: What it is, how it works and why it matters16
Spiritual ecologies in transition: Bonbibi and the reconfiguration of people–nature relations in the Bangladeshi Sundarbans16
The impact of tropical forests on local climate: Comparing recent research with conservation practitioner information priorities16
Ethical considerations for conservation messaging research and practice16
Transdisciplinary pathways for wildlife conservation: A method for navigating socio‐ecological systems on private lands16
Feast or famine: How food deserts, wealth and greenspace correlate with coyote diets in Seattle, Washington16
Forwarding forest restoration: Seven key socio‐ecological issues for advancing forest restoration in a world in flux16
Will biodiversity actions yield healthy places? A systematic review of human health outcomes associated with biodiversity‐focused urban greening16
Bridging the political ideology climate gap through connecting individuals to nature16
Reconnecting children to nature: The efficacy of a wildlife intervention depends on local nature and socio‐economic context, but not on urbanisation15
Addressing fraudulent responses in online surveys: Insights from a web‐based participatory mapping study15
Practitioner approaches to trade‐off decision‐making in marine conservation development15
The magnitude and economic replacement value of wild meat obtained from ‘recreational’ big game hunting in the United States15
Playground tree diversity: A driver of well‐being in preschool children15
What does coexistence mean? Insight from place‐based trajectories of pastoralists and bears encounters in the Pyrenees15
How previous experiences shape actors' current perspectives in integrated natural resource management15
Applying a co‐design approach with key stakeholders to design interventions to reduce illegal wildlife consumption15
Ecological and anthropogenic drivers of leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) attack occurrence on humans in Nepal15
The relation between biodiversity in literature and social and spatial situation of authors: Reflections on the nature–culture entanglement15
Curating landscapes to encourage care for biodiversity through arts and citizen science15
Spatial restrictions hinder avoidance of choke species in an Indigenous rights‐based fishery15
Threatening stimuli have differential effects on movement preparation and execution—A study on snake fear15
Urban adults' engagement in nature education and its interplay with everyday lived experiences: A case study from Shenzhen, China15
Citizen science promotes knowledge, skills and collective action to monitor and protect freshwater streams14
On the need for biocultural approaches to restoration14
How social norms are integrated in natural resource co‐management14
Why do people walk their dog where the wild things are? A qualitative content analysis from an urban nature reserve14
Changing the decision context to enable social learning for climate adaptation14
Supporting interventions to lessen human–wildlife conflict14
What informs human–nature connection? An exploration of factors in the context of urban park visitors and wildlife14
Developing a novel instrument to assess human–nature relational values14
Assessing the epistemic dimension of people–place relationships for inclusive ecosystem governance13
Landscape‐as‐governance: Exploring agency, embodied sensing and decision preferences13
The costs of delivering environmental outcomes with land sharing and land sparing13
The role of relational learning in knowledge co‐production13
The socio‐ecological niche13
Nature connection in adulthood: The role of childhood nature experiences13
Cover Picture and Issue Information13
Cover Picture and Issue Information13
Applying the Cultural Values Model to assess biocultural change in Eastern European wood‐pastures13
Do you have a tree friend?—Human–tree relationships in Finland13
From muddy marvels to hidden landscapes: Diverse visitor experiences in Tasmanian wetlands and their implications for enhancing human–nature connections13
Interdisciplinary insights into navigating the maze of landscape multifunctionality13
Roots of resilience: Assessing child and adolescent nature connectivity in the Mediterranean Region of Murcia (Spain)13
Navigating across individual and deliberative values: A dual Q‐method approach to elicit diverse values in grassland restoration13
The demographic collapse of hunting in the Iberian Peninsula13
Exploring the relationship between plural values of nature, human well‐being, and conservation and development intervention: Why it matters and how to do it?13
The road to integrate climate change projections with regional land‐use–biodiversity models13
Living with tigers: Perceptions of risk, equity, and cultural change amidst tiger attacks in a reserve's buffer zone13
Micronutrient levels of global tropical reef fish communities differ from fisheries capture13
A mixed‐methods assessment of human‐elephant conflict in the Western Okavango Panhandle, Botswana12
The multiple values of nature show the lack of a coherent theory of value—In any context12
Cultural importance, availability and conservation status of Spanish wild medicinal plants: Implications for sustainability12
Joint social‐ecological outcomes of private land conservation: An evidence synthesis with a well‐being perspective12
Cover Picture and Issue Information12
Using the criminal law to protect the environment: Possibilities and problems12
Lake‐related ecosystem services facing social–ecological risks12
Community perceptions and management of the fleshy‐fruited invasive alien plant Pyracantha angustifolia : Insights from South Africa's Montane grasslands12
Not just having fun: Experiential‐learning–based school field trips improved local children's mental models of the mangrove nature reserve in Shenzhen, China12
Human–nature connectedness and sustainability across lifetimes: A comparative cross‐sectional study in France and Colombia12
Harnessing generative artificial intelligence to support nature‐based solutions12
Only green time, and not screen time, predicts connectedness to nature among urban middle school students12
‘Sense of place’ and conservation: Toponym diversity helps to maintain vegetation naturalness12
Designing for biodiversity data in place: Species, encounters, and interfaces12
What's there beyond the sun and the sea? Detecting tourists' interest towards nature in a mass tourism destination using social media data12
Using childhood landscape memories to uncover the dynamics of Anthropocene in African Urbanscapes12
Relational values of forests: Value‐conflicts between local communities and external programmes in Sulawesi12
Eager about beavers? Understanding opposition to species reintroduction, and its implications for conservation12
Cover Picture and Issue Information12
Wildland–urban interface expansion: Towards comprehensive planning processes12
Growing trees on farms: Navigating the goals and values of farmers11
Making the UN Ocean Decade work? The potential for, and challenges of, transdisciplinary research and real‐world laboratories for building towards ocean solutions11
Examining the multi‐disciplinary origins of biophobia towards threatening and non‐threatening wildlife in a highly urbanised city in China11
Social mechanics of gifting bear bile in Việt Nam11
Human–wildlife coexistence on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau: The correlation between Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and avian community composition11
Traditional knowledge promotes the protection of large old trees: A case from China's richest biocultural diversity area11
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
Nature, nature connection, and well‐being: A review of conceptual issues and opportunities11
The relational nature of citizen science11
Panama Canal expansion and shifts in fishing practices: A social‐ecological network approach11
The Steller's Sea‐Eagle in North America: An economic assessment of birdwatchers travelling to see a vagrant raptor11
Evaluating commonly used tools to quantify human activity for protected area management11
Noticing nature: The role of environmental awareness in promoting well‐being11
Interpreting the mammal deposits of Cloggs Cave (SEAustralia),GunaiKurnaiAboriginal Country, through community‐led partnership research11
Effect distances of road traffic noise on wildlife behaviour: A soundscape mapping approach using bird habitat selection11
Risky conclusions regarding shrinking rhino horns11
Living with rodent pests: Unifying stakeholder interests to prioritise pest management in rural Madagascar10
Co‐production of agroecological innovations to improve sustainability in South American fruit farms10
Synergizing scientific and local knowledge for ecosystem services assessments: A case study in northern Portugal10
Empirical research review on Solastalgia: Place, people and policy pathways for addressing environmental distress10
Long‐term interventions by conservation and development projects support successful recovery of tropical peatlands in Amazonia10
Hunting motivations, behaviour and forest access: Characterising wildlife hunting practices in a multi‐ethnic, forested landscape of Brunei Darussalam, Southeast Asia10
Hydropower resettlement reshapes human–nature relationships: Insights from Southwestern China10
Reconnecting people and wild nature in cities: Experienced barriers to using urban wild spaces among non‐users10
Empirical examples demonstrate how relational thinking might enrich science and practice10
Indigenous and Western frameworks reveal bias in the scientific literature on salmon's contributions to social‐ecological systems10
Green pathways to mental health: Relationships between treescapes and well‐being and distress10
‘A deep, empathetic, wondrous connection’: Autistic adults' definitions and experiences of nature connection10
Non‐material contributions of nature expressed by former tourists of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania10
Co‐production of nature's contributions to people: What evidence is out there?10
Weaving for action: Transformative change in biodiversity monitoring9
Indigenous resurgence in the Blue Economy: Relational values to guide kelp mariculture9
Native seed collector networks in Brazil: Sowing social innovations for transformative change9
Behavioural and physiological responses of chacma baboons ( Papio ursinus ) to human‐induced mortality in anthropogenically modified habitat9
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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
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Urban park soundscapes: Spatial and social factors influencing bird and traffic sound experiences9
Exploring a process‐relational approach to qualitative research methods for sustainability science9
Stories of coexistence: A narrative inquiry of leopard attacks on people9
From awe to action? An interdisciplinary, systematic review of awe's potential influence on pro‐environmental behaviour9
Cover Picture and Issue Information9
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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Links between deforestation, conservation areas and conservation funding in major deforestation regions of South America9
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
Implementing the European Union Biodiversity Strategy: Interlinked challenges and a potential way forward9
Auditory perception and the ecology of human–nature interactions: Effects of hearing loss on listening to birdsong9
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
Ancient people and living nature: A global perspective on archaeological areas and biodiversity9
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