OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Urban green space use during a time of stress: A case study during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Brisbane, Australia	137
Impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on human–nature interactions: Pathways, evidence and implications	106
Recovery of tigers in India: Critical introspection and potential lessons	67
Urban green space soundscapes and their perceived restorativeness	57
Leveraging Nature‐based Solutions for transformation: Reconnecting people and nature	56
Biodiversity citizen science: Outcomes for the participating citizens	50
Well grounded: Indigenous Peoples' knowledge, ethnobiology and sustainability	46
Urban versus rural? The effects of residential status on species identification skills and connection to nature	46
Harnessing artificial intelligence technology and social media data to support Cultural Ecosystem Service assessments	44
The role of western‐based scientific, Indigenous and local knowledge in wildlife management and conservation	41
Disconnection from nature: Expanding our understanding of human–nature relations	41
Understanding Traditional Chinese Medicine to strengthen conservation outcomes	37
Food for thought: The underutilized potential of tropical tree‐sourced foods for 21st century sustainable food systems	36
Socio‐psychological factors, beyond knowledge, predict people’s engagement in pollinator conservation	36
Sustainability crises are crises of relationship: Learning from Nyikina ecology and ethics	32
Ecosystem services enhanced through soundscape management link people and wildlife	31
No evidence of an extinction of experience or emotional disconnect from nature in urban Singapore	30
Influencing consumer demand is vital for tackling the illegal wildlife trade	29
Cultural worldviews consistently explain bundles of ecosystem service prioritisation across rural Germany	29
Understanding changes to children's connection to nature during the COVID‐19 pandemic and implications for child well‐being	28
Denser and greener cities: Green interventions to achieve both urban density and nature	28
Beyond participation: How to achieve the recognition of local communities’ value‐systems in conservation? Some insights from Mexico	28
Connecting governance interventions to ecosystem services provision: A social‐ecological network approach	27
Factors influencing nature interactions vary between cities and types of nature interactions	27
Stakeholder priorities determine the impact of an alien tree invasion on ecosystem multifunctionality	26

Motivational crowding effects in payments for ecosystem services: Exploring the role of instrumental and relational values	25
Co‐designing the environmental land management scheme in England: The why, who and how of engaging ‘harder to reach’ stakeholders	24
Changes in participant behaviour and attitudes are associated with knowledge and skills gained by using a turtle conservation citizen science app	23
Land degradation in South Africa: Justice and climate change in tension	23
Spontaneous forest regrowth in South‐West Europe: Consequences for nature's contributions to people	23
Fostering ocean empathy through future scenarios	22
The ecology and evolution of human‐wildlife cooperation	22
Beyond the ecocentric: Diverse values and attitudes influence engagement in pro‐environmental behaviours	22
What are heritage values? Integrating natural and cultural heritage into environmental valuation	22
The influence of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the demand for different shades of green	21
Ecosystem restoration job creation potential in Brazil	21
A network approach for managing ecosystem services and improving food and nutrition security on smallholder farms	21
The educational value of virtual ecologies in Red Dead Redemption 2	21
Policy issue interdependency and the formation of collaborative networks	20
Exploring shared public perspectives on biodiversity attributes	20
Reindeer husbandry in peril?—How extractive industries exert multiple pressures on an Arctic pastoral ecosystem	20
The benefits of citizen science and nature‐noticing activities for well‐being, nature connectedness and pro‐nature conservation behaviours	20
What does value pluralism mean in practice? An empirical demonstration from a deliberative valuation	19
How do different types and characteristics of green space impact mental health? A scoping review	19
How to make socio‐environmental modelling more useful to support policy and management?	19
The Baltic Health Index (BHI): Assessing the social–ecological status of the Baltic Sea	19
Relational values provide common ground and expose multi‐level constraints to cross‐cultural wetland management	19
Complex regional telecoupling between people and nature revealed via quantification of trans‐boundary ecosystem service flows	19
Ecosystem services, well‐being benefits and urbanization associations in a Small Island Developing State	18
The role of agroforestry in restoring Brazil's Atlantic Forest: Opportunities and challenges for smallholder farmers	18
Beekeeping in, of or for the city? A socioecological perspective on urban apiculture	18
The dark side of nature experience: Typology, dynamics and implications of negative sensory interactions with nature	18
The Instagrammable outdoors – Investigating the sharing of nature experiences through visual social media	18
Nature documentaries as catalysts for change: Mapping out the ‘Blackfish Effect’	18
Understanding relational values in cultural landscapes in Romania and Germany	18
Participatory mapping reveals biocultural and nature values in the shared landscape of a Nordic UNESCO Biosphere Reserve	18
Assessing human well‐being constructs with environmental and equity aspects: A review of the landscape	18
Characteristics of immersive citizen science experiences that drive conservation engagement	17
Can we model cultural ecosystem services, and are we measuring the right things?	17
Could Nintendo’s Animal Crossing be a tool for conservation messaging?	17
Exploring integrated ArtScience experiences to foster nature connectedness through head, heart and hand	17
Globalisation and pollinators: Pollinator declines are an economic threat to global food systems	17
Social dynamics of values, taboos and perceived threats around sacred groves in Kurdistan, Iran	17
Sensing, feeling, thinking: Relating to nature with the body, heart and mind	17
Inequities in the distribution of flood risk under floodplain restoration and climate change scenarios	16
River rhythmicity: A conceptual means of understanding and leveraging the relational values of rivers	16
Barriers to building wildlife‐inclusive cities: Insights from the deliberations of urban ecologists, urban planners and landscape designers	16
Trophy hunting and conservation: Do the major ethical theories converge in opposition to trophy hunting?	16
Local knowledge and relational values of Midwestern woody perennial polyculture farmers can inform tree‐crop policies	16
Ocean‐scale footprint of a highly mobile fishing fleet: Social‐ecological drivers of fleet behaviour and evidence of illegal fishing	16
Wind erosion in European agricultural landscapes: More than physics	16
Mechanisms for enhancing public engagement with citizen science results	16
Rethinking individual relationships with entities of nature	15
Keep your distance: Using Instagram posts to evaluate the risk of anthroponotic disease transmission in gorilla ecotourism	15
Challenges in the impact evaluation of behaviour change interventions: The case of sea turtle meat and eggs in São Tomé	15

‘I owe it to the animals’: The bidirectionality of Swiss alpine farmers' relational values	15
Soap operas will not wash for wildlife	15
Conservation planning for people and nature in a Chilean biodiversity hotspot	15
Shapeshifting attachment: Exploring multi‐dimensional people–place bonds in place‐based citizen science	15
An experimental test of the impact of avian diversity on attentional benefits and enjoyment of people experiencing urban green‐space	14
Beyond ‘desirable’ values: Expanding relational values research to reflect the diversity of human–nature relationships	14
Empirical examples demonstrate how relational thinking might enrich science and practice	14
Stepping into the Wildeverse: Evaluating the impact of augmented reality mobile gaming on pro‐conservation behaviours	14
Making the UN Ocean Decade work? The potential for, and challenges of, transdisciplinary research and real‐world laboratories for building towards ocean solutions	14
Experimental evidence for conservation conflict interventions: The importance of financial payments, community trust and equity attitudes	14
Creating ecologically sound buildings by integrating ecology, architecture and computational design	14
The implications of digital visual media for human–nature relationships	14
Envisioning a resilient future for biodiversity conservation in the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic	14
The full story: Understanding how films affect environmental change through the lens of narrative persuasion	13
Turning things around: A discussion of values, practices, and action in the context of social‐ecological change	13
Integrating biodiversity conservation and local community perspectives in China through human dimensions research	13
To capitalise on the Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, we need institutional redesign to empower advances in restoration ecology and rewilding	13
Valuing the cultural services from urban blue‐space ecosystems in Japanese megacities during the COVID‐19 pandemic	13
Urban park soundscapes: Spatial and social factors influencing bird and traffic sound experiences	13
Exploring farmers' agrobiodiversity management practices and knowledge in clove agroforests of Madagascar	13
Fruits of the city: The nature, nurture and future of urban foraging	13
Nature relatedness: A protective factor for snake and spider fears and phobias	13
Giving stakeholders a voice in governance: Biodiversity priorities for New Zealand's agriculture	12
Low levels of outdoor recreation alter wildlife behaviour	12
From dirty to delicacy? Changing exploitation in China threatens the world's largest amphibians	12
People, nature and large herbivores in a shared landscape: A mixed‐method study of the ecological and social outcomes from agriculture and conservation	12
Escaping social–ecological traps through ecological restoration and socioeconomic development in China's Loess Plateau	12
Rewilding—The farmers’ perspective. Perceptions and attitudinal support for rewilding among the English farming community	12
Building better conservation media for primates and people: A case study of orangutan rescue and rehabilitation YouTube videos	12
Using natural capital and ecosystem services to facilitate participatory environmental decision making: Results from a systematic map	12
Four propositions about how valuation intervenes in local environmental politics	11
Protecting our coast for everyone's future: Indigenous and scientific knowledge support marine spatial protections proposed by Central Coast First Nations in Pacific Canada	11
Conflicting and entangled human–nature relationships: A discursive‐material analysis of the documentary film Kiruna ‐ A Brand New World	11
Mainstreaming the Environment: Exploring pathways and narratives to improve policy and decision‐making	11
Relational values of nature in empirical research: A systematic review	11
Reducing risky interactions: Identifying barriers to the successful management of human–wildlife conflict in an urban parkland	11
We may not know much about the deep sea, but do we care about mining it?	11
The value of listening and listening for values in conservation	11
Assessing the accuracy of free automated plant identification applications	11
Sustainable protected areas: Synergies between biodiversity conservation and socioeconomic development	10
Reconnecting with the past and anticipating the future: A review of fisheries‐derived cultural ecosystem services in pre‐Hispanic Peru	10
Spatiotemporal determinants of seasonal gleaning	10
Effects of COVID‐19 lockdown restrictions on parents' attitudes towards green space and time spent outside by children in Cambridgeshire and North London, United Kingdom	10
Ranger perceptions of, and engagement with, monitoring of elephant poaching	10
Mangrove cultural services and values: Current status and knowledge gaps	10
Global knowledge–action networks at the frontlines of sustainability: Insights from five decades of science for action in UNESCO's World Network of biosphere reserves	10
Stakeholder perspectives on nature, people and sustainability at Mount Kilimanjaro	10
Informing the design of urban green and blue spaces through an understanding of Europeans' usage and preferences	10
On the links between nature's values and language	10
Co‐production of nature's contributions to people: What evidence is out there?	10
Relational values of forests: Value‐conflicts between local communities and external programmes in Sulawesi	10
‘Societal Relationships with Nature’: A framework for understanding nature‐related conflicts and multiple values	10
Ethical considerations for conservation messaging research and practice	10
A review of planting principles to identify the right place for the right tree for ‘net zero plus’ woodlands: Applying a place‐based natural capital framework for sustainable, efficient and equitable	10
Fishers perceptions of ecosystem service change associated with climate‐disturbed coral reefs	10
TheCBDPost‐2020 biodiversity framework: People's place within the rest of nature	10
Behavioural insights for improved uptake of agricultural sustainability assessment tools	10
Scientific response to a cluster of shark bites	10
Towards a holistic approach to rewilding in cultural landscapes	10
Assessing the environmental impacts of wildlife television programmes	10
Insights for reducing the consumption of wildlife: The use of bear bile and gallbladder in Cambodia	9
Relational values help explain green infrastructure preferences: The case of managing crane habitat in Hokkaido, Japan	9
An open‐source image classifier for characterizing recreational activities across landscapes	9
Transformation and endurance of Indigenous hunting: Kadazandusun‐Murut bearded pig hunting practices amidst oil palm expansion and urbanization in Sabah, Malaysia	9
How can social–ecological system models simulate the emergence of social–ecological crises?	9
Contribution of Indigenous Peoples' understandings and relational frameworks to invasive alien species management	9
Perceived inclusivity and trust in protected area management decisions among stakeholders in Alaska	9
Perceptions, preferences and barriers: A qualitative study of greenspace and under‐representation in Leeds, UK	9
To tell a different story: Unexpected diversity in local attitudes towards Endangered Aye‐ayes Daubentonia madagascariensis offers new opportunities for conservation	9
Centring justice in conceptualizing and improving access to urban nature	9
Peaceful coexistence between people and deadly wildlife: Why are recreational users of the ocean so rarely bitten by sea snakes?	9
Using theory and evidence to design behaviour change interventions for reducing unsustainable wildlife consumption	9
Should we connect children to nature in the Anthropocene?	9
Who knows, who cares? Untangling ecological knowledge and nature connection among Amazonian colonist farmers	9
Indigenous knowledge of key ecological processes confers resilience to a small‐scale kelp fishery	9
Perception and appreciation of plant biodiversity among experts and laypeople	9
From biodiversity to health: Quantifying the impact of diverse ecosystems on human well‐being	9