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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Childhood nature connection and constructive hope: A review of research on connecting with nature and coping with environmental loss	220
Levers and leverage points for pathways to sustainability	144
Developing multiscale and integrative nature–people scenarios using the Nature Futures Framework	127
Urban green space use during a time of stress: A case study during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Brisbane, Australia	119
The green care code: How nature connectedness and simple activities help explain pro‐nature conservation behaviours	104
Impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on human–nature interactions: Pathways, evidence and implications	88
Extinction of experience: The need to be more specific	66
Biocultural approaches to sustainability: A systematic review of the scientific literature	60
Recovery of tigers in India: Critical introspection and potential lessons	57
The need for transformative changes in the use of Indigenous knowledge along with science for environmental decision‐making in the Arctic	56
Environmental and social consequences of the increase in the demand for ‘superfoods’ world‐wide	52
Urban green space soundscapes and their perceived restorativeness	48
The maturation of ecosystem services: Social and policy research expands, but whither biophysically informed valuation?	47
Using crowdsourced spatial data from Flickr vs. PPGIS for understanding nature's contribution to people in Southern Norway	46
Leveraging Nature‐based Solutions for transformation: Reconnecting people and nature	44
Understanding sentiment of national park visitors from social media data	44
Biodiversity citizen science: Outcomes for the participating citizens	41
Studying human–nature relationships through a network lens: A systematic review	40
Harnessing artificial intelligence technology and social media data to support Cultural Ecosystem Service assessments	39
Bringing nature back into cities	34
The role of western‐based scientific, Indigenous and local knowledge in wildlife management and conservation	34
Investigating the implications of shifting baseline syndrome on conservation	33
Urban versus rural? The effects of residential status on species identification skills and connection to nature	33
Food for thought: The underutilized potential of tropical tree‐sourced foods for 21st century sustainable food systems	33
Understanding Traditional Chinese Medicine to strengthen conservation outcomes	30

No evidence of an extinction of experience or emotional disconnect from nature in urban Singapore	29
Sustainability crises are crises of relationship: Learning from Nyikina ecology and ethics	29
Ecosystem services enhanced through soundscape management link people and wildlife	29
Socio‐psychological factors, beyond knowledge, predict people’s engagement in pollinator conservation	29
Ecosystem services of temporary streams differ between wet and dry phases in regions with contrasting climates and economies	28
Knowledge and attitudes about the use of pangolin scale products in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) within China	27
Well grounded: Indigenous Peoples' knowledge, ethnobiology and sustainability	27
Wild assumptions? Questioning simplistic narratives about consumer preferences for wildlife products	26
Tough fishing and severe seasonal food insecurity in Amazonian flooded forests	26
The meaning(s) of place: Identifying the structure of sense of place across a social–ecological landscape	26
Centring Indigenous knowledge systems to re‐imagine conservation translocations	25
Environmental aesthetics: A synthetic review	25
Factors influencing nature interactions vary between cities and types of nature interactions	23
Connecting governance interventions to ecosystem services provision: A social‐ecological network approach	23
Beyond participation: How to achieve the recognition of local communities’ value‐systems in conservation? Some insights from Mexico	22
Understanding changes to children's connection to nature during the COVID‐19 pandemic and implications for child well‐being	22
Disconnection from nature: Expanding our understanding of human–nature relations	22
Spontaneous forest regrowth in South‐West Europe: Consequences for nature's contributions to people	22
Cultural worldviews consistently explain bundles of ecosystem service prioritisation across rural Germany	21
Influencing consumer demand is vital for tackling the illegal wildlife trade	21
Changes in participant behaviour and attitudes are associated with knowledge and skills gained by using a turtle conservation citizen science app	20
Exploring landowners' perceptions, motivations and needs for voluntary conservation in a cultural landscape	20
The impacts of trust, cost and risk on collaboration in environmental governance	20
Fostering ocean empathy through future scenarios	20
Motivational crowding effects in payments for ecosystem services: Exploring the role of instrumental and relational values	19
The educational value of virtual ecologies in Red Dead Redemption 2	19
How to make socio‐environmental modelling more useful to support policy and management?	18
Stakeholder priorities determine the impact of an alien tree invasion on ecosystem multifunctionality	18
Nature documentaries as catalysts for change: Mapping out the ‘Blackfish Effect’	18
Exploring shared public perspectives on biodiversity attributes	18
The Baltic Health Index (BHI): Assessing the social–ecological status of the Baltic Sea	18
Co‐designing the environmental land management scheme in England: The why, who and how of engaging ‘harder to reach’ stakeholders	17
Ocean‐scale footprint of a highly mobile fishing fleet: Social‐ecological drivers of fleet behaviour and evidence of illegal fishing	16
The influence of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the demand for different shades of green	16
Reindeer husbandry in peril?—How extractive industries exert multiple pressures on an Arctic pastoral ecosystem	16
Reference group influences and campaign exposure effects on rhino horn demand: Qualitative insights from Vietnam	16
Policy issue interdependency and the formation of collaborative networks	16
Social dynamics of values, taboos and perceived threats around sacred groves in Kurdistan, Iran	15
Keep your distance: Using Instagram posts to evaluate the risk of anthroponotic disease transmission in gorilla ecotourism	15
Media framing of spiders may exacerbate arachnophobic sentiments	15
The roles of non‐production vegetation in agroecosystems: A research framework for filling process knowledge gaps in a social‐ecological context	15
Land degradation in South Africa: Justice and climate change in tension	15
Participatory mapping reveals biocultural and nature values in the shared landscape of a Nordic UNESCO Biosphere Reserve	15
Beekeeping in, of or for the city? A socioecological perspective on urban apiculture	15
Relational values provide common ground and expose multi‐level constraints to cross‐cultural wetland management	15
Principles for including conservation messaging in wildlife‐based tourism	15
The ecology and evolution of human‐wildlife cooperation	15
A network approach for managing ecosystem services and improving food and nutrition security on smallholder farms	14
Trophy hunting and conservation: Do the major ethical theories converge in opposition to trophy hunting?	14
Complex regional telecoupling between people and nature revealed via quantification of trans‐boundary ecosystem service flows	14

Could Nintendo’s Animal Crossing be a tool for conservation messaging?	14
The dark side of nature experience: Typology, dynamics and implications of negative sensory interactions with nature	14
What are heritage values? Integrating natural and cultural heritage into environmental valuation	14
Ecosystem services, well‐being benefits and urbanization associations in a Small Island Developing State	14
Soap operas will not wash for wildlife	14
Sensing, feeling, thinking: Relating to nature with the body, heart and mind	13
Using Q‐methodology to understand stakeholder perspectives on a carnivore translocation	13
Challenges in the impact evaluation of behaviour change interventions: The case of sea turtle meat and eggs in São Tomé	13
Stepping into the Wildeverse: Evaluating the impact of augmented reality mobile gaming on pro‐conservation behaviours	13
Experimental evidence for conservation conflict interventions: The importance of financial payments, community trust and equity attitudes	13
What does value pluralism mean in practice? An empirical demonstration from a deliberative valuation	13
Enabling coexistence: Navigating predator‐induced regime shifts in human‐ocean systems	13
River rhythmicity: A conceptual means of understanding and leveraging the relational values of rivers	13
Local knowledge, know‐how and knowledge mobilized in a globalized world: A new approach of indigenous local ecological knowledge	13
Envisioning a resilient future for biodiversity conservation in the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic	12
Can we model cultural ecosystem services, and are we measuring the right things?	12
The Instagrammable outdoors – Investigating the sharing of nature experiences through visual social media	12
Local knowledge and relational values of Midwestern woody perennial polyculture farmers can inform tree‐crop policies	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
Building better conservation media for primates and people: A case study of orangutan rescue and rehabilitation YouTube videos	12
Inequities in the distribution of flood risk under floodplain restoration and climate change scenarios	12
Shapeshifting attachment: Exploring multi‐dimensional people–place bonds in place‐based citizen science	12
Exploring farmers' agrobiodiversity management practices and knowledge in clove agroforests of Madagascar	11
The full story: Understanding how films affect environmental change through the lens of narrative persuasion	11
We may not know much about the deep sea, but do we care about mining it?	11
Exploring integrated ArtScience experiences to foster nature connectedness through head, heart and hand	11
Conservation planning for people and nature in a Chilean biodiversity hotspot	11
Nature relatedness: A protective factor for snake and spider fears and phobias	11
Mechanisms for enhancing public engagement with citizen science results	11
Characterizing bird‐keeping user‐groups on Java reveals distinct behaviours, profiles and potential for change	11
An experimental test of the impact of avian diversity on attentional benefits and enjoyment of people experiencing urban green‐space	11
Characteristics of immersive citizen science experiences that drive conservation engagement	11
Wind erosion in European agricultural landscapes: More than physics	11
The role of agroforestry in restoring Brazil's Atlantic Forest: Opportunities and challenges for smallholder farmers	11
Assessing human well‐being constructs with environmental and equity aspects: A review of the landscape	11
Barriers to building wildlife‐inclusive cities: Insights from the deliberations of urban ecologists, urban planners and landscape designers	11
Partitioning private and external benefits of crop pollination services	11
Rethinking individual relationships with entities of nature	11
Beyond the ecocentric: Diverse values and attitudes influence engagement in pro‐environmental behaviours	11
Red and green loops help uncover missing feedbacks in a coral reef social–ecological system	11
Giving stakeholders a voice in governance: Biodiversity priorities for New Zealand's agriculture	11
Using natural capital and ecosystem services to facilitate participatory environmental decision making: Results from a systematic map	11
Making the UN Ocean Decade work? The potential for, and challenges of, transdisciplinary research and real‐world laboratories for building towards ocean solutions	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
Four propositions about how valuation intervenes in local environmental politics	10
Creating ecologically sound buildings by integrating ecology, architecture and computational design	10
Empirical examples demonstrate how relational thinking might enrich science and practice	10
Addressing global challenges with unconventional insect ecosystem services: Why should humanity care about insect larvae?	10
The benefits of citizen science and nature‐noticing activities for well‐being, nature connectedness and pro‐nature conservation behaviours	10
Urban park soundscapes: Spatial and social factors influencing bird and traffic sound experiences	10
Turning things around: A discussion of values, practices, and action in the context of social‐ecological change	10
The implications of digital visual media for human–nature relationships	10
Ranger perceptions of, and engagement with, monitoring of elephant poaching	10
Understanding relational values in cultural landscapes in Romania and Germany	10
Indigenous food harvesting as social–ecological monitoring: A case study with the Gitga'at First Nation	10
From tigers to axolotls: Why people keep exotic pets in Russia	9
Ethical considerations for conservation messaging research and practice	9
To tell a different story: Unexpected diversity in local attitudes towards Endangered Aye‐ayes Daubentonia madagascariensis offers new opportunities for conservation	9
On the links between nature's values and language	9
Globalisation and pollinators: Pollinator declines are an economic threat to global food systems	9
Peaceful coexistence between people and deadly wildlife: Why are recreational users of the ocean so rarely bitten by sea snakes?	9
To capitalise on the Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, we need institutional redesign to empower advances in restoration ecology and rewilding	9
Badger vaccination in England: Progress, operational effectiveness and participant motivations	9
Fishers perceptions of ecosystem service change associated with climate‐disturbed coral reefs	9
Denser and greener cities: Green interventions to achieve both urban density and nature	9
How can social–ecological system models simulate the emergence of social–ecological crises?	9
Assessing the environmental impacts of wildlife television programmes	9
From dirty to delicacy? Changing exploitation in China threatens the world's largest amphibians	9
Who knows, who cares? Untangling ecological knowledge and nature connection among Amazonian colonist farmers	9
Spatiotemporal determinants of seasonal gleaning	9
Integrating biodiversity conservation and local community perspectives in China through human dimensions research	9