Ambio

Papers
(The median citation count of Ambio 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
From climate perceptions to actions: A case study on coffee farms in Ethiopia132
Small-scale fisheries in ecologically sensitive areas in Latin America and the Caribbean: Do marine protected areas benefit fisheries governance?126
The intricate diversity of human–nature relations: Evidence from Finland95
A social-ecological engagement with reef passages in New Caledonia: Connectors between coastal and oceanic spaces and species89
Input data resolution affects the conservation prioritization outcome of spatially sparse biodiversity features88
Who joins voluntary conservation programs? Socioenvironmental predictors of participation in tropical working landscapes85
Protecting peatlands requires understanding stakeholder perceptions and relational values: A case study of peatlands in the Yorkshire Dales79
Social and knowledge diversity in forest education: Vital for the world’s forests73
Cascading tipping points of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean73
The decision maker’s lament: If I only had some science!66
Balancing landscape values and tourism choices: Integrating participatory mapping and the IPBES Values Typology66
Network analysis can provide useful insights for building resilience in social-ecological systems65
Toward energy systems within the planetary boundaries64
The entangled Indigenous, rural, and urban realities in Amazônia’s governance60
Discourse developments within the public agenda on Danish nature management 2016–2021: Animal welfare ethics as a barrier to rewilding projects59
Wolves on the phone: Public calls reveal a rise in urban concerns as wolves recolonize human-dominated areas56
A general procedure to identify indicators for evaluation and monitoring of nature-based solution projects55
Time for change: Recommendations for action during the proposed EUDR postponement53
Foresight science in conservation: Tools, barriers, and mainstreaming opportunities51
Wilder rangelands as a natural climate opportunity: Linking climate action to biodiversity conservation and social transformation45
Global change effects on biogeochemical mercury cycling42
A synthesis of mercury research in the Southern Hemisphere, part 1: Natural processes42
Cultivating change: Addressing shifts in knowledge and skills required for landscape-scale nature recovery42
The gendered costs of human–wildlife conflict: A global systematic review41
Protected area designation and management in a world of climate change: A review of recommendations41
Motivations underpinning honeybee management practices: A Q methodology study with UK beekeepers39
Improving biocultural diversity conservation: Integrating the multiple evidence base (MEB) approach and co-design39
Publisher Correction: Macro-level determinants of nature connectedness: An exploratory analysis of 61 countries38
Assessing scaling strategies for nature-based solutions: An indicator-based analysis of policy documents in the Canary Islands37
Towards a more just post-coal future: Engaging local communities in post-mining landscape restoration through participatory mapping methods36
Conflicts hinder research into animal movements36
Bridging production and protection: Legislative and technical feasibility of continuous cover forestry around freshwater in Sweden35
The forest beyond the trees: A network perspective on governing co-production of nature’s contributions to people33
Cascading climate effects in deep reservoirs: Full assessment of physical and biogeochemical dynamics under ensemble climate projections and ways towards adaptation33
Governance hurdles for expansion of low trophic mariculture production in Sweden32
Decarbonising homes and the in-between: Intersections of visible and latent climate-wise housing and mobility30
Citizen eyes on elusive wildlife: Assessing public appreciation for urban wild mammals30
Unveiling urban governance diversity: Clustering cities based on mitigation actions28
Enhancing the transformative potential of sustainability innovations: An application of the values-rules-knowledge framework28
Beyond life cycle thinking: A perspective27
Implementing nature-based solutions requires distinguishing place from space27
Social–ecological transformations towards sustainability in drylands: A conceptual framework with examples from the Karamoja cluster in East Africa27
Epilogue: Immanence, relationality, connectivity26
Recurrent discharges of non-petroleum substances from chemical tankers in Swedish marine Natura 2000 sites are against the aims of EU Directives26
Beyond the landscape: Social-behavioral factors as the true coexistence parameters in the Chilean carnivore–livestock conflict25
Empowering Indigenous natural hazards management in northern Australia24
Beyond retreat: Land–seascape legacies of change and continuation24
Influence of prescribed burning on reindeer winter pastures at landscape scale in northern Sweden: A modelling approach23
SDGs at the halfway point: How the 17 global goals address risks and wicked problems23
Institutional network relationships and environmental governance in the Colombian and Peruvian Amazon23
Land sharing complements land sparing in the conservation of disturbance-dependent species23
Eco-pilgrimages: Linking humans, heritage, and hydrology23
Polycentric and resilient perspectives for governing the commons: Strategic and law and economics insights for sustainable development22
Integrating blue: How do we make nationally determined contributions work for both blue carbon and local coastal communities?22
Active afforestation of drained peatlands is not a viable option under the EU Nature Restoration Law22
Nature, smells, and human wellbeing22
Understanding ecological civilization in China: From political context to science21
Community-based approach to detect and predict conflicts with large carnivores in human-dominated landscape21
Leverage points for resilience: Introducing the pyramid framework for strategic adaptation planning and assessment21
Nature under pressure in New Caledonia: Social crisis in a world key biodiversity hotspot21
German fishery’s adaptation to historic events, Western Baltic Sea, 1890–195021
Living with wolves: A worldwide systematic review of attitudes21
Managing multi-functional peri-urban landscapes: Impacts of horse-keeping on water quality21
Toward a critical theory of social–ecological resilience: Maize and cattle in Southern Province, Zambia21
Macro-level determinants of nature connectedness: An exploratory analysis of 61 countries20
When enough is enough: Introducing sufficiency corridors to put techno-economism in its place20
Toxic tides of change: Ocean pollution as a cultural tipping point20
Assuming accuracy, pretending influence? Risks of measuring, monitoring and reporting sustainable development goals20
A system for the management of sandy shorelines under climate change: United States Virgin Islands (USVI)20
Food security drives local hunting of a boreal ungulate during a global pandemic20
The best laid plans: How do adopted city sustainability goals influence site-level action in urban forestry?20
How contaminated with ammunition-derived lead is meat from European small game animals? Assessing and reducing risks to human health19
Adapting the social practice of beekeeping to a changing climate19
Enablers and obstacles for implementing rewilding pathways in socio-ecological systems: Insights from the Oder Delta19
Deciphering the future of electric vehicles amid emissions and adoption drivers19
Snow leopards, prey, and pastoralists: Understanding the impacts of climate change on human–wildlife coexistence in Central Asia18
Restoring nature, enhancing active mobility: The role of street greenery in the EU’s 2024 restoration law18
Resilience thinking for human–wildlife coexistence: Bridging dynamic systems, archetypes, and transformations18
A relational turn in climate change adaptation: Evidence from urban nature-based solutions18
A conceptual framework of indicators for the suitability of forests for outdoor recreation17
Frozen infrastructures in a changing climate: Transforming human–environment-technology relations in the Anthropocene17
Regulation, the hybrid market, and species conservation: The case of conservation banking in California17
Usual suspects meet mission impossible: Nutrient losses and effects of mitigation measures on a coastal catchment in the Baltic Sea region17
Coastal erosion and climate change: A review on coastal-change process and modeling17
A multi-framework analysis of stakeholders’ perceptions in developing a localized blue carbon ecosystems strategy in Eastern Samar, Philippines17
Good ethics cannot stop me from exploiting: The good and bad of anthropocentric attitudes in a game environment17
What drives participation in community-based forest management? Insights from a global review17
Wildfire smoke and antimicrobial resistance: A hidden link demanding global attention17
Should Swedish sea level planners worry more about mean sea level rise or sea level extremes?16
A methodological approach for the analysis of ecosystem services from the local communities’ perspective16
Are European Blue Economy ambitions in conflict with European environmental visions?16
Redefining urban spaces in stormwater assessment through ecosystem management: A narrative review16
Can dry rivers provide a good quality of life? Integrating beneficial and detrimental nature’s contributions to people over time16
The practice of historical ecology: What, when, where, how and what for16
Extinction alarm for trees16
Effect of farm size on vulnerability in beekeeping: Insights from mediterranean Spain16
Virtual landscape-scale restoration of altered channels helps us understand the extent of impacts to guide future ecosystem management16
More than greening: Using a novel index to assess restorative nature and vulnerability relationships15
May a highly touristic tropical island sustain water resources? Navigating troubled waters to berth on a safe shore15
The historical trajectory of a coffee agri-food system: A case study in Oaxaca, Mexico15
From paradigm blindness to paradigm shift? An integrative review and critical analysis of the regenerative paradigm15
Navigating the participatory turn in agricultural and food research: Best practice from citizen science14
Correction to: Ranking ecosystem services delivered by trees in urban and rural areas14
The future of the Black Sea: More pollution in over half of the rivers14
Rethinking knowledge systems for agroforestry: Insights from the mental models of cacao farmers in Colombia14
Mammal recovery inside and outside terrestrial protected areas14
Global waste, local impact: International debris influx to Cozumel Island beaches14
Grain fields in sea-landscapes14
Agriculture yield gap reduction: The interplay of capitals, crop diversity and specialization14
A transdisciplinary approach to nuclear waste management: Opening research with a Citizens’ Working Group14
Country-level factors in a failing relationship with nature: Nature connectedness as a key metric for a sustainable future14
The role of collective grieving in supporting wellbeing and capacity for climate action14
Interventions to increase circularity and reduce environmental impacts in food systems14
“In the end, the story of climate change was one of hope and redemption”: ChatGPT’s narrative on global warming14
Economics of rewilding13
Correction to: Quantification of forest carbon flux and stock uncertainties under climate change and their use in regionally explicit decision making: Case study in Finland13
Assessing the vulnerability of mountain value chains to environmental and social drivers in Europe: A land-use and stakeholder-based approach13
What does “sustainable seafood” mean to seafood system actors in Japan and Sweden?13
Meeting the challenges of wild boar hunting in a modern society: The case of France13
Historical perspectives on forestry science and monocultures: Ideas of rationality in Sweden during the early twentieth century13
How is Gaia doing? Trends in global land degradation and improvement13
Mining and the sustainable development goals: Prioritizing SDG targets for proper environmental governance13
The environmental impact assessment of China’s ecological migration from a social–ecological perspective13
From nature experience to pro-conservation action: How generational amnesia and declining nature-relatedness shape behaviour intentions of adolescents and adults13
A dam or a polder? Stakeholders’ dispute over the “right” flood-protection measure in the Czech Republic13
Global gateways as telecoupled human and natural systems: The emerging case of the Bering Strait13
The development of ecological civilization in China based on the economic–social–natural complex system13
How oxygen deficiency in the Baltic Sea proper has spread and worsened: The role of ammonium and hydrogen sulphide13
A global analysis of bioeconomy visions in governmental bioeconomy strategies13
Navigating local relevance in transdisciplinary research: Exploring climate and environmental change in the Tasiilaq region, East Greenland12
General trends in research using impact evaluation methods on the effectiveness of terrestrial protected areas in reducing biodiversity loss12
Rethinking desert definitions: Bridging the gap between science, policy, and conservation12
Potential of seagrass habitat restorations as nature-based solutions: Practical and scientific implications in Indonesia12
Evolving pathways towards water security in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: An adaptive management perspective12
Exploring community resilience through Arctic residents’ narratives in the Republic of Sakha (Russia)12
Online citizen dialogue on biodiversity conservation and citizen participation: A cross-cultural deliberation between Taiwan and Japan12
Rapid lake ice structure changes across Swedish lakes puts public ice safety at risk12
Business for ocean sustainability: Early responses of ocean governance in the private sector12
Reducing mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants in India: Possibilities and challenges12
Assessing alternative lake management actions for climate change adaptation12
High salinity in drinking water creating pathways towards chronic poverty: A case study of coastal communities in Tanzania12
Navigating risk: A holistic framework for supporting rural livelihoods adaptation in Solomon Islands11
Reviewer Acknowledgements11
Correction: Adapted forest management to improve the potential for reindeer husbandry in Northern Sweden11
Preferences of experts and the general public about wildlife management in Spain11
Improving strategic planning for nature: Panacea or pandora’s box for the built and natural environment?11
Farm forests, seasonal hunger, and biomass poverty: Evidence of induced intensification from panel data in the Ethiopian Highlands11
Placing diverse knowledge systems at the core of transformative climate research11
Dreaming of wetscapes: Waking to the realities of restoration11
Leveraging collective action and environmental literacy to address complex sustainability challenges11
An assessment of the perceptions, knowledge, and socioeconomic factors associated with illegal orchid trade in Nepal: Implications for conservation11
Trends and gaps in biodiversity and ecosystem services research: A text mining approach10
How is energy poverty linked with citizen perceptions of financial support for low-carbon housing?10
Maximising biodiversity potential in Europe’s mines and quarries: A key role for EU Nature Restoration Regulation targets10
Social–ecological system trajectories of peri-urban watersheds based on a spatial analysis of vulnerability components: A case study in Mexico City, 1999–203910
Rutger Rosenberg: A pioneering marine ecologist10
From COVID-19 to Green Recovery with natural capital accounting10
Empathy for wildlife: The importance of the individual10
Farmer perceptions of the vulnerabilities of traditional livestock farming systems under global change10
Exploring a green Swedish model: Coinciding and contradictory interests on a just climate transformation in Sweden10
Forest fates: Unraveling the peri-urban social–ecological trajectories in Mexico City's conservation land10
A 2026 horizon scan for biodiversity conservation in South Africa10
Human–nature relationships: An introduction to social–ecological practice theory for human–wildlife interactions10
Foraging supply chains: Investigating disaster for improved food provisioning10
Publisher Correction: How advocacy coalitions in Sweden explain the policy gap between Swedish and EU eel fishery policies10
Reforming a pre-existing biodiversity conservation scheme: Promoting climate co-benefits by a carbon payment10
A bibliometric review on the Water Framework Directive twenty years after its birth10
Temperatures and hypolimnetic oxygen in German lakes: Observations, future trends and adaptation potential10
Erosion of traditional ecological knowledge under conditions of hydrosocial rupture: Insights from the Mekong floodplains communities10
Politics of delay hinder the implementation of EU Forest Strategy in Finland10
Paradoxical tensions in exploiting data to implement circular economy in the textile industry10
Increasing exposure to global climate change and hopes for the era of climate adaptation: An aquatic perspective10
Rivers in transition: Local perceptions of a Swedish dam removal9
Knowledge and uses of freshwater mussels in Europe9
Climate change and the Western Himalayan community: Exploring the local perspective through food choices9
Tea for two: India’s commodity agroforests as coexistence landscapes for the endangered Asiatic wild dogs and people9
Navigating towards strengthened climate service processes9
Shifted baselines: Using the adaptive cycle to assess the post-tsunami mangrove social-ecological system recovery in the Nicobar Islands9
Mapping local knowledge supports science and stewardship9
Social-ecological system analysis of an invertebrate gleaning fishery on the island of Unguja, Zanzibar9
Modelling CO2 budget of mussel farms across the Mediterranean Sea9
Correction to: Potential of seagrass habitat restorations as nature-based solutions: Practical and scientific implications in Indonesia9
Plastic pollution in the Amazon: The first comprehensive and structured scoping review9
Sustainable coffee: A review of the diverse initiatives and governance dimensions of global coffee supply chains9
Gross ecosystem product (GEP): Quantifying nature for environmental and economic policy innovation9
Lifestyle and language barriers influence community engagement with green infrastructure9
Bridging social and ecological science to create spatially explicit models of human-caused mortality of carnivores9
The sustainability of urbanized land: Impacts of the growth of urbanized land in prefecture-level cities in China8
Integration matters: Combining socio-cultural and biophysical methods for mapping ecosystem service bundles8
Urban dog densities reveal environmental inequities in Santiago, Chile8
Can river laws deliver ecological outcomes? Evaluating the Yangtze River protection law through a stakeholder lens8
Part of or apart from nature? Characteristics, environmental attitudes, and priorities of the nature (dis)connected8
Correction: Designing gender-inclusive data systems in small-scale fisheries8
Integrating carbon sequestration and biodiversity impacts in forested ecosystems: Concepts, cases, and policies8
Mercury and artisanal and small-scale gold mining: Review of global use estimates and considerations for promoting mercury-free alternatives8
Exploring the performance of protected areas in alleviating future human pressure8
Perceptions of coastal vegetated ecosystems: A systematic review across geographical and sectoral dimensions8
(Un)frozen foundations: A study of permafrost construction practices in Russia, Alaska, and Canada8
New indicator of habitat functionality reveals high risk of underestimating trade-offs among sustainable development goals: The case of wild reindeer and hydropower8
Long-term changes in herbivore community and vegetation impact of wild and domestic herbivores across Iceland8
Upsetting offsetting? Nathan the Wise’s Ring Parable and three reasons why not to adopt the carbon offsetting logic to biodiversity8
An environmental justice perspective on ecosystem services8
Nonpoint source pollution measures in the Clean Water Act have no detectable impact on decadal trends in nutrient concentrations in U.S. inland waters8
How to integrate youth in regional sustainability transformation processes: Tools, structures, and effects8
Food diversification as an adaptation strategy to climate change: Habitat suitability for wild and cultivated food plants in the Brazilian Semiarid8
Community-based natural resource management in Roatan: Strengths and challenges8
Cultural ecosystem services in European grasslands: A systematic review of threats8
Activities undertaken by Indigenous Australians as “caring for Country”: A systematic review8
Climate Relief Maps: A methodological framework for exploring everyday experiences of climate change through an intersectional lens8
The role of ecology in speciation: Dolph Schluter Crafoord Laureate 20238
Modeling fisheries and carbon sequestration ecosystem services under deep uncertainty in the ocean twilight zone7
Values of protected area landscapes shape the behaviors of subsistence users in Interior Alaska7
Visiting mine reclamation: How field experience shapes perceptions of mining7
Bibliometric and literature review of research on nature-based solutions and climate change: Implications for policy and practice7
Evidence-based legislation, strong institutions and consensus needed to mitigate the negative impacts of free-ranging dogs7
Warranty for a better world? The politics of environmental knowledge in bioeconomic sustainability certificates7
Regenerating the food system: A proposed vision and guiding principles for regenerative, inclusive food systems (RIFS)7
People as solutions to sustainability7
Understanding transformative capacity to boost urban climate adaptation: A Semi-Systematic Literature Review7
Navigating social–ecological changes: A mixed-method analysis of extensive livestock systems in southern Patagonian forests, Argentina7
Reaping what we sow: Centering values in food systems transformations research7
Determining the transformative potential of circular agriculture initiatives7
Climate, peace, and conflict—past and present: Bridging insights from historical sciences and contemporary research7
Wetscapes provide the physical basis to sustainable peatland livelihoods7
Bioeconomic opportunities in restored tropical forests7
A novel governance framework for transformative science–policy–society interfaces: What can sociocracy offer?7
Smoke pollution must be part of the savanna fire management equation: A case study from Darwin, Australia7
Uplifting local ecological knowledge as part of adaptation pathways to wildfire risk reduction: A case study in Montseny, Catalonia (Spain)7
Letting the plants speak: Law, landscape and conservation7
Good data relations key to Indigenous research sovereignty: A case study from Nunatsiavut7
Relying on wildlife management: How compensation programs can build trust and perceived control to sustain coexistence with brown bears in Poland7
Uncovering the governance and financing mechanisms supporting urban nature-based solutions: Case Stiemer Valley, Genk7
Barriers to evidence use for sustainability: Insights from pesticide policy and practice7
Looking beneath the scales: Does local ecological knowledge and environmental values better inform conservation of cryptic species?6
Systemic approach to green infrastructure and nature-based solutions uptake: Insights from the Polish cities6
Correction: Proposed highway in the Peruvian Amazon threatens vulnerable indigenous communities and natural protected areas6
How to square the circle? A conceptual framework synergising strategies for circular agriculture to tackle climate change and enhance overall on-farm sustainability6
Has the IPCC’s revised vulnerability concept been well adopted?6
Can natural forest expansion contribute to Europe's restoration policy agenda? An interdisciplinary assessment6
Light at the end of the tunnel: Innovative opportunities for saving tropical biodiversity6
Indigenous Peoples’ rights in national climate governance: An analysis of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)6
Landscape governance as a matter of concern: A relational framework6
From chocolate to palm oil: The future of Indonesia’s cocoa plantations6
Marine conservation in Vanuatu: Local conceptualisation and ‘assemblage’6
Border militarization affects people’s interactions with nature in Białowieża Forest6
Inevitable epistemological conflict: Reflections on a disagreement over the relationship between science and indigenous and local knowledge6
Designing gender-inclusive data systems in small-scale fisheries6
An action framework for the participatory assessment of nature-based solutions in cities6
Causes and consequences of tipping points in river delta social–ecological systems6
Tracing innovation pathways behind fisheries co-management in Vanuatu6
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