Environmental Science & Policy

Papers
(The median citation count of Environmental Science & Policy is 6. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Enhancing climate change-induced flood co-adaptation in the Johor river basin, Malaysia: A dotmocracy mapping approach with key technical stakeholders193
Can a Science Week empower scientists for conservation advocacy?193
Redefining co-design for social-ecological research and practice: A systematic literature review95
A conceptual framework for knowledge integration in cross-disciplinary collaborations88
Gender-based climate (in)justice: An overview87
Indigenous peoples in carbon pricing policymaking84
Adaptation pathways to inform policy and practice in the context of development80
Institutional barriers to actionable science: Perspectives from decision support tool creators78
Plastics in a circular economy: Mitigating the ambiguity of widely-used terms from stakeholders consultation77
Identifying leverage points for sustainable transitions in urban – rural systems: Application of graph theory to participatory causal loop diagramming73
Integrating traditional and local knowledge into disaster risk reduction policies: Insights from Nepal, India and Bangladesh73
Analyzing efficiency and built environment factors for achieving convenient access to public transport: A Europe-wide DEA application73
Applying Theory of Change in research program planning: Lessons from CGIAR71
Investigating the risky dilemma of regional flood planning: The case of the Wolastoq | Saint John River Basin, Canada69
Editorial Board67
Expert knowledge and institutional interplay: Exploring the epistemic linkages of the IPCC, IPBES, WCRP, and Future Earth67
Identifying success factors for integrated coastal zone management: Development of a regional coastal plan in Morocco.66
A stakeholder analysis based on project managers’ perceptions: Unlocking transformative potential in Natura 2000 projects66
Who should measure air quality in modern cities? The example of decentralization of urban air quality monitoring in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia, Russia)64
Flood risk management along German rivers – A review of multi-criteria analysis methods and decision-support systems64
Situating ‘migration as adaptation’ discourse and appraising its relevance to Senegal’s development sector64
Editorial Board64
Are stakeholders ready to transform phosphorus use in food systems? A transdisciplinary study in a livestock intensive system64
Twinning green and digital futures in waste management63
“Our burgers eat carbon”: Investigating the discourses of corporate net-zero commitments63
Assessing multi-dimensional complexity through sustainability modeling: A whole community approach61
Participatory study of policy process for wildlife conservation and ecotourism in Eswatini: A multiple streams analysis59
Editorial Board59
Beyond a garden: Alignment of Sustainable Development Goals with botanic gardens59
Marine and coastal places: Wellbeing in a blue economy57
Problem framing for Australian coastal management57
Environmental assessment and regulatory oversight of genetically engineered crops in the United States56
Designing successful agri-environmental schemes: A mechanistic analysis of a collective scheme for eco-system services in the Netherlands55
Knowledge brokers at the interface of environmental science and policy: A review of knowledge and research needs55
Local content policies: Knowledge stock and future directions for research and policy making in view of the sustainability agenda54
Analyzing the political impact of Real-world laboratories for urban transformation in eight German ‘Cities of the Future’53
How to promote the integrative ability of transdisciplinary graduate students53
A new perspective on the work of boundary organisations: Bridging knowledge between marine conservation actors in Pacific Small Island Developing States52
Earthquake recommendations in Europe: Types and diversity51
Fostering uptake of innovations and solutions for water and climate challenges in Africa: Lessons from the AfriAlliance Knowledge Brokerage Events51
Barriers and opportunities to incorporate scientific evidence into air quality management in Mexico: A stakeholders’ perspective50
A conceptual framework for the assessment of and the transition to liveable, sustainable and equitable cities50
To dam or not to dam? Actionable socio-hydrology modeling to inform robust adaptation to water scarcity and water extremes49
Indigenous community perspectives on energy governance49
Editorial Board49
Tracing the inclusion of health as a component of the food-energy-water nexus in dam management in the Senegal River Basin48
Patterns of injustices in water allocation mechanisms in the Brazilian Amazon: Palm oil expansion and the reshaping of hydrosocial territories46
Comparing normative and descriptive methods for multi-criteria decision analysis: A case study evaluating wetland restoration opportunities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, USA46
Measuring and managing for environmental sustainability. An application of the Environmental Sustainability Gap (ESGAP) framework in New Caledonia45
Collaborative valuation of ecosystem services to inform lake remediation45
Advancing socio-ecological considerations in impact assessment of extractive industries: A realist interview study in the Canadian context44
Editorial Board43
Conservation or deforestation: Households attitudinal analysis of forest resources for sustainable development of the Tain (II) Forest Reserve, Ghana43
What is the ‘problem’ of gender inequality represented to be in the Swedish forest sector?42
Pathways to transformative adaptation in southern African cities: A criteria-based assessment in Harare and Durban42
Effects of policy and functional (in)coherence on coordination – A comparative analysis of cross-sectoral water management problems42
Building a knowledge infrastructure for Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP). An analytical approach based on the experimental TIP conference 202241
Trade-offs in expanding citizen participation in low-carbon transitions: Seven transition arena experiments41
Just sortition, communitarian deliberation: Two proposals for grounded climate assemblies40
Unintended consequences: The erosion of traditional collective action and social capital by externally imposed climate adaptation programs40
Weaving scientific and local knowledge on climate change impacts in coastal Kenya, Western Indian Ocean40
Urban-rural interdependencies from an Earth system’s view – Principles and perspectives leading to new integrative and transformative research40
The ClimateHack: How tech entrepreneurship shapes climate action40
Integrating human rights in the sustainability governance of global supply chains: Exploring the deforestation-land tenure nexus38
The role of iconic places, collective efficacy, and negative emotions in climate change communication38
What motivates urban dwellers to adapt to climate-driven water insecurity? An empirical study from Lima, Peru38
Managing emerging environmental risks when we do not know enough about them: The case of respirable mineral dust38
Climate change preparedness across sectors of the built environment – A review of literature37
Science in the court: Expert knowledge and forest fires on Indonesia’s plantations37
Operationalizing the biocultural perspective in conservation practice: A systematic review of the literature37
Climate change adaptation in agriculture: Learning from an international labour mobility programme in Australia and the Pacific Islands region37
A knowledge exchange framework to connect research, policy, and practice, developed through the example of the Chinese island of Hainan37
A review of ES knowledge use in spatial planning36
A water-energy-food security nexus framework based on optimal resource allocation36
Assessing the dynamics of urban vulnerability to climate change: Case of Helsinki, Finland36
Artisanal and small-scale mining methods and the Sustainable Development Goal 6: Perceived implications for clean water supply36
Beyond green growth: Mapping sustainability pathways for rural transformations in Norway35
New times in old forests: How the past matters in European forest science35
Energy-food nexus scarcity risk and the synergic impact of climate policy: A global production network perspective35
Social perception assessment of hydropower sustainability: A stepwise logistic regression modeling35
Towards a prioritization screening framework for chemicals, wastes, and pollution35
Eleven enablers of science thought leadership to facilitate knowledge exchange in environmental regulation35
Integrating adaptation practice in assessments of climate change science: The case of IPCC Working Group II reports35
Key challenges in forest restoration and adaptation in Spain: Expert-based solutions for a resilient future35
Social protection and aquatic food systems35
Integrative literature review on co-concepts in connection with nature-based solutions34
Of heroes and villains – How coalitions shape their narratives and what the public conservation debate is actually about?34
Navigating cascading food-energy-water insecurities: A case of community leadership in Puerto Rico34
From perception to action: Participatory water risk assessment in Nagaon District of Assam, India34
(Not So) common places: The roles of ecologists in environmental public policy34
The impact of scientific controversies on standards and methodologies in the voluntary blue carbon market34
The reflexive process in sustainability science: A short critical review34
Managing estuaries under a changing climate: A case study of the Humber Estuary, UK33
Danger is just a click away–A survey on online shopping for glyphosate-based pesticides for gardening/horticulture33
Editorial Board33
‘Village’ as verb: Sustaining a transformation in disaster risk reduction from the bottom up33
Response on the “Characterising wildfire impacts on ecosystem services: A triangulation of scientific findings, governmental reports, and expert perceptions in Portugal”32
Detecting spikes and change points in climate-food system: A case study in France32
Identifying barriers to decentralized stormwater infrastructure implementation at different levels of urban flood governance – A case study in Eastern Pennsylvania, US32
Anthropological grounds of climate equity principles32
Editorial Board32
The impacts of agricultural development and trade on CO2 emissions? Evidence from the Non-European Union countries32
Does knowledge co-production influence adaptive capacity?: A framework for evaluation31
Competing values, ideologies and lock-in dependencies in sociotechnical pathways for industrial decarbonization31
Denial and discretion as a governance process: How actor perceptions of risk and responsibility hinder adaptation to climate change30
The administrator’s dilemma: Closing the gap between climate adaptation justice in theory and practice30
Digital technologies and ILK in the Arctic: In search of epistemological pluralism30
A wavelet-based model of world oil shocks interaction with CO2 emissions in the US30
The sociotechnical dynamics of blue carbon management: Testing typologies of ideographs, innovation, and co-impacts for marine carbon removal30
A hybrid multi-attribute decision-making and data envelopment analysis model with heterogeneous attributes: The case of sustainable development goals30
Integration of climate change mitigation and sustainable development planning: Lessons from a national planning process in Nigeria30
Do governments track the implementation of national climate change adaptation plans? An evidence-based global stocktake of monitoring and evaluation systems30
Changing bushfire management practices to incorporate diverse values of the public30
Linking ecosystem accounting to environmental planning and management: Opportunities and barriers using a case study from the Australian Capital Territory29
Whose knowledge counts in nature-based solutions? Understanding epistemic justice for nature-based solutions through a multi-city comparison across Europe and Asia29
Corrigendum to “Can knowledge transfer speed up climate change mitigation in agriculture? A randomized experimental evaluation of participatory workshops” [Environ. Sci. Policy 152 (2024) 103662]29
From shadows to spotlight: NGO pollution disclosure and the dual transformation of environmental and tourism landscapes29
Political orientations, economic policies, and environmental quality: Multi-valued treatment effects analysis with spatial spillovers in country districts of Poland29
Bridging equity and resilience: A Systematic review of social sustainability in climate change mitigation and adaptation29
Anticipatory stakeholder engagement provides insights for gene drive in invasive species through the case of gene drive grey squirrels29
Legitimising different futures: Swedish forest management as a climate change mitigation measure28
Supporting spatial planning with a novel method based on participatory Bayesian networks: An application in Curaçao28
The technopolitics of agronomic knowledge and tropical(izing) vegetables in Brazil28
Water courses and discourses: A media content analysis of environmental water reporting in Australia28
An optimization model-based DEA-MARCOS approach for assessing EU countries towards achieving sustainable development goals28
The role of nature-based solutions and senses of place in enabling just city transitions27
Just cities and nature-based solutions in the Global South: A diagnostic approach to move beyond panaceas in Brazil27
Participatory practices and transforming environmental research in the Anthropocene27
Ecological connectivity in spatial planning: from the EU framework to its territorial implementation in the French context27
Advancing climate resilient development pathways since the IPCC’s fifth assessment report27
The application of analytical hierarchy process to assess adaptation strategies for flood and landslides risks: A case study of a multi-risk area community27
Forest owners as political actors27
Enhancing the review process in global environmental assessments: The case of the IPCC27
Water-power scenarios to 2033: A mixed model27
To intervene or not to intervene: Potential for targeted pesticide policy in Uganda27
From experiment to intervention: A case study of scaling up marine eco-engineering from research to application27
Augment the SDG indicator framework27
Scientific research in the Himalaya: Current state of knowledge, funding paradigm and policy implications27
Managing environmental change through inter-agency collaboration: Protective governance in mandated sustainability planning27
Futuremaking in a disaster zone: Everyday climate change adaptation amongst Quechua women in the Peruvian Cordillera Blanca27
Governing groundwater in the Indus Basin: Barriers to effective groundwater management and pathways for reform26
Determinants of effective participatory multi-actor climate change governance: Insights from Zambia’s environment and climate change actors26
Citizen science supports national reporting of a Sustainable Development Goal indicator: A case study of plastic debris density on beaches26
The role of indigenous knowledge in climate change adaptation in Africa26
Public engagement for social transformation: Informing or Empowering?26
Climate change-induced threats to transhumance pastoral system in Burkina Faso, West Africa26
Between tradition and transformation: Negotiating land and water resources in Ghana’s Pra River Basin26
Unpacking the politics of Nature-based Solutions governance: Making space for transformative change26
Knowledge governance and learning: Examining challenges and opportunities in the Colorado River basin25
Issues of context, capacity and scale: Essential conditions and missing links for a sustainable blue economy25
Dialogue and collaboration for sustainable development in Japan and Taiwan: Epistemic foundation of partnership toward Sustainable Development Goals25
Review of the food, water and biodiversity nexus in India25
Prototyping structured decision making for water resource management in the San Francisco Bay-Delta25
Influence of hazard-related and cognitive factors of households’ flood risk perceptions in Kampala, Uganda25
Deadlock in transition to a net-zero socially robust knowledge25
Co-production of urban forests as nature-based solutions: Motivations and lessons-learnt from public officials25
Trends and purposes of European river monitoring and restoration25
What do we mean by justice in sustainability pathways? Commitments, dilemmas, and translations from theory to practice in nature-based solutions.25
Unchecking the box: Overcoming barriers to meaningful consultation25
Climate change assemblies as spaces for the potential mitigation of climate policy misperceptions: A survey experiment25
The listing of new persistent organic pollutants in the stockholm convention: Its burden on developing countries24
Forest owners’ perceptions of machine learning: Insights from swedish forestry24
Indigenous practices of ecosystem management in a changing climate: Prospects for ecosystem-based adaptation24
The multi-player evolutionary game analysis for the protective development of ecotourism24
Participatory scenario planning: A social learning approach to build systems thinking and trust for sustainable environmental governance24
Achieving social-ecological fit in projectified environmental governance: Exploring vertical and horizontal dimensions24
Power dynamics in transdisciplinary research for sustainable urban transitions24
How can bottom-up citizen science restore public trust in environmental governance and sciences? Recommendations from three case studies24
Disseminating land use land cover change scenarios for improving the role of blue and green infrastructure: Evaluation and perspectives24
Weather information, farm-level climate adaptation and farmers' adaptive capacity: Examining the role of information and communication technologies23
Coevolution between science and policy: A systematic analysis on circular economy in China and worldwide23
Editorial Board23
A call for ‘management authorship’ in community forestry23
Transformative effectiveness: How EIA can transform stakeholders’ frames of reference23
Exploring the solution space for different forestry management structures in New Zealand under climate change23
The exploratory assetization of a crop protection app23
Public preferences for options to manage chronic wasting disease in Canada: A paired comparisons study22
Ecosystem services-based decision-making: A bridge from science to practice22
Climate change adaptation: How short-term political priorities trample public well-being22
Advancing community disaster resilience: A data-knowledge driven paradigm for integrating environmental science and policy decision-making22
Knowledge co-production around the cormorant-fishing conflict using a joint fact-finding approach22
Governance towards coordination for water resources management: The effect of governance modes22
The application of collaborative governance in local level climate and disaster resilient development – A global review22
The pollution haven strikes back?–Evidence from air quality daily variation in the Jing-Jin-Ji region of China22
Environmental justice through epistemic diversification: A critical reflection on One Health for just environmental public health22
Editorial Board22
Dutch municipalities tackling climate change adaptation to heat stress through mainstreaming across sectors22
The Ecological Conservation Redline program: A new model for improving China's protected area network22
Unlocking effective ice-jam risk management: Insights from agent-based modeling and comparative analysis of social theories in Fort McMurray, Canada22
Vessel risks to marine wildlife in the Tallurutiup Imanga National Marine Conservation Area and the eastern entrance to the Northwest Passage22
What change? Assessing the Extinction Rebellion’s support for climate assemblies22
Local-global linkages in biodiversity governance: The regime complex of the convention on biological diversity agenda for nature pledges22
Navigating the nexus: The role of intermediaries in charting a new frontier of policy integration for agrifood and energy systems transformation22
Identifying opportunities to deliver effective and efficient outcomes from business-biodiversity action22
Bridging science, policy and practice for sustainability: Towards a conceptual framework22
Primary vs grey: A critical evaluation of literature sources used to assess the impacts of offshore wind farms21
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Perception on coastal erosion: An assessment of how national level coastal resilience strategies promote indigenous knowledge and affect local level adaptation in Ghanaian communities21
Implementing and evaluating knowledge exchange: Insights from practitioners at the Canadian Forest Service21
A methodological framework for assessing the coherence of Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem nexus policies: Illustration and application at the river basin level21
Editorial Board21
A geologist per municipality initiative: Bridging geology and governance for sustainable development in Colombia21
Land use and environmental impacts: Flood model in a medium-sized Brazilian city as a tool for urban sustainability21
The Greta Effect: Is there more public support for climate protesters who are young and female?21
Lessons from a plain language analysis: U.S. Clean Air Act Title V public notices as barriers to environmental justice21
An archetype analysis of sustainability innovations in Biosphere Reserves: Insights for assessing transformative potential21
Co-designing a multi-criteria approach to ranking hazards to and from Australia’s emerging offshore blue economy21
Barriers to plastic monitoring in freshwaters in the Global South20
How do household crop and livestock production adapt to extreme climatic events? —Insights from a typical agro-pastoral ecotone on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau20
Collaborating and resisting: Campesino strategies against ontological extractivism in Sumapaz, Colombia20
Knowledge representation in global environmental assessments - Patterns among authors of the Global Environmental Outlook20
Participatory knowledge integration to promote safe pesticide use in Uganda20
The interrupting capacities of knowledge co-production experiments: A sociology of testing approach20
Upscaling marine and coastal restoration through legal and governance solutions: Lessons from global bright spots20
Setting global deadlines for the elimination of major groups of persistent organic pollutants20
Defying the gloom: In search of the ‘golden’ practices of small-scale mining operations20
International human rights and climate change (policies): Challenging the concept of vulnerability20
Embedded researchers as transdisciplinary boundary spanners strengthening urban climate resilience20
Water security in native American communities of Nevada20
Leverage points for improving urban biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene: A novel ecosystem lens for social-ecological transformation20
Formulating a 100-year strategy for managing coastal hazard risk in a changing climate: Lessons learned from Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand20
Assessing extreme heat risk perception: Awareness, worry, preparedness and social capital in Texas20
Risk perception and risk realities in forming legally binding agreements: The governance of plastics20
Investigating the intention to participate in environmental governance during urban-rural integrated development process in the Yangtze River Delta Region20
Addressing gaps in integrative water-energy-food-forest (WEFF) nexus governance20
Policy mixes for mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions: An analysis of six European countries and the European Union19
The political context of change in transboundary freshwater agreements19
Valuing the contribution of blue carbon to small island developing states' climate change commitments and Covid-19 recovery19
Pathways towards improved water governance: The role of polycentric governance systems and vertical and horizontal coordination19
Lessons learnt from previous local sustainability efforts to inform local action for the Sustainable Development Goals19
How can we promote the responsible innovation of nano-agrifood research?19
Experiences of inequality in international collaborative research – Perspectives from environmental and sustainability scholars from Ghana, West Africa19
The pendulum movement: Unstable political settlements for artisanal and small-scale mining in Peru19
AI and the governance of sustainable development. An idea analysis of the European Union, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum19
Factual information on the environmental impacts of consumption abroad increases citizens' problem awareness, but not support for mitigating such impacts19
Red wolf science and identity storylines in an online discursive community19
A risk-based method to prioritize cumulative impacts assessment on marine biodiversity and research policy for offshore wind farms in France19
Navigating diverse commercial fisher perspectives for effective knowledge exchange in fisheries research and management19
The endogenous action space in urban biodiversity governance: Socio-political fragmentation, serendipity of agency, and value articulation strategies18
“It's dry, it has fewer charms!”: Do perceptions and values of intermittent rivers interact with their management?18
Corrigendum to “Citizens’ opinions on (non-)essential uses of persistent chemicals: A survey in seven European countries” [Environ. Sci. Policy 153 (2024) 103666]18
Strategic retreat: Balancing risk and societal goals in land-use planning18
Polycentricity in practice: Marine governance transitions in Southeast Asia18
Connecting gender balance, crisis resistance and innovativeness in the forestry sector: Women in leadership and management18
An overview of modeling efforts of water resources in Mexico: Challenges and opportunities18
Environmental vulnerability assessment of Brazilian Amazon Indigenous Lands18
When the rural is deliberately flooded to protect the urban: Examining the social costs in emergency flood diversion to inform more sustainable spatial flood risk management18
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Governance innovations in the coastal zone: Towards social-ecological resilience18
Socioeconomic groups and their green spaces availability in urban areas of China: A distributional justice perspective18
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