Environmental Science & Policy

Papers
(The median citation count of Environmental Science & Policy is 5. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Surging seas, rising sea levels, and sinking communities: The urgent need for climate adaptation in small island states237
Harvesting “development minerals” for local needs in sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Malawi197
Wildfire narratives: Identifying and characterizing multiple understandings of western wildfire challenges157
Gender inequalities, water research and knowledge production in Ghana140
A stakeholder analysis based on project managers’ perceptions: Unlocking transformative potential in Natura 2000 projects136
Principles, barriers, and challenges of Indigenous water governance around the world135
Transformative change from below? Linking biodiversity governance with the diversity of bottom-up action111
Assessing multi-dimensional complexity through sustainability modeling: A whole community approach96
Redefining co-design for social-ecological research and practice: A systematic literature review83
Identifying leverage points for sustainable transitions in urban – rural systems: Application of graph theory to participatory causal loop diagramming78
The governance of marine and coral reef restoration, lessons and paths forward for novel interventions76
Effective participation in a sustainability transition that leaves no one behind73
Early European experience with tradable green certificates neglected by EU ETS architects73
Enhancing climate change-induced flood co-adaptation in the Johor river basin, Malaysia: A dotmocracy mapping approach with key technical stakeholders66
Climate change inequalities: A systematic review of disparities in access to mitigation and adaptation measures65
Can the Paris Agreement deliver ambitious climate cooperation? An experimental investigation of the effectiveness of pledge-and-review and targeting short-lived climate pollutants64
International donors as agents of policy transfer in influencing water legislation: The adoption of the river basin principle by transition economies in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia63
Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals through development corridors in East Africa: A Q-Methodology approach to imagining development futures62
Coal, power and coal-powered politics in Indonesia62
ICT-based environmental participation in China: Same, same but digital?60
Social capital and environmentally friendly behaviors59
Does the scientific knowledge reflect the chemical diversity of environmental pollution? – A twenty-year perspective58
Analyzing changes to U.S. municipal heat response plans during the COVID-19 pandemic57
Knowledge brokers at the interface of environmental science and policy: A review of knowledge and research needs56
Raising standards for stakeholder engagement in Nature-based Solutions: Navigating the why, when, who and how56
Editorial Board56
An integrated policy framework and plan of action to prevent and control plant invasions in India56
Planetary health values and their implications for sustainability governance: Case study in the City of Blue Mountains, Australia56
Global intercomparison of polyurethane foam passive air samplers evaluating sources of variability in SVOC measurements56
Who should measure air quality in modern cities? The example of decentralization of urban air quality monitoring in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia, Russia)55
Experiences of inequality in international collaborative research – Perspectives from environmental and sustainability scholars from Ghana, West Africa50
Mainstreaming climate change mitigation actions in Nepal: Influencing factors and processes50
Influence of methodological choices in farm sustainability assessments: A word of caution from a case study analysis of European dairy farms49
Plastics in a circular economy: Mitigating the ambiguity of widely-used terms from stakeholders consultation48
Design experimentation for Nature‐based Solutions: Towards a definition and taxonomy48
Cities facing the European green deal: Urban policy and locals’ perspective in the post-socialist area47
Policy mixes for mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions: An analysis of six European countries and the European Union47
A case study unpacking the collaborative research process: Eight essential components47
Imagining circular carbon: A mitigation (deterrence) strategy for the petrochemical industry47
Towards a classification of vulnerability of small-scale fisheries46
Networks at the science-policy-interface: Challenges, opportunities and the viability of the ‘network-of-networks’ approach46
Rethinking blue economy governance – A blue economy equity model as an approach to operationalise equity46
Decolonizing wildfire risk management: indigenous responses to fire criminalization policies and increasingly flammable forest landscapes in Lomerío, Bolivia45
A systematic review of emerging contaminants in the Greater Bay Area (GBA), China: Current baselines, knowledge gaps, and research and management priorities44
Evaluating the governance of a European program by identifying the types of overages based on the example of LEADER programs in France, Spain and Hungary: A problematic role for local institutional ar44
A new meta-coupling framework to diagnose the inequity hidden in China’s cultivated land use44
Participatory study of policy process for wildlife conservation and ecotourism in Eswatini: A multiple streams analysis43
Social equity and pluralism in Nature-based Solutions: Practitioners' perspectives on implementation43
The pendulum movement: Unstable political settlements for artisanal and small-scale mining in Peru42
Beyond a garden: Alignment of Sustainable Development Goals with botanic gardens42
Complementary ideas for the implementation of nature-based solutions42
Continuity and change in forest restoration. A comparison of US ecology and forestry in the 1940s and 1990s41
Editorial Board41
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Drivers and barriers to knowledge exchange through an envisioned online platform for transdisciplinary research projects41
Interdisciplinary, but how? Anthropological Perspectives from Collaborative Research on Climate and Environmental Change40
Editorial Board40
Defying the gloom: In search of the ‘golden’ practices of small-scale mining operations39
The political context of change in transboundary freshwater agreements39
Usable, but unused: A critical story of co-producing the UK’s Climate Change Risk Assessments39
Comparing biogenic blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) reef definitions in Northern Europe: Implications for management and conservation39
Red wolf science and identity storylines in an online discursive community39
Water security in native American communities of Nevada38
Adaptation pathways to inform policy and practice in the context of development38
Flood risk management along German rivers – A review of multi-criteria analysis methods and decision-support systems38
Are stakeholders ready to transform phosphorus use in food systems? A transdisciplinary study in a livestock intensive system38
Towards realization of nexus-doing at the grassroots level: Water-energy-food governance assessment in the Songwe River Basin (Tanzania and Malawi)38
Institutional barriers to actionable science: Perspectives from decision support tool creators37
Investigating the risky dilemma of regional flood planning: The case of the Wolastoq | Saint John River Basin, Canada36
Participatory knowledge integration to promote safe pesticide use in Uganda36
Insights into the ‘ecological economics’ of land degradation: A multi-scale analysis with implications for regional development policy and local mitigation measures36
Choosing modelling approaches for participatory food governance in city-regions. Comprehensive guidelines for a system-perspective selection35
Cultures of transformation: An integrated framework for transformative action35
Use of scientific evidence to inform environmental health policies and governance strategies at the local level35
The agency of community groups in health and climate change adaptation governance and policy in SIDS: The case of in Toco, Trinidad and Tobago35
Valuing the contribution of blue carbon to small island developing states' climate change commitments and Covid-19 recovery35
Designing successful agri-environmental schemes: A mechanistic analysis of a collective scheme for eco-system services in the Netherlands34
Navigating diverse commercial fisher perspectives for effective knowledge exchange in fisheries research and management34
Exploring the opportunities and constraints to the development of locally applicable water management technology in three sub-Saharan African cities34
Delineating expert mangrove stakeholder perceptions and attitudes towards mangrove management in Sri Lanka using Q methodology34
A comprehensive review on the application of socio-economic analyses in chemical management: Challenges and opportunities34
Actors mainstreaming nature-based solutions in cities: A case study of Melbourne’s change agents and pathways for urban sustainability transformations34
Evaluation for the nexus of industrial water-energy-pollution: Performance indexes, scale effect, and policy implications34
Achieving the paris agreement goals by transitioning to low-emissions food systems: A comprehensive review of countries’ actions34
Nature futures for the urban century: Integrating multiple values into urban management33
Global relationships between time preference and environmental policy performance33
The influence of company sourcing patterns on the adoption and effectiveness of zero-deforestation commitments in Brazil’s soy supply chain33
From self-governance to shared governance: Institutional change and bricolage in Brazilian extractive reserves33
Formulating a 100-year strategy for managing coastal hazard risk in a changing climate: Lessons learned from Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand33
Problem framing for Australian coastal management33
Understanding barriers to collaborative governance for the food-energy-water nexus: The case of Phoenix, Arizona33
Lessons learnt from previous local sustainability efforts to inform local action for the Sustainable Development Goals32
Deficits in implementing integrated water resources management in South Africa: The role of institutional interplay31
Risk perception and risk realities in forming legally binding agreements: The governance of plastics31
How do Brazilian National Park managers evaluate the relationship between conservation and public use?31
The climate of counterinsurgency and the future of security in the Sahel30
Imagining urban transformation in Kenya29
Analyzing knowledge integration in convergence research29
Identifying priorities for reform to integrate coastal wetland ecosystem services into law and policy29
Conceptualising boundary work activities to enhance credible, salient and legitimate knowledge in sustainability transdisciplinary research projects29
Advancing green space equity via policy change: A scoping review and research agenda29
How can we promote the responsible innovation of nano-agrifood research?29
Soil pollution in the European Union – An outlook29
Leverage points for improving urban biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene: A novel ecosystem lens for social-ecological transformation28
Indigenous peoples in carbon pricing policymaking28
Local content policies: Knowledge stock and future directions for research and policy making in view of the sustainability agenda28
Climate risk maps as boundary objects for future forests28
Classed conservation: Socio-economic drivers of participation in marine resource management27
The role of community leadership in building community adaptive capacity to coastal hazards – Insights from neighborhood networks in Semarang, Indonesia27
Governing the Murray-Darling Basin: Integrating social and biophysical indicators for better environmental outcomes27
An enhanced integrated approach to knowledgeable high-resolution environmental quality assessment27
What do you mean by values? Integration of social with biophysical knowledge in the development of a landscape decision support system26
NYenviroScreen: An open-source data driven method for identifying potential environmental justice communities in New York State26
Embedded researchers as transdisciplinary boundary spanners strengthening urban climate resilience26
The governance configurations of green schoolyards26
Climatisation of agricultural issues in the international agenda through three competing epistemic communities: Climate-smart agriculture, agroecology, and nature-based solutions26
Joining forces to fight wildfires: Science and management in a protected area of Pantanal, Brazil25
Dam the river: Ontological exclusion in global and Brazilian Integrated Water Resources Management25
Adapting participatory processes in temporary rivers management25
Marine and coastal places: Wellbeing in a blue economy25
Corrigendum to “Effectiveness and appropriateness of core areas in an integrated protected area: A case study of Ecological Protected Areas in Yangmingshan National Park, Taiwan” [Environ. Sci. Policy25
Applying Theory of Change in research program planning: Lessons from CGIAR25
ChatGPT and the future of impact assessment25
From causes to consequences, from chat to crisis. The different climate changes of science and Wikipedia25
Situating ‘migration as adaptation’ discourse and appraising its relevance to Senegal’s development sector25
Can we talk? Disrupting science circles with narrative-led dialogs25
Assessment and spatialization of vulnerability of Benin coast to sea level rise using composite/blended approach25
Factual information on the environmental impacts of consumption abroad increases citizens' problem awareness, but not support for mitigating such impacts25
The interrupting capacities of knowledge co-production experiments: A sociology of testing approach25
A framework for assessing freshwater vulnerability along China's Belt and Road Initiative: An exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity approach25
Selective world-building: Collaboration and regional specificities in the marine biodiversity field24
Gender-based climate (in)justice: An overview24
The impact of adopting a water-energy nexus approach in Jordan on transboundary management24
Navigating the political: An analysis of political calibration of integrated assessment modelling in light of the 1.5 °C goal24
Uncertain climate futures: Cultivating 3 A resilience in urban Ghana24
The politics and performativity of REDD+ reference levels: Examining the Guyana-Norway agreement and its implications for ‘offsetting’ towards ‘net zero’24
Are fee-and-dividend schemes the savior of environmental taxation? Analyses of how different revenue use alternatives affect public support for Sweden’s air passenger tax24
Enhancing meaningful Indigenous leadership and collaboration in international environmental governance forums24
Are subsidies for climate action effective? Two case studies in the Netherlands24
Breaking the trust paradox: A community-inclusive conservation strategy consistent with the advantages of government protected areas: The case of Mount Huangshan, China24
Challenges in assessing and managing multi-hazard risks: A European stakeholders perspective24
“Our burgers eat carbon”: Investigating the discourses of corporate net-zero commitments24
Sámi trust in hydropower governance: A survey study24
Beyond Academia: A case for reviews of gray literature for science-policy processes and applied research24
An urban PES model for diffused green areas requalification and maintenance in Milan24
A risk-based method to prioritize cumulative impacts assessment on marine biodiversity and research policy for offshore wind farms in France24
Knowledge brokers within the multiple streams framework: The science-policy interface for livestock and climate change discussions in Kenya23
Social housing as focus area for Nature-based Solutions to strengthen urban resilience and justice: Lessons from practice in the Netherlands23
Embedding co-production of nature-based solutions in urban governance: Emerging co-production capacities in three European cities23
Designing role-play simulations for climate change decision-making: A step-by-step approach to facilitate cooperation between science and policy23
A policy content analysis for evaluating urban adaptation justice in İstanbul23
How do local actors coordinate to implement a successful biogas project?23
Safety and sustainability by design: An explorative survey on concepts’ knowledge and application23
Mapping a Green Infrastructure Network: a framework for spatial connectivity applied in Northern Italy23
Challenges and opportunities for food systems in a changing climate: A systematic review of climate policy integration23
Towards sustainable landscapes: Implementing participatory approaches in contract design for biodiversity preservation and ecosystem services in Europe23
NAFTA and environment after 25 years: A retrospective analysis of the US-Mexico border22
Pathways towards improved water governance: The role of polycentric governance systems and vertical and horizontal coordination22
Understanding attitudes towards the adoption of nature-based solutions and policy priorities shaped by stakeholders’ awareness of climate change22
Polycentricity in practice: Marine governance transitions in Southeast Asia22
Integrating traditional and local knowledge into disaster risk reduction policies: Insights from Nepal, India and Bangladesh22
Energy transition in Africa: The role of human capital, financial development, economic development, and carbon emissions22
Traditional and emerging visions of European bison (Bison bonasus) conservation and management: Implication for the IUCN conservation planning22
Geoconservation strategies framework in Brazil: Current status from the analysis of representative case studies22
The interaction between cultural heritage and community resilience in disaster-affected volcanic regions21
Digital twinning as an act of governance in the wind energy sector21
Climate transformation through feminist ethics of care21
International human rights and climate change (policies): Challenging the concept of vulnerability21
Localising and democratising goal-based governance for sustainability21
Sustainable innovation policy: Examining the discourse of UK innovation policy21
Analyzing efficiency and built environment factors for achieving convenient access to public transport: A Europe-wide DEA application21
Plastic consumption in urban municipalities: Characteristics and policy implications of Vietnamese consumers’ plastic bag use21
Death by a thousand cuts: Small local dams can produce large regional impacts in the Brazilian Legal Amazon21
Opening the black box of water-energy-food nexus system in China: Prospects for sustainable consumption and security21
Exploring heat risk adaptation governance: A case study of the UK21
Understanding the structure of stakeholders − projects network in endangered lakes restoration programs using social network analysis20
Coproducing water-energy-food Nexus actionable knowledge: Lessons from a multi-actor collaborative learning school in Uganda, East Africa20
A governance perspective for climate change adaptation: Conceptualizing the policy-community interface in Bangladesh20
Implementation of a structured decision-making framework to evaluate and advance understanding of airborne microplastics20
Developing resilience to climate change impacts in Antarctica: An evaluation of Antarctic Treaty System protected area policy20
Investigating the intention to participate in environmental governance during urban-rural integrated development process in the Yangtze River Delta Region20
How do household crop and livestock production adapt to extreme climatic events? —Insights from a typical agro-pastoral ecotone on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau20
Public opinion on protecting iconic species depends on individual wellbeing: Perceptions about orangutan conservation in Indonesia and Malaysia20
The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030: Opportunities and challenges on the path towards biodiversity recovery20
Urban flood risks and emerging challenges in a Chinese delta: The case of the Pearl River Delta19
Strengthening citizen science partnerships with frontline sanitation personnel to study and tackle plastic pollution19
Estimating the CAP greening effect by machine learning techniques: A big data ex post analysis19
The impact of adaptive management on community resilience in arid rural areas facing environmental change: An integrated analytical framework19
Dispossession and governance: The invisible role of indigenous peoples in protected natural areas in Chile18
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Local multilevel governance arrangements for climate change planning and management in Kumasi, Ghana18
Capturing flood community perceptions for social vulnerability reduction and risk management planning18
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Understanding collective action for the achievement of EU water policy objectives in agricultural landscapes: Insights from the Institutional Design Principles and Integrated Landscape Management appr18
The endogenous action space in urban biodiversity governance: Socio-political fragmentation, serendipity of agency, and value articulation strategies18
Determination of conservation priority areas in Qinghai Tibet Plateau based on ecosystem services18
From research to policy recommendations: A scientometric case study of air quality management in the Greater Bay Area, China18
Fiji’s policy response to COVID-19 and the integration of Indigenous voices18
Collaborative valuation of ecosystem services to inform lake remediation18
Re-source, re-scale: Finer data scales and changed resource availability perceptions18
Equity in environmental governance: perceived fairness of distributional justice principles in marine co-management18
Fear of COVID-19 reinforces climate change beliefs. Evidence from 28 European countries18
AI and the governance of sustainable development. An idea analysis of the European Union, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum18
Pathways to transformative adaptation in southern African cities: A criteria-based assessment in Harare and Durban18
Comparing normative and descriptive methods for multi-criteria decision analysis: A case study evaluating wetland restoration opportunities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, USA18
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Corrigendum to “Connecting the dots: Integrating food policies towards food system transformation” [Environ. Sci. Policy, 156 (2024) 103735]17
Severity of climate change and deprivation outcomes: Micro-level assessment for sub-Saharan Africa17
Data-driven decision support tools for assessing the vulnerability of community water systems to groundwater contamination in Los Angeles County17
Actions and leverage points for ecosystem-based adaptation pathways in the Alps17
Grasping and grounding Europe through seabirds and eelgrass: Environmental policy affordances in Arcachon Bay (France)17
Balancing research, monitoring, and action to recover Canada’s species at risk17
Assessment of water security in the large watersheds of Iran17
Environmental management using a digital twin17
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How do gardeners define ‘invasive’? Implications for invasion science and environmental policy instruments on invasive species17
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Advancing socio-ecological considerations in impact assessment of extractive industries: A realist interview study in the Canadian context17
IPBES: Three ways forward with frameworks of values17
Expert perceptions on CPEC sustainability appraisal: SWOT analysis for informed policy decisions17
Evaluating the relevance, credibility and legitimacy of a novel participatory online tool17
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Multi-level hegemony in transboundary Flood Risk Management: A downstream perspective on the Maritsa Basin17
Emerging smallholder cattle farming from a One Health perspective: A system dynamics model of the highveld region of South Africa17
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Resource nexus perspectives in the Blue Economy of India: The case of sand mining in Kerala17
What drives local climate change adaptation? A qualitative comparative analysis17
Examining local institutional networks for sustainable disaster management: Empirical evidence from the South-West coastal areas in Bangladesh16
And it burns, burns, burns, the ring-of-fire: Reviewing and harmonizing terminology on wildfire management and policy16
The governance of the water-energy nexus: Co-produced narratives to take stock and address energy dependencies of the urban water cycle in Atlantic Europe16
How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the climate change debate on Twitter?16
An analytical framework for state level water-energy-food nexus analysis in India: Insight from implemented policies16
Models of deforestation for setting reference levels in the context of REDD: A case study in the Peruvian Amazon16
“An island on the edge of Europe”: A study on academic air travel in Finland through a combined model of practice16
Why uncertainty in community livelihood adaptation is important for adaptive delta management: A case study in polders of Southwest Bangladesh16
Arguments and architectures: Discursive and institutional structures shaping global climate engineering governance16
Contextual vulnerability to climate change of heterogeneous agri-food geographical indications: A case study of the Veneto region (Italy)16
Systems-thinking for environmental policy coherence: Stakeholder knowledge, fuzzy logic, and causal reasoning16
Evaluation of survey and remote sensing data products used to estimate land use change in the United States: Evolving issues and emerging opportunities16
Changing policy paradigms: How are the climate change mitigation-oriented policies evolving in Nepal and Bangladesh?16
Disconnected: Unpacking policy framing processes of energy exclusion in Spain16
Whose voices, whose choices? Pursuing climate resilient trajectories for the poor16
The green economy as counterinsurgency, or the ontological power affirming permanent ecological catastrophe16
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Tracing the inclusion of health as a component of the food-energy-water nexus in dam management in the Senegal River Basin16
Applying a new protocol to avoid maladaptation shows that Degrowth is the most suitable strategy of European mountains16
Advancing the potential impact of future scenarios by integrating psychological principles16
Carbon ‘known not grown’: Reforesting Scotland, advanced measurement technologies, and a new frontier of mitigation deterrence16
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