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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Who should measure air quality in modern cities? The example of decentralization of urban air quality monitoring in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia, Russia)172
Editorial Board168
Enhancing climate change-induced flood co-adaptation in the Johor river basin, Malaysia: A dotmocracy mapping approach with key technical stakeholders163
Indigenous peoples in carbon pricing policymaking122
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Knowledge brokers at the interface of environmental science and policy: A review of knowledge and research needs83
Institutional barriers to actionable science: Perspectives from decision support tool creators83
Gender-based climate (in)justice: An overview81
Coal, power and coal-powered politics in Indonesia80
“Our burgers eat carbon”: Investigating the discourses of corporate net-zero commitments76
Are stakeholders ready to transform phosphorus use in food systems? A transdisciplinary study in a livestock intensive system75
Identifying success factors for integrated coastal zone management: Development of a regional coastal plan in Morocco.73
Flood risk management along German rivers – A review of multi-criteria analysis methods and decision-support systems73
Twinning green and digital futures in waste management68
Plastics in a circular economy: Mitigating the ambiguity of widely-used terms from stakeholders consultation68
Identifying leverage points for sustainable transitions in urban – rural systems: Application of graph theory to participatory causal loop diagramming65
Editorial Board65
Adaptation pathways to inform policy and practice in the context of development65
Local content policies: Knowledge stock and future directions for research and policy making in view of the sustainability agenda65
A stakeholder analysis based on project managers’ perceptions: Unlocking transformative potential in Natura 2000 projects65
Assessing multi-dimensional complexity through sustainability modeling: A whole community approach64
Situating ‘migration as adaptation’ discourse and appraising its relevance to Senegal’s development sector64
Participatory study of policy process for wildlife conservation and ecotourism in Eswatini: A multiple streams analysis63
Applying Theory of Change in research program planning: Lessons from CGIAR62
Investigating the risky dilemma of regional flood planning: The case of the Wolastoq | Saint John River Basin, Canada62
Redefining co-design for social-ecological research and practice: A systematic literature review61
Can a Science Week empower scientists for conservation advocacy?59
Problem framing for Australian coastal management58
Analyzing efficiency and built environment factors for achieving convenient access to public transport: A Europe-wide DEA application58
Determination of conservation priority areas in Qinghai Tibet Plateau based on ecosystem services58
Marine and coastal places: Wellbeing in a blue economy56
Integrating traditional and local knowledge into disaster risk reduction policies: Insights from Nepal, India and Bangladesh55
Beyond a garden: Alignment of Sustainable Development Goals with botanic gardens55
Designing successful agri-environmental schemes: A mechanistic analysis of a collective scheme for eco-system services in the Netherlands54
A digital approach to quantifying political vulnerability of protected areas53
Barriers and opportunities to incorporate scientific evidence into air quality management in Mexico: A stakeholders’ perspective52
Managing emerging environmental risks when we do not know enough about them: The case of respirable mineral dust52
Earthquake recommendations in Europe: Types and diversity52
Social perception assessment of hydropower sustainability: A stepwise logistic regression modeling51
Indigenous community perspectives on energy governance51
Just sortition, communitarian deliberation: Two proposals for grounded climate assemblies50
Advancing socio-ecological considerations in impact assessment of extractive industries: A realist interview study in the Canadian context49
Collaborative valuation of ecosystem services to inform lake remediation49
Tracing the inclusion of health as a component of the food-energy-water nexus in dam management in the Senegal River Basin49
Fostering uptake of innovations and solutions for water and climate challenges in Africa: Lessons from the AfriAlliance Knowledge Brokerage Events47
A conceptual framework for the assessment of and the transition to liveable, sustainable and equitable cities46
What is the ‘problem’ of gender inequality represented to be in the Swedish forest sector?46
Patterns of injustices in water allocation mechanisms in the Brazilian Amazon: Palm oil expansion and the reshaping of hydrosocial territories45
Effects of policy and functional (in)coherence on coordination – A comparative analysis of cross-sectoral water management problems45
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Science in the court: Expert knowledge and forest fires on Indonesia’s plantations44
Pathways to transformative adaptation in southern African cities: A criteria-based assessment in Harare and Durban44
A review of ES knowledge use in spatial planning44
Incorporating positive deviance into comprehensive remediation projects: A case study from artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the municipality of Andes, Colombia44
A new perspective on the work of boundary organisations: Bridging knowledge between marine conservation actors in Pacific Small Island Developing States43
Alignment of municipal climate change and urban forestry policies: A Canadian perspective43
How to promote the integrative ability of transdisciplinary graduate students43
How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the climate change debate on Twitter?43
Analyzing the political impact of Real-world laboratories for urban transformation in eight German ‘Cities of the Future’43
A knowledge exchange framework to connect research, policy, and practice, developed through the example of the Chinese island of Hainan43
Climate change preparedness across sectors of the built environment – A review of literature42
Building a knowledge infrastructure for Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP). An analytical approach based on the experimental TIP conference 202242
Conservation or deforestation: Households attitudinal analysis of forest resources for sustainable development of the Tain (II) Forest Reserve, Ghana42
Assessing the dynamics of urban vulnerability to climate change: Case of Helsinki, Finland41
Artisanal and small-scale mining methods and the Sustainable Development Goal 6: Perceived implications for clean water supply41
Measuring and managing for environmental sustainability. An application of the Environmental Sustainability Gap (ESGAP) framework in New Caledonia40
Actions and leverage points for ecosystem-based adaptation pathways in the Alps40
Climate change adaptation in agriculture: Learning from an international labour mobility programme in Australia and the Pacific Islands region39
Weaving scientific and local knowledge on climate change impacts in coastal Kenya, Western Indian Ocean38
To dam or not to dam? Actionable socio-hydrology modeling to inform robust adaptation to water scarcity and water extremes38
The role of iconic places, collective efficacy, and negative emotions in climate change communication38
Comparing normative and descriptive methods for multi-criteria decision analysis: A case study evaluating wetland restoration opportunities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, USA38
Operationalizing the biocultural perspective in conservation practice: A systematic review of the literature37
Integrating adaptation practice in assessments of climate change science: The case of IPCC Working Group II reports37
What motivates urban dwellers to adapt to climate-driven water insecurity? An empirical study from Lima, Peru36
Integrating human rights in the sustainability governance of global supply chains: Exploring the deforestation-land tenure nexus36
A water-energy-food security nexus framework based on optimal resource allocation36
Digital technologies and ILK in the Arctic: In search of epistemological pluralism35
Towards a prioritization screening framework for chemicals, wastes, and pollution35
New times in old forests: How the past matters in European forest science35
Does knowledge co-production influence adaptive capacity?: A framework for evaluation35
Social protection and aquatic food systems35
Changing bushfire management practices to incorporate diverse values of the public34
Danger is just a click away–A survey on online shopping for glyphosate-based pesticides for gardening/horticulture34
Editorial Board34
Matching institutionalized expertise with global needs: Boundary organizations and hybrid management at the science-policy interfaces of soil and land governance34
Response on the “Characterising wildfire impacts on ecosystem services: A triangulation of scientific findings, governmental reports, and expert perceptions in Portugal”34
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(Not So) common places: The roles of ecologists in environmental public policy34
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Eleven enablers of science thought leadership to facilitate knowledge exchange in environmental regulation33
Environmental federalism in EIA policy: A comparative case study of Paraná, Brazil and California, US33
Integrative literature review on co-concepts in connection with nature-based solutions33
Of heroes and villains – How coalitions shape their narratives and what the public conservation debate is actually about?33
Identifying barriers to decentralized stormwater infrastructure implementation at different levels of urban flood governance – A case study in Eastern Pennsylvania, US33
Detecting spikes and change points in climate-food system: A case study in France32
‘Village’ as verb: Sustaining a transformation in disaster risk reduction from the bottom up32
From perception to action: Participatory water risk assessment in Nagaon District of Assam, India32
Political orientations, economic policies, and environmental quality: Multi-valued treatment effects analysis with spatial spillovers in country districts of Poland32
Integration of climate change mitigation and sustainable development planning: Lessons from a national planning process in Nigeria31
A hybrid multi-attribute decision-making and data envelopment analysis model with heterogeneous attributes: The case of sustainable development goals31
Do governments track the implementation of national climate change adaptation plans? An evidence-based global stocktake of monitoring and evaluation systems31
The impacts of agricultural development and trade on CO2 emissions? Evidence from the Non-European Union countries31
Energy-food nexus scarcity risk and the synergic impact of climate policy: A global production network perspective31
The sociotechnical dynamics of blue carbon management: Testing typologies of ideographs, innovation, and co-impacts for marine carbon removal31
Managing estuaries under a changing climate: A case study of the Humber Estuary, UK31
Linking ecosystem accounting to environmental planning and management: Opportunities and barriers using a case study from the Australian Capital Territory31
Whose knowledge counts in nature-based solutions? Understanding epistemic justice for nature-based solutions through a multi-city comparison across Europe and Asia31
Beyond green growth: Mapping sustainability pathways for rural transformations in Norway31
Anticipatory stakeholder engagement provides insights for gene drive in invasive species through the case of gene drive grey squirrels30
Anthropological grounds of climate equity principles30
Competing values, ideologies and lock-in dependencies in sociotechnical pathways for industrial decarbonization30
The technopolitics of agronomic knowledge and tropical(izing) vegetables in Brazil30
A wavelet-based model of world oil shocks interaction with CO2 emissions in the US30
Denial and discretion as a governance process: How actor perceptions of risk and responsibility hinder adaptation to climate change30
To intervene or not to intervene: Potential for targeted pesticide policy in Uganda30
The administrator’s dilemma: Closing the gap between climate adaptation justice in theory and practice30
Unpacking the politics of Nature-based Solutions governance: Making space for transformative change29
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
Water-power scenarios to 2033: A mixed model29
Ecological connectivity in spatial planning: from the EU framework to its territorial implementation in the French context29
Futuremaking in a disaster zone: Everyday climate change adaptation amongst Quechua women in the Peruvian Cordillera Blanca29
Inclusive is not an adjective, it transforms development: A post-growth interpretation of Inclusive Development29
Scientific models in legal judgements: The relationship between law and environmental science as problem-feeding29
The application of analytical hierarchy process to assess adaptation strategies for flood and landslides risks: A case study of a multi-risk area community29
Determinants of effective participatory multi-actor climate change governance: Insights from Zambia’s environment and climate change actors29
An optimization model-based DEA-MARCOS approach for assessing EU countries towards achieving sustainable development goals29
Forest owners as political actors29
Water courses and discourses: A media content analysis of environmental water reporting in Australia28
Citizen science supports national reporting of a Sustainable Development Goal indicator: A case study of plastic debris density on beaches28
The role of indigenous knowledge in climate change adaptation in Africa28
Public engagement for social transformation: Informing or Empowering?28
Managing environmental change through inter-agency collaboration: Protective governance in mandated sustainability planning28
Scientific research in the Himalaya: Current state of knowledge, funding paradigm and policy implications28
Supporting spatial planning with a novel method based on participatory Bayesian networks: An application in Curaçao28
Advancing climate resilient development pathways since the IPCC’s fifth assessment report28
From experiment to intervention: A case study of scaling up marine eco-engineering from research to application27
Participatory practices and transforming environmental research in the Anthropocene27
Augment the SDG indicator framework27
Just cities and nature-based solutions in the Global South: A diagnostic approach to move beyond panaceas in Brazil26
What do we mean by justice in sustainability pathways? Commitments, dilemmas, and translations from theory to practice in nature-based solutions.26
Prototyping structured decision making for water resource management in the San Francisco Bay-Delta26
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Review of the food, water and biodiversity nexus in India26
Knowledge governance and learning: Examining challenges and opportunities in the Colorado River basin26
Enhancing the review process in global environmental assessments: The case of the IPCC26
Achieving social-ecological fit in projectified environmental governance: Exploring vertical and horizontal dimensions26
Exploring the solution space for different forestry management structures in New Zealand under climate change26
The role of nature-based solutions and senses of place in enabling just city transitions26
Dialogue and collaboration for sustainable development in Japan and Taiwan: Epistemic foundation of partnership toward Sustainable Development Goals25
Climate change assemblies as spaces for the potential mitigation of climate policy misperceptions: A survey experiment25
Co-production of urban forests as nature-based solutions: Motivations and lessons-learnt from public officials25
Forest owners’ perceptions of machine learning: Insights from swedish forestry25
Public preferences for options to manage chronic wasting disease in Canada: A paired comparisons study25
Power dynamics in transdisciplinary research for sustainable urban transitions25
Climate change adaptation: How short-term political priorities trample public well-being25
Weather information, farm-level climate adaptation and farmers' adaptive capacity: Examining the role of information and communication technologies25
The multi-player evolutionary game analysis for the protective development of ecotourism24
The pollution haven strikes back?–Evidence from air quality daily variation in the Jing-Jin-Ji region of China24
Farmer pathways to sustainability in the face of water scarcity24
Issues of context, capacity and scale: Essential conditions and missing links for a sustainable blue economy24
Indigenous practices of ecosystem management in a changing climate: Prospects for ecosystem-based adaptation24
How can bottom-up citizen science restore public trust in environmental governance and sciences? Recommendations from three case studies24
A call for ‘management authorship’ in community forestry24
Unchecking the box: Overcoming barriers to meaningful consultation24
Disseminating land use land cover change scenarios for improving the role of blue and green infrastructure: Evaluation and perspectives24
Vessel risks to marine wildlife in the Tallurutiup Imanga National Marine Conservation Area and the eastern entrance to the Northwest Passage24
Ecosystem services-based decision-making: A bridge from science to practice23
Characterizing air pollution risk perceptions among high-educated young generation in China: How does risk experience influence risk perception23
Influence of hazard-related and cognitive factors of households’ flood risk perceptions in Kampala, Uganda23
The exploratory assetization of a crop protection app23
Trends and purposes of European river monitoring and restoration23
Coevolution between science and policy: A systematic analysis on circular economy in China and worldwide23
The listing of new persistent organic pollutants in the stockholm convention: Its burden on developing countries23
Transformative effectiveness: How EIA can transform stakeholders’ frames of reference23
Are we at risk of an uneven low-carbon transition? Assessing evidence from a mixed-method elite study23
The application of collaborative governance in local level climate and disaster resilient development – A global review23
What change? Assessing the Extinction Rebellion’s support for climate assemblies23
Participatory scenario planning: A social learning approach to build systems thinking and trust for sustainable environmental governance23
Deadlock in transition to a net-zero socially robust knowledge23
Knowledge representation in global environmental assessments - Patterns among authors of the Global Environmental Outlook22
Erratum to “Greenhouse gas emission scenarios in nine key non-G20 countries: An assessment of progress toward 2030 climate targets” [Environ. Sci. Policy 123 (2021) 67–81]22
Upscaling marine and coastal restoration through legal and governance solutions: Lessons from global bright spots22
A geologist per municipality initiative: Bridging geology and governance for sustainable development in Colombia22
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The Greta Effect: Is there more public support for climate protesters who are young and female?22
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Barriers to plastic monitoring in freshwaters in the Global South22
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Navigating the nexus: The role of intermediaries in charting a new frontier of policy integration for agrifood and energy systems transformation22
Lessons from a plain language analysis: U.S. Clean Air Act Title V public notices as barriers to environmental justice21
Unlocking effective ice-jam risk management: Insights from agent-based modeling and comparative analysis of social theories in Fort McMurray, Canada21
An archetype analysis of sustainability innovations in Biosphere Reserves: Insights for assessing transformative potential21
Land use and environmental impacts: Flood model in a medium-sized Brazilian city as a tool for urban sustainability21
Identifying opportunities to deliver effective and efficient outcomes from business-biodiversity action21
Co-designing a multi-criteria approach to ranking hazards to and from Australia’s emerging offshore blue economy21
Implementing and evaluating knowledge exchange: Insights from practitioners at the Canadian Forest Service21
Knowledge co-production around the cormorant-fishing conflict using a joint fact-finding approach21
Bridging science, policy and practice for sustainability: Towards a conceptual framework21
Perception on coastal erosion: An assessment of how national level coastal resilience strategies promote indigenous knowledge and affect local level adaptation in Ghanaian communities21
Mental models of a social-ecological system facilitate social learning among a diverse management team21
A methodological framework for assessing the coherence of Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem nexus policies: Illustration and application at the river basin level21
Governance towards coordination for water resources management: The effect of governance modes21
Primary vs grey: A critical evaluation of literature sources used to assess the impacts of offshore wind farms21
Formulating a 100-year strategy for managing coastal hazard risk in a changing climate: Lessons learned from Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand20
Factual information on the environmental impacts of consumption abroad increases citizens' problem awareness, but not support for mitigating such impacts20
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
Dutch municipalities tackling climate change adaptation to heat stress through mainstreaming across sectors20
Navigating diverse commercial fisher perspectives for effective knowledge exchange in fisheries research and management20
The interrupting capacities of knowledge co-production experiments: A sociology of testing approach20
Participatory knowledge integration to promote safe pesticide use in Uganda20
Water security in native American communities of Nevada20
Embedded researchers as transdisciplinary boundary spanners strengthening urban climate resilience20
Projections of soil loss by water erosion in Europe by 205020
The political context of change in transboundary freshwater agreements20
Leverage points for improving urban biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene: A novel ecosystem lens for social-ecological transformation20
The pendulum movement: Unstable political settlements for artisanal and small-scale mining in Peru20
Experiences of inequality in international collaborative research – Perspectives from environmental and sustainability scholars from Ghana, West Africa20
Investigating the intention to participate in environmental governance during urban-rural integrated development process in the Yangtze River Delta Region20
Pathways towards improved water governance: The role of polycentric governance systems and vertical and horizontal coordination20
The Ecological Conservation Redline program: A new model for improving China's protected area network20
Red wolf science and identity storylines in an online discursive community20
International human rights and climate change (policies): Challenging the concept of vulnerability20
Valuing the contribution of blue carbon to small island developing states' climate change commitments and Covid-19 recovery19
Polycentricity in practice: Marine governance transitions in Southeast Asia19
A risk-based method to prioritize cumulative impacts assessment on marine biodiversity and research policy for offshore wind farms in France19
Setting global deadlines for the elimination of major groups of persistent organic pollutants19
Policy mixes for mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions: An analysis of six European countries and the European Union19
Lessons learnt from previous local sustainability efforts to inform local action for the Sustainable Development Goals19
Mapping a Green Infrastructure Network: a framework for spatial connectivity applied in Northern Italy19
How do household crop and livestock production adapt to extreme climatic events? —Insights from a typical agro-pastoral ecotone on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau19
AI and the governance of sustainable development. An idea analysis of the European Union, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum19
Defying the gloom: In search of the ‘golden’ practices of small-scale mining operations19
Governing the Murray-Darling Basin: Integrating social and biophysical indicators for better environmental outcomes19
How can we promote the responsible innovation of nano-agrifood research?19
Confronting legacy lead in soils in the United States: Community-engaged researchers doing undone science18
Land abandonment and restoration in the Polish Carpathians after accession to the European Union18
An analytical framework for state level water-energy-food nexus analysis in India: Insight from implemented policies18
Large-scale sustainability programming is reshaping research excellence: Insights from a meta-ethnographic study of 12 global initiatives18
Climate-related healthy housing risk factors: a scoping review of citizen science approaches18
Environmental vulnerability assessment of Brazilian Amazon Indigenous Lands18
Multi-scenario analysis in the Apulia shoreline: A multi-tiers analytical framework for the combined evaluation and management of coastal erosion and water quality risks18
Policy coherence assessment of water, energy, and food resources policies in the Tana River Basin, Kenya18
Reading rivers from libraries: A participatory initiative to assess and improve urbanised rivers using citizen science18
Factors influencing winegrowers’ adoption of soil organic carbon sequestration practices in France18
A robust decision-making approach in climate policy design for possible net zero futures18
Governance innovations in the coastal zone: Towards social-ecological resilience18
Challenges and solutions to rural water service sustainability in East African countries: A ‘systems scaffolding’ perspective18
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