Environmental Science & Policy

Papers
(The TQCC of Environmental Science & Policy is 15. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
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Identifying success factors for integrated coastal zone management: Development of a regional coastal plan in Morocco.203
Identifying leverage points for sustainable transitions in urban – rural systems: Application of graph theory to participatory causal loop diagramming202
Can a Science Week empower scientists for conservation advocacy?97
Plastics in a circular economy: Mitigating the ambiguity of widely-used terms from stakeholders consultation91
Assessing multi-dimensional complexity through sustainability modeling: A whole community approach87
Adaptation pathways to inform policy and practice in the context of development81
A conceptual framework for knowledge integration in cross-disciplinary collaborations80
Analyzing efficiency and built environment factors for achieving convenient access to public transport: A Europe-wide DEA application79
Local content policies: Knowledge stock and future directions for research and policy making in view of the sustainability agenda76
A stakeholder analysis based on project managers’ perceptions: Unlocking transformative potential in Natura 2000 projects73
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Indigenous peoples in carbon pricing policymaking73
Beyond a garden: Alignment of Sustainable Development Goals with botanic gardens70
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Problem framing for Australian coastal management69
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Who should measure air quality in modern cities? The example of decentralization of urban air quality monitoring in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia, Russia)67
Participatory study of policy process for wildlife conservation and ecotourism in Eswatini: A multiple streams analysis66
Expert knowledge and institutional interplay: Exploring the epistemic linkages of the IPCC, IPBES, WCRP, and Future Earth65
Are stakeholders ready to transform phosphorus use in food systems? A transdisciplinary study in a livestock intensive system65
Applying Theory of Change in research program planning: Lessons from CGIAR65
Environmental assessment and regulatory oversight of genetically engineered crops in the United States65
Redefining co-design for social-ecological research and practice: A systematic literature review64
Twinning green and digital futures in waste management64
Integrating traditional and local knowledge into disaster risk reduction policies: Insights from Nepal, India and Bangladesh62
Institutional barriers to actionable science: Perspectives from decision support tool creators61
“Our burgers eat carbon”: Investigating the discourses of corporate net-zero commitments60
Designing successful agri-environmental schemes: A mechanistic analysis of a collective scheme for eco-system services in the Netherlands60
Investigating the risky dilemma of regional flood planning: The case of the Wolastoq | Saint John River Basin, Canada59
Situating ‘migration as adaptation’ discourse and appraising its relevance to Senegal’s development sector59
Enhancing climate change-induced flood co-adaptation in the Johor river basin, Malaysia: A dotmocracy mapping approach with key technical stakeholders56
Flood risk management along German rivers – A review of multi-criteria analysis methods and decision-support systems56
Marine and coastal places: Wellbeing in a blue economy55
Gender-based climate (in)justice: An overview55
Knowledge brokers at the interface of environmental science and policy: A review of knowledge and research needs55
A new perspective on the work of boundary organisations: Bridging knowledge between marine conservation actors in Pacific Small Island Developing States54
Earthquake recommendations in Europe: Types and diversity54
Analyzing the political impact of Real-world laboratories for urban transformation in eight German ‘Cities of the Future’54
A knowledge exchange framework to connect research, policy, and practice, developed through the example of the Chinese island of Hainan51
How to promote the integrative ability of transdisciplinary graduate students51
Fostering uptake of innovations and solutions for water and climate challenges in Africa: Lessons from the AfriAlliance Knowledge Brokerage Events50
Managing emerging environmental risks when we do not know enough about them: The case of respirable mineral dust50
Barriers and opportunities to incorporate scientific evidence into air quality management in Mexico: A stakeholders’ perspective48
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Indigenous community perspectives on energy governance46
To dam or not to dam? Actionable socio-hydrology modeling to inform robust adaptation to water scarcity and water extremes45
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Just sortition, communitarian deliberation: Two proposals for grounded climate assemblies44
Pathways to transformative adaptation in southern African cities: A criteria-based assessment in Harare and Durban44
Trade-offs in expanding citizen participation in low-carbon transitions: Seven transition arena experiments43
Urban-rural interdependencies from an Earth system’s view – Principles and perspectives leading to new integrative and transformative research43
Social perception assessment of hydropower sustainability: A stepwise logistic regression modeling42
Advancing socio-ecological considerations in impact assessment of extractive industries: A realist interview study in the Canadian context42
Tracing the inclusion of health as a component of the food-energy-water nexus in dam management in the Senegal River Basin42
The ClimateHack: How tech entrepreneurship shapes climate action41
Key challenges in forest restoration and adaptation in Spain: Expert-based solutions for a resilient future41
Science in the court: Expert knowledge and forest fires on Indonesia’s plantations41
Unintended consequences: The erosion of traditional collective action and social capital by externally imposed climate adaptation programs41
A review of ES knowledge use in spatial planning40
Weaving scientific and local knowledge on climate change impacts in coastal Kenya, Western Indian Ocean40
Climate change adaptation in agriculture: Learning from an international labour mobility programme in Australia and the Pacific Islands region40
What is the ‘problem’ of gender inequality represented to be in the Swedish forest sector?40
Measuring and managing for environmental sustainability. An application of the Environmental Sustainability Gap (ESGAP) framework in New Caledonia40
A water-energy-food security nexus framework based on optimal resource allocation39
A conceptual framework for the assessment of and the transition to liveable, sustainable and equitable cities39
Climate change preparedness across sectors of the built environment – A review of literature39
Integrating human rights in the sustainability governance of global supply chains: Exploring the deforestation-land tenure nexus39
Collaborative valuation of ecosystem services to inform lake remediation39
Patterns of injustices in water allocation mechanisms in the Brazilian Amazon: Palm oil expansion and the reshaping of hydrosocial territories38
Comparing normative and descriptive methods for multi-criteria decision analysis: A case study evaluating wetland restoration opportunities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, USA38
What motivates urban dwellers to adapt to climate-driven water insecurity? An empirical study from Lima, Peru38
Operationalizing the biocultural perspective in conservation practice: A systematic review of the literature38
Artisanal and small-scale mining methods and the Sustainable Development Goal 6: Perceived implications for clean water supply37
The role of iconic places, collective efficacy, and negative emotions in climate change communication37
Effects of policy and functional (in)coherence on coordination – A comparative analysis of cross-sectoral water management problems37
Building a knowledge infrastructure for Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP). An analytical approach based on the experimental TIP conference 202237
Conservation or deforestation: Households attitudinal analysis of forest resources for sustainable development of the Tain (II) Forest Reserve, Ghana37
Integrating adaptation practice in assessments of climate change science: The case of IPCC Working Group II reports37
Eleven enablers of science thought leadership to facilitate knowledge exchange in environmental regulation36
(Not So) common places: The roles of ecologists in environmental public policy36
The reflexive process in sustainability science: A short critical review36
New times in old forests: How the past matters in European forest science36
Response on the “Characterising wildfire impacts on ecosystem services: A triangulation of scientific findings, governmental reports, and expert perceptions in Portugal”35
Danger is just a click away–A survey on online shopping for glyphosate-based pesticides for gardening/horticulture35
Competing values, ideologies and lock-in dependencies in sociotechnical pathways for industrial decarbonization35
Digital technologies and ILK in the Arctic: In search of epistemological pluralism35
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‘Village’ as verb: Sustaining a transformation in disaster risk reduction from the bottom up35
Energy-food nexus scarcity risk and the synergic impact of climate policy: A global production network perspective34
Towards a prioritization screening framework for chemicals, wastes, and pollution34
Beyond green growth: Mapping sustainability pathways for rural transformations in Norway34
Bridging equity and resilience: A Systematic review of social sustainability in climate change mitigation and adaptation33
The sociotechnical dynamics of blue carbon management: Testing typologies of ideographs, innovation, and co-impacts for marine carbon removal33
From shadows to spotlight: NGO pollution disclosure and the dual transformation of environmental and tourism landscapes33
Of heroes and villains – How coalitions shape their narratives and what the public conservation debate is actually about?33
A hybrid multi-attribute decision-making and data envelopment analysis model with heterogeneous attributes: The case of sustainable development goals32
Navigating cascading food-energy-water insecurities: A case of community leadership in Puerto Rico32
Whose knowledge counts in nature-based solutions? Understanding epistemic justice for nature-based solutions through a multi-city comparison across Europe and Asia32
Does knowledge co-production influence adaptive capacity?: A framework for evaluation32
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, US31
Political orientations, economic policies, and environmental quality: Multi-valued treatment effects analysis with spatial spillovers in country districts of Poland31
Social protection and aquatic food systems31
The administrator’s dilemma: Closing the gap between climate adaptation justice in theory and practice31
Linking ecosystem accounting to environmental planning and management: Opportunities and barriers using a case study from the Australian Capital Territory30
From perception to action: Participatory water risk assessment in Nagaon District of Assam, India30
Integrative literature review on co-concepts in connection with nature-based solutions30
A wavelet-based model of world oil shocks interaction with CO2 emissions in the US30
The impact of scientific controversies on standards and methodologies in the voluntary blue carbon market30
Denial and discretion as a governance process: How actor perceptions of risk and responsibility hinder adaptation to climate change30
Anthropological grounds of climate equity principles30
Participatory practices and transforming environmental research in the Anthropocene29
An optimization model-based DEA-MARCOS approach for assessing EU countries towards achieving sustainable development goals29
The impacts of agricultural development and trade on CO2 emissions? Evidence from the Non-European Union countries29
To intervene or not to intervene: Potential for targeted pesticide policy in Uganda29
The application of analytical hierarchy process to assess adaptation strategies for flood and landslides risks: A case study of a multi-risk area community29
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
Forest owners as political actors29
The technopolitics of agronomic knowledge and tropical(izing) vegetables in Brazil29
Managing estuaries under a changing climate: A case study of the Humber Estuary, UK29
Water courses and discourses: A media content analysis of environmental water reporting in Australia28
Anticipatory stakeholder engagement provides insights for gene drive in invasive species through the case of gene drive grey squirrels28
Ecological connectivity in spatial planning: from the EU framework to its territorial implementation in the French context28
Water-power scenarios to 2033: A mixed model28
Legitimising different futures: Swedish forest management as a climate change mitigation measure28
Climate change-induced threats to transhumance pastoral system in Burkina Faso, West Africa28
Supporting spatial planning with a novel method based on participatory Bayesian networks: An application in Curaçao28
Enhancing the review process in global environmental assessments: The case of the IPCC28
Just cities and nature-based solutions in the Global South: A diagnostic approach to move beyond panaceas in Brazil28
The role of nature-based solutions and senses of place in enabling just city transitions27
Citizen science supports national reporting of a Sustainable Development Goal indicator: A case study of plastic debris density on beaches27
Review of the food, water and biodiversity nexus in India27
From experiment to intervention: A case study of scaling up marine eco-engineering from research to application27
Determinants of effective participatory multi-actor climate change governance: Insights from Zambia’s environment and climate change actors27
Unpacking the politics of Nature-based Solutions governance: Making space for transformative change27
Advancing climate resilient development pathways since the IPCC’s fifth assessment report27
Governing groundwater in the Indus Basin: Barriers to effective groundwater management and pathways for reform27
Futuremaking in a disaster zone: Everyday climate change adaptation amongst Quechua women in the Peruvian Cordillera Blanca27
Augment the SDG indicator framework27
Public engagement for social transformation: Informing or Empowering?27
The role of indigenous knowledge in climate change adaptation in Africa27
Between tradition and transformation: Negotiating land and water resources in Ghana’s Pra River Basin27
Scientific research in the Himalaya: Current state of knowledge, funding paradigm and policy implications27
Disseminating land use land cover change scenarios for improving the role of blue and green infrastructure: Evaluation and perspectives26
The multi-player evolutionary game analysis for the protective development of ecotourism26
Influence of hazard-related and cognitive factors of households’ flood risk perceptions in Kampala, Uganda26
Climate change assemblies as spaces for the potential mitigation of climate policy misperceptions: A survey experiment26
Public preferences for options to manage chronic wasting disease in Canada: A paired comparisons study26
Dialogue and collaboration for sustainable development in Japan and Taiwan: Epistemic foundation of partnership toward Sustainable Development Goals26
Environmental justice through epistemic diversification: A critical reflection on One Health for just environmental public health26
Prototyping structured decision making for water resource management in the San Francisco Bay-Delta26
Forest owners’ perceptions of machine learning: Insights from swedish forestry26
Exploring the solution space for different forestry management structures in New Zealand under climate change25
Transformative effectiveness: How EIA can transform stakeholders’ frames of reference25
Coevolution between science and policy: A systematic analysis on circular economy in China and worldwide25
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Unchecking the box: Overcoming barriers to meaningful consultation25
Achieving social-ecological fit in projectified environmental governance: Exploring vertical and horizontal dimensions25
A call for ‘management authorship’ in community forestry25
Trends and purposes of European river monitoring and restoration25
Weather information, farm-level climate adaptation and farmers' adaptive capacity: Examining the role of information and communication technologies24
Vessel risks to marine wildlife in the Tallurutiup Imanga National Marine Conservation Area and the eastern entrance to the Northwest Passage24
Power dynamics in transdisciplinary research for sustainable urban transitions24
What change? Assessing the Extinction Rebellion’s support for climate assemblies24
The exploratory assetization of a crop protection app24
Local-global linkages in biodiversity governance: The regime complex of the convention on biological diversity agenda for nature pledges24
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Climate change adaptation: How short-term political priorities trample public well-being23
Participatory scenario planning: A social learning approach to build systems thinking and trust for sustainable environmental governance23
Issues of context, capacity and scale: Essential conditions and missing links for a sustainable blue economy23
Ecosystem services-based decision-making: A bridge from science to practice23
What do we mean by justice in sustainability pathways? Commitments, dilemmas, and translations from theory to practice in nature-based solutions.23
Deadlock in transition to a net-zero socially robust knowledge23
How can bottom-up citizen science restore public trust in environmental governance and sciences? Recommendations from three case studies23
Indigenous practices of ecosystem management in a changing climate: Prospects for ecosystem-based adaptation23
The listing of new persistent organic pollutants in the stockholm convention: Its burden on developing countries23
The application of collaborative governance in local level climate and disaster resilient development – A global review23
The pollution haven strikes back?–Evidence from air quality daily variation in the Jing-Jin-Ji region of China23
Co-production of urban forests as nature-based solutions: Motivations and lessons-learnt from public officials23
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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 justice22
Co-designing a multi-criteria approach to ranking hazards to and from Australia’s emerging offshore blue economy22
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Knowledge representation in global environmental assessments - Patterns among authors of the Global Environmental Outlook22
Dutch municipalities tackling climate change adaptation to heat stress through mainstreaming across sectors22
Advancing community disaster resilience: A data-knowledge driven paradigm for integrating environmental science and policy decision-making22
Unlocking effective ice-jam risk management: Insights from agent-based modeling and comparative analysis of social theories in Fort McMurray, Canada22
Implementing and evaluating knowledge exchange: Insights from practitioners at the Canadian Forest Service22
A geologist per municipality initiative: Bridging geology and governance for sustainable development in Colombia22
Perception on coastal erosion: An assessment of how national level coastal resilience strategies promote indigenous knowledge and affect local level adaptation in Ghanaian communities22
Primary vs grey: A critical evaluation of literature sources used to assess the impacts of offshore wind farms22
Bridging science, policy and practice for sustainability: Towards a conceptual framework22
Land use and environmental impacts: Flood model in a medium-sized Brazilian city as a tool for urban sustainability22
Barriers to plastic monitoring in freshwaters in the Global South21
The Greta Effect: Is there more public support for climate protesters who are young and female?21
Identifying opportunities to deliver effective and efficient outcomes from business-biodiversity action21
An archetype analysis of sustainability innovations in Biosphere Reserves: Insights for assessing transformative potential21
The Ecological Conservation Redline program: A new model for improving China's protected area network21
Knowledge co-production around the cormorant-fishing conflict using a joint fact-finding approach21
A methodological framework for assessing the coherence of Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem nexus policies: Illustration and application at the river basin level21
Unlearning as resistance and justice: Toward healing and transforming21
Upscaling marine and coastal restoration through legal and governance solutions: Lessons from global bright spots21
Governance towards coordination for water resources management: The effect of governance modes21
Red wolf science and identity storylines in an online discursive community20
International human rights and climate change (policies): Challenging the concept of vulnerability20
The interrupting capacities of knowledge co-production experiments: A sociology of testing approach20
How can we promote the responsible innovation of nano-agrifood research?20
Participatory knowledge integration to promote safe pesticide use in Uganda20
Setting global deadlines for the elimination of major groups of persistent organic pollutants20
Embedded researchers as transdisciplinary boundary spanners strengthening urban climate resilience20
Experiences of inequality in international collaborative research – Perspectives from environmental and sustainability scholars from Ghana, West Africa20
A risk-based method to prioritize cumulative impacts assessment on marine biodiversity and research policy for offshore wind farms in France20
Addressing gaps in integrative water-energy-food-forest (WEFF) nexus governance20
Formulating a 100-year strategy for managing coastal hazard risk in a changing climate: Lessons learned from Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand20
Leverage points for improving urban biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene: A novel ecosystem lens for social-ecological transformation20
Water security in native American communities of Nevada20
Assessing extreme heat risk perception: Awareness, worry, preparedness and social capital in Texas20
How do household crop and livestock production adapt to extreme climatic events? —Insights from a typical agro-pastoral ecotone on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau20
Factual information on the environmental impacts of consumption abroad increases citizens' problem awareness, but not support for mitigating such impacts20
Navigating diverse commercial fisher perspectives for effective knowledge exchange in fisheries research and management20
Valuing the contribution of blue carbon to small island developing states' climate change commitments and Covid-19 recovery19
The political context of change in transboundary freshwater agreements19
Risk perception and risk realities in forming legally binding agreements: The governance of plastics19
Collaborating and resisting: Campesino strategies against ontological extractivism in Sumapaz, Colombia19
AI and the governance of sustainable development. An idea analysis of the European Union, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum19
Lessons learnt from previous local sustainability efforts to inform local action for the Sustainable Development Goals19
Pathways towards improved water governance: The role of polycentric governance systems and vertical and horizontal coordination19
Defying the gloom: In search of the ‘golden’ practices of small-scale mining operations19
Investigating the intention to participate in environmental governance during urban-rural integrated development process in the Yangtze River Delta Region19
Mapping a Green Infrastructure Network: a framework for spatial connectivity applied in Northern Italy19
The pendulum movement: Unstable political settlements for artisanal and small-scale mining in Peru19
Polycentricity in practice: Marine governance transitions in Southeast Asia18
An overview of modeling efforts of water resources in Mexico: Challenges and opportunities18
Governance innovations in the coastal zone: Towards social-ecological resilience18
Improving cross-cultural knowledge exchange for collaborative forest stewardship18
Beyond imagination? Examining practitioners’ perceptions of the feasibility of transformative governance futures for sustainable land use in the Dutch peatlands18
Evaluating global carbon neutrality commitments: An integrated assessment model approach to the 2°C target18
The endogenous action space in urban biodiversity governance: Socio-political fragmentation, serendipity of agency, and value articulation strategies18
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
Exploring the use of adaptation tipping points: A systematic review of definitions, characteristics and applications18
Fiji’s policy response to COVID-19 and the integration of Indigenous voices18
Challenges and solutions to rural water service sustainability in East African countries: A ‘systems scaffolding’ perspective18
Policy mixes for mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions: An analysis of six European countries and the European Union18
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A robust decision-making approach in climate policy design for possible net zero futures18
“It's dry, it has fewer charms!”: Do perceptions and values of intermittent rivers interact with their management?18
Policy coherence assessment of water, energy, and food resources policies in the Tana River Basin, Kenya18
Connecting gender balance, crisis resistance and innovativeness in the forestry sector: Women in leadership and management18
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