Ecology and Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecology and Society is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Which community network structures can support sustainability programs? The case of the Sustainable Cocoa Production Program in Indonesia94
Emergence of social-psychological barriers to social-ecological resilience: from causes to solutions47
Investigating the coordination between ecological and economic systems in China’s green development process: a place-based interdisciplinary evaluation39
Immediate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of wildlife as food among indigenous people and local communities in South America37
Forgotten forests: expanding potential land use in traditional Hawaiian agroecosystems, and the social-ecological implications32
A multiple evidence-based approach to Métis community-based monitoring: a case study from the South Athabasca Oil Sands Area, Alberta, Canada31
The population ecology of sustainable agriculture knowledge networks: insights from California31
Collective action in the area-wide management of an invasive plant disease28
Biocultural values of groundwater dependent ecosystems in Kona, Hawaiʻi25
Reflecting on arts-based participatory research: considerations for more equitable transdisciplinary collaborations24
Assessing the delivery of ecosystem services and benefits to human well-being of three contrasting MPAs in Spain23
Individual knowledge acquisition by teachers to promote the ecological value of sacred Kaya forests in southern Kenya21
Dynamics of pastoral traditional ecological knowledge: a global state-of-the-art review20
The role of religion in shaping the values of nature20
The species-specific role of wildlife in the Amazonian food system20
Effects of long-term ecological research and cognitive biases on the evaluation of scientific information by public land managers in Oregon and Washington, USA20
Ecosystem services in Sahelian village landscapes 1952–2016: estimating change in a data scarce region20
Deriving scalable measures for restoration of communal grazing lands19
Speaking of nature: Relationships between how people think about, connect with, and act to protect nature19
Visual representations in a choice experiment: valuing preferences for a local dam18
Water-related problématiques: five archetypical contexts of water governance18
A Chinese database on ecological thresholds and alternative stable states: implications for related research around the world18
Framing the regime shift concept: an epistemological analysis of a central ecological notion in the context of the North Sea cod crisis18
Secondary forests in Peru: differential provision of ecosystem services compared to other post-deforestation forest transitions17
Impacts of conservation activities on people who are incarcerated: a case study based on qualitative and quantitative analyses17
Unraveling the combined effects of sociopolitical and climate change scenarios for an artisanal small-scale fishery in the Western Mediterranean17
An integrated climate-biodiversity framework to improve planning and policy: an application to wildlife crossings and landscape connectivity17
Operationalizing water-energy-food nexus research for sustainable development in social-ecological systems: an interdisciplinary learning case in Central Asia17
Climate change, nature degradation, and financial stability: a review of domino-effects between finance, climate, and the biosphere17
The Great Green Wall in Senegal: questioning the idea of acceleration through the conflicting temporalities of politics and nature among the Sahelian populations16
Small-scale fisheries and agricultural trade networks are socially embedded: emerging hypotheses about responses to environmental changes16
Ganawendan Ginibiiminaan (Take care of our Water!): mobilizing for Watersheds-at-risk with the Bad River Ojibwe15
Home range size and space use patterns of African lions ( Panthera leo ) in Chizarira National Park, Zimbabwe15
Integrating a “One Well-being” approach in elephant conservation: evaluating consequences of management interventions15
The evolution of social-ecological systems (SES) research: a co-authorship and co-citation network analysis15
Reviewing the relationship between neoliberal societies and nature: implications of the industrialized dominant social paradigm for a sustainable future14
The role of accountability in the emergence of adaptive water governance14
Power research in adaptive water governance and beyond: a review14
Collective payments for ecosystem services: a counterpart of commodification and privatization trends in nature conservation?14
Equality and equity in Arctic communities: how household-level social relations support community-level social resilience14
Harvesting change: unraveling social-ecological impacts of a food hub ( LebensMittelPunkt ) through a living lab approach14
Identifying opportunities and constraints to effective management of invasive Australian wattle (Acacia) species in grassland landscapes, South Africa13
Using meaningful places as an indicator for sense of place in the management of social-ecological systems13
A need for assessing the resiliency of conservation funding13
Conflict-related environmental degradation threatens the success of landscape recovery in some areas in Tigray (Ethiopia)13
Social identity and place-based dynamics in community resilience building for natural disasters: an integrative framework13
Causes of overgrazing in Inner Mongolian grasslands: Searching for deep leverage points of intervention13
Shifting baseline syndrome in the fishing community of Barcelona: insights from scientific and local ecological knowledge13
Tradition and change: celebrating food systems resilience at two Indigenous Māori community events12
Fruit booms and investor mobility along the China-Myanmar and China-Laos borders12
Great expectations for collective management: the mismatch between supply and demand for catchment groups12
Indigenous caretaking of beargrass and the social and ecological consequences of adaptations to maintain beargrass weaving practices12
Using machine learning to uncover synergies between forest restoration and livelihood support in the Himalayas12
Everyday adaptation practices by coffee farmers in three mountain regions in Africa12
People think there's no nature in cities, but they want to know more12
Integrating public preferences with biophysical production possibilities: an application to ecosystem services from dam removal11
What comes after crises? Key elements and insights into feedback amplifying community self-organization11
Food consumption and nutritional status of sedentarized Baka Pygmies in Southern Cameroon: wild foods are less important for those who farm11
Narrating changes, recalling memory: accumulation by dispossession in food systems of Indigenous communities at the extremes of Latin America11
Eliciting the plurality of causal reasoning in social-ecological systems research11
Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework in a protected area: a case study of Qilian Mountain National Park, Northwestern China10
COVID-19 impacts on food systems in fisheries-dependent island communities10
Engaging with justice in integrated landscape approaches10
Editorial: High Nature Value farming systems in Europe10
Labrador Inuit resilience and resurgence: embedding Indigenous values in commercial fisheries governance10
Livelihood vulnerability and human-wildlife interactions across protected areas10
Equity in resilience: a case study of community resilience to wildfire in southwestern Oregon, United States10
“It’s like a connection between all of us”: Inuit social connections and caribou declines in Labrador, Canada10
Demystifying food systems transformation: a review of the state of the field10
Vertical agriculture’s potential implications for food system resilience: outcomes of focus groups in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia10
Conservation with local people: medicinal plants as cultural keystone species in the Southern Alps10
A method for benchmarking two different resilience assessment methods10
Understanding how governance emerges in social-ecological systems: insights from archetype analysis10
Keeping up with the landscapes: promoting resilience in dynamic social-ecological systems10
Not too small to benefit society: insights into perceived cultural ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps10
The invisible thread: women as tradition keepers and change agents in Spanish pastoral social-ecological systems10
A synthesis on active citizenship in European nature conservation: social and environmental impacts, democratic tensions, and governance implications10
Operationalizing pathway diversity in a mosaic landscape10
Pathways to healing: Indigenous revitalization through family-based land management in the Klamath Basin10
Tracing a pollinator’s path9
Navigating ambiguous waters: a relational approach to nested conflicts in the Katari River Basin, Bolivia9
Enforcement, deterrence, and compliance in co-managed small-scale fisheries9
Using public litigation records to identify priority science needs for managing public lands9
Adaptive responses to inter-group competition over natural resources: the case of leakage9
Development of a wetland management plan for Taiqu Saltpan, Taiwan, by stakeholder engagement and water gate operation9
Dangerous environments: environmental peacebuilding’s technomoral imaginary and its power-knowledge effects9
Expanding use of space is an opportunity for sustainability but a threat to resilience9
Manning the mangroves: gender, regional identities, and social history shape mangrove forest dependence and governance9
Coproduction mechanisms to weave Indigenous knowledge, artificial intelligence, and technical data to enable Indigenous-led adaptive decision making: lessons from Australia’s joint managed Kakadu Nati9
Two of a kind? Large-scale land acquisitions and commodity frontier expansion in Argentina's Dry Chaco9
Resilient niches: how non-financial capitals helped to overcome the COVID-19 crisis in local food systems9
Gathering Giizhik in a changing landscape9
From stories to maps: translating participatory scenario narratives into spatially explicit information9
Building resilience in Africa’s smallholder farming systems: contributions from agricultural development interventions—a scoping review9
Pathways to transformation: institutionalizing urban agriculture in a Montréal borough9
Understanding human-elephant interactions across time is key to illuminate pathways toward coexistence8
Assessing social-ecological fit of flood planning governance8
Island and Indigenous systems of circularity: how Hawaiʻi can inform the development of universal circular economy policy goals8
Integration of nature-based solutions (NBS) in local policy and planning toward transformative change. Evidence from Barcelona, Lisbon, and Turin8
Working together to scale ecosystem restoration: collective approaches to community action in Aotearoa New Zealand8
Dimensions of integration for landscape connectivity planning: a framework for understanding challenges and opportunities8
Ecological agriculture and rural revitalization: toward a post-productivist countryside in Nanjing, China8
Hidden benefits and risks of partial protection for coral reef fisheries8
A methodological guide for applying the social-ecological system (SES) framework: a review of quantitative approaches8
The management costs of alternative forest management strategies in the Lake Tahoe Basin8
Local understandings and global challenges: exploring sense of place in sustainability transitions8
Challenges and prospects of Local Adaptation Plans of Action (LAPA) initiative in Nepal as everyday adaptation8
Governing wildfires: toward a systematic analytical framework8
Impacts of algal blooms and microcystins in fish on small-scale fishers in Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria: implications for health and livelihood8
Studying human-nature relations in aquatic social-ecological systems using the social-ecological action situations framework: how to move from empirical data to conceptual models8
Assessing holistic agroecological resilience of agroecosystems from a landscape perspective: a systematic review8
The ecological success of river restoration in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada: lessons learned7
Murky waters: divergent ways scientists, practitioners, and landowners evaluate beaver mimicry7
Disjointed modes of building resilience to socio-environmental crises7
The wisdom of hindsight: a comparative analysis of timelines of environmental governance of infrastructure across the Pan-Amazon7
Cree knowledge, fuzzy cognitive maps, and the social-ecology of moose habitat quality under an adapted forestry regime7
The good, the bad, and the unseen: wild mammal encounters influence wildlife preferences of residents across socio-demographic gradients7
Form and function in ecologizing spatial planning: learnings from Bogotá, Colombia7
Trade-offs in the implementation of good practice in large carnivore conservation and management7
Naming the unnamed: relational values as knowledge and power7
Tales on co-response-ability in times of environmental polarization7
Motivations and sensitivities surrounding the illegal trade of sea turtles in Costa Rica7
Forest management under uncertainty: the influence of management versus climate change and wildfire in the Lake Tahoe Basin, USA.7
Simulating wildlife habitat dynamics over the next century to help inform best management strategies for biodiversity in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California7
Double exposure to capitalist expansion and climatic change: a study of vulnerability on the Ghanaian coastal commodity frontier7
A scoping review of how the seven principles for building social-ecological resilience have been operationalized7
Coupled human-natural system impacts of a winter weather whiplash event7
Braiding Inuit knowledge and Western science to understand light goose population dynamics under a changing climate7
Water quality and forest restoration in the Lake Tahoe basin: impacts of future management options7
Negotiating informality and urban resilience: implications for equity7
Pau-brasil and string instrument bows telecouple nature, art, and heritage7
State role and involvement in determining wetland mitigation performance standards in the United States7
Systemic analysis of a developing plant community on the island of Surtsey7
Individual and collective political efficacy predict farmer engagement and support for groundwater policies: implications from the California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act6
To burn or not to burn: governance of wildfires in Australia6
A new framework for flood adaptation: introducing the Flood Adaptation Hierarchy6
Novel pathways to value nature: how guided forest bathing promotes new relationships with nature6
Application of maximum entropy (MaxEnt) to understand the spatial dimension of human–wildlife conflict (HWC) risk in areas adjacent to Gonarezhou National Park of Zimbabwe6
Geospatial patterns and models of subsistence land use in rural Interior Alaska6
Worldview violence and Non-Human People in (conservation) science6
Making sense of territorial changes: affective and moral dimensions of place attachments and meanings6
Exploring evolving spiritual values of forests in Europe and Asia: a transition hypothesis toward re-spiritualizing forests6
Resistance to change: A case study on framing and policy change of a controversial nature area6
Knowledge that affects: an assemblage approach6
Assessing long-term conservation impacts on adaptive capacity in a flagship community-based natural resources management area in Botswana6
Creating a climate changed future with the sea level rise interactive-fiction game “Lagos2199”6
Carbon emissions from land acquisitions in Laos6
Uncovering well-being ecosystem services bundles (WEBs) under conditions of social-ecological change in Brazil6
Incorporating place-based values into ecological restoration6
Multistakeholder platforms for natural resource governance: lessons from eight landscape-level cases6
Stakeholder perceptions of wildfire management strategies as nature-based solutions in two Iberian biosphere reserves6
Evaluation-perception of site attributes and plant species selection in the public urban green space of a compact city6
Constraints to effective comanagement of New Zealand's customary fisheries: experiences of the East Otago Taiāpure6
Unintended consequences of sustainable development initiatives: risks and opportunities in seagrass social-ecological systems6
Diverse values of nature and political ontology6
A framework for co-production of knowledge in the context of Arctic research6
Indigenous sea gardens within the Pacific Northwest generate partial trophic niche and dietary fatty acid shifts in littleneck clams ( Leukoma staminea )6
Hunting as land use: Understanding the spatial associations among hunting, agriculture, and forestry6
Biodiversity conservation through forest certification: key factors shaping national Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standard-development processes in Canada, Sweden, and Russia6
Reviewing relational values for future research: insights from the coast6
The values of wildlife revisited6
A comparative case study of multistakeholder responses following oil spills in Pointe d’Esny, Mauritius, and Huntington Beach, California6
Migration and collective action in the commons: application of social-ecological system framework with evidence from China6
“The future for pastoralists is dark unless something is done”: illuminating the constraints and opportunities for a climate-resilient future for Kenyan pastoralists6
Conceptualizing multidimensional barriers: a framework for assessing constraints in realizing recreational benefits of urban green spaces6
Games for experiential learning: triggering collective changes in commons management6
Diverse values regarding nature are related to stable forests: the case of Indigenous lands in Panama5
What would attract women to forest-based climate action? Learning from decades of female participation in an infant and maternal health system in Indonesia5
Interactive governance of whale ecosystem services: governability assessment of three case studies in the Arctic5
Collapse of the oyster population in Apalachicola Bay: cascading social impacts from an ecologically and culturally significant species5
CBNRM, national parks, elites, and ethnography: a comment on (mis)representations5
Challenges to incorporating social and economic factors into cumulative effects assessments in Canada’s marine conservation areas5
Sustainability and resilience through connection: the economic metacommunities of the Western USA5
How social and ecological characteristics shape transaction costs in polycentric wildfire governance: insights from the Sequoia-Kings Canyon Ecosystem, California, USA5
How policy interventions influence burning to meet cultural and small-scale livelihood objectives5
Resilience principles and a leverage points perspective for sustainable woody vegetation management in a social-ecological system of southwestern Ethiopia5
Effects of the COVID-19 lockdown in Hubei, China: cessation of incense burning reduces regional landscape fire5
Creating a quiet buzz: opportunities and challenges for meaningful participation of boreal forest apiarists in the science-policy interface for biodiversity and ecosystem services5
Using Q-methodology to bridge different understandings on community forest management: lessons from the Peruvian Amazon5
Characterizing the social-ecological system for inland freshwater salinization using fuzzy cognitive maps: implications for collective management5
Historical political ecology as qualitative social-ecological system analysis in the Maumee River Watershed5
Evaluating the effects of alternative landscape management scenarios on three old-forest-associated predators over 100 years in the fire-prone forests of the Sierra Nevada, USA5
Localizing a just transition: a case study of St. George, Alaska5
Shaping garden landscape with medicinal plants by migrant communities in the Atlantic Forest, Argentina5
Inequalities and solidarities: interactions and impacts of sea-level-rise adaptation policies5
Spatial assessment of risks faced by marine protected areas in Chilean Patagonia5
Care-based leadership in a core-periphery network: a South African case study in collaborative watershed governance5
Understanding stakeholder perceptions of environmental justice: a study of tourism in the Erhai Lake basin, Yunnan province, China5
Exploring linkages between protected-area access and Kenyan pastoralist food security using a new agent-based model5
Assessing the institutional foundations of adaptive water governance in South India5
The importance of geodiversity in understanding and conserving the Western Rift Valley Corridor5
Environmental change and resource access in aquatic food systems: a Photovoice case study of Cambodian fisheries5
Perceived changes in social-ecological resilience in fire-prone ecosystems in Colorado5
Recreational angler and stakeholder perceptions of policy changes to recreational fishery management: the case of red snapper devolution in the Gulf of Mexico5
Distributional range shift of a marine fish relates to a geographical gradient of emotions among recreational fishers5
Resilience-performance trade-offs in managing social-ecological systems5
Evolving adaptive governance: challenging assumptions through an examination of fisheries law in Solomon Islands5
Can we control marine invasive alien species by eating them? The case of Callinectes sapidus5
Transboundary flows in the metacoupled Anthropocene: typology, methods, and governance for global sustainability4
Leverage points and levers of inclusive conservation in protected areas4
Plastic pollution as a canvas for change: fostering collaboration for environmental solutions and actions through art and science4
Implications of Panarchy for ecosystem service research: the role of system dynamics in service delivery4
Responsibility as humans: meaning of traditional small grains cultivation in Japan4
How the qualities of actor-issue interdependencies influence collaboration patterns4
Theorizing how the Three Horizons approach supports transformative learning: insights from advancing climate action in a Canadian Biosphere Reserve4
Moving beyond binary metrics of compliance in small-scale fisheries4
Identifying system archetypes in Nigeria’s rice agri-food system using fuzzy cognitive mapping4
Transitioning toward “deep” knowledge co-production in coastal and marine systems: examining the interplay among governance, power, and knowledge4
Emotionally augmented mental models, connectivity and beaver reintroduction in Southwest England4
Visualizing seascapes as a method for engaging stakeholders in discussions about resilience4
Changing collaborative networks and transitions in rural sustainable development: qualitative lessons from three villages in China4
Water rights for groundwater environments as an enabling condition for adaptive water governance4
Relational values and empathy are closely connected: A study of residents of Vermont's Winooski River watershed4
What factors enable social-ecological transformative potential? The role of learning practices, empowerment, and networking4
Editorial4
Collaboration in a polarized context: lessons from public forest governance in the American West4
Innovation brokers in High Nature Value farming areas: a strategic approach to engage effective socioeconomic and agroecological dynamics4
Drivers of social acceptability for bivalve aquaculture in Atlantic Canadian communities4
Sedentarization as an adaptation to socio-environmental changes? Everyday herding practices in pastoralist communities in southern Ethiopia4
Community knowledge as a cornerstone for fisheries management4
Resilience and coastal governance: knowledge and navigation between stability and transformation4
Land cover and socioeconomic factors explain avian diversity in a tropical megacity4
The benefits of counting butterflies: recommendations for a successful citizen science project4
Gender equity and collaborative care in Madagascar’s locally managed marine areas: reflections on the launch of a fisherwomen’s network4
Transforming the economic landscape for global sustainability4
Everyday adaptation, interrupted agency and beyond: examining the interplay between formal and everyday climate change adaptations4
Living community cookbook: transdisciplinary collaboration for constructing recipes with biocultural value4
Artistic practice, public awareness, and the ngahere: art–science–Indigenous Māori collaborations for raising awareness of threats to native forests4
"Cities in the forest" and "cities of the forest": an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) spatial approach to analyzing the urbanization-deforestation relationship in a Brazilian Amazon state4
Restorative practices, marine ecotourism, and restoration economies: revitalizing the environmental agenda?3
Based on nature, enabled by social-ecological-technological context: deriving benefit from urban green and blue infrastructure3
The Zoʻé perspective on what scientists call “forest management” and its implications for floristic diversity and biocultural conservation3
Unraveling human drivers behind complex interrelationships among sustainable development goals: a demonstration in a flagship protected area3
Elucidating social-ecological perceptions of a protected area system in Interior Alaska: a fuzzy cognitive mapping approach3
Regenerative landscape design: an integrative framework to enhance sustainability planning3
Collaborative agri-environmental governance in the Netherlands: a novel institutional arrangement to bridge social-ecological dynamics3
Polycentricity and state reinforced self-governance: the case of the New York City watersheds governing arrangement3
Revisiting the drug crop eradication-violence nexus: a mixed-methods analysis of conflict and cooperation in traditional governance communities in Oaxaca, Mexico3
Longitudinal assessment of an integrated approach to large-scale common-pool water resource management: a case study of Nebraska’s Platte River basin3
Toward adaptive water governance: the role of systemic feedbacks for learning and adaptation in the eastern transboundary rivers of South Africa3
Sustainability-aligned values: exploring the concept, evidence, and practice3
Exploring perceptions to improve the outcomes of a marine protected area3
Everyday climate adaptation practices in agriculture contribute to food security in Sub-Saharan Africa3
Fisheries agreements and transformative governance in the Amazon Estuary: between state rules and self-organization3
The Kere of Madagascar: a qualitative exploration of community experiences and perspectives3
The roles and values of the natural environment in Northern Uganda’s peace process: a conceptual document analysis3
Approaches to assess land degradation risk: a synthesis3
Facilitating evolutionary rescue from a wildlife health threat with cross-sectoral strategies: a case study on white-nose syndrome3
Hālana ka manaʻo: place-based connection as a source of long-term resilience3
Walking in two worlds: insights from implementing a Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in approach to bridging knowledge systems in conservation and land use planning3
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