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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Individual knowledge acquisition by teachers to promote the ecological value of sacred Kaya forests in southern Kenya55
Assessing the delivery of ecosystem services and benefits to human well-being of three contrasting MPAs in Spain51
The species-specific role of wildlife in the Amazonian food system48
From announced newcomers to unexpected guests: attitudes of local communities toward reintroduced Eurasian beavers ( Castor fiber ) across their expansion area in the Western Carpathians39
Forgotten forests: expanding potential land use in traditional Hawaiian agroecosystems, and the social-ecological implications38
Investigating the coordination between ecological and economic systems in China’s green development process: a place-based interdisciplinary evaluation37
Emergence of social-psychological barriers to social-ecological resilience: from causes to solutions34
Which community network structures can support sustainability programs? The case of the Sustainable Cocoa Production Program in Indonesia34
Reflecting on arts-based participatory research: considerations for more equitable transdisciplinary collaborations33
The population ecology of sustainable agriculture knowledge networks: insights from California32
The role of religion in shaping the values of nature32
A Chinese database on ecological thresholds and alternative stable states: implications for related research around the world30
Undisclosed transgressions? Lacking acknowledgements of large agrifood firms on their impacts on the planetary boundaries30
Small-scale fisheries and agricultural trade networks are socially embedded: emerging hypotheses about responses to environmental changes29
Framing the regime shift concept: an epistemological analysis of a central ecological notion in the context of the North Sea cod crisis29
Climate change, nature degradation, and financial stability: a review of domino-effects between finance, climate, and the biosphere27
Effects of long-term ecological research and cognitive biases on the evaluation of scientific information by public land managers in Oregon and Washington, USA25
Water-related problématiques: five archetypical contexts of water governance25
Social-ecological uncertainty and the (in)capacity to adapt: stakeholders’ perceptions post-red tide/salmon farming crisis in Chiloé Island (Chile)25
The evolution of social-ecological systems (SES) research: a co-authorship and co-citation network analysis23
Visual representations in a choice experiment: valuing preferences for a local dam23
How is the governance of circular economy of water organized? A systematic review of the literature22
Stakeholder expectations for future mountain forests: synergies, trade-offs, limitations, and barriers in ecosystem service supply21
Ganawendan Ginibiiminaan (Take care of our Water!): mobilizing for Watersheds-at-risk with the Bad River Ojibwe21
Home range size and space use patterns of African lions ( Panthera leo ) in Chizarira National Park, Zimbabwe21
The Great Green Wall in Senegal: questioning the idea of acceleration through the conflicting temporalities of politics and nature among the Sahelian populations21
“Hearing everyone’s perspective makes me want to make a change”: a podcast as a lever for change in an Arctic Indigenous community20
Identifying opportunities and constraints to effective management of invasive Australian wattle (Acacia) species in grassland landscapes, South Africa20
The role of accountability in the emergence of adaptive water governance20
Shifting baseline syndrome in the fishing community of Barcelona: insights from scientific and local ecological knowledge19
Power research in adaptive water governance and beyond: a review19
Harvesting change: unraveling social-ecological impacts of a food hub ( LebensMittelPunkt ) through a living lab approach19
A need for assessing the resiliency of conservation funding19
Collective payments for ecosystem services: a counterpart of commodification and privatization trends in nature conservation?19
Conflict-related environmental degradation threatens the success of landscape recovery in some areas in Tigray (Ethiopia)19
The Great Stink in the 21st century? Problematizing the sewage scandal in England and envisioning a new infrastructure ideal19
Integrating a “One Well-being” approach in elephant conservation: evaluating consequences of management interventions19
Social identity and place-based dynamics in community resilience building for natural disasters: an integrative framework19
Mi'kmaw lessons for realigning land relations in Bay of Fundy dykelands and tidal wetlands18
What comes after crises? Key elements and insights into feedback amplifying community self-organization18
Coping with conflicts in the co-production of solid waste management services: experience with a real-world lab in India18
Unleashing eco-conscious travel: exploring the factors influencing green travel behavior in urban communities18
Using machine learning to uncover synergies between forest restoration and livelihood support in the Himalayas18
Great expectations for collective management: the mismatch between supply and demand for catchment groups18
Biocultural well-being: Indigenous Peoples’ values for conservation and equity17
Exploring the bioeconomy as discourse: identifying archetypical bioeconomy discourses and the emergence of a transformative bioeconomy17
Eliciting the plurality of causal reasoning in social-ecological systems research17
Preparing for resilience: adaptation options for young people in small-scale fisheries in Mexico17
Tradition and change: celebrating food systems resilience at two Indigenous Māori community events17
Regional variations in the social acceptability of conservation measures for at-risk species: the case of boreal and mountain caribou17
Editorial: High Nature Value farming systems in Europe16
Operationalizing pathway diversity in a mosaic landscape16
Unpacking the role of failed land investments in driving tropical deforestation16
Food consumption and nutritional status of sedentarized Baka Pygmies in Southern Cameroon: wild foods are less important for those who farm16
Social-ecological determinants of contemporary megafauna distributions in Indian tropical dry woodlands16
Narrating changes, recalling memory: accumulation by dispossession in food systems of Indigenous communities at the extremes of Latin America16
Integrating public preferences with biophysical production possibilities: an application to ecosystem services from dam removal16
Keeping up with the landscapes: promoting resilience in dynamic social-ecological systems15
Demystifying food systems transformation: a review of the state of the field15
Who has the time? The temporality of tensions in the transboundary Red River basin15
Vertical agriculture’s potential implications for food system resilience: outcomes of focus groups in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia15
Pathways to healing: Indigenous revitalization through family-based land management in the Klamath Basin15
COVID-19 impacts on food systems in fisheries-dependent island communities14
Understanding how governance emerges in social-ecological systems: insights from archetype analysis14
Equity in resilience: a case study of community resilience to wildfire in southwestern Oregon, United States14
Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework in a protected area: a case study of Qilian Mountain National Park, Northwestern China14
Livelihood vulnerability and human-wildlife interactions across protected areas14
Engaging with justice in integrated landscape approaches14
Tracing a pollinator’s path13
Resilient niches: how non-financial capitals helped to overcome the COVID-19 crisis in local food systems13
Using public litigation records to identify priority science needs for managing public lands13
Pathways to transformation: institutionalizing urban agriculture in a Montréal borough13
Expanding use of space is an opportunity for sustainability but a threat to resilience13
Labrador Inuit resilience and resurgence: embedding Indigenous values in commercial fisheries governance13
Navigating ambiguous waters: a relational approach to nested conflicts in the Katari River Basin, Bolivia13
The concept of cultural keystone species, revisited through the eyes of Indigenous Peoples on northern Turtle Island12
Dangerous environments: environmental peacebuilding’s technomoral imaginary and its power-knowledge effects12
Navigating transdisciplinary waters to protect both sharks and bathers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: diverse stakeholders propose potential actions12
Building resilience in Africa’s smallholder farming systems: contributions from agricultural development interventions—a scoping review12
Adaptive responses to inter-group competition over natural resources: the case of leakage12
Manning the mangroves: gender, regional identities, and social history shape mangrove forest dependence and governance12
Understanding human-elephant interactions across time is key to illuminate pathways toward coexistence12
Development of a wetland management plan for Taiqu Saltpan, Taiwan, by stakeholder engagement and water gate operation12
Enforcement, deterrence, and compliance in co-managed small-scale fisheries12
Relational values overshadow monetary value in territorial management by the Indigenous Oaxacan community of Capulálpam de Méndez12
Tales on co-response-ability in times of environmental polarization12
Local understandings and global challenges: exploring sense of place in sustainability transitions11
Assessing social-ecological fit of flood planning governance11
Governing wildfires: toward a systematic analytical framework11
Dimensions of integration for landscape connectivity planning: a framework for understanding challenges and opportunities11
Anti-fire statements coexist with millions of anthropogenic fires in Madagascar11
The value and vanua of soil: bureaucratic practices, social life, and the colonial legacy of soil conservation in Fiji11
Integration of nature-based solutions (NBS) in local policy and planning toward transformative change. Evidence from Barcelona, Lisbon, and Turin11
Impacts of algal blooms and microcystins in fish on small-scale fishers in Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria: implications for health and livelihood11
Mobilizing Indigenous pastoralists: a multi-scalar approach involving reindeer herding communities and sustainability research11
Island and Indigenous systems of circularity: how Hawaiʻi can inform the development of universal circular economy policy goals11
Biocultural ethics and Earth stewardship: a novel integration to revitalize multiple values of nature11
Assessing holistic agroecological resilience of agroecosystems from a landscape perspective: a systematic review10
Large-scale land acquisitions and land cover change in Ethiopia10
Virtual pollination flows as a key element in the typology of transboundary flows: a response to Li et al. (2023)10
Ecological agriculture and rural revitalization: toward a post-productivist countryside in Nanjing, China10
Hydrosocial power and territorial transformation: a case study of the Longaví River sub-basin in south-central Chile10
Successful water governance pathways across problem contexts: a global qualitative comparative analysis10
Cree knowledge, fuzzy cognitive maps, and the social-ecology of moose habitat quality under an adapted forestry regime10
Working together to scale ecosystem restoration: collective approaches to community action in Aotearoa New Zealand10
Braiding Inuit knowledge and Western science to understand light goose population dynamics under a changing climate10
Nutrient deficit rather than distance of farming activities from the boundary of protected areas drives crop raids by elephants10
Disjointed modes of building resilience to socio-environmental crises9
The good, the bad, and the unseen: wild mammal encounters influence wildlife preferences of residents across socio-demographic gradients9
Motivations and sensitivities surrounding the illegal trade of sea turtles in Costa Rica9
Negotiating informality and urban resilience: implications for equity9
Toward multifunctionality in a fire-prone peat landscape in Indonesia: insights from multistakeholder perspectives9
Threatened or thriving? Q methodology reveals stakeholder discourses of bats in an insular context9
Evaluation-perception of site attributes and plant species selection in the public urban green space of a compact city9
The dynamics and politics of integrating local knowledge systems in multistakeholder platforms9
Adaptive capacity of fishing companies facing spatial competition with offshore wind farms: insights from scallop fishers in Normandy (France)9
Coupled human-natural system impacts of a winter weather whiplash event9
The wild bird pet trade in Guyana9
Exploring multispecies co-design for social-ecological transformation9
Worldview violence and Non-Human People in (conservation) science9
The ecological success of river restoration in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada: lessons learned9
Paradigms of water governance: a systematic review9
Form and function in ecologizing spatial planning: learnings from Bogotá, Colombia9
Naming the unnamed: relational values as knowledge and power9
Making sense of territorial changes: affective and moral dimensions of place attachments and meanings9
“The future for pastoralists is dark unless something is done”: illuminating the constraints and opportunities for a climate-resilient future for Kenyan pastoralists9
Application of maximum entropy (MaxEnt) to understand the spatial dimension of human–wildlife conflict (HWC) risk in areas adjacent to Gonarezhou National Park of Zimbabwe8
Stakeholder perceptions of wildfire management strategies as nature-based solutions in two Iberian biosphere reserves8
Relational values of nature—a global empirical study of environmental students in 37 countries8
Motivation of agroecology for biodiversity conservation in China: a juxtaposition of traditional knowledge and modern ecology in tea farmers’ practice8
Teaching the “heads, hearts, and hands” of futures literacy in sustainability education using radical seeds of change8
Assessing the distance effects on motivations of emergency volunteers responding to wildfire events in protected areas8
A scoping review of how the seven principles for building social-ecological resilience have been operationalized8
A comparative case study of multistakeholder responses following oil spills in Pointe d’Esny, Mauritius, and Huntington Beach, California8
From habitats to hashtags: examining online discussions about invasive species8
Co-creating a festival with and for rural commoning initiatives: a transdisciplinary place-based process8
State role and involvement in determining wetland mitigation performance standards in the United States8
From Aristotle to Heraclitus8
A trajectory of change in the Guiers Lake Basin, Senegal: applying the adaptive systemic approach to establish participatory governance for water security8
Meaningful transdisciplinary collaborations for sustainability: local, artistic, and scientific knowledge7
Diverse values of nature and political ontology7
The difficult construction of horizontalities: power relations in collaborative multi-actor social-ecological systems management7
A review of initiatives to transform the global sand system7
Distributional range shift of a marine fish relates to a geographical gradient of emotions among recreational fishers7
The evolution of policy interdependency and its impacts on the social-ecological system in Victoria, Australia since the 1860s7
Data sonification offers a novel approach for communicating Earth’s tipping points7
Assessing long-term conservation impacts on adaptive capacity in a flagship community-based natural resources management area in Botswana7
Novel pathways to value nature: how guided forest bathing promotes new relationships with nature7
Social-ecological changes in traditional vanilla agroecosystems and their key role in biocultural landscape restoration7
Localizing a just transition: a case study of St. George, Alaska7
Understanding stakeholder perceptions of environmental justice: a study of tourism in the Erhai Lake basin, Yunnan province, China7
Indigenous sea gardens within the Pacific Northwest generate partial trophic niche and dietary fatty acid shifts in littleneck clams ( Leukoma staminea )7
Historical political ecology as qualitative social-ecological system analysis in the Maumee River Watershed7
The Chakana : a symbol of the Andean worldview in community water management, and a form of governance of life7
Games for experiential learning: triggering collective changes in commons management7
Knowledge that affects: an assemblage approach7
To burn or not to burn: governance of wildfires in Australia7
Diverse values regarding nature are related to stable forests: the case of Indigenous lands in Panama7
Environmental change and resource access in aquatic food systems: a Photovoice case study of Cambodian fisheries7
Sustainability and resilience through connection: the economic metacommunities of the Western USA7
Integrating scientific data, local knowledge, and expert knowledge to assess climate vulnerability in fisheries6
Social-ecological drought and smallholder vulnerability in the Central American Dry Corridor6
Spatial social-ecological land systems of the tri-national Alto Paraná Atlantic Forest of South America6
Collapse of the oyster population in Apalachicola Bay: cascading social impacts from an ecologically and culturally significant species6
Exploring linkages between protected-area access and Kenyan pastoralist food security using a new agent-based model6
CBNRM, national parks, elites, and ethnography: a comment on (mis)representations6
The importance of geodiversity in understanding and conserving the Western Rift Valley Corridor6
What factors enable social-ecological transformative potential? The role of learning practices, empowerment, and networking6
Responsibility as humans: meaning of traditional small grains cultivation in Japan6
Editorial6
Mobile apps increase the visibility of women’s work contributions in Mexican small-scale fisheries6
Balancing water needs and well-being: bringing social-cultural values into environmental flows using a DPSIR framework6
How policy interventions influence burning to meet cultural and small-scale livelihood objectives6
Characterizing the social-ecological system for inland freshwater salinization using fuzzy cognitive maps: implications for collective management6
Individual and collective political efficacy predict farmer engagement and support for groundwater policies: implications from the California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act6
What would attract women to forest-based climate action? Learning from decades of female participation in an infant and maternal health system in Indonesia6
Recreational angler and stakeholder perceptions of policy changes to recreational fishery management: the case of red snapper devolution in the Gulf of Mexico6
The potential of collective action in promoting sustainable rangeland management: evidence from pastoral China6
Visualizing seascapes as a method for engaging stakeholders in discussions about resilience6
Community knowledge as a cornerstone for fisheries management6
Gender equity and collaborative care in Madagascar’s locally managed marine areas: reflections on the launch of a fisherwomen’s network6
Plastic pollution as a canvas for change: fostering collaboration for environmental solutions and actions through art and science6
Creating a quiet buzz: opportunities and challenges for meaningful participation of boreal forest apiarists in the science-policy interface for biodiversity and ecosystem services6
Negotiating change in the African Great Lakes: fishers’ knowledge, adaptive strategies, and governance gaps in Lake Victoria’s Muhuru Bay and Migingo Island, Kenya6
Resilience principles and a leverage points perspective for sustainable woody vegetation management in a social-ecological system of southwestern Ethiopia6
Divide and explain: novel metrics and procedures for archetype analysis in case-based sustainability research6
Shaping garden landscape with medicinal plants by migrant communities in the Atlantic Forest, Argentina6
Can we control marine invasive alien species by eating them? The case of Callinectes sapidus6
How social and ecological characteristics shape transaction costs in polycentric wildfire governance: insights from the Sequoia-Kings Canyon Ecosystem, California, USA6
Spatial assessment of risks faced by marine protected areas in Chilean Patagonia6
Downstream impacts of the Madeira Hydroelectric Complex on várzea traditional agriculture and extractivism6
Perceived changes in social-ecological resilience in fire-prone ecosystems in Colorado6
Developing local ties in a mobile world: how mobility processes shape sense of place and sustainable management in destination areas6
Changing collaborative networks and transitions in rural sustainable development: qualitative lessons from three villages in China6
Positive social relationships in hunting groups are related to compliance with the higher-level moose management6
Living knowledge: persistence and adaptation of traditional ecological knowledge in East Ujimchin, Inner Mongolia, China5
Moving beyond binary metrics of compliance in small-scale fisheries5
Innovation brokers in High Nature Value farming areas: a strategic approach to engage effective socioeconomic and agroecological dynamics5
Leverage points and levers of inclusive conservation in protected areas5
Identifying system archetypes in Nigeria’s rice agri-food system using fuzzy cognitive mapping5
Whither convergence? Co-designing convergent research and wrestling with its emergent tensions5
Influences of ecological change and social networks on conservation professionals’ and producers’ risk assessments of a vegetation transition5
Interdependencies among hydro-saline dynamics, economic activities, ecological processes, and biodiversity in a deltaic social-ecological system: insights from the Rhône delta (southern France)5
Cultural and empowerment priorities amid tensions in knowledge systems and resource allocation: insights from the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area5
Convergence research as transdisciplinary knowledge coproduction within cases of effective collaborative governance of social-ecological systems5
Theorizing how the Three Horizons approach supports transformative learning: insights from advancing climate action in a Canadian Biosphere Reserve5
Collaboration in a polarized context: lessons from public forest governance in the American West5
Transboundary flows in the metacoupled Anthropocene: typology, methods, and governance for global sustainability5
Transitioning toward “deep” knowledge co-production in coastal and marine systems: examining the interplay among governance, power, and knowledge5
Remittance income weakens participation in community-based natural resource management5
Maladaptive state reinforcement of greenspace in racially marginalized neighborhoods: lessons from Louisville, Kentucky’s failed cooperative extension partnership5
Now you see me, now you don’t: the role and relevance of paradigms in water governance5
Perceptions of governance and access in artisanal marine fisheries in northern Brazil5
Everyday mobility and changing livelihood trajectories: implications for vulnerability and adaptation in dryland regions5
Relational sampling fills critical knowledge gaps in benthic ecosystem characteristics in Nunatsiavut, Canada5
Amplifying the transformative impact of landscape-oriented partnerships: understanding conditions for and interactions of amplification processes5
Artistic practice, public awareness, and the ngahere: art–science–Indigenous Māori collaborations for raising awareness of threats to native forests5
Transforming the economic landscape for global sustainability5
Urban African food systems as sites of challenges and opportunities for household food equity and resilience5
Living community cookbook: transdisciplinary collaboration for constructing recipes with biocultural value5
Linking ecosystem service valuation to environmental policy support: a case study of pollution in the Tennessee River5
Facilitating convergence research on water resource management with a collaborative, adaptive, and multi-scale systems thinking framework5
The roles and values of the natural environment in Northern Uganda’s peace process: a conceptual document analysis4
Regenerative landscape design: an integrative framework to enhance sustainability planning4
Fisheries agreements and transformative governance in the Amazon Estuary: between state rules and self-organization4
Reflections and insights from the special feature on State-reinforced adaptive and transformative governance4
How fishers attribute blame for marine ecosystem degradation: developing a social relational approach to conflict in capture fisheries4
Weaving relational values around a threatened river landscape: bundles, interrelations, and social drivers from northern Chile4
“Men who love the oak trees”: services and care in the cork oak forests of Southern Andalusia4
Walking in two worlds: insights from implementing a Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in approach to bridging knowledge systems in conservation and land use planning4
The Zoʻé perspective on what scientists call “forest management” and its implications for floristic diversity and biocultural conservation4
Revisiting the drug crop eradication-violence nexus: a mixed-methods analysis of conflict and cooperation in traditional governance communities in Oaxaca, Mexico4
Sustainability-aligned values: exploring the concept, evidence, and practice4
From social reproduction to resilience: a Bourdieusian framework to critically approach capital (re)-distribution and power inequity in community resilience processes4
Facilitating evolutionary rescue from a wildlife health threat with cross-sectoral strategies: a case study on white-nose syndrome4
What is sacred in sacred natural sites? A literature review from a conservation lens4
9 Dimensions for evaluating how art and creative practice stimulate societal transformations4
The catalytic role of weak ties in enabling transformational adaptation: evidence from vulnerable fishers in coastal Gujarat, India4
The nature of peace: trajectories of environmental peacebuilding between dominant narratives and power relations4
Restorative practices, marine ecotourism, and restoration economies: revitalizing the environmental agenda?4
Integrating Indigenous knowledge across homelands and scientific knowledge to support collaborative harvest management for Emperor Goose in Alaska4
Capturing the multidimensionality of land-use agents in a deforestation hotspot4
Collaborative agri-environmental governance in the Netherlands: a novel institutional arrangement to bridge social-ecological dynamics4
Shrub encroachment and stakeholder perceptions of rangeland ecosystem services: balancing conservation and management?4
When working together goes against common sense: a framework to bridge conservation and agricultural perspectives in participatory working lands research4
Managing environmental knowledge networks to navigate complexity4
Confronting colonial history: toward healing, just, and equitable Indigenous conservation futures4
Exploring perceptions to improve the outcomes of a marine protected area4
Everyday climate adaptation practices in agriculture contribute to food security in Sub-Saharan Africa4
Approaches to assess land degradation risk: a synthesis4
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