Ecology and Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecology and Society is 2. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Which community network structures can support sustainability programs? The case of the Sustainable Cocoa Production Program in Indonesia86
Emergence of social-psychological barriers to social-ecological resilience: from causes to solutions41
Investigating the coordination between ecological and economic systems in China’s green development process: a place-based interdisciplinary evaluation36
Immediate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of wildlife as food among indigenous people and local communities in South America32
Biocultural values of groundwater dependent ecosystems in Kona, Hawaiʻi29
Forgotten forests: expanding potential land use in traditional Hawaiian agroecosystems, and the social-ecological implications28
A multiple evidence-based approach to Métis community-based monitoring: a case study from the South Athabasca Oil Sands Area, Alberta, Canada27
The population ecology of sustainable agriculture knowledge networks: insights from California27
Collective action in the area-wide management of an invasive plant disease22
Reflecting on arts-based participatory research: considerations for more equitable transdisciplinary collaborations21
The role of religion in shaping the values of nature20
Dynamics of pastoral traditional ecological knowledge: a global state-of-the-art review19
Individual knowledge acquisition by teachers to promote the ecological value of sacred Kaya forests in southern Kenya19
Assessing the delivery of ecosystem services and benefits to human well-being of three contrasting MPAs in Spain18
Ecosystem services in Sahelian village landscapes 1952–2016: estimating change in a data scarce region18
Effects of long-term ecological research and cognitive biases on the evaluation of scientific information by public land managers in Oregon and Washington, USA17
The species-specific role of wildlife in the Amazonian food system17
Water-related problématiques: five archetypical contexts of water governance16
Deriving scalable measures for restoration of communal grazing lands16
Framing the regime shift concept: an epistemological analysis of a central ecological notion in the context of the North Sea cod crisis16
The Great Green Wall in Senegal: questioning the idea of acceleration through the conflicting temporalities of politics and nature among the Sahelian populations16
Unraveling the combined effects of sociopolitical and climate change scenarios for an artisanal small-scale fishery in the Western Mediterranean16
Visual representations in a choice experiment: valuing preferences for a local dam16
The evolution of social-ecological systems (SES) research: a co-authorship and co-citation network analysis16
Impacts of conservation activities on people who are incarcerated: a case study based on qualitative and quantitative analyses15
Small-scale fisheries and agricultural trade networks are socially embedded: emerging hypotheses about responses to environmental changes15
Operationalizing water-energy-food nexus research for sustainable development in social-ecological systems: an interdisciplinary learning case in Central Asia15
A Chinese database on ecological thresholds and alternative stable states: implications for related research around the world14
Integrating a “One Well-being” approach in elephant conservation: evaluating consequences of management interventions14
Secondary forests in Peru: differential provision of ecosystem services compared to other post-deforestation forest transitions14
An integrated climate-biodiversity framework to improve planning and policy: an application to wildlife crossings and landscape connectivity14
Social identity and place-based dynamics in community resilience building for natural disasters: an integrative framework14
Speaking of nature: Relationships between how people think about, connect with, and act to protect nature14
Using meaningful places as an indicator for sense of place in the management of social-ecological systems14
Ganawendan Ginibiiminaan (Take care of our Water!): mobilizing for Watersheds-at-risk with the Bad River Ojibwe13
Reviewing the relationship between neoliberal societies and nature: implications of the industrialized dominant social paradigm for a sustainable future13
Identifying opportunities and constraints to effective management of invasive Australian wattle (Acacia) species in grassland landscapes, South Africa13
Equality and equity in Arctic communities: how household-level social relations support community-level social resilience13
Causes of overgrazing in Inner Mongolian grasslands: Searching for deep leverage points of intervention13
Conflict-related environmental degradation threatens the success of landscape recovery in some areas in Tigray (Ethiopia)13
The role of accountability in the emergence of adaptive water governance13
Power research in adaptive water governance and beyond: a review13
Harvesting change: unraveling social-ecological impacts of a food hub ( LebensMittelPunkt ) through a living lab approach13
People think there's no nature in cities, but they want to know more12
Indigenous caretaking of beargrass and the social and ecological consequences of adaptations to maintain beargrass weaving practices12
Collective payments for ecosystem services: a counterpart of commodification and privatization trends in nature conservation?12
Tradition and change: celebrating food systems resilience at two Indigenous Māori community events12
What comes after crises? Key elements and insights into feedback amplifying community self-organization11
Great expectations for collective management: the mismatch between supply and demand for catchment groups11
Fruit booms and investor mobility along the China-Myanmar and China-Laos borders11
Everyday adaptation practices by coffee farmers in three mountain regions in Africa11
Eliciting the plurality of causal reasoning in social-ecological systems research11
Using machine learning to uncover synergies between forest restoration and livelihood support in the Himalayas11
Narrating changes, recalling memory: accumulation by dispossession in food systems of Indigenous communities at the extremes of Latin America10
Equity in resilience: a case study of community resilience to wildfire in southwestern Oregon, United States10
Livelihood vulnerability and human-wildlife interactions across protected areas10
Vertical agriculture’s potential implications for food system resilience: outcomes of focus groups in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia10
Food consumption and nutritional status of sedentarized Baka Pygmies in Southern Cameroon: wild foods are less important for those who farm10
“It’s like a connection between all of us”: Inuit social connections and caribou declines in Labrador, Canada10
Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework in a protected area: a case study of Qilian Mountain National Park, Northwestern China10
Integrating public preferences with biophysical production possibilities: an application to ecosystem services from dam removal10
Keeping up with the landscapes: promoting resilience in dynamic social-ecological systems10
A method for benchmarking two different resilience assessment methods10
Editorial: High Nature Value farming systems in Europe9
Understanding how governance emerges in social-ecological systems: insights from archetype analysis9
Not too small to benefit society: insights into perceived cultural ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps9
Demystifying food systems transformation: a review of the state of the field9
Operationalizing pathway diversity in a mosaic landscape9
COVID-19 impacts on food systems in fisheries-dependent island communities9
Conservation with local people: medicinal plants as cultural keystone species in the Southern Alps9
Pathways to healing: Indigenous revitalization through family-based land management in the Klamath Basin9
The invisible thread: women as tradition keepers and change agents in Spanish pastoral social-ecological systems9
Labrador Inuit resilience and resurgence: embedding Indigenous values in commercial fisheries governance9
A synthesis on active citizenship in European nature conservation: social and environmental impacts, democratic tensions, and governance implications9
Using public litigation records to identify priority science needs for managing public lands8
Resilient niches: how non-financial capitals helped to overcome the COVID-19 crisis in local food systems8
Manning the mangroves: gender, regional identities, and social history shape mangrove forest dependence and governance8
Building resilience in Africa’s smallholder farming systems: contributions from agricultural development interventions—a scoping review8
Development of a wetland management plan for Taiqu Saltpan, Taiwan, by stakeholder engagement and water gate operation8
Dangerous environments: environmental peacebuilding’s technomoral imaginary and its power-knowledge effects8
Two of a kind? Large-scale land acquisitions and commodity frontier expansion in Argentina's Dry Chaco8
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 Nati8
Tracing a pollinator’s path8
Gathering Giizhik in a changing landscape8
Enforcement, deterrence, and compliance in co-managed small-scale fisheries8
Adaptive responses to inter-group competition over natural resources: the case of leakage8
Working together to scale ecosystem restoration: collective approaches to community action in Aotearoa New Zealand7
Assessing social-ecological fit of flood planning governance7
Pathways to transformation: institutionalizing urban agriculture in a Montréal borough7
Forest management under uncertainty: the influence of management versus climate change and wildfire in the Lake Tahoe Basin, USA.7
From stories to maps: translating participatory scenario narratives into spatially explicit information7
Challenges and prospects of Local Adaptation Plans of Action (LAPA) initiative in Nepal as everyday adaptation7
Assessing holistic agroecological resilience of agroecosystems from a landscape perspective: a systematic review7
Expanding use of space is an opportunity for sustainability but a threat to resilience7
Hidden benefits and risks of partial protection for coral reef fisheries7
Impacts of algal blooms and microcystins in fish on small-scale fishers in Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria: implications for health and livelihood7
Local understandings and global challenges: exploring sense of place in sustainability transitions7
Island and Indigenous systems of circularity: how Hawaiʻi can inform the development of universal circular economy policy goals7
Studying human-nature relations in aquatic social-ecological systems using the social-ecological action situations framework: how to move from empirical data to conceptual models7
A methodological guide for applying the social-ecological system (SES) framework: a review of quantitative approaches7
Navigating ambiguous waters: a relational approach to nested conflicts in the Katari River Basin, Bolivia7
Understanding human-elephant interactions across time is key to illuminate pathways toward coexistence7
Tales on co-response-ability in times of environmental polarization7
Ecological agriculture and rural revitalization: toward a post-productivist countryside in Nanjing, China7
Integration of nature-based solutions (NBS) in local policy and planning toward transformative change. Evidence from Barcelona, Lisbon, and Turin7
Biodiversity conservation through forest certification: key factors shaping national Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standard-development processes in Canada, Sweden, and Russia6
State role and involvement in determining wetland mitigation performance standards in the United States6
Migration and collective action in the commons: application of social-ecological system framework with evidence from China6
A scoping review of how the seven principles for building social-ecological resilience have been operationalized6
Murky waters: divergent ways scientists, practitioners, and landowners evaluate beaver mimicry6
Negotiating informality and urban resilience: implications for equity6
Motivations and sensitivities surrounding the illegal trade of sea turtles in Costa Rica6
The wisdom of hindsight: a comparative analysis of timelines of environmental governance of infrastructure across the Pan-Amazon6
The ecological success of river restoration in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada: lessons learned6
Coupled human-natural system impacts of a winter weather whiplash event6
Trade-offs in the implementation of good practice in large carnivore conservation and management6
Conceptualizing multidimensional barriers: a framework for assessing constraints in realizing recreational benefits of urban green spaces6
Evaluation-perception of site attributes and plant species selection in the public urban green space of a compact city6
Making sense of territorial changes: affective and moral dimensions of place attachments and meanings6
Constraints to effective comanagement of New Zealand's customary fisheries: experiences of the East Otago Taiāpure6
Simulating wildlife habitat dynamics over the next century to help inform best management strategies for biodiversity in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California6
Braiding Inuit knowledge and Western science to understand light goose population dynamics under a changing climate6
Governing wildfires: toward a systematic analytical framework6
The management costs of alternative forest management strategies in the Lake Tahoe Basin6
Double exposure to capitalist expansion and climatic change: a study of vulnerability on the Ghanaian coastal commodity frontier6
Stakeholder perceptions of wildfire management strategies as nature-based solutions in two Iberian biosphere reserves6
Exploring evolving spiritual values of forests in Europe and Asia: a transition hypothesis toward re-spiritualizing forests6
Form and function in ecologizing spatial planning: learnings from Bogotá, Colombia6
The values of wildlife revisited6
Worldview violence and Non-Human People in (conservation) science6
Systemic analysis of a developing plant community on the island of Surtsey6
Disjointed modes of building resilience to socio-environmental crises6
Pau-brasil and string instrument bows telecouple nature, art, and heritage6
Water quality and forest restoration in the Lake Tahoe basin: impacts of future management options6
The good, the bad, and the unseen: wild mammal encounters influence wildlife preferences of residents across socio-demographic gradients6
Cree knowledge, fuzzy cognitive maps, and the social-ecology of moose habitat quality under an adapted forestry regime6
Naming the unnamed: relational values as knowledge and power6
Distributional range shift of a marine fish relates to a geographical gradient of emotions among recreational fishers5
Recreational angler and stakeholder perceptions of policy changes to recreational fishery management: the case of red snapper devolution in the Gulf of Mexico5
Knowledge that affects: an assemblage approach5
Individual and collective political efficacy predict farmer engagement and support for groundwater policies: implications from the California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act5
Uncovering well-being ecosystem services bundles (WEBs) under conditions of social-ecological change in Brazil5
Unintended consequences of sustainable development initiatives: risks and opportunities in seagrass social-ecological systems5
Resistance to change: A case study on framing and policy change of a controversial nature area5
Incorporating place-based values into ecological restoration5
Reviewing relational values for future research: insights from the coast5
To burn or not to burn: governance of wildfires in Australia5
Environmental change and resource access in aquatic food systems: a Photovoice case study of Cambodian fisheries5
Sustainability and resilience through connection: the economic metacommunities of the Western USA5
Indigenous sea gardens within the Pacific Northwest generate partial trophic niche and dietary fatty acid shifts in littleneck clams ( Leukoma staminea )5
A framework for co-production of knowledge in the context of Arctic research5
Games for experiential learning: triggering collective changes in commons management5
Hunting as land use: Understanding the spatial associations among hunting, agriculture, and forestry5
Application of maximum entropy (MaxEnt) to understand the spatial dimension of human–wildlife conflict (HWC) risk in areas adjacent to Gonarezhou National Park of Zimbabwe5
Novel pathways to value nature: how guided forest bathing promotes new relationships with nature5
Assessing long-term conservation impacts on adaptive capacity in a flagship community-based natural resources management area in Botswana5
A new framework for flood adaptation: introducing the Flood Adaptation Hierarchy5
Localizing a just transition: a case study of St. George, Alaska5
CBNRM, national parks, elites, and ethnography: a comment on (mis)representations5
Inequalities and solidarities: interactions and impacts of sea-level-rise adaptation policies5
Historical political ecology as qualitative social-ecological system analysis in the Maumee River Watershed5
Diverse values of nature and political ontology5
Carbon emissions from land acquisitions in Laos5
A comparative case study of multistakeholder responses following oil spills in Pointe d’Esny, Mauritius, and Huntington Beach, California5
Multistakeholder platforms for natural resource governance: lessons from eight landscape-level cases5
Geospatial patterns and models of subsistence land use in rural Interior Alaska5
Creating a climate changed future with the sea level rise interactive-fiction game “Lagos2199”5
Collapse of the oyster population in Apalachicola Bay: cascading social impacts from an ecologically and culturally significant species4
Perceived changes in social-ecological resilience in fire-prone ecosystems in Colorado4
Challenges to incorporating social and economic factors into cumulative effects assessments in Canada’s marine conservation areas4
Using Q-methodology to bridge different understandings on community forest management: lessons from the Peruvian Amazon4
Assessing the institutional foundations of adaptive water governance in South India4
Characterizing the social-ecological system for inland freshwater salinization using fuzzy cognitive maps: implications for collective management4
Can we control marine invasive alien species by eating them? The case of Callinectes sapidus4
Land cover and socioeconomic factors explain avian diversity in a tropical megacity4
Exploring linkages between protected-area access and Kenyan pastoralist food security using a new agent-based model4
What would attract women to forest-based climate action? Learning from decades of female participation in an infant and maternal health system in Indonesia4
Resilience principles and a leverage points perspective for sustainable woody vegetation management in a social-ecological system of southwestern Ethiopia4
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, USA4
How social and ecological characteristics shape transaction costs in polycentric wildfire governance: insights from the Sequoia-Kings Canyon Ecosystem, California, USA4
Resilience-performance trade-offs in managing social-ecological systems4
Interactive governance of whale ecosystem services: governability assessment of three case studies in the Arctic4
Implications of Panarchy for ecosystem service research: the role of system dynamics in service delivery4
Shaping garden landscape with medicinal plants by migrant communities in the Atlantic Forest, Argentina4
Care-based leadership in a core-periphery network: a South African case study in collaborative watershed governance4
Water rights for groundwater environments as an enabling condition for adaptive water governance4
Diverse values regarding nature are related to stable forests: the case of Indigenous lands in Panama4
Spatial assessment of risks faced by marine protected areas in Chilean Patagonia4
How policy interventions influence burning to meet cultural and small-scale livelihood objectives4
Understanding stakeholder perceptions of environmental justice: a study of tourism in the Erhai Lake basin, Yunnan province, China4
Effects of the COVID-19 lockdown in Hubei, China: cessation of incense burning reduces regional landscape fire4
Relational values and empathy are closely connected: A study of residents of Vermont's Winooski River watershed4
The importance of geodiversity in understanding and conserving the Western Rift Valley Corridor4
Creating a quiet buzz: opportunities and challenges for meaningful participation of boreal forest apiarists in the science-policy interface for biodiversity and ecosystem services4
Evolving adaptive governance: challenging assumptions through an examination of fisheries law in Solomon Islands4
The benefits of counting butterflies: recommendations for a successful citizen science project4
Transitioning toward “deep” knowledge co-production in coastal and marine systems: examining the interplay among governance, power, and knowledge3
Changing collaborative networks and transitions in rural sustainable development: qualitative lessons from three villages in China3
Addressing the resilience of tomato farmers in Ghana facing a double exposure from climate and market3
The nature of peace: trajectories of environmental peacebuilding between dominant narratives and power relations3
Convergence research as transdisciplinary knowledge coproduction within cases of effective collaborative governance of social-ecological systems3
Shrub encroachment and stakeholder perceptions of rangeland ecosystem services: balancing conservation and management?3
Artistic practice, public awareness, and the ngahere: art–science–Indigenous Māori collaborations for raising awareness of threats to native forests3
Collaboration in a polarized context: lessons from public forest governance in the American West3
Woody plant encroachment pervasive across three socially and ecologically diverse ecoregions3
Visions for development and management of urban green and blue infrastructure: a citizen's perspective3
Facilitating convergence research on water resource management with a collaborative, adaptive, and multi-scale systems thinking framework3
What factors enable social-ecological transformative potential? The role of learning practices, empowerment, and networking3
Cultural and empowerment priorities amid tensions in knowledge systems and resource allocation: insights from the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area3
Leverage points and levers of inclusive conservation in protected areas3
NSF supported socio-environmental research: how do crosscutting programs affect research funding, publication, and citation patterns?3
Gender equity and collaborative care in Madagascar’s locally managed marine areas: reflections on the launch of a fisherwomen’s network3
Everyday mobility and changing livelihood trajectories: implications for vulnerability and adaptation in dryland regions3
Megabenthic biodiversity in culturally and ecologically important coastal regions of Northern Labrador3
"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 state3
Social influence shapes adaptive water governance: empirical evidence from northwestern Pakistan3
“Men who love the oak trees”: services and care in the cork oak forests of Southern Andalusia3
Sustainability-aligned values: exploring the concept, evidence, and practice3
Theorizing how the Three Horizons approach supports transformative learning: insights from advancing climate action in a Canadian Biosphere Reserve3
Identifying system archetypes in Nigeria’s rice agri-food system using fuzzy cognitive mapping3
Post-crisis risk management: water, community, and adaptation in a South Australian irrigation district3
Moving beyond binary metrics of compliance in small-scale fisheries3
9 Dimensions for evaluating how art and creative practice stimulate societal transformations3
Community knowledge as a cornerstone for fisheries management3
When working together goes against common sense: a framework to bridge conservation and agricultural perspectives in participatory working lands research3
Responsibility as humans: meaning of traditional small grains cultivation in Japan3
Whither convergence? Co-designing convergent research and wrestling with its emergent tensions3
Transboundary flows in the metacoupled Anthropocene: typology, methods, and governance for global sustainability3
Maladaptive state reinforcement of greenspace in racially marginalized neighborhoods: lessons from Louisville, Kentucky’s failed cooperative extension partnership3
Emotionally augmented mental models, connectivity and beaver reintroduction in Southwest England3
Plastic pollution as a canvas for change: fostering collaboration for environmental solutions and actions through art and science3
Everyday adaptation, interrupted agency and beyond: examining the interplay between formal and everyday climate change adaptations3
Community forests, timber production, and certification: success factors in the African context3
Climate change, moose, and subsistence harvest: social-ecological assessment of Nuiqsut, Alaska3
Determinants of small-scale fisheries’ transformative responses under increasing climate change impacts in Nayarit, Mexico3
Drivers of social acceptability for bivalve aquaculture in Atlantic Canadian communities3
Sedentarization as an adaptation to socio-environmental changes? Everyday herding practices in pastoralist communities in southern Ethiopia3
Hālana ka manaʻo: place-based connection as a source of long-term resilience3
Living community cookbook: transdisciplinary collaboration for constructing recipes with biocultural value3
Confronting colonial history: toward healing, just, and equitable Indigenous conservation futures3
Innovation brokers in High Nature Value farming areas: a strategic approach to engage effective socioeconomic and agroecological dynamics3
Managing environmental knowledge networks to navigate complexity3
Resilience and coastal governance: knowledge and navigation between stability and transformation3
A comparative approach to quantify the heterarchical structures of complex systems3
How the qualities of actor-issue interdependencies influence collaboration patterns3
What is sacred in sacred natural sites? A literature review from a conservation lens3
Strong ethics and flexible actions, the properties of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), as key resources for socioecological resilience to the impacts of climate change: a case study of Baojiatu2
To split a stone2
Understanding local pig hunter values and practices as a means toward co-management of feral pigs ( Sus scrofa ; pua'a) in the Hawaiian Islands2
Learning systems and learning paths in sustainability transitions2
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