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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Which community network structures can support sustainability programs? The case of the Sustainable Cocoa Production Program in Indonesia105
Immediate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of wildlife as food among indigenous people and local communities in South America48
Emergence of social-psychological barriers to social-ecological resilience: from causes to solutions41
Forgotten forests: expanding potential land use in traditional Hawaiian agroecosystems, and the social-ecological implications41
The population ecology of sustainable agriculture knowledge networks: insights from California39
Individual knowledge acquisition by teachers to promote the ecological value of sacred Kaya forests in southern Kenya34
The species-specific role of wildlife in the Amazonian food system34
Biocultural values of groundwater dependent ecosystems in Kona, Hawaiʻi31
The role of religion in shaping the values of nature27
Reflecting on arts-based participatory research: considerations for more equitable transdisciplinary collaborations27
Ecosystem services in Sahelian village landscapes 1952–2016: estimating change in a data scarce region25
A multiple evidence-based approach to Métis community-based monitoring: a case study from the South Athabasca Oil Sands Area, Alberta, Canada25
Investigating the coordination between ecological and economic systems in China’s green development process: a place-based interdisciplinary evaluation25
Collective action in the area-wide management of an invasive plant disease24
Assessing the delivery of ecosystem services and benefits to human well-being of three contrasting MPAs in Spain24
Effects of long-term ecological research and cognitive biases on the evaluation of scientific information by public land managers in Oregon and Washington, USA23
Dynamics of pastoral traditional ecological knowledge: a global state-of-the-art review23
Visual representations in a choice experiment: valuing preferences for a local dam22
Framing the regime shift concept: an epistemological analysis of a central ecological notion in the context of the North Sea cod crisis22
Unraveling the combined effects of sociopolitical and climate change scenarios for an artisanal small-scale fishery in the Western Mediterranean22
Deriving scalable measures for restoration of communal grazing lands21
A Chinese database on ecological thresholds and alternative stable states: implications for related research around the world21
How is the governance of circular economy of water organized? A systematic review of the literature21
Home range size and space use patterns of African lions ( Panthera leo ) in Chizarira National Park, Zimbabwe20
Water-related problématiques: five archetypical contexts of water governance19
Climate change, nature degradation, and financial stability: a review of domino-effects between finance, climate, and the biosphere19
The Great Green Wall in Senegal: questioning the idea of acceleration through the conflicting temporalities of politics and nature among the Sahelian populations19
Small-scale fisheries and agricultural trade networks are socially embedded: emerging hypotheses about responses to environmental changes19
Operationalizing water-energy-food nexus research for sustainable development in social-ecological systems: an interdisciplinary learning case in Central Asia18
Speaking of nature: Relationships between how people think about, connect with, and act to protect nature18
Undisclosed transgressions? Lacking acknowledgements of large agrifood firms on their impacts on the planetary boundaries18
Social-ecological uncertainty and the (in)capacity to adapt: stakeholders’ perceptions post-red tide/salmon farming crisis in Chiloé Island (Chile)18
Impacts of conservation activities on people who are incarcerated: a case study based on qualitative and quantitative analyses18
The evolution of social-ecological systems (SES) research: a co-authorship and co-citation network analysis18
An integrated climate-biodiversity framework to improve planning and policy: an application to wildlife crossings and landscape connectivity18
Secondary forests in Peru: differential provision of ecosystem services compared to other post-deforestation forest transitions17
The Great Stink in the 21st century? Problematizing the sewage scandal in England and envisioning a new infrastructure ideal17
A need for assessing the resiliency of conservation funding17
Ganawendan Ginibiiminaan (Take care of our Water!): mobilizing for Watersheds-at-risk with the Bad River Ojibwe17
Integrating a “One Well-being” approach in elephant conservation: evaluating consequences of management interventions17
Equality and equity in Arctic communities: how household-level social relations support community-level social resilience16
Shifting baseline syndrome in the fishing community of Barcelona: insights from scientific and local ecological knowledge16
Social identity and place-based dynamics in community resilience building for natural disasters: an integrative framework15
Power research in adaptive water governance and beyond: a review15
Conflict-related environmental degradation threatens the success of landscape recovery in some areas in Tigray (Ethiopia)15
Harvesting change: unraveling social-ecological impacts of a food hub ( LebensMittelPunkt ) through a living lab approach15
The role of accountability in the emergence of adaptive water governance15
Using meaningful places as an indicator for sense of place in the management of social-ecological systems15
Identifying opportunities and constraints to effective management of invasive Australian wattle (Acacia) species in grassland landscapes, South Africa15
Causes of overgrazing in Inner Mongolian grasslands: Searching for deep leverage points of intervention14
Tradition and change: celebrating food systems resilience at two Indigenous Māori community events14
What comes after crises? Key elements and insights into feedback amplifying community self-organization14
Reviewing the relationship between neoliberal societies and nature: implications of the industrialized dominant social paradigm for a sustainable future14
Everyday adaptation practices by coffee farmers in three mountain regions in Africa14
Indigenous caretaking of beargrass and the social and ecological consequences of adaptations to maintain beargrass weaving practices14
Collective payments for ecosystem services: a counterpart of commodification and privatization trends in nature conservation?14
Great expectations for collective management: the mismatch between supply and demand for catchment groups14
People think there's no nature in cities, but they want to know more14
“It’s like a connection between all of us”: Inuit social connections and caribou declines in Labrador, Canada13
Coping with conflicts in the co-production of solid waste management services: experience with a real-world lab in India13
Using machine learning to uncover synergies between forest restoration and livelihood support in the Himalayas13
Fruit booms and investor mobility along the China-Myanmar and China-Laos borders13
Food consumption and nutritional status of sedentarized Baka Pygmies in Southern Cameroon: wild foods are less important for those who farm13
Eliciting the plurality of causal reasoning in social-ecological systems research13
Conservation with local people: medicinal plants as cultural keystone species in the Southern Alps12
Narrating changes, recalling memory: accumulation by dispossession in food systems of Indigenous communities at the extremes of Latin America12
COVID-19 impacts on food systems in fisheries-dependent island communities12
Keeping up with the landscapes: promoting resilience in dynamic social-ecological systems12
Pathways to healing: Indigenous revitalization through family-based land management in the Klamath Basin12
Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework in a protected area: a case study of Qilian Mountain National Park, Northwestern China12
Integrating public preferences with biophysical production possibilities: an application to ecosystem services from dam removal12
Vertical agriculture’s potential implications for food system resilience: outcomes of focus groups in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia12
Demystifying food systems transformation: a review of the state of the field12
Labrador Inuit resilience and resurgence: embedding Indigenous values in commercial fisheries governance12
Equity in resilience: a case study of community resilience to wildfire in southwestern Oregon, United States12
A method for benchmarking two different resilience assessment methods12
Understanding how governance emerges in social-ecological systems: insights from archetype analysis12
Engaging with justice in integrated landscape approaches12
Livelihood vulnerability and human-wildlife interactions across protected areas11
Editorial: High Nature Value farming systems in Europe11
Tracing a pollinator’s path11
Expanding use of space is an opportunity for sustainability but a threat to resilience11
Resilient niches: how non-financial capitals helped to overcome the COVID-19 crisis in local food systems11
Operationalizing pathway diversity in a mosaic landscape11
A synthesis on active citizenship in European nature conservation: social and environmental impacts, democratic tensions, and governance implications11
Dangerous environments: environmental peacebuilding’s technomoral imaginary and its power-knowledge effects11
Adaptive responses to inter-group competition over natural resources: the case of leakage11
The invisible thread: women as tradition keepers and change agents in Spanish pastoral social-ecological systems11
Not too small to benefit society: insights into perceived cultural ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps11
Manning the mangroves: gender, regional identities, and social history shape mangrove forest dependence and governance11
Gathering Giizhik in a changing landscape11
Impacts of algal blooms and microcystins in fish on small-scale fishers in Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria: implications for health and livelihood10
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 Nati10
Enforcement, deterrence, and compliance in co-managed small-scale fisheries10
From stories to maps: translating participatory scenario narratives into spatially explicit information10
Hidden benefits and risks of partial protection for coral reef fisheries10
Governing wildfires: toward a systematic analytical framework10
Studying human-nature relations in aquatic social-ecological systems using the social-ecological action situations framework: how to move from empirical data to conceptual models10
Biocultural ethics and Earth stewardship: a novel integration to revitalize multiple values of nature10
Pathways to transformation: institutionalizing urban agriculture in a Montréal borough10
Development of a wetland management plan for Taiqu Saltpan, Taiwan, by stakeholder engagement and water gate operation10
Navigating ambiguous waters: a relational approach to nested conflicts in the Katari River Basin, Bolivia10
Using public litigation records to identify priority science needs for managing public lands10
Ecological agriculture and rural revitalization: toward a post-productivist countryside in Nanjing, China10
Working together to scale ecosystem restoration: collective approaches to community action in Aotearoa New Zealand10
Assessing holistic agroecological resilience of agroecosystems from a landscape perspective: a systematic review10
Dimensions of integration for landscape connectivity planning: a framework for understanding challenges and opportunities10
Relational values overshadow monetary value in territorial management by the Indigenous Oaxacan community of Capulálpam de Méndez10
Two of a kind? Large-scale land acquisitions and commodity frontier expansion in Argentina's Dry Chaco10
Building resilience in Africa’s smallholder farming systems: contributions from agricultural development interventions—a scoping review10
Navigating transdisciplinary waters to protect both sharks and bathers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: diverse stakeholders propose potential actions10
Assessing social-ecological fit of flood planning governance10
A methodological guide for applying the social-ecological system (SES) framework: a review of quantitative approaches10
The management costs of alternative forest management strategies in the Lake Tahoe Basin10
Forest management under uncertainty: the influence of management versus climate change and wildfire in the Lake Tahoe Basin, USA.10
Island and Indigenous systems of circularity: how Hawaiʻi can inform the development of universal circular economy policy goals9
Pau-brasil and string instrument bows telecouple nature, art, and heritage9
Local understandings and global challenges: exploring sense of place in sustainability transitions9
Challenges and prospects of Local Adaptation Plans of Action (LAPA) initiative in Nepal as everyday adaptation9
Braiding Inuit knowledge and Western science to understand light goose population dynamics under a changing climate9
Understanding human-elephant interactions across time is key to illuminate pathways toward coexistence9
Tales on co-response-ability in times of environmental polarization9
The wisdom of hindsight: a comparative analysis of timelines of environmental governance of infrastructure across the Pan-Amazon9
Cree knowledge, fuzzy cognitive maps, and the social-ecology of moose habitat quality under an adapted forestry regime9
Integration of nature-based solutions (NBS) in local policy and planning toward transformative change. Evidence from Barcelona, Lisbon, and Turin9
Large-scale land acquisitions and land cover change in Ethiopia8
Water quality and forest restoration in the Lake Tahoe basin: impacts of future management options8
Successful water governance pathways across problem contexts: a global qualitative comparative analysis8
The ecological success of river restoration in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada: lessons learned8
Double exposure to capitalist expansion and climatic change: a study of vulnerability on the Ghanaian coastal commodity frontier8
Simulating wildlife habitat dynamics over the next century to help inform best management strategies for biodiversity in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California8
Murky waters: divergent ways scientists, practitioners, and landowners evaluate beaver mimicry8
Nutrient deficit rather than distance of farming activities from the boundary of protected areas drives crop raids by elephants8
Disjointed modes of building resilience to socio-environmental crises8
The good, the bad, and the unseen: wild mammal encounters influence wildlife preferences of residents across socio-demographic gradients8
Motivations and sensitivities surrounding the illegal trade of sea turtles in Costa Rica8
Biodiversity conservation through forest certification: key factors shaping national Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standard-development processes in Canada, Sweden, and Russia7
Relational values of nature—a global empirical study of environmental students in 37 countries7
The Chakana : a symbol of the Andean worldview in community water management, and a form of governance of life7
Application of maximum entropy (MaxEnt) to understand the spatial dimension of human–wildlife conflict (HWC) risk in areas adjacent to Gonarezhou National Park of Zimbabwe7
From habitats to hashtags: examining online discussions about invasive species7
Incorporating place-based values into ecological restoration7
Stakeholder perceptions of wildfire management strategies as nature-based solutions in two Iberian biosphere reserves7
Worldview violence and Non-Human People in (conservation) science7
Trade-offs in the implementation of good practice in large carnivore conservation and management7
Form and function in ecologizing spatial planning: learnings from Bogotá, Colombia7
A scoping review of how the seven principles for building social-ecological resilience have been operationalized7
Conceptualizing multidimensional barriers: a framework for assessing constraints in realizing recreational benefits of urban green spaces7
Uncovering well-being ecosystem services bundles (WEBs) under conditions of social-ecological change in Brazil7
Carbon emissions from land acquisitions in Laos7
Co-creating a festival with and for rural commoning initiatives: a transdisciplinary place-based process7
Multistakeholder platforms for natural resource governance: lessons from eight landscape-level cases7
The values of wildlife revisited7
“The future for pastoralists is dark unless something is done”: illuminating the constraints and opportunities for a climate-resilient future for Kenyan pastoralists7
Making sense of territorial changes: affective and moral dimensions of place attachments and meanings7
State role and involvement in determining wetland mitigation performance standards in the United States7
Coupled human-natural system impacts of a winter weather whiplash event7
Systemic analysis of a developing plant community on the island of Surtsey7
Exploring evolving spiritual values of forests in Europe and Asia: a transition hypothesis toward re-spiritualizing forests7
Resistance to change: A case study on framing and policy change of a controversial nature area7
Diverse values of nature and political ontology7
Geospatial patterns and models of subsistence land use in rural Interior Alaska7
A comparative case study of multistakeholder responses following oil spills in Pointe d’Esny, Mauritius, and Huntington Beach, California7
Negotiating informality and urban resilience: implications for equity7
Evaluation-perception of site attributes and plant species selection in the public urban green space of a compact city7
Migration and collective action in the commons: application of social-ecological system framework with evidence from China7
Constraints to effective comanagement of New Zealand's customary fisheries: experiences of the East Otago Taiāpure7
Naming the unnamed: relational values as knowledge and power7
Knowledge that affects: an assemblage approach6
Hunting as land use: Understanding the spatial associations among hunting, agriculture, and forestry6
Understanding stakeholder perceptions of environmental justice: a study of tourism in the Erhai Lake basin, Yunnan province, China6
Games for experiential learning: triggering collective changes in commons management6
How social and ecological characteristics shape transaction costs in polycentric wildfire governance: insights from the Sequoia-Kings Canyon Ecosystem, California, USA6
Assessing long-term conservation impacts on adaptive capacity in a flagship community-based natural resources management area in Botswana6
Environmental change and resource access in aquatic food systems: a Photovoice case study of Cambodian fisheries6
Recreational angler and stakeholder perceptions of policy changes to recreational fishery management: the case of red snapper devolution in the Gulf of Mexico6
Localizing a just transition: a case study of St. George, Alaska6
Using Q-methodology to bridge different understandings on community forest management: lessons from the Peruvian Amazon6
Unintended consequences of sustainable development initiatives: risks and opportunities in seagrass social-ecological systems6
Meaningful transdisciplinary collaborations for sustainability: local, artistic, and scientific knowledge6
Individual and collective political efficacy predict farmer engagement and support for groundwater policies: implications from the California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act6
Novel pathways to value nature: how guided forest bathing promotes new relationships with nature6
Inequalities and solidarities: interactions and impacts of sea-level-rise adaptation policies6
To burn or not to burn: governance of wildfires in Australia6
Can we control marine invasive alien species by eating them? The case of Callinectes sapidus6
Sustainability and resilience through connection: the economic metacommunities of the Western USA6
Effects of the COVID-19 lockdown in Hubei, China: cessation of incense burning reduces regional landscape fire6
Historical political ecology as qualitative social-ecological system analysis in the Maumee River Watershed6
Creating a climate changed future with the sea level rise interactive-fiction game “Lagos2199”6
Reviewing relational values for future research: insights from the coast6
Diverse values regarding nature are related to stable forests: the case of Indigenous lands in Panama6
A new framework for flood adaptation: introducing the Flood Adaptation Hierarchy6
Indigenous sea gardens within the Pacific Northwest generate partial trophic niche and dietary fatty acid shifts in littleneck clams ( Leukoma staminea )6
A framework for co-production of knowledge in the context of Arctic research6
CBNRM, national parks, elites, and ethnography: a comment on (mis)representations6
Distributional range shift of a marine fish relates to a geographical gradient of emotions among recreational fishers6
Resilience-performance trade-offs in managing social-ecological systems5
Exploring linkages between protected-area access and Kenyan pastoralist food security using a new agent-based model5
Land cover and socioeconomic factors explain avian diversity in a tropical megacity5
The potential of collective action in promoting sustainable rangeland management: evidence from pastoral China5
Perceived changes in social-ecological resilience in fire-prone ecosystems in Colorado5
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
How policy interventions influence burning to meet cultural and small-scale livelihood objectives5
Responsibility as humans: meaning of traditional small grains cultivation in Japan5
Editorial5
Plastic pollution as a canvas for change: fostering collaboration for environmental solutions and actions through art and science5
Visualizing seascapes as a method for engaging stakeholders in discussions about resilience5
Evolving adaptive governance: challenging assumptions through an examination of fisheries law in Solomon Islands5
Challenges to incorporating social and economic factors into cumulative effects assessments in Canada’s marine conservation areas5
Creating a quiet buzz: opportunities and challenges for meaningful participation of boreal forest apiarists in the science-policy interface for biodiversity and ecosystem services5
The importance of geodiversity in understanding and conserving the Western Rift Valley Corridor5
Shaping garden landscape with medicinal plants by migrant communities in the Atlantic Forest, Argentina5
Interactive governance of whale ecosystem services: governability assessment of three case studies in the Arctic5
What would attract women to forest-based climate action? Learning from decades of female participation in an infant and maternal health system in Indonesia5
Resilience principles and a leverage points perspective for sustainable woody vegetation management in a social-ecological system of southwestern Ethiopia5
"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 state5
Changing collaborative networks and transitions in rural sustainable development: qualitative lessons from three villages in China5
The benefits of counting butterflies: recommendations for a successful citizen science project5
Implications of Panarchy for ecosystem service research: the role of system dynamics in service delivery5
Relational values and empathy are closely connected: A study of residents of Vermont's Winooski River watershed5
Downstream impacts of the Madeira Hydroelectric Complex on várzea traditional agriculture and extractivism5
Collapse of the oyster population in Apalachicola Bay: cascading social impacts from an ecologically and culturally significant species5
Spatial assessment of risks faced by marine protected areas in Chilean Patagonia5
Assessing the institutional foundations of adaptive water governance in South India5
Characterizing the social-ecological system for inland freshwater salinization using fuzzy cognitive maps: implications for collective management5
Care-based leadership in a core-periphery network: a South African case study in collaborative watershed governance5
Community knowledge as a cornerstone for fisheries management5
How the qualities of actor-issue interdependencies influence collaboration patterns5
Perceptions of governance and access in artisanal marine fisheries in northern Brazil4
Urban African food systems as sites of challenges and opportunities for household food equity and resilience4
Emotionally augmented mental models, connectivity and beaver reintroduction in Southwest England4
Collaboration in a polarized context: lessons from public forest governance in the American West4
Now you see me, now you don’t: the role and relevance of paradigms in water governance4
NSF supported socio-environmental research: how do crosscutting programs affect research funding, publication, and citation patterns?4
Social influence shapes adaptive water governance: empirical evidence from northwestern Pakistan4
Managing environmental knowledge networks to navigate complexity4
Cultural and empowerment priorities amid tensions in knowledge systems and resource allocation: insights from the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area4
Facilitating convergence research on water resource management with a collaborative, adaptive, and multi-scale systems thinking framework4
Sedentarization as an adaptation to socio-environmental changes? Everyday herding practices in pastoralist communities in southern Ethiopia4
Everyday mobility and changing livelihood trajectories: implications for vulnerability and adaptation in dryland regions4
When working together goes against common sense: a framework to bridge conservation and agricultural perspectives in participatory working lands research4
Woody plant encroachment pervasive across three socially and ecologically diverse ecoregions4
Whither convergence? Co-designing convergent research and wrestling with its emergent tensions4
Maladaptive state reinforcement of greenspace in racially marginalized neighborhoods: lessons from Louisville, Kentucky’s failed cooperative extension partnership4
A comparative approach to quantify the heterarchical structures of complex systems4
Everyday adaptation, interrupted agency and beyond: examining the interplay between formal and everyday climate change adaptations4
Remittance income weakens participation in community-based natural resource management4
What is sacred in sacred natural sites? A literature review from a conservation lens4
Interdependencies among hydro-saline dynamics, economic activities, ecological processes, and biodiversity in a deltaic social-ecological system: insights from the Rhône delta (southern France)4
Convergence research as transdisciplinary knowledge coproduction within cases of effective collaborative governance of social-ecological systems4
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