OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ecology and Society is 7. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Individual knowledge acquisition by teachers to promote the ecological value of sacred Kaya forests in southern Kenya	46
Emergence of social-psychological barriers to social-ecological resilience: from causes to solutions	44
The population ecology of sustainable agriculture knowledge networks: insights from California	39
Assessing the delivery of ecosystem services and benefits to human well-being of three contrasting MPAs in Spain	38
The species-specific role of wildlife in the Amazonian food system	34
Forgotten forests: expanding potential land use in traditional Hawaiian agroecosystems, and the social-ecological implications	32
From announced newcomers to unexpected guests: attitudes of local communities toward reintroduced Eurasian beavers ( Castor fiber ) across their expansion area in the Western Carpathians	32
Reflecting on arts-based participatory research: considerations for more equitable transdisciplinary collaborations	30
The role of religion in shaping the values of nature	29
Investigating the coordination between ecological and economic systems in China’s green development process: a place-based interdisciplinary evaluation	29
Which community network structures can support sustainability programs? The case of the Sustainable Cocoa Production Program in Indonesia	28
A Chinese database on ecological thresholds and alternative stable states: implications for related research around the world	27
Effects of long-term ecological research and cognitive biases on the evaluation of scientific information by public land managers in Oregon and Washington, USA	27
Water-related problématiques: five archetypical contexts of water governance	26
Home range size and space use patterns of African lions ( Panthera leo ) in Chizarira National Park, Zimbabwe	26
Social-ecological uncertainty and the (in)capacity to adapt: stakeholders’ perceptions post-red tide/salmon farming crisis in Chiloé Island (Chile)	23
How is the governance of circular economy of water organized? A systematic review of the literature	21
The evolution of social-ecological systems (SES) research: a co-authorship and co-citation network analysis	21
Visual representations in a choice experiment: valuing preferences for a local dam	20
Undisclosed transgressions? Lacking acknowledgements of large agrifood firms on their impacts on the planetary boundaries	20
Small-scale fisheries and agricultural trade networks are socially embedded: emerging hypotheses about responses to environmental changes	20
The Great Green Wall in Senegal: questioning the idea of acceleration through the conflicting temporalities of politics and nature among the Sahelian populations	20
Framing the regime shift concept: an epistemological analysis of a central ecological notion in the context of the North Sea cod crisis	20
Climate change, nature degradation, and financial stability: a review of domino-effects between finance, climate, and the biosphere	19
A need for assessing the resiliency of conservation funding	18

The role of accountability in the emergence of adaptive water governance	18
Ganawendan Ginibiiminaan (Take care of our Water!): mobilizing for Watersheds-at-risk with the Bad River Ojibwe	18
Shifting baseline syndrome in the fishing community of Barcelona: insights from scientific and local ecological knowledge	18
Harvesting change: unraveling social-ecological impacts of a food hub ( LebensMittelPunkt ) through a living lab approach	18
Identifying opportunities and constraints to effective management of invasive Australian wattle (Acacia) species in grassland landscapes, South Africa	18
The Great Stink in the 21st century? Problematizing the sewage scandal in England and envisioning a new infrastructure ideal	18
Collective payments for ecosystem services: a counterpart of commodification and privatization trends in nature conservation?	17
Mi'kmaw lessons for realigning land relations in Bay of Fundy dykelands and tidal wetlands	17
“Hearing everyone’s perspective makes me want to make a change”: a podcast as a lever for change in an Arctic Indigenous community	17
Conflict-related environmental degradation threatens the success of landscape recovery in some areas in Tigray (Ethiopia)	17
Integrating a “One Well-being” approach in elephant conservation: evaluating consequences of management interventions	17
Power research in adaptive water governance and beyond: a review	17
Social identity and place-based dynamics in community resilience building for natural disasters: an integrative framework	17
Preparing for resilience: adaptation options for young people in small-scale fisheries in Mexico	16
Great expectations for collective management: the mismatch between supply and demand for catchment groups	16
Biocultural well-being: Indigenous Peoples’ values for conservation and equity	16
Regional variations in the social acceptability of conservation measures for at-risk species: the case of boreal and mountain caribou	16
Eliciting the plurality of causal reasoning in social-ecological systems research	16
Exploring the bioeconomy as discourse: identifying archetypical bioeconomy discourses and the emergence of a transformative bioeconomy	16
Coping with conflicts in the co-production of solid waste management services: experience with a real-world lab in India	16
Using machine learning to uncover synergies between forest restoration and livelihood support in the Himalayas	15
Tradition and change: celebrating food systems resilience at two Indigenous Māori community events	15
What comes after crises? Key elements and insights into feedback amplifying community self-organization	15
Unleashing eco-conscious travel: exploring the factors influencing green travel behavior in urban communities	15
Food consumption and nutritional status of sedentarized Baka Pygmies in Southern Cameroon: wild foods are less important for those who farm	14
Social-ecological determinants of contemporary megafauna distributions in Indian tropical dry woodlands	14
Who has the time? The temporality of tensions in the transboundary Red River basin	13
COVID-19 impacts on food systems in fisheries-dependent island communities	13
Keeping up with the landscapes: promoting resilience in dynamic social-ecological systems	13
Livelihood vulnerability and human-wildlife interactions across protected areas	13
Unpacking the role of failed land investments in driving tropical deforestation	13
Labrador Inuit resilience and resurgence: embedding Indigenous values in commercial fisheries governance	13
Narrating changes, recalling memory: accumulation by dispossession in food systems of Indigenous communities at the extremes of Latin America	12
Equity in resilience: a case study of community resilience to wildfire in southwestern Oregon, United States	12
Understanding how governance emerges in social-ecological systems: insights from archetype analysis	12
Engaging with justice in integrated landscape approaches	12
Demystifying food systems transformation: a review of the state of the field	12
Tracing a pollinator’s path	12
Integrating public preferences with biophysical production possibilities: an application to ecosystem services from dam removal	12
Vertical agriculture’s potential implications for food system resilience: outcomes of focus groups in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia	12
Editorial: High Nature Value farming systems in Europe	12
Pathways to healing: Indigenous revitalization through family-based land management in the Klamath Basin	12
Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework in a protected area: a case study of Qilian Mountain National Park, Northwestern China	12
Operationalizing pathway diversity in a mosaic landscape	12
Expanding use of space is an opportunity for sustainability but a threat to resilience	11
Development of a wetland management plan for Taiqu Saltpan, Taiwan, by stakeholder engagement and water gate operation	11
The concept of cultural keystone species, revisited through the eyes of Indigenous Peoples on northern Turtle Island	11
Resilient niches: how non-financial capitals helped to overcome the COVID-19 crisis in local food systems	11
Pathways to transformation: institutionalizing urban agriculture in a Montréal borough	11
Manning the mangroves: gender, regional identities, and social history shape mangrove forest dependence and governance	11

Using public litigation records to identify priority science needs for managing public lands	11
Navigating ambiguous waters: a relational approach to nested conflicts in the Katari River Basin, Bolivia	11
Relational values overshadow monetary value in territorial management by the Indigenous Oaxacan community of Capulálpam de Méndez	11
Navigating transdisciplinary waters to protect both sharks and bathers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: diverse stakeholders propose potential actions	10
Mobilizing Indigenous pastoralists: a multi-scalar approach involving reindeer herding communities and sustainability research	10
Local understandings and global challenges: exploring sense of place in sustainability transitions	10
Dangerous environments: environmental peacebuilding’s technomoral imaginary and its power-knowledge effects	10
Biocultural ethics and Earth stewardship: a novel integration to revitalize multiple values of nature	10
Assessing social-ecological fit of flood planning governance	10
Adaptive responses to inter-group competition over natural resources: the case of leakage	10
Governing wildfires: toward a systematic analytical framework	10
Enforcement, deterrence, and compliance in co-managed small-scale fisheries	10
Building resilience in Africa’s smallholder farming systems: contributions from agricultural development interventions—a scoping review	10
The value and vanua of soil: bureaucratic practices, social life, and the colonial legacy of soil conservation in Fiji	10
Dimensions of integration for landscape connectivity planning: a framework for understanding challenges and opportunities	9
Tales on co-response-ability in times of environmental polarization	9
Understanding human-elephant interactions across time is key to illuminate pathways toward coexistence	9
Hydrosocial power and territorial transformation: a case study of the Longaví River sub-basin in south-central Chile	9
Disjointed modes of building resilience to socio-environmental crises	9
Motivations and sensitivities surrounding the illegal trade of sea turtles in Costa Rica	9
Island and Indigenous systems of circularity: how Hawaiʻi can inform the development of universal circular economy policy goals	9
Working together to scale ecosystem restoration: collective approaches to community action in Aotearoa New Zealand	9
Assessing holistic agroecological resilience of agroecosystems from a landscape perspective: a systematic review	9
The ecological success of river restoration in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada: lessons learned	9
Anti-fire statements coexist with millions of anthropogenic fires in Madagascar	9
Ecological agriculture and rural revitalization: toward a post-productivist countryside in Nanjing, China	9
Impacts of algal blooms and microcystins in fish on small-scale fishers in Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria: implications for health and livelihood	9
Integration of nature-based solutions (NBS) in local policy and planning toward transformative change. Evidence from Barcelona, Lisbon, and Turin	9
Braiding Inuit knowledge and Western science to understand light goose population dynamics under a changing climate	9
The dynamics and politics of integrating local knowledge systems in multistakeholder platforms	9
The good, the bad, and the unseen: wild mammal encounters influence wildlife preferences of residents across socio-demographic gradients	9
Large-scale land acquisitions and land cover change in Ethiopia	8
Virtual pollination flows as a key element in the typology of transboundary flows: a response to Li et al. (2023)	8
Paradigms of water governance: a systematic review	8
State role and involvement in determining wetland mitigation performance standards in the United States	8
Form and function in ecologizing spatial planning: learnings from Bogotá, Colombia	8
Successful water governance pathways across problem contexts: a global qualitative comparative analysis	8
Cree knowledge, fuzzy cognitive maps, and the social-ecology of moose habitat quality under an adapted forestry regime	8
Threatened or thriving? Q methodology reveals stakeholder discourses of bats in an insular context	8
The wild bird pet trade in Guyana	8
Negotiating informality and urban resilience: implications for equity	8
Nutrient deficit rather than distance of farming activities from the boundary of protected areas drives crop raids by elephants	8
Coupled human-natural system impacts of a winter weather whiplash event	8
“The future for pastoralists is dark unless something is done”: illuminating the constraints and opportunities for a climate-resilient future for Kenyan pastoralists	8
Toward multifunctionality in a fire-prone peat landscape in Indonesia: insights from multistakeholder perspectives	8
A scoping review of how the seven principles for building social-ecological resilience have been operationalized	7
Making sense of territorial changes: affective and moral dimensions of place attachments and meanings	7
Naming the unnamed: relational values as knowledge and power	7
Teaching the “heads, hearts, and hands” of futures literacy in sustainability education using radical seeds of change	7
Assessing the distance effects on motivations of emergency volunteers responding to wildfire events in protected areas	7
Application of maximum entropy (MaxEnt) to understand the spatial dimension of human–wildlife conflict (HWC) risk in areas adjacent to Gonarezhou National Park of Zimbabwe	7
Worldview violence and Non-Human People in (conservation) science	7
Stakeholder perceptions of wildfire management strategies as nature-based solutions in two Iberian biosphere reserves	7
Relational values of nature—a global empirical study of environmental students in 37 countries	7
Motivation of agroecology for biodiversity conservation in China: a juxtaposition of traditional knowledge and modern ecology in tea farmers’ practice	7
From habitats to hashtags: examining online discussions about invasive species	7
Evaluation-perception of site attributes and plant species selection in the public urban green space of a compact city	7
Exploring multispecies co-design for social-ecological transformation	7
A comparative case study of multistakeholder responses following oil spills in Pointe d’Esny, Mauritius, and Huntington Beach, California	7
The difficult construction of horizontalities: power relations in collaborative multi-actor social-ecological systems management	7
From Aristotle to Heraclitus	7