Ecology and Society

Papers
(The TQCC of Ecology and Society is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Which community network structures can support sustainability programs? The case of the Sustainable Cocoa Production Program in Indonesia94
Emergence of social-psychological barriers to social-ecological resilience: from causes to solutions47
Investigating the coordination between ecological and economic systems in China’s green development process: a place-based interdisciplinary evaluation39
Immediate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of wildlife as food among indigenous people and local communities in South America37
Forgotten forests: expanding potential land use in traditional Hawaiian agroecosystems, and the social-ecological implications32
A multiple evidence-based approach to Métis community-based monitoring: a case study from the South Athabasca Oil Sands Area, Alberta, Canada31
The population ecology of sustainable agriculture knowledge networks: insights from California31
Collective action in the area-wide management of an invasive plant disease28
Biocultural values of groundwater dependent ecosystems in Kona, Hawaiʻi25
Reflecting on arts-based participatory research: considerations for more equitable transdisciplinary collaborations24
Assessing the delivery of ecosystem services and benefits to human well-being of three contrasting MPAs in Spain23
Individual knowledge acquisition by teachers to promote the ecological value of sacred Kaya forests in southern Kenya21
The species-specific role of wildlife in the Amazonian food system20
Effects of long-term ecological research and cognitive biases on the evaluation of scientific information by public land managers in Oregon and Washington, USA20
Ecosystem services in Sahelian village landscapes 1952–2016: estimating change in a data scarce region20
Dynamics of pastoral traditional ecological knowledge: a global state-of-the-art review20
The role of religion in shaping the values of nature20
Speaking of nature: Relationships between how people think about, connect with, and act to protect nature19
Deriving scalable measures for restoration of communal grazing lands19
Water-related problématiques: five archetypical contexts of water governance18
A Chinese database on ecological thresholds and alternative stable states: implications for related research around the world18
Framing the regime shift concept: an epistemological analysis of a central ecological notion in the context of the North Sea cod crisis18
Visual representations in a choice experiment: valuing preferences for a local dam18
Operationalizing water-energy-food nexus research for sustainable development in social-ecological systems: an interdisciplinary learning case in Central Asia17
Climate change, nature degradation, and financial stability: a review of domino-effects between finance, climate, and the biosphere17
Secondary forests in Peru: differential provision of ecosystem services compared to other post-deforestation forest transitions17
Impacts of conservation activities on people who are incarcerated: a case study based on qualitative and quantitative analyses17
Unraveling the combined effects of sociopolitical and climate change scenarios for an artisanal small-scale fishery in the Western Mediterranean17
An integrated climate-biodiversity framework to improve planning and policy: an application to wildlife crossings and landscape connectivity17
Small-scale fisheries and agricultural trade networks are socially embedded: emerging hypotheses about responses to environmental changes16
The Great Green Wall in Senegal: questioning the idea of acceleration through the conflicting temporalities of politics and nature among the Sahelian populations16
The evolution of social-ecological systems (SES) research: a co-authorship and co-citation network analysis15
Ganawendan Ginibiiminaan (Take care of our Water!): mobilizing for Watersheds-at-risk with the Bad River Ojibwe15
Home range size and space use patterns of African lions ( Panthera leo ) in Chizarira National Park, Zimbabwe15
Integrating a “One Well-being” approach in elephant conservation: evaluating consequences of management interventions15
Equality and equity in Arctic communities: how household-level social relations support community-level social resilience14
Harvesting change: unraveling social-ecological impacts of a food hub ( LebensMittelPunkt ) through a living lab approach14
Reviewing the relationship between neoliberal societies and nature: implications of the industrialized dominant social paradigm for a sustainable future14
The role of accountability in the emergence of adaptive water governance14
Power research in adaptive water governance and beyond: a review14
Collective payments for ecosystem services: a counterpart of commodification and privatization trends in nature conservation?14
Social identity and place-based dynamics in community resilience building for natural disasters: an integrative framework13
Causes of overgrazing in Inner Mongolian grasslands: Searching for deep leverage points of intervention13
Shifting baseline syndrome in the fishing community of Barcelona: insights from scientific and local ecological knowledge13
Identifying opportunities and constraints to effective management of invasive Australian wattle (Acacia) species in grassland landscapes, South Africa13
Using meaningful places as an indicator for sense of place in the management of social-ecological systems13
A need for assessing the resiliency of conservation funding13
Conflict-related environmental degradation threatens the success of landscape recovery in some areas in Tigray (Ethiopia)13
Great expectations for collective management: the mismatch between supply and demand for catchment groups12
Indigenous caretaking of beargrass and the social and ecological consequences of adaptations to maintain beargrass weaving practices12
Using machine learning to uncover synergies between forest restoration and livelihood support in the Himalayas12
Everyday adaptation practices by coffee farmers in three mountain regions in Africa12
People think there's no nature in cities, but they want to know more12
Tradition and change: celebrating food systems resilience at two Indigenous Māori community events12
Fruit booms and investor mobility along the China-Myanmar and China-Laos borders12
Narrating changes, recalling memory: accumulation by dispossession in food systems of Indigenous communities at the extremes of Latin America11
Eliciting the plurality of causal reasoning in social-ecological systems research11
Integrating public preferences with biophysical production possibilities: an application to ecosystem services from dam removal11
What comes after crises? Key elements and insights into feedback amplifying community self-organization11
Food consumption and nutritional status of sedentarized Baka Pygmies in Southern Cameroon: wild foods are less important for those who farm11
Keeping up with the landscapes: promoting resilience in dynamic social-ecological systems10
Not too small to benefit society: insights into perceived cultural ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps10
The invisible thread: women as tradition keepers and change agents in Spanish pastoral social-ecological systems10
A synthesis on active citizenship in European nature conservation: social and environmental impacts, democratic tensions, and governance implications10
Operationalizing pathway diversity in a mosaic landscape10
Pathways to healing: Indigenous revitalization through family-based land management in the Klamath Basin10
Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework in a protected area: a case study of Qilian Mountain National Park, Northwestern China10
COVID-19 impacts on food systems in fisheries-dependent island communities10
Engaging with justice in integrated landscape approaches10
Editorial: High Nature Value farming systems in Europe10
Labrador Inuit resilience and resurgence: embedding Indigenous values in commercial fisheries governance10
Livelihood vulnerability and human-wildlife interactions across protected areas10
Equity in resilience: a case study of community resilience to wildfire in southwestern Oregon, United States10
“It’s like a connection between all of us”: Inuit social connections and caribou declines in Labrador, Canada10
Demystifying food systems transformation: a review of the state of the field10
Vertical agriculture’s potential implications for food system resilience: outcomes of focus groups in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia10
Conservation with local people: medicinal plants as cultural keystone species in the Southern Alps10
A method for benchmarking two different resilience assessment methods10
Understanding how governance emerges in social-ecological systems: insights from archetype analysis10
Expanding use of space is an opportunity for sustainability but a threat to resilience9
Coproduction mechanisms to weave Indigenous knowledge, artificial intelligence, and technical data to enable Indigenous-led adaptive decision making: lessons from Australia’s joint managed Kakadu Nati9
Two of a kind? Large-scale land acquisitions and commodity frontier expansion in Argentina's Dry Chaco9
Dangerous environments: environmental peacebuilding’s technomoral imaginary and its power-knowledge effects9
Manning the mangroves: gender, regional identities, and social history shape mangrove forest dependence and governance9
Gathering Giizhik in a changing landscape9
Building resilience in Africa’s smallholder farming systems: contributions from agricultural development interventions—a scoping review9
Pathways to transformation: institutionalizing urban agriculture in a Montréal borough9
Resilient niches: how non-financial capitals helped to overcome the COVID-19 crisis in local food systems9
From stories to maps: translating participatory scenario narratives into spatially explicit information9
Navigating ambiguous waters: a relational approach to nested conflicts in the Katari River Basin, Bolivia9
Using public litigation records to identify priority science needs for managing public lands9
Development of a wetland management plan for Taiqu Saltpan, Taiwan, by stakeholder engagement and water gate operation9
Tracing a pollinator’s path9
Enforcement, deterrence, and compliance in co-managed small-scale fisheries9
Adaptive responses to inter-group competition over natural resources: the case of leakage9
Dimensions of integration for landscape connectivity planning: a framework for understanding challenges and opportunities8
Ecological agriculture and rural revitalization: toward a post-productivist countryside in Nanjing, China8
Hidden benefits and risks of partial protection for coral reef fisheries8
A methodological guide for applying the social-ecological system (SES) framework: a review of quantitative approaches8
The management costs of alternative forest management strategies in the Lake Tahoe Basin8
Local understandings and global challenges: exploring sense of place in sustainability transitions8
Challenges and prospects of Local Adaptation Plans of Action (LAPA) initiative in Nepal as everyday adaptation8
Governing wildfires: toward a systematic analytical framework8
Impacts of algal blooms and microcystins in fish on small-scale fishers in Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria: implications for health and livelihood8
Studying human-nature relations in aquatic social-ecological systems using the social-ecological action situations framework: how to move from empirical data to conceptual models8
Assessing holistic agroecological resilience of agroecosystems from a landscape perspective: a systematic review8
Understanding human-elephant interactions across time is key to illuminate pathways toward coexistence8
Assessing social-ecological fit of flood planning governance8
Island and Indigenous systems of circularity: how Hawaiʻi can inform the development of universal circular economy policy goals8
Integration of nature-based solutions (NBS) in local policy and planning toward transformative change. Evidence from Barcelona, Lisbon, and Turin8
Working together to scale ecosystem restoration: collective approaches to community action in Aotearoa New Zealand8
Trade-offs in the implementation of good practice in large carnivore conservation and management7
Naming the unnamed: relational values as knowledge and power7
Tales on co-response-ability in times of environmental polarization7
Motivations and sensitivities surrounding the illegal trade of sea turtles in Costa Rica7
Forest management under uncertainty: the influence of management versus climate change and wildfire in the Lake Tahoe Basin, USA.7
Simulating wildlife habitat dynamics over the next century to help inform best management strategies for biodiversity in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California7
Double exposure to capitalist expansion and climatic change: a study of vulnerability on the Ghanaian coastal commodity frontier7
A scoping review of how the seven principles for building social-ecological resilience have been operationalized7
Coupled human-natural system impacts of a winter weather whiplash event7
Braiding Inuit knowledge and Western science to understand light goose population dynamics under a changing climate7
Water quality and forest restoration in the Lake Tahoe basin: impacts of future management options7
Negotiating informality and urban resilience: implications for equity7
Pau-brasil and string instrument bows telecouple nature, art, and heritage7
State role and involvement in determining wetland mitigation performance standards in the United States7
Systemic analysis of a developing plant community on the island of Surtsey7
The ecological success of river restoration in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada: lessons learned7
Murky waters: divergent ways scientists, practitioners, and landowners evaluate beaver mimicry7
Disjointed modes of building resilience to socio-environmental crises7
The wisdom of hindsight: a comparative analysis of timelines of environmental governance of infrastructure across the Pan-Amazon7
Cree knowledge, fuzzy cognitive maps, and the social-ecology of moose habitat quality under an adapted forestry regime7
The good, the bad, and the unseen: wild mammal encounters influence wildlife preferences of residents across socio-demographic gradients7
Form and function in ecologizing spatial planning: learnings from Bogotá, Colombia7
Knowledge that affects: an assemblage approach6
Assessing long-term conservation impacts on adaptive capacity in a flagship community-based natural resources management area in Botswana6
Creating a climate changed future with the sea level rise interactive-fiction game “Lagos2199”6
Carbon emissions from land acquisitions in Laos6
Uncovering well-being ecosystem services bundles (WEBs) under conditions of social-ecological change in Brazil6
Incorporating place-based values into ecological restoration6
Multistakeholder platforms for natural resource governance: lessons from eight landscape-level cases6
Stakeholder perceptions of wildfire management strategies as nature-based solutions in two Iberian biosphere reserves6
Evaluation-perception of site attributes and plant species selection in the public urban green space of a compact city6
Constraints to effective comanagement of New Zealand's customary fisheries: experiences of the East Otago Taiāpure6
Unintended consequences of sustainable development initiatives: risks and opportunities in seagrass social-ecological systems6
Diverse values of nature and political ontology6
A framework for co-production of knowledge in the context of Arctic research6
Indigenous sea gardens within the Pacific Northwest generate partial trophic niche and dietary fatty acid shifts in littleneck clams ( Leukoma staminea )6
Hunting as land use: Understanding the spatial associations among hunting, agriculture, and forestry6
Biodiversity conservation through forest certification: key factors shaping national Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standard-development processes in Canada, Sweden, and Russia6
Reviewing relational values for future research: insights from the coast6
The values of wildlife revisited6
A comparative case study of multistakeholder responses following oil spills in Pointe d’Esny, Mauritius, and Huntington Beach, California6
Migration and collective action in the commons: application of social-ecological system framework with evidence from China6
“The future for pastoralists is dark unless something is done”: illuminating the constraints and opportunities for a climate-resilient future for Kenyan pastoralists6
Conceptualizing multidimensional barriers: a framework for assessing constraints in realizing recreational benefits of urban green spaces6
Games for experiential learning: triggering collective changes in commons management6
Individual and collective political efficacy predict farmer engagement and support for groundwater policies: implications from the California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act6
To burn or not to burn: governance of wildfires in Australia6
A new framework for flood adaptation: introducing the Flood Adaptation Hierarchy6
Novel pathways to value nature: how guided forest bathing promotes new relationships with nature6
Application of maximum entropy (MaxEnt) to understand the spatial dimension of human–wildlife conflict (HWC) risk in areas adjacent to Gonarezhou National Park of Zimbabwe6
Geospatial patterns and models of subsistence land use in rural Interior Alaska6
Worldview violence and Non-Human People in (conservation) science6
Making sense of territorial changes: affective and moral dimensions of place attachments and meanings6
Exploring evolving spiritual values of forests in Europe and Asia: a transition hypothesis toward re-spiritualizing forests6
Resistance to change: A case study on framing and policy change of a controversial nature area6
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