OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ecology and Society is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Assessing the potential delivery of ecosystem services by farmlands under contrasting management intensities	79
How coupled is coupled human-natural systems research?	40
Creating a quiet buzz: opportunities and challenges for meaningful participation of boreal forest apiarists in the science-policy interface for biodiversity and ecosystem services	31
Managing contractual uncertainty for drinking water services in rural Mali	28
Dynamics of pastoral traditional ecological knowledge: a global state-of-the-art review	26
The Yamal Nenets’ traditional and contemporary environmental knowledge of snow, ice, and permafrost	25
A tale of two cities: evidence from the Global South on established versus emerging cities’ approaches to adaptive and sustainable water governance	23
Guardians of biodiversity: unraveling Guarani-Kaiowá biocultural memories and ecological wisdom in Atlantic rainforests	20
Local ecological knowledge and multidisciplinary approach lead to discovery of hidden biodiversity in the deep ocean of Labrador, Canada	20
Shaping garden landscape with medicinal plants by migrant communities in the Atlantic Forest, Argentina	17
A demographic model to support customary management of a culturally important waterfowl species	17
How policy interventions influence burning to meet cultural and small-scale livelihood objectives	16
Which community network structures can support sustainability programs? The case of the Sustainable Cocoa Production Program in Indonesia	16
Understanding local pig hunter values and practices as a means toward co-management of feral pigs ( Sus scrofa ; pua'a) in the Hawaiian Islands	16
Working together to scale ecosystem restoration: collective approaches to community action in Aotearoa New Zealand	14
Local understandings and global challenges: exploring sense of place in sustainability transitions	14
Investigating the coordination between ecological and economic systems in China’s green development process: a place-based interdisciplinary evaluation	14
The population ecology of sustainable agriculture knowledge networks: insights from California	14
Characterizing the social-ecological system for inland freshwater salinization using fuzzy cognitive maps: implications for collective management	14
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 Baojiatu	13
Understanding human-elephant interactions across time is key to illuminate pathways toward coexistence	13
Carnivores’ contributions to people in Europe	13
Rights of the child as imperatives for transforming food systems	13
The importance of geodiversity in understanding and conserving the Western Rift Valley Corridor	13
What would attract women to forest-based climate action? Learning from decades of female participation in an infant and maternal health system in Indonesia	12

Emergence of social-psychological barriers to social-ecological resilience: from causes to solutions	12
A new adaptive cycle for Ecology and Society	12
Using geotagged crowdsourced data to assess the diverse socio-cultural values of conservation areas: England as a case study	12
Ecosystem services in Sahelian village landscapes 1952–2016: estimating change in a data scarce region	12
Forgotten forests: expanding potential land use in traditional Hawaiian agroecosystems, and the social-ecological implications	12
Participation and marginalization in water governance: probing the agency of powerholders	11
A multiple evidence-based approach to Métis community-based monitoring: a case study from the South Athabasca Oil Sands Area, Alberta, Canada	11
Biocultural values of groundwater dependent ecosystems in Kona, Hawaiʻi	11
Perceived changes in social-ecological resilience in fire-prone ecosystems in Colorado	11
Toward a feminist political ecology of household food and water security during drought in northern Nicaragua	11
Coupling social and ecological mechanisms with the Coleman boat	11
A methodological guide for applying the social-ecological system (SES) framework: a review of quantitative approaches	10
Inequalities in the adaptive cycle: reorganizing after disasters in an unequal world	10
Conceptualizing trust and distrust as alternative stable states: lessons from the Flint Water Crisis	10
Evidence of spatial competition, over resource scarcity, as a primary driver of conflicts between small-scale and industrial fishers	10
Hidden benefits and risks of partial protection for coral reef fisheries	10
Assessing spatiotemporal change in coral reef social-ecological systems	10
Impacts of algal blooms and microcystins in fish on small-scale fishers in Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria: implications for health and livelihood	10
Learning systems and learning paths in sustainability transitions	10
Evolving adaptive governance: challenging assumptions through an examination of fisheries law in Solomon Islands	9
Challenges to incorporating social and economic factors into cumulative effects assessments in Canada’s marine conservation areas	9
Spatial assessment of risks faced by marine protected areas in Chilean Patagonia	9
Eutrophication, water quality, and fisheries: a wicked management problem with insights from a century of change in Lake Erie	9
Immediate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of wildlife as food among indigenous people and local communities in South America	9
Studying human-nature relations in aquatic social-ecological systems using the social-ecological action situations framework: how to move from empirical data to conceptual models	9
Biosphere Futures: a database of social-ecological scenarios	9
Cocina Colaboratorio: cooking transdisciplinary transformations of local food systems	8
The management costs of alternative forest management strategies in the Lake Tahoe Basin	8
Relational values and empathy are closely connected: A study of residents of Vermont's Winooski River watershed	8
Land cover and socioeconomic factors explain avian diversity in a tropical megacity	8
Forest management under uncertainty: the influence of management versus climate change and wildfire in the Lake Tahoe Basin, USA.	8
The role of diverse cultural identities in the perceived value of urban forests in Melbourne, Australia, and implications for urban ecosystem research and practice	8
Exploring linkages between protected-area access and Kenyan pastoralist food security using a new agent-based model	8
Scale, evidence, and community participation matter: lessons in effective and legitimate adaptive governance from decision making for Menindee Lakes in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin	8
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, USA	8
Implications of Panarchy for ecosystem service research: the role of system dynamics in service delivery	8
Comparing smoke emissions and impacts under alternative forest management regimes	8
The role of religion in shaping the values of nature	8
Unravelling cross-scale and cross-level challenges in Ethiopian forest and landscape restoration governance	8
Assessing the delivery of ecosystem services and benefits to human well-being of three contrasting MPAs in Spain	7
From austericide to recommoning: counter-imaginaries for democratizing water governance	7
A biocultural approach to navigating conservation trade-offs through participatory methods	7
Ecological agriculture and rural revitalization: toward a post-productivist countryside in Nanjing, China	7
Resilience in the times of COVID: what the response to the COVID pandemic teaches us about resilience principles	7
Knowledge, perception, and awareness of society regarding (over)abundance of wild ungulate populations	7
Linking institutional change mechanisms with forest management outcomes: evidence from community forestry in Nepal	7
Governing wildfires: toward a systematic analytical framework	7
Resilience principles and a leverage points perspective for sustainable woody vegetation management in a social-ecological system of southwestern Ethiopia	7
Extreme events, loss, and grief—an evaluation of the evolving management of climate change threats on the Great Barrier Reef	6
Bringing the salmon home: a study of cross-cultural collaboration in the Syilx Okanagan Territory of British Columbia	6

Collapse of the oyster population in Apalachicola Bay: cascading social impacts from an ecologically and culturally significant species	6
Tales on co-response-ability in times of environmental polarization	6
Water challenges at the U.S.-Mexico border: learning from community and expert voices	6
From primary data to formalized decision-making: open challenges and ways forward to inform representations of farmers’ behavior in agent-based models	6
Returning ecological wealth to nonhuman species through design: the case for ecosystemas	6
The species-specific role of wildlife in the Amazonian food system	6
Challenges and prospects of Local Adaptation Plans of Action (LAPA) initiative in Nepal as everyday adaptation	6
Collective action in the area-wide management of an invasive plant disease	6
Resiliency fatigue for rural residents following repeated natural hazard exposure	6
Reflecting on arts-based participatory research: considerations for more equitable transdisciplinary collaborations	6
Island and Indigenous systems of circularity: how Hawaiʻi can inform the development of universal circular economy policy goals	6
Drivers of ecosystem service specialization in a smallholder agricultural landscape of the Global South: a case study in Ethiopia	6
Integration of nature-based solutions (NBS) in local policy and planning toward transformative change. Evidence from Barcelona, Lisbon, and Turin	6
Resilience-performance trade-offs in managing social-ecological systems	6
Diverse actor perspectives on African urban food systems: lessons from participatory food system modeling in Worcester, South Africa	6
Care-based leadership in a core-periphery network: a South African case study in collaborative watershed governance	6
Assessing social-ecological fit of flood planning governance	5
Wildfire risk governance from the bottom up: linking local planning processes in fragmented landscapes	5
Place meaning, speculation, and emerging public perceptions of carbon-storing marine sediments in Dundalk Bay, Ireland	5
A Chinese database on ecological thresholds and alternative stable states: implications for related research around the world	5
A heuristic for innovative invasive species management actions and strategies	5
Linking smallholders’ livelihood resilience with their adaptation strategies to climate impacts: insights from the Tibetan Plateau	5
Fuzzy SETS: acknowledging multiple membership of elements within social-ecological-technological systems (SETS) theory	5
Framing the regime shift concept: an epistemological analysis of a central ecological notion in the context of the North Sea cod crisis	5
Holomua Marine Initiative: community-generated socio-cultural principles and indicators for marine conservation and management in Hawaiʻi	5
Visualization of causation in social-ecological systems	5
Citizens’ attitudes toward the protection of flying squirrels in urban areas	5
The Great Green Wall in Senegal: questioning the idea of acceleration through the conflicting temporalities of politics and nature among the Sahelian populations	5
Contextualizing patterns in short-term disaster recoveries from the 2015 Nepal earthquakes: household vulnerabilities, adaptive capacities, and change	5
Impacts of conservation activities on people who are incarcerated: a case study based on qualitative and quantitative analyses	5
Technology adoption and weed emergence dynamics: social ecological modeling for maize-legume systems across Africa	5
Small-scale fisheries and agricultural trade networks are socially embedded: emerging hypotheses about responses to environmental changes	5
Panarchy: ripples of a boundary concept	5
Operationalizing water-energy-food nexus research for sustainable development in social-ecological systems: an interdisciplinary learning case in Central Asia	5
Spatial distribution of bat activity in agricultural fields: implications for ecosystem service estimates	5
Perception matters: an Indigenous perspective on climate change and its effects on forest-based livelihoods in the Amazon	5
Enhancing the role of International NGOs in promoting the implementation of ecosystem-based adaptation policies: insights from an International Union for Conservation and Foundation of Netherlands Vol	5
Simulating wildlife habitat dynamics over the next century to help inform best management strategies for biodiversity in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California	5
Unraveling the combined effects of sociopolitical and climate change scenarios for an artisanal small-scale fishery in the Western Mediterranean	5
Traditional agricultural practices and their contribution to habitat quality and carbon storage in arid Northwest Mexico: a social-ecological approach in the Rio Sonora sub-watershed	5
Taking fishers’ knowledge and its implications to fisheries policy seriously	5
Community knowledge as a cornerstone for fisheries management	5
Colonialism and the Blue Economy: confronting historical legacies to enable equitable ocean development	4
Modeling the Risk Reduction Benefit of Forest Management Using a Case Study in the Lake Tahoe Basin	4
Lack of benefit sharing undermines support for nature conservation in an Eastern Afromontane biodiversity hotspot	4
Changing collaborative networks and transitions in rural sustainable development: qualitative lessons from three villages in China	4
Speaking of nature: Relationships between how people think about, connect with, and act to protect nature	4
The wisdom of hindsight: a comparative analysis of timelines of environmental governance of infrastructure across the Pan-Amazon	4
A call for agile futures practice in service of transformative change: lessons from envisioning positive climate futures emerging from the pandemic	4
Effects of long-term ecological research and cognitive biases on the evaluation of scientific information by public land managers in Oregon and Washington, USA	4
The benefits of counting butterflies: recommendations for a successful citizen science project	4
What shapes silvopastoralism in Mediterranean mid-mountain areas? Understanding factors, drivers, and dynamics using fuzzy cognitive mapping	4
Transitioning toward “deep” knowledge co-production in coastal and marine systems: examining the interplay among governance, power, and knowledge	4
Frequency of disturbance mitigates high-severity fire in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California and Nevada	4
Gender equity and collaborative care in Madagascar’s locally managed marine areas: reflections on the launch of a fisherwomen’s network	4
Friend or foe? Attitudes of rice farmers toward wild animals in West Africa	4
The ecological success of river restoration in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada: lessons learned	4
Place-based knowledge transfer in a local-to-global and knowledge-to-action context: key steps and facilitative factors	4
Pathways for FEW nexus collaboration in U.S. city resilience planning	4
Water-related problématiques: five archetypical contexts of water governance	4
Disjointed modes of building resilience to socio-environmental crises	4
The evolution of social-ecological systems (SES) research: a co-authorship and co-citation network analysis	4
The crises inherent in the success of the global food system	4
How did we get here? The evolution of a polycentric system of groundwater governance	4
Water quality and forest restoration in the Lake Tahoe basin: impacts of future management options	4
Splitting stones	4
Recognizing the importance of near-home contact with nature for mental well-being based on the COVID-19 lockdown experience	4
Deriving scalable measures for restoration of communal grazing lands	4
To split a stone	4
Price volatility in fish food systems: spatial arbitrage as an adaptive strategy for small-scale fish traders	4