Sustainability Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Sustainability Science 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Recognizing our authors94
Teaching sustainability at the high sea: the “One Ocean Expedition”91
Development of a method for downscaling ecological footprint and biocapacity to a 1-km square resolution86
Public perception of carbon dioxide removal in three Asian regions85
Heterogeneous energy landscapes and the challenges for spatial planning: the Port of Ravenna and its hinterland71
How individuals make sense of their climate impacts in the capitalocene: mixed methods insights from calculating carbon footprints59
Harnessing concepts for sustainability: a pledge for a practice57
Climate justice beyond intergenerational conflict: youth climate activism in South Korea55
Sustainability transitions in agri-food systems through the lens of agent-based modeling: a systematic review51
Navigating sustainability: key factors in prioritising Sustainable Development Goals46
The role of universities in SDGs solution co-creation and implementation: a human-centered design and shared-action learning process45
What qualitative systems mapping is and what it could be: integrating and visualizing diverse knowledge of complex problems43
Sustainability justice: a systematic review of emergent trends and themes43
Systemic barriers preventing farmer engagement in the agricultural climate transition: a qualitative study42
Networks of action situations: a systematic review of empirical research41
Environmental, nutritional and social assessment of nuts41
Agents of change or victims of transition? Media framings on household roles during the energy crisis40
From shops to bins: a case study of consumer attitudes and behaviours towards plastics in a UK coastal city40
Conducting sustainability research in the anthropocene: toward a relational approach40
Roles of researchers in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research: a reflection tool40
Threatened sustainability: extractivist tendencies in the forest-based bioeconomy in Finland39
Using a systems thinking approach to assess the complex interplay between sustainable development goals, climate change, and humanitarian operations39
Working the boundary: science–policy interactions and uneven knowledge politics in IPBES39
Whose “place” is it? Using corpus-based techniques to sketch place-based sustainability discourses in public and academic forums39
ORF, an operational framework to measure resilience in social–ecological systems: the forest case study38
Transformative science–policy interfacing: the case of biodiversity and ecosystem services37
A natural language processing model for supporting sustainable development goals: translating semantics, visualizing nexus, and connecting stakeholders36
Enabling collective agency for sustainability transformations through reframing in the Xochimilco social–ecological system36
Interplays between relational and instrumental values: insights from research experiences on human–nature relations36
Exploring the sustainability narratives of cultured meat35
Integrated modeling to achieve global goals: lessons from the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-use, and Energy (FABLE) initiative35
Exploring synergies between the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and involuntary resettlement guidelines: the case of Mozambique’s natural gas project34
Non-monetary narratives motivate businesses to engage with climate change33
Heterogeneous infrastructure and governance of low-carbon transition in Qingdao, China32
Futures for invasive alien species management: using bottom-up innovations to envision positive systemic change32
The governance of forest carbon in a subnational climate mitigation system: insights from a network of action situations approach31
The effect of financial crises on deforestation: a global and regional panel data analysis30
Benefits and co-benefits of urban green infrastructure for sustainable cities: six current and emerging themes30
Reflexive use of methods: a framework for navigating different types of knowledge and power in transformative research30
A complex transdisciplinary approach to achieve water sustainability: lessons from a case study in Morelia, Mexico29
Core design principles for just sustainability transitions: a framework for transformative research28
Behavioral adaptation to climate change: new insights on psychosocial frameworks from the context of managed forests28
Sunrise at the Salton Sea: environmental justice, land use change, and hydrosocial dynamics of solar energy transitions in the Imperial Valley, California28
Spanning the boundaries between policy, politics and science to solve wicked problems: policy pilots, deliberation fora and policy labs28
Limiting money: redesigning the artifact that shapes modern people28
Has research on health co-benefits influenced urban climate and transport planning in the United Kingdom, United States, Japan, and France?28
Tracing the evolution of natural capital in global sustainability metrics: the advance of inclusive wealth26
Centring Indigenous peoples in knowledge exchange research-practice by resetting assumptions, relationships and institutions26
Does a trade-off exist between economic and environmental impacts of forest carbon payment programs?26
Correction: Projecting population distribution under depopulation conditions in Japan: scenario analysis for future socio-ecological systems26
Identifying behavior change interventions with deep leverage: a conceptual and qualitative case study with farmers from Germany26
Learning about climate change with comics and text: a comparative study26
Correction to: Exploring complementarity among interdependent pastoral institutions in Mongolia26
Large-scale flood risk assessment under different development strategies: the Luanhe River Basin in China25
Delivering scientific evidence for global policy and management to ensure ocean sustainability25
Involvement matters: navigating the value–action gap in business students’ sustainability transformation expectations—a cross-country Kano study25
Alternative Food Networks and agri-food regime transitions: evolution of institutional knowledge on local food from the fruits and vegetables sector in France24
Transforming environmental governance: critical action intellectuals and their praxis in the field24
Discourses for deep transformation: perceptions of economic growth in two rural communities in Lower Saxony, Germany24
Understanding the embeddedness of individuals within the larger system to support the energy transition24
Localizing visions of desirable futures: applying the Nature Futures Framework to the Baroro Watershed in the Philippines24
Identifying leverage points for shifting Water-Energy-Food nexus cases towards sustainability through the Networks of Action Situations approach combined with systems thinking23
Creative destruction in academia: a time to reimagine practices in alignment with sustainability values23
Embedding animals within a definition of sustainability23
Are all renewable energy sources the same? A comparative analysis of public perceptions and preferences for renewable energy types in Southeast Asian cities22
The dawn of solar photovoltaics: emergent political economies at the solar–agri–land nexus22
Why is the sky blue? A new question for political science22
Correction to: Transdisciplinary partnerships for sustainability: an evaluation guide22
Decolonising money: learning from collective struggles for self-determination22
Stakeholders’ involvement and reflections on preserving sacred swamps in the Western Ghats, India, as revealed by participatory visioning22
Urban novel ecosystems as affective landscapes22
‘Being’ and ‘doing’: interconnections between researcher identity and conceptualizations of sustainability research21
Development of AIM (Asia–Pacific Integrated Model) and its contribution to policy-making for the realization of decarbonized societies in Asia21
Correction: Participatory modelling and scenario exploration to address the air pollution challenge in Thailand and Laos21
Coastal encounters with electrical hybridity: Karpowership in Africa’s energy transition21
A stakeholders’ pathway towards a future land use and food system in Germany21
Embodying relationality through immersive sustainability solutions with Indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon21
Unraveling the politics of ‘doing inclusion’ in transdisciplinarity for sustainable transformation21
Herding cats: integrative leadership strategies in inter- and transdisciplinary research programs20
Enablers of transdisciplinary collaboration for researchers working on climate risks in African cities20
Correction to: Ecological footprint of your denim jeans: production knowledge and green consumerism20
How the COVID-19 pandemic impacts social scientific research on sustainability: questions of methodology, ethics and justice: comment on Santana et al. 202120
Beyond global versus local: illuminating a cosmolocal framework for convivial technology development20
Assessment of alternative land resource utilisation towards Net-Zero and regional revitalisation through the circulating and ecological sphere in depopulated city regions in Japan: a case study of Hac20
The different values of nature: a comparison between university students’ perceptions of nature’s instrumental, intrinsic and relational values20
Addressing our planetary crisis19
Ranking the sustainable development goals: perceived sustainability priorities in small island states18
Enabling spaces for bridging scales: scanning solutions for interdisciplinary human-environment research18
Conflicts and coexistence in rural Europe: pathways to sustainability in transitioning territories18
Building ethical awareness to strengthen co-production for transformation18
Local agency vs. political economy in low-income energy transitions in California: the case of the Bassett–Avocado Heights Advanced Energy Community18
Key attributes for effective knowledge brokering at the interface of environmental science and management18
Carbon neutrality commitment for China: from vision to action18
Governing University Living Labs for sustainability transformations: insights from 18 international case studies18
Nothing sweet about agrivoltaics? Discussions on the territorial adequacy of agrivoltaics in Reunion Island18
From uncertainty to environmental impacts: reflection on the threats to water in Chacabuco Province (Chile): a combined approach in social sciences and geochemistry18
Exploring “big picture” scenarios for resilience in social–ecological systems: transdisciplinary cross-impact balances modeling in the Red River Basin17
How public catering accelerates sustainability: a German case study17
Intertwined renewable and digital transitions: a study on South Australia’s hybridized electricity system17
Broad values as the basis for understanding deliberation about protected area management17
An urgent need for COP27: confronting converging crises17
Factors influencing public support for individual low-carbon behavior reward system in China: role of climate change perceptions and macroeconomic expectations17
The impact of weather changes on the supply and demand of electric power and wholesale prices of electricity in Germany17
Assessment of transdisciplinarity by its participants: the case of Tertúlias do Montado, Alentejo, Portugal17
The role of a nature-based program in fostering multiple connections to nature17
Goal frames and sustainability transitions: how cognitive lock-ins can impede crop diversification17
Science under pressure: how research is being challenged by the 2030 Agenda17
Diverse types of knowledge on a plate: a multi-perspective and multi-method approach for the transformation of urban food systems towards sustainable diets17
The land–river interface: a conceptual framework of environmental process interactions to support sustainable development17
Correction: Multifunctionality benefits of small-scale urban agriculture17
Using the three horizons approach to explore pathways towards positive futures for agricultural landscapes with rich biodiversity17
Climate-friendly healthcare: reducing the impacts of the healthcare sector on the world’s climate17
Modeling desirable futures at local scale by combining the nature futures framework and multi-objective optimization17
Climate risks and foreign direct investment in developing countries: the role of national governance16
Narratives underlying research in African river basin management16
A practical tool to enable Indigenous enterprise planning and development grounded in culture16
Water–energy–food–ecosystem nexus: how to frame and how to govern16
Editorial for the special feature: “Citizens’ attitudes and preferences for climate change policies and technologies in Southeast and East Asia”16
Inclusive wealth footprint for cities in Japan: regional clusters for sustainable development16
Correction: Reflexive use of methods: a framework for navigating different types of knowledge and power in transformative research16
Sustainability of international research: evidence from an H2020 European project16
How can relational, decolonial and feminist approaches inform the EU bioeconomy?16
Towards sustainable school meals: integrating environmental and cost implications for nutritious diets through optimisation modelling15
The trade-off between natural capital and human capital in Pakistan15
Exploring the impacts of global change on small-scale fisheries: expanding the use of I-ADApT as a decision support tool15
Organic agriculture in a low-emission world: exploring combined measures to deliver a sustainable food system in Sweden15
Identifying mindsets for urban sustainability transformation: insights from Urban Labs15
Correction to: Envisioning just transformations in and beyond the EU bioeconomy: inspirations from decolonial environmental justice and degrowth15
Knowledge uptake from lived experience regarding sustainable groundwater management: complementing scientific knowledge in urban policymaking15
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on environmental values15
Institutionalising degrowth regime: a review and analysis of degrowth transition proposals15
New intergenerational evidence on reverse socialization of environmental literacy15
Correction: Public attitude toward solar radiation modification: results of a two-scenario online survey on perception in four Asia–Pacific countries15
Opening the human spirit to sustainability transformation: the potential for individual human–nature resonance and integrative rituals14
Transdisciplinary approaches to local sustainability: aligning local governance and navigating spillovers with global action towards the Sustainable Development Goals14
The social dynamics in establishing complex community climate change initiatives: the case of a community fridge in Scotland14
An ecosystem service approach to the study of vineyard landscapes in the context of climate change: a review14
Interlinkages between leverage points for strengthening adaptive capacity to climate change14
Impacts of low-carbon transition on human capital and future sustainability via electricity market: a framework based on inclusive wealth analysis at the regional level in China14
Learning to collaborate within transdisciplinarity: internal barriers and strengths of an art–science encounter14
The governance anticommons in renewable energy: two cases from China’s solar expansion14
Methodological sensitivities for co-producing knowledge through enduring trustful partnerships14
A leverage point perspective on serious games for sustainability transformation: a systematic literature review14
Ecological performance standards for regenerative urban design14
The bioeconomy and its untenable growth promises: reality checks from research13
Correction to: Unlocking and accelerating transformations to the SDGs: a review of existing knowledge13
Where limits to growth are tangible: the olive sector in Jaén and its bioeconomic future13
“Take your responsibility”: the politics of green sacrifice for just low-carbon transitions in rural Portugal13
Disentangling the entangled in productive ways: modelling social–ecological systems from a process-relational perspective13
Towards epistemic diversity in sustainability transitions: an exploration of hybrid socio-technical systems13
Community gardens support high levels of food production, but benefit distribution is uneven across the gardener community13
Nature positive strategy with social and economic policy13
Multifunctionality benefits of small-scale urban agriculture13
Economic inequality expanded after an extreme climate event: a long-term analysis of herders’ household data in Mongolia13
Legitimating grid-scale solar: shaping Pennsylvania’s farmland as a renewable energy landscape13
A transdisciplinary model for teaching and learning for sustainability science in a rapidly warming world13
Breaking the unsustainable paradigm: exploring the relationship between energy consumption, economic development and carbon dioxide emissions in Ecuador13
A typology of interdisciplinary collaborations: insights from agri-food transformation research13
Leverage points for tackling unsustainable global value chains: market-based measures versus transformative alternatives13
Correction to: Enhancing the sustainability science agenda through Indigenous methodology12
Is Blockchain a game-changer for social currency systems? Some reflections in light of the experience of Moneda PAR in Argentina12
The making of sustainability: ideological strategies, the materiality of nature, and biomass use in the bioeconomy12
Memory over matter?—a conceptual framework to integrate social–ecological l legacies in agricultural NCP co-production12
Central–local governance gaps: the evolving differentiation of climate policies in China12
Operationalising a large research programme tackling complex urban and planetary health problems: a case study approach to critical reflection12
Sustainability science must challenge common sense: a response to Bodin (2021)12
Regional agroecological stewardship: a framework to analyze the (re)territorialization of sustainable food systems12
Emotional attachment and philosophical worldviews explain human connectedness to nature in abandoned rural Spain12
Solar–water nexus: on local implications of the procurement and deployment of the first floating solar photovoltaics project in Indonesia12
Synergies and trade-offs between sustainable development goals and targets: innovative approaches and new perspectives12
Circular agri-food economies: business models and practices in the potato industry12
Commoning the governance: a review of literature and the integration of power12
Factors affecting relational values of nature: a case of the Nagara River, Japan12
Sustainable lifestyles: towards a relational approach12
Mapping Self-Help Groups (SHGs) as alternatives to capitalist development: an ethnographic enquiry from India11
Transformation archetypes in global food systems11
From Ampesie to French fries: systematising the characteristics, drivers and impacts of diet change in rapidly urbanising Accra11
Unravelling stakeholder narratives on nature-based solutions for hydro-meteorological risk reduction11
Correction: Introducing listening as a weak method for advancing sustainability and interdisciplinary scholarship11
The sustainability science approach in sub-Saharan Africa: key lessons from five case studies11
Diverse approaches to nature recovery are needed to meet the varied needs of people and nature11
Regenerative agriculture: a potentially transformative storyline shared by nine discourses11
Participatory modelling and scenario exploration to address the air pollution challenge in Thailand and Laos11
Key conservation actions for European steppes in the context of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework11
Phasing-out ‘coal tradition’ in favour of ‘renewable colonialism’: how the press contributes to the discursive (de)legitimization of coal and renewables in a coal region in transition11
The human–technical–environmental systems framework for sustainability analysis11
Toward adaptive climate communication and an expanded frame theory: lessons from environmental organizations11
The role of emotions in human–nature connectedness within Mediterranean landscapes in Spain11
Correction: Three perspectives to integrate animal interests into the global Sustainable Development Agenda11
Knowledge co-production for identifying indicators and prioritising solutions for food and land system sustainability in Australia11
Envisioning just transformations in and beyond the EU bioeconomy: inspirations from decolonial environmental justice and degrowth11
Public perceptions on net zero energy houses in Japan10
Correction to: Exploring bioproduction systems in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes in Asia through solution scanning using the Nature Futures Framework10
Solidarity as a development performance and practice in coffee exchanges10
Cross-scale trade-off analysis for sustainable development: linking future demand for animal source foods and ecosystem services provision to the SDGs10
Sustainable water tariffs and inequality in post-drought Cape Town: exploring perceptions of fairness10
Potential side effects of climate change mitigation on poverty and countermeasures10
The Life Framework of Values and living as nature; towards a full recognition of holistic and relational ontologies10
Correction: Opening the human spirit to sustainability transformation: the potential for individual human–nature resonance and integrative rituals10
A leverage points perspective on Arctic Indigenous food systems research: a systematic review10
The perspective of youth: envisioning transformative pathways and desirable futures for people and nature10
Development of an SDG interlinkages analysis model at the river basin scale: a case study in the Luanhe River Basin, China10
Accelerating actions for leveraging a climate-neutral sustainable society10
Managing biodiversity in the Anthropocene: discussing the Nature Futures Framework as a tool for adaptive decision-making for nature under climate change10
Unravelling hidden factors explaining competition for and overuse of groundwater in Azraq, Jordan: digging deeper into a network of action situations10
The urgency of the Lancet Planetary Health–Earth Commission’s report and IPBES transformations versus the ongoing Z transformation: the need to soften the human sustainability boundaries10
Advancing sustainable development goals: embedding resilience assessment10
Navigating or adding to complexity? Exploring the role of catchment partnerships in collaborative governance9
Assessing resilience, equity, and sustainability of future visions across two urban scales9
Flexible institutionalisation in Auroville: a prefigurative alternative to development9
The impact of teenagers' emotions on their complexity thinking competence related to climate change and its consequences on their future: looking at complex interconnections and implications in climat9
Transforming local governance: using system leverage points to conceptualize sustainability transformations9
“Fika in the Anthropocene”: leveraging food systems transformations through food cultures9
Common features of sustainable higher education sector according to an international sustainability ranking data9
Understanding the mechanisms of meaning-making for transformations toward sustainability: contributions from Personal Knowledge Theory9
Editorial: Special-purpose money for sustainability9
A method to identify positive tipping points to accelerate low-carbon transitions and actions to trigger them9
Navigating ecological security research over the last 30 years: a scoping review9
Process ownership in science–practice collaborations: the special role of transdisciplinary processes in sustainable transitioning9
Sustainability impacts of ecosystem approaches to small-scale aquaculture in Bangladesh9
Thou shalt not take the name of bioeconomy in vain9
A systematic review of peer-reviewed gender literature in sustainability science9
Correction to: Human–nature connectedness and other relational values are negatively affected by landscape simplification: insights from Lower Saxony, Germany9
Achieving sustainability transformations for multi-species justice: assessing the potential of diverse legal pathways and societal struggles9
Farming in the shadow of violent organizations: understanding farmers’ relational place-making in socio-ecological crises9
Beyond synergies: understanding SDG trade-offs, equity and implementation challenges of sectoral climate change mitigation options9
Developing methods of knowledge co-production across varying contexts to shape Sustainability Science theory and practice9
Joint problem framing: a transdisciplinary methodology for a sustainable future in mountain areas9
Crossing borders, building new ones, or shifting boundaries? Shared narratives and individual paths towards inter/transdisciplinarity in research centres for urban sustainability9
A methodological framework for capturing marine small-scale fisheries' contributions to the sustainable development goals9
Mapping the shared socio-economic pathways onto the Nature Futures Framework at the global scale9
Framing energy cultures: materiality and motivators of household energy transition in Nepal9
NUS so fast: the social and ecological implications of a rapidly developing indigenous food economy in the Cape Town area9
Poverty and inequality implications of carbon pricing under the long-term climate target8
Regional comparison of the structure of human well-being related to ecosystem services in coastal areas of Japan: possible effect of anxiety unique to the ria coast8
Designing solidarity cryptocurrency: a path to foster borderless local development8
Defining human critical determinants for sustainability: asking psychologists could help8
Identifying visions on agricultural diversification: a first step toward sustainable agrifood transformations in the Bauges8
Exploring bioproduction systems in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes in Asia through solution scanning using the Nature Futures Framework8
Bridging the nature–cultural heritage gap: evaluating sustainable entanglements through cemeteries in urban Asia8
Scaling agrivoltaics: planning, legal, and market pathways to readiness8
The health, environmental, and economic dimensions of future dietary transitions in Argentina8
Discrepant implicit and explicit attitudes toward climate change: implications for climate change communications8
Community-centred scenarios development for water–energy–food security on Zanzibar8
Challenges for environmental governance: policy issue interdependencies might not lead to collaboration8
Impact of Malaysian palm oil on sustainable development goals: co-benefits and trade-offs across mitigation strategies8
The questions we ask matter: insights from place-based research on nature’s contributions to people8
Leveraging the potential of wild food for healthy, sustainable, and equitable local food systems: learning from a transformation lab in the Western Cape region8
Understanding leverage points of rural activities on hillsides in Taiwan8
Local collective action for sustainability transformations: emerging narratives from local energy initiatives in The Netherlands7
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