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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Recognizing our authors89
Teaching sustainability at the high sea: the “One Ocean Expedition”83
Systemic barriers preventing farmer engagement in the agricultural climate transition: a qualitative study76
Environmental, nutritional and social assessment of nuts75
Public perception of carbon dioxide removal in three Asian regions62
Heterogeneous energy landscapes and the challenges for spatial planning: the Port of Ravenna and its hinterland59
Roles of researchers in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research: a reflection tool56
How individuals make sense of their climate impacts in the capitalocene: mixed methods insights from calculating carbon footprints55
Climate justice beyond intergenerational conflict: youth climate activism in South Korea54
What qualitative systems mapping is and what it could be: integrating and visualizing diverse knowledge of complex problems54
Development of a method for downscaling ecological footprint and biocapacity to a 1-km square resolution49
Navigating sustainability: key factors in prioritising Sustainable Development Goals48
Networks of action situations: a systematic review of empirical research46
Sustainability transitions in agri-food systems through the lens of agent-based modeling: a systematic review44
Sustainability justice: a systematic review of emergent trends and themes44
From shops to bins: a case study of consumer attitudes and behaviours towards plastics in a UK coastal city42
The role of universities in SDGs solution co-creation and implementation: a human-centered design and shared-action learning process40
Harnessing concepts for sustainability: a pledge for a practice39
Enabling collective agency for sustainability transformations through reframing in the Xochimilco social–ecological system38
Agents of change or victims of transition? Media framings on household roles during the energy crisis38
Threatened sustainability: extractivist tendencies in the forest-based bioeconomy in Finland38
Interplays between relational and instrumental values: insights from research experiences on human–nature relations37
Whose “place” is it? Using corpus-based techniques to sketch place-based sustainability discourses in public and academic forums36
ORF, an operational framework to measure resilience in social–ecological systems: the forest case study36
Conducting sustainability research in the anthropocene: toward a relational approach36
A natural language processing model for supporting sustainable development goals: translating semantics, visualizing nexus, and connecting stakeholders35
Working the boundary: science–policy interactions and uneven knowledge politics in IPBES35
Cognition and behavior in context: a framework and theories to explain natural resource use decisions in social-ecological systems35
Exploring the sustainability narratives of cultured meat34
Transformative science–policy interfacing: the case of biodiversity and ecosystem services34
Exploring synergies between the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and involuntary resettlement guidelines: the case of Mozambique’s natural gas project33
Integrated modeling to achieve global goals: lessons from the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-use, and Energy (FABLE) initiative33
Spanning the boundaries between policy, politics and science to solve wicked problems: policy pilots, deliberation fora and policy labs33
Reflexive use of methods: a framework for navigating different types of knowledge and power in transformative research32
Behavioral adaptation to climate change: new insights on psychosocial frameworks from the context of managed forests32
Sunrise at the Salton Sea: environmental justice, land use change, and hydrosocial dynamics of solar energy transitions in the Imperial Valley, California32
Correction to: Creative, embodied practices, and the potentialities for sustainability transformations31
Non-monetary narratives motivate businesses to engage with climate change30
Limiting money: redesigning the artifact that shapes modern people30
Futures for invasive alien species management: using bottom-up innovations to envision positive systemic change30
The governance of forest carbon in a subnational climate mitigation system: insights from a network of action situations approach29
Heterogeneous infrastructure and governance of low-carbon transition in Qingdao, China28
Benefits and co-benefits of urban green infrastructure for sustainable cities: six current and emerging themes28
Stakeholder perceptions about the drivers, impacts and barriers of certification in the Ghanaian cocoa and oil palm sectors28
Correction: Projecting population distribution under depopulation conditions in Japan: scenario analysis for future socio-ecological systems27
A complex transdisciplinary approach to achieve water sustainability: lessons from a case study in Morelia, Mexico27
Tracing the evolution of natural capital in global sustainability metrics: the advance of inclusive wealth27
The effect of financial crises on deforestation: a global and regional panel data analysis27
Does a trade-off exist between economic and environmental impacts of forest carbon payment programs?27
Identifying behavior change interventions with deep leverage: a conceptual and qualitative case study with farmers from Germany27
Correction to: Exploring complementarity among interdependent pastoral institutions in Mongolia27
Involvement matters: navigating the value–action gap in business students’ sustainability transformation expectations—a cross-country Kano study26
Discourses for deep transformation: perceptions of economic growth in two rural communities in Lower Saxony, Germany26
Delivering scientific evidence for global policy and management to ensure ocean sustainability26
Learning about climate change with comics and text: a comparative study26
Large-scale flood risk assessment under different development strategies: the Luanhe River Basin in China25
Understanding the embeddedness of individuals within the larger system to support the energy transition25
Identifying leverage points for shifting Water-Energy-Food nexus cases towards sustainability through the Networks of Action Situations approach combined with systems thinking24
Transforming environmental governance: critical action intellectuals and their praxis in the field24
Embedding animals within a definition of sustainability24
Centring Indigenous peoples in knowledge exchange research-practice by resetting assumptions, relationships and institutions24
Localizing visions of desirable futures: applying the Nature Futures Framework to the Baroro Watershed in the Philippines23
Alternative Food Networks and agri-food regime transitions: evolution of institutional knowledge on local food from the fruits and vegetables sector in France23
Creative destruction in academia: a time to reimagine practices in alignment with sustainability values23
Why is the sky blue? A new question for political science22
Orientations toward ‘people’ and ‘things’ are associated with nature connectedness in a representative sample of the French adult population22
Stakeholders’ involvement and reflections on preserving sacred swamps in the Western Ghats, India, as revealed by participatory visioning22
Correction to: Transdisciplinary partnerships for sustainability: an evaluation guide22
Development of AIM (Asia–Pacific Integrated Model) and its contribution to policy-making for the realization of decarbonized societies in Asia21
Coastal encounters with electrical hybridity: Karpowership in Africa’s energy transition21
‘Being’ and ‘doing’: interconnections between researcher identity and conceptualizations of sustainability research21
Urban novel ecosystems as affective landscapes21
Are all renewable energy sources the same? A comparative analysis of public perceptions and preferences for renewable energy types in Southeast Asian cities21
A stakeholders’ pathway towards a future land use and food system in Germany21
Herding cats: integrative leadership strategies in inter- and transdisciplinary research programs21
Correction: Participatory modelling and scenario exploration to address the air pollution challenge in Thailand and Laos21
Embodying relationality through immersive sustainability solutions with Indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon21
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
Addressing our planetary crisis20
Decolonising money: learning from collective struggles for self-determination20
Correction to: Ecological footprint of your denim jeans: production knowledge and green consumerism20
Building ethical awareness to strengthen co-production for transformation20
Enabling spaces for bridging scales: scanning solutions for interdisciplinary human-environment research20
Unraveling the politics of ‘doing inclusion’ in transdisciplinarity for sustainable transformation20
Enablers of transdisciplinary collaboration for researchers working on climate risks in African cities20
Nothing sweet about agrivoltaics? Discussions on the territorial adequacy of agrivoltaics in Reunion Island20
Key attributes for effective knowledge brokering at the interface of environmental science and management20
Governing University Living Labs for sustainability transformations: insights from 18 international case studies19
Conflicts and coexistence in rural Europe: pathways to sustainability in transitioning territories19
Carbon neutrality commitment for China: from vision to action19
Ranking the sustainable development goals: perceived sustainability priorities in small island states19
Local agency vs. political economy in low-income energy transitions in California: the case of the Bassett–Avocado Heights Advanced Energy Community19
How the COVID-19 pandemic impacts social scientific research on sustainability: questions of methodology, ethics and justice: comment on Santana et al. 202119
Correction: Multifunctionality benefits of small-scale urban agriculture18
The different values of nature: a comparison between university students’ perceptions of nature’s instrumental, intrinsic and relational values18
From uncertainty to environmental impacts: reflection on the threats to water in Chacabuco Province (Chile): a combined approach in social sciences and geochemistry18
Assessment of transdisciplinarity by its participants: the case of Tertúlias do Montado, Alentejo, Portugal18
Valuation of nature’s contribution in Ladakh, India: an inclusive wealth method18
Intertwined renewable and digital transitions: a study on South Australia’s hybridized electricity system18
Correction: Reflexive use of methods: a framework for navigating different types of knowledge and power in transformative research18
Goal frames and sustainability transitions: how cognitive lock-ins can impede crop diversification18
Science under pressure: how research is being challenged by the 2030 Agenda17
Using the three horizons approach to explore pathways towards positive futures for agricultural landscapes with rich biodiversity17
Modeling desirable futures at local scale by combining the nature futures framework and multi-objective optimization17
A scenario- and spatial-downscaling-based land-use modeling framework to improve the projections of plausible futures: a case study of the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, China17
Climate risks and foreign direct investment in developing countries: the role of national governance17
How public catering accelerates sustainability: a German case study17
Broad values as the basis for understanding deliberation about protected area management17
Diverse types of knowledge on a plate: a multi-perspective and multi-method approach for the transformation of urban food systems towards sustainable diets17
Water–energy–food–ecosystem nexus: how to frame and how to govern17
How can relational, decolonial and feminist approaches inform the EU bioeconomy?16
The impact of weather changes on the supply and demand of electric power and wholesale prices of electricity in Germany16
An urgent need for COP27: confronting converging crises16
Exploring “big picture” scenarios for resilience in social–ecological systems: transdisciplinary cross-impact balances modeling in the Red River Basin16
Narratives underlying research in African river basin management16
A practical tool to enable Indigenous enterprise planning and development grounded in culture16
The land–river interface: a conceptual framework of environmental process interactions to support sustainable development16
Climate-friendly healthcare: reducing the impacts of the healthcare sector on the world’s climate16
Organic agriculture in a low-emission world: exploring combined measures to deliver a sustainable food system in Sweden16
Identifying mindsets for urban sustainability transformation: insights from Urban Labs16
Factors influencing public support for individual low-carbon behavior reward system in China: role of climate change perceptions and macroeconomic expectations16
The role of a nature-based program in fostering multiple connections to nature16
Editorial for the special feature: “Citizens’ attitudes and preferences for climate change policies and technologies in Southeast and East Asia”16
The trade-off between natural capital and human capital in Pakistan16
Sustainability of international research: evidence from an H2020 European project15
Deepening our understanding of which policy advice to expect from prioritizing SDG targets: introducing the Analytic Network Process in a multi-method setting15
Correction to: Envisioning just transformations in and beyond the EU bioeconomy: inspirations from decolonial environmental justice and degrowth15
Towards sustainable school meals: integrating environmental and cost implications for nutritious diets through optimisation modelling15
Institutionalising degrowth regime: a review and analysis of degrowth transition proposals15
Knowledge uptake from lived experience regarding sustainable groundwater management: complementing scientific knowledge in urban policymaking15
Towards epistemic diversity in sustainability transitions: an exploration of hybrid socio-technical systems15
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on environmental values15
Inclusive wealth footprint for cities in Japan: regional clusters for sustainable development15
Community gardens support high levels of food production, but benefit distribution is uneven across the gardener community15
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
Breaking the unsustainable paradigm: exploring the relationship between energy consumption, economic development and carbon dioxide emissions in Ecuador14
Methodological sensitivities for co-producing knowledge through enduring trustful partnerships14
Transdisciplinary approaches to local sustainability: aligning local governance and navigating spillovers with global action towards the Sustainable Development Goals14
Legitimating grid-scale solar: shaping Pennsylvania’s farmland as a renewable energy landscape14
Opening the human spirit to sustainability transformation: the potential for individual human–nature resonance and integrative rituals14
Ecological performance standards for regenerative urban design14
The governance anticommons in renewable energy: two cases from China’s solar expansion14
New intergenerational evidence on reverse socialization of environmental literacy14
Correction: Public attitude toward solar radiation modification: results of a two-scenario online survey on perception in four Asia–Pacific countries14
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
A leverage point perspective on serious games for sustainability transformation: a systematic literature review14
The bioeconomy and its untenable growth promises: reality checks from research14
Exploring the impacts of global change on small-scale fisheries: expanding the use of I-ADApT as a decision support tool14
Learning to collaborate within transdisciplinarity: internal barriers and strengths of an art–science encounter14
Where limits to growth are tangible: the olive sector in Jaén and its bioeconomic future13
Economic inequality expanded after an extreme climate event: a long-term analysis of herders’ household data in Mongolia13
Disentangling the entangled in productive ways: modelling social–ecological systems from a process-relational perspective13
Emotional attachment and philosophical worldviews explain human connectedness to nature in abandoned rural Spain13
Multifunctionality benefits of small-scale urban agriculture13
Factors affecting relational values of nature: a case of the Nagara River, Japan13
Operationalising a large research programme tackling complex urban and planetary health problems: a case study approach to critical reflection13
Is Blockchain a game-changer for social currency systems? Some reflections in light of the experience of Moneda PAR in Argentina13
The making of sustainability: ideological strategies, the materiality of nature, and biomass use in the bioeconomy13
Commoning the governance: a review of literature and the integration of power13
Leverage points for tackling unsustainable global value chains: market-based measures versus transformative alternatives13
Correction to: Unlocking and accelerating transformations to the SDGs: a review of existing knowledge13
Nature positive strategy with social and economic policy13
A transdisciplinary model for teaching and learning for sustainability science in a rapidly warming world13
Synergies and trade-offs between sustainable development goals and targets: innovative approaches and new perspectives13
Regional agroecological stewardship: a framework to analyze the (re)territorialization of sustainable food systems13
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 transition12
Key conservation actions for European steppes in the context of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework12
Solar–water nexus: on local implications of the procurement and deployment of the first floating solar photovoltaics project in Indonesia12
Sustainable lifestyles: towards a relational approach12
Preparing for a diminished cryosphere12
The role of emotions in human–nature connectedness within Mediterranean landscapes in Spain12
The human–technical–environmental systems framework for sustainability analysis12
Circular agri-food economies: business models and practices in the potato industry12
Envisioning just transformations in and beyond the EU bioeconomy: inspirations from decolonial environmental justice and degrowth12
“Take your responsibility”: the politics of green sacrifice for just low-carbon transitions in rural Portugal12
A typology of interdisciplinary collaborations: insights from agri-food transformation research12
Sustainability science must challenge common sense: a response to Bodin (2021)12
Participatory modelling and scenario exploration to address the air pollution challenge in Thailand and Laos12
Correction: Introducing listening as a weak method for advancing sustainability and interdisciplinary scholarship12
Mapping Self-Help Groups (SHGs) as alternatives to capitalist development: an ethnographic enquiry from India12
Correction to: Enhancing the sustainability science agenda through Indigenous methodology12
Memory over matter?—a conceptual framework to integrate social–ecological l legacies in agricultural NCP co-production12
Unravelling stakeholder narratives on nature-based solutions for hydro-meteorological risk reduction12
Central–local governance gaps: the evolving differentiation of climate policies in China12
The Life Framework of Values and living as nature; towards a full recognition of holistic and relational ontologies11
The sustainability science approach in sub-Saharan Africa: key lessons from five case studies11
Regenerative agriculture: a potentially transformative storyline shared by nine discourses11
Unravelling hidden factors explaining competition for and overuse of groundwater in Azraq, Jordan: digging deeper into a network of action situations11
Toward adaptive climate communication and an expanded frame theory: lessons from environmental organizations11
Transformation archetypes in global food systems11
Endangering the integrity of science by misusing unvalidated models and untested assumptions as facts: General considerations and the mineral and phosphorus scarcity fallacy11
From Ampesie to French fries: systematising the characteristics, drivers and impacts of diet change in rapidly urbanising Accra11
Solidarity as a development performance and practice in coffee exchanges10
Assessing resilience, equity, and sustainability of future visions across two urban scales10
Public perceptions on net zero energy houses in Japan10
Potential side effects of climate change mitigation on poverty and countermeasures10
Cross-scale trade-off analysis for sustainable development: linking future demand for animal source foods and ecosystem services provision to the SDGs10
Development of an SDG interlinkages analysis model at the river basin scale: a case study in the Luanhe River Basin, China10
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
Managing biodiversity in the Anthropocene: discussing the Nature Futures Framework as a tool for adaptive decision-making for nature under climate change10
Flexible institutionalisation in Auroville: a prefigurative alternative to development10
Modelling land system evolution and dynamics of terrestrial carbon stocks in the Luanhe River Basin, China: a scenario analysis of trade-offs and synergies between sustainable development goals10
Correction: Opening the human spirit to sustainability transformation: the potential for individual human–nature resonance and integrative rituals10
Accelerating actions for leveraging a climate-neutral sustainable society10
Correction to: Exploring bioproduction systems in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes in Asia through solution scanning using the Nature Futures Framework10
Sustainable water tariffs and inequality in post-drought Cape Town: exploring perceptions of fairness10
Learning from knowledge co-production research and practice in the twenty-first century: global lessons and what they mean for collaborative research in Nunatsiavut10
Mapping the shared socio-economic pathways onto the Nature Futures Framework at the global scale10
A leverage points perspective on Arctic Indigenous food systems research: a systematic review10
Achieving sustainability transformations for multi-species justice: assessing the potential of diverse legal pathways and societal struggles10
Diverse approaches to nature recovery are needed to meet the varied needs of people and nature10
Knowledge co-production for identifying indicators and prioritising solutions for food and land system sustainability in Australia10
The perspective of youth: envisioning transformative pathways and desirable futures for people and nature10
Advancing sustainable development goals: embedding resilience assessment10
Common features of sustainable higher education sector according to an international sustainability ranking data9
Thou shalt not take the name of bioeconomy in vain9
Joint problem framing: a transdisciplinary methodology for a sustainable future in mountain areas9
Editorial: Special-purpose money for sustainability9
Process ownership in science–practice collaborations: the special role of transdisciplinary processes in sustainable transitioning9
Transforming local governance: using system leverage points to conceptualize sustainability transformations9
“Fika in the Anthropocene”: leveraging food systems transformations through food cultures9
On which common ground to build? Transferable knowledge across cases in transdisciplinary sustainability research9
Understanding the mechanisms of meaning-making for transformations toward sustainability: contributions from Personal Knowledge Theory9
Correction to: Human–nature connectedness and other relational values are negatively affected by landscape simplification: insights from Lower Saxony, Germany9
Navigating or adding to complexity? Exploring the role of catchment partnerships in collaborative governance9
Exploring bioproduction systems in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes in Asia through solution scanning using the Nature Futures Framework9
Navigating ecological security research over the last 30 years: a scoping review9
Poverty and inequality implications of carbon pricing under the long-term climate target9
A systematic review of peer-reviewed gender literature in sustainability science9
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
NUS so fast: the social and ecological implications of a rapidly developing indigenous food economy in the Cape Town area9
Getting to the heart of transformation9
Sustainability impacts of ecosystem approaches to small-scale aquaculture in Bangladesh9
Beyond synergies: understanding SDG trade-offs, equity and implementation challenges of sectoral climate change mitigation options9
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
Farming in the shadow of violent organizations: understanding farmers’ relational place-making in socio-ecological crises9
Environmental principles for modern sustainable economic frameworks including the circular economy8
Scaling agrivoltaics: planning, legal, and market pathways to readiness8
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
IMAGINE sustainability: integrated inner-outer transformation in research, education and practice8
Designing solidarity cryptocurrency: a path to foster borderless local development8
Defining human critical determinants for sustainability: asking psychologists could help8
Region-income-based prioritisation of Sustainable Development Goals by Gradient Boosting Machine8
Identifying visions on agricultural diversification: a first step toward sustainable agrifood transformations in the Bauges8
Impact of Malaysian palm oil on sustainable development goals: co-benefits and trade-offs across mitigation strategies8
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