Sustainability Science

Papers
(The TQCC of Sustainability Science is 12. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Recognizing our authors107
Public perception of carbon dioxide removal in three Asian regions105
Climate justice beyond intergenerational conflict: youth climate activism in South Korea101
Heterogeneous energy landscapes and the challenges for spatial planning: the Port of Ravenna and its hinterland84
Teaching sustainability at the high sea: the “One Ocean Expedition”63
Harnessing concepts for sustainability: a pledge for a practice62
Development of a method for downscaling ecological footprint and biocapacity to a 1-km square resolution62
Systemic barriers preventing farmer engagement in the agricultural climate transition: a qualitative study61
What qualitative systems mapping is and what it could be: integrating and visualizing diverse knowledge of complex problems60
How individuals make sense of their climate impacts in the capitalocene: mixed methods insights from calculating carbon footprints58
Sustainability transitions in agri-food systems through the lens of agent-based modeling: a systematic review57
The role of universities in SDGs solution co-creation and implementation: a human-centered design and shared-action learning process54
From shops to bins: a case study of consumer attitudes and behaviours towards plastics in a UK coastal city54
Networks of action situations: a systematic review of empirical research53
Sustainability justice: a systematic review of emergent trends and themes52
Navigating sustainability: key factors in prioritising Sustainable Development Goals51
Environmental, nutritional and social assessment of nuts51
Pathway narratives towards a nature-positive European Union land system: operationalising the Nature Futures Framework for policy objectives47
Roles of researchers in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research: a reflection tool47
Using a systems thinking approach to assess the complex interplay between sustainable development goals, climate change, and humanitarian operations46
Threatened sustainability: extractivist tendencies in the forest-based bioeconomy in Finland46
Whose “place” is it? Using corpus-based techniques to sketch place-based sustainability discourses in public and academic forums44
Working the boundary: science–policy interactions and uneven knowledge politics in IPBES41
Transformative science–policy interfacing: the case of biodiversity and ecosystem services40
Agents of change or victims of transition? Media framings on household roles during the energy crisis40
Conducting sustainability research in the anthropocene: toward a relational approach40
A natural language processing model for supporting sustainable development goals: translating semantics, visualizing nexus, and connecting stakeholders39
Enabling collective agency for sustainability transformations through reframing in the Xochimilco social–ecological system39
ORF, an operational framework to measure resilience in social–ecological systems: the forest case study39
Interplays between relational and instrumental values: insights from research experiences on human–nature relations39
Core design principles for just sustainability transitions: a framework for transformative research36
Limiting money: redesigning the artifact that shapes modern people36
Has research on health co-benefits influenced urban climate and transport planning in the United Kingdom, United States, Japan, and France?35
A complex transdisciplinary approach to achieve water sustainability: lessons from a case study in Morelia, Mexico34
Sunrise at the Salton Sea: environmental justice, land use change, and hydrosocial dynamics of solar energy transitions in the Imperial Valley, California34
Heterogeneous infrastructure and governance of low-carbon transition in Qingdao, China33
The governance of forest carbon in a subnational climate mitigation system: insights from a network of action situations approach32
The promise and pitfalls of energy commons: the paradox of municipality-led civic solar programs in Taipei32
An evolutionary governance framework for the sustainable management of urban wetlands: integrating theoretical perspectives and practical applications32
Exploring synergies between the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and involuntary resettlement guidelines: the case of Mozambique’s natural gas project32
Exploring the sustainability narratives of cultured meat31
Futures for invasive alien species management: using bottom-up innovations to envision positive systemic change31
Integrated modeling to achieve global goals: lessons from the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-use, and Energy (FABLE) initiative31
Can market-based social and environmental due diligence drive development? Examining local development challenges and responsible sourcing among agri-food businesses in low-and-middle-income economies31
Behavioral adaptation to climate change: new insights on psychosocial frameworks from the context of managed forests30
Reflexive use of methods: a framework for navigating different types of knowledge and power in transformative research30
The effect of financial crises on deforestation: a global and regional panel data analysis29
Non-monetary narratives motivate businesses to engage with climate change29
Spanning the boundaries between policy, politics and science to solve wicked problems: policy pilots, deliberation fora and policy labs29
Correction: Projecting population distribution under depopulation conditions in Japan: scenario analysis for future socio-ecological systems28
Benefits and co-benefits of urban green infrastructure for sustainable cities: six current and emerging themes28
Correction to: Exploring complementarity among interdependent pastoral institutions in Mongolia27
Localizing visions of desirable futures: applying the Nature Futures Framework to the Baroro Watershed in the Philippines27
Involvement matters: navigating the value–action gap in business students’ sustainability transformation expectations—a cross-country Kano study27
Tracing the evolution of natural capital in global sustainability metrics: the advance of inclusive wealth27
Does a trade-off exist between economic and environmental impacts of forest carbon payment programs?27
Alternative Food Networks and agri-food regime transitions: evolution of institutional knowledge on local food from the fruits and vegetables sector in France27
Understanding the embeddedness of individuals within the larger system to support the energy transition27
Identifying behavior change interventions with deep leverage: a conceptual and qualitative case study with farmers from Germany27
Embedding animals within a definition of sustainability27
Centring Indigenous peoples in knowledge exchange research-practice by resetting assumptions, relationships and institutions27
Learning about climate change with comics and text: a comparative study26
Drivers and barriers to energy-saving behaviour formation and retention in response to extreme events: insights from the energy crisis26
Transforming environmental governance: critical action intellectuals and their praxis in the field25
Correction to: Transdisciplinary partnerships for sustainability: an evaluation guide25
Identifying leverage points for shifting Water-Energy-Food nexus cases towards sustainability through the Networks of Action Situations approach combined with systems thinking25
Creative destruction in academia: a time to reimagine practices in alignment with sustainability values25
Delivering scientific evidence for global policy and management to ensure ocean sustainability25
Are all renewable energy sources the same? A comparative analysis of public perceptions and preferences for renewable energy types in Southeast Asian cities25
Stakeholders’ involvement and reflections on preserving sacred swamps in the Western Ghats, India, as revealed by participatory visioning24
Why is the sky blue? A new question for political science24
Embodying relationality through immersive sustainability solutions with Indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon23
A stakeholders’ pathway towards a future land use and food system in Germany23
Coastal encounters with electrical hybridity: Karpowership in Africa’s energy transition23
Decolonising money: learning from collective struggles for self-determination23
Development of AIM (Asia–Pacific Integrated Model) and its contribution to policy-making for the realization of decarbonized societies in Asia23
Correction: Participatory modelling and scenario exploration to address the air pollution challenge in Thailand and Laos22
The dawn of solar photovoltaics: emergent political economies at the solar–agri–land nexus22
Herding cats: integrative leadership strategies in inter- and transdisciplinary research programs22
‘Being’ and ‘doing’: interconnections between researcher identity and conceptualizations of sustainability research22
European bioeconomy strategies could better integrate sustainability agendas22
Beyond global versus local: illuminating a cosmolocal framework for convivial technology development21
Urban novel ecosystems as affective landscapes21
Ranking the sustainable development goals: perceived sustainability priorities in small island states21
Estimating the impact of acclimatization on heat-related illnesses under various representative concentration pathways among three Japanese cities in 2030s and 2050s21
Goal frames and sustainability transitions: how cognitive lock-ins can impede crop diversification21
Researchers’ roles in the (dis)empowerment of societal actors: a reflexive framework applied during a transition towards climate neutrality in the Swiss alps21
Enabling spaces for bridging scales: scanning solutions for interdisciplinary human-environment research21
Correction to: Ecological footprint of your denim jeans: production knowledge and green consumerism21
Conflicts and coexistence in rural Europe: pathways to sustainability in transitioning territories20
Enablers of transdisciplinary collaboration for researchers working on climate risks in African cities20
Local agency vs. political economy in low-income energy transitions in California: the case of the Bassett–Avocado Heights Advanced Energy Community20
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
Nothing sweet about agrivoltaics? Discussions on the territorial adequacy of agrivoltaics in Reunion Island19
Assessment of transdisciplinarity by its participants: the case of Tertúlias do Montado, Alentejo, Portugal19
Carbon neutrality commitment for China: from vision to action19
From uncertainty to environmental impacts: reflection on the threats to water in Chacabuco Province (Chile): a combined approach in social sciences and geochemistry19
Governing University Living Labs for sustainability transformations: insights from 18 international case studies19
Building ethical awareness to strengthen co-production for transformation19
The different values of nature: a comparison between university students’ perceptions of nature’s instrumental, intrinsic and relational values19
Key attributes for effective knowledge brokering at the interface of environmental science and management19
Intertwined renewable and digital transitions: a study on South Australia’s hybridized electricity system18
The leverage points framework enhanced by an unconscious perspective18
Field robots for weed control? Analyzing socio-technical change by looking at farming practices18
Climate-friendly healthcare: reducing the impacts of the healthcare sector on the world’s climate18
Correction: Multifunctionality benefits of small-scale urban agriculture18
Factors influencing public support for individual low-carbon behavior reward system in China: role of climate change perceptions and macroeconomic expectations18
Underwater virtual reality for awe, ocean connectedness, and pro-environmental behavior: a randomized controlled trial18
Broad values as the basis for understanding deliberation about protected area management18
Correction: Reflexive use of methods: a framework for navigating different types of knowledge and power in transformative research18
An urgent need for COP27: confronting converging crises18
Science under pressure: how research is being challenged by the 2030 Agenda18
The impact of weather changes on the supply and demand of electric power and wholesale prices of electricity in Germany18
The land–river interface: a conceptual framework of environmental process interactions to support sustainable development18
Effects of short videos on engaging citizens in disaster communications with the government on social media17
Diverse types of knowledge on a plate: a multi-perspective and multi-method approach for the transformation of urban food systems towards sustainable diets17
Climate risks and foreign direct investment in developing countries: the role of national governance17
Injustice flows along Itaya River: capabilities from living with river rhythmicity in Bajo Belén, Iquitos, Peru16
A practical tool to enable Indigenous enterprise planning and development grounded in culture16
Modeling desirable futures at local scale by combining the nature futures framework and multi-objective optimization16
Exploring “big picture” scenarios for resilience in social–ecological systems: transdisciplinary cross-impact balances modeling in the Red River Basin16
Regeneration, sufficiency and degrowth: an integrative review of organising in a strong sustainability era16
The trade-off between natural capital and human capital in Pakistan16
Seven questions on agency in sustainability transformations research: insights from a systematic-narrative review16
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
Sustainability of international research: evidence from an H2020 European project16
Towards sustainable school meals: integrating environmental and cost implications for nutritious diets through optimisation modelling16
The role of a nature-based program in fostering multiple connections to nature16
How public catering accelerates sustainability: a German case study16
Using the three horizons approach to explore pathways towards positive futures for agricultural landscapes with rich biodiversity16
Identifying mindsets for urban sustainability transformation: insights from Urban Labs15
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on environmental values15
Organic agriculture in a low-emission world: exploring combined measures to deliver a sustainable food system in Sweden15
Inclusive wealth footprint for cities in Japan: regional clusters for sustainable development15
How can relational, decolonial and feminist approaches inform the EU bioeconomy?15
Engagement of citizens in energy governance: unravelling participatory capital for energy sufficiency in France and the Netherlands15
Operationalizing enabling conditions: a social-ecological perspective on marine conservation success15
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
Legitimating grid-scale solar: shaping Pennsylvania’s farmland as a renewable energy landscape14
New intergenerational evidence on reverse socialization of environmental literacy14
A leverage point perspective on serious games for sustainability transformation: a systematic literature review14
Correction: Public attitude toward solar radiation modification: results of a two-scenario online survey on perception in four Asia–Pacific countries14
Exploring the impacts of global change on small-scale fisheries: expanding the use of I-ADApT as a decision support tool14
Interlinkages between leverage points for strengthening adaptive capacity to climate change14
Towards epistemic diversity in sustainability transitions: an exploration of hybrid socio-technical systems14
Breaking the unsustainable paradigm: exploring the relationship between energy consumption, economic development and carbon dioxide emissions in Ecuador14
The governance anticommons in renewable energy: two cases from China’s solar expansion14
An ecosystem service approach to the study of vineyard landscapes in the context of climate change: a review14
Commoning the governance: a review of literature and the integration of power13
Community gardens support high levels of food production, but benefit distribution is uneven across the gardener community13
Learning to collaborate within transdisciplinarity: internal barriers and strengths of an art–science encounter13
Ecological performance standards for regenerative urban design13
Where limits to growth are tangible: the olive sector in Jaén and its bioeconomic future13
Operationalising a large research programme tackling complex urban and planetary health problems: a case study approach to critical reflection13
Regional agroecological stewardship: a framework to analyze the (re)territorialization of sustainable food systems13
Central–local governance gaps: the evolving differentiation of climate policies in China13
The bioeconomy and its untenable growth promises: reality checks from research13
Correction to: Envisioning just transformations in and beyond the EU bioeconomy: inspirations from decolonial environmental justice and degrowth13
Multifunctionality benefits of small-scale urban agriculture13
Leverage points for tackling unsustainable global value chains: market-based measures versus transformative alternatives13
Factors affecting relational values of nature: a case of the Nagara River, Japan13
A transdisciplinary model for teaching and learning for sustainability science in a rapidly warming world13
Nature positive strategy with social and economic policy13
Correction to: Unlocking and accelerating transformations to the SDGs: a review of existing knowledge13
Transdisciplinary approaches to local sustainability: aligning local governance and navigating spillovers with global action towards the Sustainable Development Goals13
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 China13
Opening the human spirit to sustainability transformation: the potential for individual human–nature resonance and integrative rituals13
A typology of interdisciplinary collaborations: insights from agri-food transformation research13
Is Blockchain a game-changer for social currency systems? Some reflections in light of the experience of Moneda PAR in Argentina13
Solar–water nexus: on local implications of the procurement and deployment of the first floating solar photovoltaics project in Indonesia12
Correction: Introducing listening as a weak method for advancing sustainability and interdisciplinary scholarship12
Correction: Three perspectives to integrate animal interests into the global Sustainable Development Agenda12
Circular agri-food economies: business models and practices in the potato industry12
Sequencing sustainability and climate solutions: a systems view of implementation12
The making of sustainability: ideological strategies, the materiality of nature, and biomass use in the bioeconomy12
“Take your responsibility”: the politics of green sacrifice for just low-carbon transitions in rural Portugal12
Synergies and trade-offs between sustainable development goals and targets: innovative approaches and new perspectives12
Sustainable lifestyles: towards a relational approach12
Participatory modelling and scenario exploration to address the air pollution challenge in Thailand and Laos12
Unravelling hidden factors explaining competition for and overuse of groundwater in Azraq, Jordan: digging deeper into a network of action situations12
Sustainability science must challenge common sense: a response to Bodin (2021)12
Disentangling the entangled in productive ways: modelling social–ecological systems from a process-relational perspective12
Emotional attachment and philosophical worldviews explain human connectedness to nature in abandoned rural Spain12
Mapping Self-Help Groups (SHGs) as alternatives to capitalist development: an ethnographic enquiry from India12
Transformation archetypes in global food systems12
Toward adaptive climate communication and an expanded frame theory: lessons from environmental organizations12
Knowledge co-production for identifying indicators and prioritising solutions for food and land system sustainability in Australia12
Economic inequality expanded after an extreme climate event: a long-term analysis of herders’ household data in Mongolia12
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