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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Comprehensive assessment instruments for place-based sustainable agriculture: a scoping review78
Nothing about us without us: harnessing local voices in shaping community-based adaptation in the Pacific76
Thou shalt not take the name of bioeconomy in vain74
Ecological footprint of your denim jeans: production knowledge and green consumerism71
Carbon, cash, cattle and the climate crisis69
How public catering accelerates sustainability: a German case study59
Transforming local governance: using system leverage points to conceptualize sustainability transformations57
Process ownership in science–practice collaborations: the special role of transdisciplinary processes in sustainable transitioning53
Revisiting the sustainability science research agenda51
Recognizing our authors50
Lessons from a Climate Citizens’ Assembly Kawasaki, Japan50
Farming the sun: the political economy of agrivoltaics in the European Union46
Roles of researchers in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research: a reflection tool46
Exploring the local nexus between human development and environmental sustainability: a case study from Colombia46
Exploring “big picture” scenarios for resilience in social–ecological systems: transdisciplinary cross-impact balances modeling in the Red River Basin45
Using the three horizons approach to explore pathways towards positive futures for agricultural landscapes with rich biodiversity44
Tree diversity and social–ecological resilience of agroforestry after volcanic ash deposition in Indonesia44
Connotations of institutions: implications for governing natural resources42
Flexible institutionalisation in Auroville: a prefigurative alternative to development40
Beyond synergies: understanding SDG trade-offs, equity and implementation challenges of sectoral climate change mitigation options40
Poverty and inequality implications of carbon pricing under the long-term climate target39
Sub-Saharan Africa’s international migration constrains its sustainable development under climate change39
Participatory interventions for collective action and sustainable resource management: linking actors, situations and contexts through the IAD, NAS and SES frameworks38
Developing methods of knowledge co-production across varying contexts to shape Sustainability Science theory and practice37
Degrowing alternative agriculture: institutions and aspirations as sustainability metrics for small farmers in Bosnia and India36
Critical change agent characteristics and competencies for ensuring systemic climate adaptation interventions36
How can diverse national food and land-use priorities be reconciled with global sustainability targets? Lessons from the FABLE initiative34
The impact of weather changes on the supply and demand of electric power and wholesale prices of electricity in Germany34
Disagreeing well in an unparadigmatic field: a response to Bodin (2021)34
Science under pressure: how research is being challenged by the 2030 Agenda34
Correction: Regenerative agriculture: a potentially transformative storyline shared by nine discourses33
A multi-model approach to explore sustainable food and land use pathways for Argentina33
Correction to: Reforming China’s fertilizer policies: implications for nitrogen pollution reduction and food security33
Upscaling agroforestry in the tropics through actor-networks: a comparative case study of cacao farming systems in two regions of Colombia31
Diverse types of knowledge on a plate: a multi-perspective and multi-method approach for the transformation of urban food systems towards sustainable diets31
Place-based interpretation of the sustainable development goals for the land-river interface31
Nexus approach and environmental resource governance in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review31
The land–river interface: a conceptual framework of environmental process interactions to support sustainable development31
Modeling desirable futures at local scale by combining the nature futures framework and multi-objective optimization31
28 months later: the coronavirus pandemic as an analogy for future sustainability challenges30
Operationalizing the Nature Futures Framework for ecological infrastructure30
Can agricultural heritage systems keep clean production in the context of modernization? A case study of Qingtian Rice-Fish Culture System of China based on carbon footprint29
Harnessing concepts for sustainability: a pledge for a practice28
Navigating or adding to complexity? Exploring the role of catchment partnerships in collaborative governance28
To charge or not to charge? Using Prospect Theory to model the tradeoffs of electric vehicle users28
Teaching–learning environmental conflicts through case studies and experiential immersion: introducing students to transdisciplinary research27
Correction: How individuals make sense of their climate impacts in the capitalocene: mixed methods insights from calculating carbon footprints26
What qualitative systems mapping is and what it could be: integrating and visualizing diverse knowledge of complex problems26
Correction: Reflexive use of methods: a framework for navigating different types of knowledge and power in transformative research26
Spatial exploration of rural capital contributing to quality of life and urban-to-rural migration decisions: a case study of Hokuto City, Japan26
Teaching sustainability at the high sea: the “One Ocean Expedition”25
How individuals make sense of their climate impacts in the capitalocene: mixed methods insights from calculating carbon footprints25
On which common ground to build? Transferable knowledge across cases in transdisciplinary sustainability research25
Building local capacity for managing environmental risk: a transferable framework for participatory, place-based, narrative-science knowledge exchange25
Correction to: A feminist ethos for caring knowledge production in transdisciplinary sustainability science25
Networks of action situations: a systematic review of empirical research25
Broad values as the basis for understanding deliberation about protected area management25
Community-based sustainability initiatives: the quality of relationships matter?25
Socio-techno-ecological transition dynamics in the re-territorialization of food production: the case of wild berries in Sweden25
Understanding the mechanisms of meaning-making for transformations toward sustainability: contributions from Personal Knowledge Theory23
Exploring bioproduction systems in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes in Asia through solution scanning using the Nature Futures Framework23
Development of a method for downscaling ecological footprint and biocapacity to a 1-km square resolution23
Systemic barriers preventing farmer engagement in the agricultural climate transition: a qualitative study22
Identification and characterization of potential change agents among agri-food producers: regime, niche and hybrid actors22
A methodological framework for capturing marine small-scale fisheries' contributions to the sustainable development goals22
System-level consequences of synergies and trade-offs between SDGs: quantitative analysis of interlinkage networks at country level22
Citizen involvement in local sustainability policymaking: an in-depth analysis of staff activities and motivations22
Enabling shared values for sustainability transformation: empirical lessons from a case of promoting cross-group collaboration in China21
Correction to: Leverage points for sustainability transformations: nine guiding questions for sustainability science and practice21
Publisher Correction to: SDGs mainstreaming at the local level: case studies from Japan21
Farming in the shadow of violent organizations: understanding farmers’ relational place-making in socio-ecological crises21
Correction to: EMF 35 JMIP study for Japan’s long-term climate and energy policy: scenario designs and key findings21
Sustainability impacts of ecosystem approaches to small-scale aquaculture in Bangladesh20
NUS so fast: the social and ecological implications of a rapidly developing indigenous food economy in the Cape Town area20
A multi-scale integrated assessment model to support urban sustainability20
How do we reinforce climate action?20
What matters? The role of values in transformations toward sustainability: a case study of coffee production in Burundi20
A framework for assessing coupling and de-coupling trajectories in river social-ecological systems20
Navigating sustainability: key factors in prioritising Sustainable Development Goals19
A model that integrates stocks and flows of multi-capitals for understanding and assessing the sustainability of social–ecological systems19
Correction to: Human–nature connectedness and other relational values are negatively affected by landscape simplification: insights from Lower Saxony, Germany19
Joint problem framing: a transdisciplinary methodology for a sustainable future in mountain areas19
A multi-case institutional analysis of water–energy–food nexus governance19
Navigating ecological security research over the last 30 years: a scoping review19
Assessing resilience, equity, and sustainability of future visions across two urban scales19
Assessment of transdisciplinarity by its participants: the case of Tertúlias do Montado, Alentejo, Portugal19
Common features of sustainable higher education sector according to an international sustainability ranking data19
An urgent need for COP27: confronting converging crises19
Sustainability justice: a systematic review of emergent trends and themes19
A systematic review of peer-reviewed gender literature in sustainability science19
Climate risks and foreign direct investment in developing countries: the role of national governance19
Correction: Multifunctionality benefits of small-scale urban agriculture19
Linking multiple values of nature with future impacts: value-based participatory scenario development for sustainable landscape governance18
Game of Cruxes: co-designing a game for scientists and stakeholders for identifying joint problems18
How do we effectively communicate air pollution to change public attitudes and behaviours? A review18
Understanding Japan's Land-use Dynamics between 1987 and 2050 using Land Accounting and Scenario Analysis18
Energy democratisation through agrivoltaics? The territorialisation dynamics of community-based energy governance in Japan18
Public perception of carbon dioxide removal in three Asian regions17
Contested adaptation futures: the role of global imaginaries in climate adaptation governance17
Critical sustainability science: advancing sustainability transformations17
Theatre of the Innova(c)tors: an interactive theatre tool to create transformative spaces17
Getting to the heart of transformation16
Is the EU shirking responsibility for its deforestation footprint in tropical countries? Power, material, and epistemic inequalities in the EU’s global environmental governance16
Climate and biodiversity perceptions amid the European energy crisis: shifting social media narratives16
“This will destroy Jeev and Jantu”: infrastructures of modernity across water, energy, and land in Jaisalmer, India16
Beyond the urban shift: towards a relational degrowth spatial politics16
Lifestyle carbon footprints and changes in lifestyles to limit global warming to 1.5 °C, and ways forward for related research16
Climate justice beyond intergenerational conflict: youth climate activism in South Korea16
Designing for collective action: a knowledge co-production process to address water governance challenges on the island of Öland, Sweden16
The role of universities in SDGs solution co-creation and implementation: a human-centered design and shared-action learning process16
Sustainability transitions in agri-food systems through the lens of agent-based modeling: a systematic review16
Heterogeneous energy landscapes and the challenges for spatial planning: the Port of Ravenna and its hinterland16
Sustainability of urban expansion in Africa: a systematic literature review using the Drivers–Pressures–State–Impact–Responses (DPSIR) framework16
Crossing borders, building new ones, or shifting boundaries? Shared narratives and individual paths towards inter/transdisciplinarity in research centres for urban sustainability16
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 climat15
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, China15
Analysing policy directions for utility- and small-scale solar installations in Norway15
Recognizing our authors15
A natural language processing model for supporting sustainable development goals: translating semantics, visualizing nexus, and connecting stakeholders15
Energizing a transformation to a circular bioeconomy: mechanisms to spread, deepen and broaden initiatives15
Environmental, nutritional and social assessment of nuts15
From shops to bins: a case study of consumer attitudes and behaviours towards plastics in a UK coastal city15
A comparison of smart city research and practice in Sweden and Japan: trends and opportunities identified from a literature review and co-occurrence network analysis15
A challenge for sustainability science: can we halt climate change?15
The role of a nature-based program in fostering multiple connections to nature15
Climate-friendly healthcare: reducing the impacts of the healthcare sector on the world’s climate15
Reimagining the language of engagement in a post-stakeholder world15
Agricultural trade and its impacts on cropland use and the global loss of species habitat15
Action research for transformative change15
Sufficiency policy: a definition, conceptual framework, and application to municipalities15
ORF, an operational framework to measure resilience in social–ecological systems: the forest case study14
The more things change, the more they stay the same: promises of bioeconomy and the economy of promises14
Does the bioeconomy literature provide a balanced view of sustainability?14
Prospects for integration of carbon and biodiversity credits: an Australian case study review14
Marae-opoly: supporting localised Māori climate adaptation decisions with serious games in Aotearoa New Zealand14
How can relational, decolonial and feminist approaches inform the EU bioeconomy?14
Attitudes of administrative decision-makers towards nature-based solutions for flood risk management in Germany14
Environmental principles for modern sustainable economic frameworks including the circular economy14
IMAGINE sustainability: integrated inner-outer transformation in research, education and practice14
Organic agriculture in a low-emission world: exploring combined measures to deliver a sustainable food system in Sweden14
Migration and justice in the era of sustainable development goals: a conceptual framework14
From Necrocene to Naíocene—promising pathways toward sustainable agri-food systems14
Net-zero transitions for all? Considering applications in Asia14
Editorial for the special feature: “Citizens’ attitudes and preferences for climate change policies and technologies in Southeast and East Asia”14
Correction: Understanding the mechanisms of meaning-making for transformations toward sustainability: contributions from Personal Knowledge Theory14
Promoting agricultural conservation on Facebook: an exploration of the performance of farmer identity frames across age and gender13
True cost accounting in agri-food networks: a German case study on informational campaigning and responsible implementation13
Correction: How public catering accelerates sustainability: a German case study13
Understanding leverage points of rural activities on hillsides in Taiwan13
Disparities in the impacts of co-management on fishers’ livelihoods13
A system leverage points approach to governance for sustainable development13
Agents of change or victims of transition? Media framings on household roles during the energy crisis13
Towards sustainable school meals: integrating environmental and cost implications for nutritious diets through optimisation modelling13
How to close the loop with citizen scientists to advance meaningful science13
Bridging the nature–cultural heritage gap: evaluating sustainable entanglements through cemeteries in urban Asia13
Institutionalising degrowth regime: a review and analysis of degrowth transition proposals13
Spirituality and sustainable development: an entangled and neglected relationship13
Sustainability of international research: evidence from an H2020 European project13
A practical tool to enable Indigenous enterprise planning and development grounded in culture13
Enabling collective agency for sustainability transformations through reframing in the Xochimilco social–ecological system13
Identifying visions on agricultural diversification: a first step toward sustainable agrifood transformations in the Bauges13
The trade-off between natural capital and human capital in Pakistan13
Defining human critical determinants for sustainability: asking psychologists could help12
Carbon footprint of global Bitcoin mining: emissions beyond borders12
Industrial and infrastructural conditions for production and export of green hydrogen and synthetic fuels in the MENA region: insights from Jordan, Morocco, and Oman12
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 coast12
Identifying mindsets for urban sustainability transformation: insights from Urban Labs12
Correction to: Beyond Japanese NDC: energy and macroeconomic transitions towards 2050 in emission pathways with multiple ambition levels12
Community-centred scenarios development for water–energy–food security on Zanzibar12
Understanding the bioeconomy through its instruments: standardizing sustainability, neoliberalizing bioeconomies?12
Aligning the Global Delta Risk Index with SDG and SFDRR global frameworks to assess risk to socio-ecological systems in river deltas12
Adaptation: is securing funding really the top priority for COP negotiations?12
Panarchy to explore land use: a historical case study from the Peruvian Amazon12
Restricted and large-scale sustainability12
Transforming to a regenerative U.S. agriculture: the role of policy, process, and education12
Estimating scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions through the shareholder network of publicly traded firms12
Holistic eco-social imaginaries for a life-centered future12
Negotiating biophysical limits in the European Union’s bioeconomy: a critical analysis of two conflicts over regulating biomass use in EU policy12
Just Transition on air quality governance: a case study of heavy-duty diesel truck protests in Taiwan12
Including marginalised voices in agricultural development processes using an ethical community engagement framework in West Bengal, India12
Teaching and learning for change: analysis of a post-graduate One Health program12
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