Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Papers
(The median citation count of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability is 7. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
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The political economy of the social constraints to adaptation136
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Governance challenges for sustainable food systems: the return of politics and territories131
Some feminist strands and their potential for the performativity of climate regulations: a review102
Patch-scale to hillslope-scale geodiversity alleviates susceptibility of dryland ecosystems to climate change: insights from the Israeli Negev81
The global-capitalist elephant in the room: how resilient peacebuilding hinders substantive transformation and undermines long-term peace prospects78
Balancing efficiency and resilience objectives in pursuit of sustainable infrastructure transformations77
Research trends and gaps in climate change impacts and adaptation potentials in major crops77
Climate-changed development: organizing climate risk and response through an economic growth lens77
Fisheries conflicts as drivers of social transformation72
Digital Twins in agriculture: challenges and opportunities for environmental sustainability71
Rethinking the drivers of biotechnologies: a paradigm for holistic climate change solutions68
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Editorial Board55
Disaster resilience in conflict-affected areas: a review of how armed conflicts impact disaster resilience52
Editorial overview: Leveraging the multiple values of nature for transformative change to just and sustainable futures — Insights from the IPBES Values Assessment51
Values as leverage points for sustainability transformation: two pathways for transformation research49
Broadening the perspective for sustainable artificial intelligence: sustainability criteria and indicators for Artificial Intelligence systems48
Trends in port decarbonisation research: are we reinventing the wheel?48
Five priorities to advance transformative transdisciplinary research48
How serious are ethical considerations in energy system decarbonization?46
Restoring trust in sustainability reporting: the enabling role of the external assurance45
From peril to promise? Local mitigation and adaptation policy decisions after extreme weather44
Monitoring, evaluation and learning requirements for climate-resilient development pathways38
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Potentials and limitations of complexity research for environmental sciences and modern farming applications37
Using games for social learning to promote self-governance37
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Agroforests as the intersection of instrumental and relational values of nature: gendered, culture-dependent perspectives?35
Patterns in reported adaptation constraints: insights from peer-reviewed literature on floods and sea-level rise35
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The effects of weather experiences on climate change attitudes and behaviors34
Climate change and migration from atolls? No evidence yet34
Diversification from field to landscape to adapt Mediterranean rainfed agriculture to water scarcity in climate change context33
Capturing the moment: a snapshot review of contemporary food environment research featuring participatory photography methods33
The role of infrastructure in societal transformations32
Three archetypical governance pathways for transformative change toward sustainability32
Growing through transformation pains: integrating emotional holding and processing into competence frameworks for sustainability transformations31
The Ocean Decade as an instrument of peace31
Research priorities for seafood-dependent livelihoods under ocean climate change extreme events31
Advancing sustainable port development in the Western Indian Ocean region29
Integrating relational and instrumental values of nature in planning land use for multiple ecosystem services (LUMENS): tools and process29
National environmental regulatory systems for the management of environmental impacts in small island jurisdictions29
Editorial Board28
Towards just sustainability through government-led housing: conceptual and practical considerations28
The biodiversity–finance nexus: a future research agenda28
Barriers and limits to adaptation in the Arctic27
Future-proofing our ports against biological invasion26
Governing natural climate solutions: prospects and pitfalls26
What can methods for assessing worldviews and broad values tell us about socio-environmental conflicts?25
Using the nexus approach to realise sustainable food systems25
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Greening container terminals through optimization: a systematic review on recent advances25
Navigating capitalist expansion and climate change in pastoral social-ecological systems: impacts, vulnerability and decision-making24
Philosophies of good living and values of nature: power and uncertainties in decision-making to achieve social-environmental justice in the Americas24
Deconstructing the Doughnut23
Climate change and biodiversity loss: new territories for financial authorities23
Biosphere Reserves as catalysts for sustainability transformations: five strategies to support place-based innovation23
The paradox of climate resilience and elusive peace in the Lake Chad Basin: a case for an adaptive governance approach22
Preventing violent extremism with resilience, adaptive peacebuilding, and community-embedded approaches21
Adaptation limits as sufficiency entitlements of justice21
Justice, sustainability, and the diverse values of nature: why they matter for biodiversity conservation21
Climate stress testing in the financial industry21
Navigating slow-onset risks through foresight and flexibility in Fiji: emerging recommendations for the planned relocation of climate-vulnerable communities21
Social limits to climate change adaptation: temporalities in behavioural responses to climate risks21
Expertise and exclusivity in adaptation decision-making21
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Decision-making and scalar biases in solar photovoltaics roll-out20
Whose values count? A review of the nature valuation studies with a focus on justice20
Editorial Board20
Climate-resilient development in developing countries20
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Assessing the role of social networks in women’s access and use of climate services in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from literature20
Editorial overview: Climate finance, risks, and accounting20
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Positive social transformations of coastal communities: what conditions enable the success of territorial use rights for fishing?19
The European Union Emission Trading System and its role for green budgeting development — the case of EU member states18
Values and knowledges in decision-making on environmentally disruptive infrastructure projects: insights from large dams and mines18
Entry points for addressing justice and politics in urban flood adaptation decision making17
Mapping the automation of Twitter communications on climate change, sustainability, and environmental crises — a review of current research17
Editorial overview: Values and decisions: How can development trajectories transform17
The rise of green bonds for sustainable finance: global standards and issues with the expanding Chinese market17
Drivers of soil salinity and their correlation with climate change16
Editorial overview: Better climate-related decision making16
A resilience-based transformations approach to peacebuilding and transformative justice16
Beyond the ‘urban’ and the ‘rural’: conceptualizing a new generation of infrastructure systems to enable rural–urban sustainability16
Designing a funding framework for the impacts of slow-onset climate change — insights from recent experiences with planned relocation16
Insurance and climate change16
Editorial Board16
Artistic activism promotes three major forms of sustainability transformation16
A Maritime Sociology for Sustainability Science15
Design principles for climate change decisions15
The role of power in leveraging the diverse values of nature for transformative change15
Review of policy action for healthy environmentally sustainable food systems in sub-Saharan Africa15
Climate urgency: evidence of its effects on decision making in the laboratory and the field15
Modular, adaptive, and decentralised water infrastructure: promises and perils for water justice15
The role of value(s) in theories of human behavior14
Leveraging place-based identities and senses of belonging to mobilize for action-oriented research in UNESCO sites14
Opportunities for nature-based solutions to contribute to climate-resilient development pathways14
Planning for urban green infrastructure: addressing tradeoffs and synergies14
Finding the sweet spot in climate policy: balancing stakeholder engagement with bureaucratic autonomy14
Does public participation lead to more ambitious and transformative local climate change planning?13
Emerging response options and scenarios of slow onset events related to climate change in Southeast Asia13
Deciding how to make climate change adaptation decisions13
Editorial Board13
Prospects for implementing the SDGs13
Agroecology as a transformative approach to tackle climatic, food, and ecosystemic crises13
Auctions in payments for ecosystem services and the plural values of nature13
A long road ahead: a review of the state of knowledge of the environmental effects of digitization13
How can we stop the slow-burning systemic fuse of loss and damage due to land degradation and drought in Africa?13
Nature’s disvalues: what are they and why do they matter?13
Reorienting climate decision making research for smallholder farming systems through decision science12
Finance for Loss and Damage: a comprehensive risk analytical approach12
Five levels of internalizing environmental externalities: decision-making based on instrumental and relational values of nature12
Biodiversity reporting: standardization, materiality, and assurance12
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Assuring the unknowable: a reflection on the evolving landscape of sustainability assurance for financial auditors11
Melting of Himalayan glaciers and planetary health11
Current perspectives on debt-for-nature swaps: moving from exploratory to empirical research11
Embodied rationality: a framework of human action in water infrastructure governance11
Location, location, location: asset location data sources for nature-related financial risk analysis11
Editorial Board11
Mixed farming systems: potentials and barriers for climate change adaptation in food systems11
Transformative finance for climate-resilient development11
Reaching the poorest and most vulnerable: addressing loss and damage through social protection11
Greenwashing and sustainable finance: an approach anchored in the philosophy of science11
Environmental impact bonds: review, challenges, and perspectives10
Governance of emerging pests and pathogens in production landscapes: pesticide resistance and collaborative governance10
Smarter greener cities through a social-ecological-technological systems approach10
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The European deforestation-free trade regulation: collateral damage to agroforesters?10
The finance perspective on fossil fuel divestment10
Editorial Board10
Urban growth, resilience, and violence10
The role of crop diversity in climate change adaptation: insights from local observations to inform decision making in agriculture10
How can peacebuilding contribute to climate resilience? Evidence from the drylands of East and West Africa10
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Editorial Board9
Rights-based approaches to climate decision-making9
Relational values in locally adaptive farmer-to-farmer extension: how important?9
The sustainability impact of a digital circular economy9
Is food system research guided by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development?9
Managing slow onset events related to climate change: the role of public bureaucracy9
Aquaculture governance: five engagement arenas for sustainability transformation9
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The importance of attention to customary tenure solutions: slow onset risks and the limits of Vanuatu’s climate change and resettlement policy9
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From gender gaps to gender-transformative climate-smart agriculture8
Security risks from climate change and environmental degradation: implications for sustainable land use transformation in the Global South8
Leveraging shadow networks for procedural justice8
Critical social science perspectives on transformations to sustainability8
Tritrophic defenses as a central pivot of low-emission, pest-suppressive farming systems8
Slow-onset events: a review of the evidence from the IPCC Special Reports on Land, Oceans and Cryosphere8
Productivity versus sustainability: paradigms of climate-resilient development in South Asian smallholder agriculture8
Serious games in natural resource management: steps toward assessment of their contextualized impacts8
Five steps towards transformative valuation of nature8
The impacts of climate change and urbanization on food retailers in urban sub-Saharan Africa8
Editorial Overview: Slow Onset Events related to Climate Change7
‘Tradescapes’ in the forest: framing infrastructure’s relation to territory, commodities, and flows7
Rising seas, changing salt lines, and drinking water salinization7
The pitfalls of plural valuation7
Building knowledge infrastructure for diverse stakeholders to scale up co-production equitably7
Modes of mobilizing values for sustainability transformation7
The Humanitarian–Development–Peace Nexus in practice: building climate and conflict sensitivity into humanitarian projects7
Who or what makes rainfall? Relational and instrumental paradigms for human impacts on atmospheric water cycling7
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Maladaptation in food systems and ways to avoid it7
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Transformational adaptation in marine fisheries7
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