Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Papers
(The median citation count of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability is 6. 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.)
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Some feminist strands and their potential for the performativity of climate regulations: a review97
Governance challenges for sustainable food systems: the return of politics and territories84
The political economy of the social constraints to adaptation84
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 transformations75
Climate-changed development: organizing climate risk and response through an economic growth lens64
Unlocking the potential of biosphere reserves: a review of structural, institutional, and ideational challenges to transformational learning57
Editorial Board56
Fisheries conflicts as drivers of social transformation56
Research trends and gaps in climate change impacts and adaptation potentials in major crops56
Digital Twins in agriculture: challenges and opportunities for environmental sustainability55
Rethinking the drivers of biotechnologies: a paradigm for holistic climate change solutions47
Values as leverage points for sustainability transformation: two pathways for transformation research43
Trends in port decarbonisation research: are we reinventing the wheel?43
Editorial Board41
Disaster resilience in conflict-affected areas: a review of how armed conflicts impact disaster resilience40
Broadening the perspective for sustainable artificial intelligence: sustainability criteria and indicators for Artificial Intelligence systems39
Five priorities to advance transformative transdisciplinary research39
Editorial overview: Leveraging the multiple values of nature for transformative change to just and sustainable futures — Insights from the IPBES Values Assessment37
Editorial Board36
Potentials and limitations of complexity research for environmental sciences and modern farming applications36
From peril to promise? Local mitigation and adaptation policy decisions after extreme weather35
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How serious are ethical considerations in energy system decarbonization?34
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Restoring trust in sustainability reporting: the enabling role of the external assurance34
Monitoring, evaluation and learning requirements for climate-resilient development pathways34
Using games for social learning to promote self-governance34
Patterns in reported adaptation constraints: insights from peer-reviewed literature on floods and sea-level rise33
Climate change and migration from atolls? No evidence yet31
Growing through transformation pains: integrating emotional holding and processing into competence frameworks for sustainability transformations30
Research priorities for seafood-dependent livelihoods under ocean climate change extreme events30
Agroforests as the intersection of instrumental and relational values of nature: gendered, culture-dependent perspectives?30
Capturing the moment: a snapshot review of contemporary food environment research featuring participatory photography methods29
The Ocean Decade as an instrument of peace29
The role of infrastructure in societal transformations29
Three archetypical governance pathways for transformative change toward sustainability29
The effects of weather experiences on climate change attitudes and behaviors28
Integrating relational and instrumental values of nature in planning land use for multiple ecosystem services (LUMENS): tools and process27
Diversification from field to landscape to adapt Mediterranean rainfed agriculture to water scarcity in climate change context27
Advancing sustainable port development in the Western Indian Ocean region26
Editorial Board25
Towards just sustainability through government-led housing: conceptual and practical considerations24
Governing natural climate solutions: prospects and pitfalls24
Future-proofing our ports against biological invasion24
Barriers and limits to adaptation in the Arctic23
The biodiversity–finance nexus: a future research agenda23
National environmental regulatory systems for the management of environmental impacts in small island jurisdictions22
What can methods for assessing worldviews and broad values tell us about socio-environmental conflicts?21
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Philosophies of good living and values of nature: power and uncertainties in decision-making to achieve social-environmental justice in the Americas20
Biosphere Reserves as catalysts for sustainability transformations: five strategies to support place-based innovation20
Navigating capitalist expansion and climate change in pastoral social-ecological systems: impacts, vulnerability and decision-making20
The paradox of climate resilience and elusive peace in the Lake Chad Basin: a case for an adaptive governance approach20
Deconstructing the Doughnut20
Using the nexus approach to realise sustainable food systems19
Social limits to climate change adaptation: temporalities in behavioural responses to climate risks19
Greening container terminals through optimization: a systematic review on recent advances19
Climate stress testing in the financial industry19
Climate change and biodiversity loss: new territories for financial authorities19
Preventing violent extremism with resilience, adaptive peacebuilding, and community-embedded approaches18
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Adaptation limits as sufficiency entitlements of justice18
Justice, sustainability, and the diverse values of nature: why they matter for biodiversity conservation18
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Editorial overview: Climate finance, risks, and accounting17
Editorial Board17
Positive social transformations of coastal communities: what conditions enable the success of territorial use rights for fishing?17
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Climate-resilient development in developing countries17
Assessing the role of social networks in women’s access and use of climate services in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from literature17
Artistic activism promotes three major forms of sustainability transformation16
The European Union Emission Trading System and its role for green budgeting development — the case of EU member states16
Editorial overview: Values and decisions: How can development trajectories transform16
Values and knowledges in decision-making on environmentally disruptive infrastructure projects: insights from large dams and mines16
Whose values count? A review of the nature valuation studies with a focus on justice16
Mapping the automation of Twitter communications on climate change, sustainability, and environmental crises — a review of current research15
What do we (not) know about biodiversity finance governance?15
A resilience-based transformations approach to peacebuilding and transformative justice15
The rise of green bonds for sustainable finance: global standards and issues with the expanding Chinese market14
Review of policy action for healthy environmentally sustainable food systems in sub-Saharan Africa14
Insurance and climate change14
Editorial Board14
Editorial overview: Better climate-related decision making14
Beyond the ‘urban’ and the ‘rural’: conceptualizing a new generation of infrastructure systems to enable rural–urban sustainability14
Design principles for climate change decisions14
Modular, adaptive, and decentralised water infrastructure: promises and perils for water justice13
A Maritime Sociology for Sustainability Science13
Leveraging place-based identities and senses of belonging to mobilize for action-oriented research in UNESCO sites13
The role of power in leveraging the diverse values of nature for transformative change13
Finding the sweet spot in climate policy: balancing stakeholder engagement with bureaucratic autonomy13
The role of value(s) in theories of human behavior12
Editorial Board12
Biodiversity reporting: standardization, materiality, and assurance12
The need for transnational networks and transdisciplinary education for sustainable development in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves in the Global South12
Opportunities for nature-based solutions to contribute to climate-resilient development pathways12
Planning for urban green infrastructure: addressing tradeoffs and synergies12
Prospects for implementing the SDGs12
Auctions in payments for ecosystem services and the plural values of nature12
Does public participation lead to more ambitious and transformative local climate change planning?12
A long road ahead: a review of the state of knowledge of the environmental effects of digitization12
Deciding how to make climate change adaptation decisions12
Location, location, location: asset location data sources for nature-related financial risk analysis11
Embodied rationality: a framework of human action in water infrastructure governance11
Current perspectives on debt-for-nature swaps: moving from exploratory to empirical research11
Agroecology as a transformative approach to tackle climatic, food, and ecosystemic crises11
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Assuring the unknowable: a reflection on the evolving landscape of sustainability assurance for financial auditors11
How civil society organizations influence environmental governance in the Global South11
Nature’s disvalues: what are they and why do they matter?11
Transformative finance for climate-resilient development11
Reorienting climate decision making research for smallholder farming systems through decision science11
Greenwashing and sustainable finance: an approach anchored in the philosophy of science10
Five levels of internalizing environmental externalities: decision-making based on instrumental and relational values of nature10
Urban growth, resilience, and violence10
Mixed farming systems: potentials and barriers for climate change adaptation in food systems10
Environmental impact bonds: review, challenges, and perspectives10
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The finance perspective on fossil fuel divestment10
The European deforestation-free trade regulation: collateral damage to agroforesters?10
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Governance of emerging pests and pathogens in production landscapes: pesticide resistance and collaborative governance9
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Relational values in locally adaptive farmer-to-farmer extension: how important?9
Smarter greener cities through a social-ecological-technological systems approach9
Aquaculture governance: five engagement arenas for sustainability transformation8
Rights-based approaches to climate decision-making8
Five steps towards transformative valuation of nature8
Critical social science perspectives on transformations to sustainability8
The sustainability impact of a digital circular economy8
Serious games in natural resource management: steps toward assessment of their contextualized impacts8
Tritrophic defenses as a central pivot of low-emission, pest-suppressive farming systems8
From gender gaps to gender-transformative climate-smart agriculture8
How can peacebuilding contribute to climate resilience? Evidence from the drylands of East and West Africa8
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Productivity versus sustainability: paradigms of climate-resilient development in South Asian smallholder agriculture8
Leveraging shadow networks for procedural justice8
Is food system research guided by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development?7
Editorial Board7
Maladaptation in food systems and ways to avoid it7
Modes of mobilizing values for sustainability transformation7
The impacts of climate change and urbanization on food retailers in urban sub-Saharan Africa7
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The Humanitarian–Development–Peace Nexus in practice: building climate and conflict sensitivity into humanitarian projects7
The pitfalls of plural valuation7
Security risks from climate change and environmental degradation: implications for sustainable land use transformation in the Global South7
‘Tradescapes’ in the forest: framing infrastructure’s relation to territory, commodities, and flows7
Building knowledge infrastructure for diverse stakeholders to scale up co-production equitably7
Environmental, social, and governance factor and financial returns: what is the relationship? Investigating environmental, social, and governance factor models6
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Who or what makes rainfall? Relational and instrumental paradigms for human impacts on atmospheric water cycling6
Integrating institutional approaches and decision science to address climate change: a multi-level collective action research agenda6
Cash for conservation? Integrating basic income support into biodiversity and climate finance6
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Protected spring and sacred forest institutions at the instrumental — relational value interface6
Which diversification trajectories make coffee farming more sustainable?6
The challenge of solid waste on Small Islands: proposing a Socio-metabolic Research (SMR) framework6
Global biodiversity assessments need to consider mixed multifunctional land-use systems6
Health system resilience and peacebuilding in fragile and conflict-affected settings6
Transformational adaptation in marine fisheries6
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