People and Nature

Papers
(The median citation count of People and Nature is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Cover Picture and Issue Information93
The Swedish green infrastructure policy as a policy assemblage: What does it do for biodiversity conservation?89
More pumas (Puma concolor) does not change perceptions: The mismatched response of ranchers to the presence of a top carnivore76
‘Nature of the year’ in Germany: An effective policy to raise public awareness?72
Cover Picture and Issue Information61
Disentangling the complexity of human–nature interactions48
Bright needs, dark desires: Public preferences and balancing the benefits of artificial light and natural darkness at night in Aotearoa New Zealand46
Shifting the paradigm: An Indigenous knowledge‐based stewardship plan to replenish boreal caribou in Athabasca Chipewyan and Mikisew Cree First Nations' homelands46
Caretaking, accomplishment and connection to nature: The ‘gardening triad’ and its role in new community gardeners' engagement, and social and emotional well‐being45
What factors affect the ‘flocking’ of birdwatchers during bird rarity observations?45
Describing viewpoints on human‐nature relationships to unveil socio‐environmental conflicts and support community‐based projects44
Food for flower‐visiting insects: Appreciating common native wild flowering plants43
Performance of habitat offsets for species conservation in dynamic human‐modified landscapes43
Pathways to subsistence management in Alaska national parks: Perspectives of harvesters and agency staff43
Compassion and the perceived rarity of plants can increase plant appreciation42
Common approaches to introduced species management face widespread acceptance problems in the United States41
Mechanisms of species–people relationships in place attachment41
‘On the mountain, the world is still all right’: Nature connections in context and the Covid journey of young adults in Austria40
The dark web trades wildlife, but mostly for use as drugs39
Genetic diversity is key to a nature‐positive future39
Denser and greener cities: Green interventions to achieve both urban density and nature38
Thinking with Amazonian Indigenous Peoples to expand ideas on domestication37
Epistemic opacity in Antarctic science: Unknowing the last frontier37
Institutional amnesia pushes fish spawning aggregations towards extirpation36
Guiding principles for transdisciplinary sustainability research and practice35
Assessing the political vulnerability of National Parks in sub‐Saharan Africa using data on digital trends and engagement35
What are landscapes for? Diverging preferences and shared understandings of rural farming landscapes35
Experienced climate change impacts help explain subjective well‐being—Evidence from 14 nature‐dependent communities35
The Renewing Biodiversity Longitudinal Survey (ReBLS): Protocol for a panel study34
Delivering resilience for people and nature in Anthropocene landscapes33
How can ecosystem services scenarios inform forest planning?—Seven lessons from Leanachan Forest, Scotland33
Large‐scale human celebrations increase global light pollution32
Enhancing child–nature interactions through design: An empirical study of the emotions, perspectives and experiences of nature among South Korea's urban Generation Alpha children32
‘Should’ and ‘can’ active restoration be used in biodiversity offsets? Stakeholder perspectives from New South Wales, Australia32
Walking, jogging or cycling? Exploring the associations between campus greenway environment and physical activity using large‐scale trajectory data32
Behavioural responses of Bonelli's eagles to human disturbances: Assessing the effect on reproduction and suggested mitigating measures30
How to reconcile pasture grazing and wolf recolonisation? Perceptions of management options by livestock farmers in Germany30
The comparative performance of land sharing, land sparing type interventions on place‐based human well‐being29
Local valuation of ecosystem services from protected areas along a forest–savanna gradient in West Africa29
Drivers of human attitudes towards wolves Canis lupus in Kazakhstan29
What constitutes sustainable agriculture for different audiences in Germany? A comparative analysis of large‐scale text data29
Conserved areas: Obligations, challenges, risks and opportunities for successful implementation of other effective area‐based conservation measures (OECMs) in France28
Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour to predict farmers' intention to report livestock depredation and kill hyena28
Impact of biophysical characteristics of urban rivers on public perceptions of water‐related ecosystem services27
Connecting sea to market: Using network analysis to understand social–ecological dynamics in seafood value chains in Pisco, Southern Peru27
Cultivating biodiversity: When conservation in agricultural landscapes embodies farmers' values26
Rewilding—The farmers’ perspective. Perceptions and attitudinal support for rewilding among the English farming community25
If you build it, they will come: Coastal amenities facilitate human engagement in marine protected areas25
Role of science and scientists in public environmental policy debates: The case of EU agrochemical and Nature Restoration Regulations25
How multisensory nature exposure affects well‐being: Visual and auditory influences on affect24
No aliens allowed: A narrative analysis of the blue crab ( Callinectes sapidus ) in the Lagoon of Venice (Northern Adriatic, Italy)24
Community attitudes and support for the restoration of a cryptic seabird in a peopled landscape24
River rhythmicity: A conceptual means of understanding and leveraging the relational values of rivers23
Individual traits are associated with pro‐environmental behaviour: Environmental sensitivity, nature connectedness and consideration for future consequences23
Gardening for wildlife: A mixed‐methods exploration of the factors underlying engagement in wildlife‐friendly gardening23
TheCBDPost‐2020 biodiversity framework: People's place within the rest of nature23
Sustaining land and people over time: Relationships with successor landowners on conservation easements23
Creating ecologically sound buildings by integrating ecology, architecture and computational design22
Disentangling global market drivers for cephalopods to foster transformations towards sustainable seafood systems22
Disconnection from nature: Expanding our understanding of human–nature relations22
Care, conflict, and coexistence: Human–wildlife relations in community forests22
Nature interactions and their associations with connection to nature and well‐being varies between different types of green spaces21
Barriers and opportunities for consumption of invasive lionfish in Belize21
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Two lenses for exploring relationships between seabirds and fishers: Unveiling reciprocal contributions21
The Facilitating Act Framework: A new insight into cultural ecosystem services through investigating women, wild swimming and community21
Wealth and wildlife in cities: How economic and demographic drivers influence global urban environmental injustice21
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Fascinating and favourable to most, but also frustrating and fearful to some: A study of Danish citizens' perception of trophic rewilding20
Waterfront property owners' shoreline preferences amid salt marsh to mangrove transitions20
Disturbance ecology in human societies20
Opinions, attitudes and perceptions of local people towards the conservation of Nigeria‐Cameroon chimpanzees in Mpem‐Djim National Park, central Cameroon20
A social license to operate theory for lethal control of crown‐of‐thorns starfish on the Great Barrier Reef20
Climate‐driven ‘species‐on‐the‐move’ provide tangible anchors to engage the public on climate change20
Perceptions, preferences and barriers: A qualitative study of greenspace and under‐representation in Leeds, UK19
One questionnaire—Two points in time: Has plant species knowledge of laypeople changed over a period of 20 years?19
Characterizing social and ecological values expressed in US Forest Service public comments using a computational approach19
Who must adapt to whom? Contested discourses on human–wolf coexistence and their impact on policy in Spain19
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Global distribution and contexts of interactions between humans and non‐human primates: A systematic review19
Drawing on local knowledge and attitudes for the conservation of critically endangered rhino rays in Goa, India19
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Wildlife farming: Balancing economic and conservation interests in the face of illegal wildlife trade19
Correction to: Building better conservation media for primates and people: A case study of orangutan rescue and rehabilitation YouTube videos18
Unpacking the interface of modernization, development and sustainability in Indigenous Guna communities of Panama18
Forwarding forest restoration: Seven key socio‐ecological issues for advancing forest restoration in a world in flux18
Will biodiversity actions yield healthy places? A systematic review of human health outcomes associated with biodiversity‐focused urban greening18
The Elephant Queen: Can a nature documentary help to increase tolerance towards elephants?18
Why do people go to nature? Enhancing the recognition and scope of cultural ecosystem services in landscape18
Transdisciplinary pathways for wildlife conservation: A method for navigating socio‐ecological systems on private lands18
Boundary spanners: An Australian First Nations perspective18
What does coexistence mean? Insight from place‐based trajectories of pastoralists and bears encounters in the Pyrenees18
The Noble Chafer and traditional orchards: Evaluating the role of indicator species in the conservation of cultural landscapes18
Navigating human‐nature interactions by exploring plural values across ecosystem states18
Pluralizing environmental values for urban planning: How to uncover the diversity of imaginaries about socio‐natures from Vitoria‐Gasteiz (Basque Country, Spain)17
Ethical considerations for conservation messaging research and practice17
How previous experiences shape actors' current perspectives in integrated natural resource management17
The role of relational learning in knowledge co‐production17
A review of the phenomenology, aetiology and treatment of animal phobia and insights for biophobia17
Exploring perceptions of Italian urban wildlife on TikTok17
The socio‐ecological niche17
Addressing fraudulent responses in online surveys: Insights from a web‐based participatory mapping study17
The role of gender and ethnicity in perceived public support and sense of belonging among resource management professionals in Oregon and Washington, USA17
Outdoor adventure education as a platform for developing environmental leadership17
Biophobia: What it is, how it works and why it matters17
Threatening stimuli have differential effects on movement preparation and execution—A study on snake fear17
Applying a co‐design approach with key stakeholders to design interventions to reduce illegal wildlife consumption16
Interdisciplinary insights into navigating the maze of landscape multifunctionality16
Landscape‐as‐governance: Exploring agency, embodied sensing and decision preferences16
Urban adults' engagement in nature education and its interplay with everyday lived experiences: A case study from Shenzhen, China16
Applying the Cultural Values Model to assess biocultural change in Eastern European wood‐pastures15
Playground tree diversity: A driver of well‐being in preschool children15
Exploring the relationship between plural values of nature, human well‐being, and conservation and development intervention: Why it matters and how to do it?15
Why do people walk their dog where the wild things are? A qualitative content analysis from an urban nature reserve15
From muddy marvels to hidden landscapes: Diverse visitor experiences in Tasmanian wetlands and their implications for enhancing human–nature connections15
Ecological and anthropogenic drivers of leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) attack occurrence on humans in Nepal15
How social norms are integrated in natural resource co‐management15
Spatial restrictions hinder avoidance of choke species in an Indigenous rights‐based fishery15
The magnitude and economic replacement value of wild meat obtained from ‘recreational’ big game hunting in the United States15
Micronutrient levels of global tropical reef fish communities differ from fisheries capture15
The demographic collapse of hunting in the Iberian Peninsula15
Changing the decision context to enable social learning for climate adaptation14
Supporting interventions to lessen human–wildlife conflict14
Reconnecting children to nature: The efficacy of a wildlife intervention depends on local nature and socio‐economic context, but not on urbanisation14
Living with tigers: Perceptions of risk, equity, and cultural change amidst tiger attacks in a reserve's buffer zone14
Practitioner approaches to trade‐off decision‐making in marine conservation development14
The relation between biodiversity in literature and social and spatial situation of authors: Reflections on the nature–culture entanglement14
Cultural importance, availability and conservation status of Spanish wild medicinal plants: Implications for sustainability13
Lake‐related ecosystem services facing social–ecological risks13
Wildland–urban interface expansion: Towards comprehensive planning processes13
Community perceptions and management of the fleshy‐fruited invasive alien plant Pyracantha angustifolia : Insights from South Africa's Montane grasslands13
Assessing the epistemic dimension of people–place relationships for inclusive ecosystem governance13
The road to integrate climate change projections with regional land‐use–biodiversity models13
Cover Picture and Issue Information13
Roots of resilience: Assessing child and adolescent nature connectivity in the Mediterranean Region of Murcia (Spain)13
Nature connection in adulthood: The role of childhood nature experiences13
The multiple values of nature show the lack of a coherent theory of value—In any context13
Not just having fun: Experiential‐learning–based school field trips improved local children's mental models of the mangrove nature reserve in Shenzhen, China13
Using childhood landscape memories to uncover the dynamics of Anthropocene in African Urbanscapes13
Do you have a tree friend?—Human–tree relationships in Finland13
Citizen science promotes knowledge, skills and collective action to monitor and protect freshwater streams13
Cover Picture and Issue Information13
Navigating across individual and deliberative values: A dual Q‐method approach to elicit diverse values in grassland restoration13
Relational values of forests: Value‐conflicts between local communities and external programmes in Sulawesi13
Joint social‐ecological outcomes of private land conservation: An evidence synthesis with a well‐being perspective13
Eager about beavers? Understanding opposition to species reintroduction, and its implications for conservation13
A mixed‐methods assessment of human‐elephant conflict in the Western Okavango Panhandle, Botswana13
What informs human–nature connection? An exploration of factors in the context of urban park visitors and wildlife13
The costs of delivering environmental outcomes with land sharing and land sparing13
Scientific response to a cluster of shark bites13
Cover Picture and Issue Information12
What's there beyond the sun and the sea? Detecting tourists' interest towards nature in a mass tourism destination using social media data12
Evaluating commonly used tools to quantify human activity for protected area management12
Traditional knowledge promotes the protection of large old trees: A case from China's richest biocultural diversity area12
‘Sense of place’ and conservation: Toponym diversity helps to maintain vegetation naturalness12
Only green time, and not screen time, predicts connectedness to nature among urban middle school students12
Using the criminal law to protect the environment: Possibilities and problems12
Human–nature connectedness and sustainability across lifetimes: A comparative cross‐sectional study in France and Colombia12
Harnessing generative artificial intelligence to support nature‐based solutions12
Empirical research review on Solastalgia: Place, people and policy pathways for addressing environmental distress12
Growing trees on farms: Navigating the goals and values of farmers11
The Steller's Sea‐Eagle in North America: An economic assessment of birdwatchers travelling to see a vagrant raptor11
Risky conclusions regarding shrinking rhino horns11
‘A deep, empathetic, wondrous connection’: Autistic adults' definitions and experiences of nature connection11
Cover Picture and Issue Information11
Noticing nature: The role of environmental awareness in promoting well‐being11
Social mechanics of gifting bear bile in Việt Nam11
Making the UN Ocean Decade work? The potential for, and challenges of, transdisciplinary research and real‐world laboratories for building towards ocean solutions11
Hunting motivations, behaviour and forest access: Characterising wildlife hunting practices in a multi‐ethnic, forested landscape of Brunei Darussalam, Southeast Asia11
Reconnecting people and wild nature in cities: Experienced barriers to using urban wild spaces among non‐users11
Synergizing scientific and local knowledge for ecosystem services assessments: A case study in northern Portugal11
Empirical examples demonstrate how relational thinking might enrich science and practice11
Living with rodent pests: Unifying stakeholder interests to prioritise pest management in rural Madagascar11
The relational nature of citizen science11
Giving space back to nature in cities? A multi‐scenario analysis of the acceptability of urban rewilding among local communities11
Non‐material contributions of nature expressed by former tourists of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania10
Co‐production of agroecological innovations to improve sustainability in South American fruit farms10
Exploring the role of identity, the other and negative attributions in conflict about biodiversity valuation10
Communal sustainable development goals, belonging and involvement: Engaging with the SDGs10
Indigenous and Western frameworks reveal bias in the scientific literature on salmon's contributions to social‐ecological systems10
Human–wildlife coexistence on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau: The correlation between Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and avian community composition10
Green pathways to mental health: Relationships between treescapes and well‐being and distress10
Panama Canal expansion and shifts in fishing practices: A social‐ecological network approach10
Long‐term interventions by conservation and development projects support successful recovery of tropical peatlands in Amazonia10
The relevance of traditional knowledge for modern landscape management: Comparing past and current herding practices in Mongolia10
From awe to action? An interdisciplinary, systematic review of awe's potential influence on pro‐environmental behaviour10
Hydropower resettlement reshapes human–nature relationships: Insights from Southwestern China10
Effect distances of road traffic noise on wildlife behaviour: A soundscape mapping approach using bird habitat selection10
Co‐production of nature's contributions to people: What evidence is out there?10
Behavioural and physiological responses of chacma baboons ( Papio ursinus ) to human‐induced mortality in anthropogenically modified habitat10
Exploring a process‐relational approach to qualitative research methods for sustainability science10
Interpreting the mammal deposits of Cloggs Cave (SEAustralia),GunaiKurnaiAboriginal Country, through community‐led partnership research10
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Rapidly declining seagrass meadows in Brazil: Findings from satellite imagery and local knowledge9
Solar parks as livestock enclosures can become key to linking energy, biodiversity and society9
Connecting resonance theory with social‐ecological thinking: Conceptualizing self‐world relationships in the context of sustainability transformations9
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Urban park soundscapes: Spatial and social factors influencing bird and traffic sound experiences9
Auditory perception and the ecology of human–nature interactions: Effects of hearing loss on listening to birdsong9
Ecosystem restoration job creation potential in Brazil9
Stress of spatial orientation of floating populations into Tibet on fragile ecosystem—Using geo‐tagged big data9
Wind erosion in European agricultural landscapes: More than physics9
Mixed impacts of protected areas and a cash crop boom on human well‐being in North‐Eastern Madagascar9
Using gross ecosystem product to harmonize biodiversity conservation and economic development in Southwestern China9
Cover Picture and Issue Information9
Native seed collector networks in Brazil: Sowing social innovations for transformative change9
Indigenous resurgence in the Blue Economy: Relational values to guide kelp mariculture9
Weaving for action: Transformative change in biodiversity monitoring9
The birds and the trees: Avian ecosystem (dis)service perspectives and farmers' willingness to plant native trees in the agricultural landscape of the Galapagos Islands9
Ancient people and living nature: A global perspective on archaeological areas and biodiversity9
Gender dynamics of tropical wildmeat systems: A systematic map of women's roles and influence9
Worldviews and values of key societal actors influencing decision‐making around nature: The case of wild pollinator conservation in Europe9
Implementing the European Union Biodiversity Strategy: Interlinked challenges and a potential way forward9
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Stories of coexistence: A narrative inquiry of leopard attacks on people9
Links between deforestation, conservation areas and conservation funding in major deforestation regions of South America9
Governance characteristics and feelings of safety are associated with attitudinal success in community‐based natural resource management & conservation organizations in northern Kenya9
Research monopolization in the biological sciences: Charismatic species are partly to blame8
Perceptions of nature's contributions to people across an elevational gradient in eastern Nepal8
Citizen science platforms can effectively support early detection of invasive alien species according to species traits8
ShadeTreeAdvice methodology: Guiding tree‐species selection using local knowledge8
Nature‐reliant, low‐income households face the highest rates of woody‐plant encroachment in South Africa8
Giant anteaters as bad omens: Determinants and implications of wildlife superstitions8
Principal sensory experiences of forest visitors in four countries, for evidence‐based nature therapy8
Unlocking landscape transient dynamics: Integrating traditional ecological knowledge for enhanced analysis of land‐use changes and forest expansion in a Mediterranean ecosystem8
Understanding consumers to inform market interventions for Singapore's shark fin trade8
Socio‐demographic and geographical patterns in forest and park use: Insights from 33 European countries8
Reciprocal contributions in marine Indigenous stewardship: The case of Haida abalone gathering8
Waterscapes meet socio‐ecological models: A relational framework to examine water insecurity and human health and well‐being8
Leveraging federalism for flexible and robust management of social‐ecological systems8
Sharing Indigenous values, practices and priorities as guidance for transforming human–environment relationships8
Characteristics of immersive citizen science experiences that drive conservation engagement8
Social media videos highlight the impacts of the illegal use of snares on Brazilian biodiversity8
Understanding preferences for nature's contributions to people between and within social actors sheds insights for inclusive conservation8
A mixed methods approach for measuring topic sensitivity in conservation8
Cover Picture and Issue Information8
Urbanization and food transition in the Brazilian Amazon: From wild to domesticated meat8
Stakeholder consensus suggests strategies to promote sustainability in an artisanal fishery with high rates of poaching and marine mammal bycatch8
Key gaps remain in the definition and application of keystone species concepts for fisheries management: A systematic scoping review8
Trees and water: A survey of the perception and decisions of landowners in New Zealand8
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Species diversity enhances perceptions of urban coastlines at multiple scales8
The roles of humans and apex predators in sustaining ecosystem structure and function: Contrast, complementarity and coexistence8
Araucaria bidwillii genomics suggest Indigenous Peoples broadened translocation practices in response to settler colonialism8
An international assessment of the barriers influencing the effectiveness of island ecosystem management8
How to increase nature connectedness? Effectiveness and mechanisms of a gratitude journal intervention8
Human–nature relationships through the lens of reciprocity: Insights from Indigenous and local knowledge systems8
In defence of urban community gardens8
The Work that Work does: How intrinsic and instrumental values are transformed into relational values through active work participation in Swiss community supported agriculture7
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