
Publications
Scientific Publications
Year
Researchers
Requena-Mullor, J. M., Garau, E., Quintas-Soriano, C., López-Rodríguez, M. D., & Castro A. J. (2025). An inverse reinforcement learning approach to model health-related information popularity on X (Twitter). Computing, 107(197). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-025-01551-7
Alba-Patiño, D., Martín-López, B, Delibes-Mateos, M., Requena-Mullor, J. M., & Castro, A. J. (2025). Environmental justice gaps in human-wildlife conflict research from a social-ecological systems perspective. Biological Conservation, 312(111515). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111515
Garau, E., de Abreu, G., Pérez-Ramírez, I., Schütze, N., Farhat, Y., El Moussaoui, H., Loureiro, J., Mahjoub, O., Ben Slimane, A., Ben Slimane, A., Amami, H., Zairi, A., Thiel, A., & Castro, A. J. (2025). Exploring agricultural stakeholders’ mental models of the water-energy-food-ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus: Insights from Mediterranean case studies. Environmental Science and Policy, 171(2025), 104196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104196
Otamendi-Urroz, I., Quintas-Soriano, C., Hanspach, J., Requena-Mullor, J. M., Lagies, A. S., & Castro, A. J. (2025). Exploring biocultural diversity: A systematic analysis and refined classification to inform decisions on conservation and sustainability. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02168-y
Cortés-Calderón, S. V., López-Rodríguez, M. D., Jiménez-Aceituno, A., Castro, A. J., & Mancilla-García, M. (2025). Contributions of Net-Map to sustainability action research. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 75, 101542. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101542
Jiménez-Aceituno, A., López-Rodríguez, M., Castro, A., Cortés-Calderón, S., Collste, D., Aparicio, G., Rölfer, L., Bote, M., Marín, L., Gómez-Tenorio, M., & González-Martín, B. (2025). Trade-offs for healthy and sustainable diets in Europe: Social-ecological dynamics in an intensive agricultural system. Global Food Security, 44, 100829. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100829
Olofsson, V., Garcia, M. M., Castro, A. J., Calderón, S. C., Diallo, A. H., Aceituno, A. J., López-Rodríguez, M. D., Gonzalez, T. S., Silvino, A. S., & Aguiar, A. P. (2025). The multifaceted spectra of power − A participatory network analysis on power structures in diverse dryland regions. Global Environmental Change, 92, 102984. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.102984
Requena-Mullor, J. M., Garau, E., López-Rodríguez, M. D., Quintas-Soriano, C., & Castro Martínez, A. J. (2025). Communicating the interdependence of human, animal, and environmental health on X (formerly Twitter): Insights from the one health approach. iScience, 28(1), 111606. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.111606
Carretero-Paulet, L., Mendoza-Fernández, A. J., Alcalá, F. J., & Castro, A. J. (2025). Leveraging agrobiodiversity for sustainable transition in greenhouse-based intensive agriculture across Mediterranean drylands. Journal of Arid Environments, 228, 105354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2025.105354
de Abreu, G., Olivé, I., Villasante, S., Expósito-Granados, M., Pita, P., Molina-Urruela, J., Fernández, E., Méndez-Martínez, G., & Castro, A. J. (2025). Participatory mapping of marine ecosystem services in the Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park (Spain). Ocean & Coastal Management, 268, 107763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2025.107763
Aguiar, A. P. D., Collste, D., Cortés-Calderón, S., Sonetti-González, T., Alves-Martins, M., Castro, A. J., Diallo, A., Eriksson, K. M., Goffner, D., Harmáčková, Z. V., Jiménez-Aceituno, A., López-Rodríguez, M. D., Mancilla-García, M., Olofsson, V., Pérez Marin, A. M., Silva-Bezerra, F. G., Sinare, H., & Stragier, C. (2025). Unraveling deep roots in drylands: a systems thinking participatory approach to SDGs. Global Sustainability, 8. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2025.6
Galaz, V., Metzler, H., Schill, C., Lindahl, T., Daume, S., Marklund, A., Castro, A. J., Bard, J., McPhearson, T., Galafassi, D., & Peters, H. (2025). Artificial intelligence, digital social networks, and climate emotions. npj Climate Action, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44168-025-00225-6
Greeves, S., McGovern, R., & Castro, A. (2025). A social assessment of ecosystem services: a comparative stakeholder analysis of the Portneuf River Watershed, Idaho. Ecosystems and People, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2025.2478568
Olazabal, M., Alda-Vidal, C., Hernández-Manrique, O. L., Goodwin, S., Amorim-Maia, A. T., Loroño-Leturiondo, M., & Herreros-Cantis, P. (2025). Transdisciplinarity in climate change adaptation: An agenda for evidence generation. PLOS Climate, 4(4), e0000612. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000612
de Vos, A., Quinlan, A., Biggs, R., Bennett, E., Martín-López, B., Norström, A., Peterson, G., Schoon, M., Allen, C., Andersson, E., Baird, J., Balvanera, P., Berbés-Blázquez, M., Berkes, F., Calderon-Contreras, R., Carpenter, S., Castro, A., Cumming, G., Falardeau, M., Fick, W. L., Folke, C., Galang, E. I. N., Gelcich, S., Gordon, L., Grimm, N., Hamilton, J., Hodbod, J., Ifejika Speranza, C., Koch, L., Kosanic, A., Lembi, R., Locatelli, B., Malmborg, K., Manyani, A., Mathisonslee, M., Ocampo-Melgar, A., Psiuk, K., Queiroz, C., Riechers, M., Schultz, L., Selomane, O., Sherren, K., Spierenburg, M., Trimble, M., Turkelboom, F., & Wallington, C. (2025). Welcome home! Introducing SocSES: a society for inclusive and impactful social-ecological research. Ecology and Society, 30(2). https://doi.org/10.5751/es-16164-300232
Alba‐Patiño, D., Delibes‐Mateos, M., & Castro, A. J. (2024). Global mapping of social–ecological systems science in conservation conflict research. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 23(2). https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2806
Marques, A., Bonn, A., Castro, A. J., Chaudhary, A., Felipe‐Lucia, M. R., Kastner, T., Koellner, T., Lancker, K., Lopez Hoffman, L., Meyer, C., Pfister, S., Rabeschini, G., Willemen, L., & Schulp, C. J. E. (2024). The role of nature's contributions to people in sustaining international trade of agricultural products. People and Nature, 6(2), 410-421. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10607
López-Zayas, C., Castro, A. J., Requena-Mullor, J. M., López-Rodríguez, M. D., Garau, E., & Quintas-Soriano, C. (2024). Emotional attachment and philosophical worldviews explain human connectedness to nature in abandoned rural Spain. Sustainability Science, 19(6), 1809-1823. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01538-x
Santillán-Carvantes, P., Tauro, A., Balvanera, P., Requena-Mullor, J. M., Castro, A. J., Quintas-Soriano, C., & Martín-López, B. (2024). Impact of land transformation, management and governance on subjective wellbeing across social–ecological systems. Sustainability Science, 20(2), 469-483. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01584-5
Goodwin, S., Olazabal, M., Castro, A. J., & Pascual, U. (2024). A relational turn in climate change adaptation: Evidence from urban nature-based solutions. Ambio, 54(3), 520-535. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-02090-9
Alba-Patiño, D., Soliño, M., Arroyo, B., Martínez-Jauregui, M., Glikman, J., Castro, A., & Delibes-Mateos, M. (2024). Hunting regulations as a conservation tool: Hunters' views on the European turtle-dove moratorium. Biological Conservation, 294, 110654. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110654
Velazco, S., Brandt, J., Zaiats, A., Requena-Mullor, J. M., Pillaca, K., Choza, B., & Caughlin, T. T. (2024). Hotter, drier climate influences tropical tree cover loss and promotes bracken fern dominance within arrested successional patches in Andean Cloud Forests. Biological Conservation, 297, 110731. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110731
López-Rodríguez, M. D., Jiménez-Aceituno, A., Quintas-Soriano, C., Miguel Requena-Mullor, J., Garau, E., Alba-Patiño, D., Otamendi-Urroz, I., Aguiar, A. P. D., Cortés-Calderón, S., & Castro, A. J. (2024). Applying the Three Horizons approach in local and regional scenarios to support policy coherence in SDG implementation: Insights from arid Spain. Global Environmental Change, 89, 102922. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102922
Goodwin, S., Olazabal, M., Castro, A. J., & Pascual, U. (2024). Measuring the contribution of nature-based solutions beyond climate adaptation in cities. Global Environmental Change, 89, 102939. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102939
Garau, E., Requena-Mullor, J. M., Quintas-Soriano, C., López-Rodríguez, M. D., Otamendi-Urroz, I., Oyarzabal, M., & Castro, A. J. (2024). A methodological approach for integrating human emotions in protected areas management: Insights from SE Spain. Landscape and Urban Planning, 244, 104988. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104988