| Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment KMA Chan, P Balvanera, K Benessaiah, M Chapman, S Díaz, ... Proceedings of the national academy of sciences 113 (6), 1462-1465, 2016 | 1903 | 2016 |
| Untangling the environmentalist's paradox: why is human well-being increasing as ecosystem services degrade? C Raudsepp-Hearne, GD Peterson, M Tengö, EM Bennett, T Holland, ... BioScience 60 (8), 576-589, 2010 | 678 | 2010 |
| Ecosystem services and beyond: Using multiple metaphors to understand human–environment relationships CM Raymond, GG Singh, K Benessaiah, JR Bernhardt, J Levine, ... BioScience 63 (7), 536-546, 2013 | 418 | 2013 |
| Defining tipping points for social-ecological systems scholarship–an interdisciplinary literature review M Milkoreit, J Hodbod, J Baggio, K Benessaiah, RC Contreras, JF Donges, ... Environmental Research Letters 13, 2018 | 350 | 2018 |
| Avoiding deforestation in Panamanian protected areas: an analysis of protection effectiveness and implications for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation JS Oestreicher, K Benessaiah, MC Ruiz-Jaen, S Sloan, K Turner, ... Global Environmental Change 19 (2), 279-291, 2009 | 115 | 2009 |
| A spatio-temporal analysis of forest loss related to cocaine trafficking in Central America SE Sesnie, B Tellman, D Wrathall, K McSweeney, E Nielsen, ... Environmental Research Letters 12 (5), 054015, 2017 | 110 | 2017 |
| Use your power for good: plural valuation of nature–the Oaxaca statement S Jacobs, N Zafra-Calvo, D Gonzalez-Jimenez, L Guibrunet, ... Global Sustainability 3, e8, 2020 | 106 | 2020 |
| Livelihoods and landscapes at the threshold of change: disaster and resilience in a Chiapas coffee community H Eakin, K Benessaiah, JF Barrera, GM Cruz-Bello, H Morales Regional Environmental Change, 1-14, 2011 | 93 | 2011 |
| Carbon and livelihoods in Post-Kyoto: Assessing voluntary carbon markets K Benessaiah Ecological Economics 77, 1-6, 2012 | 89 | 2012 |
| Essential tensions in interdisciplinary scholarship: navigating challenges in affect, epistemologies, and structure in environment–society research centers VK Turner, K Benessaiah, S Warren, D Iwaniec Higher Education, 1-17, 2015 | 80 | 2015 |
| The impacts of cocaine-trafficking on conservation governance in Central America DJ Wrathall, J Devine, B Aguilar-González, K Benessaiah, E Tellman, ... Global Environmental Change 63, 102098, 2020 | 74 | 2020 |
| Illicit drivers of land use change: Narcotrafficking and forest loss in Central America B Tellman, SE Sesnie, NR Magliocca, EA Nielsen, JA Devine, ... Global Environmental Change 63, 102092, 2020 | 72 | 2020 |
| How is shrimp aquaculture transforming coastal livelihoods and lagoons in Estero Real, Nicaragua?: The need to integrate social–ecological research and ecosystem-based approaches K Benessaiah, R Sengupta Environmental Management 54, 162-179, 2014 | 53 | 2014 |
| Narco-degradation: Cocaine trafficking’s environmental impacts in Central America’s protected areas JA Devine, D Wrathall, B Aguilar-González, K Benessaiah, B Tellman, ... World Development 144, 105474, 2021 | 50 | 2021 |
| Tourism and transitions toward sustainability: Developing tourists’ pro-sustainability agency A Force, D Manuel-Navarrete, K Benessaiah Sustainability Science 13, 431-445, 2018 | 34 | 2018 |
| Crisis, transformation, and agency: Why are people going back-to-the-land in Greece? K Benessaiah, H Eakin Sustainability Science 16 (6), 1841-1858, 2021 | 33 | 2021 |
| Reconnecting to nature amidst crisis: harnessing capacities and mobilities for livelihood and land transformations in the Greek back-to-the-land trend K Benessaiah Journal of Rural Studies 84, 76-89, 2021 | 18 | 2021 |
| Resilience in the times of COVID: what the response to the COVID pandemic teaches us about resilience principles M Berbés-Blázquez, M Schoon, K Benessaiah, EM Bennett, GD Peterson, ... Ecology and Society 27 (2), 2022 | 17 | 2022 |
| Implications of Panarchy for ecosystem service research: the role of system dynamics in service delivery KJ Winkler, K Benessaiah, J Botzas-Coluni, ETH Crockett, MA Crowley, ... Ecology and Society 27 (2), 2022 | 7 | 2022 |
| Drug trafficking's effects on coastal ecosystems K Benessaiah, J Sayles Science 343, 1431-1431, 2014 | 7 | 2014 |
Kai M. A. ChanProfessor, IRES, University of British ColumbiaVerified email at ires.ubc.ca