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| Resilience and vulnerability: complementary or conflicting concepts? F Miller, H Osbahr, E Boyd, F Thomalla, S Bharwani, G Ziervogel, ... Ecology and Society 15 (3), 2010 | 1422 | 2010 |
| The globalization of socio-ecological systems: An agenda for scientific research OR Young, F Berkhout, GC Gallopin, MA Janssen, E Ostrom, ... Global environmental change 16 (3), 304-316, 2006 | 1358 | 2006 |
| Tipping toward sustainability: emerging pathways of transformation F Westley, P Olsson, C Folke, T Homer-Dixon, H Vredenburg, D Loorbach, ... Ambio 40 (7), 762-780, 2011 | 1259 | 2011 |
| Urban transitions: On urban resilience and human-dominated ecosystems H Ernstson, SE Van Der Leeuw, CL Redman, DJ Meffert, G Davis, ... Ambio 39 (8), 531-545, 2010 | 943 | 2010 |
| Plausible and desirable futures in the Anthropocene: A new research agenda X Bai, S Van Der Leeuw, K O’Brien, F Berkhout, F Biermann, ES Brondizio, ... Global environmental change 39, 351-362, 2016 | 577 | 2016 |
| Evolution of specialized pottery production: a trial model [and comments and reply] PM Rice, WY Adams, JW Ball, WM Davis, T Earle, RE Fry, I Hodder, ... Current Anthropology 22 (3), 219-240, 1981 | 505 | 1981 |
| Integrating problem-and project-based learning into sustainability programs: A case study on the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University A Wiek, A Xiong, K Brundiers, S Van der Leeuw International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 15 (4), 431-449, 2014 | 464 | 2014 |
| Methods and approaches to modelling the Anthropocene PH Verburg, JA Dearing, JG Dyke, S Van Der Leeuw, S Seitzinger, ... Global Environmental Change 39, 328-340, 2016 | 444 | 2016 |
| Giving the potter a choice: conceptual aspects of pottery techniques S Van der Leeuw Technological Choices, 238-288, 2013 | 351 | 2013 |
| Placing archaeology at the center of socio-natural studies S Van der Leeuw, CL Redman American antiquity 67 (4), 597-605, 2002 | 283 | 2002 |
| Towards a study of the economics of pottery making SE Van der Leeuw Ex horreo 4 (1977), 68-76, 1977 | 237 | 1977 |
| Mapping the biosphere: exploring species to understand the origin, organization and sustainability of biodiversity QD Wheeler, S Knapp, DW Stevenson, J Stevenson, SD Blum, BM Boom, ... Systematics and biodiversity 10 (1), 1-20, 2012 | 227 | 2012 |
| A distinct spectrum of copy number aberrations in pediatric high-grade gliomas DA Bax, A Mackay, SE Little, D Carvalho, M Viana-Pereira, N Tamber, ... Clinical cancer research 16 (13), 3368-3377, 2010 | 226* | 2010 |
| Complex land systems: the need for long time perspectives to assess their future JA Dearing, AK Braimoh, A Reenberg, BL Turner, S Van der Leeuw Ecology and Society 15 (4), 2010 | 221 | 2010 |
| The model-based archaeology of socionatural systems TA Kohler, SE van der Leeuw School for Advanced Research Press, 2007 | 210 | 2007 |
| The shift toward social-ecological systems perspectives: insights into the human-nature relationship M Schoon, S Van Der Leeuw Natures Sciences Sociétés 23 (2), 166-174, 2015 | 195 | 2015 |
| Past abrupt changes, tipping points and cascading impacts in the Earth system V Brovkin, E Brook, JW Williams, S Bathiany, TM Lenton, M Barton, ... Nature Geoscience 14 (8), 550-558, 2021 | 190 | 2021 |
| How much time do we have? Urgency and rhetoric in sustainability science S Van der Leeuw, A Wiek, J Harlow, J Buizer Sustainability science 7 (Suppl 1), 115-120, 2012 | 178 | 2012 |
| Urbanization in and for the Anthropocene T Elmqvist, E Andersson, T McPhearson, X Bai, L Bettencourt, E Brondizio, ... Npj Urban Sustainability 1 (1), 6, 2021 | 175 | 2021 |