Karina Benessaiah

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Karina Benessaiah is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Karina Benessaiah has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 6 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Karina Benessaiah's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (7 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (6 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (4 papers). Karina Benessaiah is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (7 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (6 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (4 papers). Karina Benessaiah collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Karina Benessaiah's co-authors include Kai M. A. Chan, Nancy J. Turner, Bryan G. Norton, Patricia Balvanera, Mollie Chapman, Gary Luck, Erik Gómez‐Baggethun, Konrad Ott, Marc Tadaki and Berta Martín‐López and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, BioScience and Ecological Economics.

In The Last Decade

Karina Benessaiah

29 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 250 500 750 1000
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment
    2016 1.2k citations Kai M. A. Chan, Patricia Balvanera et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers

Karina Benessaiah
Barbara Muraca United States
Mollie Chapman Switzerland
Marc Tadaki New Zealand
Jordan Tam Canada
Jordan Levine Canada
Kerry A. Waylen United Kingdom
Andra‐Ioana Horcea‐Milcu Germany
Konrad Ott Germany
Neil Hannahs United States
Georg Winkel Germany
Barbara Muraca United States
Karina Benessaiah
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Countries citing papers authored by Karina Benessaiah

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Fields of papers citing papers by Karina Benessaiah

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karina Benessaiah

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Karina Benessaiah. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Karina Benessaiah based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Karina Benessaiah. Karina Benessaiah is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Reyes-García, Victòria, Sebastián Villasante, Karina Benessaiah, et al.. (2025). The costs of subsidies and externalities of economic activities driving nature decline. AMBIO. 54(7). 1128–1141. 2 indexed citations
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Reyes-García, Victòria, Ram Pandit, Karina Benessaiah, et al.. (2025). Transforming the economic landscape for global sustainability. Ecology and Society. 30(3). 1 indexed citations
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Preiser, Rika, Tanja Hichert, Reinette Biggs, et al.. (2024). Transformative foresight for diverse futures: the Seeds of Good Anthropocenes initiative. Development Policy Review. 42(S1). 1 indexed citations
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Dade, Marie C., Jesse T. Rieb, Karina Benessaiah, et al.. (2024). Testing a rapid assessment approach for estimating ecosystem service capacity in urban green alleys. Urban forestry & urban greening. 99. 128472–128472. 6 indexed citations
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Benessaiah, Karina & Kai M. A. Chan. (2023). Why reconnect to nature in times of crisis? Ecosystem contributions to the resilience and well‐being of people going back to the land in Greece. People and Nature. 5(6). 2026–2047. 7 indexed citations
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Dade, Marie C., Andrea S. Downing, Karina Benessaiah, et al.. (2022). Inequalities in the adaptive cycle: reorganizing after disasters in an unequal world. Ecology and Society. 27(4). 3 indexed citations
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Lade, Steven J., et al.. (2022). Fourteen propositions for resilience, fourteen years later. Ecology and Society. 27(3). 5 indexed citations
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Winkler, Klara J., Karina Benessaiah, Morgan A. Crowley, et al.. (2022). Implications of Panarchy for ecosystem service research: the role of system dynamics in service delivery. Ecology and Society. 27(2). 6 indexed citations
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Benessaiah, Karina & Hallie Eakin. (2021). Crisis, transformation, and agency: Why are people going back-to-the-land in Greece?. Sustainability Science. 16(6). 1841–1858. 22 indexed citations
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Devine, Jennifer A., et al.. (2021). Narco-degradation: Cocaine trafficking’s environmental impacts in Central America’s protected areas. World Development. 144. 105474–105474. 32 indexed citations
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Wrathall, David, Jennifer A. Devine, Bernardo Aguilar‐González, et al.. (2020). The impacts of cocaine-trafficking on conservation governance in Central America. Global Environmental Change. 63. 102098–102098. 43 indexed citations
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Benessaiah, Karina. (2018). Social-Ecologies of Crisis: Assessing the Back-to-LandMovement in Greece. 2 indexed citations
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Milkoreit, Manjana, Jennifer Hodbod, Jacopo A. Baggio, et al.. (2018). Defining tipping points for social-ecological systems scholarship—an interdisciplinary literature review. Environmental Research Letters. 13(3). 33005–33005. 172 indexed citations
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Chan, Kai M. A., Patricia Balvanera, Karina Benessaiah, et al.. (2016). Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(6). 1462–1465. 1151 indexed citations breakdown →
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Eakin, Hallie, Karina Benessaiah, Juan F. Barrera, Gustavo Manuel Cruz‐Bello, & Helda Morales. (2011). Livelihoods and landscapes at the threshold of change: disaster and resilience in a Chiapas coffee community. Regional Environmental Change. 12(3). 475–488. 46 indexed citations
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Raudsepp‐Hearne, Ciara, Garry Peterson, Maria Tengö, et al.. (2010). Untangling the Environmentalist's Paradox: Why Is Human Well-being Increasing as Ecosystem Services Degrade?. BioScience. 60(8). 576–589. 342 indexed citations
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Benessaiah, Karina. (2008). Mangroves, shrimp aquaculture and coastal livelihoods in the estero real, Gulf of Fonseca, Nicaragua. Repositorio Institucional UCA (Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina). 2 indexed citations

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