OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions is 24. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview	232
Providing decent living with minimum energy: A global scenario	220
When worry about climate change leads to climate action: How values, worry and personal responsibility relate to various climate actions	215
The global scale, distribution and growth of aviation: Implications for climate change	182
What makes climate change adaptation effective? A systematic review of the literature	149
Country-specific dietary shifts to mitigate climate and water crises	146
Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015	131
Multiple cropping systems of the world and the potential for increasing cropping intensity	115
Plural valuation of nature for equity and sustainability: Insights from the Global South	102
Anticipating futures through models: the rise of Integrated Assessment Modelling in the climate science-policy interface since 1970	101
Contextualizing climate justice activism: Knowledge, emotions, motivations, and actions among climate strikers in six cities	94
The climate change mitigation impacts of active travel: Evidence from a longitudinal panel study in seven European cities	92
Spatially-explicit footprints of agricultural commodities: Mapping carbon emissions embodied in Brazil's soy exports	89
The Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale: Development and validation of a multidimensional scale	87
Multi-method evidence for when and how climate-related disasters contribute to armed conflict risk	86
Meeting the food security challenge for nine billion people in 2050: What impact on forests?	85
Socio-economic conditions for satisfying human needs at low energy use: An international analysis of social provisioning	84
Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations	82
Global inequalities in food consumption, cropland demand and land-use efficiency: A decomposition analysis	81
Provisioning systems for a good life within planetary boundaries	79
Global-scale impact analysis of mine tailings dam failures: 1915–2020	79
Sustainability transformations: socio-political shocks as opportunities for governance transitions	77
The influence of political ideology on greenhouse gas emissions	77
The trap of climate change-induced “natural” disasters and inequality	77
Surge in global metal mining threatens vulnerable ecosystems	77

A national approach to greenhouse gas abatement through blue carbon management	72
Climate change in news media across the globe: An automated analysis of issue attention and themes in climate change coverage in 10 countries (2006–2018)	70
Nature-dependent people: Mapping human direct use of nature for basic needs across the tropics	68
Knowledge co-production for Indigenous adaptation pathways: Transform post-colonial articulation complexes to empower local decision-making	68
Exploratory modeling for analyzing coupled human-natural systems under uncertainty	68
Explaining Growing Glyphosate Use: The Political Economy of Herbicide-Dependent Agriculture	68
Linking internal and external transformation for sustainability and climate action: Towards a new research and policy agenda	68
Exploring river nitrogen and phosphorus loading and export to global coastal waters in the Shared Socio-economic pathways	65
Economic costs of heat-induced reductions in worker productivity due to global warming	65
Improving the evidence base: A methodological review of the quantitative climate migration literature	63
(Un)making in sustainability transformation beyond capitalism	63
Shared Socio-economic Pathways for European agriculture and food systems: The Eur-Agri-SSPs	63
Conflicted transitions: Exploring the actors, tactics, and outcomes of social opposition against energy infrastructure	63
Toward a climate mobilities research agenda: Intersectionality, immobility, and policy responses	62
Use of aviation by climate change researchers: Structural influences, personal attitudes, and information provision	61
Exploring future copper demand, recycling and associated greenhouse gas emissions in the EU-28	61
Income, consumer preferences, and the future of livestock-derived food demand	59
Science with society: Evidence-based guidance for best practices in environmental transdisciplinary work	59
Air conditioning and global inequality	58
Negative-emissions technology portfolios to meet the 1.5 °C target	57
Early warnings and emerging accountability: Total’s responses to global warming, 1971–2021	56
The scale and drivers of carbon footprints in households, cities and regions across India	55
Scaling up zero-deforestation initiatives through public-private partnerships: A look inside post-conflict Colombia	55
The economics of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) deployment in a 1.5 °C or 2 °C world	55
Nature unsettled: How knowledge and power shape ‘nature-based’ approaches to societal challenges	54
Mapping feasibilities of greenhouse gas removal: Key issues, gaps and opening up assessments	54
Prospects for a saturation of humanity’s resource use? An analysis of material stocks and flows in nine world regions from 1900 to 2035	52
Challenges and opportunities for re-framing resource use policy with practice theories: The change points approach	51
Aligning climate and sustainable development finance through an SDG lens. The role of development assistance in implementing the Paris Agreement	51
Knowing like a global expert organization: Comparative insights from the IPCC and IPBES	48
Modelling food security: Bridging the gap between the micro and the macro scale	48
A conceptual framework for cross-border impacts of climate change	48
How EU policies could reduce nutrient pollution in European inland and coastal waters	47
A global assessment of the human pressure on the world's lakes	46
Climate change in a changing world: Socio-economic and technological transitions, regulatory frameworks and trends on global greenhouse gas emissions from EDGAR v.5.0	45
Public concern about, and desire for research into, the human health effects of marine plastic pollution: Results from a 15-country survey across Europe and Australia	45
Greenhouse gas emissions from global cities under SSP/RCP scenarios, 1990 to 2100	44
Mapping global patterns of land use decision-making	44
Cattle ranchers and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Production, location, and policies	44
Legume dreams: The contested futures of sustainable plant-based food systems in Europe	44
Environmental and land defenders: Global patterns and determinants of repression	44
An assessment of the performance of scenarios against historical global emissions for IPCC reports	43
Systems thinking as a paradigm shift for sustainability transformation	42
A scale-based framework to understand the promises, pitfalls and paradoxes of irrigation efficiency to meet major water challenges	42
The political ecology playbook for ecosystem restoration: Principles for effective, equitable, and transformative landscapes	41
The global value of coastal wetlands for storm protection	41
No peace for the forest: Rapid, widespread land changes in the Andes-Amazon region following the Colombian civil war	40
Socio-economic and climatic changes lead to contrasting global urban vegetation trends	40
Global long-term mapping of surface temperature shows intensified intra-city urban heat island extremes	40
Climate change action as a project of identity: Eight meta-analyses	39

The global environmental paw print of pet food	39
How the future of the global forest sink depends on timber demand, forest management, and carbon policies	39
Understanding plastic packaging: The co-evolution of materials and society	39
Closing yield gap is crucial to avoid potential surge in global carbon emissions	39
Natural variability or climate change? Stakeholder and citizen perceptions of extreme event attribution	39
Fairness critically conditions the carbon budget allocation across countries	38
Why are carbon taxes unfair? Disentangling public perceptions of fairness	38
Why climate migration is not managed retreat: Six justifications	37
Co-designing global target-seeking scenarios: A cross-scale participatory process for capturing multiple perspectives on pathways to sustainability	37
Mining threatens isolated indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon	37
Incorporating blue carbon sequestration benefits into sub-national climate policies	37
China’s pathway to carbon neutrality for the iron and steel industry	37
Designing effective and equitable zero-deforestation supply chain policies	36
Hot dry days increase perceived experience with global warming	36
Making sense of the politics in the climate change loss & damage debate	36
Global sustainability, innovation and governance dynamics of national smart electricity meter transitions	36
Engagement, involvement and empowerment: Three realms of a coproduction framework for climate services	36
Climate variability and child nutrition: Findings from sub-Saharan Africa	36
Climate-Induced migration and unemployment in middle-income Africa	35
Sharing responsibility for trade-related emissions based on economic benefits	35
Trans-Arctic shipping routes expanding faster than the model projections	34
Prioritising resilience policies to reduce welfare losses from natural disasters: A case study for coastal Bangladesh	34
What could go wrong with cooking? Exploring vulnerability at the water, energy and food Nexus in Kampala through a social practices lens.	34
The quiet opposition: How the pro-economy lobby influences climate policy	34
Estimating the global potential of water harvesting from successful case studies	34
Greenhouse gas emissions from Mediterranean agriculture: Evidence of unbalanced research efforts and knowledge gaps	33
Water borrowing is consistently practiced globally and is associated with water-related system failures across diverse environments	33
Does smallholder maize intensification reduce deforestation? Evidence from Zambia	33
Plastic pollution and the open burning of plastic wastes	33
Telecoupled environmental impacts of current and alternative Western diets	33
The future urban heat-wave challenge in Africa: Exploratory analysis	31
Just adaptation? Generating new vulnerabilities and shaping adaptive capacities through the politics of climate-related resettlement in a Philippine coastal city	31
Harnessing scientific and local knowledge to face climate change in small-scale fisheries	31
Tackling the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies by making peace with nature 50 years after the Stockholm Conference	31
The behavioral response to a corporate carbon offset program: A field experiment on adverse effects and mitigation strategies	30
Pathways for climate resilient development: Human well-being within a safe and just space in the 21st century	30
Environmental justice in coastal systems: Perspectives from communities confronting change	29
How stable are Australian farmers’ climate change risk perceptions? New evidence of the feedback loop between risk perceptions and behaviour	29
The impacts of cocaine-trafficking on conservation governance in Central America	29
The anticipatory governance of sustainability transformations: Hybrid approaches and dominant perspectives	29
Resilient livelihoods in an era of global transformation	29
The effect of industrialization and globalization on domestic land-use: A global resource footprint perspective	28
Extreme weather and marriage among girls and women in Bangladesh	28
Environmental regulation and innovation: Evidence from China	27
After the floods: Differential impacts of rainfall anomalies on child stunting in India	27
Water, energy and land insecurity in global supply chains	27
Illicit Drivers of Land Use Change: Narcotrafficking and Forest Loss in Central America	27
Impact of a climate network: The role of intermediaries in local level climate action	26
Explaining risk perception of microplastics: Results from a representative survey in Germany	26
A green-gray path to global water security and sustainable infrastructure	26
Drivers and dimensions of flood risk perceptions: Revealing an implicit selection bias and lessons for communication policies	26
The role and limits of strategic framing for promoting sustainable consumption and policy	26
Inclusive wealth index measuring sustainable development potentials for Chinese cities	26
Just another buzzword? A systematic literature review of knowledge-related concepts in sustainability science	26
A global comparison of carbon-water-food nexus based on dietary consumption	26
Necessity-driven circular economy in low-income contexts: How informal sector practices retain value for circularity	26
Cultural ecosystem services caught in a ‘coastal squeeze’ between sea level rise and urban expansion	26
“Mind the (Policy-Implementation) Gap”: Transport decarbonisation policies and performances of leading global economies (1990–2018)	26
The impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on a network of 276 international organizations	26
Distributive justice in global climate finance – Recipients’ climate vulnerability and the allocation of climate funds	26
Does funds-based adaptation finance reach the most vulnerable countries?	26
The geography of megatrends affecting European agriculture	26
IPCC emission scenarios: How did critiques affect their quality and relevance 1990–2022?	25
Agency shifts in agricultural land governance and their implications for land degradation neutrality	25
Urban greenspace as a climate change adaptation strategy for subtropical Asian cities: A comparative study across cities in three countries	25
Anti-corruption and corporate environmental responsibility: Evidence from China’s anti-corruption campaign	25
The prosocial origin of sustainable behavior: A case study in the ecological domain	24
The Arctic Council: an agent of change?	24
Institutional changes drive land use transitions on rangelands: The case of grazing on public lands in the American West	24
Relating root causes to local risk conditions: A comparative study of the institutional pathways to small-scale disasters in three urban flood contexts	24
The ‘co’ in co-production of climate action: Challenging boundaries within and between science, policy and practice	24
Patience, persistence and pre-signals: Policy dynamics of planned relocation in Austria	24
Climate anxiety: Conceptual considerations, and connections with climate hope and action	24
How qualitative approaches matter in climate and ocean change research: Uncovering contradictions about climate concern	24
Reproducing injustice: Why recognition matters in conservation project evaluation	24
Drivers and mechanisms of forest change in the Himalayas	24
OK Boomer: A decade of generational differences in feelings about climate change	24