OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Local Environment is 5. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Talking to the young generation: perception of nature-based solutions’ attractiveness by children from Generation Z	81
Survival strategy of Indonesian villagers in coping with climate change	49
Toward equity in heat mitigation planning: a review of literature, current practices, and future pathways	45
Cultural probes: a speculative and creative method for environmental research	32
“I felt as someone special today”. Advancing marine citizen science throught participatory and critical geography explorations	32
Socially embedding the food system: the role of alternative food initiatives to build sustainable food models	31
The politics of airing grievances: an analysis of air quality knowledge and ignorance in Pittsburgh	28
Community participation in marine ecotourism development: a qualitative systematic review	27
From smart cities to a happy and sustainable society: urban happiness as a critical pathway toward sustainability transitions	25
U.S. brain drain as local distributive justice: the case of distressed rural locations	25
Advocacy journalism and climate justice in a Global Southern country	24
Opportunities for more ecologically centred and equitable relations in local government environmental discourse: insights from Victoria, Australia	23
Emerging processes of territorial food systems governance: lessons from a local food action plan in Sheffield, UK	23
Beyond solutionism: quantum-secured NFTs as contested infrastructures for radical urban futures	23
Just transition in the post-pandemic city	21
Embracing emergence: reframing and reimagining the visionary communities project	21
“How could it be our responsibility?” The equity of Local Authority climate action in England	21
Rural gentrification and local food networks: the case of a shopping community in a small Hungarian rural town	20
The importance of school greening for students’ physical health: HGLM estimation from Hangzhou, China	19
The legitimisation of local environmental organisations by community members	19
Determinants of job satisfaction and motivation among community forest workers: insights from the Hindu Kush Himalaya, Pakistan	18
Accessibility, availability, affordability and inequalities in urban and rural water services in Mexico	17
Integrating environmental memories to address environmental changes: a case study in Ferlo, Senegal	17
“No fish – no fishermen”: staying as a voluntary choice despite environmental risks	16
Perceived differential vulnerability and climate change-related hazards in informal settlements in Accra, Ghana: re-thinking vulnerability to climate change in urban areas	16

Holding up a mirror: researching symmetrically to explore exclusion, othering and whiteness in local environmental governance	15
Conceptualising and enacting pathways to transformative climate justice: examples from the Philippines	15
Transport innovations in the cracks: reading for potential post-growth transport and mobilities with Deleuze and Guattari	15
Effects of trail and greenspace exposure on hospitalisations in a highly populated urban area: retrospective cohort study of the Houston Bayou Greenways program	14
Unexpected effects of urban food activism on community and human wellbeing	14
The interests, ideas, and institutions shaping public participation in local climate change governance in Ireland	14
How do local government strategies advance social accountability? The challenges from environmental management of Slaughterhouse in Semarang City, Indonesia	14
Environmental racism and “the media-government complex”: failures of municipal waste collection for a racialised community in Bulgaria	13
Equitable approaches to plastic waste management: integrating carbon finance into local sustainability initiatives in Pakistan: a systematic literature review	13
Urban degrowth economics: making cities better places for living, working, and playing	13
Hybridizations and reconfigurations in the roles of actors in voluntary carbon offsetting	13
Oral histories document community mobilisation to participate in decision-making regarding a hazardous waste thermal treatment facility	13
Social costs of coping with energy insecurity at Deschambault Lake, Saskatchewan: a community resilience perspective	13
Considering the emotional landscape in planning the local environment: a case study from Finland	12
Climate change and urban vulnerabilities: analysing flood and drought resilience of Islamabad	12
What rural women say about their role in household waste management in Kashmir? A case-series approach	12
Social workers as agents of change: understanding water conservation behaviours and the role of environmental education	12
Exploring perspectives on sustainability and planning from national and local planners for effective practice: the experience of Ghana	11
Social protection for transformative resilience: do programmes really address underlying causes of vulnerability of subsistence farmers to climate change?	11
Correction	11
Talking ‘bout a revolution: resilience and coastal policy in England	11
Learning with compost: digging down into food waste, urban soils and community	10
How do the elderly perceive their community vitality? Taking old and dilapidated communities (ODCs) in Guangzhou as a case to study	10
Opportunity access as a design framework for guiding transportation and land use integration: an evaluation of U.S. transit-oriented developments (TOD)	10
Building rural public cultural spaces for enhanced well-being: evidence from China	10
Water injustice in a changing climate: a literature review of empirical cases across OECD river basins	10
Whispers at the tea stall: social networks, situated choices and the relational dynamics of environmental migration	10
Saving the “lungs of the city”: emerging civic action in urban environmental policy: case studies from Tampere, Finland and Worcester, Massachusetts	10
Correction	10
Democratisation of the outdoors: how equipment lending is emerging in Norway’s sharing economy to provide sustainable consumption at the local scale	10
Analysing the variation in farmers’ perceptions of climate change impacts on crop production and adaptation measures across the Ganges’ Tidal Floodplain in Bangladesh	10
Epistemic injustice in planning: a framework for identifying degrees of harm	10
Deciding on justice: environmental justice in city council agenda-setting	10
Climate, governance, inequality, and the elusive promise of water access in Limpopo Province, South Africa: an integrative review	10
Addressing food insecurity and intersectional health-related social needs at a federally qualified health centre during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study	9
Flood risk perception and disaster preparedness in marginalised flood-prone communities: evidence from Saadi neighbourhood, Shiraz, Iran	9
Climate change and adaptation policies in South Asia: addressing the gender-specific needs of women	9
Active inaction: why the climate crisis is a moral crisis	9
Unlocking potentials of activity clusters in emerging informal settlement: case of Mlalakuwa neighbourhood, Dar es Salaam	9
A just mobility transition? Intersectional responses to car-use reduction measures	9
Reclaiming traditional food systems in alternative food networks. Insights from Mexico city peri-urban agriculture	9
Climate smart agricultural policy in sub-Saharan Africa: a case study of Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality of North West Province, South Africa	9
An examination of national climate policy integration at the local level of development in Ghana	9
Factors determining farmers’ adoption of cultural practices for forest resources conservation in Delta State, Nigeria	9
Promoting just and adaptive fisheries governance: a case study of learning networks as an environmental justice strategy	9
Ecological worldview in China: gender divides and parenthood status	9
Discursive strategies and activist framing in anti-mining campaigns	9
Designing sustainable public spaces using design justice framework: a case study in Southern Iran	9
Transformative urban food governance: how municipal staff coordinating urban living labs navigate politics, administration and participation	8
Engaging informality: addressing environmental injustice through stakeholder engagement in the context of US informal subdivisions	8

Uneven ecologies: nature-based solutions and new gendered exclusions in the Pacific	8
Farmers perception of climate change trends in Ethiopia: implications for crafting robust adaptation strategies	8
The forgotten thermal comfort. Lived experiences of cooling poverty from the trans community in Rio de Janeiro.	8
Resource Nexus for decision-making: an industry-community synergistic approach for textile wastewater management	8
Adaptation through knowledge coexistence: insights for environmental and sea lamprey stewardship	8
Visualising Heritage: a critical discourse analysis of place, race, and nationhood along the Erie Canal	8
If it’s in our backyard: the roles of local knowledge in the formation of a nuclear oversight organisation	8
Neighbourhood social sustainable development and spatial scale: a qualitative case study in Sweden	8
Collaborating for nature-based solutions: bringing research and practice together	8
Living labs as transformative incrementalism: lessons learned on the role of a university living lab in mobilising just sustainabilities on campus	8
Different visions of climate equity that don’t see eye to eye	8
Analysis of public attitudes towards “local agreements” on restarting nuclear power plants: a questionnaire survey in four prefectures in Japan	7
Use of menstrual cup and awareness of environmental effects of menstrual hygiene products	7
Language, context, and action: exploring equity and justice content in Vancouver environmental plans	7
Factors that influence user patronage and satisfaction of urban parks in Ghanaian cities: case of the Rattray Park in Nhyiaeso, Kumasi	7
Religious leadership for climate action in Africa: the knowledge gap and opportunities	7
Navigating the space between prefiguration and political engagement: a mixed-method study of subjective success in a grassroots movement	7
Utopia of social distancing and dystopia of living in slums: urban poor’s perspectives from the global south and the theory of planned behaviour	7
Gender equality of privacy protection in the use of urban furniture in the Muslim context of Iran	7
Pura vida for who? Slow violence against Indigenous land defenders in Costa Rica	7
Becoming community economy: how community-supported agriculture diversifies farm labour	7
Spatial vulnerability assessment of urbanites of Rawalpindi to the combined effects of climate change and pandemics using GIS mapping	7
Climate change loss and damage governance. Where are we now? A case study from Fiji’s sugar industry	7
Infrastructuring for caring food practices: learnings from an Alpine community academy	7
Climate change vulnerability assessment of dryland farmers and factors Identification using machine learning techniques	7
Indigenous rights and managed public land: a critical treaty analysis of parks and reserves in New Zealand	7
Assessing equity in visual landscape quality toward a “15-minute living circle” in Binjiang, Hangzhou: using deep learning and image recognition	7
Can liberalised electricity markets deliver on climate change and energy poverty? Evidence from community projects in Great Britain	7
Soil publics: regenerating relations with urban soils through citizen science	7
The final straw: a commentary on science, social justice and sustainability	6
Trends community-based waste management practice through waste bank in Indonesia: towards local environmental resilience	6
Spatial inequalities under climate stress: A geospatial analysis of multiple deprivation and climatic–ecological variables in Northwestern Iran	6
Environmental justice and corporate–community conflicts: an analysis of the role of governance and public stakeholders	6
Sustainable sharing in local communities: exploring the role of social capital	6
Can you standardise transformation? Reflections on the transformative potential of benchmarking as a mode of governance	6
Subterranean eco-dystopia in Istanbul: the concreted segregation of Tarlabaşı	6
A research-based, practice-relevant urban resilience framework for local government	6
The social implications of the vital city model: measuring the impact of urban vitality on neighbourhood sustainability	6
Regional perceptions of global environmental injustice: an exploratory case study of water pollution along the Citarum River, Indonesia	6
Mass housing planning and environmental considerations: case studies of post-war urban redevelopment in Erbil city, Kurdistan	6
Agricultural policies and local sustainability: a normative coherence for development analysis of Mexico's pineapple sector	6
A social identity approach to understanding sustainability and environmental behaviours in South Africa	6
Where are urban farms and community gardens? Examining sociodemographic and neighbourhood characteristics associated with urban agriculture in Ohio	6
A gendered analysis of perception and adaptation to climate change among High Mountain farmers: a case study of Nagar District, Pakistan	5
The contributions of socio-environmental information maps in an environmental mobilisation: the case of a fight against a highway project in France	5
Promoting equity in urban heat: a greening approach for HOLC's legacy in Houston, Texas	5
Perceived changes in the quality of terrestrial, coastal, marine environment and natural resources in coastal communities in the Caribbean	5
Correction	5
Bridging climate vulnerability and household poverty: perspectives from coastal fishery communities in Vietnam	5
Do Islamic principles matter for green development?	5
Using a smart city framework to advance justice: applying an equity lens to compare air quality in neighbourhoods of different socioeconomic profiles	5
Living on the edge: how do perceptions of coastal erosion risk affect residential mobility decisions?	5
Extreme heat adaptation in urban areas: a comparative case study of New York City and New Orleans	5
Combining remote sensing applications and local knowledge in understanding urban heat in a semi-arid region: a case study of Tamale’s thermal landscape	5
Does gardening make us feel better? Assessing the motivations and perceptions of urban gardeners in Bogota, Colombia	5
Coping mechanisms and “homemaking” in the face of environmental challenges: exploring the experiences of adolescent refugees in Jordan	5
Waste is political: local governance failures and urban-environmental injustices in the case of Izmir Türkiye	5
The green city under scrutiny: a scalar and decolonial scoping review on the green city critique	5