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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Community participation in marine ecotourism development: a qualitative systematic review	54
Embracing emergence: reframing and reimagining the visionary communities project	45
The politics of airing grievances: an analysis of air quality knowledge and ignorance in Pittsburgh	33
“How could it be our responsibility?” The equity of Local Authority climate action in England	30
Beyond solutionism: quantum-secured NFTs as contested infrastructures for radical urban futures	30
Opportunities for more ecologically centred and equitable relations in local government environmental discourse: insights from Victoria, Australia	28
From smart cities to a happy and sustainable society: urban happiness as a critical pathway toward sustainability transitions	28
Talking to the young generation: perception of nature-based solutions’ attractiveness by children from Generation Z	27
Emerging processes of territorial food systems governance: lessons from a local food action plan in Sheffield, UK	27
Survival strategy of Indonesian villagers in coping with climate change	27
Just transition in the post-pandemic city	26
“I felt as someone special today”. Advancing marine citizen science throught participatory and critical geography explorations	26
The Hanford plaintiffs: voices from the fight for atomic justice	24
Advocacy journalism and climate justice in a Global Southern country	23
Muslim environmentalism: religious and social foundation	23
Just sustainabilities: The case of eco-estates in South Africa	22
Cultural probes: a speculative and creative method for environmental research	22
Re-embedding the circular economy in Circles of Social Life: beyond the self-repairing (and still-rapacious) economy	21
U.S. brain drain as local distributive justice: the case of distressed rural locations	21
Socially embedding the food system: the role of alternative food initiatives to build sustainable food models	21
Determinants of job satisfaction and motivation among community forest workers: insights from the Hindu Kush Himalaya, Pakistan	20
Rural gentrification and local food networks: the case of a shopping community in a small Hungarian rural town	19
Perceived differential vulnerability and climate change-related hazards in informal settlements in Accra, Ghana: re-thinking vulnerability to climate change in urban areas	19
The legitimisation of local environmental organisations by community members	19
The importance of school greening for students’ physical health: HGLM estimation from Hangzhou, China	19

Holding up a mirror: researching symmetrically to explore exclusion, othering and whiteness in local environmental governance	18
“No fish – no fishermen”: staying as a voluntary choice despite environmental risks	18
The interests, ideas, and institutions shaping public participation in local climate change governance in Ireland	16
Conceptualising and enacting pathways to transformative climate justice: examples from the Philippines	16
Transport innovations in the cracks: reading for potential post-growth transport and mobilities with Deleuze and Guattari	16
Effects of trail and greenspace exposure on hospitalisations in a highly populated urban area: retrospective cohort study of the Houston Bayou Greenways program	15
How do local government strategies advance social accountability? The challenges from environmental management of Slaughterhouse in Semarang City, Indonesia	15
Urban degrowth economics: making cities better places for living, working, and playing	14
Hybridizations and reconfigurations in the roles of actors in voluntary carbon offsetting	14
Oral histories document community mobilisation to participate in decision-making regarding a hazardous waste thermal treatment facility	14
A community-integrated geographic information system study of air pollution exposure impacts in Colfax, LA	13
Unexpected effects of urban food activism on community and human wellbeing	13
Talking ‘bout a revolution: resilience and coastal policy in England	13
Just by design: exploring justice as a multidimensional concept in US circular economy discourse	13
Equitable approaches to plastic waste management: integrating carbon finance into local sustainability initiatives in Pakistan: a systematic literature review	13
What rural women say about their role in household waste management in Kashmir? A case-series approach	13
Environmental racism and “the media-government complex”: failures of municipal waste collection for a racialised community in Bulgaria	13
Climate change and urban vulnerabilities: analysing flood and drought resilience of Islamabad	12
The material politics of integrated urban stormwater management in Los Angeles, California	12
Resistance to mining and adaptation of Indonesia farmer's household to economic vulnerability of small scale sand mining activities	12
Social protection for transformative resilience: do programmes really address underlying causes of vulnerability of subsistence farmers to climate change?	12
Democratisation of the outdoors: how equipment lending is emerging in Norway’s sharing economy to provide sustainable consumption at the local scale	11
Correction	11
Opportunity access as a design framework for guiding transportation and land use integration: an evaluation of U.S. transit-oriented developments (TOD)	11
Deciding on justice: environmental justice in city council agenda-setting	11
Epistemic injustice in planning: a framework for identifying degrees of harm	11
Building rural public cultural spaces for enhanced well-being: evidence from China	10
Learning with compost: digging down into food waste, urban soils and community	10
Development for whom?: an Indigenous environmental justice movement in Bangladesh	10
Saving the “lungs of the city”: emerging civic action in urban environmental policy: case studies from Tampere, Finland and Worcester, Massachusetts	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
Whispers at the tea stall: social networks, situated choices and the relational dynamics of environmental migration	10
How do the elderly perceive their community vitality? Taking old and dilapidated communities (ODCs) in Guangzhou as a case to study	10
Designing sustainable public spaces using design justice framework: a case study in Southern Iran	9
Exploring perspectives on sustainability and planning from national and local planners for effective practice: the experience of Ghana	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
Factors determining farmers’ adoption of cultural practices for forest resources conservation in Delta State, Nigeria	9
Flood risk perception and disaster preparedness in marginalised flood-prone communities: evidence from Saadi neighbourhood, Shiraz, Iran	9
Reclaiming traditional food systems in alternative food networks. Insights from Mexico city peri-urban agriculture	8
Landowners’ willingness to supply agricultural land for conversion into urban uses in peri-urban Ghana	8
Addressing food insecurity and intersectional health-related social needs at a federally qualified health centre during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study	8
Towards representative resilience: the power of culture to foster local resource representation	8
Farmers perception of climate change trends in Ethiopia: implications for crafting robust adaptation strategies	8
Active inaction: why the climate crisis is a moral crisis	8
Dissonance between framing & acting for climate justice	8
Discourse analysis of the perceptions of environmental justice and respiratory health disparities in Dallas, TX	8
Discursive strategies and activist framing in anti-mining campaigns	8
Visualising Heritage: a critical discourse analysis of place, race, and nationhood along the Erie Canal	8
An examination of national climate policy integration at the local level of development in Ghana	8
Adaptation through knowledge coexistence: insights for environmental and sea lamprey stewardship	8

Climate change and adaptation policies in South Asia: addressing the gender-specific needs of women	8
The forgotten essential workers in the circular economy? Waste picker precarity and resilience amidst the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Resource Nexus for decision-making: an industry-community synergistic approach for textile wastewater management	8
The forgotten thermal comfort. Lived experiences of cooling poverty from the trans community in Rio de Janeiro.	8
Living labs as transformative incrementalism: lessons learned on the role of a university living lab in mobilising just sustainabilities on campus	8
The impacts of and responses to place loss in a coastal community in Ireland	7
Seeds of change? Social practices of urban community seed sharing initiatives for just transitions to sustainability	7
Transformative urban food governance: how municipal staff coordinating urban living labs navigate politics, administration and participation	7
Spatialising degrowth, degrowing urban planning	7
Co-producing just energy transition in everyday practices: sociotechnical innovation and sustainable development in the Thailand-Myanmar border	7
Neighbourhood social sustainable development and spatial scale: a qualitative case study in Sweden	7
Citizen science and environmental justice: exploring contradictory outcomes through a case study of air quality monitoring in Dublin	6
Use of menstrual cup and awareness of environmental effects of menstrual hygiene products	6
“You want protected bike lanes, I want protected Black children. Let’s link”: equity, justice, and the barriers to active transportation in North America	6
Gender equality of privacy protection in the use of urban furniture in the Muslim context of Iran	6
Factors that influence user patronage and satisfaction of urban parks in Ghanaian cities: case of the Rattray Park in Nhyiaeso, Kumasi	6
Climate change vulnerability assessment of dryland farmers and factors Identification using machine learning techniques	6
A gendered analysis of perception and adaptation to climate change among High Mountain farmers: a case study of Nagar District, Pakistan	6
Soil publics: regenerating relations with urban soils through citizen science	6
A social identity approach to understanding sustainability and environmental behaviours in South Africa	6
Assessing the post-COVID prospects for the energy transition in the Netherlands and the UK, using a policy barriers approach	6
Collaborating for nature-based solutions: bringing research and practice together	6
If it’s in our backyard: the roles of local knowledge in the formation of a nuclear oversight organisation	6
Indigenous rights and managed public land: a critical treaty analysis of parks and reserves in New Zealand	6
Spatial vulnerability assessment of urbanites of Rawalpindi to the combined effects of climate change and pandemics using GIS mapping	6
Language, context, and action: exploring equity and justice content in Vancouver environmental plans	6
Infrastructuring for caring food practices: learnings from an Alpine community academy	6
The final straw: a commentary on science, social justice and sustainability	6
Utopia of social distancing and dystopia of living in slums: urban poor’s perspectives from the global south and the theory of planned behaviour	6
Analysis of public attitudes towards “local agreements” on restarting nuclear power plants: a questionnaire survey in four prefectures in Japan	6
Different visions of climate equity that don’t see eye to eye	6
Becoming community economy: how community-supported agriculture diversifies farm labour	6
Can liberalised electricity markets deliver on climate change and energy poverty? Evidence from community projects in Great Britain	6
Climate change loss and damage governance. Where are we now? A case study from Fiji’s sugar industry	6
Subterranean eco-dystopia in Istanbul: the concreted segregation of Tarlabaşı	6
The social implications of the vital city model: measuring the impact of urban vitality on neighbourhood sustainability	6
Mass housing planning and environmental considerations: case studies of post-war urban redevelopment in Erbil city, Kurdistan	6
The compound risk of heat and COVID-19 in New York City: riskscapes, physical and social factors, and interventions	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
A research-based, practice-relevant urban resilience framework for local government	5
Trends community-based waste management practice through waste bank in Indonesia: towards local environmental resilience	5
Can you standardise transformation? Reflections on the transformative potential of benchmarking as a mode of governance	5
Coping mechanisms and “homemaking” in the face of environmental challenges: exploring the experiences of adolescent refugees in Jordan	5
Struggles of street food vendors in Helsinki: a study of food truck and fixed stall vending using municipal land	5
Using a smart city framework to advance justice: applying an equity lens to compare air quality in neighbourhoods of different socioeconomic profiles	5
Perceived changes in the quality of terrestrial, coastal, marine environment and natural resources in coastal communities in the Caribbean	5
The contributions of socio-environmental information maps in an environmental mobilisation: the case of a fight against a highway project in France	5
From the ger districts to the city centre: contrasts and inequities of access and mobility in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia	5
Approaching an efficient means of addressing urban environmental challenges: a review of Ghana's “reactive” measures to “proactive” measures	5
Sustainable sharing in local communities: exploring the role of social capital	5
Unravelling the relationship between spatial and social inclusion: evidence from Korean cities and regions	5
Application of space syntax in neighbourhood park research: an investigation of multiple socio-spatial attributes of park use	5
“The bad job brings the good one”: photovoice study with female and male waste workers in Rwanda	5
How does community food growing build community bonds? Insights from grassroots visual storytelling	5
Promoting equity in urban heat: a greening approach for HOLC's legacy in Houston, Texas	5
Where are urban farms and community gardens? Examining sociodemographic and neighbourhood characteristics associated with urban agriculture in Ohio	5
Agricultural policies and local sustainability: a normative coherence for development analysis of Mexico's pineapple sector	5
Extreme heat adaptation in urban areas: a comparative case study of New York City and New Orleans	5
Bridging climate vulnerability and household poverty: perspectives from coastal fishery communities in Vietnam	5
River co-learning arenas: principles and practices for transdisciplinary knowledge co-creation and multi-scalar (inter)action	5
Understanding resistance to reductions in water subsidies in Kuwait	5