OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Society & Natural Resources 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The Labor Governance Frontier in Fisheries: A Critical Review and Future Outlook	41
An Analysis of Access in Devil’s Claw (HarpagophytumSpp.) Harvesting and Trade in Namibia	41
Socioenvironmental Conflict Management: Contributions from the Analysis of Visitor Spatial Behavior in Balandra Protected Natural Area, Mexico	27
Mismatched Property Rights and Natural Resource Use: A Case Study of Grassland Resources on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	27
Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous People and Protected Spaces of Nature *Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous People and Protected Spa*	26
Minors Can Have Major Effects: Household Hurricane Preparation Insights from Alabama	25
Why Do we Conserve?: Identifying Mechanisms in Agricultural Conservation Practice Adoption Decisions	22
“Going Green” Rhetoric or Reality: An Assessment of the Prospects and Challenges of Ghana’s Youth in Afforestation Programme	18
Factors Influencing Communities’ Attitudes and Participation in Protected Area Conservation: A Case Study from Northern Myanmar	17
Factors That Influence On-Farm Decision-Making: Evidence from Weed Management	17
Correction	16
What Was the Norm Is No Longer the Norm: Capturing Socio-Ecological Histories of Flood Resilience in Wisconsin’s Driftless Area through Archival News Analysis	16
Unlikely Alliances in Action: Balancing Alignment and Autonomy in Rural-Urban Water Conflicts	15
Does Cooperation between Finnish Forest Owners Increase Their Interest in Capercaillie (Tetrao Urogallus) Lekking Site Management?	14
Protecting and Benefitting from Nature: Insights and Policy Dilemmas from Africa	14
“Evergreen and Charcoal Black”: The Institutional and Organizational Development of the Washington Department of Natural Resources in the Era of Megafires	14
Examining Normative Influences on Intentions to Reduce Irrigated Landscape Area through a Compliance and Belonging Lens	14
Quantifying the Influence of Emotions on Management Acceptability for White-Tailed Deer(Odocoileus virginianus)	13
Balpara: A Practical Approach to Working With Ontological Difference in Indigenous Land & Sea Management	12
Unsheltered Homelessness in Public Natural Areas Across an Urban-to-Wildland System: Institutional Perspectives	12
Managed Wildfire: A Strategy Facilitated by Civil Society Partnerships and Interagency Cooperation	11
More than Just Honeybees: Exploring Native Insect Pollinator Knowledge and Support in Colorado	11
Customary Authorities and Environmental Governance in Africa: A Systematic Review	11
Negotiated Agreements and Sámi Reindeer Herding in Sweden: Evaluating Outcomes	11
A Practical Approach to Developing and Using Online Games for Transdisciplinary Research into Complex Social-Ecological Systems	11

Just Transitions’ Meanings: A Systematic Review	11
Hydropower Development and the Neglect of Inland Capture Fisheries from a Food Systems Perspective	11
Gender Inequality, Climate Change, and Armed Conflict: Exploring the Triple Challenges for Female Farmers in Northwestern Cameroon	10
Supporting Women Landowners in Wetland Conservation	10
Exploring the Potential of Internal Information Flows in Large Organizations as Leverage Points for Environmental Stewardship	10
“There’s More Negatives than Positives”: Community Perceptions About Climate Changes to Water Ecosystem Services in Southeast Michigan	10
Let Nature Take Its Course: Attitudes and Knowledge of Chronic Wasting Disease Among Southeastern Minnesota Amish Deer Hunters	10
In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua	10
Conservation as Integration: Desire to Belong as Motivation for Environmental Conservation	10
Taking Stock of Land Use Conflict Research: A Systematic Map with Special Focus on Conceptual Approaches	10
Private Property and Social Capital: Dynamics of Exclusion and Sharing in the Subdivided Pastoral Rangelands of Kajiado, Kenya	9
Constraints to Recreational Fishing among Underrepresented Anglers of Colorado	9
Evaluating Social Equity in Protected Areas Co-management: Evidence from the Sundarbans Mangrove Forests, Bangladesh	9
Measuring Social Equity Outcomes in a Community-Based Conservation Program in Ethiopia: Developing and Applying Local Indicators	9
Are Left-Wing and Right-Wing Authoritarianism Associated with Resident Attitudes and Support for Marine Reserves?	8
Application of Participatory Process Mapping to Evaluate Environmental Decision-Making and Implementation	8
Littering Prevention in Ghana: The Mediating and Moderating Effect of Awareness of Consequence with the Theory of Value-Belief-Norm	8
Using Personal Norms to Understand Deer Hunters’ Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Prevention Behaviors: The “Right” Thing to Do	8
Social Influence in Forest Management Transitions: A Study of Private Forest Owners in Sweden	8
“They Need to Be Managed:” Hunters’ and Ranchers’ Narratives of Increased Tolerance of Wolves after a Decade of Wolf Hunting	8
Conference of the Parties Meetings as Regularly Scheduled Critical Events for Global Climate Governance: Reflecting on COP 26 and the Glasgow Climate Pact	8
How Endogenous Cultural Institutions May (Not) Shape Farmers’ Climate Adaptation Practices: Learning from Rural Cameroon	8
Measuring Tourism Impacts on Community Well-being at the Hani Rice Terraces GIAHS Site, Yunnan Province of China	8
Disaster Resettlement and Adaptive Capacity among Rural Households in China	8
Disrupting the Patrón: Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay’s Chaco	8
Correction	7
Building Community for Participatory Modeling: Network Composition, Trust, and Adaptive Process Design	7
Publisher’s Note, dated 6th May 2022	7
Water Equity: The South African Case	7
Applying Novel Visitation Models using Diverse Social Media to Understand Recreation Change after Wildfire and Site Closure	7
Does Educational Profile Influence Student Perception of Ecosystem Service Provision by Blue-Green Infrastructure?	7
“When Will the Tree Grow for Me to Benefit from It?”: Tree Tenure Reform to Counter Mining in Southwestern Ghana	7
Conservation Conflict: A Political Ecology Meta-Synthesis of East Africa	7
The Evolution of Public Engagement in United States Environmental Governance: A Justice-Centered Framework	7
Co-Produced Science/co-Produced Communication: Mediated Science Storytelling and Generative Dialogue in Indigenous Knowledge co-Production Relationships	7
Socioeconomic Trajectories of 10 Rural Federal Forest-Based Communities in the American Pacific Northwest	7
“Here” Versus “There”: Authoritarian Populism, Environment, and Scapegoat Ecology Among Loggers of Northwestern Russia	7
More than Landscape: Toward Cosmophanic Diversity in Environmental Planning and Governance	6
Managing Recreation, Managing Collective Attention: Exploring the Nexus Between Conservation and Use of Migratory Species in France	6
The Use of Q Methodology as a Participatory Tool in Natural Resources Management	6
“What’s Love Got to Do with It?”: Theorizing Emotional Attachments to Land Through the Concept of Terraphilia	6
Investigating the Dynamics of Human–Wildlife Conflict in Oil Palm Plantation: Cases from Johor and Sabah, Malaysia	6
Perceptions of Climate Risks and Migration of Agricultural Producers in Northern Benin	6
“Collaborative NGO Analysis in NRM: When your collaborator is also your unit of analysis”	6
A Stakeholder Network for Managing Multiple Forest Stressors and Roadside Forests	6
Insights into the Cocoa and Forests Initiative: Smallholder Engagement with Certification Programs and Agroforestry	6
Assessing Social Capital Studies Related to Community-Based Forest Management in Asian Countries: A Review	6
Seeing the Forest for the Trees Sequel II: An Exploratory Bibliometric Analysis of the Chinese Environmental and Resource Sociology/Social Science Literature	6
How Row-Crop Farmers Adapted Nitrogen Management in Response to Market Volatility: Evidence from Interviews in the United States Midwest	6
Linking Community Characteristics to Performance in Fisheries Co-Management and Community-Based Management: Evidence from South Korea	6

A Systematic Review of Environmental Volunteer Motivations	6
The Determinants of Progress in Kenya’s Community-Based Conservation	6
Navigating Cross-Cultural Relationships to Address the Illegal Wildlife Trade: Learning From Western-Interactions With Traditional Chinese Medicine and Traditional Knowledges	5
Visibility, Land Use, Social Norms, and Partisanship in Support for a Hypothetical Solar Facility in Non-Metropolitan Michigan	5
“Steeped in Oil”: The Socio-Psychological Factors and Processes That Influence Community Members’ Attitudes toward Economic Diversification in an Oil and Gas-Producing Community	5
No Single Story: Exploring the Viewpoints of Estonian Environmental Civil Servants on Citizen Science with Q-Methodology	5
Learning from an Interdisciplinary Research Experience Exploring the Impacts of Global Changes on Quebec’s Northern Shrimp Fishery	5
Being Paramuno : Peasant World-Making Practices in the Paramos [High Moorlands] of the Colombian Andes	5
Political Ontologies of Colombian Amazonia: Peasant Resistance in Protected Areas	5
Spatial Biopolitics of Tick-Borne Disease Control Practices in Laikipia, Kenya	5
Unraveling Irrigation Governance: A Qualitative Systematic Review of Global Transformations Amid Agricultural Modernization and Neoliberalism	5
“I Can’t Breathe:” The Invisible Slow Violence of Breathing Politics in Minneapolis	5
Exploring Conservation Actor Networks in Trinidad And Tobago	5
Tackling (Not Only) Air Pollution: Cross-sectional Tensions behind State-led Energy Retrofit Program in Poland	5
“The Great Vermont Floods of 2023”: A Risk and Crisis Communication Assessment	5
Recreation Area Characteristics and Their Impact on Property Values within Florida’s Wekiva River System	5
Factors Influencing Reenrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program	5
The Influences of Performance and Process Factors on Public Participation in Water Governance: Multilevel Evidence of Survey Data in Guangzhou, China	5
Citizen Science and Natural Resource Management: A Social Network Analysis of Two Community-Based Water Monitoring Programs	5
Lessons from Europe About Just Agrifood Governance: EU Green Deal, Farmer Protests, and the Politics of Diagonalism	5
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future	5
Impact of Stone Quarrying on Sustainable Livelihoods and Environment in Selected Communities in Ghana: implications for the Sustainable Development Goals	5
Understanding Local Peoples’ Deforestation Decisions in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia	5
Mainstreaming Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices in Climate-Sensitive Policies for Resilient Agricultural Systems in Ghana	5
Book Review: Hottest of the Hotspots: The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar	5
Conflicting Notions of Land in Indonesia	5
Understanding Multidirectional Climate Change Impacts on Local Livelihoods through the Lens of Local Ecological Knowledge: A Study in Western Amazonia	5