OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Society & Natural Resources is 4. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous People and Protected Spaces of Nature *Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous People and Protected Spa*	56
Minors Can Have Major Effects: Household Hurricane Preparation Insights from Alabama	38
An Analysis of Access in Devil’s Claw (HarpagophytumSpp.) Harvesting and Trade in Namibia	32
Mismatched Property Rights and Natural Resource Use: A Case Study of Grassland Resources on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	25
The Labor Governance Frontier in Fisheries: A Critical Review and Future Outlook	24
Relational Capital and Connectedness in Adaptive Governance Processes: A Case Study of the Kafue Flats, Zambia	22
The Challenges of Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Pastoral Rangelands	21
Factors That Influence On-Farm Decision-Making: Evidence from Weed Management	20
Factors Influencing Communities’ Attitudes and Participation in Protected Area Conservation: A Case Study from Northern Myanmar	17
“Going Green” Rhetoric or Reality: An Assessment of the Prospects and Challenges of Ghana’s Youth in Afforestation Programme	17
Why Do we Conserve?: Identifying Mechanisms in Agricultural Conservation Practice Adoption Decisions	17
“Evergreen and Charcoal Black”: The Institutional and Organizational Development of the Washington Department of Natural Resources in the Era of Megafires	15
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	15
Correction	15
Unlikely Alliances in Action: Balancing Alignment and Autonomy in Rural-Urban Water Conflicts	15
Quantifying the Influence of Emotions on Management Acceptability for White-Tailed Deer(Odocoileus virginianus)	15
Protecting and Benefitting from Nature: Insights and Policy Dilemmas from Africa	14
Unsheltered Homelessness in Public Natural Areas Across an Urban-to-Wildland System: Institutional Perspectives	14
Balpara: A Practical Approach to Working With Ontological Difference in Indigenous Land & Sea Management	13
Salish Sea Survey: Geographic Literacy Enhancing Natural Resource Management	13
Examining Normative Influences on Intentions to Reduce Irrigated Landscape Area through a Compliance and Belonging Lens	13
Does Cooperation between Finnish Forest Owners Increase Their Interest in Capercaillie (Tetrao Urogallus) Lekking Site Management?	12
Customary Authorities and Environmental Governance in Africa: A Systematic Review	11
A Practical Approach to Developing and Using Online Games for Transdisciplinary Research into Complex Social-Ecological Systems	11
Community Forestry Governance: Lessons for Cameroon and Nepal	10

A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Government Influence on Collaborative Watershed Institutions in Ohio (USA) and the Dominican Republic and Implications for Decentralization of Resource Management	10
Hydropower Development and the Neglect of Inland Capture Fisheries from a Food Systems Perspective	9
Just Transitions’ Meanings: A Systematic Review	9
Supporting Women Landowners in Wetland Conservation	9
Negotiated Agreements and Sámi Reindeer Herding in Sweden: Evaluating Outcomes	9
Managed Wildfire: A Strategy Facilitated by Civil Society Partnerships and Interagency Cooperation	9
Disaster Resettlement and Adaptive Capacity among Rural Households in China	8
Exploring the Potential of Internal Information Flows in Large Organizations as Leverage Points for Environmental Stewardship	8
“They Need to Be Managed:” Hunters’ and Ranchers’ Narratives of Increased Tolerance of Wolves after a Decade of Wolf Hunting	8
Measuring Social Equity Outcomes in a Community-Based Conservation Program in Ethiopia: Developing and Applying Local Indicators	8
Private Property and Social Capital: Dynamics of Exclusion and Sharing in the Subdivided Pastoral Rangelands of Kajiado, Kenya	8
Conservation as Integration: Desire to Belong as Motivation for Environmental Conservation	7
A National Park in the Making: Local Perceptions and Equity Implications around a Proposed National Park in Romania	7
Using Personal Norms to Understand Deer Hunters’ Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Prevention Behaviors: The “Right” Thing to Do	7
Evaluating Social Equity in Protected Areas Co-management: Evidence from the Sundarbans Mangrove Forests, Bangladesh	7
Taking Stock of Land Use Conflict Research: A Systematic Map with Special Focus on Conceptual Approaches	7
Application of Participatory Process Mapping to Evaluate Environmental Decision-Making and Implementation	7
Evaluating Conservation Easement and Land Records Data in Rapidly Growing Counties in the United States and the Implications for Environmental Governance	7
Littering Prevention in Ghana: The Mediating and Moderating Effect of Awareness of Consequence with the Theory of Value-Belief-Norm	7
Disrupting the Patrón: Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay’s Chaco	7
Conference of the Parties Meetings as Regularly Scheduled Critical Events for Global Climate Governance: Reflecting on COP 26 and the Glasgow Climate Pact	6
How Endogenous Cultural Institutions May (Not) Shape Farmers’ Climate Adaptation Practices: Learning from Rural Cameroon	6
The Evolution of Public Engagement in United States Environmental Governance: A Justice-Centered Framework	6
A Web-Based Approach to Stakeholder Analysis for Identifying and Understanding Broader Constituencies in Wildlife Conservation	6
A Stakeholder Network for Managing Multiple Forest Stressors and Roadside Forests	6
Applying Novel Visitation Models using Diverse Social Media to Understand Recreation Change after Wildfire and Site Closure	6
Measuring Tourism Impacts on Community Well-being at the Hani Rice Terraces GIAHS Site, Yunnan Province of China	6
Building Community for Participatory Modeling: Network Composition, Trust, and Adaptive Process Design	6
Assessing Social Capital Studies Related to Community-Based Forest Management in Asian Countries: A Review	6
Socioeconomic Trajectories of 10 Rural Federal Forest-Based Communities in the American Pacific Northwest	6
Correction	6
Does Educational Profile Influence Student Perception of Ecosystem Service Provision by Blue-Green Infrastructure?	6
Water Equity: The South African Case	6
“When Will the Tree Grow for Me to Benefit from It?”: Tree Tenure Reform to Counter Mining in Southwestern Ghana	6
Mainstreaming Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices in Climate-Sensitive Policies for Resilient Agricultural Systems in Ghana	6
Being Paramuno : Peasant World-Making Practices in the Paramos [High Moorlands] of the Colombian Andes	5
More than Landscape: Toward Cosmophanic Diversity in Environmental Planning and Governance	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
Navigating Cross-Cultural Relationships to Address the Illegal Wildlife Trade: Learning From Western-Interactions With Traditional Chinese Medicine and Traditional Knowledges	5
Spatial Biopolitics of Tick-Borne Disease Control Practices in Laikipia, Kenya	5
Exploring Conservation Actor Networks in Trinidad And Tobago	5
A Systematic Review of Environmental Volunteer Motivations	5
Conservation Conflict: A Political Ecology Meta-Synthesis of East Africa	5
Publisher’s Note, dated 6th May 2022	5
Seeing the Forest for the Trees Sequel II: An Exploratory Bibliometric Analysis of the Chinese Environmental and Resource Sociology/Social Science Literature	5
How Row-Crop Farmers Adapted Nitrogen Management in Response to Market Volatility: Evidence from Interviews in the United States Midwest	5
“I Can’t Breathe:” The Invisible Slow Violence of Breathing Politics in Minneapolis	5
Citizen Science and Natural Resource Management: A Social Network Analysis of Two Community-Based Water Monitoring Programs	5
Political Ontologies of Colombian Amazonia: Peasant Resistance in Protected Areas	5
Book Review: Hottest of the Hotspots: The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar	5

The Use of Q Methodology as a Participatory Tool in Natural Resources Management	5
Insights into the Cocoa and Forests Initiative: Smallholder Engagement with Certification Programs and Agroforestry	5
“Here” Versus “There”: Authoritarian Populism, Environment, and Scapegoat Ecology Among Loggers of Northwestern Russia	5
Displacement after the Camp Fire: Where are the Most Vulnerable?	5
Visibility, Land Use, Social Norms, and Partisanship in Support for a Hypothetical Solar Facility in Non-Metropolitan Michigan	5
Understanding Multidirectional Climate Change Impacts on Local Livelihoods through the Lens of Local Ecological Knowledge: A Study in Western Amazonia	5
Recreation Area Characteristics and Their Impact on Property Values within Florida’s Wekiva River System	5
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future	5
Perceptions of Climate Risks and Migration of Agricultural Producers in Northern Benin	5
“Collaborative NGO Analysis in NRM: When your collaborator is also your unit of analysis”	5
Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park	4
Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Understand Family Forest Owners’ Intended Responses to Invasive Forest Insects	4
Violations of Forest Laws in the Bu Gia Map National Park, Vietnam	4
Enhancing Online Survey Research in Environmental and Conservation Social Sciences: A GIS-Based Place Mapping Validation Technique for Enhancing Sample Quality	4
Voting “Yes” for Community-Level Conservation: Cognitive Antecedents of Support for a Greenspace Ballot Initiative	4
Social and Cultural Values and Representation Justice: Implications for Water	4
Workers’ Acquiescence to Air Pollution: A Qualitative Study of Coal Miners in China	4
Linking Tourism and Conservation on Privately Owned Natural Areas: A Systematic Review of English-Language Literature	4
Impact of Stone Quarrying on Sustainable Livelihoods and Environment in Selected Communities in Ghana: implications for the Sustainable Development Goals	4
How Sociopolitical Histories and Lifeways Impact the Formation of ‘Good Governance’ in the Restoration of Anadromous Fish in the Columbia River Basin	4
“Death by a Thousand Cuts”: Conservation Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Protecting Lakes in a Tourist Region Surrounded by Agriculture	4
Conservation Science and Discursive Violence: A Response to Two Rejoinders	4
Trust and Emotions Predict Support for Large Carnivore Recovery in the Absence of Real Threats	4
Inter-Group Perceptions of Key Performance Indicators for Monitoring and Evaluating Scenic Viewpoints	4
Conflicting Notions of Land in Indonesia	4
Does Information and Deliberation Affect Ecosystem Service Judgments? Evidence from Tree Plantation Expansion in Argentina	4
Tackling (Not Only) Air Pollution: Cross-sectional Tensions behind State-led Energy Retrofit Program in Poland	4
An Irreplaceable Place: Onto-Epistemological Contestation in the Environmental Impact Assessment Process of the Green Anglo American Sakatti Mine, Arctic Finland	4
Facilitating the Czech Coal Phase-Out: What Drives Inter-Organizational Collaboration?	4
Formative Interests and Pathways to Natural Resources Careers among Historically Underrepresented People	4
Correction	4
Transmigrants Experiences of Recognitional (in)Justice in Indonesia’s Environmental Impact Assessment	4
The Collective Memory of the Fluvial Environment: The Loss of a Healthy Natural Environment in the City of Toledo (Spain) through Pollution	4
Navigating the Space between Policy and Practice: Toward a Typology of Collaborators in a Federal Land Management Agency	4