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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
An Analysis of Access in Devil’s Claw (HarpagophytumSpp.) Harvesting and Trade in Namibia	91
Socioenvironmental Conflict Management: Contributions from the Analysis of Visitor Spatial Behavior in Balandra Protected Natural Area, Mexico	33
Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous People and Protected Spaces of Nature *Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous People and Protected Spa*	26
The Labor Governance Frontier in Fisheries: A Critical Review and Future Outlook	26
Mismatched Property Rights and Natural Resource Use: A Case Study of Grassland Resources on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	25
Minors Can Have Major Effects: Household Hurricane Preparation Insights from Alabama	21
The Ecological-Symbolic Perspective and Ontological Security: An Analysis of Lead Contamination	19
“Evergreen and Charcoal Black”: The Institutional and Organizational Development of the Washington Department of Natural Resources in the Era of Megafires	17
Examining Normative Influences on Intentions to Reduce Irrigated Landscape Area through a Compliance and Belonging Lens	16
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	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
Unsheltered Homelessness in Public Natural Areas Across an Urban-to-Wildland System: Institutional Perspectives	14
Unlikely Alliances in Action: Balancing Alignment and Autonomy in Rural-Urban Water Conflicts	14
Preferences and Heterogeneity of Urban Residents for River Cultural Ecosystem Services: A Comparative Study Between China and Russia Using a Choice Experiment	14
Legal Recognition and Governance in Practice: Evidence from the Implementation of the Forest Rights Act in Tribal Areas	13
Water, Territory, and Identity: Traditional Knowledge in the Water Management of Ihe Xerente Indigenous Community	13
More than Just Honeybees: Exploring Native Insect Pollinator Knowledge and Support in Colorado	13
Balpara: A Practical Approach to Working With Ontological Difference in Indigenous Land & Sea Management	13
Hydropower Development and the Neglect of Inland Capture Fisheries from a Food Systems Perspective	13
Local Opposition to Renewable Energy: Integrating Misinformation and Controversy Perspectives	13
Supporting Women Landowners in Wetland Conservation	13
A Practical Approach to Developing and Using Online Games for Transdisciplinary Research into Complex Social-Ecological Systems	12
Negotiated Agreements and Sámi Reindeer Herding in Sweden: Evaluating Outcomes	12

Customary Authorities and Environmental Governance in Africa: A Systematic Review	12
Exploring the Potential of Internal Information Flows in Large Organizations as Leverage Points for Environmental Stewardship	11
Just Transitions’ Meanings: A Systematic Review	11
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
Gender Inequality, Climate Change, and Armed Conflict: Exploring the Triple Challenges for Female Farmers in Northwestern Cameroon	10
Constraints to Recreational Fishing among Underrepresented Anglers of Colorado	10
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Experiences of the Chronic Wasting Disease Management Community	10
“There’s More Negatives than Positives”: Community Perceptions About Climate Changes to Water Ecosystem Services in Southeast Michigan	10
Measuring Social Equity Outcomes in a Community-Based Conservation Program in Ethiopia: Developing and Applying Local Indicators	10
Adaptation, Mitigation or Sequestration? Analyzing Storylines About Climate Change and Forestry in Austrian Print Media	10
Relational Losses and Ecosystem Service Decline in a Ghanaian Mining Landscape	9
The Implementation of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) Within Canada’s Forest Sector: Examining the Transformative Influence of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Certification	9
Taking Stock of Land Use Conflict Research: A Systematic Map with Special Focus on Conceptual Approaches	9
Evaluating Social Equity in Protected Areas Co-management: Evidence from the Sundarbans Mangrove Forests, Bangladesh	9
The Evolution of Public Engagement in United States Environmental Governance: A Justice-Centered Framework	8
Social Influence in Forest Management Transitions: A Study of Private Forest Owners in Sweden	8
How Endogenous Cultural Institutions May (Not) Shape Farmers’ Climate Adaptation Practices: Learning from Rural Cameroon	8
Disrupting the Patrón: Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay’s Chaco	8
Are Left-Wing and Right-Wing Authoritarianism Associated with Resident Attitudes and Support for Marine Reserves?	8
Littering Prevention in Ghana: The Mediating and Moderating Effect of Awareness of Consequence with the Theory of Value-Belief-Norm	8
Applying Novel Visitation Models using Diverse Social Media to Understand Recreation Change after Wildfire and Site Closure	8
Using Personal Norms to Understand Deer Hunters’ Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Prevention Behaviors: The “Right” Thing to Do	8
Application of Participatory Process Mapping to Evaluate Environmental Decision-Making and Implementation	8
Measuring Tourism Impacts on Community Well-being at the Hani Rice Terraces GIAHS Site, Yunnan Province of China	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
Building Community for Participatory Modeling: Network Composition, Trust, and Adaptive Process Design	7
Correction	7
“When Will the Tree Grow for Me to Benefit from It?”: Tree Tenure Reform to Counter Mining in Southwestern Ghana	7
Seeing the Forest for the Trees Sequel II: An Exploratory Bibliometric Analysis of the Chinese Environmental and Resource Sociology/Social Science Literature	7
Role of Unauthorized Informal Institutions in Urban Water Governance: The Case of Faisalabad, Pakistan	7
The Impact of Institutional Pressures on Farmers’ Willingness to Transition to Green Production: A Perspective of New Institutional Theory	7
Conservation-Induced Dispossession and Local Community Responses: A Narrative Review of South Africa’s Dwesa-Cwebe	7
Water Equity: The South African Case	7
How Row-Crop Farmers Adapted Nitrogen Management in Response to Market Volatility: Evidence from Interviews in the United States Midwest	7
Promoting Wildlife Conservation Through Value-Framed Messages: A Study with Marmosets in Brazil and Wild Boar in Spain	7
Co-Produced Science/co-Produced Communication: Mediated Science Storytelling and Generative Dialogue in Indigenous Knowledge co-Production Relationships	7
Does Educational Profile Influence Student Perception of Ecosystem Service Provision by Blue-Green Infrastructure?	7
“Here” Versus “There”: Authoritarian Populism, Environment, and Scapegoat Ecology Among Loggers of Northwestern Russia	7
Assessing Social Capital Studies Related to Community-Based Forest Management in Asian Countries: A Review	7
Perceptions of Climate Risks and Migration of Agricultural Producers in Northern Benin	6
The Determinants of Progress in Kenya’s Community-Based Conservation	6
Conservation Conflict: A Political Ecology Meta-Synthesis of East Africa	6
“The Great Vermont Floods of 2023”: A Risk and Crisis Communication Assessment	6
“What’s Love Got to Do with It?”: Theorizing Emotional Attachments to Land Through the Concept of Terraphilia	6
A Stakeholder Network for Managing Multiple Forest Stressors and Roadside Forests	6
Investigating the Dynamics of Human–Wildlife Conflict in Oil Palm Plantation: Cases from Johor and Sabah, Malaysia	6
Factors Influencing Reenrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program	6
“Collaborative NGO Analysis in NRM: When your collaborator is also your unit of analysis”	6
Managing Recreation, Managing Collective Attention: Exploring the Nexus Between Conservation and Use of Migratory Species in France	6

Being Paramuno : Peasant World-Making Practices in the Paramos [High Moorlands] of the Colombian Andes	6
The Influences of Performance and Process Factors on Public Participation in Water Governance: Multilevel Evidence of Survey Data in Guangzhou, China	5
Understanding Multidirectional Climate Change Impacts on Local Livelihoods through the Lens of Local Ecological Knowledge: A Study in Western Amazonia	5
Unraveling Irrigation Governance: A Qualitative Systematic Review of Global Transformations Amid Agricultural Modernization and Neoliberalism	5
Visibility, Land Use, Social Norms, and Partisanship in Support for a Hypothetical Solar Facility in Non-Metropolitan Michigan	5
The Use of Q Methodology as a Participatory Tool in Natural Resources Management	5
“I Can’t Breathe:” The Invisible Slow Violence of Breathing Politics in Minneapolis	5
Successive Disturbances Reveal Internal Strengths and External Barriers to Resilience Within Small-Scale Fishing Communities in The Bahamas	5
A Systematic Review of Environmental Volunteer Motivations	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
Mainstreaming Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices in Climate-Sensitive Policies for Resilient Agricultural Systems in Ghana	5
Political Ontologies of Colombian Amazonia: Peasant Resistance in Protected Areas	5
The Evolution of International Rural Innovation Research and Its Implications for Rural Planning in China	5
Linking Community Characteristics to Performance in Fisheries Co-Management and Community-Based Management: Evidence from South Korea	5
Recreation Area Characteristics and Their Impact on Property Values within Florida’s Wekiva River System	5
Lessons from Europe About Just Agrifood Governance: EU Green Deal, Farmer Protests, and the Politics of Diagonalism	5
Citizen Science and Natural Resource Management: A Social Network Analysis of Two Community-Based Water Monitoring Programs	5
Impact of Stone Quarrying on Sustainable Livelihoods and Environment in Selected Communities in Ghana: implications for the Sustainable Development Goals	4
Do Local Environmental Sustainability and Agricultural Self-Employment Contribute to Food Security Within the Local Area and Its Neighboring Areas?	4
Conflicting Notions of Land in Indonesia	4
Energy-Induced Land Acquisition and Emerging Labor Configurations Around Ghana’s Bui Dam	4
Neither Worse nor Better: Engagement in Pro-Environmental Behaviors by UK-Born and Global South Immigrant Residents of Manchester UK	4
Linking Tourism and Conservation on Privately Owned Natural Areas: A Systematic Review of English-Language Literature	4
Book Review: Hottest of the Hotspots: The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar	4
Narratives of Legitimacy in Carbon Forestry: A Political Ecology Perspective	4
No Single Story: Exploring the Viewpoints of Estonian Environmental Civil Servants on Citizen Science with Q-Methodology	4
Navigating the Space between Policy and Practice: Toward a Typology of Collaborators in a Federal Land Management Agency	4
“If You Had a Sensor, You Would Know”: Unequal Exposures and Behavioral Responses to Indoor Air Pollution	4
An Irreplaceable Place: Onto-Epistemological Contestation in the Environmental Impact Assessment Process of the Green Anglo American Sakatti Mine, Arctic Finland	4
Learning from an Interdisciplinary Research Experience Exploring the Impacts of Global Changes on Quebec’s Northern Shrimp Fishery	4
Understanding Local Peoples’ Deforestation Decisions in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia	4
Tackling (Not Only) Air Pollution: Cross-sectional Tensions behind State-led Energy Retrofit Program in Poland	4
The Collective Memory of the Fluvial Environment: The Loss of a Healthy Natural Environment in the City of Toledo (Spain) through Pollution	4
How Sociopolitical Histories and Lifeways Impact the Formation of ‘Good Governance’ in the Restoration of Anadromous Fish in the Columbia River Basin	4
Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park	4