OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Environmental Law is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 and Wildlife Farming in China: Legislating to Protect Wild Animal Health and Welfare in the Wake of a Global Pandemic	17
Carbon Border Adjustment Measures: A Straightforward Multi-Purpose Climate Change Instrument?	17
The ‘Advance Interference-Like Effect’ of Climate Targets: Fundamental Rights, Intergenerational Equity and the German Federal Constitutional Court	16
Rights of Nature in Practice: A Case Study on the Impacts of the Colombian Atrato River Decision	16
Vietnam’s Regulations to Prevent Pollution from Plastic Waste: A Review Based on the Circular Economy Approach	12
The First Climate Judgment before the Norwegian Supreme Court: Aligning Law with Politics	11
Just Transition as an Evolving Concept in International Climate Law	10
Environmental Policy in Good and Bad Times: The Countercyclical Effects of Carbon Taxes and Cap-and-Trade	8
The Intergenerational Effect of Fundamental Rights: A Contribution of the German Federal Constitutional Court to Climate Protection	7
Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China: Findings from 570 Court Cases Brought by NGOs, Public Prosecutors and Local Government	6
Regulating Trade in Forest-Risk Commodities: Two Cheers for the European Union	6
The Contribution of Urgenda to the Mitigation of Climate Change	6
Trading Plastic Waste in a Global Economy: Soundly Regulated by the Basel Convention?	6
Assessing the Impact of the Habitats Directive: A Case Study of Europe’s Plants	5
COVID-19, Climate Change Action and the Road to Green Recovery	5
The Impact of the European Landscape Convention on Landscape Planning in Spain, Italy and England	5
The Complexities of Comparative Climate Constitutionalism	4
The European Climate Law: Strengthening EU Procedural Climate Governance?	4
Climate Change, Fundamental Rights, and Statutory Interpretation	4
Tort to the Environment: A Stretch Too Far or a Simple Step Forward?	4
Recent Youth-Led and Rights-Based Climate Change Litigation in Canada: Reconciling Justiciability, Charter Claims and Procedural Choices	4
Scientific and Legal Mechanisms for Addressing Model Uncertainties: Negotiating the Right Balance in Finnish Judicial Review?	4
Temperature Targets and State Obligations on the Mitigation of Climate Change	3
Rethinking Clean Air: Air Quality Law and COVID-19	3
The Impact-based Regulatory Strategy in Environmental Law: Hallmark of Effectiveness or Pitfall for Legitimacy?	3

Systemic Climate Change Litigation, Standing Rules and the Aarhus Convention: A Purposive Approach	3
A Brave New World: The Aarhus Convention in Tempestuous Times	3
Shaping REDD+: Interactions between Bilateral and Multilateral Rulemaking	3
Megafauna Rewilding: Addressing Amnesia and Myopia in Biodiversity Law and Policy	3
From the Silo to the Landscape: The Role of Law in Landscape-scale Restoration of Coastal and Marine Ecosystems	3
Improving Energy Efficiency: The Significance of Normativity	3
Transnational Experts Wanted: Nigerian Oil Spills before the Dutch Courts	3
Exploring a Right to Submit Environmental Information Under International Environmental Law	2
The Delicate Task of Including Different Voices in Environmental Law Making in India	2
From Extra-Territorial Leverage and Transnational Environmental Protection to Distortions of Competition: The Level Playing Field in the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement	2
Allocation of Institutional Responsibility for Climate Change Mitigation: Judicial Application of Constitutional Environmental Provisions in the European Climate Cases Arctic Oil, Neubauer	2
‘Seeing the Wood for the Trees’: Revisiting the Consistency of Australia’s Illegal Logging Act with the Law of the World Trade Organization	2
The Legitimacy of Specialist Environmental Courts: Integrity as Capacity	2
Implementing Landscape-scale Environmental Management: Landscape Enterprise Networks	2
Maintaining, Enhancing and Restoring the Peatlands of Wales: Unearthing the Challenges of Law and Sustainable Land Management	2
The Role of Narrative in Environmental Law: The Nature of Tales and Tales of Nature	2
Trends in Environmental Law Scholarship: Marketisation, Globalisation, Polarisation, and Digitalisation	2
Applying the Precautionary Principle to Emerging Zoonotic Disease: Lessons from China’s Response in Environmental Law	2
Climate Disruption in Canadian Constitutional Law: References Re Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act	2
African Courts and Principles of International Environmental Law: A Kenyan and South African Case Study	2
A Duty to Care: The Case of Sharma v Minister for the Environment [2021] FCA 560	2
Environmental Force Majeure: Relief from Fossil Energy Contracts in the Decarbonisation Era	2
Environmental Constitutionalism with Chinese Characteristics	2
Marking out the Interpretive Possibilities of the Aarhus Convention	1
Compensation Funds as a Remedial Mechanism for Victims of Corporate Pollution in Kenya: A Feasibility Study	1
Legal Dilemmas of Climate Action	1
Compelled by the Court to Act on Climate Change: Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action Incorporated v Environment Protection Authority [2021] NSWLEC 92	1
Environmental Policy and Compensation in China: An Empirical Analysis of Article Eight of the Chinese Administrative License Law	1
The Interpretation of Planning Policy: The Role of the Court	1
How Much Should the Polluter Pay? Indian Courts and the Valuation of Environmental Damage	1
Protecting the Habitats of Endangered Species Through Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China: Lessons Learned from Peafowl Versus the Dam	1
The Evolution and Emergence of Environmental Law Scholarship—A Perspective from Three Journals	1
Friends of the Earth: ‘Government Policy’, Relevant Considerations and Human Rights	1
Energy Geopolitics and Climate Law: Interdisciplinary Environmental Law Scholarship in a Geopolitical World	1
Environmental Constitutionalism and Duties of Individuals in India	1
Environmental Impact Assessment: A Middle Eastern Experience	1
Climate Constitutionalism of the UK Supreme Court	1
NGOs Shaping Public Participation Through Law: The Aarhus Convention and Legal Mobilisation	1
Protection of Biocultural Heritage in the Anthropocene: Towards Reconciling Natural, Cultural, Tangible and Intangible Heritage	1
NGOs as Lobbyists: A Casualty of Environmental Law’s Tunnel Vision?	1
Revisiting Missed Opportunities: A Self-Reflection on (Not Always) Writing Meaningfully	1
Erratum to: Recent Youth-Led and Rights-Based Climate Change Litigation in Canada: Reconciling Justiciability, Charter Claims and Procedural Choices	1
Advocating for the Environment, Charity Law and Greenpeace: A New Zealand Perspective	1
The Nature, Content and Realisation of the Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment	1
Who Owns the Heat? The Scope for Geothermal Heat to Contribute to Net Zero	1
Uncharted Interplay and Troubled Implementation: Managing Hydropower’s Environmental Impacts under the EU Water Framework and Environmental Liability Directives	1
Recent Developments in U.S. Climate Law: Judicial Retrenchment and Congressional Action	1
Thinking Collectively: Law and Scholarship in Precarious Times	1
Waste, Fertilising Product, or Something Else? EU Regulation of Biochar	1
Breaking the Mould—Britain’s New Office for Environmental Protection	1

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