OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Environmental Law is 2. 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