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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
The Influence of the Paris Agreement on Climate Litigation: Legal Obligations and Norms (Part I)∗	23
Net Zero for the International Shipping Sector? An Analysis of the Implementation and Regulatory Challenges of the IMO Strategy on Reduction of GHG Emissions	20
COVID-19 and Wildlife Farming in China: Legislating to Protect Wild Animal Health and Welfare in the Wake of a Global Pandemic	16
Rights of Nature in Practice: A Case Study on the Impacts of the Colombian Atrato River Decision	15
The ‘Advance Interference-Like Effect’ of Climate Targets: Fundamental Rights, Intergenerational Equity and the German Federal Constitutional Court	15
Carbon Border Adjustment Measures: A Straightforward Multi-Purpose Climate Change Instrument?	14
How to Reach a Safe Circular Economy?—Perspectives on Reconciling the Waste, Product and Chemicals Regulation	13
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
The Wicked Problem of Diffuse Nutrient Pollution from Agriculture	10
Vietnam’s Regulations to Prevent Pollution from Plastic Waste: A Review Based on the Circular Economy Approach	10
The Influence of the Paris Agreement on Climate Litigation: Causation, Corporate Governance and Catalyst (Part II)	9
Environmental Policy in Good and Bad Times: The Countercyclical Effects of Carbon Taxes and Cap-and-Trade	6
Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China: Findings from 570 Court Cases Brought by NGOs, Public Prosecutors and Local Government	6
The Intergenerational Effect of Fundamental Rights: A Contribution of the German Federal Constitutional Court to Climate Protection	6
The Contribution of Urgenda to the Mitigation of Climate Change	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
Trading Plastic Waste in a Global Economy: Soundly Regulated by the Basel Convention?	5
Assessing the Impact of the Habitats Directive: A Case Study of Europe’s Plants	5
Recent Youth-Led and Rights-Based Climate Change Litigation in Canada: Reconciling Justiciability, Charter Claims and Procedural Choices	4
Climate Change, Fundamental Rights, and Statutory Interpretation	4
Voluntary Ecolabels in International Trade Law: A Case Study of the EU Ecolabel	4
Regulating Trade in Forest-Risk Commodities: Two Cheers for the European Union	4
Scientific and Legal Mechanisms for Addressing Model Uncertainties: Negotiating the Right Balance in Finnish Judicial Review?	4

Tort to the Environment: A Stretch Too Far or a Simple Step Forward?	4
In the Name of Legitimacy and Efficiency: Evaluating China’s Legal Reform on EIA	3
The Complexities of Comparative Climate Constitutionalism	3
Systemic Climate Change Litigation, Standing Rules and the Aarhus Convention: A Purposive Approach	3
The Impact-based Regulatory Strategy in Environmental Law: Hallmark of Effectiveness or Pitfall for Legitimacy?	3
Biodiversity Offsetting and the English Planning System: A Regulatory Analysis	3
Temperature Targets and State Obligations on the Mitigation of Climate Change	3
Megafauna Rewilding: Addressing Amnesia and Myopia in Biodiversity Law and Policy	3
Transnational Experts Wanted: Nigerian Oil Spills before the Dutch Courts	3
A Brave New World: The Aarhus Convention in Tempestuous Times	3
Implementing Landscape-scale Environmental Management: Landscape Enterprise Networks	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
Allocation of Institutional Responsibility for Climate Change Mitigation: Judicial Application of Constitutional Environmental Provisions in the European Climate Cases Arctic Oil, Neubauer	2
Shaping REDD+: Interactions between Bilateral and Multilateral Rulemaking	2
Rethinking Clean Air: Air Quality Law and COVID-19	2
Certifying Biodiversity: The Union for Ethical BioTrade and the Search for Ethical Sourcing	2
The Delicate Task of Including Different Voices in Environmental Law Making in India	2
From the Silo to the Landscape: The Role of Law in Landscape-scale Restoration of Coastal and Marine Ecosystems	2
The Role of Narrative in Environmental Law: The Nature of Tales and Tales of Nature	2
Improving Energy Efficiency: The Significance of Normativity	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
Applying the Precautionary Principle to Emerging Zoonotic Disease: Lessons from China’s Response in Environmental Law	2
The Legitimacy of Specialist Environmental Courts: Integrity as Capacity	2
The European Climate Law: Strengthening EU Procedural Climate Governance?	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
Trends in Environmental Law Scholarship: Marketisation, Globalisation, Polarisation, and Digitalisation	2
Environmental Force Majeure: Relief from Fossil Energy Contracts in the Decarbonisation Era	2