OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions is 53. 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
Beyond the binary of trapped populations and voluntary immobility: A people-centered perspective on environmental change and human immobility at Lake Urmia, Iran	241
Niches for transformative change within dominant territorial pathways: Practices and perspectives in a Nicaraguan agricultural frontier	182
Corrigendum to “Formation and performance of collaborative disaster management networks: Evidence from a Swedish wildfire response” [Global Environ. Change 41 (2016) 183–194]	138
Civil society and survival: Indigenous Amazigh climate adaptation in Morocco	136
Localized land tenure registration in Burundi and eastern DR Congo: Contributing to sustainable peace?	131
Voices of young biosphere stewards on the strengths, weaknesses, and ways forward for 74 UNESCO Biosphere Reserves across 83 countries	128
Steel stocks and flows of global merchant fleets as material base of international trade from 1980 to 2050	123
Potential for climate change driven spatial mismatches between apple crops and their wild bee pollinators at a continental scale	122
Assisted tree migration can reduce but not avert the decline of forest ecosystem services in Europe	122
Why are carbon taxes unfair? Disentangling public perceptions of fairness	109
Enforcement and inequality in collective PES to reduce tropical deforestation: Effectiveness, efficiency and equity implications	108
Carbon tax salience counteracts price effects through moral licensing	108
Tackling the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies by making peace with nature 50 years after the Stockholm Conference	106
What future for primary aluminium production in a decarbonizing economy?	104
Global energy consumption of the mineral mining industry: Exploring the historical perspective and future pathways to 2060	103
COVID-19 to go? The role of disasters and evacuation in the COVID-19 pandemic	103
OK Boomer: A decade of generational differences in feelings about climate change	98
How social movements use religious creativity to address environmental crises in Indonesian local communities	96
How seasonal cultures shape adaptation on Aotearoa – New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula	95
The value of property rights and environmental policy in Brazil: Evidence from a new database on land prices	88
“Scale and access to the Green climate Fund: Big challenges for small island developing States”	88
Carbon territoriality at the land-water interface	85
Situated adaptation: Tackling the production of vulnerability through transformative action in Sri Lanka’s Dry Zone	83
Anticipating socio-technical tipping points	83
Corrigendum to “Scaling Indigenous-led natural resource management” [Glob. Environ. Chang. 84 (2024) 102799]	82

Diffusion of global climate policy: National depoliticization, local repoliticization in Turkey	79
Mining threatens isolated indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon	79
Subnational institutions and power of landholders drive illegal deforestation in a major commodity production frontier	78
Walking with farmers: Floods, agriculture and the social practice of everyday mobility	78
Why are sustainable practices often elusive? The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions	75
National leverage points to reduce global pesticide pollution	74
“Mind the (Policy-Implementation) Gap”: Transport decarbonisation policies and performances of leading global economies (1990–2018)	74
Transformative potential in sustainable development goals engagement: Experience from local governance in Australia	73
Climate change and the demand for recreational ecosystem services on public lands in the continental United States	72
Spinning in circles? A systematic review on the role of theory in social vulnerability, resilience and adaptation research	69
Expert preferences on options for biodiversity conservation under climate change	68
Catalyzing sustainability pathways: Navigating urban nature based solutions in Europe	66
Religious values and family upbringing as antecedents of food waste avoidance	65
Low perception of climate change by farmers and herders on Tibetan Plateau	65
Experience is not enough: A dynamic explanation of the limited adaptation to extreme weather events in public organizations	65
China’s nature-based solutions in the Global South: Evidence from Asia, Africa, and Latin America	65
Anti-corruption and corporate environmental responsibility: Evidence from China’s anti-corruption campaign	63
How does the World Bank shape global environmental governance agendas for coasts? 50 years of small-scale fisheries aid reveals paradigm shifts over time	60
Designing a virtuous cycle: Quality of governance, effective climate change mitigation, and just outcomes support each other	59
Knowledge co-production for decision-making in human-natural systems under uncertainty	58
Spectrums of Relocation: A typological framework for understanding risk-based relocation through space, time and power	58
A global multi-indicator assessment of the environmental impact of livestock products	57
Everyday Adaptation: Theorizing climate change adaptation in daily life	57
Impact of lifestyle, human diet and nutrient use efficiency in food production on eutrophication of global aquifers and surface waters	56
Pathways for climate resilient development: Human well-being within a safe and just space in the 21st century	56
Experience with extreme weather events increases willingness-to-pay for climate mitigation policy	55
Socio-economic and climatic changes lead to contrasting global urban vegetation trends	54
Does Climate Change Exacerbate Gender Inequality in Cognitive Performance?	53
Does stakeholder participation improve environmental governance? Evidence from a meta-analysis of 305 case studies	53
Global Environmental Change: 30 years of interdisciplinary research on the human and policy dimensions of environmental change	53