OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions is 24. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Corrigendum to “Formation and performance of collaborative disaster management networks: Evidence from a Swedish wildfire response” [Global Environ. Change 41 (2016) 183–194]	286
Civil society and survival: Indigenous Amazigh climate adaptation in Morocco	225
Steel stocks and flows of global merchant fleets as material base of international trade from 1980 to 2050	169
Potential for climate change driven spatial mismatches between apple crops and their wild bee pollinators at a continental scale	153
Localized land tenure registration in Burundi and eastern DR Congo: Contributing to sustainable peace?	150
Niches for transformative change within dominant territorial pathways: Practices and perspectives in a Nicaraguan agricultural frontier	147
The multifaceted spectra of power − A participatory network analysis on power structures in diverse dryland regions	145
Assisted tree migration can reduce but not avert the decline of forest ecosystem services in Europe	142
Editorial Board	127
Why are carbon taxes unfair? Disentangling public perceptions of fairness	125
Carbon tax salience counteracts price effects through moral licensing	125
Beyond the binary of trapped populations and voluntary immobility: A people-centered perspective on environmental change and human immobility at Lake Urmia, Iran	118
Tackling the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies by making peace with nature 50 years after the Stockholm Conference	117
Enforcement and inequality in collective PES to reduce tropical deforestation: Effectiveness, efficiency and equity implications	106
Global energy consumption of the mineral mining industry: Exploring the historical perspective and future pathways to 2060	105
Why are sustainable practices often elusive? The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions	100
Agency, social networks, and adaptation to environmental change	98
How social movements use religious creativity to address environmental crises in Indonesian local communities	98
Spinning in circles? A systematic review on the role of theory in social vulnerability, resilience and adaptation research	90
Situated adaptation: Tackling the production of vulnerability through transformative action in Sri Lanka’s Dry Zone	89
National leverage points to reduce global pesticide pollution	86
How seasonal cultures shape adaptation on Aotearoa – New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula	85
Carbon territoriality at the land-water interface	83
The value of property rights and environmental policy in Brazil: Evidence from a new database on land prices	83
Corrigendum to “Scaling Indigenous-led natural resource management” [Glob. Environ. Chang. 84 (2024) 102799]	83

“Scale and access to the Green climate Fund: Big challenges for small island developing States”	81
Diffusion of global climate policy: National depoliticization, local repoliticization in Turkey	78
OK Boomer: A decade of generational differences in feelings about climate change	78
COVID-19 to go? The role of disasters and evacuation in the COVID-19 pandemic	77
Anticipating socio-technical tipping points	75
Mining threatens isolated indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon	74
Subnational institutions and power of landholders drive illegal deforestation in a major commodity production frontier	69
Climate change and the demand for recreational ecosystem services on public lands in the continental United States	68
Transformative potential in sustainable development goals engagement: Experience from local governance in Australia	64
Editorial Board	63
Religious values and family upbringing as antecedents of food waste avoidance	63
A global multi-indicator assessment of the environmental impact of livestock products	61
Low perception of climate change by farmers and herders on Tibetan Plateau	61
Spectrums of Relocation: A typological framework for understanding risk-based relocation through space, time and power	60
Designing a virtuous cycle: Quality of governance, effective climate change mitigation, and just outcomes support each other	60
Socio-economic and climatic changes lead to contrasting global urban vegetation trends	57
Experience is not enough: A dynamic explanation of the limited adaptation to extreme weather events in public organizations	55
Experience with extreme weather events increases willingness-to-pay for climate mitigation policy	54
Just social-ecological tipping scales: A mid-range social theory of change in coal and carbon intensive regions	54
Everyday Adaptation: Theorizing climate change adaptation in daily life	54
Catalyzing sustainability pathways: Navigating urban nature based solutions in Europe	54
Does stakeholder participation improve environmental governance? Evidence from a meta-analysis of 305 case studies	52
Expert preferences on options for biodiversity conservation under climate change	51
Knowledge co-production for decision-making in human-natural systems under uncertainty	51
Impact of lifestyle, human diet and nutrient use efficiency in food production on eutrophication of global aquifers and surface waters	51
China’s nature-based solutions in the Global South: Evidence from Asia, Africa, and Latin America	50
Anti-corruption and corporate environmental responsibility: Evidence from China’s anti-corruption campaign	49
Global Environmental Change: 30 years of interdisciplinary research on the human and policy dimensions of environmental change	49
Does Climate Change Exacerbate Gender Inequality in Cognitive Performance?	48
Climate change messages can promote support for climate action globally	47
Carbon capability revisited: Theoretical developments and empirical evidence	47
The production-protection nexus: How political-economic processes influence prospects for transformative change in human-wildlife interactions	46
Strong collaborative governance networks support effective Forest Stewardship Council-certified community-based forest management: Evidence from Southeast Tanzania	46
Conflict and conservation: On the role of protected areas for environmental justice	45
Greenhouse gas emissions from global cities under SSP/RCP scenarios, 1990 to 2100	44
Drivers of future fluvial flood risk change for residential buildings in Europe	44
Using Protection Motivation Theory to examine information-seeking behaviors on climate change	44
Editorial Board	43
Fairness critically conditions the carbon budget allocation across countries	43
Challenges to anticipatory coastal adaptation for transformative nature-based solutions	43
Natural disasters and climate change beliefs: The role of distance and prior beliefs	43
Editorial Board	42
Progress in understanding the social dimensions of desalination and future research directions	42
Carbon farming diffusion in Australia	41
Finding the right partners? Examining inequalities in the global investment landscape of hydropower	41
Corporate concessions: Opportunity or liability for climate advocacy groups?	40
Climate change mitigation on tropical peatlands: A triple burden for smallholder farmers in Indonesia	39
Climate change and coastal megacities: Adapting through mobility	39
Indigenous women are the “guardians of Pachamama”: Territorial sovereignty is indispensable for just climate change adaptations in Peru	39
Attributing deforestation-driven biodiversity decline in the Gran Chaco to agricultural commodity supply chains	38

Are large-scale hydroelectric dams inherently undemocratic?	38
Deep Transitions: Towards a comprehensive framework for mapping major continuities and ruptures in industrial modernity	38
Willingness-to-pay for carbon dioxide offsets: Field evidence on revealed preferences in the aviation industry	37
Experiences of vulnerable households in low-attention disasters: Marshalltown, Iowa (United States) after the EF3 Tornado	37
Environmental change and migration aspirations: Evidence from Bangladesh	37
Methods matter: Improved practices for environmental evaluation of dietary patterns	36
Aligning climate and sustainable development finance through an SDG lens. The role of development assistance in implementing the Paris Agreement	35
Beyond the boom-bust cycle: An interdisciplinary framework for analysing crop booms	35
The impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on a network of 276 international organizations	34
Toward health-environment policy: Beyond the Rome Declaration	34
Corrigendum to “Making sense of the politics in the climate change loss & damage debate” [Glob. Environ. Chang. (2020) 102133]	34
“Sometimes, I just want to scream”: Institutional barriers limiting adaptive capacity and resilience to extreme events	33
Sharing the road: Political ideologies and political party preference as drivers of public transport infrastructure support	33
Can REDD+ succeed? Occurrence and influence of various combinations of interventions in subnational initiatives	32
Empirical testing of the visualizations of climate change mitigation scenarios with citizens: A comparison among Germany, Poland, and France	32
Editorial Board	32
Cognition of feedback loops in a fire-prone social-ecological system	32
Editorial Board	32
Constructing the adaptation economy: Climate resilient development and the economization of vulnerability	31
Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response	31
How qualitative approaches matter in climate and ocean change research: Uncovering contradictions about climate concern	30
The emissions responsibility accounting of multinational enterprises for an efficient climate policy	30
Framing the just transition: How international trade unions engage with UN climate negotiations	30
Embodied carbon dioxide emissions to provide high access levels to basic infrastructure around the world	30
“Climate-smart agriculture and food security: Cross-country evidence from West Africa”	30
Global energy scenarios: A geopolitical reality check	30
More than a safety net: Ethiopia’s flagship public works program increases tree cover	30
Colonial contexts and the feasibility of mitigation through transition: A study of the impact of historical processes on the emissions dynamics of nation-states	29
Implementing a knowledge system: Lessons from the global stewardship of climate services	29
On viability: Climate change and the science of possible futures	29
Vulnerability locked in. On the need to engage the outside of the adaptation box	28
Why has the Brazilian Cerrado been left behind by voluntary environmental policies?	28
Land-use spillovers from environmental policy interventions	28
Climate-smart peatland management and the potential for synergies between food security and climate change objectives in Indonesia	28
Assessing the social and environmental impacts of critical mineral supply chains for the energy transition in Europe	28
Are managed retreat programs successful and just? A global mapping of success typologies, justice dimensions, and trade-offs	28
Scaling smallholder tree cover restoration across the tropics	28
Commentary: Transformative Change in Governance Systems	28
Renewable energy policies and household solid fuel dependence	28
Commentary : The Future of Changes in Global Ecosystem Services	27
Pathways to conventional and radical climate action: The role of temporal orientation, environmental cognitive alternatives, and eco-anxiety	27
Navigating climate crises in the Great Barrier Reef	27
Editorial Board	27
Typologies of actionable climate information and its use	26
Compound[ing] disasters in Puerto Rico: Pathways for virtual transdisciplinary collaboration to enhance community resilience	26
Public policies and global forest conservation: Empirical evidence from national borders	25
Environmental regulation and innovation: Evidence from China	25
Resilience to disaster: Evidence from American wellbeing data	25
An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands	25
A new dynamic framework is required to assess adaptation limits	25
Tackling the academic air travel dependency. An analysis of the (in)consistency between academics’ travel behaviour and their attitudes	25
Assessing synergies and trade-offs of diverging Paris-compliant mitigation strategies with long-term SDG objectives	25
Greenhouse gas mitigation co-benefits across the global agricultural development programs	25
Editorial Board	24
The demographics of energy and mobility poverty: Assessing equity and justice in Ireland, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates	24
Global forest products markets and forest sector carbon impacts of projected sea level rise	24
Transformations to sustainability: Processes, practices, and pathways	24
Bookkeepers of catastrophes: The overlooked role of reinsurers in climate change debates	24
Pursuing sustainable nitrogen management following the “5 Ps” principles: Production, People, Planet, Policy and Partnerships	24