OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions is 25. 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
Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview	238
Providing decent living with minimum energy: A global scenario	238
The global scale, distribution and growth of aviation: Implications for climate change	198
Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015	143
Multiple cropping systems of the world and the potential for increasing cropping intensity	126
The Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale: Development and validation of a multidimensional scale	110
Anticipating futures through models: the rise of Integrated Assessment Modelling in the climate science-policy interface since 1970	107
Plural valuation of nature for equity and sustainability: Insights from the Global South	105
Contextualizing climate justice activism: Knowledge, emotions, motivations, and actions among climate strikers in six cities	103
The climate change mitigation impacts of active travel: Evidence from a longitudinal panel study in seven European cities	103
Socio-economic conditions for satisfying human needs at low energy use: An international analysis of social provisioning	91
Global inequalities in food consumption, cropland demand and land-use efficiency: A decomposition analysis	89
Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations	88
Global-scale impact analysis of mine tailings dam failures: 1915–2020	87
Sustainability transformations: socio-political shocks as opportunities for governance transitions	83
The trap of climate change-induced “natural” disasters and inequality	83
Surge in global metal mining threatens vulnerable ecosystems	81
Provisioning systems for a good life within planetary boundaries	81
The influence of political ideology on greenhouse gas emissions	80
A national approach to greenhouse gas abatement through blue carbon management	80
Climate change in news media across the globe: An automated analysis of issue attention and themes in climate change coverage in 10 countries (2006–2018)	79
Exploring river nitrogen and phosphorus loading and export to global coastal waters in the Shared Socio-economic pathways	76
(Un)making in sustainability transformation beyond capitalism	74
Knowledge co-production for Indigenous adaptation pathways: Transform post-colonial articulation complexes to empower local decision-making	74
Nature-dependent people: Mapping human direct use of nature for basic needs across the tropics	73

Linking internal and external transformation for sustainability and climate action: Towards a new research and policy agenda	72
Explaining Growing Glyphosate Use: The Political Economy of Herbicide-Dependent Agriculture	72
Economic costs of heat-induced reductions in worker productivity due to global warming	71
Exploratory modeling for analyzing coupled human-natural systems under uncertainty	71
Conflicted transitions: Exploring the actors, tactics, and outcomes of social opposition against energy infrastructure	71
Shared Socio-economic Pathways for European agriculture and food systems: The Eur-Agri-SSPs	68
Income, consumer preferences, and the future of livestock-derived food demand	68
Improving the evidence base: A methodological review of the quantitative climate migration literature	68
Use of aviation by climate change researchers: Structural influences, personal attitudes, and information provision	67
Science with society: Evidence-based guidance for best practices in environmental transdisciplinary work	65
Air conditioning and global inequality	63
Toward a climate mobilities research agenda: Intersectionality, immobility, and policy responses	62
The economics of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) deployment in a 1.5 °C or 2 °C world	62
Exploring future copper demand, recycling and associated greenhouse gas emissions in the EU-28	62
Negative-emissions technology portfolios to meet the 1.5 °C target	62
Early warnings and emerging accountability: Total’s responses to global warming, 1971–2021	59
Mapping feasibilities of greenhouse gas removal: Key issues, gaps and opening up assessments	58
The scale and drivers of carbon footprints in households, cities and regions across India	57
Aligning climate and sustainable development finance through an SDG lens. The role of development assistance in implementing the Paris Agreement	56
Nature unsettled: How knowledge and power shape ‘nature-based’ approaches to societal challenges	55
A conceptual framework for cross-border impacts of climate change	55
Prospects for a saturation of humanity’s resource use? An analysis of material stocks and flows in nine world regions from 1900 to 2035	55
How EU policies could reduce nutrient pollution in European inland and coastal waters	54
Modelling food security: Bridging the gap between the micro and the macro scale	53
A global assessment of the human pressure on the world's lakes	52
Knowing like a global expert organization: Comparative insights from the IPCC and IPBES	51
Systems thinking as a paradigm shift for sustainability transformation	50
Climate change in a changing world: Socio-economic and technological transitions, regulatory frameworks and trends on global greenhouse gas emissions from EDGAR v.5.0	50
An assessment of the performance of scenarios against historical global emissions for IPCC reports	49
Greenhouse gas emissions from global cities under SSP/RCP scenarios, 1990 to 2100	48
Climate change action as a project of identity: Eight meta-analyses	47
Mapping global patterns of land use decision-making	47
Cattle ranchers and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Production, location, and policies	47
Global long-term mapping of surface temperature shows intensified intra-city urban heat island extremes	47
Legume dreams: The contested futures of sustainable plant-based food systems in Europe	46
Public concern about, and desire for research into, the human health effects of marine plastic pollution: Results from a 15-country survey across Europe and Australia	46
Socio-economic and climatic changes lead to contrasting global urban vegetation trends	46
A scale-based framework to understand the promises, pitfalls and paradoxes of irrigation efficiency to meet major water challenges	46
How the future of the global forest sink depends on timber demand, forest management, and carbon policies	45
The global value of coastal wetlands for storm protection	45
Environmental and land defenders: Global patterns and determinants of repression	45
No peace for the forest: Rapid, widespread land changes in the Andes-Amazon region following the Colombian civil war	43
The political ecology playbook for ecosystem restoration: Principles for effective, equitable, and transformative landscapes	43
China’s pathway to carbon neutrality for the iron and steel industry	43
The global environmental paw print of pet food	41
Understanding plastic packaging: The co-evolution of materials and society	41
Fairness critically conditions the carbon budget allocation across countries	40
Why are carbon taxes unfair? Disentangling public perceptions of fairness	40
Hot dry days increase perceived experience with global warming	40
Incorporating blue carbon sequestration benefits into sub-national climate policies	40

Global sustainability, innovation and governance dynamics of national smart electricity meter transitions	40
Climate variability and child nutrition: Findings from sub-Saharan Africa	40
Plastic pollution and the open burning of plastic wastes	39
Closing yield gap is crucial to avoid potential surge in global carbon emissions	39
Designing effective and equitable zero-deforestation supply chain policies	39
Co-designing global target-seeking scenarios: A cross-scale participatory process for capturing multiple perspectives on pathways to sustainability	38
Sharing responsibility for trade-related emissions based on economic benefits	38
Engagement, involvement and empowerment: Three realms of a coproduction framework for climate services	38
Why climate migration is not managed retreat: Six justifications	38
Making sense of the politics in the climate change loss & damage debate	37
Mining threatens isolated indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon	37
Trans-Arctic shipping routes expanding faster than the model projections	37
Climate-Induced migration and unemployment in middle-income Africa	37
Greenhouse gas emissions from Mediterranean agriculture: Evidence of unbalanced research efforts and knowledge gaps	36
What could go wrong with cooking? Exploring vulnerability at the water, energy and food Nexus in Kampala through a social practices lens.	36
Tackling the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies by making peace with nature 50 years after the Stockholm Conference	36
Water borrowing is consistently practiced globally and is associated with water-related system failures across diverse environments	35
The quiet opposition: How the pro-economy lobby influences climate policy	35
Estimating the global potential of water harvesting from successful case studies	35
Climate anxiety: Conceptual considerations, and connections with climate hope and action	35
Prioritising resilience policies to reduce welfare losses from natural disasters: A case study for coastal Bangladesh	35
The future urban heat-wave challenge in Africa: Exploratory analysis	34
Environmental justice in coastal systems: Perspectives from communities confronting change	34
The impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on a network of 276 international organizations	33
Does smallholder maize intensification reduce deforestation? Evidence from Zambia	33
Harnessing scientific and local knowledge to face climate change in small-scale fisheries	33
Just adaptation? Generating new vulnerabilities and shaping adaptive capacities through the politics of climate-related resettlement in a Philippine coastal city	33
Does funds-based adaptation finance reach the most vulnerable countries?	33
The impacts of cocaine-trafficking on conservation governance in Central America	32
OK Boomer: A decade of generational differences in feelings about climate change	32
How stable are Australian farmers’ climate change risk perceptions? New evidence of the feedback loop between risk perceptions and behaviour	32
Illicit Drivers of Land Use Change: Narcotrafficking and Forest Loss in Central America	31
After the floods: Differential impacts of rainfall anomalies on child stunting in India	31
Anti-corruption and corporate environmental responsibility: Evidence from China’s anti-corruption campaign	31
The anticipatory governance of sustainability transformations: Hybrid approaches and dominant perspectives	31
Resilient livelihoods in an era of global transformation	30
The behavioral response to a corporate carbon offset program: A field experiment on adverse effects and mitigation strategies	30
Pathways for climate resilient development: Human well-being within a safe and just space in the 21st century	30
Urban greenspace as a climate change adaptation strategy for subtropical Asian cities: A comparative study across cities in three countries	29
The prosocial origin of sustainable behavior: A case study in the ecological domain	29
Cultural ecosystem services caught in a ‘coastal squeeze’ between sea level rise and urban expansion	29
The effect of industrialization and globalization on domestic land-use: A global resource footprint perspective	29
Explaining risk perception of microplastics: Results from a representative survey in Germany	29
Distributive justice in global climate finance – Recipients’ climate vulnerability and the allocation of climate funds	29
Water, energy and land insecurity in global supply chains	29
IPCC emission scenarios: How did critiques affect their quality and relevance 1990–2022?	29
A global comparison of carbon-water-food nexus based on dietary consumption	29
“Mind the (Policy-Implementation) Gap”: Transport decarbonisation policies and performances of leading global economies (1990–2018)	29
Extreme weather and marriage among girls and women in Bangladesh	28
Necessity-driven circular economy in low-income contexts: How informal sector practices retain value for circularity	28
Drivers and mechanisms of forest change in the Himalayas	28
Environmental regulation and innovation: Evidence from China	28
China’s rising influence on climate governance: Forging a path for the global South	28
Drivers and dimensions of flood risk perceptions: Revealing an implicit selection bias and lessons for communication policies	28
Inclusive wealth index measuring sustainable development potentials for Chinese cities	28
Institutional changes drive land use transitions on rangelands: The case of grazing on public lands in the American West	27
The geography of megatrends affecting European agriculture	27
Reproducing injustice: Why recognition matters in conservation project evaluation	27
Agency shifts in agricultural land governance and their implications for land degradation neutrality	27
How qualitative approaches matter in climate and ocean change research: Uncovering contradictions about climate concern	27
The Arctic Council: an agent of change?	27
Co-dynamics of climate policy stringency and public support	27
A green-gray path to global water security and sustainable infrastructure	27
Relating root causes to local risk conditions: A comparative study of the institutional pathways to small-scale disasters in three urban flood contexts	26
Just another buzzword? A systematic literature review of knowledge-related concepts in sustainability science	26
Impact of a climate network: The role of intermediaries in local level climate action	26
The role and limits of strategic framing for promoting sustainable consumption and policy	26
Socioeconomics effects on global hotspots of common debris items on land and the seafloor	25
Beyond climate, culture and comfort in European preferences for low-carbon heat	25
Risk-opportunity analysis for transformative policy design and appraisal	25
A global review of the impact of forest property rights interventions on poverty	25
The strengths and weaknesses of future visioning approaches for climate change adaptation: A review	25
Socioeconomic geography of climate change views in Europe	25
Disaster experiences of women with disabilities: Barriers and opportunities for disability inclusive disaster risk reduction in Cambodia	25
The ‘co’ in co-production of climate action: Challenging boundaries within and between science, policy and practice	25
More than planning: Diversity and drivers of institutional adaptation under climate change in 96 major cities	25
What future for primary aluminium production in a decarbonizing economy?	25