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 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
COVID-19 to go? The role of disasters and evacuation in the COVID-19 pandemic	103
Global energy consumption of the mineral mining industry: Exploring the historical perspective and future pathways to 2060	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
Walking with farmers: Floods, agriculture and the social practice of everyday mobility	78
Subnational institutions and power of landholders drive illegal deforestation in a major commodity production frontier	78
Why are sustainable practices often elusive? The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions	75
“Mind the (Policy-Implementation) Gap”: Transport decarbonisation policies and performances of leading global economies (1990–2018)	74
National leverage points to reduce global pesticide pollution	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
Everyday Adaptation: Theorizing climate change adaptation in daily life	57
A global multi-indicator assessment of the environmental impact of livestock products	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
Global Environmental Change: 30 years of interdisciplinary research on the human and policy dimensions of environmental change	53
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
Corrigendum to “The future urban heat-wave challenge in Africa: Exploratory analysis” [Global Environ. Change 66 (2021) 102190]	52
Climate change messages can promote support for climate action globally	51
Conflict and conservation: On the role of protected areas for environmental justice	49
Fairness critically conditions the carbon budget allocation across countries	49
Using Protection Motivation Theory to examine information-seeking behaviors on climate change	49
Strong collaborative governance networks support effective Forest Stewardship Council-certified community-based forest management: Evidence from Southeast Tanzania	49
Carbon capability revisited: Theoretical developments and empirical evidence	48
Natural disasters and climate change beliefs: The role of distance and prior beliefs	48
Drivers of future fluvial flood risk change for residential buildings in Europe	46
Greenhouse gas emissions from global cities under SSP/RCP scenarios, 1990 to 2100	46
Challenges to anticipatory coastal adaptation for transformative nature-based solutions	46
The production-protection nexus: How political-economic processes influence prospects for transformative change in human-wildlife interactions	46
Progress in understanding the social dimensions of desalination and future research directions	45
Carbon farming diffusion in Australia	45
Corporate concessions: Opportunity or liability for climate advocacy groups?	45
Editorial Board	45
Deep Transitions: Towards a comprehensive framework for mapping major continuities and ruptures in industrial modernity	45
Editorial Board	45
Indigenous women are the “guardians of Pachamama”: Territorial sovereignty is indispensable for just climate change adaptations in Peru	44
Methods matter: Improved practices for environmental evaluation of dietary patterns	43

Environmental change and migration aspirations: Evidence from Bangladesh	43
Exploring global interregional food system's sustainability using the functional regions typology	41
Willingness-to-pay for carbon dioxide offsets: Field evidence on revealed preferences in the aviation industry	41
Finding the right partners? Examining inequalities in the global investment landscape of hydropower	40
Aligning climate and sustainable development finance through an SDG lens. The role of development assistance in implementing the Paris Agreement	40
Are large-scale hydroelectric dams inherently undemocratic?	40
Climate change and coastal megacities: Adapting through mobility	40
Climate change mitigation on tropical peatlands: A triple burden for smallholder farmers in Indonesia	39
How stable are Australian farmers’ climate change risk perceptions? New evidence of the feedback loop between risk perceptions and behaviour	39
The impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on a network of 276 international organizations	38
Experiences of vulnerable households in low-attention disasters: Marshalltown, Iowa (United States) after the EF3 Tornado	38
Beyond the boom-bust cycle: An interdisciplinary framework for analysing crop booms	38
Corrigendum to “Making sense of the politics in the climate change loss & damage debate” [Glob. Environ. Chang. (2020) 102133]	37
Toward health-environment policy: Beyond the Rome Declaration	37
From seed to sequence: Dematerialization and the battle to (re)define genetic resources	37
“Sometimes, I just want to scream”: Institutional barriers limiting adaptive capacity and resilience to extreme events	37
How EU policies could reduce nutrient pollution in European inland and coastal waters	37
Six avenues for engendering creative environmentalism	37
“Caribou was the reason, and everything else happened after”: Effects of caribou declines on Inuit in Labrador, Canada	37
Empirical testing of the visualizations of climate change mitigation scenarios with citizens: A comparison among Germany, Poland, and France	36
To be ethical or to be good? The impact of ‘Good Provider’ and moral norms on food waste decisions in two countries	36
More than a safety net: Ethiopia’s flagship public works program increases tree cover	35
Cognition of feedback loops in a fire-prone social-ecological system	35
Editorial Board	35
Constructing the adaptation economy: Climate resilient development and the economization of vulnerability	35
Editorial Board	35
Framing the just transition: How international trade unions engage with UN climate negotiations	34
Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response	34
How qualitative approaches matter in climate and ocean change research: Uncovering contradictions about climate concern	33
“Climate-smart agriculture and food security: Cross-country evidence from West Africa”	33
Global energy scenarios: A geopolitical reality check	33
The emissions responsibility accounting of multinational enterprises for an efficient climate policy	33
Can REDD+ succeed? Occurrence and influence of various combinations of interventions in subnational initiatives	32
Implementing a knowledge system: Lessons from the global stewardship of climate services	31
Colonial contexts and the feasibility of mitigation through transition: A study of the impact of historical processes on the emissions dynamics of nation-states	31
Embodied carbon dioxide emissions to provide high access levels to basic infrastructure around the world	31
On viability: Climate change and the science of possible futures	30
Renewable energy policies and household solid fuel dependence	30
Scaling smallholder tree cover restoration across the tropics	30
Are managed retreat programs successful and just? A global mapping of success typologies, justice dimensions, and trade-offs	30
Climate-smart peatland management and the potential for synergies between food security and climate change objectives in Indonesia	30
Editorial Board	29
Commentary: Transformative Change in Governance Systems	29
Vulnerability locked in. On the need to engage the outside of the adaptation box	29
Assessing the social and environmental impacts of critical mineral supply chains for the energy transition in Europe	29
Commentary : The Future of Changes in Global Ecosystem Services	28
Editorial Board	28
Tackling the academic air travel dependency. An analysis of the (in)consistency between academics’ travel behaviour and their attitudes	27
Pathways to conventional and radical climate action: The role of temporal orientation, environmental cognitive alternatives, and eco-anxiety	27
Resilience to disaster: Evidence from American wellbeing data	27
Navigating climate crises in the Great Barrier Reef	27
A new dynamic framework is required to assess adaptation limits	27
Greenhouse gas mitigation co-benefits across the global agricultural development programs	27
Typologies of actionable climate information and its use	27
Public policies and global forest conservation: Empirical evidence from national borders	26
Opening space for equity and justice in resilience: A subjective approach to household resilience assessment	26
Compound[ing] disasters in Puerto Rico: Pathways for virtual transdisciplinary collaboration to enhance community resilience	26
More than planning: Diversity and drivers of institutional adaptation under climate change in 96 major cities	26
Assessing synergies and trade-offs of diverging Paris-compliant mitigation strategies with long-term SDG objectives	26
Between theory and action: Assessing the transformative character of climate change adaptation in 51 cases in the Netherlands	25
Editorial Board	25
Bookkeepers of catastrophes: The overlooked role of reinsurers in climate change debates	25
An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands	25
Editorial Board	25
Environmental regulation and innovation: Evidence from China	25
Measuring the contribution of nature-based solutions beyond climate adaptation in cities	25