OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions is 20. 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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

Article	Citations
More than a safety net: Ethiopia’s flagship public works program increases tree cover	186
Forest 404: Using a BBC drama series to explore the impact of nature’s changing soundscapes on human wellbeing and behavior	136
Assessing future vulnerability and risk of humanitarian crises using climate change and population projections within the INFORM framework	130
The impact of local temperature volatility on attention to climate change: Evidence from Spanish tweets	113
Sharing responsibility for trade-related emissions based on economic benefits	103
Social and structural vulnerabilities: Associations with disaster readiness	102
Assessing the state of traditional knowledge at national level	101
Air pollutions and loan decision bias	98
Editorial Board	91
Cognition of feedback loops in a fire-prone social-ecological system	90
From mountains to megaregions: A powershed analysis of the Third Pole hydropower boom	89
Editorial Board	88
Editorial Board	88
Beyond the binary of trapped populations and voluntary immobility: A people-centered perspective on environmental change and human immobility at Lake Urmia, Iran	86
Broadening resilience: An evaluation of policy and planning for drinking water resilience in 100 US cities	86
Can REDD+ succeed? Occurrence and influence of various combinations of interventions in subnational initiatives	86
Global rainbow distribution under current and future climates	81
Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response	81
Grappling with a sea change: Tensions in expert imaginaries of marine carbon dioxide removal	80
Carbon tax salience counteracts price effects through moral licensing	75
Localized land tenure registration in Burundi and eastern DR Congo: Contributing to sustainable peace?	71
Editorial Board	70
Status, challenges and pathways to the sustainable use of wild species	70
Forty-year multi-scale land cover change and political ecology data reveal a dynamic and regenerative process of forests in Peruvian Indigenous Territories	70
How do natural resource dependent firms gain and lose a social licence?	69

Potentially harmful World Bank projects are proximate to areas of biodiversity conservation importance	68
Commentary: Food choices and environmental impacts: Achievements and challenges	67
Forest carbon trajectories: Consequences of alternative land-use scenarios in New England	67
Commentary: Recent progress and future directions for research related to migration and conflict	66
Towards a better understanding of gendered power in small scale fisheries of the Western Indian Ocean	64
Pathways to human well-being in the context of land acquisitions in Lao PDR	63
Scenario archetypes reveal risks and opportunities for global mountain futures	63
Impacts of multiple stressors on mountain communities: Insights from an agent-based model of a Nepalese village	60
Embodied carbon dioxide emissions to provide high access levels to basic infrastructure around the world	60
Potential for climate change driven spatial mismatches between apple crops and their wild bee pollinators at a continental scale	59
Niches for transformative change within dominant territorial pathways: Practices and perspectives in a Nicaraguan agricultural frontier	59
Effects of ozone air pollution on crop pollinators and pollination	59
Women participation in formal decision-making: Empirical evidence from participatory forest management in Ethiopia	58
Explaining the stickiness of supply chain relations in the Brazilian soybean trade	58
How qualitative approaches matter in climate and ocean change research: Uncovering contradictions about climate concern	57
Why common interests and collective action are not enough for environmental cooperation – Lessons from the China-EU cooperation discourse on circular economy	57
Mapping public appraisals of carbon dioxide removal	56
The emissions responsibility accounting of multinational enterprises for an efficient climate policy	51
Greening to shield: The impacts of extreme rainfall on economic activity in Latin American cities	50
The drivers of individual climate actions in Europe	50
Adaptive capacity within tropical marine protected areas – Differences between men- and women-headed households	50
Scaling mechanisms of energy communities: A comparison of 28 initiatives	49
Voices of young biosphere stewards on the strengths, weaknesses, and ways forward for 74 UNESCO Biosphere Reserves across 83 countries	49
Accelerated contraction of future climate comfort zones in the southern subtropics: Insights from analysis and simulation of hiking big data	48
Steel stocks and flows of global merchant fleets as material base of international trade from 1980 to 2050	47
In government we trust? Micro-business adaptation to climate change in four post-colonial and transitional economies of China	46
Assisted tree migration can reduce but not avert the decline of forest ecosystem services in Europe	46
The infrastructure cost of permafrost degradation for the Northern Hemisphere	46
“Climate-smart agriculture and food security: Cross-country evidence from West Africa”	46
Global-scale impact analysis of mine tailings dam failures: 1915–2020	45
Why are carbon taxes unfair? Disentangling public perceptions of fairness	44
Does hostility affect public support for the provision of global public goods among competing neighboring countries? A survey experiment in Northeast Asia	43
Collaboration and individual performance during disaster response	43
A global review of the impact of forest property rights interventions on poverty	43
Editorial Board	42
Crisis and opportunity: Transforming climate governance for SMEs	41
Agroecological measures and circular economy strategies to ensure sufficient nitrogen for sustainable farming	40
Global energy consumption of the mineral mining industry: Exploring the historical perspective and future pathways to 2060	40
Gender dimensions of climate change adaptation in Tigray, Ethiopia	40
Mapping a sustainable water future: Private sector opportunities for global water security and resilience	40
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	39
Regulatory politics and hybrid governance: the case of Brazil’s Amazon Soy Moratorium	38
Citizen preferences on private-public co-regulation in environmental governance: Evidence from Switzerland	38
What role do climate considerations play in consumption of red meat in Norway?	37
Trade-offs between physical risk and economic reward affect fishers’ vulnerability to changing storminess	37
An assessment of the performance of scenarios against historical global emissions for IPCC reports	37
The contribution of energy law to the energy transition and energy research	36
Constructing the adaptation economy: Climate resilient development and the economization of vulnerability	36
The open veins of Latin America: Long-term physical trade flows (1900–2016)	36
The trap of climate change-induced “natural” disasters and inequality	36

Influences of international agricultural trade on the global phosphorus cycle and its associated issues	35
Civil society and survival: Indigenous Amazigh climate adaptation in Morocco	35
Negative-emissions technology portfolios to meet the 1.5 °C target	34
The impact of agricultural trade approaches on global economic modeling	34
The scale and drivers of carbon footprints in households, cities and regions across India	34
Scaling patterns of human diseases and population size in Colombia	34
Using publicly available remote sensing products to evaluate REDD+ projects i	34
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon could be halved by scaling up the implementation of zero-deforestation cattle commitments	34
The economics of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) deployment in a 1.5 °C or 2 °C world	33
China’s pathway to carbon neutrality for the iron and steel industry	32
Africa's protected areas are brightening at night: A long-term light pollution monitor based on nighttime light imagery	32
Enforcement and inequality in collective PES to reduce tropical deforestation: Effectiveness, efficiency and equity implications	32
Impact of a climate network: The role of intermediaries in local level climate action	32
Exploring river nitrogen and phosphorus loading and export to global coastal waters in the Shared Socio-economic pathways	32
Tracking the global anthropogenic gallium cycle during 2000–2020: A trade-linked multiregional material flow analysis	31
Differential disadvantages in the distribution of federal aid across three decades of voluntary buyouts in the United States	31
The booming non-food bioeconomy drives large share of global land-use emissions	31
Applying the Three Horizons approach in local and regional scenarios to support policy coherence in SDG implementation: Insights from arid Spain	30
Corrigendum to “The Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale: Development and validation of a multidimensional scale” [Glob. Environ. Change 71 (2021) 1–10/102391]	30
Corrigendum to “Use of aviation by climate change researchers: Structural influences, personal attitudes, and information provision” [65 (2020) 102184]	30
Global energy scenarios: A geopolitical reality check	30
Corrigendum to “Formation and performance of collaborative disaster management networks: Evidence from a Swedish wildfire response” [Global Environ. Change 41 (2016) 183–194]	30
Exposure to extreme climate decreases self-rated health score: Large-scale survey evidence from China	29
Plastic pollution and the open burning of plastic wastes	29
Commentary : Progress in understanding and overcoming barriers to public engagement with climate change	29
What future for primary aluminium production in a decarbonizing economy?	29
Prospects for a sustainable and climate-resilient African economy post-COVID-19	29
Tackling the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies by making peace with nature 50 years after the Stockholm Conference	29
Transformative labor: The hidden (and not-so-hidden) work of transformations to sustainability	29
Framing the just transition: How international trade unions engage with UN climate negotiations	29
Development and validation of the motivation to avoid food waste scale	28
OK Boomer: A decade of generational differences in feelings about climate change	28
Finance for fossils – The role of public financing in expanding petrochemicals	28
Vulnerability locked in. On the need to engage the outside of the adaptation box	28
Disruptive data: How access and benefit-sharing discourses structured ideas and decisions during the Convention on Biological Diversity negotiations over digital sequence information from 2016 to 2022	28
On viability: Climate change and the science of possible futures	28
Variation in under-5 mortality attributable to anomalous precipitation during El Niño–Southern Oscillation cycles: Assessment of the intertemporal inequality in child health	27
Defining and operationalizing path dependency for the development and monitoring of adaptation pathways	27
The value of property rights and environmental policy in Brazil: Evidence from a new database on land prices	27
Subnational institutions and power of landholders drive illegal deforestation in a major commodity production frontier	27
How social movements use religious creativity to address environmental crises in Indonesian local communities	26
Assessing the social and environmental impacts of critical mineral supply chains for the energy transition in Europe	26
The climate change mitigation impacts of active travel: Evidence from a longitudinal panel study in seven European cities	26
Quantifying community resilience to riverine hazards in Bangladesh	26
Does stricter sewage treatment targets policy exacerbate the contradiction between effluent water quality improvement and carbon emissions mitigation? An evidence from China	25
REDD+ finance in Brazil, Indonesia and Vietnam: Stakeholder perspectives between 2009-2019	25
When the whole is less than the sum of all parts – Tracking global-level impacts of national sustainability initiatives	24
Inclusive wealth index measuring sustainable development potentials for Chinese cities	24
Developing action competence for sustainability – Do school experiences in influencing society matter?	24
Transformative potential in sustainable development goals engagement: Experience from local governance in Australia	24
Spinning in circles? A systematic review on the role of theory in social vulnerability, resilience and adaptation research	24
The Slippery Slopes of Climate Engineering Research	23
Coping with scarcity: The construction of the water conservation imperative in newspapers (1999–2018)	23
Editorial Board	23
Blinded by sunspots: Revealing the multidimensional and intersectional inequities of solar energy in India	23
The relationship between political ideology and current earthquake and tsunami preparedness	23
Colonial contexts and the feasibility of mitigation through transition: A study of the impact of historical processes on the emissions dynamics of nation-states	22
The organizational structure of global gene drive research	22
Explaining radical policy change: Norwegian climate policy and the ban on cultivating peatlands	22
Implementing a knowledge system: Lessons from the global stewardship of climate services	22
Effectively communicating the removal of fossil energy subsidies: Evidence from Latin America	22
Commentary: The Beat Goes On? Print Media Coverage of Anthropogenic Climate Change over the past three decades	21
Editorial Board	21
Democracy through technocracy? Reinventing civil society as a state-monitored and unpaid service provider in the EU FLEGT VPA in Laos	21
Walking with farmers: Floods, agriculture and the social practice of everyday mobility	20
Regimes of global and national oil palm cultivations from 2001 to 2018	20
Water, energy and land insecurity in global supply chains	20
Editorial Board	20
Commentary: Transformative Change in Governance Systems	20
Climate change, social vulnerability and child nutrition in South Asia	20
Narratives and water: A bibliometric review	20
Considering attitudinal uncertainty in the climate change skepticism continuum	20
Is anticipatory governance opening up or closing down future possibilities? Findings from diverse contexts in the Global South	20