OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions is 19. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

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
Social and structural vulnerabilities: Associations with disaster readiness	103
Assessing the state of traditional knowledge at national level	102
Air pollutions and loan decision bias	101
Editorial Board	98
Cognition of feedback loops in a fire-prone social-ecological system	91
From mountains to megaregions: A powershed analysis of the Third Pole hydropower boom	90
Editorial Board	89
Editorial Board	88
Can REDD+ succeed? Occurrence and influence of various combinations of interventions in subnational initiatives	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
Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response	86
Grappling with a sea change: Tensions in expert imaginaries of marine carbon dioxide removal	81
Global rainbow distribution under current and future climates	81
Carbon tax salience counteracts price effects through moral licensing	80
Localized land tenure registration in Burundi and eastern DR Congo: Contributing to sustainable peace?	75
Editorial Board	71
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?	70
Potentially harmful World Bank projects are proximate to areas of biodiversity conservation importance	69

Forest carbon trajectories: Consequences of alternative land-use scenarios in New England	68
Commentary: Recent progress and future directions for research related to migration and conflict	67
Commentary: Food choices and environmental impacts: Achievements and challenges	67
Towards a better understanding of gendered power in small scale fisheries of the Western Indian Ocean	66
Pathways to human well-being in the context of land acquisitions in Lao PDR	64
Embodied carbon dioxide emissions to provide high access levels to basic infrastructure around the world	63
Scenario archetypes reveal risks and opportunities for global mountain futures	63
Potential for climate change driven spatial mismatches between apple crops and their wild bee pollinators at a continental scale	60
Effects of ozone air pollution on crop pollinators and pollination	60
Women participation in formal decision-making: Empirical evidence from participatory forest management in Ethiopia	59
Niches for transformative change within dominant territorial pathways: Practices and perspectives in a Nicaraguan agricultural frontier	59
Explaining the stickiness of supply chain relations in the Brazilian soybean trade	59
How qualitative approaches matter in climate and ocean change research: Uncovering contradictions about climate concern	58
Mapping public appraisals of carbon dioxide removal	57
Why common interests and collective action are not enough for environmental cooperation – Lessons from the China-EU cooperation discourse on circular economy	57
The emissions responsibility accounting of multinational enterprises for an efficient climate policy	56
The drivers of individual climate actions in Europe	51
Adaptive capacity within tropical marine protected areas – Differences between men- and women-headed households	50
Greening to shield: The impacts of extreme rainfall on economic activity in Latin American cities	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
Commentary : Progress in understanding and overcoming barriers to public engagement with climate change	48
Tackling the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies by making peace with nature 50 years after the Stockholm Conference	47
In government we trust? Micro-business adaptation to climate change in four post-colonial and transitional economies of China	46
Exposure to extreme climate decreases self-rated health score: Large-scale survey evidence from China	46
Steel stocks and flows of global merchant fleets as material base of international trade from 1980 to 2050	46
Accelerated contraction of future climate comfort zones in the southern subtropics: Insights from analysis and simulation of hiking big data	46
The infrastructure cost of permafrost degradation for the Northern Hemisphere	45
Assisted tree migration can reduce but not avert the decline of forest ecosystem services in Europe	44
“Climate-smart agriculture and food security: Cross-country evidence from West Africa”	43
Global-scale impact analysis of mine tailings dam failures: 1915–2020	43
Why are carbon taxes unfair? Disentangling public perceptions of fairness	42
Crisis and opportunity: Transforming climate governance for SMEs	40
Does hostility affect public support for the provision of global public goods among competing neighboring countries? A survey experiment in Northeast Asia	40
Editorial Board	40
Collaboration and individual performance during disaster response	40
Gender dimensions of climate change adaptation in Tigray, Ethiopia	39
Agroecological measures and circular economy strategies to ensure sufficient nitrogen for sustainable farming	38
Global energy consumption of the mineral mining industry: Exploring the historical perspective and future pathways to 2060	38
Prospects for a sustainable and climate-resilient African economy post-COVID-19	37
Citizen preferences on private-public co-regulation in environmental governance: Evidence from Switzerland	37
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	37
Trade-offs between physical risk and economic reward affect fishers’ vulnerability to changing storminess	36
Framing the just transition: How international trade unions engage with UN climate negotiations	36
Plastic pollution and the open burning of plastic wastes	36
Constructing the adaptation economy: Climate resilient development and the economization of vulnerability	35
What role do climate considerations play in consumption of red meat in Norway?	35
Civil society and survival: Indigenous Amazigh climate adaptation in Morocco	34
Influences of international agricultural trade on the global phosphorus cycle and its associated issues	34
The trap of climate change-induced “natural” disasters and inequality	34

The open veins of Latin America: Long-term physical trade flows (1900–2016)	34
The contribution of energy law to the energy transition and energy research	34
Negative-emissions technology portfolios to meet the 1.5 °C target	34
Using publicly available remote sensing products to evaluate REDD+ projects i	33
The impact of agricultural trade approaches on global economic modeling	32
The economics of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) deployment in a 1.5 °C or 2 °C world	32
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon could be halved by scaling up the implementation of zero-deforestation cattle commitments	32
Scaling patterns of human diseases and population size in Colombia	32
Enforcement and inequality in collective PES to reduce tropical deforestation: Effectiveness, efficiency and equity implications	31
China’s pathway to carbon neutrality for the iron and steel industry	31
Exploring river nitrogen and phosphorus loading and export to global coastal waters in the Shared Socio-economic pathways	30
The booming non-food bioeconomy drives large share of global land-use emissions	30
Africa's protected areas are brightening at night: A long-term light pollution monitor based on nighttime light imagery	30
Differential disadvantages in the distribution of federal aid across three decades of voluntary buyouts in the United States	30
Impact of a climate network: The role of intermediaries in local level climate action	30
Corrigendum to “Formation and performance of collaborative disaster management networks: Evidence from a Swedish wildfire response” [Global Environ. Change 41 (2016) 183–194]	29
Global energy scenarios: A geopolitical reality check	29
Corrigendum to “Use of aviation by climate change researchers: Structural influences, personal attitudes, and information provision” [65 (2020) 102184]	29
What future for primary aluminium production in a decarbonizing economy?	29
Tracking the global anthropogenic gallium cycle during 2000–2020: A trade-linked multiregional material flow analysis	29
Corrigendum to “The Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale: Development and validation of a multidimensional scale” [Glob. Environ. Change 71 (2021) 1–10/102391]	29
Applying the Three Horizons approach in local and regional scenarios to support policy coherence in SDG implementation: Insights from arid Spain	29
Values shift in response to social learning through deliberation about protected areas	28
On viability: Climate change and the science of possible futures	28
Regulatory politics and hybrid governance: the case of Brazil’s Amazon Soy Moratorium	28
Coping with scarcity: The construction of the water conservation imperative in newspapers (1999–2018)	28
Mapping a sustainable water future: Private sector opportunities for global water security and resilience	28
Spinning in circles? A systematic review on the role of theory in social vulnerability, resilience and adaptation research	27
Does stricter sewage treatment targets policy exacerbate the contradiction between effluent water quality improvement and carbon emissions mitigation? An evidence from China	27
Walking with farmers: Floods, agriculture and the social practice of everyday mobility	27
Variation in under-5 mortality attributable to anomalous precipitation during El Niño–Southern Oscillation cycles: Assessment of the intertemporal inequality in child health	27
Climate change, water availability, and the burden of rural women’s triple role in Muyuka, Cameroon	26
Place-based solutions for global social-ecological dilemmas: An analysis of locally grounded, diversified, and cross-scalar initiatives in the Amazon	26
Commentary: Transformative Change in Governance Systems	26
The value of property rights and environmental policy in Brazil: Evidence from a new database on land prices	26
Development and validation of the motivation to avoid food waste scale	25
Defining and operationalizing path dependency for the development and monitoring of adaptation pathways	24
Assessing the social and environmental impacts of critical mineral supply chains for the energy transition in Europe	24
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	24
How social movements use religious creativity to address environmental crises in Indonesian local communities	24
Implementing a knowledge system: Lessons from the global stewardship of climate services	23
Quantifying community resilience to riverine hazards in Bangladesh	23
Explaining radical policy change: Norwegian climate policy and the ban on cultivating peatlands	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	23
The relationship between political ideology and current earthquake and tsunami preparedness	23
Editorial Board	22
Editorial Board	22
The Slippery Slopes of Climate Engineering Research	22
Narratives and water: A bibliometric review	22
Effectively communicating the removal of fossil energy subsidies: Evidence from Latin America	22
Climate change and the demand for recreational ecosystem services on public lands in the continental United States	21
Evaluating behavioral responses to climate change in terms of coping and adaptation: An index approach	21
Commentary: The Beat Goes On? Print Media Coverage of Anthropogenic Climate Change over the past three decades	21
The effect of industrialization and globalization on domestic land-use: A global resource footprint perspective	20
Situated adaptation: Tackling the production of vulnerability through transformative action in Sri Lanka’s Dry Zone	20
Early warnings and emerging accountability: Total’s responses to global warming, 1971–2021	20
Climate-smart peatland management and the potential for synergies between food security and climate change objectives in Indonesia	20
Why are sustainable practices often elusive? The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions	20
Stories from the IPCC: An essay on climate science in fourteen questions	20
Developing action competence for sustainability – Do school experiences in influencing society matter?	20
Mining threatens isolated indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon	20
Assessing protected area’s carbon stocks and ecological structure at regional-scale using GEDI lidar	19
Renewable energy policies and household solid fuel dependence	19
Transformative labor: The hidden (and not-so-hidden) work of transformations to sustainability	19
REDD+ finance in Brazil, Indonesia and Vietnam: Stakeholder perspectives between 2009-2019	19
COVID-19 to go? The role of disasters and evacuation in the COVID-19 pandemic	19
Is anticipatory governance opening up or closing down future possibilities? Findings from diverse contexts in the Global South	19
Editorial Board	19
Inclusive wealth index measuring sustainable development potentials for Chinese cities	19
Scaling smallholder tree cover restoration across the tropics	19
Regimes of global and national oil palm cultivations from 2001 to 2018	19
The organizational structure of global gene drive research	19
Democracy through technocracy? Reinventing civil society as a state-monitored and unpaid service provider in the EU FLEGT VPA in Laos	19