OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions is 23. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Providing decent living with minimum energy: A global scenario	271
The global scale, distribution and growth of aviation: Implications for climate change	214
Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015	168
The Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale: Development and validation of a multidimensional scale	119
The climate change mitigation impacts of active travel: Evidence from a longitudinal panel study in seven European cities	117
Anticipating futures through models: the rise of Integrated Assessment Modelling in the climate science-policy interface since 1970	113
Contextualizing climate justice activism: Knowledge, emotions, motivations, and actions among climate strikers in six cities	112
Socio-economic conditions for satisfying human needs at low energy use: An international analysis of social provisioning	103
Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations	99
Global-scale impact analysis of mine tailings dam failures: 1915–2020	98
Surge in global metal mining threatens vulnerable ecosystems	91
The trap of climate change-induced “natural” disasters and inequality	89
Exploring river nitrogen and phosphorus loading and export to global coastal waters in the Shared Socio-economic pathways	87
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)	86
Nature-dependent people: Mapping human direct use of nature for basic needs across the tropics	85
The influence of political ideology on greenhouse gas emissions	85
Explaining Growing Glyphosate Use: The Political Economy of Herbicide-Dependent Agriculture	83
Exploratory modeling for analyzing coupled human-natural systems under uncertainty	81
(Un)making in sustainability transformation beyond capitalism	81
Conflicted transitions: Exploring the actors, tactics, and outcomes of social opposition against energy infrastructure	81
Knowledge co-production for Indigenous adaptation pathways: Transform post-colonial articulation complexes to empower local decision-making	80
Linking internal and external transformation for sustainability and climate action: Towards a new research and policy agenda	80
Improving the evidence base: A methodological review of the quantitative climate migration literature	79
Air conditioning and global inequality	78
Income, consumer preferences, and the future of livestock-derived food demand	74

Shared Socio-economic Pathways for European agriculture and food systems: The Eur-Agri-SSPs	72
Science with society: Evidence-based guidance for best practices in environmental transdisciplinary work	70
Toward a climate mobilities research agenda: Intersectionality, immobility, and policy responses	70
Use of aviation by climate change researchers: Structural influences, personal attitudes, and information provision	69
Negative-emissions technology portfolios to meet the 1.5 °C target	67
The economics of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) deployment in a 1.5 °C or 2 °C world	66
Early warnings and emerging accountability: Total’s responses to global warming, 1971–2021	64
Aligning climate and sustainable development finance through an SDG lens. The role of development assistance in implementing the Paris Agreement	63
Systems thinking as a paradigm shift for sustainability transformation	63
How EU policies could reduce nutrient pollution in European inland and coastal waters	61
Nature unsettled: How knowledge and power shape ‘nature-based’ approaches to societal challenges	60
Knowing like a global expert organization: Comparative insights from the IPCC and IPBES	60
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	60
Prospects for a saturation of humanity’s resource use? An analysis of material stocks and flows in nine world regions from 1900 to 2035	58
The scale and drivers of carbon footprints in households, cities and regions across India	58
Global long-term mapping of surface temperature shows intensified intra-city urban heat island extremes	56
A conceptual framework for cross-border impacts of climate change	56
Socio-economic and climatic changes lead to contrasting global urban vegetation trends	55
How the future of the global forest sink depends on timber demand, forest management, and carbon policies	53
China’s pathway to carbon neutrality for the iron and steel industry	53
Climate change action as a project of identity: Eight meta-analyses	51
The global value of coastal wetlands for storm protection	51
Cattle ranchers and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Production, location, and policies	51
Greenhouse gas emissions from global cities under SSP/RCP scenarios, 1990 to 2100	51
No peace for the forest: Rapid, widespread land changes in the Andes-Amazon region following the Colombian civil war	50
Legume dreams: The contested futures of sustainable plant-based food systems in Europe	50
A scale-based framework to understand the promises, pitfalls and paradoxes of irrigation efficiency to meet major water challenges	50
Environmental and land defenders: Global patterns and determinants of repression	50
An assessment of the performance of scenarios against historical global emissions for IPCC reports	50
The political ecology playbook for ecosystem restoration: Principles for effective, equitable, and transformative landscapes	49
Mapping global patterns of land use decision-making	47
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	47
Trans-Arctic shipping routes expanding faster than the model projections	46
Plastic pollution and the open burning of plastic wastes	46
Mining threatens isolated indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon	44
Hot dry days increase perceived experience with global warming	44
Co-designing global target-seeking scenarios: A cross-scale participatory process for capturing multiple perspectives on pathways to sustainability	44
Designing effective and equitable zero-deforestation supply chain policies	43
Understanding plastic packaging: The co-evolution of materials and society	43
Sharing responsibility for trade-related emissions based on economic benefits	43
Fairness critically conditions the carbon budget allocation across countries	43
Why are carbon taxes unfair? Disentangling public perceptions of fairness	43
The global environmental paw print of pet food	43
Climate variability and child nutrition: Findings from sub-Saharan Africa	43
Incorporating blue carbon sequestration benefits into sub-national climate policies	42
Climate anxiety: Conceptual considerations, and connections with climate hope and action	42
Global sustainability, innovation and governance dynamics of national smart electricity meter transitions	42
Why climate migration is not managed retreat: Six justifications	42
Greenhouse gas emissions from Mediterranean agriculture: Evidence of unbalanced research efforts and knowledge gaps	41
Engagement, involvement and empowerment: Three realms of a coproduction framework for climate services	40

IPCC emission scenarios: How did critiques affect their quality and relevance 1990–2022?	39
Climate-Induced migration and unemployment in middle-income Africa	39
Tackling the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies by making peace with nature 50 years after the Stockholm Conference	39
How stable are Australian farmers’ climate change risk perceptions? New evidence of the feedback loop between risk perceptions and behaviour	38
The impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on a network of 276 international organizations	38
OK Boomer: A decade of generational differences in feelings about climate change	37
The future urban heat-wave challenge in Africa: Exploratory analysis	36
China’s rising influence on climate governance: Forging a path for the global South	36
Prioritising resilience policies to reduce welfare losses from natural disasters: A case study for coastal Bangladesh	36
Does funds-based adaptation finance reach the most vulnerable countries?	36
Just adaptation? Generating new vulnerabilities and shaping adaptive capacities through the politics of climate-related resettlement in a Philippine coastal city	36
Environmental justice in coastal systems: Perspectives from communities confronting change	35
A global comparison of carbon-water-food nexus based on dietary consumption	34
Anti-corruption and corporate environmental responsibility: Evidence from China’s anti-corruption campaign	34
A green-gray path to global water security and sustainable infrastructure	34
Water, energy and land insecurity in global supply chains	34
Urban greenspace as a climate change adaptation strategy for subtropical Asian cities: A comparative study across cities in three countries	34
Harnessing scientific and local knowledge to face climate change in small-scale fisheries	34
Willingness-to-pay for carbon dioxide offsets: Field evidence on revealed preferences in the aviation industry	33
The prosocial origin of sustainable behavior: A case study in the ecological domain	32
Direct and mediated impacts of social norms on pro-environmental behavior	32
Pathways for climate resilient development: Human well-being within a safe and just space in the 21st century	32
The strengths and weaknesses of future visioning approaches for climate change adaptation: A review	32
The anticipatory governance of sustainability transformations: Hybrid approaches and dominant perspectives	32
Explaining risk perception of microplastics: Results from a representative survey in Germany	32
Cultural ecosystem services caught in a ‘coastal squeeze’ between sea level rise and urban expansion	32
Institutional changes drive land use transitions on rangelands: The case of grazing on public lands in the American West	31
“Mind the (Policy-Implementation) Gap”: Transport decarbonisation policies and performances of leading global economies (1990–2018)	31
Environmental regulation and innovation: Evidence from China	31
The effect of industrialization and globalization on domestic land-use: A global resource footprint perspective	31
Necessity-driven circular economy in low-income contexts: How informal sector practices retain value for circularity	31
Does stakeholder participation improve environmental governance? Evidence from a meta-analysis of 305 case studies	31
Impact of a climate network: The role of intermediaries in local level climate action	31
Distributive justice in global climate finance – Recipients’ climate vulnerability and the allocation of climate funds	30
Co-dynamics of climate policy stringency and public support	30
Spinning in circles? A systematic review on the role of theory in social vulnerability, resilience and adaptation research	30
Drivers and mechanisms of forest change in the Himalayas	30
More than planning: Diversity and drivers of institutional adaptation under climate change in 96 major cities	30
Extreme weather and marriage among girls and women in Bangladesh	30
The geography of megatrends affecting European agriculture	30
Socioeconomic geography of climate change views in Europe	29
Drivers and dimensions of flood risk perceptions: Revealing an implicit selection bias and lessons for communication policies	29
The role and limits of strategic framing for promoting sustainable consumption and policy	29
Inclusive wealth index measuring sustainable development potentials for Chinese cities	29
Just another buzzword? A systematic literature review of knowledge-related concepts in sustainability science	29
Agency shifts in agricultural land governance and their implications for land degradation neutrality	29
How qualitative approaches matter in climate and ocean change research: Uncovering contradictions about climate concern	29
Reproducing injustice: Why recognition matters in conservation project evaluation	28
The ‘co’ in co-production of climate action: Challenging boundaries within and between science, policy and practice	28
What future for primary aluminium production in a decarbonizing economy?	28
Socioeconomics effects on global hotspots of common debris items on land and the seafloor	28
The Greta effect: Visualising climate protest in UK media and the Getty images collections	27
Defining and operationalizing path dependency for the development and monitoring of adaptation pathways	27
Guilty pleasures: Moral licensing in climate-related behavior	27
Catalyzing sustainability pathways: Navigating urban nature based solutions in Europe	27
Climate variability and irregular migration to the European Union	26
Beyond climate, culture and comfort in European preferences for low-carbon heat	26
To be ethical or to be good? The impact of ‘Good Provider’ and moral norms on food waste decisions in two countries	26
Risk-opportunity analysis for transformative policy design and appraisal	26
Agroecological measures and circular economy strategies to ensure sufficient nitrogen for sustainable farming	25
Novel insights on intensity and typology of direct human-nature interactions in protected areas through passive crowdsourcing	25
A global review of the impact of forest property rights interventions on poverty	25
Many roads to Paris: Explaining urban climate action in 885 European cities	25
Africa's protected areas are brightening at night: A long-term light pollution monitor based on nighttime light imagery	24
Everyday Adaptation: Theorizing climate change adaptation in daily life	24
Global pesticide use and trade database (GloPUT): New estimates show pesticide use trends in low-income countries substantially underestimated	24
Influences of international agricultural trade on the global phosphorus cycle and its associated issues	24
Climate change may impair electricity generation and economic viability of future Amazon hydropower	24
The contribution of energy law to the energy transition and energy research	23
The role of working-class communities and the slow violence of toxic pollution in environmental health conflicts: A global perspective	23
Are managed retreat programs successful and just? A global mapping of success typologies, justice dimensions, and trade-offs	23