Local Environment

Papers
(The median citation count of Local Environment is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Muslim environmentalism: religious and social foundation45
The Hanford plaintiffs: voices from the fight for atomic justice41
Cultural probes: a speculative and creative method for environmental research30
Community participation in marine ecotourism development: a qualitative systematic review27
Just transition in the post-pandemic city26
U.S. brain drain as local distributive justice: the case of distressed rural locations25
Advocacy journalism and climate justice in a Global Southern country23
Embracing emergence: reframing and reimagining the visionary communities project23
The politics of airing grievances: an analysis of air quality knowledge and ignorance in Pittsburgh22
Emerging processes of territorial food systems governance: lessons from a local food action plan in Sheffield, UK22
Opportunities for more ecologically centred and equitable relations in local government environmental discourse: insights from Victoria, Australia21
“How could it be our responsibility?” The equity of Local Authority climate action in England21
Just sustainabilities: The case of eco-estates in South Africa21
From smart cities to a happy and sustainable society: urban happiness as a critical pathway toward sustainability transitions21
Socially embedding the food system: the role of alternative food initiatives to build sustainable food models20
Re-embedding the circular economy in Circles of Social Life: beyond the self-repairing (and still-rapacious) economy20
Perceived differential vulnerability and climate change-related hazards in informal settlements in Accra, Ghana: re-thinking vulnerability to climate change in urban areas19
Talking to the young generation: perception of nature-based solutions’ attractiveness by children from Generation Z19
Participatory planning for the future of accessible nature18
Participatory network mapping of an emergent social network for a regional transition to a low-carbon and just society on the Dingle Peninsula18
Conceptualising and enacting pathways to transformative climate justice: examples from the Philippines17
“No fish – no fishermen”: staying as a voluntary choice despite environmental risks17
The legitimisation of local environmental organisations by community members17
Determinants of job satisfaction and motivation among community forest workers: insights from the Hindu Kush Himalaya, Pakistan17
Rural gentrification and local food networks: the case of a shopping community in a small Hungarian rural town16
Transport innovations in the cracks: reading for potential post-growth transport and mobilities with Deleuze and Guattari16
Holding up a mirror: researching symmetrically to explore exclusion, othering and whiteness in local environmental governance16
The interests, ideas, and institutions shaping public participation in local climate change governance in Ireland16
How do local government strategies advance social accountability? The challenges from environmental management of Slaughterhouse in Semarang City, Indonesia15
Oral histories document community mobilisation to participate in decision-making regarding a hazardous waste thermal treatment facility15
Hybridizations and reconfigurations in the roles of actors in voluntary carbon offsetting15
Effects of trail and greenspace exposure on hospitalisations in a highly populated urban area: retrospective cohort study of the Houston Bayou Greenways program15
Unexpected effects of urban food activism on community and human wellbeing15
Just by design: exploring justice as a multidimensional concept in US circular economy discourse14
Towards energy security in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region: insights from community members and local residents14
Understanding the multiple harms of energy poverty through Nussbaum’s theory of central capabilities14
Resistance to mining and adaptation of Indonesia farmer's household to economic vulnerability of small scale sand mining activities14
Urban degrowth economics: making cities better places for living, working, and playing14
The material politics of integrated urban stormwater management in Los Angeles, California13
What rural women say about their role in household waste management in Kashmir? A case-series approach13
Talking ‘bout a revolution: resilience and coastal policy in England13
A community-integrated geographic information system study of air pollution exposure impacts in Colfax, LA12
Deciding on justice: environmental justice in city council agenda-setting12
Social protection for transformative resilience: do programmes really address underlying causes of vulnerability of subsistence farmers to climate change?12
The environmentalism of the subalterns: a case study of environmental activism in Eastern Kurdistan/Rojhelat12
Climate change and urban vulnerabilities: analysing flood and drought resilience of Islamabad12
Opportunity access as a design framework for guiding transportation and land use integration: an evaluation of U.S. transit-oriented developments (TOD)12
Exploring perspectives on sustainability and planning from national and local planners for effective practice: the experience of Ghana11
Paradoxes surrounding carbon credits and local area development: the case of Mbire District, Zimbabwe11
Development for whom?: an Indigenous environmental justice movement in Bangladesh11
Correction11
Building rural public cultural spaces for enhanced well-being: evidence from China11
Epistemic injustice in planning: a framework for identifying degrees of harm11
Learning with compost: digging down into food waste, urban soils and community11
Flood risk perception and disaster preparedness in marginalised flood-prone communities: evidence from Saadi neighbourhood, Shiraz, Iran10
Analysing the variation in farmers’ perceptions of climate change impacts on crop production and adaptation measures across the Ganges’ Tidal Floodplain in Bangladesh10
Discourse analysis of the perceptions of environmental justice and respiratory health disparities in Dallas, TX10
How do the elderly perceive their community vitality? Taking old and dilapidated communities (ODCs) in Guangzhou as a case to study10
Democratisation of the outdoors: how equipment lending is emerging in Norway’s sharing economy to provide sustainable consumption at the local scale10
Addressing food insecurity and intersectional health-related social needs at a federally qualified health centre during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study10
Urban foraging, resilience and food provisioning services provided by edible plants in interstitial urban spaces in Mexico City10
Towards digitalisation of socially sustainable neighbourhood design9
Designing sustainable public spaces using design justice framework: a case study in Southern Iran9
Climate smart agricultural policy in sub-Saharan Africa: a case study of Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality of North West Province, South Africa9
Socially just community-based climate change adaptation? Insights from Bangladesh9
Reclaiming traditional food systems in alternative food networks. Insights from Mexico city peri-urban agriculture9
Landowners’ willingness to supply agricultural land for conversion into urban uses in peri-urban Ghana9
The forgotten essential workers in the circular economy? Waste picker precarity and resilience amidst the COVID-19 pandemic9
Climate change and adaptation policies in South Asia: addressing the gender-specific needs of women9
Factors determining farmers’ adoption of cultural practices for forest resources conservation in Delta State, Nigeria9
Dissonance between framing & acting for climate justice9
Living labs as transformative incrementalism: lessons learned on the role of a university living lab in mobilising just sustainabilities on campus9
Seeds of change? Social practices of urban community seed sharing initiatives for just transitions to sustainability8
An examination of national climate policy integration at the local level of development in Ghana8
Discursive strategies and activist framing in anti-mining campaigns8
Visualising Heritage: a critical discourse analysis of place, race, and nationhood along the Erie Canal8
Adaptation through knowledge coexistence: insights for environmental and sea lamprey stewardship8
Neighbourhood social sustainable development and spatial scale: a qualitative case study in Sweden8
The impacts of and responses to place loss in a coastal community in Ireland7
Active inaction: why the climate crisis is a moral crisis7
Becoming community economy: how community-supported agriculture diversifies farm labour7
Co-producing just energy transition in everyday practices: sociotechnical innovation and sustainable development in the Thailand-Myanmar border7
Spatialising degrowth, degrowing urban planning7
Utopia of social distancing and dystopia of living in slums: urban poor’s perspectives from the global south and the theory of planned behaviour7
Gender equality of privacy protection in the use of urban furniture in the Muslim context of Iran7
Towards representative resilience: the power of culture to foster local resource representation7
Transformative urban food governance: how municipal staff coordinating urban living labs navigate politics, administration and participation7
Collaborating for nature-based solutions: bringing research and practice together7
Use of menstrual cup and awareness of environmental effects of menstrual hygiene products7
Resource Nexus for decision-making: an industry-community synergistic approach for textile wastewater management7
Analysis of public attitudes towards “local agreements” on restarting nuclear power plants: a questionnaire survey in four prefectures in Japan6
Climate change loss and damage governance. Where are we now? A case study from Fiji’s sugar industry6
(Re)configuring moral boundaries of intergenerational justice: the UK parent-led climate movement6
Assessing the post-COVID prospects for the energy transition in the Netherlands and the UK, using a policy barriers approach6
“You want protected bike lanes, I want protected Black children. Let’s link”: equity, justice, and the barriers to active transportation in North America6
Different visions of climate equity that don’t see eye to eye6
Citizen science and environmental justice: exploring contradictory outcomes through a case study of air quality monitoring in Dublin6
Language, context, and action: exploring equity and justice content in Vancouver environmental plans6
Spatial vulnerability assessment of urbanites of Rawalpindi to the combined effects of climate change and pandemics using GIS mapping6
If it’s in our backyard: the roles of local knowledge in the formation of a nuclear oversight organisation6
Climate change vulnerability assessment of dryland farmers and factors Identification using machine learning techniques6
Soil publics: regenerating relations with urban soils through citizen science6
Can liberalised electricity markets deliver on climate change and energy poverty? Evidence from community projects in Great Britain6
Factors that influence user patronage and satisfaction of urban parks in Ghanaian cities: case of the Rattray Park in Nhyiaeso, Kumasi6
A social identity approach to understanding sustainability and environmental behaviours in South Africa5
Extreme heat adaptation in urban areas: a comparative case study of New York City and New Orleans5
The social implications of the vital city model: measuring the impact of urban vitality on neighbourhood sustainability5
From the ger districts to the city centre: contrasts and inequities of access and mobility in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia5
Subterranean eco-dystopia in Istanbul: the concreted segregation of Tarlabaşı5
Sustainable sharing in local communities: exploring the role of social capital5
Approaching an efficient means of addressing urban environmental challenges: a review of Ghana's “reactive” measures to “proactive” measures5
Trends community-based waste management practice through waste bank in Indonesia: towards local environmental resilience5
A gendered analysis of perception and adaptation to climate change among High Mountain farmers: a case study of Nagar District, Pakistan5
Climate change in rural Ghana: perceptions and adaptive responses5
Can you standardise transformation? Reflections on the transformative potential of benchmarking as a mode of governance5
Mass housing planning and environmental considerations: case studies of post-war urban redevelopment in Erbil city, Kurdistan5
Combining remote sensing applications and local knowledge in understanding urban heat in a semi-arid region: a case study of Tamale’s thermal landscape5
A research-based, practice-relevant urban resilience framework for local government5
Agricultural policies and local sustainability: a normative coherence for development analysis of Mexico's pineapple sector5
The final straw: a commentary on science, social justice and sustainability5
Coping mechanisms and “homemaking” in the face of environmental challenges: exploring the experiences of adolescent refugees in Jordan5
Promoting equity in urban heat: a greening approach for HOLC's legacy in Houston, Texas4
Policing the stigma in our waste: what we know about informal waste pickers in the global north4
From concern to action: the founding of the Wellington Water Watchers and the battle against water bottling in Ontario, Canada4
Capitalising on water soft paths: new futures for urban communities4
Perceptions of environmental impacts of artisanal coal mining vis-à-vis the scientific reality: a case of a community in South Africa's Kwazulu-Natal Province4
Struggles of street food vendors in Helsinki: a study of food truck and fixed stall vending using municipal land4
Using a smart city framework to advance justice: applying an equity lens to compare air quality in neighbourhoods of different socioeconomic profiles4
Barcelona’s housing policy under austerity urbanism: a contribution to the debate on degrowth and urban planning4
Perceived changes in the quality of terrestrial, coastal, marine environment and natural resources in coastal communities in the Caribbean4
Unravelling the relationship between spatial and social inclusion: evidence from Korean cities and regions4
Organic for everyone? Access to sustainable, locally grown produce at farmers markets in New Jersey4
Bridging climate vulnerability and household poverty: perspectives from coastal fishery communities in Vietnam4
Addressing social vulnerability: insights and challenges in the formulation of the local climate change program of Zapopan, Mexico4
Intercultural cities: policy and practice for a new era4
Eliciting community-driven sustainability indicators: a survey-based study in Aizawl, Mizoram, India4
Residents Against Dirty Energy: using energy justice to understand the role of local activism in shaping low-carbon transitions4
River co-learning arenas: principles and practices for transdisciplinary knowledge co-creation and multi-scalar (inter)action4
Assessing the publicness of three streets in ethnically-diverse neighbourhoods4
Understanding resistance to reductions in water subsidies in Kuwait4
How does community food growing build community bonds? Insights from grassroots visual storytelling4
Regional energy futures as decision support in the transition to net zero emissions: North of Tyne case study4
The contributions of socio-environmental information maps in an environmental mobilisation: the case of a fight against a highway project in France4
Application of space syntax in neighbourhood park research: an investigation of multiple socio-spatial attributes of park use4
“Two quid, chicken and chips, done”: understanding what makes for young people’s sense of living well in the city through the lens of fast food consumption4
Intersectional climate action: the role of community-based organisations in urban climate justice4
Children’s everyday recreational mobilities – growing up in a densifying Swedish small town4
Strengthening community-based adaptation for urban transformation: managing flood risk in informal settlements in Cape Town4
Are Green, dense cities more inclusive? Densification and housing accessibility in Oslo4
Living on the edge: how do perceptions of coastal erosion risk affect residential mobility decisions?4
Why do (some) people in informal settlements in Latin America grow food today and what is their struggle?4
“The bad job brings the good one”: photovoice study with female and male waste workers in Rwanda4
The compound risk of heat and COVID-19 in New York City: riskscapes, physical and social factors, and interventions4
Geopolitics of climate change-induced conflict and population displacement in West Africa3
Addressing rural waste management challenges through community-led solutions: insights from participatory action research in India3
Environmental justice from the ground(water) up: coping with contamination in Tallevast, Florida3
Electricity subsidies targeting performance indicators in selected Latin American countries3
Understanding place-based “just transitions” in Ireland: a co-creation approach3
Smallholder farmers’ perceptions, coping and adaptation strategies to climate variability in the UNESCO designated cultural landscapes of Konso, Ethiopia3
Revisiting the garden city concept and urban green infrastructure discourse in sustainable city planning in sub-Saharan Africa3
Just sustainability, actor-networks and environmental politics in China: local controversies over shared environmental infrastructure in industrial districts3
Equitable accessibility of public open spaces: a comparison of measurement methods in metropolitan area of Izmir, Türkiye3
Collaborative governance in “community energy planning”: insights from an intersectoral governance network in Durham Region, Canada3
Revealing community capacity for applying rain water harvesting in Semarang coastal areas3
Ethnicity as a social determinant of energy poverty: the case of Mexican indigenous population3
Local opposition to landfill siting in a coastal community in Aotearoa–New Zealand: measuring stakeholder efforts, costs and power imbalance3
The influence of trust on the public’s environmental risk perception: evidence from China3
Post-growth municipalism: exploring the scalar constitution, strategic relevance, and legal viability of the municipal scale for tackling growth dependencies3
A critical air quality science perspective on citizen science in action3
The rise of blockadia as a global anti-extractivism movement3
Towards degrowth housing development? Lessons from a scenario-based gaming session in the Oslo region3
Combating food insecurity and creating sustenance: addressing the root causes of hunger in the US through political empowerment and public policy engagement3
Who should I interview in a household survey? The role of multiple interviews in research on adaptation to environmental change3
Meaningful climate change communication: an analysis of women dry season farmers in Kuliyaa community of Ghana3
ParkLIV – engaging non-users in green space management3
Historical neighbourhood redlining and contemporary environmental racism2
An assessment of the smallholder rice farming households’ vulnerability to climate change and variability in the Mekong delta region of Vietnam2
Local governments as gatekeepers to community gardens: what does “support” mean?2
Different shades of green: how transnational actors frame nature as a solution to sustainability challenges in African cities2
Unequal considerations of justice in municipal adaptation planning: an assessment of US climate plans over time and by context2
Understanding environmental generational amnesia through urban school garden learning experiences in Gimuy/Cairns, Australia2
Community perceptions on institutional gaps in flood disaster preparedness and management in Mepe community, Ghana2
Evaluating equity and justice in Vancouver’s Sea2City Design Challenge2
Public perceptions of the health benefits of green spaces in urban Ghana2
Municipal solid waste charging based on residents’ preference, a case of Harbin City, China2
Latin American immigrants and the environment: acculturation, information sources, and place2
Using the capability approach to evaluate energy vulnerability policies and initiatives in Victoria, Australia2
Connecting art and development: studying the role of city art on bridges in forwarding urban sustainability2
Strategic sustainable service design for creative-cultural hotels: a multi-level and multi-domain view2
Generating transformative capacity: ICLEI Africa’s urban natural assets for Africa programme2
Translanguaging for more-than-English sustainability transitions2
Indigenous community members’ views about water quality in Lake Atitlán, Guatemala2
Expansion patterns of walking activity spaces in superblock neighbourhoods based on mHealth data from Jamsil2
A layout optimization approach to urban park green spaces based on accessibility evaluation: a case study of the central area in Wuxi city2
Farmers’ perceived effectiveness of indigenous land management practices: a study in semi-arid Ghana2
Defying gravity: environmental justice rises in California’s capital city2
The local context of energy assistance: exploring spatial associations between community characteristics and Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program facilities2
Reimagining craft for community development2
Beyond inclusion? Perceptions of the extent to which Extinction Rebellion speaks to, and for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and working-class communities2
Understanding thermal justice and systemic cooling poverty from the margins: intersectional perspectives from Rio de Janeiro2
The multi-scalar relationship between children’s self-determination and environmental justice in the United States2
Urban agriculture for environmentally just cities: the case of urban community gardens in Cape Town, South Africa2
“Nobody” matters in circular landscapes2
Challenging gender inequity in wildlife conservation: a women’s group leading sea turtle conservation efforts in El Salvador2
Conflicts between traditional and modern governance structures in Irish seaweed harvesting2
Commodity association’s roles and determinants of farmers’ participation in their climate change adaptation activities in Sierra Leone2
Risk-benefit perceptions of natural gas export in Oregon2
Access, participation and socio-economic benefits of blue versus green economy: a systematic literature review2
Re-visiting sustainable development: sustainability and well-being from the perspectives of indigenous people in rural Ghana1
Thinking outside the neoliberal box? The discursive potential of national climate legislation for the local governance of climate change1
Contextual factors for transnational municipal network's local environmental action: a study of ICLEI Africa's LAB Wetlands SA Programme1
“Community wellspring: harnessing citizen science for Sustainable Development Goal 6 in a smart city”1
Challenges facing sustainable water supply, sanitation and hygiene achievement in urban areas in sub-Saharan Africa1
Efficiency in environmental spending for sustainable development in Spanish cities1
Interactions between traditional and modern institutions in environmental governance of mining in Asutifi North District of Ghana1
The role of public procurement to foster social equity and justice: critical reflections on the circular procurement concept1
COVID-19 pandemic and informal women workers in peri-urban communities in Nigeria1
Understanding urban agriculture in context: environmental, social, and psychological benefits of agriculture in Singapore1
People’s action for climate justice: a systematic review1
Exploring attention to justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in Canadian environmental non-profits: implications for racialised migrants1
Farm level adaptation to climate change: insight from rice farmers in the coastal region of Bangladesh1
Street vendors and the human rights to water and sanitation: a scoping review1
Investigating pedestrian connectivity within apartment complexes: a case study of Seoul and Singapore1
A review of brownfields revitalisation and reuse research in the US over three decades1
Pigs, waste, and creative extraction: racialised uneven development in Eastern North Carolina1
Place-making, place-disruption, and place protection of urban blue spaces: perceptions of waterfront planning of a polluted urban waterbody1
Farmers’ livelihood resilience and its optimisation path in world heritage sites: a Chinese case study1
Assessing how rural-urban migration is incorporated in Ghana’s national urban policy: a qualitative content analysis1
Transformation through transdisciplinary practice: cultivating new lines of sight for urban transformation1
Affordable overnight lodging in high-cost, high-need coastal environments1
Community gardens as local learning environments in social housing contexts: participant perceptions of enhanced wellbeing and community connection1
Analyzing alternative food networks in highly-globalised and standardised agrifood systems to attain sustainability for small-scale growers: inferences from tea sector1
Balancing water rights in metropolitan water conservation areas: the case of Chengdu, China1
Highland communities’ climate change perceptions, climatic shocks and livelihood practices during COVID-19 pandemic1
Spatial analysis of urban agriculture in the utilization of open spaces in Nigeria1
Trapped within nature: climatic variability and its impact on traditional livelihood of Gaddi transhumance of Indian Himalayas1
Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink: qualitatively unraveling the nuances of non-economic loss and damage in Bangladesh1
Is there room for a circular economy “from below”? Reflections on privatisation and commoning of circular waste loops in Argentina1
Overcoming the local trap through inclusive and multi-scalar food systems1
Community-led management of the (urban) commons: lessons from the Narroways Nature Reserve, Bristol1
Living Waters or Resource? Ontological differences and the governance of waters and rivers1
The role of social capital in climate change mitigation: a case study of agricultural sector in Ambarawa, Central Java1
Transforming REDD+ for Indigenous rights in Costa Rica1
Right tree, right place for whom? Environmental justice and practices of urban forest assessment1
A degrowth approach to urban mobility options: just, desirable and practical options1
Urban sprawl and the changing socioecological systems in peri-urban Ghana1
The landscape of faith-based environmental engagement in Canada1
Gardening from the ground up: a review of grassroots governance and management of domestic gardening in Canada1
Just transitions at the local level: insights from coal communities in Japan1
An evaluation of the Place Standard Tool as a means of examining inequalities in relation to place1
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