Local Environment

Papers
(The median citation count of Local Environment is 2. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
The politics of airing grievances: an analysis of air quality knowledge and ignorance in Pittsburgh57
Opportunities for more ecologically centred and equitable relations in local government environmental discourse: insights from Victoria, Australia54
“How could it be our responsibility?” The equity of Local Authority climate action in England36
Toward equity in heat mitigation planning: a review of literature, current practices, and future pathways35
Emerging processes of territorial food systems governance: lessons from a local food action plan in Sheffield, UK31
Talking to the young generation: perception of nature-based solutions’ attractiveness by children from Generation Z30
Survival strategy of Indonesian villagers in coping with climate change30
From smart cities to a happy and sustainable society: urban happiness as a critical pathway toward sustainability transitions29
“I felt as someone special today”. Advancing marine citizen science throught participatory and critical geography explorations28
The Hanford plaintiffs: voices from the fight for atomic justice26
Just sustainabilities: The case of eco-estates in South Africa25
Socially embedding the food system: the role of alternative food initiatives to build sustainable food models25
Cultural probes: a speculative and creative method for environmental research25
U.S. brain drain as local distributive justice: the case of distressed rural locations23
Advocacy journalism and climate justice in a Global Southern country22
Embracing emergence: reframing and reimagining the visionary communities project22
Community participation in marine ecotourism development: a qualitative systematic review21
Re-embedding the circular economy in Circles of Social Life: beyond the self-repairing (and still-rapacious) economy20
Determinants of job satisfaction and motivation among community forest workers: insights from the Hindu Kush Himalaya, Pakistan19
Beyond solutionism: quantum-secured NFTs as contested infrastructures for radical urban futures19
Just transition in the post-pandemic city19
Rural gentrification and local food networks: the case of a shopping community in a small Hungarian rural town18
The legitimisation of local environmental organisations by community members17
The importance of school greening for students’ physical health: HGLM estimation from Hangzhou, China17
“No fish – no fishermen”: staying as a voluntary choice despite environmental risks17
Holding up a mirror: researching symmetrically to explore exclusion, othering and whiteness in local environmental governance17
Perceived differential vulnerability and climate change-related hazards in informal settlements in Accra, Ghana: re-thinking vulnerability to climate change in urban areas16
Conceptualising and enacting pathways to transformative climate justice: examples from the Philippines15
Transport innovations in the cracks: reading for potential post-growth transport and mobilities with Deleuze and Guattari15
The interests, ideas, and institutions shaping public participation in local climate change governance in Ireland15
Hybridizations and reconfigurations in the roles of actors in voluntary carbon offsetting14
Social costs of coping with energy insecurity at Deschambault Lake, Saskatchewan: a community resilience perspective14
Equitable approaches to plastic waste management: integrating carbon finance into local sustainability initiatives in Pakistan: a systematic literature review14
Environmental racism and “the media-government complex”: failures of municipal waste collection for a racialised community in Bulgaria14
How do local government strategies advance social accountability? The challenges from environmental management of Slaughterhouse in Semarang City, Indonesia14
Oral histories document community mobilisation to participate in decision-making regarding a hazardous waste thermal treatment facility14
Urban degrowth economics: making cities better places for living, working, and playing13
Effects of trail and greenspace exposure on hospitalisations in a highly populated urban area: retrospective cohort study of the Houston Bayou Greenways program13
Unexpected effects of urban food activism on community and human wellbeing13
Social protection for transformative resilience: do programmes really address underlying causes of vulnerability of subsistence farmers to climate change?12
Social workers as agents of change: understanding water conservation behaviours and the role of environmental education12
What rural women say about their role in household waste management in Kashmir? A case-series approach12
The material politics of integrated urban stormwater management in Los Angeles, California12
Talking ‘bout a revolution: resilience and coastal policy in England11
A community-integrated geographic information system study of air pollution exposure impacts in Colfax, LA11
Climate change and urban vulnerabilities: analysing flood and drought resilience of Islamabad11
Considering the emotional landscape in planning the local environment: a case study from Finland11
Deciding on justice: environmental justice in city council agenda-setting10
How do the elderly perceive their community vitality? Taking old and dilapidated communities (ODCs) in Guangzhou as a case to study10
Opportunity access as a design framework for guiding transportation and land use integration: an evaluation of U.S. transit-oriented developments (TOD)10
Exploring perspectives on sustainability and planning from national and local planners for effective practice: the experience of Ghana10
Correction9
Development for whom?: an Indigenous environmental justice movement in Bangladesh9
Addressing food insecurity and intersectional health-related social needs at a federally qualified health centre during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study9
Saving the “lungs of the city”: emerging civic action in urban environmental policy: case studies from Tampere, Finland and Worcester, Massachusetts9
Analysing the variation in farmers’ perceptions of climate change impacts on crop production and adaptation measures across the Ganges’ Tidal Floodplain in Bangladesh9
Designing sustainable public spaces using design justice framework: a case study in Southern Iran9
Democratisation of the outdoors: how equipment lending is emerging in Norway’s sharing economy to provide sustainable consumption at the local scale9
Learning with compost: digging down into food waste, urban soils and community9
Building rural public cultural spaces for enhanced well-being: evidence from China9
Epistemic injustice in planning: a framework for identifying degrees of harm9
Factors determining farmers’ adoption of cultural practices for forest resources conservation in Delta State, Nigeria9
Whispers at the tea stall: social networks, situated choices and the relational dynamics of environmental migration9
Reclaiming traditional food systems in alternative food networks. Insights from Mexico city peri-urban agriculture8
The forgotten essential workers in the circular economy? Waste picker precarity and resilience amidst the COVID-19 pandemic8
Discursive strategies and activist framing in anti-mining campaigns8
Flood risk perception and disaster preparedness in marginalised flood-prone communities: evidence from Saadi neighbourhood, Shiraz, Iran8
Climate smart agricultural policy in sub-Saharan Africa: a case study of Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality of North West Province, South Africa8
Dissonance between framing & acting for climate justice8
Active inaction: why the climate crisis is a moral crisis8
Climate change and adaptation policies in South Asia: addressing the gender-specific needs of women8
Discourse analysis of the perceptions of environmental justice and respiratory health disparities in Dallas, TX8
Resource Nexus for decision-making: an industry-community synergistic approach for textile wastewater management8
Visualising Heritage: a critical discourse analysis of place, race, and nationhood along the Erie Canal7
Seeds of change? Social practices of urban community seed sharing initiatives for just transitions to sustainability7
Adaptation through knowledge coexistence: insights for environmental and sea lamprey stewardship7
Collaborating for nature-based solutions: bringing research and practice together7
Climate change vulnerability assessment of dryland farmers and factors Identification using machine learning techniques7
An examination of national climate policy integration at the local level of development in Ghana7
Living labs as transformative incrementalism: lessons learned on the role of a university living lab in mobilising just sustainabilities on campus7
Neighbourhood social sustainable development and spatial scale: a qualitative case study in Sweden7
Farmers perception of climate change trends in Ethiopia: implications for crafting robust adaptation strategies7
The impacts of and responses to place loss in a coastal community in Ireland7
Different visions of climate equity that don’t see eye to eye7
Uneven ecologies: nature-based solutions and new gendered exclusions in the Pacific7
The forgotten thermal comfort. Lived experiences of cooling poverty from the trans community in Rio de Janeiro.7
Transformative urban food governance: how municipal staff coordinating urban living labs navigate politics, administration and participation7
If it’s in our backyard: the roles of local knowledge in the formation of a nuclear oversight organisation7
Spatialising degrowth, degrowing urban planning7
Indigenous rights and managed public land: a critical treaty analysis of parks and reserves in New Zealand6
Assessing the post-COVID prospects for the energy transition in the Netherlands and the UK, using a policy barriers approach6
Subterranean eco-dystopia in Istanbul: the concreted segregation of Tarlabaşı6
Agricultural policies and local sustainability: a normative coherence for development analysis of Mexico's pineapple sector6
Sustainable sharing in local communities: exploring the role of social capital6
The final straw: a commentary on science, social justice and sustainability6
Climate change loss and damage governance. Where are we now? A case study from Fiji’s sugar industry6
Gender equality of privacy protection in the use of urban furniture in the Muslim context of Iran6
Utopia of social distancing and dystopia of living in slums: urban poor’s perspectives from the global south and the theory of planned behaviour6
Spatial vulnerability assessment of urbanites of Rawalpindi to the combined effects of climate change and pandemics using GIS mapping6
Becoming community economy: how community-supported agriculture diversifies farm labour6
Environmental justice and corporate–community conflicts: an analysis of the role of governance and public stakeholders6
A gendered analysis of perception and adaptation to climate change among High Mountain farmers: a case study of Nagar District, Pakistan6
Infrastructuring for caring food practices: learnings from an Alpine community academy6
Can liberalised electricity markets deliver on climate change and energy poverty? Evidence from community projects in Great Britain6
Use of menstrual cup and awareness of environmental effects of menstrual hygiene products6
Analysis of public attitudes towards “local agreements” on restarting nuclear power plants: a questionnaire survey in four prefectures in Japan6
Language, context, and action: exploring equity and justice content in Vancouver environmental plans6
Factors that influence user patronage and satisfaction of urban parks in Ghanaian cities: case of the Rattray Park in Nhyiaeso, Kumasi6
Where are urban farms and community gardens? Examining sociodemographic and neighbourhood characteristics associated with urban agriculture in Ohio6
A social identity approach to understanding sustainability and environmental behaviours in South Africa6
Mass housing planning and environmental considerations: case studies of post-war urban redevelopment in Erbil city, Kurdistan6
Soil publics: regenerating relations with urban soils through citizen science6
Citizen science and environmental justice: exploring contradictory outcomes through a case study of air quality monitoring in Dublin6
Extreme heat adaptation in urban areas: a comparative case study of New York City and New Orleans5
Trends community-based waste management practice through waste bank in Indonesia: towards local environmental resilience5
Can you standardise transformation? Reflections on the transformative potential of benchmarking as a mode of governance5
The contributions of socio-environmental information maps in an environmental mobilisation: the case of a fight against a highway project in France5
Using a smart city framework to advance justice: applying an equity lens to compare air quality in neighbourhoods of different socioeconomic profiles5
Beyond transformative community engagement: the evasion and contact zones of a European climate change project5
Water poverty in cities in the Global North: an interpretation of unpaid water bills in two Spanish cities5
Bridging climate vulnerability and household poverty: perspectives from coastal fishery communities in Vietnam5
A research-based, practice-relevant urban resilience framework for local government5
Combining remote sensing applications and local knowledge in understanding urban heat in a semi-arid region: a case study of Tamale’s thermal landscape5
Perceived changes in the quality of terrestrial, coastal, marine environment and natural resources in coastal communities in the Caribbean5
“The bad job brings the good one”: photovoice study with female and male waste workers in Rwanda5
Why do (some) people in informal settlements in Latin America grow food today and what is their struggle?5
How does community food growing build community bonds? Insights from grassroots visual storytelling5
Promoting equity in urban heat: a greening approach for HOLC's legacy in Houston, Texas5
Coping mechanisms and “homemaking” in the face of environmental challenges: exploring the experiences of adolescent refugees in Jordan5
The social implications of the vital city model: measuring the impact of urban vitality on neighbourhood sustainability5
Unravelling the relationship between spatial and social inclusion: evidence from Korean cities and regions5
The compound risk of heat and COVID-19 in New York City: riskscapes, physical and social factors, and interventions5
Sustainability and housing in municipal policy-making – interconnections and tensions5
Living on the edge: how do perceptions of coastal erosion risk affect residential mobility decisions?5
Fisherfolk of the floating homes: explorative case study of nomadic riverine fisher community in the Godavari Estuary4
Environmental justice from the ground(water) up: coping with contamination in Tallevast, Florida4
Application of space syntax in neighbourhood park research: an investigation of multiple socio-spatial attributes of park use4
Organic for everyone? Access to sustainable, locally grown produce at farmers markets in New Jersey4
Intersectional climate action: the role of community-based organisations in urban climate justice4
River co-learning arenas: principles and practices for transdisciplinary knowledge co-creation and multi-scalar (inter)action4
Eliciting community-driven sustainability indicators: a survey-based study in Aizawl, Mizoram, India4
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
Children’s everyday recreational mobilities – growing up in a densifying Swedish small town4
Regional energy futures as decision support in the transition to net zero emissions: North of Tyne case study4
Motivations and barriers in Huddersfield’s community gardens: exploring experiential social capital and community resilience4
Correction4
Energy community practice in Greece: a step towards energy democratisation?4
From concern to action: the founding of the Wellington Water Watchers and the battle against water bottling in Ontario, Canada4
Residents Against Dirty Energy: using energy justice to understand the role of local activism in shaping low-carbon transitions4
Struggles of street food vendors in Helsinki: a study of food truck and fixed stall vending using municipal land4
Addressing social vulnerability: insights and challenges in the formulation of the local climate change program of Zapopan, Mexico4
Assessing the publicness of three streets in ethnically-diverse neighbourhoods4
Statement of Retraction: From policy to practice: mainstreaming climate change strategies into local development plan of coastal communities in Ghana—evidence from Effutu Municipal Assembly4
Post-growth municipalism: exploring the scalar constitution, strategic relevance, and legal viability of the municipal scale for tackling growth dependencies3
ParkLIV – engaging non-users in green space management3
Revisiting the garden city concept and urban green infrastructure discourse in sustainable city planning in sub-Saharan Africa3
Translanguaging for more-than-English sustainability transitions3
The colour of unaffordable household water: racial/ethnic inequalities in bills and shutoffs across local water districts in nine urban areas of the United States3
Bridging the AI socio-ecological divide: journey towards justice-centred AI for forest stakeholders3
“Talking to garbage”: a photo elicitation study on Syrian and Afghan migrant waste collectors in Isparta Turkey3
Decarbonising cities: exploring regional energy justice implications3
Who should I interview in a household survey? The role of multiple interviews in research on adaptation to environmental change3
A critical air quality science perspective on citizen science in action3
The influence of trust on the public’s environmental risk perception: evidence from China3
How equitable are urban rail-trails? a review of 11 development plans3
Just sustainability, actor-networks and environmental politics in China: local controversies over shared environmental infrastructure in industrial districts3
Food sharing governance in European cities: insights from a scoping review3
Ethnicity as a social determinant of energy poverty: the case of Mexican indigenous population3
Understanding environmental generational amnesia through urban school garden learning experiences in Gimuy/Cairns, Australia3
Harvesting potential: unveiling urban agriculture trends in Abu Dhabi’s cityscape3
The multi-scalar relationship between children’s self-determination and environmental justice in the United States3
Expansion patterns of walking activity spaces in superblock neighbourhoods based on mHealth data from Jamsil3
Local opposition to landfill siting in a coastal community in Aotearoa–New Zealand: measuring stakeholder efforts, costs and power imbalance3
Electricity subsidies targeting performance indicators in selected Latin American countries3
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
Geopolitics of climate change-induced conflict and population displacement in West Africa3
Smallholder farmers’ perceptions, coping and adaptation strategies to climate variability in the UNESCO designated cultural landscapes of Konso, Ethiopia3
Meaningful climate change communication: an analysis of women dry season farmers in Kuliyaa community of Ghana3
Combating food insecurity and creating sustenance: addressing the root causes of hunger in the US through political empowerment and public policy engagement3
Commodity association’s roles and determinants of farmers’ participation in their climate change adaptation activities in Sierra Leone3
Addressing rural waste management challenges through community-led solutions: insights from participatory action research in India3
Unequal considerations of justice in municipal adaptation planning: an assessment of US climate plans over time and by context3
“Nobody” matters in circular landscapes3
Community perceptions on institutional gaps in flood disaster preparedness and management in Mepe community, Ghana3
Understanding place-based “just transitions” in Ireland: a co-creation approach3
Revealing community capacity for applying rain water harvesting in Semarang coastal areas3
Local governments as gatekeepers to community gardens: what does “support” mean?2
Urban agriculture for environmentally just cities: the case of urban community gardens in Cape Town, South Africa2
Creative counter-discourses to the “green city” narrative: practices of small-scale urban agriculture in Hanoi, Vietnam2
Is there room for a circular economy “from below”? Reflections on privatisation and commoning of circular waste loops in Argentina2
Are socio-demographic and building characteristics associated with noise complaints?2
Factors influencing the adoption of solar energy tube-wells technology on rice production in Sindh Pakistan: a novel investigation2
Rethinking participation: a framework for creative engagement in urban greenspace2
Just transitions at the local level: insights from coal communities in Japan2
Urban sprawl and the changing socioecological systems in peri-urban Ghana2
Overcoming the local trap through inclusive and multi-scalar food systems2
A move towards just sustainability: transformation of discourses around urban sustainability planning in Seoul, Republic of Korea2
The local context of energy assistance: exploring spatial associations between community characteristics and Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program facilities2
What constitutes the social in (social) sustainability? Community, society and equity in South African water governance2
A layout optimization approach to urban park green spaces based on accessibility evaluation: a case study of the central area in Wuxi city2
Practising conservation: the intersection of decolonial and Ubuntu lenses2
Risk-benefit perceptions of natural gas export in Oregon2
Understanding thermal justice and systemic cooling poverty from the margins: intersectional perspectives from Rio de Janeiro2
Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink: qualitatively unraveling the nuances of non-economic loss and damage in Bangladesh2
Access heterogeneities and collection time inequalities of drinking water sources in Ghana: implications for water and development policy2
Assessing how rural-urban migration is incorporated in Ghana’s national urban policy: a qualitative content analysis2
Efficiency in environmental spending for sustainable development in Spanish cities2
Public perceptions of the health benefits of green spaces in urban Ghana2
Indigenous education as community of practice: a case of grassroots learning of the Manobo in the Philippines2
Street vendors and the human rights to water and sanitation: a scoping review2
The role of women in constructing anti-mining struggles in rural Turkey: spaces of resistance from thresholds to commonalised vigil areas2
A review of brownfields revitalisation and reuse research in the US over three decades2
Spatial analysis of urban agriculture in the utilization of open spaces in Nigeria2
Latin American immigrants and the environment: acculturation, information sources, and place2
Exploring attention to justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in Canadian environmental non-profits: implications for racialised migrants2
Connecting art and development: studying the role of city art on bridges in forwarding urban sustainability2
Perceptions of tropical urban and peri-urban lagoons in the Gulf of Mexico coastal plain: a public ecosystem services study2
Different shades of green: how transnational actors frame nature as a solution to sustainability challenges in African cities2
Evaluating equity and justice in Vancouver’s Sea2City Design Challenge2
Conflicts between traditional and modern governance structures in Irish seaweed harvesting2
Contextual factors for transnational municipal network's local environmental action: a study of ICLEI Africa's LAB Wetlands SA Programme2
Technology and justice: can technological research and development for new energy vehicles reduce environmental inequality in China?2
Re-visiting sustainable development: sustainability and well-being from the perspectives of indigenous people in rural Ghana2
Municipal solid waste charging based on residents’ preference, a case of Harbin City, China2
Cultural ecosystem services of informal green spaces: usage, perception and preference of residents in deprived urban neighbourhoods2
Defying gravity: environmental justice rises in California’s capital city2
Bottom-up perspectives on “climate adaptation” from “vulnerable” coastal communities: a political ecology perspective from Taiwan2
Access, participation and socio-economic benefits of blue versus green economy: a systematic literature review2
Investigating determinants of intentions and behaviours of farmers towards a circular economy for water recycling in paddy field2
Generating transformative capacity: ICLEI Africa’s urban natural assets for Africa programme2
Toward holistic neighbourhood sustainability assessment: integrating fuzzy Delphi method for sustainable indicator selection for Aizawl city2
Historical neighbourhood redlining and contemporary environmental racism2
The role of social capital in climate change mitigation: a case study of agricultural sector in Ambarawa, Central Java2
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