OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Local Environment is 6. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The impossibility of social distancing among the urban poor: the case of an Indian slum in the times of COVID-19	135
Solid waste management during Covid-19 pandemic: policy gaps and prospects for inclusive waste governance in Nigeria	46
Urban planning and degrowth: a missing dialogue	43
Covid-19 lockdown and physical distancing policies are elitist: towards an indigenous (Afro-centred) approach to containing the pandemic in sub-urban slums in Nigeria	37
Young families and children in gentrifying neighbourhoods: how gentrification reshapes use and perception of green play spaces	32
Challenges facing sustainable water supply, sanitation and hygiene achievement in urban areas in sub-Saharan Africa	25
Solar photovoltaic energy infrastructures, land use and sociocultural context in Portugal	24
Making COVID-19 prevention etiquette of social distancing a reality for the homeless and slum dwellers in Ghana: lessons for consideration	23
Engaging Indigenous perspectives on health, wellbeing and climate change. A new research agenda for holistic climate action in Aotearoa and beyond	23
Revealing hidden energy poverty in Hong Kong: a multi-dimensional framework for examining and understanding energy poverty	22
Glocalization of COVID-19 responses and management of the pandemic in Africa	22
Community repair in the circular economy – fixing more than stuff	21
Locally led adaptation: drivers for appropriate grassroots initiatives	21
Justice and power relations in urban greening: can Lisbon’s urban greening strategies lead to more environmental justice?	20
“Nobody” matters in circular landscapes	20
Making sustainability plans more equitable: an analysis of 50 U.S. Cities	20
The effect of age, gender and marital status on residential satisfaction	18
Social inequality and water use in Australian cities: the social gradient in domestic water use	17
Connections in the garden: opportunities for wellbeing	17
Spatialising procedural justice: fairness and local knowledge mobilisation in nuclear waste siting	17
Sanitation workers at the frontline: work and vulnerability in response to COVID-19	16
Transcending existing paradigms: the quest for justice in urban climate change planning	16
Are Green, dense cities more inclusive? Densification and housing accessibility in Oslo	15
Just by design: exploring justice as a multidimensional concept in US circular economy discourse	15
Urban social sustainability at the neighbourhood scale: measurement and the impact of physical and personal factors	15

Circularity, entropy, ecological conflicts and LFFU	15
Beyond inclusion? Perceptions of the extent to which Extinction Rebellion speaks to, and for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and working-class communities	14
From place to emplacement: the scalar politics of sustainability	13
Potential and limitations of innovative housing solutions in planning for degrowth: the case of Vienna	13
Food system transformation: a progressive place-based approach	12
Deliberative democracy and environmental justice: evaluating the role of citizens’ juries in urban climate governance	12
An assessment of the smallholder rice farming households’ vulnerability to climate change and variability in the Mekong delta region of Vietnam	12
The emotional element of urban densification	12
Waste management in a more unequal world: centring inequality in our waste and climate change discourse	11
Socio-cultural analysis of ecosystem services provided by mangroves in La Encrucijada Biosphere Reserve, southeastern Mexico	11
A systematic, mixed studies review of the outcomes of community garden participation related to food justice	11
Unsafe waters: the hydrosocial cycle of drinking water in Western Mexico	11
Justice, equity, and the circular economy: introduction to the special double issue	10
Let children plan neighborhoods for a sustainable future: a sustainable child-friendly city approach	10
Building capacity towards what? Proposing a framework for the analysis of energy transition governance in the context of urban informality in Sub-Saharan Africa	10
“You want protected bike lanes, I want protected Black children. Let’s link”: equity, justice, and the barriers to active transportation in North America	10
Social innovation: a preliminary exploration of a contested concept	10
Strengthening community-based adaptation for urban transformation: managing flood risk in informal settlements in Cape Town	10
Climate change loss and damage policy implications for Pacific Island Countries	10
Community gardens as local learning environments in social housing contexts: participant perceptions of enhanced wellbeing and community connection	10
An intersectional reading of circular economy policies: towards just and sufficiency-driven sustainabilities	10
Participatory planning for the future of accessible nature	10
Action research to improve water quality in Canada’s Rideau Canal: how do local groups reshape environmental governance?	10
Climate change in rural Ghana: perceptions and adaptive responses	10
Ecosystem changes and community wellbeing: social-ecological innovations in enhancing resilience of wetlands communities in Bangladesh	10
Living Waters or Resource? Ontological differences and the governance of waters and rivers	10
Tale of two neighbourhoods: biophysical and socio-economic vulnerability to climate change in Pinellas County, Florida	10
The importance of climate change awareness for the adaptive capacity of ethnic minority farmers in the mountainous areas of Thua Thien Hue province	9
Flood risk management, (un)managed retreat and the “relocation fix”: examining shifting responsibilities and compounding risks through two Irish case studies	9
Environmental justice in Phoenix, Arizona: a neighbourhood deficit and asset score	9
Strategic sustainable service design for creative-cultural hotels: a multi-level and multi-domain view	9
Pollution, place, and premature death: evidence from a mid-sized city	9
Indonesia’s fight against COVID-19: the roles of local government units and community organisations	9
How does Extinction Rebellion engage with climate justice? A case study of XR Norwich	9
COVID-19 pandemic and informal women workers in peri-urban communities in Nigeria	9
Spatialising degrowth, degrowing urban planning	9
Socially just community-based climate change adaptation? Insights from Bangladesh	9
“There is food we deserve, and there is food we do not deserve” Food injustice, place and power in urban agriculture in Cape Town and Maputo	9
Policing the stigma in our waste: what we know about informal waste pickers in the global north	9
Procedural environmental (in)justice at multiple scales: examining immigrant advocacy for improved living conditions	9
In quest of implementing degrowth in local urban planning policies	8
Barriers to and enablers of sustainable practices: insights from ethnic minority migrants	8
Energy infrastructure transitions and environmental governance	8
Towards degrowth housing development? Lessons from a scenario-based gaming session in the Oslo region	8
Assessing affordability as water poverty in Metropolitan Barcelona	8
Is there room for a circular economy “from below”? Reflections on privatisation and commoning of circular waste loops in Argentina	8
Environmental responsibility and Rohingya refugees: potential grounds for justice	8
As South Africa’s cities burn: we can clean-up, but we cannot sweep away inequality	8
Community renewable energy’s problematic relationship with social justice: insights from Ontario	8
A degrowth approach to urban mobility options: just, desirable and practical options	8

People as environment: local environmental concerns and urban marginality in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan region	8
Rent and reparation: how the law shapes Indigenous opportunities from large renewable energy projects	8
Hurricane Harvey: equal opportunity storm or disparate disaster?	7
Building territorial value within local circular economy’s projects: lessons from French scholars’ studies	7
Re-embedding the circular economy in Circles of Social Life: beyond the self-repairing (and still-rapacious) economy	7
Local Environment and the UN Sustainable Development Goals	7
Adaptation strategies of nomadic herders in northeast Mongolia: climate, globalisation and traditional knowledge	7
A report on the impacts of cyclone Yaas over a fish landing centre vulnerable to cyclonic storms and natural hazards – Talsari, Northern Odisha	7
Beyond community characteristics: a leader's gender and local government adoption of energy conservation practices and redistributive programmes	7
Towards digitalisation of socially sustainable neighbourhood design	7
Understanding the multiple harms of energy poverty through Nussbaum’s theory of central capabilities	7
An assessment of social and environmental impacts of a new shale gas industry in the Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire	7
Buying a sustainable society: the case of public procurement in Sweden	7
The forgotten essential workers in the circular economy? Waste picker precarity and resilience amidst the COVID-19 pandemic	6
The environmentalism of the subalterns: a case study of environmental activism in Eastern Kurdistan/Rojhelat	6
Social capital: improving community capacity to respond to urban heat	6
Co-producing just energy transition in everyday practices: sociotechnical innovation and sustainable development in the Thailand-Myanmar border	6
What are the regionally specific institutions that matter for renewable energy deployment and how can they be identified? Some insights from Italian regions	6
Place-making, place-disruption, and place protection of urban blue spaces: perceptions of waterfront planning of a polluted urban waterbody	6
Barcelona’s housing policy under austerity urbanism: a contribution to the debate on degrowth and urban planning	6
GIS-based mappings of park accessibility at multiple spatial scales: a research framework with the case of Izmir (Turkey)	6
The potential use of green infrastructure in the regeneration of brownfield sites: three case studies from Japan’s Osaka Bay Area	6
From smart cities to a happy and sustainable society: urban happiness as a critical pathway toward sustainability transitions	6
Collaborative climate mitigation and adaptation planning with university, community, and municipal partners: a case study in Anchorage, Alaska	6
Models of governance in community gardening: administrative support fosters project longevity	6
Do gender differences lead to unequal access to climate adaptation strategies in an agrarian context? Perceptions from coastal Bangladesh	6
Advocacy journalism and climate justice in a Global Southern country	6
The impacts of and responses to place loss in a coastal community in Ireland	6