OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Local Environment is 4. 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
Re-embedding the circular economy in Circles of Social Life: beyond the self-repairing (and still-rapacious) economy	30
Seeds of change? Social practices of urban community seed sharing initiatives for just transitions to sustainability	29
The Hanford plaintiffs: voices from the fight for atomic justice	29
Discursive strategies and activist framing in anti-mining campaigns	29
Resource Nexus for decision-making: an industry-community synergistic approach for textile wastewater management	26
From smart cities to a happy and sustainable society: urban happiness as a critical pathway toward sustainability transitions	24
Collaborating for nature-based solutions: bringing research and practice together	21
Talking to the young generation: perception of nature-based solutions’ attractiveness by children from Generation Z	21
Active inaction: why the climate crisis is a moral crisis	20
The importance of climate change awareness for the adaptive capacity of ethnic minority farmers in the mountainous areas of Thua Thien Hue province	18
Beyond community characteristics: a leader's gender and local government adoption of energy conservation practices and redistributive programmes	17
Revealing community capacity for applying rain water harvesting in Semarang coastal areas	17
Living labs as transformative incrementalism: lessons learned on the role of a university living lab in mobilising just sustainabilities on campus	17
Prime-time access for whom? Rhythms fairness and the dynamic pricing of infrastructure services	17
A critical air quality science perspective on citizen science in action	16
Just transition in the post-pandemic city	16
The end of the line: envisioning degrowth and ecosocial justice in the resistance to the trolleybus dismantlement in Moscow	16
The impacts of and responses to place loss in a coastal community in Ireland	16
Visualising Heritage: a critical discourse analysis of place, race, and nationhood along the Erie Canal	16
Herder-farmer conflict in sub-Saharan Africa and corporate social responsibility in Nigeria’s oil host communities	15
Cultural probes: a speculative and creative method for environmental research	14
Spatialising degrowth, degrowing urban planning	14
Social network, sustainable livelihood capital and risk response: an empirical analysis of rural China	13
An examination of national climate policy integration at the local level of development in Ghana	13
The post-industrial legacy in Brazil: where circular economy principles meet collective urban practices by design	13

What are the regionally specific institutions that matter for renewable energy deployment and how can they be identified? Some insights from Italian regions	13
Does local cognition of climate change really matters in adaptation: farmer perspectives	13
Toward holistic neighbourhood sustainability assessment: integrating fuzzy Delphi method for sustainable indicator selection for Aizawl city	13
The politics of airing grievances: an analysis of air quality knowledge and ignorance in Pittsburgh	13
Muslim environmentalism: religious and social foundation	13
Different pasts, contested presents and desired futures: local narratives and identities in the co-production of a shared wind energy ownership model	12
Just sustainabilities: The case of eco-estates in South Africa	12
Investigating determinants of intentions and behaviours of farmers towards a circular economy for water recycling in paddy field	12
Social innovation: a preliminary exploration of a contested concept	11
Geopolitics of climate change-induced conflict and population displacement in West Africa	11
Co-producing just energy transition in everyday practices: sociotechnical innovation and sustainable development in the Thailand-Myanmar border	11
Towards representative resilience: the power of culture to foster local resource representation	11
Cult violence in Nigeria and corporate social responsibility in oil-producing communities	11
As South Africa’s cities burn: we can clean-up, but we cannot sweep away inequality	11
The rise of blockadia as a global anti-extractivism movement	10
Adaptation through knowledge coexistence: insights for environmental and sea lamprey stewardship	10
Opportunities for more ecologically centred and equitable relations in local government environmental discourse: insights from Victoria, Australia	10
Environmental justice in Kuwait metropolitan area: a spatial analysis of land-use impact on environmental quality variability	10
Challenges facing sustainable water supply, sanitation and hygiene achievement in urban areas in sub-Saharan Africa	10
Spatial analysis of urban agriculture in the utilization of open spaces in Nigeria	10
“How could it be our responsibility?” The equity of Local Authority climate action in England	10
Towards degrowth housing development? Lessons from a scenario-based gaming session in the Oslo region	10
In the land of the “fair go”: global food policy lessons beyond the charity model	10
What constitutes the social in (social) sustainability? Community, society and equity in South African water governance	10
The emotional element of urban densification	10
Neighbourhood social sustainable development and spatial scale: a qualitative case study in Sweden	9
Barriers to and enablers of sustainable practices: insights from ethnic minority migrants	9
Towards sustainable solid waste management: nature, operational dynamics and complexities of Informal Waste Service Providers in Kumasi, Ghana	9
Well understood? A literature study defining and operationalising community social sustainability	9
Socially embedding the food system: the role of alternative food initiatives to build sustainable food models	9
Advocacy journalism and climate justice in a Global Southern country	9
The potential use of green infrastructure in the regeneration of brownfield sites: three case studies from Japan’s Osaka Bay Area	9
COVID-19 and social sustainability: the case of Mauritius	9
Correction	9
Community participation in marine ecotourism development: a qualitative systematic review	9
Equitable accessibility of public open spaces: a comparison of measurement methods in metropolitan area of Izmir, Türkiye	9
Spatial coupling relationship between multidimensional poverty and the risk of geological disaster	9
People as environment: local environmental concerns and urban marginality in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan region	8
Failing septic systems in Lowndes County, Alabama: citizen participation, science, and community knowledge	8
Factors that influence user patronage and satisfaction of urban parks in Ghanaian cities: case of the Rattray Park in Nhyiaeso, Kumasi	8
Climate change and equitable urban water management: critical urban water zones (CUWZs) in Nepal and beyond	8
Effects on perceptions of greenspace benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Efficiency in environmental spending for sustainable development in Spanish cities	8
Energy infrastructure transitions and environmental governance	8
Perceived differential vulnerability and climate change-related hazards in informal settlements in Accra, Ghana: re-thinking vulnerability to climate change in urban areas	8
A move towards just sustainability: transformation of discourses around urban sustainability planning in Seoul, Republic of Korea	8
Farm level adaptation to climate change: insight from rice farmers in the coastal region of Bangladesh	8
Gardening from the ground up: a review of grassroots governance and management of domestic gardening in Canada	7
Participatory planning for the future of accessible nature	7
Carceral jaguar geographies along the US/México border and the case for border abolition	7

The influence of trust on the public’s environmental risk perception: evidence from China	7
Hydropower policy in Ecuador: an analysis from environmental perspective and recommendations for future policymaking	7
Growing, consuming, and wasting/disposing: a study of the sustainable food practices of Australian households	7
Urban sprawl and the changing socioecological systems in peri-urban Ghana	7
Use of menstrual cup and awareness of environmental effects of menstrual hygiene products	7
The interests, ideas, and institutions shaping public participation in local climate change governance in Ireland	7
Perceptions of tropical urban and peri-urban lagoons in the Gulf of Mexico coastal plain: a public ecosystem services study	7
Environmental health capital: a paradigm for environmental injustice prevention and truth and reconciliation	7
Participatory network mapping of an emergent social network for a regional transition to a low-carbon and just society on the Dingle Peninsula	7
A report on the impacts of cyclone Yaas over a fish landing centre vulnerable to cyclonic storms and natural hazards – Talsari, Northern Odisha	6
Practising conservation: the intersection of decolonial and Ubuntu lenses	6
Co-designing publics: [re]producing the public realm via informal urbanisms in cities of the global south	6
Stormwater isn’t impervious to racism: rethinking stormwater capture in Los Angeles County	6
Language, context, and action: exploring equity and justice content in Vancouver environmental plans	6
Does internet-based climate information improve non-fishing employment opportunities? Insights from smallholder fishermen in Indonesia	6
Deliberative democracy and environmental justice: evaluating the role of citizens’ juries in urban climate governance	6
Analysis of public attitudes towards “local agreements” on restarting nuclear power plants: a questionnaire survey in four prefectures in Japan	5
Conceptualising and enacting pathways to transformative climate justice: examples from the Philippines	5
Social capital: improving community capacity to respond to urban heat	5
Just sustainability, actor-networks and environmental politics in China: local controversies over shared environmental infrastructure in industrial districts	5
(Re)configuring moral boundaries of intergenerational justice: the UK parent-led climate movement	5
ParkLIV – engaging non-users in green space management	5
Bottom-up perspectives on “climate adaptation” from “vulnerable” coastal communities: a political ecology perspective from Taiwan	5
The legitimisation of local environmental organisations by community members	5
“You want protected bike lanes, I want protected Black children. Let’s link”: equity, justice, and the barriers to active transportation in North America	5
Soil publics: regenerating relations with urban soils through citizen science	5
Are socio-demographic and building characteristics associated with noise complaints?	5
Building territorial value within local circular economy’s projects: lessons from French scholars’ studies	5
“It’s one of the few things that … pulls us together when the outside world is really tough.” Exploring the outcomes and challenges of a charity-led community garden in a disadvantaged English city	5
Utopia of social distancing and dystopia of living in slums: urban poor’s perspectives from the global south and the theory of planned behaviour	5
Mobilizing infrastructure investments for urban climate action in Africa: enabling factors for multilevel action	5
Assessing the post-COVID prospects for the energy transition in the Netherlands and the UK, using a policy barriers approach	5
Post-growth municipalism: exploring the scalar constitution, strategic relevance, and legal viability of the municipal scale for tackling growth dependencies	5
Challenges and opportunities of urban agriculture programme implementation in Indonesia: social, economic, and environmental perspectives	4
Assessing how rural-urban migration is incorporated in Ghana’s national urban policy: a qualitative content analysis	4
Contextualising environmental and climate change migration in Uganda	4
Ethnicity as a social determinant of energy poverty: the case of Mexican indigenous population	4
Access heterogeneities and collection time inequalities of drinking water sources in Ghana: implications for water and development policy	4
Is there room for a circular economy “from below”? Reflections on privatisation and commoning of circular waste loops in Argentina	4
Engaging Indigenous perspectives on health, wellbeing and climate change. A new research agenda for holistic climate action in Aotearoa and beyond	4
Becoming community economy: how community-supported agriculture diversifies farm labour	4
Climate change vulnerability assessment of dryland farmers and factors Identification using machine learning techniques	4
“No fish – no fishermen”: staying as a voluntary choice despite environmental risks	4
Transport innovations in the cracks: reading for potential post-growth transport and mobilities with Deleuze and Guattari	4
Climate change loss and damage governance. Where are we now? A case study from Fiji’s sugar industry	4
Smallholder farmers’ perceptions, coping and adaptation strategies to climate variability in the UNESCO designated cultural landscapes of Konso, Ethiopia	4
Can liberalised electricity markets deliver on climate change and energy poverty? Evidence from community projects in Great Britain	4
The effects of resettlement in urban redevelopment; insights from the Kejetia project in Ghana	4
Gender equality of privacy protection in the use of urban furniture in the Muslim context of Iran	4
Experimenting with sustainability education: the case of a student-driven campus initiative in Finland	4
Holding up a mirror: researching symmetrically to explore exclusion, othering and whiteness in local environmental governance	4
Determinants of job satisfaction and motivation among community forest workers: insights from the Hindu Kush Himalaya, Pakistan	4
Indigenous education as community of practice: a case of grassroots learning of the Manobo in the Philippines	4
Revisiting the garden city concept and urban green infrastructure discourse in sustainable city planning in sub-Saharan Africa	4
An intersectional reading of circular economy policies: towards just and sufficiency-driven sustainabilities	4
Spatial vulnerability assessment of urbanites of Rawalpindi to the combined effects of climate change and pandemics using GIS mapping	4
Combating food insecurity and creating sustenance: addressing the root causes of hunger in the US through political empowerment and public policy engagement	4
Alley greening: a tool for enhancing community resilience?	4
Citizen science and environmental justice: exploring contradictory outcomes through a case study of air quality monitoring in Dublin	4
Climate change in rural Ghana: perceptions and adaptive responses	4
Living Waters or Resource? Ontological differences and the governance of waters and rivers	4
If it’s in our backyard: the roles of local knowledge in the formation of a nuclear oversight organisation	4