Local Environment

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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Urban planning and degrowth: a missing dialogue53
Young families and children in gentrifying neighbourhoods: how gentrification reshapes use and perception of green play spaces38
Solar photovoltaic energy infrastructures, land use and sociocultural context in Portugal32
Community repair in the circular economy – fixing more than stuff30
Challenges facing sustainable water supply, sanitation and hygiene achievement in urban areas in sub-Saharan Africa29
Engaging Indigenous perspectives on health, wellbeing and climate change. A new research agenda for holistic climate action in Aotearoa and beyond29
Locally led adaptation: drivers for appropriate grassroots initiatives27
Making sustainability plans more equitable: an analysis of 50 U.S. Cities26
“Nobody” matters in circular landscapes24
Urban social sustainability at the neighbourhood scale: measurement and the impact of physical and personal factors22
Transcending existing paradigms: the quest for justice in urban climate change planning21
Connections in the garden: opportunities for wellbeing21
Spatialising procedural justice: fairness and local knowledge mobilisation in nuclear waste siting20
Just by design: exploring justice as a multidimensional concept in US circular economy discourse18
Potential and limitations of innovative housing solutions in planning for degrowth: the case of Vienna17
An intersectional reading of circular economy policies: towards just and sufficiency-driven sustainabilities17
Beyond inclusion? Perceptions of the extent to which Extinction Rebellion speaks to, and for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and working-class communities17
“You want protected bike lanes, I want protected Black children. Let’s link”: equity, justice, and the barriers to active transportation in North America17
Socio-cultural analysis of ecosystem services provided by mangroves in La Encrucijada Biosphere Reserve, southeastern Mexico17
Food system transformation: a progressive place-based approach17
Are Green, dense cities more inclusive? Densification and housing accessibility in Oslo16
Community gardens as local learning environments in social housing contexts: participant perceptions of enhanced wellbeing and community connection16
Circularity, entropy, ecological conflicts and LFFU16
Deliberative democracy and environmental justice: evaluating the role of citizens’ juries in urban climate governance16
Justice, equity, and the circular economy: introduction to the special double issue16
Sustainable circular cities? Analysing urban circular economy policies in Amsterdam, Glasgow, and Copenhagen16
COVID-19 pandemic and informal women workers in peri-urban communities in Nigeria14
The emotional element of urban densification14
In quest of implementing degrowth in local urban planning policies13
Policing the stigma in our waste: what we know about informal waste pickers in the global north13
Living Waters or Resource? Ontological differences and the governance of waters and rivers13
Strengthening community-based adaptation for urban transformation: managing flood risk in informal settlements in Cape Town13
Strategic sustainable service design for creative-cultural hotels: a multi-level and multi-domain view13
Participatory planning for the future of accessible nature13
An assessment of the smallholder rice farming households’ vulnerability to climate change and variability in the Mekong delta region of Vietnam13
Let children plan neighborhoods for a sustainable future: a sustainable child-friendly city approach13
Spatialising degrowth, degrowing urban planning13
“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 Maputo12
Ecosystem changes and community wellbeing: social-ecological innovations in enhancing resilience of wetlands communities in Bangladesh12
Historical neighbourhood redlining and contemporary environmental racism12
Social innovation: a preliminary exploration of a contested concept12
Application of space syntax in neighbourhood park research: an investigation of multiple socio-spatial attributes of park use12
A systematic, mixed studies review of the outcomes of community garden participation related to food justice12
Socially just community-based climate change adaptation? Insights from Bangladesh11
Building capacity towards what? Proposing a framework for the analysis of energy transition governance in the context of urban informality in Sub-Saharan Africa11
How does Extinction Rebellion engage with climate justice? A case study of XR Norwich11
Barriers to and enablers of sustainable practices: insights from ethnic minority migrants11
Climate change in rural Ghana: perceptions and adaptive responses11
Community renewable energy’s problematic relationship with social justice: insights from Ontario10
The environmentalism of the subalterns: a case study of environmental activism in Eastern Kurdistan/Rojhelat10
Is there room for a circular economy “from below”? Reflections on privatisation and commoning of circular waste loops in Argentina10
Rent and reparation: how the law shapes Indigenous opportunities from large renewable energy projects10
Action research to improve water quality in Canadas Rideau Canal: how do local groups reshape environmental governance?10
Adaptation strategies of nomadic herders in northeast Mongolia: climate, globalisation and traditional knowledge10
People as environment: local environmental concerns and urban marginality in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan region10
From smart cities to a happy and sustainable society: urban happiness as a critical pathway toward sustainability transitions10
GIS-based mappings of park accessibility at multiple spatial scales: a research framework with the case of Izmir (Turkey)10
A degrowth approach to urban mobility options: just, desirable and practical options10
Environmental responsibility and Rohingya refugees: potential grounds for justice10
Re-embedding the circular economy in Circles of Social Life: beyond the self-repairing (and still-rapacious) economy10
Towards digitalisation of socially sustainable neighbourhood design9
Hurricane Harvey: equal opportunity storm or disparate disaster?9
Contextualising environmental and climate change migration in Uganda9
Co-producing just energy transition in everyday practices: sociotechnical innovation and sustainable development in the Thailand-Myanmar border9
Flood risk management, (un)managed retreat and the “relocation fix”: examining shifting responsibilities and compounding risks through two Irish case studies9
Assessing affordability as water poverty in Metropolitan Barcelona9
Social capital: improving community capacity to respond to urban heat9
As South Africa’s cities burn: we can clean-up, but we cannot sweep away inequality9
Environmental justice in Phoenix, Arizona: a neighbourhood deficit and asset score9
Understanding the multiple harms of energy poverty through Nussbaum’s theory of central capabilities9
Towards degrowth housing development? Lessons from a scenario-based gaming session in the Oslo region9
The importance of climate change awareness for the adaptive capacity of ethnic minority farmers in the mountainous areas of Thua Thien Hue province9
Energy infrastructure transitions and environmental governance8
Place-making, place-disruption, and place protection of urban blue spaces: perceptions of waterfront planning of a polluted urban waterbody8
Do gender differences lead to unequal access to climate adaptation strategies in an agrarian context? Perceptions from coastal Bangladesh8
The potential use of green infrastructure in the regeneration of brownfield sites: three case studies from Japan’s Osaka Bay Area8
Advocacy journalism and climate justice in a Global Southern country8
Barriers for upgrading of latrines in rural Ethiopia: disentangling a sanitation socio-technical lock-in8
Using the capability approach to evaluate energy vulnerability policies and initiatives in Victoria, Australia8
Public perceptions of networked infrastructure8
A report on the impacts of cyclone Yaas over a fish landing centre vulnerable to cyclonic storms and natural hazards – Talsari, Northern Odisha8
Beyond community characteristics: a leader's gender and local government adoption of energy conservation practices and redistributive programmes8
The forgotten essential workers in the circular economy? Waste picker precarity and resilience amidst the COVID-19 pandemic8
Don’t blame it on the sunshine! An exploration of the spatial distribution of heat injustice across districts in Antwerp, Belgium8
Urban degrowth economics: making cities better places for living, working, and playing8
“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 consumption7
The end of the line: envisioning degrowth and ecosocial justice in the resistance to the trolleybus dismantlement in Moscow7
“It’s our future.” Youth and fracking justice in England7
Citizen science and environmental justice: exploring contradictory outcomes through a case study of air quality monitoring in Dublin7
Well understood? A literature study defining and operationalising community social sustainability7
Characterisation of social sustainability in a decayed urban block in Iran (a case study of: Saheb Al-Amri neighbourhood of Ghasr-Dasht, Shiraz)7
What are the regionally specific institutions that matter for renewable energy deployment and how can they be identified? Some insights from Italian regions7
Including local knowledge in coastal policy innovation: comparing three Dutch case studies7
People’s action for climate justice: a systematic review7
Building territorial value within local circular economy’s projects: lessons from French scholars’ studies7
Models of governance in community gardening: administrative support fosters project longevity7
The impacts of and responses to place loss in a coastal community in Ireland7
The governance of plastic in India: towards a just transition for recycling in the unorganised sector7
The role of public procurement to foster social equity and justice: critical reflections on the circular procurement concept7
Geopolitics of climate change-induced conflict and population displacement in West Africa7
Cultivating inclusive public space with urban gardens6
Promoting citizen-based river groups at sub-basin scale for multi-level river governance in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region6
Cult violence in Nigeria and corporate social responsibility in oil-producing communities6
Humanizing hydrocarbon frontiers: the “lived experience” of shale gas fracking in the United Kingdom’s Fylde communities6
Towards energy security in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region: insights from community members and local residents6
Participatory network mapping of an emergent social network for a regional transition to a low-carbon and just society on the Dingle Peninsula6
A layout optimization approach to urban park green spaces based on accessibility evaluation: a case study of the central area in Wuxi city6
How much for an inclusive and solidary selective waste collection? A Brazilian study case6
Climate change and equitable urban water management: critical urban water zones (CUWZs) in Nepal and beyond6
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