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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Urban planning and degrowth: a missing dialogue	53
Young families and children in gentrifying neighbourhoods: how gentrification reshapes use and perception of green play spaces	38
Solar photovoltaic energy infrastructures, land use and sociocultural context in Portugal	32
Community repair in the circular economy – fixing more than stuff	30
Engaging Indigenous perspectives on health, wellbeing and climate change. A new research agenda for holistic climate action in Aotearoa and beyond	29
Challenges facing sustainable water supply, sanitation and hygiene achievement in urban areas in sub-Saharan Africa	29
Locally led adaptation: drivers for appropriate grassroots initiatives	27
Making sustainability plans more equitable: an analysis of 50 U.S. Cities	26
“Nobody” matters in circular landscapes	24
Urban social sustainability at the neighbourhood scale: measurement and the impact of physical and personal factors	22
Connections in the garden: opportunities for wellbeing	21
Transcending existing paradigms: the quest for justice in urban climate change planning	21
Spatialising procedural justice: fairness and local knowledge mobilisation in nuclear waste siting	20
Just by design: exploring justice as a multidimensional concept in US circular economy discourse	18
Potential and limitations of innovative housing solutions in planning for degrowth: the case of Vienna	17
An intersectional reading of circular economy policies: towards just and sufficiency-driven sustainabilities	17
Beyond inclusion? Perceptions of the extent to which Extinction Rebellion speaks to, and for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and working-class communities	17
“You want protected bike lanes, I want protected Black children. Let’s link”: equity, justice, and the barriers to active transportation in North America	17
Socio-cultural analysis of ecosystem services provided by mangroves in La Encrucijada Biosphere Reserve, southeastern Mexico	17
Food system transformation: a progressive place-based approach	17
Are Green, dense cities more inclusive? Densification and housing accessibility in Oslo	16
Community gardens as local learning environments in social housing contexts: participant perceptions of enhanced wellbeing and community connection	16
Circularity, entropy, ecological conflicts and LFFU	16
Deliberative democracy and environmental justice: evaluating the role of citizens’ juries in urban climate governance	16
Justice, equity, and the circular economy: introduction to the special double issue	16

Sustainable circular cities? Analysing urban circular economy policies in Amsterdam, Glasgow, and Copenhagen	16
The emotional element of urban densification	14
COVID-19 pandemic and informal women workers in peri-urban communities in Nigeria	14
Strengthening community-based adaptation for urban transformation: managing flood risk in informal settlements in Cape Town	13
Strategic sustainable service design for creative-cultural hotels: a multi-level and multi-domain view	13
Participatory planning for the future of accessible nature	13
An assessment of the smallholder rice farming households’ vulnerability to climate change and variability in the Mekong delta region of Vietnam	13
Let children plan neighborhoods for a sustainable future: a sustainable child-friendly city approach	13
Spatialising degrowth, degrowing urban planning	13
In quest of implementing degrowth in local urban planning policies	13
Policing the stigma in our waste: what we know about informal waste pickers in the global north	13
Living Waters or Resource? Ontological differences and the governance of waters and rivers	13
Historical neighbourhood redlining and contemporary environmental racism	12
Social innovation: a preliminary exploration of a contested concept	12
Application of space syntax in neighbourhood park research: an investigation of multiple socio-spatial attributes of park use	12
A systematic, mixed studies review of the outcomes of community garden participation related to food justice	12
“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	12
Ecosystem changes and community wellbeing: social-ecological innovations in enhancing resilience of wetlands communities in Bangladesh	12
Socially just community-based climate change adaptation? Insights from Bangladesh	11
Building capacity towards what? Proposing a framework for the analysis of energy transition governance in the context of urban informality in Sub-Saharan Africa	11
How does Extinction Rebellion engage with climate justice? A case study of XR Norwich	11
Barriers to and enablers of sustainable practices: insights from ethnic minority migrants	11
Climate change in rural Ghana: perceptions and adaptive responses	11
The environmentalism of the subalterns: a case study of environmental activism in Eastern Kurdistan/Rojhelat	10
Is there room for a circular economy “from below”? Reflections on privatisation and commoning of circular waste loops in Argentina	10
Rent and reparation: how the law shapes Indigenous opportunities from large renewable energy projects	10
Action research to improve water quality in Canada’s Rideau Canal: how do local groups reshape environmental governance?	10
Adaptation strategies of nomadic herders in northeast Mongolia: climate, globalisation and traditional knowledge	10
People as environment: local environmental concerns and urban marginality in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan region	10
From smart cities to a happy and sustainable society: urban happiness as a critical pathway toward sustainability transitions	10
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 options	10
Environmental responsibility and Rohingya refugees: potential grounds for justice	10
Re-embedding the circular economy in Circles of Social Life: beyond the self-repairing (and still-rapacious) economy	10
Community renewable energy’s problematic relationship with social justice: insights from Ontario	10
Flood risk management, (un)managed retreat and the “relocation fix”: examining shifting responsibilities and compounding risks through two Irish case studies	9
Assessing affordability as water poverty in Metropolitan Barcelona	9
Social capital: improving community capacity to respond to urban heat	9
As South Africa’s cities burn: we can clean-up, but we cannot sweep away inequality	9
Environmental justice in Phoenix, Arizona: a neighbourhood deficit and asset score	9
Understanding the multiple harms of energy poverty through Nussbaum’s theory of central capabilities	9
Towards degrowth housing development? Lessons from a scenario-based gaming session in the Oslo region	9
The importance of climate change awareness for the adaptive capacity of ethnic minority farmers in the mountainous areas of Thua Thien Hue province	9
Towards digitalisation of socially sustainable neighbourhood design	9
Hurricane Harvey: equal opportunity storm or disparate disaster?	9
Contextualising environmental and climate change migration in Uganda	9
Co-producing just energy transition in everyday practices: sociotechnical innovation and sustainable development in the Thailand-Myanmar border	9
Place-making, place-disruption, and place protection of urban blue spaces: perceptions of waterfront planning of a polluted urban waterbody	8
Do gender differences lead to unequal access to climate adaptation strategies in an agrarian context? Perceptions from coastal Bangladesh	8
The potential use of green infrastructure in the regeneration of brownfield sites: three case studies from Japan’s Osaka Bay Area	8

Advocacy journalism and climate justice in a Global Southern country	8
Barriers for upgrading of latrines in rural Ethiopia: disentangling a sanitation socio-technical lock-in	8
Using the capability approach to evaluate energy vulnerability policies and initiatives in Victoria, Australia	8
Public perceptions of networked infrastructure	8
A report on the impacts of cyclone Yaas over a fish landing centre vulnerable to cyclonic storms and natural hazards – Talsari, Northern Odisha	8
Beyond community characteristics: a leader's gender and local government adoption of energy conservation practices and redistributive programmes	8
The forgotten essential workers in the circular economy? Waste picker precarity and resilience amidst the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Don’t blame it on the sunshine! An exploration of the spatial distribution of heat injustice across districts in Antwerp, Belgium	8
Urban degrowth economics: making cities better places for living, working, and playing	8
Energy infrastructure transitions and environmental governance	8
Building territorial value within local circular economy’s projects: lessons from French scholars’ studies	7
The end of the line: envisioning degrowth and ecosocial justice in the resistance to the trolleybus dismantlement in Moscow	7
Models of governance in community gardening: administrative support fosters project longevity	7
The governance of plastic in India: towards a just transition for recycling in the unorganised sector	7
The role of public procurement to foster social equity and justice: critical reflections on the circular procurement concept	7
Geopolitics of climate change-induced conflict and population displacement in West Africa	7
What are the regionally specific institutions that matter for renewable energy deployment and how can they be identified? Some insights from Italian regions	7
“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 consumption	7
“It’s our future.” Youth and fracking justice in England	7
Citizen science and environmental justice: exploring contradictory outcomes through a case study of air quality monitoring in Dublin	7
Well understood? A literature study defining and operationalising community social sustainability	7
The impacts of and responses to place loss in a coastal community in Ireland	7
Characterisation of social sustainability in a decayed urban block in Iran (a case study of: Saheb Al-Amri neighbourhood of Ghasr-Dasht, Shiraz)	7
Including local knowledge in coastal policy innovation: comparing three Dutch case studies	7
People’s action for climate justice: a systematic review	7
A layout optimization approach to urban park green spaces based on accessibility evaluation: a case study of the central area in Wuxi city	6
How much for an inclusive and solidary selective waste collection? A Brazilian study case	6
Climate change and equitable urban water management: critical urban water zones (CUWZs) in Nepal and beyond	6
Cultivating inclusive public space with urban gardens	6
Promoting citizen-based river groups at sub-basin scale for multi-level river governance in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region	6
Cult violence in Nigeria and corporate social responsibility in oil-producing communities	6
Humanizing hydrocarbon frontiers: the “lived experience” of shale gas fracking in the United Kingdom’s Fylde communities	6
Towards energy security in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region: insights from community members and local residents	6
Participatory network mapping of an emergent social network for a regional transition to a low-carbon and just society on the Dingle Peninsula	6