OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
How coalitions of multiple actors advance policy in China: ecological agriculture at Danjiangkou	88
Behind the curtains of deliberation: unveiling climate policy and behavioural challenges through a mini-public in Spain	29
‘Green icing on the Gray Cake?’ Green infrastructure in federal enforcement action	24
Break, bridge or bolster? Participatory energy initiatives between frames and futures of local sustainability	24
A policy instruments palette for spatial quality: lessons from Dutch flood risk management	21
Act global, think local? Local perspectives towards environmental sustainability in semi-rural communities of Alberta, Canada	20
It’s not all about the money—landowner motivation and high voltage grid development	19
Policy instruments for governing water in cross-border metropolitan areas, the case of Greater Geneva	19
City-to-city learning: a synthesis and research agenda	19
Systemic impacts of low-carbon transition policies: co-designing potential leverage points to mitigate housing and energy vulnerabilities in Innsbruck	17
Environmental justice implications of siting criteria in urban green infrastructure planning	16
Indigenous land systems and emerging of Green Infrastructure planning in the Peruvian coastal desert: tensions and opportunities	16
Fjords of sovereignty: a case study of selective non-compliance in the Norwegian Environment Agency	16
Constructing regulatory regimes for sustainable development: commitment to resolve, clarity, and reasonableness	15
Green infrastructure implementation: perspectives from English planners	15
Evidence integration for coherent nexus policy design: a Mediterranean perspective on managing water-energy interactions	14
In or outside the box? Citizen action between institutional and extra-institutional channels in Chinese environmental governance	14
Trading radical for incremental change: the politics of a circular economy transition in the German packaging sector	14
What went right? A collaborative process to prepare a city forest management strategy	14
Resource dependency, perceived political environment, and ENGO advocacy under authoritarian rule	14
Learning and amplifying urban climate governance through cutting-edge projects	14
Placing environmental democracy at the heart of co-governance: rethinking the governance of complex waterways	14
Informing aquatic restoration decisions using environmental justice in New Hampshire	13
Ecological modernisation wanderings: ambivalent framing and unstable coalitions in the development of Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) in France	13
When decarbonization rhymes with industrialization. The political dilemmas of increasing wood usage within the French construction industry	13

Exploring the interaction between social norms and perceived justice of wind energy projects: a qualitative analysis	12
Between risk perceptions and adaptation policies: centering climate justice and social innovation in heat vulnerable cities	12
Can we promote plural local pathways to sustainable development? Insights from the implementation of Wales’s Future Generations Act	12
Contesting the framing of bioeconomy policy in Germany: the NGO perspective	12
The politics of agro-industrial greening: policy processes, market institutions and local power relations in the sugarcane sector of French overseas departments	11
Cross-cultural learning as a foundation for reimagining ocean governance	11
Who is (not) in the room? An epistemic justice perspective on low-carbon transport transitions	11
The European Union’s Directive on corporate sustainability development due diligence: an institutional design effectiveness analysis	10
Moral rifts in the coal phase-out—how mayors shape distributive and recognition-based dimensions of a just transition in Lusatia	10
Creating institutions to protect the environment: the role of Chinese central environmental inspection	9
Implementation gap of China’s environmental policies: logic behind the over-implementation of the coal to gas transition	9
Co-evolutionary dynamics of experimental governance: a longitudinal study of sustainable mobility services in Oslo	9
Assessing the impact of Fridays for Future on climate policy and policymaking in German cities	9
Shifting paradigms in stormwater management – hydrosocial relations and stormwater hydrocitizenship	9
A comparative analysis of bioeconomy visions and pathways based on stakeholder dialogues in Colombia, Rwanda, Sweden, and Thailand	8
Engineering gentrification: urban redevelopment, sustainability policy, and green stormwater infrastructure in Minneapolis	8
The nested hierarchy of urban vulnerability within land use policies fails to address climate injustices in Turkey	8
How national bioeconomy strategies address governance challenges arising from forest-related trade-offs	8
‘Time’ as a focus for planning research: exploring temporalities of coastal change	8
Solving cross-sectoral policy problems: adding a cross-sectoral dimension to assess policy performance	8
Biogas at the intersection of agricultural, environment and energy governance: (potentially) conflicting interests and consistent policy framework?	8
Who participates in green infrastructure initiatives and why? Comparing participants and non-participants in Philadelphia’s GI programs	8
Airports’ environmental effects and limits to growth: an integrated framework	8
Ecological transition in France’s margins: how industries adapt to ecological crisis and redefine their national and local roles	7
The scaling up of the tiny house niche in Quebec – transformations and continuities in the housing regime	7
The role of discourses in understanding institutional stability and change – an analysis of Dutch flood risk governance	7
A multidimensional approach to evaluating the vulnerability of drinking water systems	7
Plugged in? Assessing the distribution of orphaned wells	7
The evolution of stakeholder participation in European UNESCO Biosphere Reserves: challenges and opportunities of the COVID pandemic and the digital shift	7
Reconfiguring energy flows: energy grid-lock and the role of regions in shaping electricity infrastructure networks	7
Sustainability transitions in Los Angeles’ water system: the ambivalent role of incumbents in urban experimentation	7
Tackling material dependency in sustainability transition: rationales and insights from the agriculture sector	7
Designing policy mixes for the sustainable management of water resources	6
Performance without legitimacy? Examining the performance-legitimacy dilemma of China’s authoritarian environmentalism model through Hebei’s ‘ban on coal furnace’ project	6
Caretakers as mediators in household waste separation	6
Experimental governance in China: models of stakeholder interaction and evolution of the low-carbon cities pilot programme	6
Assessing environmental justice contributions in research and public policy: an applied framework and methodology	6
Addressing the adaptive challenges of alternative stormwater planning	6
Energy spaces: bridging scales and standpoints of just energy transitions	6
Curbing the European Union’s global deforestation footprint through trade	5
Assessing biodiversity policy designs in Australia, France and Sweden. Comparative lessons for transformative governance of biodiversity?	5
A convenient untruth: environmental water reallocation and the art of ambiguous arrangements in south-east France	5
Does multidimensional distance matter? Perceptions and acceptance of wind power	5
Tussling with seascape character assessment and assemblage theories	5
New problems for assemblage thinking: materiality, governance and cycling in Sydney, Australia	5
Designing integrative governance arrangements for policy performance in the Energy Union: evidence from seven member states	5
Can the Sustainable Development Goals Green International Organisations? Sustainability Integration in the International Labour Organisation	5
Planning for renewable energy without conflict: the potential of using sensitivity mapping as a decision-support tool	5
Empirical insights into knowledge-weaving processes in strategic environmental research	5
Urban heat governance: examining the role of urban planning	4

The governmentality of tropical forests and sustainable food systems, and possibilities for post-2020 sustainability governance	4
Urban governance and policy mixes for nature-based solutions and integrated water policy	4
The impact of state-led traceability on fisheries sustainability	4
The Isle of Man Biosphere Reserve: an entire nation approach to sustainable development	4
A renewable light unto the nations? Modelling the limits of culturally appealing climate frames: a case study from Israel	4
Contentious governance of wind energy planning: strategic dilemmas in collaborative resistance by local governments and citizen action groups	4
The modern railway and the Swedish state – competing storylines about state capacity, modernisation and material dependencies in the Swedish high-speed rail discourse, 1995–2020	4
Policy mixes for biodiversity: a diffusion analysis of state-level citizens’ initiatives in Germany	4
Making profit from energy transition. Political struggles and accumulation strategies in Guadeloupe	4
Taking control to do more: how local governments and communities can enact ambitious climate mitigation policies	4
Centralized urgency to autonomous caution: A Q-method exploration of Dutch citizens’ energy transition visions	3
The role of experts in policy design: transcoding strategies in the making of the Water Framework Directive	3
Climate policy integration: taking advantage of policy windows? An analysis of the energy and environment sectors in Mexico (1997–2018)	3
Contested renewable energy projects in Latin America: bridging frameworks of justice to understand ‘triple inequalities of decarbonisation policies’	3
From conceptualization to practice: enhancing economic resilience at the local government level in Australia	3
Regulatory, accompanying, and collective governance? The challenges of re-orientating environmental-economic interdependencies in two French ports	3
Concerning emotions: feminist contributions to reflexive marine governance	3
The multifaceted geographies of green infrastructure policy and planning: socio-environmental dreams, nightmares, and amnesia	3
Mixed policy feedback and evolution of environmental regulation: analysing instrument recalibration and layering in Danish nitrogen policy	3
Call for participatory waste governance: waste management with informal recyclers in Vancouver	3
Mainstreaming passive houses: more gradual reconfiguration than transition	3
Biodiversity Policy Integration at the sub-national level: Insights from the German Länder in the context of sub-national biodiversity strategies and action plans	3
Do citizens’ perspectives matter? A comparison of formal planning and local preferences for the deployment of renewable energies	3
The European Union’s management of the environment-trade nexus at the World Trade Organization before and after the European Green Deal	3
A public administration perspective on wind power development: decision-making logic of local government officials	3
Policy integration from a practice-theoretical perspective: integrated food policy in the making in two German cities	3
Not at the table but stuck paying the bill: perceptions of injustice in China’s Xin’anjiang eco-compensation program	3
Climate policy integration as a process: from shallow to embedded integration	2
In- and exclusion in urban food governance: exploring networks and power in the city of Almere	2
Guerra del agua in Bolivia: environmental discourse, power and the politics of ‘green’	2
Winds of change: examining attitude shifts regarding an offshore wind project	2
Towards an Anthropocene Narrative and a New Philosophy of Governance: Evolution of Global Environmental Discourse in the Man and the Biosphere Programme	2
The role of public consultations in decision-making on future agricultural pesticide use: insights from European Union’s Farm to Fork Strategy public consultation	2
The role of niche and regime intermediaries in building partnerships for urban transitions towards sustainability	2
Governing resource making in energy transitions: a study of shifting configurations of biogas in Denmark from farming to big business	2
How organized credibility enables climate action: the U.S. climate security coalition as a credibility machine	2
Reflexivity and transformative change: empirical and theoretical insights from a special issue on reflexive marine governance	2
What role for sustainability in post-fossil regional transition processes? Exploring governance conditions, actors, and transition projects in a German coal phase-out region	2
Participation in regional energy transitions: impacts, dynamics, strategies and science-policy dialogues – perspectives from Germany and Austria	2
Procedural injustices in large-scale solar energy: a case study in the Mayan region of Yucatan, Mexico	2
Radical energy justice: a Green Deal for Romanian coal miners?	2
Critical masculine and feminine norms in sustainable municipal transport policies and planning	2
Drivers and energy justice implications of renewable energy project siting in the United States	2