OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning is 3. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Environmental justice implications of siting criteria in urban green infrastructure planning	59
Green infrastructure, stormwater, and the financialization of municipal environmental governance	32
Greening the color line: historicizing water infrastructure redevelopment and environmental justice in the St. Louis metropolitan region	27
Trading radical for incremental change: the politics of a circular economy transition in the German packaging sector	22
Perspectives on the bioeconomy as an emerging policy field	21
The effect of supply chain position on zero-deforestation commitments: evidence from the cocoa industry	21
Is bioeconomy policy a policy field? A conceptual framework and findings on the European Union and Germany	20
Exploring city climate leadership in theory and practice: responding to the polycentric challenge	19
‘But who’s going to pay for it?’ Contemporary approaches to green infrastructure financing, development and governance in London, UK	19
Energy poverty and the role of institutions: exploring procedural energy justice – Ombudsman in focus	18
Paying for the future: deliberation and support for climate action policies	17
Engineering gentrification: urban redevelopment, sustainability policy, and green stormwater infrastructure in Minneapolis	17
The role of niche and regime intermediaries in building partnerships for urban transitions towards sustainability	16
Launching a Blue Economy: crucial first steps in designing a contextually sensitive and coherent approach	15
Moral rifts in the coal phase-out—how mayors shape distributive and recognition-based dimensions of a just transition in Lusatia	15
The role of discourses in understanding institutional stability and change – an analysis of Dutch flood risk governance	14
Solving cross-sectoral policy problems: adding a cross-sectoral dimension to assess policy performance	13
The good process or the great illusion? A spatial perspective on public participation in Danish municipal wind turbine planning	13
Designing policy mixes for emerging wicked problems. The case of pharmaceutical residues in freshwaters	12
Contested renewable energy projects in Latin America: bridging frameworks of justice to understand ‘triple inequalities of decarbonisation policies’	12
Energy transition with biomass residues and waste: regional-scale potential and conflicts. A case study from North Hesse, Germany	12
Urban governance and policy mixes for nature-based solutions and integrated water policy	12
Agency and governance in green infrastructure policy adoption and change	12
Which works better? Comparing the environmental outcomes of different forms of intergovernmental collaboration in China's air pollution control	11
Radical energy justice: a Green Deal for Romanian coal miners?	11

Governing dual objectives within single policy mixes: an empirical analysis of large carnivore policies in six European countries	11
Can the Sustainable Development Goals Green International Organisations? Sustainability Integration in the International Labour Organisation	11
Domesticating circular economy? An enquiry into Norwegian subnational authorities’ process of implementing circularity	11
Governing complex environmental policy mixes through institutional bricolage: lessons from the water-forestry-energy-climate nexus	10
Varieties of framing the circular economy and the bioeconomy: unpacking business interests in European policymaking	10
Policy mixes for biodiversity: a diffusion analysis of state-level citizens’ initiatives in Germany	10
A comparative analysis of bioeconomy visions and pathways based on stakeholder dialogues in Colombia, Rwanda, Sweden, and Thailand	10
Parallel routes from Copenhagen to Paris: climate discourse in climate sceptic and climate activist blogs	10
A multidimensional approach to evaluating the vulnerability of drinking water systems	10
How national bioeconomy strategies address governance challenges arising from forest-related trade-offs	10
Contesting the framing of bioeconomy policy in Germany: the NGO perspective	10
Material dependencies: hidden underpinnings of sustainability transitions	10
The key role of the agribusiness and biotechnology sectors in constructing the economic imaginary of the bioeconomy in Argentina	10
The flexibility gamble: challenges for mainstreaming flexible approaches to climate change adaptation	10
Inside the black box of collaboration: a process-tracing study of collaborative flood risk governance in the Netherlands	9
Preferences for community benefits for offshore wind development projects: A case study of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, U.S.	9
The multifaceted geographies of green infrastructure policy and planning: socio-environmental dreams, nightmares, and amnesia	9
Who participates in green infrastructure initiatives and why? Comparing participants and non-participants in Philadelphia’s GI programs	9
Indigenous land systems and emerging of Green Infrastructure planning in the Peruvian coastal desert: tensions and opportunities	8
‘No-one visits me anymore’: Low Emission Zones and social exclusion via sustainable transport policy	8
Rural microgrids – ‘Tragedy of commons’ or ‘community collective action’	8
Deconstructing the attractiveness of biocluster imaginaries	8
Those who support wind development in view of their home take responsibility for their energy use and that of others: evidence from a multi-scale analysis	8
Caught between hope and reality: how citizens reconcile ambitious dominant energy imaginaries with everyday service shortfalls	8
Urban heat governance: examining the role of urban planning	8
Assessing biodiversity policy designs in Australia, France and Sweden. Comparative lessons for transformative governance of biodiversity?	7
Ideational bricolage as a route to transforming local institutions for heat decarbonisation: heat networks and local government in England	7
Othermothering in Detroit, MI: understanding race and gender inequalities in green stormwater infrastructure labor	7
Exploring the interaction between social norms and perceived justice of wind energy projects: a qualitative analysis	7
Green infrastructure and energy justice in health adaptation: leveraging climate policy innovation and vulnerability-readiness nexus	7
What matters in the implementation of sustainable development policies? Findings from the Well-Being of Future Generations (Wales) Act, 2015	7
Understanding China’s transition to environmental information transparency: citizens’ protest attitudes and choice behaviours	7
A leap of Green faith: the religious discourse of Socio-Ecological Care as an Earth system governmentality	7
Addressing the adaptive challenges of alternative stormwater planning	6
A view through the lens of policy formulation: the struggle to formulate Swedish moose policy	6
Winds of change: examining attitude shifts regarding an offshore wind project	6
Empirical insights into knowledge-weaving processes in strategic environmental research	6
Sun, wind or water? Public support for large-scale renewable energy development in Canada	6
Procedural injustices in large-scale solar energy: a case study in the Mayan region of Yucatan, Mexico	6
What urban lakes and ponds quality is about? Conciliating water quality and ecological indicators with users’ perceptions and expectations about urban lakes and ponds quality in urban areas	6
Towards spatializing consumer energy sustainability. Empirical findings about the policy and practice of energy conservation and poverty in Barcelona and North Macedonia	6
It’s not all about the money—landowner motivation and high voltage grid development	6
Call for participatory waste governance: waste management with informal recyclers in Vancouver	6
Climate policy integration: taking advantage of policy windows? An analysis of the energy and environment sectors in Mexico (1997–2018)	6
Drivers and energy justice implications of renewable energy project siting in the United States	6
Antimicrobial resistance policies in European countries – a comparative analysis of policy integration in the water-food-health nexus	6
In- and exclusion in urban food governance: exploring networks and power in the city of Almere	5
Taking control to do more: how local governments and communities can enact ambitious climate mitigation policies	5
The role of public consultations in decision-making on future agricultural pesticide use: insights from European Union’s Farm to Fork Strategy public consultation	5
Designing policy mixes for the sustainable management of water resources	5

Materialities, discourses and governance: scallop culture in Sechura, Peru	5
Unveiling the quasi-public-private partnership (QPPP): evidence from China’s environmental service sector	5
Reconfiguring energy flows: energy grid-lock and the role of regions in shaping electricity infrastructure networks	5
The governmentality of tropical forests and sustainable food systems, and possibilities for post-2020 sustainability governance	5
What does an inclusive bioeconomy mean for primary producers? An analysis of European bioeconomy strategies	5
Strategic visions for local sustainability transition: measuring maturity in Swedish municipalities	4
Why are we doing this? Issue framing, problem proximity, and cities’ rationale for regulating single-use plastics	4
Practices and acts of energy citizenship	4
Mainstreaming passive houses: more gradual reconfiguration than transition	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
Evidence integration for coherent nexus policy design: a Mediterranean perspective on managing water-energy interactions	4
Uncertainty and collaborative governance: the role of science in combating shipping air pollution in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area, China	4
Contemporary environmental entrepreneurs: from the alternative technology movement to ecologically modernised community energy	4
New problems for assemblage thinking: materiality, governance and cycling in Sydney, Australia	4
Policy integration from a practice-theoretical perspective: integrated food policy in the making in two German cities	4
How the waste management system’s materialised normativity influences engagement in sustainable waste practices.	4
Urban decarbonization policy as assembling process: heterogeneous elements, networks and (un)making of target groups in a Swedish municipality between serendipity and design	3
Not at the table but stuck paying the bill: perceptions of injustice in China’s Xin’anjiang eco-compensation program	3
Towards an Anthropocene Narrative and a New Philosophy of Governance: Evolution of Global Environmental Discourse in the Man and the Biosphere Programme	3
How organized credibility enables climate action: the U.S. climate security coalition as a credibility machine	3
Act global, think local? Local perspectives towards environmental sustainability in semi-rural communities of Alberta, Canada	3
Beyond compliance: public voluntary standards and their effect on state institutional capacity in Vietnam	3
A public administration perspective on wind power development: decision-making logic of local government officials	3
The digital turn of marine planning: a global analysis of ocean geoportals	3
Shifting paradigms in stormwater management – hydrosocial relations and stormwater hydrocitizenship	3
Institutionalizing barriers to access? An equity scan of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) incentive programs in the United States	3
Infrastructural legacies and post-Soviet transformations in Northern Sakha (Yakutiya), Russia	3
Is non-zoning of land impossible? Eight fundamental propositions of zoning	3
Tackling material dependency in sustainability transition: rationales and insights from the agriculture sector	3
Contentious governance of wind energy planning: strategic dilemmas in collaborative resistance by local governments and citizen action groups	3
Transitioning to what? The role of genetic-engineering in New Zealand’s (circular) bioeconomy debates	3