OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Environmental justice implications of siting criteria in urban green infrastructure planning	43
‘Harder’ soft governance in the European Energy Union	36
Reinventing marine spatial planning: a critical review of initiatives worldwide	34
Environmental regulation, governance, and policy instruments, 20 years after the stick, carrot, and sermon typology	30
Visualization in environmental policy and planning: a systematic review and research agenda	30
Rethinking strategy in environmental governance	24
‘Doing’ system innovations from within the heart of the regime	23
Paradigm shift in Danish wind power: the (un)sustainable transformation of a sector	22
Cumulating evidence in environmental governance, policy and planning research: towards a research reform agenda	22
Environmental policy mixes and target group heterogeneity: analysing Danish farmers’ responses to the pesticide taxes	22
Harder soft governance in European climate and energy policy: exploring a new trend in public policy	21
Environmental policy, innovation and transformation: affirmative or disruptive?	20
Learning in environmental governance: opportunities for translating theory to practice	20
Greening the color line: historicizing water infrastructure redevelopment and environmental justice in the St. Louis metropolitan region	19
Green infrastructure, stormwater, and the financialization of municipal environmental governance	19
Exploring city climate leadership in theory and practice: responding to the polycentric challenge	18
Is bioeconomy policy a policy field? A conceptual framework and findings on the European Union and Germany	18
The effect of supply chain position on zero-deforestation commitments: evidence from the cocoa industry	18
Trading radical for incremental change: the politics of a circular economy transition in the German packaging sector	18
Urban contractual agreements as an adaptive governance strategy: under what conditions do they work in multi-level cooperation?	17
Perspectives on the bioeconomy as an emerging policy field	17
‘But who’s going to pay for it?’ Contemporary approaches to green infrastructure financing, development and governance in London, UK	15
Measuring good governance: piloting an instrument for evaluating good governance principles	15
How actors are (dis)integrating policy agendas for multi-functional blue and green infrastructure projects on the ground	15
Participating in food waste transitions: exploring surplus food redistribution in Singapore through the ecologies of participation framework	13

Engineering gentrification: urban redevelopment, sustainability policy, and green stormwater infrastructure in Minneapolis	13
Paying for the future: deliberation and support for climate action policies	12
The discursive framework of sustainability in UK food policy: the marginalised environmental dimension	12
Energy poverty and the role of institutions: exploring procedural energy justice – Ombudsman in focus	12
Realising local food policies: a comparison between Toronto and the Brussels-Capital Region’s stories through the lenses of reflexivity and co-learning	12
The role of discourses in understanding institutional stability and change – an analysis of Dutch flood risk governance	12
Governing dual objectives within single policy mixes: an empirical analysis of large carnivore policies in six European countries	11
From policy mix to policy networks: assessing climate and land use policy interactions in Mato Grosso, Brazil	11
Designing policy mixes for emerging wicked problems. The case of pharmaceutical residues in freshwaters	11
Radical energy justice: a Green Deal for Romanian coal miners?	10
Policy mixes for biodiversity: a diffusion analysis of state-level citizens’ initiatives in Germany	10
Energy transition with biomass residues and waste: regional-scale potential and conflicts. A case study from North Hesse, Germany	10
Towards harder soft governance? Monitoring climate policy in the EU	10
Farm animal welfare policymaking in the European Parliament – a social identity perspective on voting behaviour	10
Solving cross-sectoral policy problems: adding a cross-sectoral dimension to assess policy performance	10
Launching a Blue Economy: crucial first steps in designing a contextually sensitive and coherent approach	10
Direct potable water recycling in Texas: case studies and policy implications	10
Agency and governance in green infrastructure policy adoption and change	9
Varieties of framing the circular economy and the bioeconomy: unpacking business interests in European policymaking	9
A comparative analysis of bioeconomy visions and pathways based on stakeholder dialogues in Colombia, Rwanda, Sweden, and Thailand	9
Drivers of social equity in renewable energy at the municipal level: the case of local Japanese energy policy and preferences	9
Which works better? Comparing the environmental outcomes of different forms of intergovernmental collaboration in China's air pollution control	9
Contested renewable energy projects in Latin America: bridging frameworks of justice to understand ‘triple inequalities of decarbonisation policies’	9
Can the Sustainable Development Goals Green International Organisations? Sustainability Integration in the International Labour Organisation	9
The multifaceted geographies of green infrastructure policy and planning: socio-environmental dreams, nightmares, and amnesia	9
Harder governance built on soft foundations: experience from OECD peer reviews	9
The role of niche and regime intermediaries in building partnerships for urban transitions towards sustainability	8
Contesting the framing of bioeconomy policy in Germany: the NGO perspective	8
Distinguishing policy surveillance from policy tracking: transnational municipal networks in climate and energy governance	8
Policy conflicts in the siting of natural gas pipelines	8
How national bioeconomy strategies address governance challenges arising from forest-related trade-offs	8
Governing complex environmental policy mixes through institutional bricolage: lessons from the water-forestry-energy-climate nexus	8
The key role of the agribusiness and biotechnology sectors in constructing the economic imaginary of the bioeconomy in Argentina	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
A multidimensional approach to evaluating the vulnerability of drinking water systems	8
Lessons about the ‘Harder’ elements of OMC governance for the EU energy Union	7
Inside the black box of collaboration: a process-tracing study of collaborative flood risk governance in the Netherlands	7
Othermothering in Detroit, MI: understanding race and gender inequalities in green stormwater infrastructure labor	7
Planning for cooler cities: a plan quality evaluation for Urban Heat Island consideration	7
Complex property rights and Coasean bargaining in natural resource management	7
What matters in the implementation of sustainable development policies? Findings from the Well-Being of Future Generations (Wales) Act, 2015	7
Parallel routes from Copenhagen to Paris: climate discourse in climate sceptic and climate activist blogs	7
Resilience and policy design in the emerging bioeconomy – the RPD framework and the changing role of energy crop systems in Germany	7
Urban governance and policy mixes for nature-based solutions and integrated water policy	7
Moral rifts in the coal phase-out—how mayors shape distributive and recognition-based dimensions of a just transition in Lusatia	7
Understanding China’s transition to environmental information transparency: citizens’ protest attitudes and choice behaviours	6
Material dependencies: hidden underpinnings of sustainability transitions	6
Green infrastructure and energy justice in health adaptation: leveraging climate policy innovation and vulnerability-readiness nexus	6
Deconstructing the attractiveness of biocluster imaginaries	6
Caught between hope and reality: how citizens reconcile ambitious dominant energy imaginaries with everyday service shortfalls	6

Speak softly and carry a big stick: hardening soft governance in EU energy and health policies	6
Unpacking the complexity of environmental regulatory governance in a globalizing world: a critical review for research agenda setting	6
The good process or the great illusion? A spatial perspective on public participation in Danish municipal wind turbine planning	6
Exploring the interaction between social norms and perceived justice of wind energy projects: a qualitative analysis	6
Rural microgrids – ‘Tragedy of commons’ or ‘community collective action’	6
Preferences for community benefits for offshore wind development projects: A case study of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, U.S.	6
Indigenous land systems and emerging of Green Infrastructure planning in the Peruvian coastal desert: tensions and opportunities	6
The flexibility gamble: challenges for mainstreaming flexible approaches to climate change adaptation	5
Towards spatializing consumer energy sustainability. Empirical findings about the policy and practice of energy conservation and poverty in Barcelona and North Macedonia	5
Sun, wind or water? Public support for large-scale renewable energy development in Canada	5
Addressing the adaptive challenges of alternative stormwater planning	5
Ideational bricolage as a route to transforming local institutions for heat decarbonisation: heat networks and local government in England	5
‘No-one visits me anymore’: Low Emission Zones and social exclusion via sustainable transport policy	5
Going Dutch in the Mekong Delta: a framing perspective on water policy translation	5
Empirical insights into knowledge-weaving processes in strategic environmental research	5
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	5
A leap of Green faith: the religious discourse of Socio-Ecological Care as an Earth system governmentality	5
Climate policy integration: taking advantage of policy windows? An analysis of the energy and environment sectors in Mexico (1997–2018)	5
Domesticating circular economy? An enquiry into Norwegian subnational authorities’ process of implementing circularity	5
Assessing biodiversity policy designs in Australia, France and Sweden. Comparative lessons for transformative governance of biodiversity?	5
Reconfiguring energy flows: energy grid-lock and the role of regions in shaping electricity infrastructure networks	5
Call for participatory waste governance: waste management with informal recyclers in Vancouver	4
Not at the table but stuck paying the bill: perceptions of injustice in China’s Xin’anjiang eco-compensation program	4
Visual discourse coalitions: visualization and discourse formation in controversies over shale gas development	4
Unveiling the quasi-public-private partnership (QPPP): evidence from China’s environmental service sector	4
Closing the policy-practice gaps in Nigeria’s desertification interventions: a qualitative document analysis of sustainable practice	4
Good governance practices in Ghana’s FLEGT voluntary partnership agreement process: an application of Q methodology	4
Materialities, discourses and governance: scallop culture in Sechura, Peru	4
Contemporary environmental entrepreneurs: from the alternative technology movement to ecologically modernised community energy	4
Industry perceptions of government interventions: generating an energy efficiency norm	4
District heating and ambivalent energy transition paths in urban and rural contexts	4
Governing people, governing places: advancing the Protean environmental state in China	4
Winds of change: examining attitude shifts regarding an offshore wind project	4
Who participates in green infrastructure initiatives and why? Comparing participants and non-participants in Philadelphia’s GI programs	4
Institutional bricolage and the application of the No Net Loss policy in Quebec: can we really engender ‘social fit' for more sustainable land use planning?	4