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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A policy instruments palette for spatial quality: lessons from Dutch flood risk management	49
Making well-being legible in Wales: the various territorialities of the Well-being of Future Generations Act	27
City-to-city learning: a synthesis and research agenda	22
‘Green icing on the Gray Cake?’ Green infrastructure in federal enforcement action	19
Break, bridge or bolster? Participatory energy initiatives between frames and futures of local sustainability	19
The aspirational shift of urban transport infrastructure: the emerging mobility transition in India	19
Behind the curtains of deliberation: unveiling climate policy and behavioural challenges through a mini-public in Spain	18
Understanding ‘Bad Governance’ in the urban south: a case study of solid waste management in Ghana	17
What has driven onshore wind farm closures in the UK, and what happens next? Understanding end-of-life pathways	16
Systemic impacts of low-carbon transition policies: co-designing potential leverage points to mitigate housing and energy vulnerabilities in Innsbruck	16
Fjords of sovereignty: a case study of selective non-compliance in the Norwegian Environment Agency	15
Policy instruments for governing water in cross-border metropolitan areas, the case of Greater Geneva	14
Characterizing bioeconomy policy instruments:	14
Provincial flood risk in Türkiye: hazard–exposure–vulnerability patterns and planning pathways	13
The Clean Industrial Deal as a new stage of EU climate governance: evaluating the scope and strength of CPI	12
Green infrastructure implementation: perspectives from English planners	12
‘Everybody’s welcome, but don’t change it’: barriers to equitable climate action in Fayetteville, Arkansas	12
In or outside the box? Citizen action between institutional and extra-institutional channels in Chinese environmental governance	11
A framework for evaluating policy integration under the Green Deal: a case study on climate change and air pollution	11
Learning and amplifying urban climate governance through cutting-edge projects	11
Politics of sustainable mobility transitions: AI urban planning for shrinking cities in South Korea	10
Constructing regulatory regimes for sustainable development: commitment to resolve, clarity, and reasonableness	10
Discursive power of risks, resilience, and responsibility in multi-scalar climate and disaster governance: evidence from Pakistan	9
Informing aquatic restoration decisions using environmental justice in New Hampshire	9
Ecological modernisation wanderings: ambivalent framing and unstable coalitions in the development of Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) in France	9

Placing environmental democracy at the heart of co-governance: rethinking the governance of complex waterways	9
What went right? A collaborative process to prepare a city forest management strategy	9
When decarbonization rhymes with industrialization. The political dilemmas of increasing wood usage within the French construction industry	9
Controversial cycle lanes: lessons from Cycleway C9, Chiswick High Road	9
Climate policy backlash: taming an unruly concept?	8
Who is (not) in the room? An epistemic justice perspective on low-carbon transport transitions	8
Exploring a Source to Sea approach for plastic pollution policy integration in the European Union: the case of tyre wear particles	8
The European Union’s Directive on corporate sustainability development due diligence: an institutional design effectiveness analysis	8
Between risk perceptions and adaptation policies: centering climate justice and social innovation in heat vulnerable cities	8
Shifting paradigms in stormwater management – hydrosocial relations and stormwater hydrocitizenship	8
Can we promote plural local pathways to sustainable development? Insights from the implementation of Wales’s Future Generations Act	8
The politics of agro-industrial greening: policy processes, market institutions and local power relations in the sugarcane sector of French overseas departments	8
Assessing the impact of Fridays for Future on climate policy and policymaking in German cities	8
Creating institutions to protect the environment: the role of Chinese central environmental inspection	8
Privatizing environmental governance: the evolving relationship between regulators and private entities	8
Cross-cultural learning as a foundation for reimagining ocean governance	8
Gardening governance: CSO-government dynamics in Shanghai's urban renewal	7
‘Time’ as a focus for planning research: exploring temporalities of coastal change	7
Implementation gap of China’s environmental policies: logic behind the over-implementation of the coal to gas transition	7
Public engagement practice for electricity grid system change	7
Sustainability transitions in Los Angeles’ water system: the ambivalent role of incumbents in urban experimentation	6
Community garden coproduction under collectivism	6
The CAPS framework for governance capacity building for local climate action	6
The nested hierarchy of urban vulnerability within land use policies fails to address climate injustices in Turkey	6
Urban carrying capacity in practice: supporting growth management and climate planning in the United States	6
Plugged in? Assessing the distribution of orphaned wells	6
Mobility cultures as bundle of powerful practices	6
Who participates in green infrastructure initiatives and why? Comparing participants and non-participants in Philadelphia’s GI programs	6
Assessing environmental justice contributions in research and public policy: an applied framework and methodology	6
Municipal administration and citizens linkages in strategic environmental assessment: exploring agency features in participatory decision-making processes of municipal master plans	6
Airports’ environmental effects and limits to growth: an integrated framework	6
Planning for renewable energy without conflict: the potential of using sensitivity mapping as a decision-support tool	5
Designing policy mixes for the sustainable management of water resources	5
Ecological transition in France’s margins: how industries adapt to ecological crisis and redefine their national and local roles	5
Tussling with seascape character assessment and assemblage theories	5
Energy spaces: bridging scales and standpoints of just energy transitions	5
Timely transitions? How time-bound targets shape visions for the future of emerging energy storage technologies	5
The evolution of stakeholder participation in European UNESCO Biosphere Reserves: challenges and opportunities of the COVID pandemic and the digital shift	5
Curbing the European Union’s global deforestation footprint through trade	5
A three-perspective problem? Sustainability governance of renewable hydrogen certification in Tasmania	4
Does multidimensional distance matter? Perceptions and acceptance of wind power	4
Performance without legitimacy? Examining the performance-legitimacy dilemma of China’s authoritarian environmentalism model through Hebei’s ‘ban on coal furnace’ project	4
From inaction to eradication: sharp policy turns in the management of invasive wild boar in Norway	4
Urban heat governance: examining the role of urban planning	4
A renewable light unto the nations? Modelling the limits of culturally appealing climate frames: a case study from Israel	4
From local to EU: understanding energy citizenship and the willingness to join energy communities across geographical levels	4
Assessing biodiversity policy designs in Australia, France and Sweden. Comparative lessons for transformative governance of biodiversity?	4
Experimental governance in China: models of stakeholder interaction and evolution of the low-carbon cities pilot programme	4
Making profit from energy transition. Political struggles and accumulation strategies in Guadeloupe	4
The promises and pitfalls of Hanoi’s urban mobility transition: how residents are navigating the infrastructural politics of a new urban railway	4

The impact of state-led traceability on fisheries sustainability	4
A user-oriented application for the economic evaluation of the CO ₂ sequestration function	4
The European Union’s CBAM: averting emissions leakage or promoting the diffusion of carbon pricing?	4
Climate promotion tournaments and collaborative governance: central-local dynamics in China’s carbon neutrality policy implementation	4
Uncertainty confounds justice: the offshore wind ‘Devil they don't know’ in the Northeast United States	4
Do citizens’ perspectives matter? A comparison of formal planning and local preferences for the deployment of renewable energies	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
Governing resource making in energy transitions: a study of shifting configurations of biogas in Denmark from farming to big business	3
Becoming Sponge City Berlin: ‘planned scaling’ vs. ‘permanent experimentation’	3
Policy integration in the EU under crisis: shifting the balance between renewable energy expansion and biodiversity protection	3
Mixed policy feedback and evolution of environmental regulation: analysing instrument recalibration and layering in Danish nitrogen policy	3
The role of experts in policy design: transcoding strategies in the making of the Water Framework Directive	3
Public participation towards procedural justice: oil and gas development in Colorado	3
Divergent responses to the cadre evaluation system reform: contrasting strategies in Chinese cities towards environmental information disclosure	3
Evaluating urban heat resilience in Indian cities through the comprehensive assessment of municipal plans	3
Regulatory, accompanying, and collective governance? The challenges of re-orientating environmental-economic interdependencies in two French ports	3
Seeing beyond Europe’s nose: a critical interpretive synthesis of negative impacts of the European bioeconomy transition	3
A public administration perspective on wind power development: decision-making logic of local government officials	3
Just give them the money? Voting behaviour on agricultural policies in the European Parliament	3
Centralized urgency to autonomous caution: A Q-method exploration of Dutch citizens’ energy transition visions	3
Unlocking citizens’ investment potential in photovoltaics: the role of information communication	3
Providing orientation in a fragmented field of research: the critical review series of the Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning	3
Concerning emotions: feminist contributions to reflexive marine governance	3
From conceptualization to practice: enhancing economic resilience at the local government level in Australia	3
The European Union’s management of the environment-trade nexus at the World Trade Organization before and after the European Green Deal	3